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  1. Individuals in close contact with active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients showed a high risk of recent infection and, once infected, higher risk of developing active TB in the following years post-exposure...

    Authors: Ying Du, Yijun He, Haoran Zhang, Fei Shen, Ling Guan, Henan Xin, Yongpeng He, Xuefang Cao, Boxuan Feng, Zhusheng Quan, Jianmin Liu and Lei Gao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:373
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  2. Partner-delivered HIV self-testing kits has previously been highlighted as a safe, acceptable and effective approach to reach men. However, less is known about its real-world implementation in reaching partner...

    Authors: Vincent Zishiri, Donaldson F. Conserve, Zelalem T. Haile, Elizabeth Corbett, Karin Hatzold, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Katleho Matsimela, Linda Sande, Marc d’Elbee, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Cheryl C. Johnson, Thato Chidarikire, Francois Venter and Mohammed Majam
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 22(Suppl 1):971
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 1

  3. Organizing pneumonia (OP) is a rare interstitial lung disease. Secondary organizing pneumonia (SOP) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is extremely rare. Migratory MTB-associated SOP is more deceptive and...

    Authors: Li-Li Huang, Chun Wang, Ying Liu, Xiao-Yan Gu, Wei-Xiao Wang, Wei Chen and Chun-Mei Hu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:372
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  4. Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika are co-endemic in Honduras and are often misdiagnosed due to similar clinical and epidemiological behavior. Most arboviral infections reported in primary care are based on clinica...

    Authors: María Fernanda Ávila Mejía, Pei-Yun Shu and Dar-Der Ji
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:371
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  5. Migration is known to influence human health. China has a high migration rate and a significant number of people who are HIV-positive, but little is known about how these factors intersect in sexual risk behav...

    Authors: Yuyin Zhou, Yan Luo, Feng Cheng, Huatang Zeng, Liqun Wu, Liangmin Gao and Junfang Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:370
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  6. Data on persistent candidemia (PC), a recognized complication of candidemia, are lacking in China. This study aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics and risk factors for the mortality of PC among ad...

    Authors: Yanping Li, Chenghong Gu, Yuling Yang, Yinhuan Ding, Caihong Ye, Min Tang, Jinbo Liu and Zhangrui Zeng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:369
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  7. Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are an internationally recognized strategy for reducing antimicrobial resistance while maintaining patient safety. ASP activities include the restriction of broad-spec...

    Authors: Lina I. Alnajjar, Nourah S. Alrashidi, Njoud Almutairi, Noura Alshamrani, Omar S. Khan, Sajjad Ali, Amira M Youssef and Reem Binsuwaidan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:368
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  8. As countries move towards or achieve measles elimination status, serosurveillance is an important public health tool. However, a major challenge of serosurveillance is finding a feasible, accurate, cost-effect...

    Authors: Chelsea S. Lutz, Alvira Z. Hasan, Shelly Bolotin, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Felicity T. Cutts, Eugene Joh, Stacie Loisate, William J. Moss, Selma Osman and Kyla Hayford
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:367
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  9. Hepatitis B (HB) is a virus which causes a potentially fatal liver infection. It is a DNA virus belonging to the Hepadnaviridae virus family. Africa, after Asia, has the second highest number of chronic HBV ca...

    Authors: Denekew Tenaw Anley, Mequanente Dagnaw, Daniel Gashaneh Belay, Dawit Tefera, Zemenu Tadesse Tessema, Ayenew Molla, Sebwedin Surur Jemal, Edget Abebe Zewde, Melkalem Mamuye Azanaw, Getachew Aragie and Yayehirad Alemu Melsew
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:366
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  11. Until now, the performance of interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) and Mantoux tests remains unclear in infant tuberculous meningitis (TBM). Therefore, a systematic review is performed to evaluate the sensitivity...

    Authors: Yan-Hua Yang, Jie Hou, Yu He, Yan-An Zhang and Mao-Shui Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:364
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  13. Although tuberculosis (TB) patients coinfected with HIV are at risk of poor treatment outcomes, there is paucity of data on changing trends of TB/HIV co-infection and their treatment outcomes. This study aims ...

    Authors: Moses M. Ngari, Mohammed A. Rashid, Deche Sanga, Hiram Mathenge, Oscar Agoro, Jane K. Mberia, Geoffrey G. Katana, Michel Vaillant and Osman A. Abdullahi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:362
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  14. Viral hepatitis (VH) is a leading contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide, constituting a public health problem associated with the level of human development. In recent years, Venezuela has experienc...

    Authors: Alejandro Rísquez, Luis Echezuría, Fhabián S. Carrión-Nessi and David A. Forero-Peña
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:361
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  15. The Gambian Ministry of Health is supportive of HIV self-testing (HIVST) and HIVST initiatives are being piloted as an additional strategy to increase HIV testing for individuals not currently reached by exist...

    Authors: Phyumar Soe, Lisa G. Johnston, Jean Damascene Makuza and Mohammad Ehsanul Karim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:360
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  16. Intravenous artesunate (AS) is the first-line treatment for patients with severe imported malaria (SIM) worldwide. However, after 10 years of use in France, AS hasn’t yet received marketing authorization.The p...

    Authors: M. Bonsergent, M. Tching-Sin, S. Honoré, P. Bertault-Peres, A. Lepelletier, L. Flet and T. Perez
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:359
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  17. With the safety of blood transfusion being a major public health concern, the development of a rapid, sensitive, specific, and cost-effective multiplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection of hepatitis B virus...

    Authors: Miaomiao Li, Yan Lv, Dawei Cui, Yushan Xu, Mengjiao Lin, Xiaojun Zhang, Yongjun Wang, Cuifen Shen and Jue Xie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:358
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  20. Escherichia hermannii (E. hermanni) is always accompanied by other bacterial infections in humans. In previous reports, most E. hermannii-related infections were caused by sensitive strains. Here, for the first t...

    Authors: Bin Lu, Bin Wang, Xinling Pan, Chenxin Liu, Chenyuan Jin, Yunzhen Shi and Yangxiao Zhou
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:355
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  21. Immigration is considered as a risk factor of tuberculosis (TB). Qom province receives millions of pilgrims and significant numbers of immigrants each year. Most of the immigrants to Qom, arrive from neighbori...

    Authors: Mostafa Naseri-Nezhad, Mahla Asadian, Mohammad Khalifeh Gholi, Mehdi Yaseri and Masoumeh Douraghi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:354
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  22. Scedosporium is a lesser-known non-Aspergillus genus of mold that can present in unsuspecting ways. If overlooked, it may disseminate and cause high mortality in high-risk allogeneic stem cell transplant recipien...

    Authors: Debra A. Marinovic, Eric Bhaimia, Graeme N. Forrest, Rebecca LaRue, Sunita Nathan, Celalettin Ustun and Anna Ward
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:353
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  24. With the difficulties in choosing colistin sulfate and polymyxin B sulfate (PBS) for carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria (CR-GNB), we compared the efficacy and safety of these two old polymyxins in tre...

    Authors: Jiale Wang, Binay Kumar Shah, Jian Zhao, Jie Xiong, Changhui Wang and Shuanshuan Xie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:351
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  26. Deep sternal wound infection is a rare but feared complication of median thoracotomies and is usually caused by microorganisms from the patient’s skin or mucous membranes, the external environment, or iatrogen...

    Authors: Olimpiu Bota, Feras Taqatqeh, Florian Bönke, Klaus Matschke, Adrian Dragu, Stefan Rasche, Kevin Bienger and Maxime Mülhausen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:349
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  27. Invasive fungal disease (IFD) is a significant cause of morbimortality in children under chemotherapy or hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). The purpose of this study is to describe the changes in the I...

    Authors: Laura Calle-Miguel, Carmen Garrido-Colino, Begoña Santiago-García, Martha Patricia Moreno Santos, Henar Gonzalo Pascual, Beatriz Ponce Salas, Cristina Beléndez Bieler, Marisa Navarro Gómez, Jesús Guinea Ortega and Elena María Rincón-López
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:348
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  28. HIV epidemics in Western and Central Africa (WCA) remain concentrated among key populations, who are often unaware of their status. HIV self-testing (HIVST) and its secondary distribution among key populations...

    Authors: Odette Ky-Zerbo, Alice Desclaux, Sokhna Boye, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Nicolas Rouveau, Anthony Vautier, Cheick Sidi Camara, Brou Alexis Kouadio, Souleymane Sow, Clémence Doumenc-Aidara, Papa Alioune Gueye, Olivier Geoffroy, Odé Kanku Kamemba, Eboi Ehui, Cheick Tidiane Ndour, Abdelaye Keita…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 22(Suppl 1):970
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 1

  29. Since January 2017, the recommended first-line antiretroviral regimen in Brazil is the fixed-dose combination of tenofovir plus lamivudine with dolutegravir (TL + D). According to the literature, integrase res...

    Authors: Ricardo Sobhie Diaz, James R. Hunter, Michelle Camargo, Danilo Dias, Juliana Galinskas, Isabela Nassar, Isaac Barbosa de Lima, Debora Bellini Caldeira, Maria Cecilia Sucupira and Mauro Schechter
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:347
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  31. The four co-circulating and immunologically interactive dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) pose a unique challenge to vaccine design because sub-protective immunity can increase the risk of severe dengue disease...

    Authors: Camila D. Odio, Kelsey E. Lowman, Melissa Law, Rosemary A. Aogo, Sally Hunsberger, Brad J. Wood, Michael Kassin, Elliot Levy, Viviane Callier, Saba Firdous, Chloe M. Hasund, Charlie Voirin, Robbie Kattappuram, Christina Yek, Jessica Manning, Anna Durbin…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:345
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  32. Little evidence exists regarding the prevalence of pathogens in bloodstream infections (BSIs), the mortality risk, and the benefit of combination therapy over monotherapy. This study aims to describe patterns ...

    Authors: Shanshan Xu, Zhihui Song, Furong Han and Chao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:344
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  33. Healthcare-Acquired Infections are a major problem in the world and within the healthcare delivery system. An estimated 5–10% and around 25% of hospitalized patients have healthcare-acquired infections in deve...

    Authors: Endalkachew Mesfin Gebeyehu, Ayal Debie, Lake Yazachew, Samrawit Mihret Fetene and Kefyalew Amogne Azanaw
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:343
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  34. Tuberculosis (TB) is among the leading causes of death globally. The disease has a huge burden in Namibia, with a case notification rate of at least 442 per 100,000. To date, Namibia is among the countries wit...

    Authors: Mondjila Amkongo, Honoré K. Mitonga, Anna Alfeus, Loide Ndelimona Ndapandula Shipingana, Tuwilika Keendjele, Hilja Eelu and Tunelago Nashihanga
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:342
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  35. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) using molecular tests, such as Xpert MTB/RIF (MTB/RIF) or Xpert Ultra (Ultra). These tests are expensive and resource-consuming...

    Authors: Vibol Iem, John S. Bimba, Victor S. Santos, Jose Dominguez, Jacob Creswell, Silaphet Somphavong, Tom Wingfield, Jahangir A. M. Khan and Luis E. Cuevas
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:341
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  36. Acute pancreatitis (AP) accounts for a high proportion of digestive diseases worldwide and has a high risk of infection. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common pathogen of hospital infections, has been observed to incr...

    Authors: Di Wu, Wenjun Lu, Yilin Huang, Ge Qin, Huanmiao liu, Jie Xiao and Jie Peng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:340
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  37. Besides impaired respiratory function and immune system, COVID-19 can affect renal function from elevated blood urea nitrogen (BUN) or serum creatinine (sCr) levels to acute kidney injury (AKI) and renal failu...

    Authors: Azadeh Mottaghi, Farzaneh Alipour, Nazanin Alibeik, Ali Kabir, Shokoufeh Savaj, Ramin Bozorgmehr, Mehdi Nikkhah and Neda Rahimian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:339
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  38. Bacterial meningitis caused by non-typhoid Salmonella can be a fatal condition which is more common in low and middle-income countries.

    Authors: Christelle Nanga Diasi, Pieter-Jan Ceyssens, Alexandra Vodolazkaia, Marina Mukovnikova, Sarah Dorval, Olivia Bauraind and Wesley Mattheus
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:338
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  39. Understanding the epidemiology of Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) in a local context is valuable for both future pandemic preparedness and potential increases in COVID-19 case volume, particularly due t...

    Authors: Elissa Rennert-May, Alysha Crocker, Adam G. D’Souza, Zuying Zhang, Derek Chew, Reed Beall, David M. Vickers and Jenine Leal
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:337
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  40. Fascioliasis, caused by Fasciola hepatica, is a neglected zoonotic food-borne trematodiasis. The Caspian littoral in northern Iran is endemic for the disease, and human fascioliasis is well-known in that region. ...

    Authors: Mohammad Shafiee, Saeid Nasibi, Mohammad Reza Lashkarizadeh and Majid Fasihi Harandi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:336
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  41. In Ghana, contact tracing received heightened attention in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic during its peak period. Despite the successes achieved, numerous challenges continue to limit the efforts of c...

    Authors: Isaac Tachie Asare, Mbuyiselo Douglas, Gideon Kye-Duodu and Emmanuel Manu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:335
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  42. Surgical site infection is an infection occurring within 30 days after surgery. It is recently reported that evidence-based information on the specific time when the majority of surgical site infections would ...

    Authors: Meron Asmamaw Alemayehu, Abebaw Gedef Azene and Kebadnew Mulatu Mihretie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:334
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  43. Sneathia amnii is a conditional pathogen of the female genital tract that is involved in bacterial vaginosis and poor reproductive and perinatal outcomes. Few studies have reported subcutaneous cysts following in...

    Authors: Ranran Zhang, Zhezhong Zhang, Minjing Xu, Wenjie Li, Yanwen Sun, Yuliang Dai, Xuejing Yang and Shaohua Lin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:333
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  44. Patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) on immunosuppressants (ISPs) may have impaired long-term humoral immune responses and increased disease activity after SARS-CoV-2 infection. We aimed...

    Authors: Koos P. J. van Dam, Adriaan G. Volkers, Luuk Wieske, Eileen W. Stalman, Laura Y. L. Kummer, Zoé L. E. van Kempen, Joep Killestein, Sander W. Tas, Laura Boekel, Gerrit J. Wolbink, Anneke J. van der Kooi, Joost Raaphorst, R. Bart Takkenberg, Geert R. A. M. D’Haens, Phyllis I. Spuls, Marcel W. Bekkenk…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:332
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. The continuous emergence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants with markedly increased transmissibility presents major challenges to the zero-COVID policy in China. It is critical to adjust aspects of the policy about ...

    Authors: Hao Wang, Tangjuan Li, Huan Gao, Chenxi Huang, Biao Tang, Sanyi Tang, Robert A. Cheke and Weike Zhou
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:331
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  46. While others have reported severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) seroprevalence studies in health care workers (HCWs), we leverage the use of a highly sensitive coronavirus antige...

    Authors: Sebastian D. Schubl, Cesar Figueroa, Anton M. Palma, Rafael R. de Assis, Aarti Jain, Rie Nakajima, Algimantas Jasinskas, Danielle Brabender, Sina Hosseinian, Ariana Naaseh, Oscar Hernandez Dominguez, Ava Runge, Shannon Skochko, Justine Chinn, Adam J. Kelsey, Kieu T. Lai…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:330
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  47. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is ubiquitous in the gastrointestinal tract and known as brewer's or baker's yeast. We experienced a case of S. cerevisiae and Candida glabrata co-infectious bloodstream infection. It is ...

    Authors: Kento Furuya, Kenta Ito, Kyohei Sugiyama, Satoshi Tokuda, Hideyuki Kanemoto, Katsuhiko Kamei and Toshio Shimada
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:329
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. Proteus spp. are widespread in the environment and comprise a part of the normal flora of the human gastrointestinal tract. Only six species in this genus, including Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, Proteus t...

    Authors: Nobuaki Mori, Jun Hirai, Daisuke Sakanashi, Mina Takayama, Akiko Nakamura, Hirotoshi Ohta, Nobuhiro Asai and Hiroshige Mikamo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:328
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  49. In this phase 2 randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial in patients with COVID-19, we hypothesised that blocking mineralocorticoid receptors using a combination of dexamethasone to suppress cortisol secre...

    Authors: Bharti Wadhwa, Vikas Malhotra, Sukhyanti Kerai, Farah Husain, Nalini Bala Pandey, Kirti N. Saxena, Vinay Singh, Tom M. Quinn, Feng Li, Erin Gaughan, Manu Shankar-Hari, Bethany Mills, Jean Antonelli, Annya Bruce, Keith Finlayson, Anne Moore…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:326
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  50. Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis (HAE), as a benign parasitic disease with malignant infiltrative activity, grows slowly in the liver, allowing sufficient time for collateral vessels to emerge in the process of va...

    Authors: Tiemin Jiang, Tuerganaili Aji, Bo Ran, Qiang Guo, Ruiqing Zhang, Ayifuhan Ahan, Abuduaini Abulizi, Talaiti Tuergan, Yingmei Shao and Hao Wen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:322
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