W. E. Peetermans
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
34 Papers
344 Citations
W. E. Peetermans is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Streptococcus pneumoniae. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 34 publications. Previous affiliations of W. E. Peetermans include Rega Institute for Medical Research.
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Papers
Reliability of the ica, aap and atlE genes in the discrimination between invasive, colonizing and contaminant Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates in the diagnosis of catheter-related infections.
Stefaan J. Vandecasteele,Stefaan J. Vandecasteele,W. E. Peetermans,Rita Merckx,Bart J. A. Rijnders,Bart J. A. Rijnders,J. Van Eldere,J. Van Eldere +7 more
TL;DR: The high prevalence of aap and icaA in skin isolates and their higher prevalence in colonizing than in invasive isolates led to a low specificity when these genes were used to differentiate between contamination, colonization and invasive infection.
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Fungemia at a tertiary care hospital: incidence, therapy, and distribution and antifungal susceptibility of causative species.
TL;DR: The low proportion of resistance supports the use of fluconazole as the treatment of first choice for candidemia in patients not previously exposed to this drug.
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Aseptic Meningitis and Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy
TL;DR: It has been hypothesized that the intravenous immunoglobulin-associated aseptic meningitis syndrome is part of a continuum of disease that begins with headache, and several studies of this hypothesis are in progress.
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Subinhibitory concentrations of erythromycin reduce pneumococcal adherence to respiratory epithelial cells in vitro
TL;DR: It is concluded that erythromycin at subinhibitory concentrations reduces the adherence to and disruption of respiratory epithelial cells by S. pneumoniae, possibly by interfering with pneumolysin release.
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Use of gDNA as internal standard for gene expression in staphylococci in vitro and in vivo.
Stefaan J. Vandecasteele,Stefaan J. Vandecasteele,W. E. Peetermans,W. E. Peetermans,Rita Merckx,M. Van Ranst,J. Van Eldere +6 more
TL;DR: This method permits exact quantification of the number of bacteria and the expression of genes in staphylococci in vivo and in vitro and proves equivalent to quantitative culture for in vitro samples, and superior for in vivo samples.
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