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  1. In Vietnam, a country with a high tuberculosis (TB) burden, health professionals in both TB-specialized and non-TB-specialized general hospitals have a high risk of acquiring TB. The aims of the present study ...

    Authors: Chau Quy Ngo, Toshie Manabe, Giap Van Vu, Hanh Thi Chu, Trang Thi Thu Vu, Trang Thu Tran, Lan Thi Phuong Doan, Jin Takasaki and Koichiro Kudo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:951
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  2. Klebsiella variicola and K. quasipneumoniae are new species distinguishable from K. pneumoniae but they are often misidentified as K. pneumoniae in clinical settings. Several reports have demonstrated the possibi...

    Authors: Kazuo Imai, Noriomi Ishibashi, Masahiro Kodana, Norihito Tarumoto, Jun Sakai, Toru Kawamura, Shinichi Takeuchi, Yoshitada Taji, Yasuhiro Ebihara, Kenji Ikebuchi, Takashi Murakami, Takuya Maeda, Kotaro Mitsutake and Shigefumi Maesaki
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:946
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:425

  3. Despite the numerous intervention programmes, HIV still remains a public health concern with a high impact in Sub-Saharan Africa region. Oxidative stress has been documented in HIV subjects as viral infection ...

    Authors: Stephen Bassey Coco-Bassey, Enosakhare A. Asemota, Henshaw Uchechi Okoroiwu, Joyce E. Etura, Esienanwan Esien Efiong, Imeobong J. Inyang and Emmanuel K. Uko
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:944
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  4. A large proportion of people who inject drugs (PWID) living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have not been treated. It is unknown whether inclusion of HCV diagnostics and treatment into integrated substa...

    Authors: Lars T. Fadnes, Christer Frode Aas, Jørn Henrik Vold, Christian Ohldieck, Rafael Alexander Leiva, Fatemeh Chalabianloo, Svetlana Skurtveit, Ole Jørgen Lygren, Olav Dalgård, Peter Vickerman, Håvard Midgard, Else-Marie Løberg and Kjell Arne Johansson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:943
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  5. In recent years, the number of infective endocarditis (IE) cases associated with injection drug use has increased. Clinical guidelines suggest deferring surgery for IE in people who inject drugs (PWID) due to ...

    Authors: David Goodman-Meza, Robert E. Weiss, Sebastián Gamboa, Abel Gallegos, Alex A. T. Bui, Matthew B. Goetz, Steven Shoptaw and Raphael J. Landovitz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:918
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Initiating early effective antimicrobial therapy is the most important intervention demonstrated to decrease mortality in patients with gram-negative bacteremia with sepsis. Rapid MIC-based susceptibility resu...

    Authors: Gerald Elliott, Michael Malczynski, Viktorjia O. Barr, Doaa Aljefri, David Martin, Sarah Sutton, Teresa R. Zembower, Michael Postelnick and Chao Qi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:942
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  7. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been rapidly developed and widely used as an analytical technique in clinical laboratories with high accuracy in ...

    Authors: Ying Li, Mingzhu Shan, Zuobin Zhu, Xuhua Mao, Mingju Yan, Ying Chen, Qiuju Zhu, Hongchun Li and Bing Gu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:941
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  8. Bacillus anthracis causes a highly lethal infectious disease primarily due to toxin-mediated injury. Antibiotics are no longer effective to treat the accumulation of anthrax toxin, thereby new strategies of antib...

    Authors: Siping Xiong, Tingting Zhou, Feng Zheng, Xudong Liang, Yongping Cao, Chunhui Wang, Zhengqin Feng, Qi Tang and Jin Zhu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:940
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  9. Invasive candidiasis (IC) is the most common invasive fungal infection. The epidemiology of IC in hospitalized patients has been widely investigated in many metropolitan cities; however, little information fro...

    Authors: Zhang-rui Zeng, Gang Tian, Yin-huan Ding, Kui Yang, Jin-bo Liu and Jian Deng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:939
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  10. Viral bronchiolitis is the most common cause of respiratory failure requiring invasive ventilation in young children. Bacterial co-infections may complicate and prolong paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) st...

    Authors: Hanke M. G. Wiegers, Lisa van Nijen, Job B. M. van Woensel, Reinout A. Bem, Menno D. de Jong and Job C. J. Calis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:938
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  13. Malaria is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide. Pakistan is considered as a moderate malaria-endemic country but still, 177 million individuals are at risk of malaria. Roughly 60% of Pakistan’s populati...

    Authors: Naveeda Akhtar Qureshi, Huma Fatima, Muhammad Afzal, Aamir Ali Khattak and Muhammad Ali Nawaz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:935
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:25

  14. Morbidity and mortality from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection remain significant in cancer patients. We evaluated clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes in patients with active Mtb infection...

    Authors: Joumana Kmeid, Prathit A. Kulkarni, Marjorie V. Batista, Firas El Chaer, Amrita Prayag, Ella J. Ariza-Heredia, Victor E. Mulanovich and Roy F. Chemaly
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:934
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  15. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has emerged as a major public health issue in Vietnam since 2003. We aimed to investigate the household transmission of HFMD and its causative viruses from 150 households in...

    Authors: Cuong Quoc Hoang, Thao Thanh Thi Nguyen, Nguyen Xuan Ho, Hai Duc Nguyen, An Binh Nguyen, Tham Hong Thi Nguyen, Hung Cong Phan and Lan Trong Phan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:933
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  16. Although DAAs hold promise to significantly reduce rates of chronic HCV infections, its eradication still requires development of an effective vaccine. Prolonged T cell responses and cross neutralizing antibod...

    Authors: Reham M. Dawood, Rehab I. Moustafa, Tawfeek H. Abdelhafez, Reem El-Shenawy, Yasmine El-Abd, Noha G. Bader El Din, Jean Dubuisson and Mostafa K. El Awady
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:932
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  17. The sepsis-induced immunodepression contributes to impaired clinical outcomes of various stress conditions. This syndrome is well documented and characterized by attenuated function of innate and adaptive immu...

    Authors: Didier Payen, Valerie Faivre, Jordi Miatello, Jenneke Leentjens, Caren Brumpt, Pierre Tissières, Claire Dupuis, Peter Pickkers and Anne Claire Lukaszewicz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:931
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  18. The potential HPV transmission route includes horizontal transmission “in utero” and vertical transmission from parents. Less is known about the role of child’s father as a potential source of HPV infection an...

    Authors: Mariusz Skoczyński, Anna Goździcka-Józefiak and Anna Kwaśniewska
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:930
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  19. Echinococcosis is a zoonotic disease caused by the larval stages of taeniid cestodes of the genus Echinococcus. The two major types of infection in humans are cystic echinococcosis (CE) or hydatidosis and alveola...

    Authors: Shima Mahmoudi, Setareh Mamishi, Maryam Banar, Babak Pourakbari and Hossein Keshavarz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:929
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  20. Endemic presence of Klebsiella pneumoniae resistant to carbapenem in Italy has been due principally to the clonal expansion of CC258 isolates; however, recent studies suggest an ongoing epidemiological change in ...

    Authors: Teresa Fasciana, Bernardina Gentile, Maria Aquilina, Andrea Ciammaruconi, Chiara Mascarella, Anna Anselmo, Antonella Fortunato, Silvia Fillo, Giancarlo Petralito, Florigio Lista and Anna Giammanco
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:928
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a gram-negative bacterium and an oral commensal in dogs and cats, but occasionally causes serious infections in humans. Septicemia is one of the most fulminant forms, but diagnosis of...

    Authors: Jun Sakai, Kazuhito Imanaka, Masahiro Kodana, Kana Ohgane, Susumu Sekine, Kei Yamamoto, Yusuke Nishida, Toru Kawamura, Takahiro Matsuoka, Shigefumi Maesaki, Hideaki Oka and Hideaki Ohno
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:927
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  22. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) play immunosuppressive roles in cancers and some infectious diseases; however, their role in dengue fever (DF) remains unknown. This study evaluated the clinical signif...

    Authors: Peng-Le Guo, Ling-Hua Li, Wen-Li Li, Jin-Cun Zhao, Feng-Yu Hu, Fu-Chun Zhang, Wei-Ping Cai and Xiao-Ping Tang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:926
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  23. Ruili is a border city in southwest China along the heroin trafficking route. In recent decades, the city has witnessed increased in HIV transmission. The current study aims to explore the spatiotemporal trend...

    Authors: Li Jiang, Zhoulin Li, Jin Huang, Bang Liu, Yingbo Yang, Lanzhu Lin, Chengbo Wang, Ximei Xie, Xia Peng, Wen Xu and Hong Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:925
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  24. Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is a major health and economic burden. Accurate PTB detection is an important step to eliminating TB globally. Interferon gamma-induced protein 10 (IP-10) has been reported as a po...

    Authors: Xia Qiu, Tao Xiong, Xiaojuan Su, Yi Qu, Long Ge, Yan Yue, Yan Zeng, Wenxing Li, Peng Hu and Dezhi Mu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:924
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) with detectable Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the sputum is a major source of transmission. In resource limited TB endemic settings, cure is declared through sputum smear examination f...

    Authors: Atiqa Ambreen, Muhammad Jamil, Mohammad Aqeel ur Rahman and Tehmina Mustafa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:923
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  26. In southern Papua, Indonesia, malaria is highly prevalent in young children and is a significant cause of morbidity and early mortality. The association between malaria and delayed mortality is unknown.

    Authors: Dewi Patriani, Eggi Arguni, Enny Kenangalem, Saber Dini, Paulus Sugiarto, Afdhal Hasanuddin, Daniel Adrian Lampah, Nicholas M. Douglas, Nicholas M. Anstey, Julie Anne Simpson, Ric N. Price and Jeanne Rini Poespoprodjo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:922
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. This short reply contests two assumptions made by the authors of Mayrhuber et al’s. “With fever it’s the real flu I would say.” The first is that there is influenza can be reliably defined by a medical case de...

    Authors: Annemarie Jutel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:921
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  28. The only licensed malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01, has been developed for morbidity-control in young children. The potential impact on transmission of deploying such anti-infective vaccines to wider age ranges, po...

    Authors: Flavia Camponovo, Chris F. Ockenhouse, Cynthia Lee and Melissa A. Penny
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:920
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  29. Pertussis causes severe disease in young unvaccinated infants, with preterms potentially at highest risk. We studied pertussis in hospitalized infants as related to gestational age (GA) and vaccination history.

    Authors: Nicoline A. T. van der Maas, Elisabeth A. M. Sanders, Florens G. A. Versteegh, Albertine Baauw, Anneke Westerhof and Hester E. de Melker
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:919
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. A bi-directional interaction between diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis is well established and has been likened to that between HIV and TB. Whereas HIV screening is standard of care test in sub Saharan Africa...

    Authors: Patricia J. Munseri, Henrika Kimambo and Kisali Pallangyo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:915
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  33. Programmatic data on the baseline risk of tuberculosis in people living with HIV (PLHIV) are needed to evaluate long-term effectiveness of the ongoing isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) roll-out in India.

    Authors: Akshay N. Gupte, Dileep Kadam, Shashikala Sangle, Bharat B. Rewari, Sonali Salvi, Amol Chavan, Smita Nimkar, Jonathan Golub, Nikhil Gupte, Amita Gupta, Ivan Marbaniang and Vidya Mave
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:914
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  34. Self-reported antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence measures that are associated with plasma viral load (VL) are valuable to clinicians and researchers, but are rarely examined among groups vulnerable to drop...

    Authors: William E. Cunningham, Robin M. Nance, Carol E. Golin, Patrick Flynn, Kevin Knight, Curt G. Beckwith, Irene Kuo, Anne Spaulding, Faye S. Taxman, Fredrick Altice, Joseph A. Delaney, Heidi M. Crane and Sandra A. Springer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:913
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  35. West Nile virus (WNV) circulates across Australia and was referred to historically as Kunjin virus (WNVKUN). WNVKUN has been considered more benign than other WNV strains circulating globally. In 2011, a more vir...

    Authors: Bixing Huang, Nic West, Jelena Vider, Ping Zhang, Rebecca E. Griffiths, Ernst Wolvetang, Peter Burtonclay and David Warrilow
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:912
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  36. Cyst infection is a prevalent complication in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) patients, however therapeutic and diagnostic approaches towards this condition remain unclear. The confirmatio...

    Authors: Laura Onuchic, Victor Augusto Hamamoto Sato, Precil Diego Miranda de Menezes Neves, Bruno Eduardo Pedroso Balbo, Antônio Abel Portela-Neto, Fernanda Trani Ferreira, Elieser Hitoshi Watanabe, Andreia Watanabe, Maria Cláudia Stockler de Almeida, Leonardo de Abreu Testagrossa, Pedro Renato Chocair and Luiz Fernando Onuchic
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:911
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  37. On September 4, 2018, a boarding school in the Shunyi District of Beijing, China reported an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis. At least 209 suspected students caused of diarrhea and vomiting. The case was inv...

    Authors: Dongwan Chen, Yongjin Li, Jinchang Lv, Xiufeng Liu, Peng Gao, Guoxin Zhen, Wenzeng Zhang, Dan Wu, Hongbo Jing, Ying Li, Yao Zhao, Xiaochen Ma, Huilai Ma and Lijie Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:910
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  38. Disseminated nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections occur mostly in immunocompromised patients. Therefore, it is difficult to diagnose disseminated NTM infections in patients without history of immunocom...

    Authors: Yun-Kai Yeh, Jing-Ya Ding, Cheng-Lung Ku and Wei-Chih Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:909
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  39. Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern threathing the success of TB control efforts, and this is particularily problematic in Central Asia. Here, we present the first analysis of the...

    Authors: Anna Engström, Uladzimir Antonenka, Abdylat Kadyrov, Gulmira Kalmambetova, Katharina Kranzer, Matthias Merker, Olim Kabirov, Nargiza Parpieva, Asliddin Rajabov, Evgeni Sahalchyk, Zayniddin Sayfudtinov, Stefan Niemann and Harald Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:908
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  40. The objectives of this study were to examine nutrient intakes of tuberculosis (TB) patients and to identify their associated factors.

    Authors: Zhewen Ren, Fei Zhao, Hui Chen, Dongmei Hu, Wentao Yu, Xiaoli Xu, Dingwen Lin, Fuyi Luo, Yueling Fan, Haijun Wang, Jun Cheng and Liyun Zhao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:907
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Migrants often face barriers to accessing healthcare. We examined disparities in access to and use of HIV-related health services between migrant and non-migrant people recently diagnosed with HIV living in th...

    Authors: Janneke P. Bil, Freke R. Zuure, Debora Alvarez-del Arco, Jan M. Prins, Kees Brinkman, Eliane Leyten, Ard van Sighem, Fiona Burns and Maria Prins
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:906
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  42. Following publication of the original article1, the authors noted the following:

    Authors: Wail A. Hayajneh, Vincent J. Daniels, Cerise K. James, Muhammet Nabi Kanıbir, Matthew Pilsbury, Morgan Marks, Michelle G. Goveia, Elamin H. Elbasha, Erik Dasbach and Camilo J. Acosta
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:904
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:119

  43. Acute Q fever usually presents as a nonspecific febrile illness, and its occurrence is rapidly increasing in South Korea. This study investigated the clinical characteristics of acute Q fever patients in South...

    Authors: Jung Yeon Heo, Young Wha Choi, Eun Jin Kim, Seung Hun Lee, Seung Kwan Lim, Seon Do Hwang, Ju Young Lee and Hye Won Jeong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:903
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  45. To prospectively analyze the efficacy of uromune® in the prevention of uncomplicated recurrent urinary tract infections at 3 and 6 months, and according to gender and menopause.

    Authors: Cristóbal Ramírez Sevilla, Esther Gómez Lanza, Juan Llopis Manzanera, Jose Antonio Romero Martín and Miguel Ángel Barranco Sanz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:901
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Carbapenem resistance among Acinetobacter species has become a life-threatening problem. As a last resort in the treatment of gram-negative bacteria infection, resistance to colistin is also a serious problem. Th...

    Authors: Si Li, Xiaonv Duan, Yuan Peng and Yongyu Rui
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:900
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Several reports designate the recent increase in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) nasal carriage. Because of the scanty information regarding the nasal carriage sate of MRS...

    Authors: Elham Ahmadi, Mohammad Khojasteh, Seyed Mohammad Mortazavi, Fatemeh Khan-Mohammadi, Ali Kazemnia, Javad Beheshtipour and Mahdieh Raeeszadeh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:899
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Salmonella infection poses significant public health threat globally, especially in resource-limited countries. Emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant strains to fluoroquinolones have led to treatment failu...

    Authors: Godfred Acheampong, Michael Owusu, Alex Owusu-Ofori, Isaac Osei, Nimako Sarpong, Augustina Sylverken, Hung-Jui Kung, Shu-Ting Cho, Chih-Horng Kuo, Se Eun Park, Florian Marks, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie and Ellis Owusu-Dabo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:898
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. The impact of animals sources of food as a possible reservoir for extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) - Producing E. coli, and the dissemination of such strains into the food production chain need to be asses...

    Authors: Mengistu Abayneh, Getnet Tesfaw, Kifle Woldemichael, Moti Yohannis and Alemseged Abdissa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:897
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Leishmania infantum, the etiological agent of visceral leishmaniasis, is a neglected zoonosis that requires validation and standardization of satisfactory diagnostic methodologies. Thus, the aim of the present st...

    Authors: Ryan Emiliano da Silva, Bruna Matarucco Sampaio, Renata Tonhosolo, Andrea Perei ra da Costa, Luiz Eduardo da Silva Costa, Fernanda Ap. Nieri-Bastos, Márcia Aparecida Sperança and Arlei Marcili
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:895
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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