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Section edited by Ivan FN Hung, Jorge Garbino and Kelvin To
This section aims to publish studies looking at all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of bacterial and fungal diseases in humans, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology. This section includes studies relating to antibiotic resistance and healthcare-associated infections.
Research article
Human psittacosis is a highly under diagnosed zoonotic disease, commonly linked to psittacine birds. Psittacosis in birds, also known as avian chlamydiosis, is endemic in poultry, but the risk for people livin...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:519
Published on: 26 July 2017
Research article
Diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) in children has been hampered by difficulty in obtaining convalescent serum and time constraints. In this study, the two diagno...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:518
Published on: 25 July 2017
Case report
Pseudomonas spp are important opportunistic and nosocomial pathogens. One such species is Pseudomonas monteilii (P. monteilii). It has been described as an environmental contaminant an...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:511
Published on: 24 July 2017
Research article
As a novel biomarker of inflammation, procalcitonin (PCT) has proven useful to guide antibiotic therapy in intensive care unit (ICU). However, there are controversial on mortality. The aim of this study was to...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:514
Published on: 24 July 2017
Case report
Bacterial species belonging to the genus Exiguobacterium are facultative anaerobic, non-spore-forming, Gram-positive bacilli, and rarely associated with human infections. Herein, we reported the first case of com...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:508
Published on: 21 July 2017
Case report
Prostatic abscess is a rare complication of acute bacterial prostatitis and is most commonly caused by Enterobacteriaceae. We report on a case of prostatic abscess caused by Staphylococcus aureus and conduct a re...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:509
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research article
Although the proportion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections has reduced after the introduction of antibiotics with anti-pseudomonal effects, P. aeruginosa bacteremia still causes high mortality in immunocompromi...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:500
Published on: 17 July 2017
Research article
Whether viral coinfections cause more severe disease than Bordetella pertussis (B. pertussis) alone remains unclear. We compared clinical disease severity and sought clinical and demographic differences between i...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:492
Published on: 12 July 2017
Research article
Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are associated with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. However their aetiology, antimicrobial susceptibilities and associated outcomes differ between developed and developing...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:493
Published on: 12 July 2017
Research article
Staphylococcus aureus, an important nosocomial pathogen, is frequently associated with infections in human. The management of the infections by it especially methicillin resistant ones...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:483
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease caused by different Brucella species and human brucellosis is commonly prevalent in different states of India. Among various Brucella species, B. melitensis is most pa...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:485
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
Cost-effectiveness studies of echinocandins for the treatment of invasive candidiasis, including candidemia, are rare in Asia. No study has determined whether echinocandins are cost-effective for both Candida alb...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:481
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research article
The bla NDM-1 gene in Salmonella species is mostly reported in clinical cases, but is rarely isolated from red and white meat in China.
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:479
Published on: 7 July 2017
Case report
Members of the genus Pseudonocardia have been widely reported and recovered from several ecosystems, such as soil samples and plant samples. Pseudonocardia bacteria colonize the microbial communities on the integ...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:472
Published on: 6 July 2017
Research article
Treatment of community acquired skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) is a common indication for outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) in USA, UK and Australasia, however data from Asia are lacking...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:474
Published on: 6 July 2017
Research article
Prompt and appropriate treatment of streptococcal pharyngitis decreases the risk of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Understanding public perceptions and behaviors related to sore throa...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:473
Published on: 6 July 2017
Case report
Acinetobacter pittii is a nosocomial pathogen rarely involved in community-acquired infections. We report for the first time that A. pittii can be responsible for cavitary community-ac...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:477
Published on: 6 July 2017
Research article
Since first reported in 2002, the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among childhood community-associated (CA) S. aureus infection in Taiwan increased significantly up to 2005. There have ...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:470
Published on: 5 July 2017
Research article
Twenty-seven clinical isolates of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae with MICs ≥4 mg/L for imipenem or meropenem were obtained from inpatients in a hospital in Vietnam. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests ...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:467
Published on: 4 July 2017
Research article
Neonatal bloodstream infection (BSI) is the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Although most neonatal BSIs are primary bacteremia, some are associated w...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:465
Published on: 3 July 2017
