Publications by authors named "Katrien Lagrou"

100Publications

Convalescent plasma treatment of persistent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in patients with lymphoma with impaired humoral immunity and lack of neutralising antibodies.

Authors:
Albrecht Betrains Laurent Godinas F J Sherida H Woei-A-Jin Wouter Rosseels Yannick Van Herck Natalie Lorent Daan Dierickx Veerle Compernolle Geert Meyfroidt Lore Vanderbeke Valentijn Vergote Katrien Lagrou Peter Verhamme Joost Wauters Pieter Vermeersch Timothy Devos Piet Maes Steven Vanderschueren

Br J Haematol 2020 Dec 13. Epub 2020 Dec 13.

Department of General Internal Medicine, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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December 2020

In-depth analysis of pneumococcal serotypes in Belgian children (2015-2018): Diversity, invasive disease potential, and antimicrobial susceptibility in carriage and disease.

Authors:
Stefanie Desmet Ine Wouters Liesbet Van Heirstraeten Philippe Beutels Pierre Van Damme Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar Piet Maes Jan Verhaegen Willy E Peetermans Katrien Lagrou Heidi Theeten

Vaccine 2021 Jan 9;39(2):372-379. Epub 2020 Dec 9.

Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.

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January 2021

Variable Correlation between Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Fungal Load and Serum-(1,3)-β-d-Glucan in Patients with Pneumocystosis-A Multicenter ECMM Excellence Center Study.

Authors:
Toine Mercier Nesrine Aissaoui Maud Gits-Muselli Samia Hamane Juergen Prattes Harald H Kessler Ivana Mareković Sanja Pleško Jörg Steinmann Ulrike Scharmann Johan Maertens Katrien Lagrou Blandine Denis Stéphane Bretagne Alexandre Alanio

J Fungi (Basel) 2020 Dec 1;6(4). Epub 2020 Dec 1.

Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Saint-Louis-Lariboisière-Fernand-Widal, 75010 Paris, France.

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December 2020

Amphotericin B and Other Polyenes-Discovery, Clinical Use, Mode of Action and Drug Resistance.

Authors:
Hans Carolus Siebe Pierson Katrien Lagrou Patrick Van Dijck

J Fungi (Basel) 2020 Nov 27;6(4). Epub 2020 Nov 27.

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.

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November 2020

Trehalose as quantitative biomarker for in vivo diagnosis and treatment follow-up in cryptococcomas.

Authors:
Liesbeth Vanherp Jennifer Poelmans Akila Weerasekera Amy Hillen Anca R Croitor-Sava Tania C Sorrell Katrien Lagrou Greetje Vande Velde Uwe Himmelreich

Transl Res 2020 Nov 6. Epub 2020 Nov 6.

Biomedical MRI, Department of Imaging and Pathology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:

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November 2020

Immunoassays for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies: recent insights.

Authors:
Jan Van Elslande Emmanuel André Marc Van Ranst Katrien Lagrou Pieter Vermeersch

Lancet Infect Dis 2020 Oct 30. Epub 2020 Oct 30.

Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine and National Reference Centre for Respiratory Pathogens, University Hospitals Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:

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October 2020

Successful Outcome of Disseminated Fusarium musae Fungemia with Skin Localization Treated with Liposomal Amphotericin B and Voriconazole in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Authors:
Vanessa Verbeke Thibault Bourgeois Tom Lodewyck Jens Van Praet Katrien Lagrou Marijke Reynders Eric Nulens

Mycopathologia 2020 Dec 29;185(6):1085-1089. Epub 2020 Oct 29.

Department of Medical Microbiology, AZ Sint-Jan Bruges, Ruddershove 10, 8000, Brugge, Belgium.

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December 2020

Gene Mutation Prevalence in Triazole-Resistant Clinical Isolates.

Authors:
Agustin Resendiz-Sharpe Margriet W J Hokken Toine Mercier Rita Merckx Kamiel Verhagen Lisa Dewitte Willem J G Melchers Paul E Verweij Johan Maertens Katrien Lagrou

J Fungi (Basel) 2020 Oct 16;6(4). Epub 2020 Oct 16.

Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

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October 2020

Diagnosis of Breakthrough Fungal Infections in the Clinical Mycology Laboratory: An ECMM Consensus Statement.

Authors:
Jeffrey D Jenks Jean-Pierre Gangneux Ilan S Schwartz Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo Katrien Lagrou George R Thompson Iii Cornelia Lass-Flörl Martin Hoenigl European Confederation Of Medical Mycology Ecmm Council Investigators

J Fungi (Basel) 2020 Oct 11;6(4). Epub 2020 Oct 11.

Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103, USA.

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October 2020

Proteome analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluids reveals host and fungal proteins highly expressed during invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in mice and humans.

Authors:
Silke Machata Mario M Müller Roland Lehmann Patricia Sieber Gianni Panagiotou Agostinho Carvalho Cristina Cunha Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens Hortense Slevogt Ilse D Jacobsen

Virulence 2020 12;11(1):1337-1351

Microbial Immunology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knoell Institute , Jena, Germany.

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December 2020

Belgian National Survey on Tinea Capitis: Epidemiological Considerations and Highlight of Terbinafine-Resistant with a Mutation on SQLE Gene.

Authors:
Rosalie Sacheli Saadia Harag Florence Dehavay Séverine Evrard Danielle Rousseaux Akole Adjetey Laurence Seidel Kim Laffineur Katrien Lagrou Marie-Pierre Hayette

J Fungi (Basel) 2020 Sep 29;6(4). Epub 2020 Sep 29.

Department of Clinical Microbiology, Belgian National Reference Center for Mycoses, University Hospital of Liege, 4000 Liège, Belgium.

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September 2020

Bacterial contamination of blood products for transfusion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: temperature monitoring, qualitative and semi-quantitative culture.

Authors:
Anne-Sophie Heroes Natacha Ndalingosu Jocelyne Kalema Aimée Luyindula Dorothée Kashitu Catherine Akele Jeff Kabinda Katrien Lagrou Philippe Vandekerckhove Jan Jacobs Octavie Lunguya

Blood Transfus 2020 09 6;18(5):348-358. Epub 2020 Aug 6.

Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Department of Microbiology, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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September 2020

Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 reinfection by a phylogenetically distinct strain.

Authors:
Jan Van Elslande Pieter Vermeersch Kris Vandervoort Tony Wawina-Bokalanga Bert Vanmechelen Elke Wollants Lies Laenen Emmanuel André Marc Van Ranst Katrien Lagrou Piet Maes

Clin Infect Dis 2020 Sep 5. Epub 2020 Sep 5.

KU Leuven, Rega Institute Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium.

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September 2020

Cefepime therapeutic drug monitoring: Evaluation of agreement between peripheral and central venous blood sampling.

Authors:
Matthias Gijsen Johan Maertens Katrien Lagrou Willy E Peetermans David Fage Yves Debaveye Isabel Spriet

Clin Chim Acta 2020 Nov 12;510:450-454. Epub 2020 Aug 12.

Pharmacy Department, UZ Leuven and Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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November 2020

Antibody response against SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and nucleoprotein evaluated by four automated immunoassays and three ELISAs.

Authors:
Jan Van Elslande Bram Decru Stijn Jonckheere Eric Van Wijngaerden Els Houben Patricia Vandecandelaere Christophe Indevuyst Melissa Depypere Stefanie Desmet Emmanuel André Marc Van Ranst Katrien Lagrou Pieter Vermeersch

Clin Microbiol Infect 2020 Nov 31;26(11):1557.e1-1557.e7. Epub 2020 Jul 31.

Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine and National Reference Centre for Respiratory Pathogens, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:

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November 2020

Dynamic changes in paediatric invasive pneumococcal disease after sequential switches of conjugate vaccine in Belgium: a national retrospective observational study.

Authors:
Stefanie Desmet Katrien Lagrou Chloé Wyndham-Thomas Toon Braeye Jan Verhaegen Piet Maes Steffen Fieuws Willy E Peetermans Sophie Blumental

Lancet Infect Dis 2021 01 20;21(1):127-136. Epub 2020 Jul 20.

Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Unité de Maladies Infectieuses Pédiatriques, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

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January 2021

as an emerging opportunistic pathogen: First case of superinfection in herpetic keratitis.

Authors:
Dimitri Roels Liselotte Coorevits Katrien Lagrou

Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep 2020 Sep 25;19:100791. Epub 2020 Jun 25.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Catholic University Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.

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September 2020

Comparison of the diagnostic performance with whole blood and plasma of four rapid antibody tests for SARS-CoV-2.

Authors:
Bram Decru Jan Van Elslande Matthias Weemaes Els Houben Ine Empsen Emmanuel André Marc Van Ranst Katrien Lagrou Pieter Vermeersch

Clin Chem Lab Med 2020 09;58(10):e197-e199

Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine and National Reference Center for Respiratory Pathogens, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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September 2020

Development and Potential Usefulness of the COVID-19 Ag Respi-Strip Diagnostic Assay in a Pandemic Context.

Authors:
Pascal Mertens Nathalie De Vos Delphine Martiny Christian Jassoy Ali Mirazimi Lize Cuypers Sigi Van den Wijngaert Vanessa Monteil Pierrette Melin Karolien Stoffels Nicolas Yin Davide Mileto Sabrina Delaunoy Henri Magein Katrien Lagrou Justine Bouzet Gabriela Serrano Magali Wautier Thierry Leclipteux Marc Van Ranst Olivier Vandenberg

Front Med (Lausanne) 2020 8;7:225. Epub 2020 May 8.

Innovation and Business Development Unit, LHUB-ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

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May 2020

Review of influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in ICU patients and proposal for a case definition: an expert opinion.

Authors:
Paul E Verweij Bart J A Rijnders Roger J M Brüggemann Elie Azoulay Matteo Bassetti Stijn Blot Thierry Calandra Cornelius J Clancy Oliver A Cornely Tom Chiller Pieter Depuydt Daniele Roberto Giacobbe Nico A F Janssen Bart-Jan Kullberg Katrien Lagrou Cornelia Lass-Flörl Russell E Lewis Peter Wei-Lun Liu Olivier Lortholary Johan Maertens Ignacio Martin-Loeches M Hong Nguyen Thomas F Patterson Thomas R Rogers Jeroen A Schouten Isabel Spriet Lore Vanderbeke Joost Wauters Frank L van de Veerdonk

Intensive Care Med 2020 Aug 22;46(8):1524-1535. Epub 2020 Jun 22.

Centre of Expertise in Mycology Radboudumc/CWZ, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases (RCI), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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August 2020

Pathogenic Allodiploid Hybrids of Aspergillus Fungi.

Authors:
Jacob L Steenwyk Abigail L Lind Laure N A Ries Thaila F Dos Reis Lilian P Silva Fausto Almeida Rafael W Bastos Thais Fernanda de Campos Fraga da Silva Vania L D Bonato André Moreira Pessoni Fernando Rodrigues Huzefa A Raja Sonja L Knowles Nicholas H Oberlies Katrien Lagrou Gustavo H Goldman Antonis Rokas

Curr Biol 2020 Jul 4;30(13):2495-2507.e7. Epub 2020 Jun 4.

Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, 465 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37235, USA; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1211 Medical Center Drive, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. Electronic address:

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July 2020

Successful eradication improves outcomes after lung transplantation: a retrospective cohort analysis.

Authors:
Benedicte De Muynck Anke Van Herck Annelore Sacreas Tobias Heigl Janne Kaes Arno Vanstapel Stijn E Verleden Arne P Neyrinck Laurens J Ceulemans Dirk E Van Raemdonck Katrien Lagrou Bart M Vanaudenaerde Geert M Verleden Robin Vos

Eur Respir J 2020 Oct 1;56(4). Epub 2020 Oct 1.

Dept of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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October 2020

Phagosomal removal of fungal melanin reprograms macrophage metabolism to promote antifungal immunity.

Authors:
Samuel M Gonçalves Cláudio Duarte-Oliveira Cláudia F Campos Vishukumar Aimanianda Rob Ter Horst Luis Leite Toine Mercier Paulo Pereira Miguel Fernández-García Daniela Antunes Cláudia S Rodrigues Catarina Barbosa-Matos Joana Gaifem Inês Mesquita António Marques Nuno S Osório Egídio Torrado Fernando Rodrigues Sandra Costa Leo Ab Joosten Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens João F Lacerda António Campos Gordon D Brown Axel A Brakhage Coral Barbas Ricardo Silvestre Frank L van de Veerdonk Georgios Chamilos Mihai G Netea Jean-Paul Latgé Cristina Cunha Agostinho Carvalho

Nat Commun 2020 05 8;11(1):2282. Epub 2020 May 8.

Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.

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May 2020

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Guidance on Behalf of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society.

Authors:
Jan Deprest Mahesh Choolani Frank Chervenak Diana Farmer Katrien Lagrou Enrico Lopriore Laurence McCullough Olutoyin Olutoye Lynn Simpson Tim Van Mieghem Greg Ryan

Fetal Diagn Ther 2020 6;47(9):689-698. Epub 2020 May 6.

Fetal Medicine Unit, Ontario Fetal Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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September 2020

Laboratory information system requirements to manage the COVID-19 pandemic: A report from the Belgian national reference testing center.

Authors:
Matthias Weemaes Steven Martens Lize Cuypers Jan Van Elslande Katrien Hoet Joris Welkenhuysen Ria Goossens Stijn Wouters Els Houben Kirsten Jeuris Lies Laenen Katrien Bruyninckx Kurt Beuselinck Emmanuel André Melissa Depypere Stefanie Desmet Katrien Lagrou Marc Van Ranst Ann K L C Verdonck Jermaine Goveia

J Am Med Inform Assoc 2020 08;27(8):1293-1299

Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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August 2020

Solid organ donation after death from listeria encephalitis: A case report.

Authors:
Thomas Douchy Katrien Lagrou Ina Jochmans Mauricio Sainz Barriga Diethard Monbaliu Jacques Pirenne Yves Debaveye

Transpl Infect Dis 2020 Jun 30;22(3):e13295. Epub 2020 Apr 30.

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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June 2020

Multicentre validation of a EUCAST method for the antifungal susceptibility testing of microconidia-forming dermatophytes.

Authors:
Maiken Cavling Arendrup Karin Meinike Jørgensen Jesus Guinea Katrien Lagrou Erja Chryssanthou Marie-Pierre Hayette Francesco Barchiesi Cornelia Lass-Flörl Petr Hamal Eric Dannaoui Anuradha Chowdhary Joseph Meletiadis

J Antimicrob Chemother 2020 07;75(7):1807-1819

Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Attikon University Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

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July 2020

The Added Value of Longitudinal Imaging for Preclinical Efficacy Testing of Therapeutic Compounds against Cerebral Cryptococcosis.

Authors:
Liesbeth Vanherp Jennifer Poelmans Amy Hillen Guilhem Janbon Matthias Brock Katrien Lagrou Greetje Vande Velde Uwe Himmelreich

Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2020 06 23;64(7). Epub 2020 Jun 23.

Biomedical MRI, Department of Imaging and Pathology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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June 2020

Functional Characterization of Clinical Isolates of the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus nidulans.

Authors:
Rafael Wesley Bastos Clara Valero Lilian Pereira Silva Taylor Schoen Milton Drott Verônica Brauer Rafael Silva-Rocha Abigail Lind Jacob L Steenwyk Antonis Rokas Fernando Rodrigues Agustin Resendiz-Sharpe Katrien Lagrou Marina Marcet-Houben Toni Gabaldón Erin McDonnell Ian Reid Adrian Tsang Berl R Oakley Flávio Vieira Loures Fausto Almeida Anna Huttenlocher Nancy P Keller Laure Nicolas Annick Ries Gustavo H Goldman

mSphere 2020 04 8;5(2). Epub 2020 Apr 8.

Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

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April 2020

Prospective evaluation of the turbidimetric β-D-glucan assay and two lateral flow assays on serum in invasive aspergillosis.

Authors:
Toine Mercier Ellen Guldentops Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens

Clin Infect Dis 2020 Mar 19. Epub 2020 Mar 19.

KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Leuven, Belgium.

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March 2020

European confederation of medical mycology expert consult-An ECMM excellence center initiative.

Authors:
Philipp Koehler Blandine Denis David W Denning Jean-Pierre Gangneux Martin Hoenigl Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis Robert Krause Katrien Lagrou Cornelia Lass-Flörl Johan Maertens Ivana Mareković Jacques F Meis Jean-Michel Molina Sanja Pleško Juergen Prattes Peter-Michael Rath Riina Rautemaa-Richardson Malcolm Richardson Esther Segal Danila Seidel Isabel Spriet Joerg Steinmann Paul E Verweij Oliver A Cornely

Mycoses 2020 Jun 13;63(6):566-572. Epub 2020 Apr 13.

Department I of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Dusseldorf (CIO ABCD), Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

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June 2020

A Mortality Prediction Rule for Hematology Patients with Invasive Aspergillosis Based on Serum Galactomannan Kinetics.

Authors:
Toine Mercier Joachim Wera Louis Y A Chai Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens

J Clin Med 2020 Feb 24;9(2). Epub 2020 Feb 24.

KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

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February 2020

Analytical Performance of the RIDASCREEN Hantavirus Puumala IgG/IgM ELISA Assay.

Authors:
Melissa Depypere Katrien Lagrou Marjan Van Esbroeck Els Houben Marc Van Ranst

Viruses 2020 02 18;12(2). Epub 2020 Feb 18.

National Reference Center for Hantavirus, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

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February 2020

Efficacy and safety of a Belgian tertiary care outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) program.

Authors:
Charlotte Quintens Ester Steffens Karel Jacobs Annette Schuermans Johan Van Eldere Katrien Lagrou Paul De Munter Inge Derdelinckx Willy E Peetermans Isabel Spriet

Infection 2020 Jun 14;48(3):357-366. Epub 2020 Feb 14.

Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.

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June 2020

The impact of childhood 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on overall invasive pneumococcal disease, including the oldest old.

Authors:
Liesbet Henckaerts Stefanie Desmet Nele Schalck Katrien Lagrou Jan Verhaegen Willy E Peetermans Johan Flamaing

Acta Clin Belg 2020 Jan 30:1-8. Epub 2020 Jan 30.

Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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January 2020

Potential of Gallium as an Antifungal Agent.

Authors:
Rafael Wesley Bastos Luana Rossato Clara Valero Katrien Lagrou Arnaldo Lopes Colombo Gustavo H Goldman

Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2019 11;9:414. Epub 2019 Dec 11.

Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

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August 2020

Serial Detection of Circulating Mucorales DNA in Invasive Mucormycosis: A Retrospective Multicenter Evaluation.

Authors:
Toine Mercier Marijke Reynders Kurt Beuselinck Ellen Guldentops Johan Maertens Katrien Lagrou

J Fungi (Basel) 2019 Dec 3;5(4). Epub 2019 Dec 3.

Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

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December 2019

Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium.

Authors:
J Peter Donnelly Sharon C Chen Carol A Kauffman William J Steinbach John W Baddley Paul E Verweij Cornelius J Clancy John R Wingard Shawn R Lockhart Andreas H Groll Tania C Sorrell Matteo Bassetti Hamdi Akan Barbara D Alexander David Andes Elie Azoulay Ralf Bialek Robert W Bradsher Stephane Bretagne Thierry Calandra Angela M Caliendo Elio Castagnola Mario Cruciani Manuel Cuenca-Estrella Catherine F Decker Sujal R Desai Brian Fisher Thomas Harrison Claus Peter Heussel Henrik E Jensen Christopher C Kibbler Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis Bart-Jan Kullberg Katrien Lagrou Frédéric Lamoth Thomas Lehrnbecher Jurgen Loeffler Olivier Lortholary Johan Maertens Oscar Marchetti Kieren A Marr Henry Masur Jacques F Meis C Orla Morrisey Marcio Nucci Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner Livio Pagano Thomas F Patterson John R Perfect Zdenek Racil Emmanuel Roilides Marcus Ruhnke Cornelia Schaefer Prokop Shmuel Shoham Monica A Slavin David A Stevens George R Thompson Jose A Vazquez Claudio Viscoli Thomas J Walsh Adilia Warris L Joseph Wheat P Lewis White Theoklis E Zaoutis Peter G Pappas

Clin Infect Dis 2020 Sep;71(6):1367-1376

Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

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September 2020

The Fungal PCR Initiative's evaluation of in-house and commercial Pneumocystis jirovecii qPCR assays: Toward a standard for a diagnostics assay.

Authors:
Maud Gits-Muselli P Lewis White Carlo Mengoli Sharon Chen Brendan Crowley Gijs Dingemans Emilie Fréalle Rebecca L Gorton Malcom Guiver Ferry Hagen Catriona Halliday Gemma Johnson Katrien Lagrou Martina Lengerova Willem J G Melchers Lily Novak-Frazer Riina Rautemaa-Richardson Emeline Scherer Joerg Steinmann Mario Cruciani Rosemary Barnes J Peter Donnelly Juergen Loeffler Stéphane Bretagne Alexandre Alanio

Med Mycol 2020 Aug;58(6):779-788

Institut Pasteur, Molecular Mycology Unit, CNRS UMR2000, Paris, France.

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August 2020

Etiology and Outcome of Candidemia in Neonates and Children in Europe: An 11-year Multinational Retrospective Study.

Authors:
Adilia Warris Zoi-Dorothea Pana Andrea Oletto Rebecca Lundin Elio Castagnola Thomas Lehrnbecher Andreas H Groll Emmanuel Roilides Cecilie T Andersen Maiken C Arendrup Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic Sonia Bianchini Ulrich von Both Martin Chmelnik Tiziana Controzzi Marieke Emonts Susanna Esposito Laura Ferreras-Antolin Stefanie Henriet Elias Iosifidis Adam Irwin John Kopsidas Katrien Lagrou Hermione Lyall Angela Manzanares Casteleiro Alessio Mesini Peter Olbrich Stephane Paulus Karen Rokkedal Lausch Pere Soler-Palacin Nikos Spyridis Volker Strenger Martha Theodoraki Tom Wolfs

Pediatr Infect Dis J 2020 02;39(2):114-120

Infectious Diseases Unit, 3rd Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University 96 School of Health Sciences, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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February 2020

A decade of enterovirus genetic diversity in Belgium.

Authors:
Elke Wollants Leen Beller Kurt Beuselinck Mandy Bloemen Katrien Lagrou Marijke Reynders Marc Van Ranst

J Clin Virol 2019 12 25;121:104205. Epub 2019 Oct 25.

KU Leuven, Rega Institute, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Laboratory of Clinical & Epidemiological Virology, BE-3000, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Laboratory Medicine and National Reference Center for Respiratory Pathogens and Enteroviruses, University Hospitals Leuven, BE-3000, Leuven, Belgium.

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December 2019

Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium.

Authors:
Oliver A Cornely Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo Dorothee Arenz Sharon C A Chen Eric Dannaoui Bruno Hochhegger Martin Hoenigl Henrik E Jensen Katrien Lagrou Russell E Lewis Sibylle C Mellinghoff Mervyn Mer Zoi D Pana Danila Seidel Donald C Sheppard Roger Wahba Murat Akova Alexandre Alanio Abdullah M S Al-Hatmi Sevtap Arikan-Akdagli Hamid Badali Ronen Ben-Ami Alexandro Bonifaz Stéphane Bretagne Elio Castagnola Methee Chayakulkeeree Arnaldo L Colombo Dora E Corzo-León Lubos Drgona Andreas H Groll Jesus Guinea Claus-Peter Heussel Ashraf S Ibrahim Souha S Kanj Nikolay Klimko Michaela Lackner Frederic Lamoth Fanny Lanternier Cornelia Lass-Floerl Dong-Gun Lee Thomas Lehrnbecher Badre E Lmimouni Mihai Mares Georg Maschmeyer Jacques F Meis Joseph Meletiadis C Orla Morrissey Marcio Nucci Rita Oladele Livio Pagano Alessandro Pasqualotto Atul Patel Zdenek Racil Malcolm Richardson Emmanuel Roilides Markus Ruhnke Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi Neeraj Sidharthan Nina Singh János Sinko Anna Skiada Monica Slavin Rajeev Soman Brad Spellberg William Steinbach Ban Hock Tan Andrew J Ullmann Jörg J Vehreschild Maria J G T Vehreschild Thomas J Walsh P Lewis White Nathan P Wiederhold Theoklis Zaoutis Arunaloke Chakrabarti

Lancet Infect Dis 2019 12 5;19(12):e405-e421. Epub 2019 Nov 5.

Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India.

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December 2019

Longitudinal In Vivo Assessment of Host-Microbe Interactions in a Murine Model of Pulmonary Aspergillosis.

Authors:
Shweta Saini Jennifer Poelmans Hannelie Korf James L Dooley Sayuan Liang Bella B Manshian Rein Verbeke Stefaan J Soenen Greetje Vande Velde Ine Lentacker Katrien Lagrou Adrian Liston Conny Gysemans Stefaan C De Smedt Uwe Himmelreich

iScience 2019 Oct 18;20:184-194. Epub 2019 Sep 18.

Biomedical MRI/Molecular Small Animal Imaging Center (MoSAIC), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:

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October 2019

Infectious disease consultation lowers candidaemia mortality.

Authors:
Katrien Lagrou Eric Van Wijngaerden

Lancet Infect Dis 2019 12 24;19(12):1270-1272. Epub 2019 Sep 24.

Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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December 2019

Hospital Laboratory Survey for Identification of in Belgium.

Authors:
Klaas Dewaele Katrien Lagrou Johan Frans Marie-Pierre Hayette Kris Vernelen

J Fungi (Basel) 2019 Sep 5;5(3). Epub 2019 Sep 5.

Quality of Laboratories, Sciensano, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

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September 2019

Gliotoxin and bis(methylthio)gliotoxin are not reliable as biomarkers of invasive aspergillosis.

Authors:
Toine Mercier Agustin Reséndiz Sharpe Dieter Waumans Koen Desmet Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens

Mycoses 2019 Oct 12;62(10):945-948. Epub 2019 Aug 12.

Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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October 2019

Lateral flow assays for diagnosing invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in adult hematology patients: A comparative multicenter study.

Authors:
Toine Mercier Albert Dunbar Elizabeth de Kort Alexander Schauwvlieghe Marijke Reynders Ellen Guldentops Nicole M A Blijlevens Alieke G Vonk Bart Rijnders Paul E Verweij Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens

Med Mycol 2020 Jun;58(4):444-452

Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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June 2020

ECMM CandiReg-A ready to use platform for outbreaks and epidemiological studies.

Authors:
Philipp Koehler Maiken Cavling Arendrup Sevtap Arikan-Akdagli Matteo Bassetti Stéphane Bretagne Lena Klingspor Katrien Lagrou Jacques F Meis Riina Rautemaa-Richardson Silke Schelenz Axel Hamprecht Felix C Koehler Oliver Kurzai Jon Salmanton-García Jörg-Janne Vehreschild Alexandre Alanio Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic Jean-Pierre Gangneux Neil A R Gow Suzana Hadina Petr Hamal Elizabeth Johnson Nikolay Klimko Cornelia Lass-Flörl Mihai Mares Volkan Özenci Tamas Papp Emmanuel Roilides Raquel Sabino Esther Segal Alida Fe Talento Anna Maria Tortorano Paul E Verweij Martin Hoenigl Oliver A Cornely

Mycoses 2019 Oct 1;62(10):920-927. Epub 2019 Aug 1.

Faculty of Medicine, Department I of Internal Medicine, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Dusseldorf (CIO ABCD), Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

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October 2019

Prevalence of voriconazole-resistant invasive aspergillosis and its impact on mortality in haematology patients.

Authors:
Agustin Resendiz-Sharpe Toine Mercier Pieter P A Lestrade Martha T van der Beek Peter A von dem Borne Jan J Cornelissen Elizabeth De Kort Bart J A Rijnders Alexander F A D Schauwvlieghe Paul E Verweij Johan Maertens Katrien Lagrou

J Antimicrob Chemother 2019 09;74(9):2759-2766

Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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September 2019

Standards of CARE: what is considered 'best practice' for the management of invasive fungal infections? A haematologist's and a mycologist's perspective.

Authors:
Katrien Lagrou Rafael F Duarte Johan Maertens

J Antimicrob Chemother 2019 03;74(Suppl 2):ii3-ii8

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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March 2019

Persistent primary cytomegalovirus infection in a kidney transplant recipient: Multi-drug resistant and compartmentalized infection leading to graft loss.

Authors:
Graciela Andrei Elisabet Van Loon Evelyne Lerut Jasper Victoor Björn Meijers Bert Bammens Ben Sprangers Sarah Gillemot Pierre Fiten Ghislain Opdenakker Katrien Lagrou Dirk Kuypers Robert Snoeck Maarten Naesens

Antiviral Res 2019 08 15;168:203-209. Epub 2019 Jun 15.

Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.

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August 2019

Incidence and outcome of invasive candidiasis in intensive care units (ICUs) in Europe: results of the EUCANDICU project.

Authors:
Matteo Bassetti Daniele R Giacobbe Antonio Vena Cecilia Trucchi Filippo Ansaldi Massimo Antonelli Vaclava Adamkova Cristiano Alicino Maria-Panagiota Almyroudi Enora Atchade Anna M Azzini Novella Carannante Alessia Carnelutti Silvia Corcione Andrea Cortegiani George Dimopoulos Simon Dubler José L García-Garmendia Massimo Girardis Oliver A Cornely Stefano Ianniruberto Bart Jan Kullberg Katrien Lagrou Clement Le Bihan Roberto Luzzati Manu L N G Malbrain Maria Merelli Ana J Marques Ignacio Martin-Loeches Alessio Mesini José-Artur Paiva Maddalena Peghin Santi Maurizio Raineri Riina Rautemaa-Richardson Jeroen Schouten Pierluigi Brugnaro Herbert Spapen Polychronis Tasioudis Jean-François Timsit Valentino Tisa Mario Tumbarello Charlotte H S B van den Berg Benoit Veber Mario Venditti Guillaume Voiriot Joost Wauters Philippe Montravers

Crit Care 2019 Jun 14;23(1):219. Epub 2019 Jun 14.

Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, CHU Bichat-Claude Bernard, HUPNVS, APHP, Paris, France.

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June 2019

Sensitive bioluminescence imaging of fungal dissemination to the brain in mouse models of cryptococcosis.

Authors:
Liesbeth Vanherp Alexandra Ristani Jennifer Poelmans Amy Hillen Katrien Lagrou Guilhem Janbon Matthias Brock Uwe Himmelreich Greetje Vande Velde

Dis Model Mech 2019 06 17;12(6). Epub 2019 Jun 17.

Biomedical MRI, Department of Imaging and Pathology, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

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June 2019

Migrating a lab-developed MERS-CoV real-time PCR to 3 "Sample to Result" systems: experiences on optimization and validation.

Authors:
Glynis Frans Kurt Beuselinck Bart Peeters Marc Van Ranst Veroniek Saegeman Stefanie Desmet Katrien Lagrou

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2019 Aug 10;94(4):349-354. Epub 2019 Feb 10.

Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:

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August 2019

Beta-d-Glucan for Diagnosing Pneumonia: a Direct Comparison between the Wako β-Glucan Assay and the Fungitell Assay.

Authors:
Toine Mercier Ellen Guldentops Sofie Patteet Kurt Beuselinck Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens

J Clin Microbiol 2019 06 24;57(6). Epub 2019 May 24.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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June 2019

Systemic antifungal drug use in Belgium-One of the biggest antifungal consumers in Europe.

Authors:
Berdieke Goemaere Katrien Lagrou Isabel Spriet Marijke Hendrickx Eline Vandael Pierre Becker Boudewijn Catry

Mycoses 2019 Jun 7;62(6):542-550. Epub 2019 Apr 7.

Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.

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June 2019

Clinical and biochemical differences between hantavirus infection and leptospirosis: a retrospective analysis of a patient series in Belgium.

Authors:
Emma Bakelants Willy Peetermans Katrien Lagrou Wouter Meersseman

Acta Clin Belg 2020 Jun 18;75(3):185-192. Epub 2019 Mar 18.

Department of General Internal Medicine, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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June 2020

Clostridium difficile infection in inflammatory bowel disease: epidemiology over two decades.

Authors:
Annick Moens Bram Verstockt Kathleen Machiels Peter Bossuyt Ann Verdonck Katrien Lagrou Gert van Assche Séverine Vermeire Marc Ferrante

Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2019 Jun;31(6):668-673

Departments of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

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June 2019

Development and validation of the European QUALity (EQUAL) score for mucormycosis management in haematology.

Authors:
Philipp Koehler Sibylle C Mellinghoff Katrien Lagrou Alexandre Alanio Dorothee Arenz Martin Hoenigl Felix C Koehler Cornelia Lass-Flörl Jacques F Meis Malcolm Richardson Oliver A Cornely

J Antimicrob Chemother 2019 06;74(6):1704-1712

Department I for Internal Medicine, Excellence Centre for Medical Mycology (ECMM), University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

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June 2019

Corrigendum: Azole-Resistance in and Related Species: An Emerging Problem or a Rare Phenomenon?

Authors:
Tamara Zoran Bettina Sartori Laura Sappl Maria Aigner Ferran Sánchez-Reus Antonio Rezusta Anuradha Chowdhary Saad J Taj-Aldeen Maiken C Arendrup Salvatore Oliveri Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo Katrien Lagrou Giuliana Lo Cascio Jacques F Meis Walter Buzina Claudio Farina Miranda Drogari-Apiranthitou Anna Grancini Anna M Tortorano Birgit Willinger Axel Hamprecht Elizabeth Johnson Lena Klingspor Valentina Arsic-Arsenijevic Oliver A Cornely Joseph Meletiadis Wolfgang Prammer Vivian Tullio Jörg-Janne Vehreschild Laura Trovato Russell E Lewis Esther Segal Peter-Michael Rath Petr Hamal Manuel Rodriguez-Iglesias Emmanuel Roilides Sevtap Arikan-Akdagli Arunaloke Chakrabarti Arnaldo L Colombo Mariana S Fernández M Teresa Martin-Gomez Hamid Badali Georgios Petrikkos Nikolai Klimko Sebastian M Heimann Omrum Uzun Maryam Roudbary Sonia de la Fuente Jos Houbraken Brigitte Risslegger Raquel Sabino Cornelia Lass-Flörl Michaela Lackner

Front Microbiol 2018 14;9:3245. Epub 2019 Jan 14.

Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

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January 2019

Comment on: Improving access to appropriate post-exposure doxycycline for Lyme disease prophylaxis: role for community pharmacies.

Authors:
Katrien Lagrou Willy Peetermans Paul De Munter

J Antimicrob Chemother 2019 05;74(5):1464-1465

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, Leuven, Belgium.

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May 2019

Diagnosing Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Hematology Patients: a Retrospective Multicenter Evaluation of a Novel Lateral Flow Device.

Authors:
Toine Mercier Alexander Schauwvlieghe Elizabeth de Kort Albert Dunbar Marijke Reynders Ellen Guldentops Bart Rijnders Paul E Verweij Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens

J Clin Microbiol 2019 04 28;57(4). Epub 2019 Mar 28.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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April 2019

Letermovir for prophylaxis of cytomegalovirus manifestations in adult allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.

Authors:
Sam Van Hecke Bas Calcoen Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens

Future Microbiol 2019 02 15;14:175-184. Epub 2019 Jan 15.

Department of Hematology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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February 2019

Active neuroborreliosis or inflammation: are the diagnostic guidelines at stake?

Authors:
Harald De Cauwer Katrien Lagrou Evelien Coeckelbergh Ann Bogaerts Jo Leenders Dieter Vanneste

Acta Neurol Belg 2019 Jun 17;119(2):207-214. Epub 2018 Dec 17.

Department of Neuroradiology, AZ St Dimpna, Geel, Belgium.

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June 2019

Distribution of HCV genotypes in Belgium from 2008 to 2015.

Authors:
Lobna Bouacida Vanessa Suin Veronik Hutse Michaël Boudewijns Reinoud Cartuyvels Laurent Debaisieux Emmanuel De Laere Marie Hallin Nicolas Hougardy Katrien Lagrou Els Oris Elizaveta Padalko Marijke Reynders Gatien Roussel Jean-Marc Senterre Michel Stalpaert Dominique Ursi Carl Vael Dolores Vaira Jos Van Acker Walter Verstrepen Steven Van Gucht Benoit Kabamba Sophie Quoilin Gaëtan Muyldermans

PLoS One 2018 5;13(12):e0207584. Epub 2018 Dec 5.

Sciensano, Epidemiology of infectious diseases, Brussels, Belgium.

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May 2019

First case of infection in Belgium in a surgical patient from Kuwait.

Authors:
Klaas Dewaele Johan Frans Annick Smismans Erwin Ho Tim Tollens Katrien Lagrou

Acta Clin Belg 2020 Jun 4;75(3):221-228. Epub 2018 Dec 4.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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June 2020

Use of Next-Generation Sequencing for Diagnosis of West Nile Virus Infection in Patient Returning to Belgium from Hungary.

Authors:
Elke Wollants David Smolders Reinout Naesens Peggy Bruynseels Katrien Lagrou Jelle Matthijnssens Marc Van Ranst

Emerg Infect Dis 2018 12;24(12):2380-2382

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December 2018

Monitoring of Fluconazole and Caspofungin Activity against Candida glabrata Biofilms by Bioluminescence Imaging.

Authors:
Aranka Persyn Ona Rogiers Matthias Brock Greetje Vande Velde Mohamed Lamkanfi Ilse D Jacobsen Uwe Himmelreich Katrien Lagrou Patrick Van Dijck Soňa Kucharíková

Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2019 02 29;63(2). Epub 2019 Jan 29.

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Leuven, Belgium.

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February 2019

Correction to: Biological tests carried out on serum/plasma samples from donors of human body material for transplantation: Belgian experience and practical recommendations.

Authors:
Elizaveta Padalko Katrien Lagrou Marie-Luce Delforge Hilde Jansens Nadine Ectors Jean-Paul Pirnay Johan Klykens Etienne Sokal Ludo Muylle Agnes Libois Alain Vanderkelen Gilbert Verbeken Conny Matthys Dominique Goossens Geert Hanssens Muriel Baltes Hilde Beele

Cell Tissue Bank 2018 12;19(4):835-836

Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ghent University/University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 2P8, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.

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December 2018

Prevalence, geographic risk factor, and development of a standardized protocol for fungal isolation in cystic fibrosis: Results from the international prospective study "MFIP".

Authors:
Laurence Delhaes Kada Touati Odile Faure-Cognet Muriel Cornet Françoise Botterel Eric Dannaoui Florent Morio Patrice Le Pape Fréderic Grenouillet Loic Favennec Solène Le Gal Gilles Nevez Alain Duhamel Andrew Borman Veroniek Saegeman Katrien Lagrou Elia Gomez Maiz-Luis Carro Rafael Canton Silvia Campana Walter Buzina Sharon Chen Wieland Meyer Emmanuel Roilides Maria Simitsopoulou Esther Manso Lisa Cariani Arianna Biffi Ersilia Fiscarelli Gabriella Ricciotti Marc Pihet Jean-Philippe Bouchara

J Cyst Fibros 2019 03 20;18(2):212-220. Epub 2018 Oct 20.

University of Angers, France.

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March 2019

Biological tests carried out on serum/plasma samples from donors of human body material for transplantation: Belgian experience and practical recommendations.

Authors:
Elizaveta Padalko Katrien Lagrou Marie-Luce Delforge Hilde Jansens Nadine Ectors Jean-Paul Pirnay Johan Klykens Etienne Sokal Ludo Muylle Agnes Libois Alain Vanderkelen Gilbert Verbeken Conny Matthys Dominique Goossens Geert Hanssens Muriel Baltes Hilde Beele

Cell Tissue Bank 2018 Dec 29;19(4):681-695. Epub 2018 Aug 29.

Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ghent University/University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 2P8, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.

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December 2018

Switch in childhood pneumococcal vaccine in Belgium.

Authors:
Stefanie Desmet Willy Peetermans Katrien Lagrou

Lancet Infect Dis 2018 09;18(9):945-946

National Reference Centre for Streptococcus pneumoniae, University Hospitals Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

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September 2018

Global guidelines and initiatives from the European Confederation of Medical Mycology to improve patient care and research worldwide: New leadership is about working together.

Authors:
Martin Hoenigl Jean-Pierre Gangneux Esther Segal Alexandre Alanio Arunaloke Chakrabarti Sharon C-A Chen Nelesh Govender Ferry Hagen Nikolaj Klimko Jacques F Meis Alessandro C Pasqualotto Danila Seidel Thomas J Walsh Katrien Lagrou Cornelia Lass-Flörl Oliver A Cornely

Mycoses 2018 Nov 28;61(11):885-894. Epub 2018 Aug 28.

CECAD Cluster of Excellence, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

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November 2018

Invasive aspergillosis in patients admitted to the intensive care unit with severe influenza: a retrospective cohort study.

Authors:
Alexander F A D Schauwvlieghe Bart J A Rijnders Nele Philips Rosanne Verwijs Lore Vanderbeke Carla Van Tienen Katrien Lagrou Paul E Verweij Frank L Van de Veerdonk Diederik Gommers Peter Spronk Dennis C J J Bergmans Astrid Hoedemaekers Eleni-Rosalina Andrinopoulou Charlotte H S B van den Berg Nicole P Juffermans Casper J Hodiamont Alieke G Vonk Pieter Depuydt Jerina Boelens Joost Wauters

Lancet Respir Med 2018 10 31;6(10):782-792. Epub 2018 Jul 31.

Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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October 2018

Anidulafungin increases the antibacterial activity of tigecycline in polymicrobial Candida albicans/Staphylococcus aureus biofilms on intraperitoneally implanted foreign bodies.

Authors:
Ona Rogiers Michelle Holtappels Wafi Siala Mohamed Lamkanfi Françoise Van Bambeke Katrien Lagrou Patrick Van Dijck Sona Kucharíková

J Antimicrob Chemother 2018 10;73(10):2806-2814

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, Leuven, Belgium.

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October 2018

Switch in a childhood pneumococcal vaccination programme from PCV13 to PCV10: a defendable approach?

Authors:
Stefanie Desmet Jan Verhaegen Marc Van Ranst Willy Peetermans Katrien Lagrou

Lancet Infect Dis 2018 08 11;18(8):830-831. Epub 2018 Jul 11.

National Reference Centre for Streptococcus pneumoniae, University Hospitals Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, 3000 Belgium; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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August 2018

Methodologies for and evaluation of efficacy of antifungal and antibiofilm agents and surface coatings against fungal biofilms.

Authors:
Patrick Van Dijck Jelmer Sjollema Bruno P Cammue Katrien Lagrou Judith Berman Christophe d'Enfert David R Andes Maiken C Arendrup Axel A Brakhage Richard Calderone Emilia Cantón Tom Coenye Paul Cos Leah E Cowen Mira Edgerton Ana Espinel-Ingroff Scott G Filler Mahmoud Ghannoum Neil A R Gow Hubertus Haas Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk Elizabeth M Johnson Shawn R Lockhart Jose L Lopez-Ribot Johan Maertens Carol A Munro Jeniel E Nett Clarissa J Nobile Michael A Pfaller Gordon Ramage Dominique Sanglard Maurizio Sanguinetti Isabel Spriet Paul E Verweij Adilia Warris Joost Wauters Michael R Yeaman Sebastian A J Zaat Karin Thevissen

Microb Cell 2018 06 14;5(7):300-326. Epub 2018 Jun 14.

Centre for Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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June 2018

Genetic deficiency of NOD2 confers resistance to invasive aspergillosis.

Authors:
Mark S Gresnigt Cristina Cunha Martin Jaeger Samuel M Gonçalves R K Subbarao Malireddi Anne Ammerdorffer Rosalie Lubbers Marije Oosting Orhan Rasid Grégory Jouvion Catherine Fitting Dirk J de Jong João F Lacerda António Campos Willem J G Melchers Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti Agostinho Carvalho Oumaima Ibrahim-Granet Frank L van de Veerdonk

Nat Commun 2018 07 6;9(1):2636. Epub 2018 Jul 6.

Department of Experimental Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases (RCI), Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein zuid 8, 6525GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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July 2018

Multicentre validation of 4-well azole agar plates as a screening method for detection of clinically relevant azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus.

Authors:
Maiken Cavling Arendrup Paul E Verweij Johan W Mouton Katrien Lagrou Joseph Meletiadis

J Antimicrob Chemother 2018 08;73(8):2274

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August 2018

Clonal Spread of Candida glabrata Bloodstream Isolates and Fluconazole Resistance Affected by Prolonged Exposure: a 12-Year Single-Center Study in Belgium.

Authors:
Berdieke Goemaere Katrien Lagrou Isabel Spriet Marijke Hendrickx Pierre Becker

Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2018 08 27;62(8). Epub 2018 Jul 27.

BCCM/IHEM Fungal Collection, Service of Mycology and Aerobiology, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.

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August 2018

A Multimodal Imaging Approach Enables Assessment of Antifungal Treatment in a Mouse Model of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis.

Authors:
Jennifer Poelmans Uwe Himmelreich Liesbeth Vanherp Luca Zhai Amy Hillen Bryan Holvoet Sarah Belderbos Matthias Brock Johan Maertens Greetje Vande Velde Katrien Lagrou

Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2018 07 26;62(7). Epub 2018 Jun 26.

Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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July 2018

Galactomannan, a Surrogate Marker for Outcome in Invasive Aspergillosis: Finally Coming of Age.

Authors:
Toine Mercier Ellen Guldentops Katrien Lagrou Johan Maertens

Front Microbiol 2018 4;9:661. Epub 2018 Apr 4.

Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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April 2018

Azole-Resistance in and Related Species: An Emerging Problem or a Rare Phenomenon?

Authors:
Tamara Zoran Bettina Sartori Laura Sappl Maria Aigner Ferran Sánchez-Reus Antonio Rezusta Anuradha Chowdhary Saad J Taj-Aldeen Maiken C Arendrup Salvatore Oliveri Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo Katrien Lagrou Giuliana Lo Cascio Jacques F Meis Walter Buzina Claudio Farina Miranda Drogari-Apiranthitou Anna Grancini Anna M Tortorano Birgit Willinger Axel Hamprecht Elizabeth Johnson Lena Klingspor Valentina Arsic-Arsenijevic Oliver A Cornely Joseph Meletiadis Wolfgang Prammer Vivian Tullio Jörg-Janne Vehreschild Laura Trovato Russell E Lewis Esther Segal Peter-Michael Rath Petr Hamal Manuel Rodriguez-Iglesias Emmanuel Roilides Sevtap Arikan-Akdagli Arunaloke Chakrabarti Arnaldo L Colombo Mariana S Fernández M Teresa Martin-Gomez Hamid Badali Georgios Petrikkos Nikolai Klimko Sebastian M Heimann Omrum Uzun Maryam Roudbary Sonia de la Fuente Jos Houbraken Brigitte Risslegger Cornelia Lass-Flörl Michaela Lackner

Front Microbiol 2018 28;9:516. Epub 2018 Mar 28.

Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

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March 2018

A Framework for Understanding the Evasion of Host Immunity by Biofilms.

Authors:
Josselyn E Garcia-Perez Lotte Mathé Stephanie Humblet-Baron Annabel Braem Katrien Lagrou Patrick Van Dijck Adrian Liston

Front Immunol 2018 16;9:538. Epub 2018 Mar 16.

Laboratory of Translational Immunology, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium.

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May 2019

Triazole resistance surveillance in Aspergillus fumigatus.

Authors:
Agustin Resendiz Sharpe Katrien Lagrou Jacques F Meis Anuradha Chowdhary Shawn R Lockhart Paul E Verweij

Med Mycol 2018 Apr;56(suppl_1):83-92

Center of Expertise in Mycology Radboudumc/CWZ, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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April 2018

Bronchoscopic fibered confocal fluorescence microscopy for longitudinal in vivo assessment of pulmonary fungal infections in free-breathing mice.

Authors:
Liesbeth Vanherp Jennifer Poelmans Amy Hillen Kristof Govaerts Sarah Belderbos Tinne Buelens Katrien Lagrou Uwe Himmelreich Greetje Vande Velde

Sci Rep 2018 02 14;8(1):3009. Epub 2018 Feb 14.

Biomedical MRI unit/MoSAIC, Department of Imaging and Pathology, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49 O & N1 box 505, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.

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February 2018

Aspergillus fumigatus Detection and Risk Factors in Patients with COPD-Bronchiectasis Overlap.

Authors:
Stephanie Everaerts Katrien Lagrou Kristina Vermeersch Lieven J Dupont Bart M Vanaudenaerde Wim Janssens

Int J Mol Sci 2018 Feb 9;19(2). Epub 2018 Feb 9.

Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.

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February 2018

EQUAL Candida Score: An ECMM score derived from current guidelines to measure QUAlity of Clinical Candidaemia Management.

Authors:
Sibylle C Mellinghoff Martin Hoenigl Philipp Koehler Anil Kumar Katrien Lagrou Cornelia Lass-Flörl Jacques F Meis Vidya Menon Riina Rautemaa-Richardson Oliver A Cornely

Mycoses 2018 May 20;61(5):326-330. Epub 2018 Feb 20.

Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

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May 2018

Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids Cointegrated into a Megaplasmid Harboring the Carbapenemase Gene.

Authors:
Stefanie Desmet Suruchi Nepal Jan Maarten van Dijl Marc Van Ranst Monika A Chlebowicz John W Rossen Jeroen K J Van Houdt Piet Maes Katrien Lagrou Erik Bathoorn

Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2018 03 23;62(3). Epub 2018 Feb 23.

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Microbiology, Groningen, The Netherlands.

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March 2018

Evaluation of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Cytokines as Biomarkers for Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in At-Risk Patients.

Authors:
Samuel M Gonçalves Katrien Lagrou Cláudia S Rodrigues Cláudia F Campos Leticia Bernal-Martínez Fernando Rodrigues Ricardo Silvestre Laura Alcazar-Fuoli Johan A Maertens Cristina Cunha Agostinho Carvalho

Front Microbiol 2017 29;8:2362. Epub 2017 Nov 29.

Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

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November 2017

Antifungal Activity of Oleylphosphocholine on and Biofilms.

Authors:
Michelle Holtappels Erwin Swinnen Lies De Groef Jurgen Wuyts Lieve Moons Katrien Lagrou Patrick Van Dijck Soňa Kucharíková

Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2018 01 21;62(1). Epub 2017 Dec 21.

KU Leuven, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Botany and Microbiology, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium.

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January 2018

Multicentre validation of 4-well azole agar plates as a screening method for detection of clinically relevant azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus.

Authors:
Maiken Cavling Arendrup Paul E Verweij Johan W Mouton Katrien Lagrou Joseph Meletiadis

J Antimicrob Chemother 2017 Dec;72(12):3325-3333

Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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December 2017

Increasing candidaemia incidence from 2004 to 2015 with a shift in epidemiology in patients preexposed to antifungals.

Authors:
Berdieke Goemaere Pierre Becker Eric Van Wijngaerden Johan Maertens Isabel Spriet Marijke Hendrickx Katrien Lagrou

Mycoses 2018 Feb 15;61(2):127-133. Epub 2017 Nov 15.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, University of Leuven, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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February 2018

Sensitization to as a risk factor for bronchiectasis in COPD.

Authors:
Stephanie Everaerts Katrien Lagrou Adriana Dubbeldam Natalie Lorent Kristina Vermeersch Erna Van Hoeyveld Xavier Bossuyt Lieven J Dupont Bart M Vanaudenaerde Wim Janssens

Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 2017 31;12:2629-2638. Epub 2017 Aug 31.

Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven.

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June 2018

Importance of Resolving Fungal Nomenclature: the Case of Multiple Pathogenic Species in the Genus.

Authors:
Ferry Hagen H Thorsten Lumbsch Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic Hamid Badali Sebastien Bertout R Blake Billmyre M Rosa Bragulat F Javier Cabañes Mauricio Carbia Arunaloke Chakrabarti Sudha Chaturvedi Vishnu Chaturvedi Min Chen Anuradha Chowdhary Maria-Francisca Colom Oliver A Cornely Pedro W Crous Maria S Cuétara Mara R Diaz Ana Espinel-Ingroff Hamed Fakhim Rama Falk Wenjie Fang Patricia F Herkert Consuelo Ferrer Rodríguez James A Fraser Josepa Gené Josep Guarro Alexander Idnurm María-Teresa Illnait-Zaragozi Ziauddin Khan Kantarawee Khayhan Anna Kolecka Cletus P Kurtzman Katrien Lagrou Wanqing Liao Carlos Linares Jacques F Meis Kirsten Nielsen Tinashe K Nyazika Weihua Pan Marina Pekmezovic Itzhack Polacheck Brunella Posteraro Flavio de Queiroz Telles Orazio Romeo Manuel Sánchez Ana Sampaio Maurizio Sanguinetti Pojana Sriburee Takashi Sugita Saad J Taj-Aldeen Masako Takashima John W Taylor Bart Theelen Rok Tomazin Paul E Verweij Retno Wahyuningsih Ping Wang Teun Boekhout

mSphere 2017 Jul-Aug;2(4). Epub 2017 Aug 30.

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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August 2017

Prevalence and seasonality of six respiratory viruses during five consecutive epidemic seasons in Belgium.

Authors:
Kaat Ramaekers Els Keyaerts Annabel Rector Annie Borremans Kurt Beuselinck Katrien Lagrou Marc Van Ranst

J Clin Virol 2017 09 23;94:72-78. Epub 2017 Jul 23.

Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven. Herestraat 49 box 1040, BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium; University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:

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September 2017

Diversity of Pneumocystis jirovecii Across Europe: A Multicentre Observational Study.

Authors:
Alexandre Alanio Maud Gits-Muselli Nicolas Guigue Marie Desnos-Ollivier Enrique J Calderon David Di Cave Damien Dupont Axel Hamprecht Philippe M Hauser Jannik Helweg-Larsen Marta Kicia Katrien Lagrou Martina Lengerova Olga Matos Willem J G Melchers Florent Morio Gilles Nevez Anne Totet Lewis P White Stéphane Bretagne

EBioMedicine 2017 Aug 29;22:155-163. Epub 2017 Jun 29.

Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Saint-Louis-Lariboisière-Fernand-Widal, Paris, France; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; Institut Pasteur, CNRS, Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire, Centre National de Référence Mycoses Invasives et Antifongiques, URA3012, Paris, France.

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August 2017

Invasive Candida Infections in Liver Transplant Recipients: Clinical Features and Risk Factors for Mortality.

Authors:
Matteo Bassetti Maddalena Peghin Alessia Carnelutti Elda Righi Maria Merelli Filippo Ansaldi Cecilia Trucchi Cristiano Alicino Assunta Sartor Joost Wauters Katrien Lagrou Carlo Tascini Francesco Menichetti Alessio Mesini Francesco G De Rosa Leonel Lagunes Jordi Rello Arnaldo L Colombo Antonio Vena Patricia Munoz Mario Tumbarello Gabriele Sganga Ignacio Martin-Loeches Claudio Viscoli

Transplant Direct 2017 May 18;3(5):e156. Epub 2017 Apr 18.

Infectious Disease Department, Cisanello Hospital, Pisa, Italy.

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May 2017

Improving outcome of fungal diseases - Guiding experts and patients towards excellence.

Authors:
Oliver A Cornely Cornelia Lass-Flörl Katrien Lagrou Valentina Arsic-Arsenijevic Martin Hoenigl

Mycoses 2017 Jul 12;60(7):420-425. Epub 2017 May 12.

Section of Infectious Diseases and Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

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July 2017

IL-10 overexpression predisposes to invasive aspergillosis by suppressing antifungal immunity.

Authors:
Cristina Cunha Samuel M Gonçalves Cláudio Duarte-Oliveira Luís Leite Katrien Lagrou António Marques Carmen B Lupiañez Inês Mesquita Joana Gaifem Ana Margarida Barbosa Carlos Pinho Vaz Rosa Branca Fernando Campilho Fátima Freitas Dário Ligeiro Cornelia Lass-Flörl Jürgen Löffler Manuel Jurado Margarida Saraiva Oliver Kurzai Fernando Rodrigues António G Castro Ricardo Silvestre Juan Sainz Johan A Maertens Egídio Torrado Ilse D Jacobsen João F Lacerda António Campos Agostinho Carvalho

J Allergy Clin Immunol 2017 09 4;140(3):867-870.e9. Epub 2017 Apr 4.

Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; ICVS/3B's PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal. Electronic address:

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September 2017