Volume 44, Number 5, October 2011

Review Article

A new health threat in Europe: Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 infections


Chi-Jung Wu, Po-Ren Hsueh, Wen-Chien Ko

Original Articles

Human bocavirus as an important cause of respiratory tract infection in Taiwanese children


Chia-Yunn Chuang, Chuan-Liang Kao, Li-Min Huang, Chun-Yi Lu, Pei-Lan Shao, Ping-Ing Lee, Luan-Yin Chang

Are empiric antibiotics for acute exudative tonsillitis needed in children?


Tsung-Hsueh Hsieh, Po-Yen Chen, Fang-Liang Huang, Jiann-Der Wang, Li-Ching Wang, Heng-Kuei Lin, Hsiao-Chuan Lin, Hsin-Yang Hsieh, Meng-Kung Yu, Chih-Feng Chang, Tzu-Yau Chuang, Chin-Yun Lee

Impact of age on neutrophil phagocytic reaction with different capsular serotypes of Klebsiella pneumoniae


Chun-Hsiang Chiu, Kuo-Ming Yeh, Leung-Kei Siu, Chang-Phone Fung, Jung-Chung Lin, Feng-Yee Chang

Comparisons of clinical features and mortality of cryptococcal meningitis between patients with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection


Yi-Chien Lee, Jann-Tay Wang, Hsin-Yun Sun, Yee-Chun Chen

In vitro activity of linezolid, tigecycline, and daptomycin on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus blood isolates from adult patients, 2006–2008: Stratified analysis by vancomycin MIC


Tsui-Mai Kao, Jann-Tay Wang, Chia-Min Weng, Yee-Chun Chen, Shan-Chwen Chang

Microbial isolation and emergence of antimicrobial resistance associated with tigecycline usage


Li-Yuan Chen, Tun-Chieh Chen, Yen-Hsu Chen, Chun-Yu Lin, Wei-Ru Lin, Po-Liang Lu

Difference in imipenem, meropenem, sulbactam, and colistin nonsusceptibility trends among three phenotypically undifferentiated Acinetobacter baumannii complex in a medical center in Taiwan, 1997–2007


Chen Liang-Yu, Shu-Chen Kuo, Chun-Yu Liu, Bin-Syun Luo, Ling-Ju Huang, Yi-Tzu Lee, Chien-Pei Chen, Te-Li Chen, Chang-Phone Fung

Antimicrobial susceptibilities of urinary extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae to fosfomycin and nitrofurantoin in a teaching hospital in Taiwan


Hsin-Yi Liu, Hsiu-Chen Lin, Yi-Chun Lin, Shao-hua Yu, Wui-Hsiu Wu, Yuarn-Jang Lee

Candida albicans versus non-albicans bloodstream infections: The comparison of risk factors and outcome


Hung-Wei Chi, Ya-Sung Yang, Shi-Ta Shang, Ke-Hung Chen, Kuo-Ming Yeh, Feng-Yee Chang, Jung-Chung Lin

Antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteremic isolates from cancer patients with or without neutropenia at a medical center in southern Taiwan


Chi-Chang Huang, Chi-Jung Wu, Li-Rong Wang, Hsin-Chun Lee, Chia-Ming Chang, Nan-Yao Lee, Tsai-Yun Chen, Wen-Chien Ko

Clinical manifestations of eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis: 18 years’ experience in a medical center in southern Taiwan


Yu-Ting Tseng, Hung-Chin Tsai, Cheng Len Sy, Susan Shin-Jung Lee, Shue-Ren Wann, Yung-Hsing Wang, Jei-Kuang Chen, Kuan-Sheng Wu, Yao-Shen Chen

Case Report

Fatal subdural empyema caused by Streptococcus constellatus and Actinomyces viscosus in a child—Case report


Asma Bouziri, Ammar Khaldi, Hanène Smaoui, Khaled Menif, Nejla Ben Jaballah

Diagnostic utility of enzyme-linked immunospot assay for interferon-γ in a patient with tuberculous arthritis and pyomyositis


Che-Kim Tan, Chih-Cheng Lai, Sheng-Hsiang Lin, Yu-Tsung Huang, Chun-Hsing Liao, Po-Ren Hsueh

Nonpigmented Chromobacterium violaceum bacteremic cellulitis after fish bite


Ching-Huei Yang

Letter to the Editor

Diagnostic performance of enzyme-linked immunospot assay and whole-blood interferon-γ assay for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis


Chih-Cheng Lai, Hao-Chien Wang