1. Helicobacter pylori infection and atherosclerosis: is there a causal relationship?

   • Z. Xu
   • J. Li
   • G. Xu

   Review 27 July 2017 Pages: 2293 - 2301

   

2. Close association between intestinal microbiota and irritable bowel syndrome

   • W.-T. Fan
   • C. Ding
   • B. Gu

   Review 07 August 2017 Pages: 2303 - 2317

3. Activity of the novel siderophore cephalosporin cefiderocol against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens

   • J. Dobias
   • V. Dénervaud-Tendon
   • P. Nordmann

   Original Article 26 July 2017 Pages: 2319 - 2327

4. Contribution of echocardiography in the diagnosis of definitive infective endocarditis: the infectious disease specialist’s point of view

   • B. Davido
   • A. Moussiegt
   • J. Salomon

   Original Article 18 July 2017 Pages: 2329 - 2334

   

5. Distribution and phylogenetic analysis of Blastocystis sp. subtypes isolated from IBD patients and healthy individuals in Iran

   • H. Mirjalali
   • M. R. Abbasi
   • M. R. Zali

   Original Article 25 July 2017 Pages: 2335 - 2342

   

6. Phenotype microarray analysis of the AdeRS two-component system in Acinetobacter baumannii

   • J.-R. Sun
   • Y.-S. Chiang
   • T.-S. Chiueh

   Original Article 24 July 2017 Pages: 2343 - 2353

   

7. Reproducible measurement of vancomycin MICs within the susceptible range in Staphylococcus aureus by a broth microdilution method with a “quasi-continuum” gradient of antibiotic concentrations

   • R. Falcón
   • E. M. Mateo
   • D. Navarro

   Original Article 25 July 2017 Pages: 2355 - 2360

   

8. Prognostic accuracy of SIRS criteria, qSOFA score and GYM score for 30-day-mortality in older non-severely dependent infected patients attended in the emergency department

   • J. González del Castillo
   • A. Julian-Jiménez
   • representing the Infectious Disease Group of the Spanish Emergency Medicine Society (see addendum)

   Original Article 28 July 2017 Pages: 2361 - 2369

   

9. Using MALDI-TOF MS typing method to decipher outbreak: the case of Staphylococcus saprophyticus causing urinary tract infections (UTIs) in Marseille, France

   • K. D. Mlaga
   • G. Dubourg
   • J.-M. Rolain

   Original Article 22 August 2017 Pages: 2371 - 2377

   

10. Antimicrobial activity of octenidine against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens

    • R. Alvarez-Marin
    • M. Aires-de-Sousa
    • L. Poirel

    Original Article 19 August 2017 Pages: 2379 - 2383

    

11. Serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Egyptian children: are they covered by pneumococcal conjugate vaccines?

    • M. Badawy
    • A. El Kholy
    • M. Hamdy

    Original Article 25 July 2017 Pages: 2385 - 2389

12. Risk of infectious diseases among first-degree relatives of transplant recipients who develop CMV infection: is the infectious phenotype inheritable?

    • C. Ekenberg
    • I. P. Lodding
    • M. Helleberg

    Original Article 08 August 2017 Pages: 2391 - 2398

    

13. Prevalence and trends in the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A among children in a pediatric tertiary care hospital in South India over a period of ten years: a retrospective study

    • R. N. Iyer
    • R. R. Jangam
    • F. B. Nahdi

    Original Article 07 August 2017 Pages: 2399 - 2404

    

14. Is there a relationship between the presence of the binary toxin genes in Clostridium difficile strains and the severity of C. difficile infection (CDI)?

    • C. E. Berry
    • K. A. Davies
    • M. H. Wilcox

    Original Article 05 August 2017 Pages: 2405 - 2415

    

15. Association between dementia and reduced walking ability and 30-day mortality in patients with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli bacteremia

    • G. Chapelet
    • A. S. Boureau
    • L. de Decker

    Original Article 12 August 2017 Pages: 2417 - 2422

    

16. Faecal lactoferrin and calprotectin in patients with Clostridium difficile infection: a case–control study

    • F. Barbut
    • C. Gouot
    • C. Eckert

    Original Article 12 August 2017 Pages: 2423 - 2430

    

17. Molecular screening of multidrug-resistance tuberculosis by a designated public health laboratory in Taiwan

    • H.-C. Lin
    • C.-L. Perng
    • T.-S. Chiueh

    Original Article Open access 24 August 2017 Pages: 2431 - 2439

18. Prospective evaluation of the SD BIOLINE Dengue Duo rapid test during a dengue virus epidemic

    • C. Simonnet
    • A. Okandze
    • A. Mahamat

    Original Article 22 August 2017 Pages: 2441 - 2447

19. Methanobrevibacter smithii, a methanogen consistently colonising the newborn stomach

    • G. Grine
    • M. A. Boualam
    • M. Drancourt

    Original Article 19 August 2017 Pages: 2449 - 2455

    

20. Dysbiosis signature of mycobiota in colon polyp and colorectal cancer

    • R. Gao
    • C. Kong
    • H. Qin

    Original Article 18 August 2017 Pages: 2457 - 2468

    

21. Impact of rapid diagnosis of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia from positive blood cultures on patient management

    • M. P. Romero-Gómez
    • E. Cendejas-Bueno
    • J. Mingorance

    Original Article 23 August 2017 Pages: 2469 - 2473

22. Regulatory T cells and IL-10 as modulators of chikungunya disease outcome: a preliminary study

    • S. P. Kulkarni
    • M. Ganu
    • A. S. Tripathy

    Original Article 25 August 2017 Pages: 2475 - 2481

    

23. Utility of strain typing of Propionibacterium acnes in central nervous system and prosthetic joint infections to differentiate contamination from infection: a retrospective cohort

    • J. P. Burnham
    • A. Shupe
    • D. K. Warren

    Original Article 25 August 2017 Pages: 2483 - 2489

    

24. Activity of temocillin and 15 other agents, including fosfomycin and colistin, against Enterobacteriaceae in Hong Kong

    • Margaret Ip
    • Christopher K. Lai
    • Peter Hawkey

    Original Article Open access 25 August 2017 Pages: 2491 - 2494

    

25. An outbreak in intravenous drug users due to USA300 Latin-American variant community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in France as early as 2007

    • M. Sassi
    • B. Felden
    • P.-Y. Donnio

    Original Article 02 September 2017 Pages: 2495 - 2501

    

26. Platelet reactivity in sepsis syndrome: results from the PRESS study

    • Karolina Akinosoglou
    • Spyridoula Theodoraki
    • Charalambos A Gogos

    Original Article 24 August 2017 Pages: 2503 - 2512

    

27. Efficacy and safety of clindamycin-based treatment for bone and joint infections: a cohort study

    • J. Courjon
    • E. Demonchy
    • P.-M. Roger

    Original Article 07 September 2017 Pages: 2513 - 2518

    

28. A small proportion of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, compared to healthcare-associated cases, in two South African provinces

    • O. Perovic
    • A. Singh-Moodley
    • for GERMS-SA

    Original Article 28 August 2017 Pages: 2519 - 2532

    

29. Mortality associated with candidemia in non-neutropenic cancer patients is not less compared to a neutropenic cohort of cancer patients

    • G. Goel
    • M. Chandy
    • A. Chakrabarti

    Letter to the Editor 11 August 2017 Pages: 2533 - 2535

30. Gonorrhea resistance: don’t forget the old chaps

    • D. Raoult

    Letter to the Editor 15 September 2017 Pages: 2537 - 2537