Essentials in Clinical Microbiology -- Glossary of Terms and Definitions -- Carriage -- Colonization and Infection -- Classification of Micro-Organisms According to Their Pathogenicity -- Classification of ICU Infections -- Gut Microbiology: Surveillance Samples for the Detection of the Abnormal Carrier State -- Antimicrobials -- Systemic Antibiotics -- Systemic Antifungals -- Enteral Antimicrobials -- Infection Control -- Evidence-Based Infection Control in the Intensive Care Unit -- Device Policies -- Antibiotic Policies in the Intensive Care Unit -- Outbreaks of Infection in Intensive Care Units—Usefulness of Molecular Techniques for Outbreak Analysis -- Prevention of Infection Using Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract -- Infections on ICU -- Lower Airway Infection -- Bloodstream Infections Including Endocarditis and Meningitis -- Infections of the Peritoneum Including Pancreas, Mediastinum, Pleura, Wounds, and Urinary Tract -- Infection on the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units -- Immediate Adequate Antibiotics Control Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Pancreatitis, Extensive Burns, Trauma, Exacerbated Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or Liver Transplantation -- Intensive Care Unit Patients Following Transplantation -- Clinical Virology in NICU, PICU and Adult ICU -- AIDS Patients in the Intensive Care Unit -- Therapy of Infection -- Special Topics -- SIRS, Sepsis, and MODS -- SIRS/Sepsis: Metabolic and Nutritional Changes and Treatment -- Gut Mucosal Protection in the Critically Ill Patient. Towards an Integrated Clinical Strategy -- Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract: the Role of the Pharmacist -- Antimicrobial Resistance: a Prospective 5-year Study -- ICU-Acquired Infection: Mortality, Morbidity, and Costs -- Evidence-Based Medicine in the Intensive Care Unit.