This Series will provide microbiologists, hygienists, epidemiologists and infectious diseases specialists with well-chosen contributed volumes containing updated information in the areas of basic and applied microbiology involving relevant issues for public health, including bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections, zoonoses and anthropozoonoses, environmental and food microbiology.

The increasing threat of the multidrug-resistant microorganisms and the related host immune response, the new strategies for the treatment of biofilm-based, acute and chronic microbial infections, as well as the development of new vaccines and more efficacious antimicrobial drugs to prevent and treat human and animal infections will be also reviewed in this series in the light of the most recent achievements in these fields. Special attention will be devoted to the fast diffusion worldwide of the new findings of the most advanced translational researches carried out in the different fieldsof microbiological sciences, with the aim to promote a prompt validation and transfer at clinical level of the most promising experimental results.

Provides updated information in the areas of basic and applied microbiology as well as in the field of infectious diseases affecting humans and animals Opens the debate on relevant issues for public health such as the epidemiology and pathogenesis of emerging and re-emerging microbial infections and the role of vaccines in the prophylaxis of severe infectious diseases Broadens the current understanding of multidrug-resistance and the host immune response Informs on the new strategies for treatment of acute and chronic microbial infections, including the biofilm-based ones Aims to promote a prompt validation and transfer at clinical level of the most promising experimental results

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Overview of the antimicrobial activity of 19 essential oils.- Refractory Trichophyton rubrum infections in Turin, Italy: a problem still present.- Antioxidant hydroxytyrosol-based polyacrylate with antimicrobial and antiadhesive activity versus Staphylococcus epidermidis.- The role of human Herpesvirus 8 in diabetes mellitus type 2: state of the art and a medical hypothesis.- Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae based on data collected by a network of clinical microbiology laboratories, in Italy.- -defensins: work in progress.- Emergence of Escherichia coli Sequence Type 131 (ST131) and ST3948 with KPC-2, KPC-3 and KPC-8 carbapenemases from a Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Facility (LTCRF) in Northern Italy.- Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: results of a laboratory surveillance program in an Italian General Hospital (August 2014-January 2015).- A snapshot of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains in Croatia.- Quorum quenching strategy targeting gram-positive pathogenic bacteria.