Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Comparative evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of 19 essential oils

   • Naouel Chaftar, Marion Girardot, Jérôme Labanowski, Tawfik Ghrairi, Khaled Hani, Jacques Frère et al.

   Pages 1-15

3. Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health: Refractory Trichophyton rubrum Infections in Turin, Italy: A Problem Still Present

   • Vivian Tullio, Ornella Cervetti, Janira Roana, Michele Panzone, Daniela Scalas, Chiara Merlino et al.

   Pages 17-23

4. Antioxidant Hydroxytyrosol-Based Polyacrylate with Antimicrobial and Antiadhesive Activity Versus Staphylococcus Epidermidis

   • Fernanda Crisante, Vincenzo Taresco, Gianfranco Donelli, Claudia Vuotto, Andrea Martinelli, Lucio D’Ilario et al.

   Pages 25-36

5. The Role of Human Herpesvirus 8 in Diabetes Mellitus Type 2: State of the Art and a Medical Hypothesis

   • Raffaello Pompei

   Pages 37-45

6. Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Based on Data Collected by a Network of Clinical Microbiology Laboratories, in Italy

   • Maria Cristina Salfa, Barbara Suligoi, Italian STI Laboratory-based Surveillance Working Group

   Pages 47-57

7. β-Defensins: Work in Progress

   • Giovanna Donnarumma, Iole Paoletti, Alessandra Fusco, Brunella Perfetto, Elisabetta Buommino, Vincenza de Gregorio et al.

   Pages 59-76

8. Emergence of Escherichia coli Sequence Type 131 (ST131) and ST3948 with KPC-2, KPC-3 and KPC-8 carbapenemases from a Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Facility (LTCRF) in Northern Italy

   • Aurora Piazza, Mariasofia Caltagirone, Ibrahim Bitar, Elisabetta Nucleo, Melissa Spalla, Elena Fogato et al.

   Pages 77-89

9. Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: Results of a Laboratory Surveillance Program in an Italian General Hospital (August 2014–January 2015)

   • Claudia Monari, Luca Merlini, Emanuela Nardelli, Maria Cacioni, Antonella Repetto, Antonella Mencacci et al.

   Pages 91-101

10. A Snapshot of Drug-Resistant M. tuberculosis Strains in Croatia

    • Ljiljana Zmak, Mihaela Obrovac, Vera Katalinic-Jankovic

    Pages 103-108

11. Quorum Quenching Strategy Targeting Gram-Positive Pathogenic Bacteria

    • Ravindra Pal Singh, Said E. Desouky, Jiro Nakayama

    Pages 109-130

12. Back Matter

    Pages 131-134

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This Series will provide microbiologists, hygienists, epidemiologists and infectious diseases specialists with well-chosen contributed volumes containing updated information in the areas of basic and applied microbiology involving relevant issues for public health, including bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections, zoonoses and anthropozoonoses, environmental and food microbiology.

The increasing threat of the multidrug-resistant microorganisms and the related host immune response, the new strategies for the treatment of biofilm-based, acute and chronic microbial infections, as well as the development of new vaccines and more efficacious antimicrobial drugs to prevent and treat human and animal infections will be also reviewed in this series in the light of the most recent achievements in these fields.

Special attention will be devoted to the fast diffusion worldwide of the new findings of the most advanced translational researches carried out in the different fieldsof microbiological sciences, with the aim to promote a prompt validation and transfer at clinical level of the most promising experimental results.

• Klebsiella pneumoniae
• E. coli
• M. tuberculosis
• antimicrobial activity
• Trichophyton rubrum
• Staphylococcus epidermidis
• Herpesvirus 8
• Chlamydia trachomatis
• Trichomonas vaginalis
• Neisseria gonorrhoeae

• Microbial Biofilm Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Rome, Italy

  Gianfranco Donelli

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