Gilbert Greub

HIV lipoatrophy and mosquito bites.

Aspergillus species isolated from clinical specimens: suggested clinical and microbiological criteria to determine significance.

The detection of mycobacteria in blood cultures using the Bactec system: 6 weeks versus 12 weeks of incubation? routine terminal Ziel-Neelsen?

Spare non-occupational HIV post-exposure prophylaxis by active contacting and testing of the source person.

Parachlamydiaceae: potential emerging pathogens.

Crescent bodies of Parachlamydia acanthamoeba and its life cycle within Acanthamoeba polyphaga: an electron micrograph study.

Analysis of natural variants of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gag-pol frameshift stem-loop structure.

Intermittent and sustained low-level HIV viral rebound in patients receiving potent antiretroviral therapy.

"Actinobaculum massiliae," a new species causing chronic urinary tract infection.

Bartonella: new explanations for old diseases.

Diagnosis of Bartonella endocarditis by a real-time nested PCR assay using serum.

Clinical implications of Mycobacterium kansasii species heterogeneity: Swiss National Survey.

Parachlamydiaceae as rare agents of pneumonia.

Serological hint suggesting that Parachlamydiaceae are agents of pneumonia in polytraumatized intensive care patients.

Parachlamydia acanthamoeba is endosymbiotic or lytic for Acanthamoeba polyphaga depending on the incubation temperature.

Respiratory complications of gastroesophageal reflux associated with paraesophageal hiatal hernia.

Amoeba-resisting bacteria and ventilator-associated pneumonia.

History of the ADP/ATP-translocase-encoding gene, a parasitism gene transferred from a Chlamydiales ancestor to plants 1 billion years ago.

Parachlamydia acanthamoebae enters and multiplies within human macrophages and induces their apoptosis [corrected].

Biocides currently used for bronchoscope decontamination are poorly effective against free-living amoebae.

Morphology of Legionella pneumophila according to their location within Hartmanella vermiformis.

Rhodobacter massiliensis sp. nov., a new amoebae-resistant species isolated from the nose of a patient.

Gene sequence-based criteria for identification of new rickettsia isolates and description of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis sp. nov.

Microorganisms resistant to free-living amoebae.

Amoebae-resisting bacteria isolated from human nasal swabs by amoebal coculture.

Legionella drancourtii sp. nov., a strictly intracellular amoebal pathogen.

Amoebal coculture of "Mycobacterium massiliense" sp. nov. from the sputum of a patient with hemoptoic pneumonia.

A genomic island present along the bacterial chromosome of the Parachlamydiaceae UWE25, an obligate amoebal endosymbiont, encodes a potentially functional F-like conjugative DNA transfer system.

PCR detection of bacteria on cardiac valves of patients with treated bacterial endocarditis.

Diagnosis of infectious endocarditis in patients undergoing valve surgery.

Intracellular trafficking of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae.

Lack of microbicidal response in human macrophages infected with Parachlamydia acanthamoebae.

[Chlamydia: diagnostic and treatment].

Therapeutic approaches to Chlamydia infections.

Cardiac involvement in a patient with clinical and serological evidence of African tick-bite fever.

Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection.

Bloodstream and endovascular infections due to Abiotrophia defectiva and Granulicatella species.

Biodiversity of amoebae and amoeba-resisting bacteria in a hospital water network.

Pathogenic potential of novel Chlamydiae and diagnostic approaches to infections due to these obligate intracellular bacteria.

Parachlamydia acanthamoebae enters and multiplies within pneumocytes and lung fibroblasts.

Resistance of different Chlamydia-like organisms to quinolones and mutations in the quinoline resistance-determining region of the DNA gyrase A- and topoisomerase-encoding genes.

Chlamydialike organisms and atherosclerosis.

'Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia crassificans', an intracellular bacterial pathogen of the cockroach Blatta orientalis (Insecta: Blattodea).

First case of bacteremia and multifocal cellulitis due to Helicobacter canis in an immunocompetent patient.

Serological cross-reactivity between different Chlamydia-like organisms.

Criblamydia sequanensis, a new intracellular Chlamydiales isolated from Seine river water using amoebal co-culture.

A novel real-time PCR to detect Chlamydia trachomatis in first-void urine or genital swabs.

The Neff strain of Acanthamoeba castellanii, a tool for testing the virulence of Mycobacterium kansasii.

New Afipia and Bosea strains isolated from various water sources by amoebal co-culture.

Waddlia chondrophila, a potential agent of human fetal death.

Analyses of six homologous proteins of Protochlamydia amoebophila UWE25 encoded by large GC-rich genes (lgr): a model of evolution and concatenation of leucine-rich repeats.

Emerging role of Chlamydia and Chlamydia-like organisms in adverse pregnancy outcomes.

New diagnostic real-time PCR for specific detection of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae DNA in clinical samples.

Parachlamydia spp. and related Chlamydia-like organisms and bovine abortion.

Protochlamydia naegleriophila as etiologic agent of pneumonia.

Low prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in asymptomatic young Swiss men.

Waddlia chondrophila enters and multiplies within human macrophages.

Predator or prey? Chlamydophila abortus infections of a free-living amoebae, Acanthamoeba castellani 9GU.

Murine model of pneumonia caused by Parachlamydia acanthamoebae.

Variations of plasmid content in Rickettsia felis.

Local newspaper as a diagnostic aid for psittacosis: a case report.

Characterization of Melan-A reactive memory CD8+ T cells in a healthy donor.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis aortic graft infection with recurrent hemoptysis: a case report.

Biodiversity of amoebae and amoebae-resisting bacteria in a drinking water treatment plant.

Novel Chlamydiales strains isolated from a water treatment plant.

Evidence for Parachlamydia in bovine abortion.

No association between Parachlamydia infection and atherosclerosis.

Fatal case of Israeli spotted fever after Mediterranean cruise.

Parachlamydia acanthamoebae infection and abortion in small ruminants.

Evidence of maternal-fetal transmission of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae.

Antibiotic susceptibility of Waddlia chondrophila in Acanthamoeba castellanii amoebae.

Tissue microarray and immunohistochemistry as tools for evaluation of antibodies against Chlamydia-like bacteria.

AA-amyloidosis caused by visceral leishmaniasis in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient.

Coxiella burnetii as a possible cause of autoimmune liver disease: a case report.

High prevalence of anorectal chlamydial infection in HIV-infected men who have sex with men in Switzerland.

Early intracellular trafficking of Waddlia chondrophila in human macrophages.

Parachlamydia and rhabdochlamydia in premature neonates.

High throughput sequencing and proteomics to identify immunogenic proteins of a new pathogen: the dirty genome approach.

Amoebal pathogens as emerging causal agents of pneumonia.

Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry for direct bacterial identification from positive blood culture pellets.

African tick-bite fever: a new entity in the differential diagnosis of multiple eschars in travelers. Description of five cases imported from South Africa to Switzerland.

Saccamoeba lacustris, sp. nov. (Amoebozoa: Lobosea: Hartmannellidae), a new lobose amoeba, parasitized by the novel chlamydia 'Candidatus Metachlamydia lacustris' (Chlamydiae: Parachlamydiaceae).

Biodiversity of amoebae and amoeba-associated bacteria in water treatment plants.

Free-living amoebae: Biological by-passes in water treatment.

Parachlamydia involvement in bovine abortions in a beef herd in Scotland.

A 48-year-old man with laryngeal mass and vocal cord palsy.

The Waddlia genome: a window into chlamydial biology.

Amoeba/amoebal symbiont genetic transfers: lessons from giant virus neighbours.

Fastidious intracellular bacteria as causal agents of community-acquired pneumonia.

Parachlamydia acanthamoebae in domestic cats with and without corneal disease.

A new piece added to the whipple puzzle: Tropheryma Whipplei primary infection with bacteremia and cough.

Tropheryma whipplei tricuspid endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature.

New Diagnostic Real-Time PCR for Specific Detection of Mycoplasma hominis DNA.

Mycoplasma hominis mediastinitis after acute aortic dissection repair.

Role of MyD88 and Toll-like receptors 2 and 4 in the sensing of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae.

In vitro susceptibility of Actinobaculum schaalii to 12 antimicrobial agents and molecular analysis of fluoroquinolone resistance.

False-negative PCR result due to gene polymorphism: the example of Neisseria meningitidis.

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of the Chlamydiae: minutes of the inaugural closed meeting, 21 March 2009, Little Rock, AR, USA.

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of the Chlamydiae: minutes of the closed meeting, 21 June 2010, Hof bei Salzburg, Austria.

Mycoplasma hominis necrotizing pleuropneumonia in a previously healthy adolescent.

High proportion of wrongly identified methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers by use of a rapid commercial PCR assay due to presence of staphylococcal cassette chromosome element lacking the mecA gene.

Chlamydiales and the innate immune response: friend or foe?

Outbreak of Mycobacterium haemophilum infections after permanent makeup of the eyebrows.

Lausannevirus, a giant amoebal virus encoding histone doublets.

Adult native septic arthritis: a review of 10 years of experience and lessons for empirical antibiotic therapy.

Waddlia chondrophila: from bovine abortion to human miscarriage.

Development of a new chlamydiales-specific real-time PCR and its application to respiratory clinical samples.

Chlamydia-related bacteria in respiratory samples in Finland.

Parachlamydia and Rhabdochlamydia: emerging agents of community-acquired respiratory infections in children.

Estrella lausannensis, a new star in the Chlamydiales order.

Role of Chlamydia trachomatis in miscarriage.

Does respiratory infection due to Chlamydia pneumoniae still exist?

Pasteurella multocida zoonotic ascending infection: an unusual cause of tubo-ovarian abscess.

Insight into cross-talk between intra-amoebal pathogens.

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxin L-2-amino-4-methoxy-trans-3-butenoic acid inhibits growth and induces encystment in Acanthamoeba castellanii.

Applications of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in clinical diagnostic microbiology.

Permissivity of fish cell lines to three Chlamydia-related bacteria: Waddlia chondrophila, Estrella lausannensis and Parachlamydia acanthamoebae.

Development of a duplex real-time PCR for the detection of Rickettsia spp. and typhus group rickettsia in clinical samples.

Rickettsia and other intracellular bacteria: recent outbreaks, novel pathogens, emerging diseases, new tools, and outstanding discoveries.

Endosymbiotic bacteria associated with nematodes, ticks and amoebae.

Amoebal host range, host-free survival and disinfection susceptibility of environmental Chlamydiae as compared to Chlamydia trachomatis.

Identification of immunogenic proteins of Waddlia chondrophila.

Involvement of Parachlamydia in bovine abortions in Scotland.

Deer as a potential wildlife reservoir for Parachlamydia species.

Chlamydiaceae family, Parachlamydia spp., and Waddlia spp. in porcine abortion.

Lateral gene exchanges shape the genomes of amoeba-resisting microorganisms.

Impact of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry on the clinical management of patients with Gram-negative bacteremia: a prospective observational study.

Correlation between placental bacterial culture results and histological chorioamnionitis: a prospective study on 376 placentas.

A simple blood-culture bacterial pellet preparation for faster accurate direct bacterial identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing with the VITEK 2 system.

Genome of Acanthamoeba castellanii highlights extensive lateral gene transfer and early evolution of tyrosine kinase signaling.

First detection of Waddlia chondrophila in Africa using SYBR Green real-time PCR on veterinary samples.

Functional genomics of intracellular bacteria.

Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma hominis and adverse pregnancy outcomes.

In Chlamydia veritas.

[Peripheral blood eosinophilia: diagnostic value and further assessment].

Automation in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory.

Use of maldi-tof for diagnosis of microbial infections.

Discovery of catalases in members of the Chlamydiales order.

Early expression of the type III secretion system of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae during a replicative cycle within its natural host cell Acanthamoeba castellanii.

Crescent and star shapes of members of the Chlamydiales order: impact of fixative methods.

W. chondrophila: from biology to pathogenicity.

Pathogenesis and cell corruption by intracellular bacteria.

Lausannevirus Seroprevalence among Asymptomatic Young Adults.

Performance of an automated multiplex immunofluorescence assay for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis immunoglobulin G.

Bacteremia caused by Comamonas kerstersii in a patient with diverticulosis.

Chlamydia pneumoniae: possible association with asthma in children.

Chlamydiaceae and Chlamydia-like organisms in free-living small mammals in Europe and Afghanistan.

Role of Waddlia chondrophila placental infection in miscarriage.

Microbiota present in cystic fibrosis lungs as revealed by whole genome sequencing.

Survey of infectious etiologies of bovine abortion during mid- to late gestation in dairy herds.

Genital Chlamydia trachomatis: understanding the roles of innate and adaptive immunity in vaccine research.

Presence of Chlamydiales DNA in ticks and fleas suggests that ticks are carriers of Chlamydiae.

Cell wall precursors are required to organize the chlamydial division septum.

ESCMID postgraduate technical workshop on intracellular bacteria: from biology to clinic.

Comparative genome analysis of Pseudomonas knackmussii B13, the first bacterium known to degrade chloroaromatic compounds.

Chlamydiaceae and Chlamydia-like organisms in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)--organ distribution and histopathological findings.

A simple, robust and rapid approach to detect carbapenemases in Gram negative isolates by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry: validation with triple quadripole tandem mass spectrometry, microarray and PCR.

FtsZ-independent septal recruitment and function of cell wall remodelling enzymes in chlamydial pathogens.

A bovine model of a respiratory Parachlamydia acanthamoebae infection.

Importance of amoebae as a tool to isolate amoeba-resisting microorganisms and for their ecology and evolution: the Chlamydia paradigm.

Waddlia chondrophila infects and multiplies in ovine trophoblast cells stimulating an inflammatory immune response.

Amoebae as a tool to isolate new bacterial species, to discover new virulence factors and to study the host-pathogen interactions.

Antibiotic susceptibility of Estrella lausannensis, a potential emerging pathogen.