Vol. 32 Issue 9 | Sep 2009 | pp. 533 - 695

EDITORIAL
New concepts and new weapons in implant infections

Carla Renata Arciola

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 533 - 536

Article Type: EDITORIAL
REVIEW
Suicide and fratricide in bacterial biofilms

Vinai Chittezham Thomas, Lynn E. Hancock

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 537 - 544

Article Type: REVIEW
Perspectives on DNA vaccines. Targeting staphylococcal adhesins to prevent implant infections

Carla Renata Arciola, Pietro Speziale, Lucio Montanaro

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 635 - 641

Article Type: REVIEW
Current methods for molecular epidemiology studies of implant infections

Davide Campoccia, Lucio Montanaro, Carla Renata Arciola

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 642 - 654

Article Type: REVIEW
Novel surface coatings modulating eukaryotic cell adhesion and preventing implant infection

Juergen Groll, Joerg Fiedler, Kristina Bruellhoff, Martin Moeller, Rolf E. Brenner

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 655 - 662

Article Type: REVIEW
Role of antibiotic lock therapy for the treatment of catheter-related bloodstream infections

Jose L.. Del Pozo

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 678 - 688

Article Type: REVIEW
Prospecting gene therapy of implant infections

J. William Costerton, Lucio Montanaro, Naomi Balaban, Carla Renata Arciola

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 689 - 695

Article Type: REVIEW
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Therapeutic potential of biofilm-dispersing enzymes

Jeffrey B. Kaplan

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 545 - 554

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Disruption of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms by medicinal maggot Lucilia sericata excretions/secretions

Llinos G. Harris, Alyson Bexfield, Yamni Nigam, Holger Rohde, Norman A. Ratcliffe, Dietrich Mack

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 555 - 564

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Phagocytosis of staphylococci biofilms by polymorphonuclear neutrophils: S. aureus and S. epidermidis differ with regard to their susceptibility towards the host defense

Frank Guenther, Petra Stroh, Christoph Wagner, Ursula Obst, Gertrud M. Hansch

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 565 - 573

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
The photodynamic effect of tetra-substituted N-methyl-pyridyl-porphine combined with the action of vancomycin or host defense mechanisms disrupts Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms

Maria S. Sbarra, Carla Renata Arciola, Antonella Di Poto, Enrica Saino, Holger Rohde, Pietro Speziale, Livia Visai

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 574 - 583

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Regulation of biofilm formation by sigmaB is a common mechanism in Staphylococcus epidermidis and is not mediated by transcriptional regulation of sarA

Sebastian Jaeger, Beate Jonas, Dorothea Pfanzelt, Matthias A. Horstkotte, Holger Rohde, Dietrich Mack, Johannes K.-M. Knobloch

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 584 - 591

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
TRAP plays a role in stress response in Staphylococcus aureus

D. Kiran Madanahally, Naomi Balaban

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 592 - 599

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
OpuC – an ABC transporter that is associated with Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis

D. Kiran Madanahally, Donna E. Akiyoshi, Andrea Giacometti, Oscar Cirioni, Giorgio Scalise, Naomi Balaban

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 600 - 610

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Surface protein EF3314 contributes to virulence properties of Enterococcus faecalis

Roberta Creti, Francesca Fabretti, Stefanie Koch, Johannes Huebner, Danielle A. Garsin, Lucilla Baldassarri, Lucio Montanaro, Carla Renata Arciola

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 611 - 620

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Description of a new group of variants of the Staphylococcus aureus elastin-binding protein that lacks an entire DNA segment of 180 bp

Davide Campoccia, Lucio Montanaro, Stefano Ravaioli, Ilaria Cangini, Pietro Speziale, Carla Renata Arciola

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 621 - 629

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Influence of material and microtopography on the development of local infection in vivo: Experimental investigation in rabbits

Thomas F. Moriarty, Laurence Debefve, Ludovic Boure, Davide Campoccia, Urs Schlegel, Robert G. Richards

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 663 - 670

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Adhesion of Streptococcus mutans to different restorative materials

Claudio Poggio, Carla Renata Arciola, Federico Rosti, Andrea Scribante, Enrica Saino, Livia Visai

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 671 - 677

Article Type: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
CASE REPORT
Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene detected in a Staphylococcus aureus strain isolated from a knee arthroprosthesis infection

Lucio Montanaro, Lucilla Baldassarri, Tolmino Corazzari, Roberta Creti, Stefano Ravaioli, Ilaria Cangini, Valter Pirini, Alessandra Maso, M. Elena Donati, Francesco Pegreffi, Livia Visai, Davide Campoccia, Pietro Speziale, Carla Renata Arciola

Int J Artif Organs 2009; 32(9): 630 - 634

Article Type: CASE REPORT

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