This Series will provide microbiologists, hygienists, epidemiologists andinfectious diseases specialists with well-chosen contributed volumes containingupdated information in the areas of basic and applied microbiology involvingrelevant issues for public health, including bacterial, fungal and parasiticinfections, zoonoses and anthropozoonoses, environmental and food microbiology.The increasing threat of the multidrug-resistantmicroorganisms and the related host immune response, the new strategies for thetreatment of biofilm-based, acute and chronic microbial infections, as well asthe development of new vaccines and more efficacious antimicrobial drugs toprevent and treat human and animal infections will be also reviewed in thisseries in the light of the most recent achievements in these fields.Special attention will be devoted to the fast diffusionworldwide of the new findings of the most advanced translational researchescarried out in the different fields of micro
biological sciences, with the aimto promote a prompt validation and transfer at clinical level of the mostpromising experimental results.
Overview of the antimicrobial activity of 19 essential oilsNaouel Chaftar , MarionGirardot, Jérôme Labanowski, Tawfik Ghrairi, Khaled Hani, Jacques Frère,Christine ImbertRefractory Trichophytonrubrum infections in Turin, Italy: a problem still presentVivian Tullio, OrnellaCervetti, Janira Roana, Michele Panzone,Daniela Scalas, Chiara Merlino, Valeria Allizond, Giuliana Banche,Narcisa Mandras, Anna Maria CuffiniAntioxidant hydroxytyrosol-based polyacrylate with antimicrobial and antiadhesive activity versus Staphylococcus epidermidisFernandaCrisante, Vincenzo Taresco, Gianfranco Donelli, Claudia Vuotto; AndreaMartinelli, Lucio D"Ilario, Loris Pietrelli, Iolanda Francolini ,Antonella Piozzi The role of human Herpesvirus 8 in diabetes mellitus type 2: state of theart and a medical hypothesisRaffaello PompeiPrevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis , Trichomonasvaginalis and Neisseria gonorrhoeaebased on data collected by a network of clinicalmicrobiology laborat
ories, in Italy MariaCristina Salfa , Barbara Suligoi and Italian STI Laboratory-basedSurveillance Working Group_-defensins:work in progressGiovannaDonnarumma , Iole Paoletti, Alessandra Fusco, BrunellaPerfetto, Elisabetta Buommino, Adone BaroniEmergence of Escherichia coli Sequence Type 131(ST131) and ST3948 with KPC-2, KPC-3 and KPC-8 carbapenemases from a Long-TermCare and Rehabilitation Facility (LTCRF) in Northern Italy.Aurora Piazza, Mariasofia Caltagirone, Ibrahim Bitar, Elisabetta Nucleo, MelissaSpalla, Elena Fogato, Roberto D"Angelo, Laura Pagani , Roberta MigliavaccaCarbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae : results of a laboratory surveillance program in anItalian General Hospital (August 2014-January 2015)Claudia Monari, Luca Merlini, EmanuelaNardelli, Maria Cacioni, Antonella Repetto, Antonella Mencacci, AnnaVecchiarelli A snapshot ofdrug-resistant M. tuberculosisstrains in CroatiaLjiljana Zmak , MihaelaObrovac, Vera Katalinic-Jankovi
cQuorum quenchingstrategy targeting gram-positive pathogenic bacteriaRavindra Pal Singh, Said E. Desouky, Jiro Nakayama
