Casanova, Carlo

Pitton, Melissa; Valente, Luca G; Oberhaensli, Simone; Casanova, Carlo; Sendi, Parham; Schnegg, Bruno; Jakob, Stephan M; Cameron, David R; Que, Yok-Ai; Fürholz, Monika (2023). Dynamics of bacterial pathogens at the driveline exit site in patients with ventricular assist devices: a prospective, observational, single-centre cohort study. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation, 42(10), pp. 1445-1454. Elsevier 10.1016/j.healun.2023.05.016

Shaw, David; Abad, Raquel; Amin-Chowdhury, Zahin; Bautista, Adriana; Bennett, Desiree; Broughton, Karen; Cao, Bin; Casanova, Carlo; Choi, Eun Hwa; Chu, Yiu-Wai; Claus, Heike; Coelho, Juliana; Corcoran, Mary; Cottrell, Simon; Cunney, Robert; Cuypers, Lize; Dalby, Tine; Davies, Heather; de Gouveia, Linda; Deghmane, Ala-Eddine; ... (2023). Trends in invasive bacterial diseases during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: analyses of prospective surveillance data from 30 countries and territories in the IRIS Consortium. The Lancet. Digital health, 5(9), e582-e593. Elsevier 10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00108-5

Raemy, Samuel; Casanova, Carlo; Baldan, Rossella; Barreto, Erin; Tande, Aaron J; Endimiani, Andrea; Leib, Stephen L; Fischer, Urs; Sendi, Parham (2023). Penicillin-Susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae Meningitis in Adults: Does the Ceftriaxone Dosing Matter? Antibiotics, 12(5) MDPI 10.3390/antibiotics12050878

Cuénod, Aline; Aerni, Martina; Bagutti, Claudia; Bayraktar, Banu; Boz, Efe Serkan; Carneiro, Cynthia Beisert; Casanova, Carlo; Coste, Alix T; Damborg, Peter; van Dam, Dick; Demirci, Mehmet; Drevinek, Pavel; Dubuis, Olivier; Fernandez, José; Greub, Gilbert; Hrabak, Jaroslav; Yiğitler, Gülen Hürkal; Hurych, Jakub; Jensen, Thøger Gorm; Jost, Géraldine; ... (2023). Quality of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectra in Routine Diagnostics: Results from an International External Quality Assessment including 36 Laboratories from 12 countries using 47 challenging bacterial strains. Clinical microbiology and infection, 29(2), pp. 190-199. Elsevier 10.1016/j.cmi.2022.05.017

Piezzi, Vanja; Wassilew, Nasstasja; Atkinson, Andrew; D'Incau, Stéphanie; Kaspar, Tanja; Seth-Smith, Helena MB; Casanova, Carlo; Bittel, Pascal; Jent, Philipp; Sommerstein, Rami; Buetti, Niccolò; Marschall, Jonas (2022). Nosocomial outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) ST796, Switzerland, 2017 to 2020. Eurosurveillance, 27(48) European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.48.2200285

Bächli, Magi; Sommerstein, Rami; Casanova, Carlo; Droz, Sara; Küffer, Marianne; Marschall, Jonas (2022). Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Contact Screening Strategy in a Low Prevalence Setting; a Nested Case-Control Study. Infection prevention in practice, 4(2), p. 100211. Elsevier 10.1016/j.infpip.2022.100211

Balmer, Lisa; Seth-Smith, Helena M B; Egli, Adrian; Casanova, Carlo; Kronenberg, Andreas Oskar; Schrenzel, Jacques; Marschall, Jonas; Sommerstein, Rami (2022). Agrobacterium species bacteraemia, Switzerland, 2008 to 2019: a molecular epidemiological study. Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, 11(1), p. 47. BioMed Central 10.1186/s13756-022-01086-y

Casanova, Carlo; Küffer, Marianne; Leib, Stephen L.; Hilty, Markus (2021). Re-emergence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and increase of serotype 23B after easing of COVID-19 measures, Switzerland, 2021. Emerging microbes & infections, 10(1), pp. 2202-2204. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/22221751.2021.2000892

Cuénod, Aline; Wüthrich, Daniel; Seth-Smith, Helena M B; Ott, Chantal; Gehringer, Christian; Foucault, Frédéric; Mouchet, Roxanne; Kassim, Ali; Revathi, Gunturu; Vogt, Deborah R; von Felten, Stefanie; Bassetti, Stefano; Tschudin-Sutter, Sarah; Hettich, Timm; Schlotterbeck, Götz; Homberger, Christina; Casanova, Carlo; Moran-Gilad, Jacob; Sagi, Orli; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Belén; ... (2021). Whole-genome sequence-informed MALDI-TOF MS diagnostics reveal importance of Klebsiella oxytoca group in invasive infections: a retrospective clinical study. Genome medicine, 13(1), p. 150. BioMed Central 10.1186/s13073-021-00960-5

Seth-Smith, Helena M B; Biggel, Michael; Roloff, Tim; Hinic, Vladimira; Bodmer, Thomas; Risch, Martin; Casanova, Carlo; Widmer, Andreas; Sommerstein, Rami; Marschall, Jonas; Tschudin-Sutter, Sarah; Egli, Adrian (2021). Transition From PCR-Ribotyping to Whole Genome Sequencing Based Typing of Clostridioides difficile. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 11, p. 681518. Frontiers 10.3389/fcimb.2021.681518

Brueggemann, Angela B; Jansen van Rensburg, Melissa J; Shaw, David; McCarthy, Noel D; Jolley, Keith A; Maiden, Martin C J; van der Linden, Mark P G; Amin-Chowdhury, Zahin; Bennett, Désirée E; Borrow, Ray; Brandileone, Maria-Cristina C; Broughton, Karen; Campbell, Ruth; Cao, Bin; Casanova, Carlo; Choi, Eun Hwa; Chu, Yiu Wai; Clark, Stephen A; Claus, Heike; Coelho, Juliana; ... (2021). Changes in the incidence of invasive disease due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis during the COVID-19 pandemic in 26 countries and territories in the Invasive Respiratory Infection Surveillance Initiative: a prospective analysis of surveillance data. The Lancet. Digital health, 3(6), e360-e370. Elsevier 10.1016/S2589-7500(21)00077-7

Oyewole, Oluwaseun Rume-Abiola; Lang, Phung; Albrich, Werner C.; Wissel, Kerstin; Leib, Stephen L.; Casanova, Carlo; Hilty, Markus (2021). The Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) Coverage Heterogeneities on the Changing Epidemiology of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Switzerland, 2005–2019. Microorganisms, 9(5) MDPI 10.3390/microorganisms9051078

Baldan, Rossella; Droz, Sara; Casanova, Carlo; Knabben, Laura; Huang, Dorothy J; Brülisauer, Christine; Kind, André B; Krause, Elke; Mauerer, Stefanie; Spellerberg, Barbara; Sendi, Parham (2021). Group B streptococcal colonization in elderly women. BMC infectious diseases, 21(1), p. 408. BioMed Central 10.1186/s12879-021-06102-x

Werren, Joel P.; Troxler, Lukas J.; Oyewole, Oluwaseun Rume-Abiola; Ramette, Alban; Brugger, Silvio D.; Bruggmann, Rémy; van der Linden, Mark; Nahm, Moon H.; Gjuroski, Ilche; Casanova, Carlo; Furrer, Julien; Hilty, Markus (2021). Carbon Source-Dependent Changes of the Structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae Capsular Polysaccharide with Serotype 6F. International journal of molecular sciences, 22(9) MDPI 10.3390/ijms22094580

Kuenzli, Andrea B.; Burri, Silvie; Casanova, Carlo; Sommerstein, Rami; Buetti, Niccolo; Seth-Smith, Helena Mb; Bodmer, Thomas; Egli, Adrian; Marschall, Jonas (2020). Successful Management of a Clostridioides difficile Ribotype 027 Outbreak with a Lean Intervention Bundle. The journal of hospital infection, 106(2), pp. 240-245. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.07.034

Neuenschwander, Stefan Moritz; Terrazos Miani, Miguel Angel; Amlang, Heiko; Perroulaz, Carmen; Bittel, Pascal; Casanova, Carlo; Droz, Sara; Flandrois, Jean-Pierre; Leib, Stephen L.; Suter-Riniker, Franziska; Ramette, Alban (2020). A Sample-to-Report Solution for Taxonomic Identification of Cultured Bacteria in the Clinical Setting Based on Nanopore Sequencing. Journal of clinical microbiology, 58(6) American Society for Microbiology 10.1128/JCM.00060-20

Lo Priore, Elia; Livermore, David M; Buetti, Niccolo; Jent, Philipp; Pelzer, Niklas; Casanova, Carlo; Furrer, Hansjakob; Babouee Flury, Baharak (2020). Successful Treatment of Acute Prostatitis Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli With Tigecycline Monotherapy. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 7(1), ofz551. Oxford University Press 10.1093/ofid/ofz551

Seth-Smith, Helena M B; Casanova, Carlo; Sommerstein, Rami; Meinel, Dominik M; Abdelbary, Mohamed M H; Blanc, Dominique S; Droz, Sara; Führer, Urs; Lienhard, Reto; Lang, Claudia; Dubuis, Olivier; Schlegel, Matthias; Widmer, Andreas; Keller, Peter Markus; Marschall, Jonas; Egli, Adrian (2019). Phenotypic and Genomic Analyses of Burkholderia stabilis Clinical Contamination, Switzerland. Emerging infectious diseases, 25(6), pp. 1084-1092. U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 10.3201/eid2506.172119

Tagini, Florian; Aeby, Sébastien; Bertelli, Claire; Droz, Sara; Casanova, Carlo; Prod'hom, Guy; Jaton, Katia; Greub, Gilbert (2019). Phylogenomics reveal that Mycobacterium kansasii subtypes are species-level lineages. Description of Mycobacterium pseudokansasii sp. nov., Mycobacterium innocens sp. nov. and Mycobacterium attenuatum sp. nov. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 69(6), pp. 1696-1704. Society for General Microbiology SGM 10.1099/ijsem.0.003378

Casanova, Carlo; Lo Priore, Elia; Egli, Adrian; Seth-Smith, Helena M B; Räber, Lorenz; Ott, Daniel; Pflüger, Valentin; Droz, Sara Christine; Marschall, Jonas; Sommerstein, Rami (2019). Agrobacterium spp. nosocomial outbreak assessment using rapid MALDI-TOF MS based typing, confirmed by whole genome sequencing. Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, 8, p. 171. BioMed Central 10.1186/s13756-019-0619-y

Seth-Smith, Helena M B; Imkamp, Frank; Tagini, Florian; Cuénod, Aline; Hömke, Rico; Jahn, Kathleen; Tschacher, Anne; Grendelmeier, Peter; Bättig, Veronika; Erb, Stefan; Reinhard, Miriam; Rütimann, Gottfried; Borrell, Sonia; Gagneux, Sebastien; Casanova, Carlo; Droz, Sara; Osthoff, Michael; Tamm, Michael; Nübel, Ulrich; Greub, Gilbert; ... (2019). Discovery and Characterization of Mycobacterium basiliense sp. nov., a Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Isolated From Human Lungs. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9(3184), p. 3184. Frontiers 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03184

Wassilew, Nasstasja; Seth-Smith, Helena MB; Rolli, Eveline; Fietze, Yvonne; Casanova, Carlo; Führer, Urs; Egli, Adrian; Marschall, Jonas; Buetti, Niccolò Ivo Marco-Aurelio (2018). Outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium clone ST796, Switzerland, December 2017 to April 2018. Eurosurveillance, 23(29) European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2018.23.29.1800351

Sommerstein, Rami; Führer, Urs; Lo Priore, Elia Francesco; Casanova, Carlo; Meinel, Dominik M; Seth-Smith, Helena Mb; Kronenberg, Andreas Oskar; Koch, Daniel; Senn, Laurence; Widmer, Andreas F; Egli, Adrian; Marschall, Jonas (2017). Burkholderia stabilis outbreak associated with contaminated commercially-available washing gloves, Switzerland, May 2015 to August 2016. Eurosurveillance, 22(49) European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.49.17-00213

Ruppen, Corinne; Rasmussen, Magnus; Casanova, Carlo; Sendi, Parham (2017). A 10-year observational study of Streptococcus dysgalactiae bacteraemia in adults: frequent occurrence among female intravenous drug users. Swiss medical weekly, 147(w14469), w14469. EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag 10.4414/smw.2017.14469

Casanova, Carlo; Schweiger, Alexander; von Steiger, Niklaus; Droz, Sara Christine; Marschall, Jonas (2014). Campylobacter concisus pseudo-outbreak caused by improved culture conditions. Journal of clinical microbiology, 53(2), pp. 660-662. American Society for Microbiology 10.1128/JCM.02608-14

Casanova, Carlo; Iselin, Lukas; von Steiger, Niklaus; Droz, Sara; Sendi, Parham (2011). Staphylococcus hyicus bacteremia in a farmer. Journal of clinical microbiology, 49(12), pp. 4377-8. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Microbiology 10.1128/JCM.05645-11

Schmuckli-Maurer, Jacqueline; Casanova, Carlo; Schmied, Stéfanie; Affentranger, Sarah; Parvanova, Iana; Kang'a, Simon; Nene, Vishvanath; Katzer, Frank; McKeever, Declan; Müller, Joachim; Bishop, Richard; Pain, Arnab; Dobbelaere, Dirk; Rodrigues, Mauricio Martins (2009). Expression Analysis of the Theileria parva Subtelomere-Encoded Variable Secreted Protein Gene Family. PLoS ONE, 4(3), e4839. Lawrence, Kans.: Public Library of Science 10.1371/journal.pone.0004839

Fehr, Désirée; Casanova, Carlo; Liverman, Amy; Blazkova, Hana; Orth, Kim; Dobbelaere, Dirk,; Frey, Joachim; Burr, Sarah E (2006). AopP, a type III effector protein of Aeromonas salmonicida, inhibits the NF-kappaB signalling pathway. Microbiology, 152(Pt 9), pp. 2809-18. Reading, UK: Society for General Microbiology 10.1099/mic.0.28889-0