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09.04.2008

1 Am J Med
1 Am J Respir Crit Care Med
4 Am J Trop Med Hyg
8 Antimicrob Agents Chemother
1 BMJ
1 Clin Infect Dis
4 Curr Microbiol
1 Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
1 Dtsch Med Wochenschr
1 Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
2 J Antimicrob Chemother
3 J Bacteriol
2 J Biol Chem
4 J Clin Invest
1 J Clin Microbiol
2 J Infect Dis
24 J Med Microbiol
1 J Virol
4 Lancet
2 MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
4 N Engl J Med
2 Nature
1 Pediatr Rev
1 Pediatrics
1 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A


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    Am J Med

  1. SAFDAR N , Bradley EA
    The risk of infection after nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus.
    Am J Med. 2008;121:310-5.
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    Am J Respir Crit Care Med

  2. KIK SV , Verver S, van Soolingen D, de Haas PE, et al
    Tuberculosis Outbreaks Predicted by Characteristics of First Patients in a DNA Fingerprint Cluster.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008;.
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    Am J Trop Med Hyg

  3. HIDALGO M , Salguero E, de la Ossa A, Sanchez R, et al
    Murine typhus in Caldas, Colombia.
    Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008;78:321-2.
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  4. VESCIO MF , Piras MA, Ciccozzi M, Carai A, et al
    Socio-demographic and climatic factors as correlates of Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) in northern Sardinia.
    Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008;78:318-20.
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  5. HTWE K , Yee KS, Tin M, Vandenplas Y, et al
    Effect of Saccharomyces boulardii in the Treatment of Acute Watery Diarrhea in Myanmar Children: A Randomized Controlled Study.
    Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008;78:214-6.
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  6. CHENG AC , Chierakul W, Chaowagul W, Chetchotisakd P, et al
    Consensus Guidelines for Dosing of Amoxicillin-Clavulanate in Melioidosis.
    Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008;78:208-209.
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    Antimicrob Agents Chemother

  7. MILLER K , O'Neill AJ, Wilcox MH, Ingham E, et al
    Delayed development of linezolid resistance in Staphylococcus aureus following exposure to low levels of antimicrobial agents.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008;.
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  8. CLEARY JD , Garcia-Effron G, Chapman SW, Perlin DS, et al
    Reduced Candida glabrata Susceptibility Secondary to a FKS1 Mutation Developed During Candidemia Treatment.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008;.
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  9. SAFI H , Sayers B, Hazbon MH, Alland D, et al
    Transfer of embB306 mutations into clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis alters susceptibility to ethambutol, isoniazid and rifampin.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008;.
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  10. COTRONEO N , Harris R, Perlmutter N, Beveridge T, et al
    Daptomycin Exerts Bactericidal Activity without Lysis of Staphylococcus aureus.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008;.
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  11. REINERT RR , Filimonova OY, Al-Lahham A, Grudinina SA, et al
    Characterization of the Mechanisms of Macrolide-Resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates from Russia.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008;.
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  12. BESIER S , Zander J, Kahl BC, Kraiczy P, et al
    The thymidine-dependent small colony variant phenotype is associated with hypermutability and antibiotic resistance in clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008;.
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  13. FIRSOV AA , Lubenko IY, Smirnova MV, Strukova EN, et al
    Enrichment of Fluoroquinolone Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Oscillating Ciprofloxacin Concentrations Simulated at the Upper and Lower Portions of the Mutant Selection Window.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008;.
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  14. BANERJEE R , Gretes M, Basuino L, Strynadka N, et al
    In vitro Selection and Characterization of Ceftobiprole-Resistant Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008;.
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    BMJ

  15. DELANEY BC , Qume M, Moayyedi P, Logan RF, et al
    Helicobacter pylori test and treat versus proton pump inhibitor in initial management of dyspepsia in primary care: multicentre randomised controlled trial (MRC-CUBE trial).
    BMJ. 2008;336:651-4.
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    Clin Infect Dis

  16. RYAN MA , Seward JF
    Pregnancy, birth, and infant health outcomes from the National Smallpox Vaccine in Pregnancy Registry, 2003-2006.
    Clin Infect Dis. 2008;46 Suppl 3:S221-6.
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    Curr Microbiol

  17. WANG B , Wei H, Yuan J, Li Q, et al
    Identification of a Surface Protein from Lactobacillus reuteri JCM1081 That Adheres to Porcine Gastric Mucin and Human Enterocyte-Like HT-29 Cells.
    Curr Microbiol. 2008;.
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  18. HALLING SM , Jensen AE, Olsen SC
    Defensin susceptibility and colonization in the mouse model of AJ100, a polymyxin B-resistant, Brucella abortus RB51 isolate.
    Curr Microbiol. 2008;56:274-8.
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  19. GODLEWSKA R , Pawlowski M, Dzwonek A, Mikula M, et al
    Tip-alpha (hp0596 gene product) is a highly immunogenic Helicobacter pylori protein involved in colonization of mouse gastric mucosa.
    Curr Microbiol. 2008;56:279-86.
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  20. PELLEGRINO FL , Schirmer M, Velasco E, de Faria LM, et al
    Ralstonia pickettii bloodstream infections at a Brazilian cancer institution.
    Curr Microbiol. 2008;56:219-23.
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    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis

  21. FRITSCHE TR , Sader HS, Jones RN
    Antimicrobial activity of ceftobiprole, a novel anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cephalosporin, tested against contemporary pathogens: results from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (2005-2006).
    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008;.
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    Dtsch Med Wochenschr

  22. SAYK F , Roemer M, Dalhoff K, Schaaf B, et al
    [Miliary tuberculosis with intestinal involvement]
    Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 2008;133:715-6.
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    Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis

  23. FORCE E , Taberner F, Cabellos C, Ribes S, et al
    Experimental study of meropenem in the therapy of cephalosporin-susceptible and -resistant pneumococcal meningitis.
    Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008;.
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    J Antimicrob Chemother

  24. PARK C , Lee DG, Choi SM, Choi JH, et al
    Comment on: A survey of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Korea.
    J Antimicrob Chemother. 2008;.
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  25. SANCHEZ-HIDALGO M , Martinez-Bueno M, Fernandez-Escamilla AM, Valdivia E, et al
    Effect of replacing glutamic residues upon the biological activity and stability of the circular enterocin AS-48.
    J Antimicrob Chemother. 2008;.
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    J Bacteriol

  26. RUIMY R , Maiga A, Armand-Lefevre L, Maiga I, et al
    The carriage population of Staphylococcus aureus from Mali is composed of a combination of pandemic clones and the divergent PVL positive genotype ST152.
    J Bacteriol. 2008;.
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  27. SAVVI S , Warner DF, Kana BD, McKinney JD, et al
    Functional characterization of a vitamin B12-dependent methylmalonyl pathway in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: implications for propionate metabolism during growth on fatty acids.
    J Bacteriol. 2008;.
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  28. O'NEILL E , Pozzi C, Houston P, Humphreys H, et al
    A novel Staphylococcus aureus biofilm phenotype mediated by the fibronectin-binding proteins, FnBPA and FnBPB.
    J Bacteriol. 2008;.
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    J Biol Chem

  29. JORGENSEN AD , Nohr J, Kastrup JS, Gajhede M, et al
    Small angle X-ray studies reveal that aspergillus niger glucoamylase has a defined extended conformation and can form dimers in solution.
    J Biol Chem. 2008;.
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  30. BENTLEY ML , Lamb EC, McCafferty DG
    Mutagenesis studies of substrate recognition and catalysis in the sortase A transpeptidase from Staphylococcus aureus.
    J Biol Chem. 2008;.
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    J Clin Invest

  31. YOUNG DB , Perkins MD, Duncan K, Barry CE, et al
    Confronting the scientific obstacles to global control of tuberculosis.
    J Clin Invest. 2008;118:1255-1265.
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  32. ABERG KM , Radek KA, Choi EH, Kim DK, et al
    Psychological stress downregulates epidermal antimicrobial peptide expression and increases severity of cutaneous infections in mice.
    J Clin Invest. 2007;117:3339-49.
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  33. XICOHTENCATL-CORTES J , Monteiro-Neto V, Ledesma MA, Jordan DM, et al
    Intestinal adherence associated with type IV pili of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7.
    J Clin Invest. 2007;117:3519-29.
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  34. GRAHAM DB , Robertson CM, Bautista J, Mascarenhas F, et al
    Neutrophil-mediated oxidative burst and host defense are controlled by a Vav-PLCgamma2 signaling axis in mice.
    J Clin Invest. 2007;117:3445-52.
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    J Clin Microbiol

  35. PIAU C , Jehan J, Leclercq R, Daurel C, et al
    A Catalase Negative Staphylococcus aureus with Point Mutations in the katA Gene.
    J Clin Microbiol. 2008;.
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    J Infect Dis

  36. CHANG JY , Antonopoulos DA, Kalra A, Tonelli A, et al
    Decreased diversity of the fecal Microbiome in recurrent Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea.
    J Infect Dis. 2008;197:435-8.
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  37. BARBIER M , Oliver A, Rao J, Hanna SL, et al
    Novel phosphorylcholine-containing protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa chronic infection isolates interacts with airway epithelial cells.
    J Infect Dis. 2008;197:465-73.
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    J Med Microbiol

  38. VINCART B , Hallin M, Struelens MJ, Denis O, et al
    Authors' reply to 'Misidentification of Bordetella bronchiseptica as Bordetella pertussis using a newly described RT-PCR targeting the pertactin gene'.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  39. CASSIDAY PK , Tobin-D'Angelo M, Watson JR, Wu KH, et al
    Co-infection with two different strains of Bordetella pertussis in an infant.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  40. KUMPERS P , Tiede A, Kirschner P, Girke J, et al
    Legionnaires' disease in immunocompromised patients: a case report of Legionella longbeachae pneumonia and review of the literature.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  41. HSIAO JF , Lee MH, Chia JH, Ho WJ, et al
    Neisseria elongata endocarditis complicated by brain embolism and abscess.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  42. SPANO LC , Sadovsky AD, Segui PN, Saick KW, et al
    Age-specific prevalence of diffusely adherent Escherichia coli in Brazilian children with acute diarrhoea.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  43. CAMACHO N , Espinoza C, Rodriguez C, Rodriguez E, et al
    Isolates of Clostridium perfringens recovered from Costa Rican patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhoea are mostly enterotoxin-negative and susceptible to first-choice antimicrobials.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  44. SORHOUET PEREIRA C , Regueira M, Mollerach M
    PorA types in Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B isolated in Argentina from 2001 to 2003: implications for the design of an outer membrane protein-based vaccine.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  45. TAM FC , Ling TK, Wong KT, Leung DT, et al
    The TUBEX test detects not only typhoid-specific antibodies but also soluble antigens and whole bacteria.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  46. REGLIER-POUPET H , Naas T, Carrer A, Cady A, et al
    Performance of chromID ESBL, a chromogenic medium for detection of Enterobacteriaceae producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  47. EDBERG A , Jurstrand M, Johansson E, Wikander E, et al
    A comparative study of three different PCR assays for detection of Mycoplasma genitalium in urogenital specimens from men and women.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  48. ELLIS M , Al-Ramadi B, Finkelman M, Hedstrom U, et al
    Assessment of the clinical utility of serial beta-D-glucan concentrations in patients with persistent neutropenic fever.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  49. KIM W , Kim JY, Cho SL, Nam SW, et al
    Glycosyltransferase: a specific marker for the discrimination of Bacillus anthracis from the Bacillus cereus group.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  50. DARRIEUX M , Moreno AT, Ferreira DM, Pimenta FC, et al
    Recognition of pneumococcal isolates by antisera raised against PspA fragments from different clades.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  51. JAIN D , Prasad KN, Sinha S, Husain N, et al
    Differences in virulence attributes between cytolethal distending toxin positive and negative Campylobacter jejuni strains.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  52. ARAVENA-ROMAN M
    Cellular fatty acid-deficient Pandoraea isolated from a patient with cystic fibrosis.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  53. MCLELLAN E , Suvarna K, Townsend R
    Fatal necrotizing fasciitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype f.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  54. LIVAOGLU M , Yilmaz G, Kerimoglu S, Aydin K, et al
    Necrotizing fasciitis with ruminococcus.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  55. LUCK PC , Schneider T, Wagner J, Walther I, et al
    Community-acquired Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 10 linked to the private home.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  56. GARDNER EM , Kestler M, Beieler A, Belknap RW, et al
    Clostridium butyricum sepsis in an injection drug user with an indwelling central venous catheter.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  57. TADEPALLI S , Stewart GC, Nagaraja TG, Narayanan SK, et al
    Human Fusobacterium necrophorum strains have a leukotoxin gene and exhibit leukotoxic activity.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  58. MCDOWELL A , Perry AL, Lambert PA, Patrick S, et al
    A new phylogenetic group of Propionibacterium acnes.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  59. AL-BANNA NA , Junaid TA, Mathew TC, Raghupathy R, et al
    Histopathological and ultrastructural studies of a mouse lung model of Campylobacter jejuni infection.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  60. MUTTAIYAH S , Ritchie S, Upton A, Roberts S, et al
    Clinical parameters do not predict infection in patients with external ventricular drains: a retrospective observational study of daily cerebrospinal fluid analysis.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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  61. SAPKOTA BR , Ranjit C, Neupane KD, Macdonald M, et al
    Development and evaluation of a novel multiple-primer PCR amplification refractory mutation system for the rapid detection of mutations conferring rifampicin resistance in codon 425 of the rpoB gene of Mycobacterium leprae.
    J Med Microbiol. 2008;57.
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    J Virol

  62. SHEAHAN T , Rockx B, Donaldson E, Sims A, et al
    Mechanisms of zoonotic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus host range expansion in human airway epithelium.
    J Virol. 2008;82:2274-85.
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    Lancet

  63. REICHMAN LB
    Tuberculosis drug resistance comes full circle.
    Lancet. 2008;371:1052-3.
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  64. BUSE K , Samuels F, Pearson M
    Corporate Champions: doing good more effectively.
    Lancet. 2008;371:986.
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  65. SMITH C , Richardus JH
    Leprosy strategy is about control, not eradication.
    Lancet. 2008;371:969-70.
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  66. Teenagers with grown-up diseases.
    Lancet. 2008;371:960.
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    MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep


  67. Surveillance for community-associated Clostridium difficile--Connecticut, 2006.
    MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2008;57:340-3.
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  68. Transplantation-transmitted tuberculosis--Oklahoma and Texas, 2007.
    MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2008;57:333-6.
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    N Engl J Med

  69. SHARMA SK , Kadhiravan T
    Sarcoidosis.
    N Engl J Med. 2008;358:1402.
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  70. SIBERRY GK , McMillan JA
    Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis.
    N Engl J Med. 2008;358:1400.
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  71. TAHA MK , Alonso JM
    Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis.
    N Engl J Med. 2008;358:1400.
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  72. ONG CW , Hsu LY, Tambyah PA
    Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis.
    N Engl J Med. 2008;358:1399-400.
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    Nature

  73. JONES KE , Patel NG, Levy MA, Storeygard A, et al
    Global trends in emerging infectious diseases.
    Nature. 2008;451:990-3.
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  74. WOOLHOUSE ME
    Epidemiology: emerging diseases go global.
    Nature. 2008;451:898-9.
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    Pediatr Rev

  75. MAYERS MM
    Tuberculosis.
    Pediatr Rev. 2008;29:140-2.
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    Pediatrics

  76. HEALY CM , Campbell JR, Zaccaria E, Baker CJ, et al
    Fluconazole prophylaxis in extremely low birth weight neonates reduces invasive candidiasis mortality rates without emergence of fluconazole-resistant Candida species.
    Pediatrics. 2008;121:703-10.
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    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

  77. FUTSE JE , Brayton KA, Dark MJ, Knowles DP Jr, et al
    Superinfection as a driver of genomic diversification in antigenically variant pathogens.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008;105:2123-7.
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