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Willy E Peetermans

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1 Invasive aspergillosis in critically ill patients without malignancy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004 3.42
2 Cytomegalovirus serostatus and outcome in nonimmunocompromised critically ill patients. Crit Care Med 2012 2.14
3 Risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia in adults in Europe: a literature review. Thorax 2013 1.92
4 Prevalence and correlates of nonadherence to antiretroviral therapy in a population of HIV patients using Medication Event Monitoring System. AIDS Patient Care STDS 2004 1.75
5 Risk factors for infective endocarditis and outcome of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Mayo Clin Proc 2007 1.71
6 Diagnostic value of different adherence measures using electronic monitoring and virologic failure as reference standards. AIDS Patient Care STDS 2008 1.54
7 Watchful waiting versus immediate catheter removal in ICU patients with suspected catheter-related infection: a randomized trial. Intensive Care Med 2004 1.50
8 Outcome of patients requiring valve surgery during active infective endocarditis. Ann Thorac Surg 2008 1.47
9 Infective endocarditis: changing epidemiology and predictors of 6-month mortality: a prospective cohort study. Eur Heart J 2006 1.40
10 Multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae infections: current and future therapeutic options. Drugs 2007 1.30
11 Abscess in infective endocarditis: the value of transesophageal echocardiography and outcome: a 5-year study. Am Heart J 2007 1.29
12 Immunogenicity of a standard trivalent influenza vaccine in patients on long-term hemodialysis: an open-label trial. Am J Kidney Dis 2009 1.18
13 Treatment of long-term intravascular catheter-related bacteraemia with antibiotic lock: randomized, placebo-controlled trial. J Antimicrob Chemother 2004 1.17
14 Azithromycin and ciprofloxacin resistance in Salmonella bloodstream infections in Cambodian adults. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2012 1.14
15 Bloodstream infection among adults in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: key pathogens and resistance patterns. PLoS One 2013 1.12
16 Clinical and echocardiographic risk factors for embolism and mortality in infective endocarditis. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2008 1.11
17 (18)F-FDG PET/CT for early detection of embolism and metastatic infection in patients with infective endocarditis. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2010 1.08
18 Bloodstream infections in south and southeast Asia. Lancet Infect Dis 2013 1.08
19 Management of prosthetic valve infective endocarditis. Am J Cardiol 2008 1.08
20 Nationwide implementation of antibiotic management teams in Belgian hospitals: a self-reporting survey. J Antimicrob Chemother 2010 1.07
21 The role of sigmaB in persistence of Staphylococcus epidermidis foreign body infection. Microbiology 2008 1.01
22 Catheter-tip colonization as a surrogate end point in clinical studies on catheter-related bloodstream infection: how strong is the evidence? Clin Infect Dis 2002 1.00
23 The value of tuberculin skin testing in haemodialysis patients. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2004 0.99
24 Pneumococcal bacteraemia in Belgium (1994 2004): the pre-conjugate vaccine era. J Antimicrob Chemother 2007 0.95
25 Opposing expectations and suboptimal use of a local antibiotic hospital guideline: a qualitative study. J Antimicrob Chemother 2008 0.93
26 Fibrin formation by staphylothrombin facilitates Staphylococcus aureus-induced platelet aggregation. Thromb Haemost 2012 0.92
27 The role of staphylothrombin-mediated fibrin deposition in catheter-related Staphylococcus aureus infections. J Infect Dis 2013 0.92
28 Toll-like receptor 2 and Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphisms in invasive pneumococcal disease. Microbes Infect 2006 0.89
29 Rapidly fatal Acanthamoeba encephalitis and treatment of cryoglobulinemia. Emerg Infect Dis 2007 0.88
30 Anti-thrombotic therapy in infective endocarditis. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 2011 0.87
31 Tolerance of liver transplant patients to strenuous physical activity in high-altitude. Am J Transplant 2004 0.86
32 Length of stay after reaching clinical stability drives hospital costs associated with adult community-acquired pneumonia. Scand J Infect Dis 2012 0.86
33 Fcgamma-receptor IIA genotype and invasive pneumococcal infection. Clin Immunol 2005 0.84
34 Intraocular penetration of voriconazole and caspofungin in a patient with fungal endophthalmitis. J Antimicrob Chemother 2009 0.84
35 Trends in serotype prevalence in invasive pneumococcal disease before and after infant pneumococcal vaccination in Belgium, 2002-2010. Vaccine 2012 0.84
36 Mannose-binding lectin genotype and invasive pneumococcal infection. Hum Immunol 2006 0.84
37 Use of semiautomatic treatment advice to improve compliance with Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines for treatment of intravascular catheter-related infection: a before-after study. Clin Infect Dis 2003 0.81
38 Failure of primaquine therapy for the treatment of Plasmodium ovale malaria. Clin Infect Dis 2005 0.81
39 Pneumococcal colonization in older persons in a nonoutbreak setting. J Am Geriatr Soc 2010 0.81
40 Lack of value of the naproxen test in the differential diagnosis of prolonged febrile illnesses. Am J Med 2003 0.81
41 Dabigatran inhibits Staphylococcus aureus coagulase activity. J Clin Microbiol 2010 0.80
42 Use of full sterile barrier precautions during insertion of arterial catheters: a randomized trial. Clin Infect Dis 2003 0.79
43 Sequential therapy with cefuroxime and cefuroxime-axetil for community-acquired lower respiratory tract infection in the oldest old. Aging Clin Exp Res 2008 0.78
44 Divergent intentions to use antibiotic guidelines: a theory of planned behavior survey. Med Decis Making 2011 0.78
45 Septic pulmonary embolisms and metastatic infections from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis on FDG PET/CT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2011 0.78
46 Fold-increase in antibody titer upon vaccination with pneumococcal unconjugated polysaccharide vaccine. Clin Immunol 2012 0.77
47 Characteristics, causes, and outcome of 54 episodes of bloodstream infections in a cohort of HIV patients. Infect Dis (Lond) 2015 0.76
48 Consumption patterns and in vitro resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to fluoroquinolones. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2011 0.76
49 Prescription of antibiotics in hospitals: prescribers' opinions matter. Lancet Infect Dis 2011 0.75
50 The effect of systemic antibiotics on the microbiological diagnosis of experimental foreign body infections caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2004 0.75
51 The more you look, the more you find: challenging results on FDG-PET CT in a patient with neurofibromatosis type I. BMC Med Imaging 2014 0.75
52 Fatal right-sided endocarditis due to Aspergillus in a kidney transplant recipient. Med Mycol 2007 0.75
53 Empirical management of community-acquired pneumonia: impact of concurrent A/H1N1 influenza pandemic on guideline implementation. J Antimicrob Chemother 2011 0.75
54 Effect of piperacillin-tazobactam on clinical capillary zone electrophoresis of serum proteins. Clin Chem 2002 0.75
55 Simultaneous valve replacement and venous patch repair of superior mesenteric artery aneurysm due to infective endocarditis: a case report. Heart Surg Forum 2006 0.75