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  1. Although real-life results of sofosbuvir/simeprevir have been extensively reported from the United States, data from other geographical areas are limited. In the French observational cohort, ANRS CO22 HEPATHER...

    Authors: Anne Laurain, Sophie Metivier, Georges Haour, Dominique Larrey, Céline Dorival, Christophe Hezode, Fabien Zoulim, Patrick Marcellin, Marc Bourliere, Jean-Pierre Zarski, Dominique Thabut, Laurent Alric, Nathalie Ganne-Carrie, Paul Cales, Jean-Pierre Bronowicki, Ghassan Riachi…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:300
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  2. Surgical site infection (SSI) is the foremost infection in the overall patient population, affecting up to 66% of operated patients and with a frequency up to nine times more than in developed countries. This ...

    Authors: Bruke B. Billoro, Mengistu H. Nunemo and Seid E. Gelan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:298
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  3. Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infection is widespread in cattle globally and is present in marketed beef and dairy products. Human infection with BLV has been reported in breast and lung cancer tissues and was s...

    Authors: Gertrude C. Buehring, Anne DeLaney, HuaMin Shen, David L. Chu, Niema Razavian, Daniel A. Schwartz, Zach R. Demkovich and Michael N. Bates
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:297
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  4. The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum and Intestinal Parasitic Infections (IPIs) - with the corresponding pathogenesis among children remain uncertain. This study aimed at determining the prevalence and the out...

    Authors: Paul Oboth, Yahaya Gavamukulya and Banson John Barugahare
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:295
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  5. African, Caribbean, and Black (Black) men account for 16.5% of new HIV diagnoses among men in Ontario. There is substantial evidence that sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are associated with increased li...

    Authors: LaRon E. Nelson, Wangari Tharao, Winston Husbands, Ting Sa, Nanhua Zhang, Sameer Kushwaha, David Absalom and Rupert Kaul
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:294
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  6. The Lebanese Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (LSIDCM) is involved in antimicrobial stewardship. In an attempt at guiding clinicians across Lebanon in regards to the proper use of antim...

    Authors: Nicholas Haddad, Souha S. Kanj, Lyn S. Awad, Dania I. Abdallah and Rima A. Moghnieh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:293
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  7. Syphilis is responsible for a substantial burden of preventable adverse outcomes in pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to compare the frequency of adverse pregnancy outcomes among syphilis-seropositive w...

    Authors: Huihui Liu, Niannian Chen, Jia Yu, Weiming Tang, Jianrong He, Huiyun Xiao, Suifang Lin, Fang Hu, Qiong Feng, Joseph D. Tucker, Huimin Xia and Xiu Qiu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:292
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  8. Streptococcus tigurinus was recently described as a new streptococcal species within the viridans group streptococci (VGS). The objectives of the present work were to analyse the clinical and microbiological char...

    Authors: María Ercibengoa, Miguel Angel Goenaga, Carmen Ardanuy, Immaculada Grau, Cristina García-de-la-Maria, Manuel Almela, Jose María Miro, Enrique Navas, María Carmen Fariñas, Carlos Ruiz de Alegría, Javier de la Torre, Fernando Fernández, Mercedes Marín, Patricia Muñoz, Beatriz Orden, José Antonio Oteo…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:291
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  9. Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported an error in the title:

    Authors: Linlin Zhou, Huiping Yang, Yu Kuang, Tianshu Li, Jianan Xu, Shuang Li, Ting Huang, Chuan Wang, Wanyi Li, Mingyuan Li, Shusen He and Ming Pan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:290
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    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:89

  10. Purulent meningitis (PM) is a serious life-threatening infection of the central nervous system (CNS) by bacteria or fungi and associated with high mortality and high incidence of CNS sequelae in children. Howe...

    Authors: Chengna Zhao, Xi Wang, Chao Zhang, Bing Liu, Hongbo Jing, Lihua Ming, Hua Jiang, Yuling Zheng, Peng Liu, Gang Liu and Yongqiang Jiang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:289
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  11. Enteric fever is one of the common infectious diseases of humans. The objectives of this study were to:1) estimate the prevalence of enteric fever among febrile patients visiting Ambo hospital; 2) comparison o...

    Authors: Tolera Deksissa and Endrias Zewdu Gebremedhin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:288
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  12. Ruxolitinib is a highly potent janus kinase inhibitor that places its users at risk for various bacterial infections and viral reactivation. However new reports are also emerging that suggest greater immunosup...

    Authors: Katya Prakash and Douglas Richman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:287
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  13. Second line anti-tuberculosis drugs are substantially complex, long term, more costly, and more toxic than first line anti-tuberculosis drugs. In Ethiopia, evidence on the incidence and predictors of adverse d...

    Authors: Mehari Woldemariam Merid, Lemma Derseh Gezie, Getahun Molla Kassa, Atalay Goshu Muluneh, Temesgen Yihunie Akalu and Melaku Kindie Yenit
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:286
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  14. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a transmissible infectious disease caused by human enteroviruses (EV). Here, we described features of children with severe HFMD caused by EV-A71 or coxsackievirus A16 (CV...

    Authors: Kang Cai, Yizhong Wang, Zhongqin Guo, Huiju Yu, Huajun Li, Liya Zhang, Shanshan Xu and Qingli Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:285
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  15. Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported his family name has been marked as the first name. His given name is M. Kumi and his family name is Smith.

    Authors: M. Kumi Smith, Gabriella Stein, Weibin Cheng, William C. Miller and Joseph D. Tucker
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:284
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:213

  16. Scrub typhus is an acute disease, characterized by symptoms of fever, which occurs due to infection by Orientia tsutsugamushi. In most cases, patients recover from the disease with appropriate treatment, but seri...

    Authors: Hyun Lee Kim, Hye Rim Park, Choon-Mee Kim, Youn Jung Cha, Na Ra Yun and Dong-Min Kim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:283
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  17. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a zoonotic pathogen that causes erysipeloid and is most frequently associated with exposure to domestic swine. Infection of native and prosthetic joints is a rarely reported manife...

    Authors: Michael Groeschel, Taya Forde, Shannon Turvey, A. Mark Joffe, Catherine Hui, Prenilla Naidu, Fabien Mavrot, Susan Kutz and Ameeta E. Singh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:282
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  18. Confidence in any diagnostic and antimicrobial susceptibility testing data is provided by appropriate and regular quality assurance (QA) procedures. In Europe, the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Susceptibil...

    Authors: Michelle J. Cole, Nerteley Quaye, Susanne Jacobsson, Michaela Day, Elizabeth Fagan, Catherine Ison, Rachel Pitt, Shila Seaton, Neil Woodford, Angelika Stary, Sonja Pleininger, Tania Crucitti, Blaženka Hunjak, Panayiota Maikanti, Steen Hoffmann, Jelena Viktorova…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:281
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  19. The World Health Organisation approved boosted atazanavir as a preferred second line protease inhibitor in 2010. This is as an alternative to the current boosted lopinavir. Atazanavir has a lower genetic barri...

    Authors: Eva Agnes Odongpiny Laker, Maria Sarah Nabaggala, Arvind Kaimal, Damalie Nalwanga, Barbara Castelnuovo, Abdu Musubire, Agnes Kiragga, Mohammed Lamorde and Rosalind Parkes- Ratanshi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:280
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  20. Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient scourge of humanity known for several thousands of years, is still a significant public health challenge in many countries today even though some progress has been made in recent ...

    Authors: Collins Otieno Ogari, Anthony Kebira Nyamache, James Nonoh and Evans Amukoye
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:279
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  21. HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was implemented in France in November 2015 based on individual-level risk factors for HIV infection. We evaluated the proportion of missed opportunities for PrEP among newly...

    Authors: C. Lions, O. Cabras, L. Cotte, T. Huleux, A. Gagneux-Brugnon, A. Makinson, A. Cabié, B. Bonnet, C. Duvivier, L. Hocqueloux, E. Cua, A. Cheret, L. Hustache-Mathieu, V. Obry-Roguet, C. Jacomet and I. Poizot-Martin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:278
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  22. We aim to investigate possible maternal- and pregnancy-related factors associated with the development of Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) in children of mothers with probable gestational infection.

    Authors: Giulia P. Lima, Daniel Rozenbaum, Clarisse Pimentel, Ana Cristina Cisne Frota, Daniela Vivacqua, Elizabeth S. Machado, Fernanda Sztajnbok, Thalita Abreu, Raquel A. Soares and Cristina B. Hofer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:277
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  23. We assessed the utility of a multi-target, real-time PCR assay for Bordetella pertussis detection and diagnosis in patients with severe respiratory illness (SRI), influenza-like illness (ILI), and asymptomatic co...

    Authors: Fahima Moosa, Mignon du Plessis, Nicole Wolter, Maimuna Carrim, Cheryl Cohen, Claire von Mollendorf, Sibongile Walaza, Stefano Tempia, Halima Dawood, Ebrahim Variava and Anne von Gottberg
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:276
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  24. Diarrhoea remains an important cause of childhood mortality in Nigeria, with Rotavirus and Cryptosporidium reported to have the highest contribution. However, high use of antibiotics for treatment of paediatric d...

    Authors: Akinwale M. Efunshile, Obumneme Ezeanosike, Chukwuemeka Chijioke Nwangwu, Brigitte König, Pikka Jokelainen and Lucy J. Robertson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:275
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  25. Little is known about the morbidity and mortality of invasive fungal disease (IFD) at a population level. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence, trends and outcomes of IFD in all haematology-onc...

    Authors: Jake C. Valentine, C. Orla Morrissey, Mark A. Tacey, Danny Liew, Sushrut Patil, Anton Y. Peleg and Michelle R. Ananda-Rajah
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:274
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  26. Knowledge transfer of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) involves the dissemination of created/acquired information on MERS-CoV in hospitals, making this information accessible to all heal...

    Authors: Meshal Aldohyan, Nedal Al-Rawashdeh, Farouk M. Sakr, Saeed Rahman, Ali I. Alfarhan and Mahmoud Salam
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:273
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  27. The goal of this research is to create a system that can use the available relevant information about the factors responsible for the spread of dengue and; use it to predict the occurrence of dengue within a g...

    Authors: Raghvendra Jain, Sra Sontisirikit, Sopon Iamsirithaworn and Helmut Prendinger
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:272
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  29. Intestinal parasites still pose major public health problems in developing countries like Ethiopia. Local epidemiological data is indispensable in order to design and monitor prevention and control strategies....

    Authors: Getaneh Alemu, Ashenafi Abossie and Zerihun Yohannes
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:270
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  30. To fulfill epidemiological data and investigate possible interspecies transmission, this study shall attempt to sequence representative HEV strains of human, swine and wild boar origin collected from 2010 to 2...

    Authors: Lorena Jemeršić, Jelena Prpić, Dragan Brnić, Tomislav Keros, Nenad Pandak and Oktavija Đaković Rode
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:269
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  31. The need for a rapid, molecular test to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) has prompted exploration of TB-LAMP (Eiken; Tokyo, Japan) for use in resource-limited settings. We conducted a systematic review to assess the...

    Authors: Priya B. Shete, Katherine Farr, Luke Strnad, Christen M. Gray and Adithya Cattamanchi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:268
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  32. Rubella is a vaccine-preventable contagious disease causing an estimated 100,000 children to be born with congenital rubella syndrome each year globally. Studies documented that 18 rubella outbreaks were occur...

    Authors: Getachew Dinede, Abigiya Wondimagegnehu and Fikre Enquselassie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:267
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  33. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging viral infectious disease with high mortality. It causes multiple organ dysfunction; however, myocarditis has never been reported as a complicat...

    Authors: Shotaro Miyamoto, Takashi Ito, Shinsaku Terada, Tomohiro Eguchi, Hiroaki Furubeppu, Hideki Kawamura, Tomotsugu Yasuda and Yasuyuki Kakihana
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:266
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  34. Severe leptospirosis is known to cause multi organ dysfunction including cardiac involvement. In the clinical setting with limited resources, high degree of suspicion is needed to diagnose cardiac involvement ...

    Authors: P. G. N. S. Jayathilaka, A. S. V. Mendis, M. H. M. T. S. Perera, H. M. T. Damsiri, A. V. C. Gunaratne and Suneth Buddhika Agampodi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:265
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  35. Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of death in HIV patients worldwide. Here we describe the epidemiology and outcome of HIV-TB co-infections in a high-income country with low TB incidence and integrated HIV an...

    Authors: Ville Holmberg, Hanna Soini, Pia Kivelä, Jukka Ollgren and Matti Ristola
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:264
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  36. Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease (MAC-LD) can deteriorate rapidly to become fatal. Reported poor prognostic factors include radiographic findings, undernutrition, anemia and high inflammation test values....

    Authors: Yuuki Bamba, Hiroshi Moro, Nobumasa Aoki, Takeshi Koizumi, Yasuyoshi Ohshima, Satoshi Watanabe, Takuro Sakagami, Toshiyuki Koya, Toshinori Takada and Toshiaki Kikuchi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:263
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  37. Soil-transmitted helminthiasis affects almost 2 billion people worldwide in tropical climates. Preventive chemotherapy, using the benzimidazoles (albendazole and mebendazole) is the current main recommended co...

    Authors: Chandni Patel, Eveline Hürlimann, Ladina Keller, Jan Hattendorf, Somphou Sayasone, Said M Ali, Shaali M Ame, Jean T Coulibaly and Jennifer Keiser
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:262
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  38. The WHO guidelines for the management of advanced HIV disease recommend a package of care consisting of rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART), enhanced screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) a...

    Authors: Noelle A. Benzekri, Jacques F. Sambou, Sanou Ndong, Ibrahima Tito Tamba, Dominique Faye, Mouhamadou Baïla Diallo, Jean Phillippe Diatta, Khadim Faye, Ibrahima Sall, Fatima Sall, Noël Magloire Manga, Jean Jacques Malomar, Cheikh T. Ndour, Stephen E. Hawes, Moussa Seydi and Geoffrey S. Gottlieb
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:261
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  39. We report hereby a severe case of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome” (HPS) induced by Maripa virus in French Guiana and describe the mechanism of severity of the human disease.

    Authors: Hatem Kallel, Séverine Matheus, Claire Mayence, Stéphanie Houcke, Cyrille Mathien, Anne Lavergne and Didier Hommel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:260
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  40. Infection with Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a serious public health problem worldwide, with over 360 million carriers. Sixty million of these are resident in Sub-saharan Africa. Hepatitis B infection is the caus...

    Authors: Mustapha Bittaye, Patrick Idoko, Bissallah Ahmed Ekele, Samuel Amenyi Obed and Ousman Nyan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:259
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Enterococcus faecium is ranked worldwide as one of the top ten pathogens identified in healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and is classified as one of the high priority pathogens for research and development o...

    Authors: Nancy Carolina Corredor, Carolina López, Paula Andrea Aguilera, Lina María Prieto, Giovanni Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Aura Lucía Leal, María Victoria Ovalle-Guerro, Juan Mauricio Pardo-Oviedo, Claudia Elena Chica and Manuel Alfonso Patarroyo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:258
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  42. The effect of ART initiation time on HIV-1 DNA reservoir in chronically infected individuals is not well understood. Determining the potential influencing factors associated with a low HIV-1 DNA level in chron...

    Authors: Ling Luo, Nidan Wang, Yongsong Yue, Yang Han, Wei Lv, Zhengyin Liu, Zhifeng Qiu, Hongzhou Lu, Xiaoping Tang, Tong Zhang, Min Zhao, Yun He, He Shenghua, Min Wang, Yongzhen Li, Shaobiao Huang…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:257
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  43. Environmental, social, geographical, and other factors could affect the distribution of intestinal parasites. Parasitic infections would impose on health and social problems like mal-absorption, diarrhea, impa...

    Authors: Habtamu Sewunet Mekonnen and Daniale Tekelia Ekubagewargies
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:256
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  44. Campylobacteriosis is a major public health concern. The weather factors that influence spatial and seasonal distributions are not fully understood.

    Authors: Abdelmajid Djennad, Giovanni Lo Iacono, Christophe Sarran, Christopher Lane, Richard Elson, Christoph Höser, Iain R. Lake, Felipe J. Colón-González, Sari Kovats, Jan C. Semenza, Trevor C. Bailey, Anthony Kessel, Lora E. Fleming and Gordon L. Nichols
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:255
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  45. Tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus are significant global public health challenges. In Sub-Saharan Africa, study findings regarding prevalence of diabetes mellitus amongst tuberculosis patients have been incon...

    Authors: Animut Alebel, Amsalu Taye Wondemagegn, Cheru Tesema, Getiye Dejenu Kibret, Fasil Wagnew, Pammla Petrucka, Amit Arora, Amare Demsie Ayele, Mulunesh Alemayehu and Setegn Eshetie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:254
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  46. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing public health problem worldwide.

    Authors: László Róbert Kolozsvári, József Kónya, John Paget, Francois G. Schellevis, János Sándor, Gergő József Szőllősi, Szilvia Harsányi, Zoltán Jancsó and Imre Rurik
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:253
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  47. Chronic Chagas Disease (CD) diagnosis is based on serological methods employing crude, semipurified or recombinant antigens, which may result in low sensitivity or cross-reactivity. To reduce these restriction...

    Authors: Eva Dopico, Rodrigo Pimenta Del-Rei, Bertha Espinoza, Itziar Ubillos, Nilson Ivo Tonin Zanchin, Elena Sulleiro, Zaira Moure, Paola Alejandra Fiorani Celedon, Wayner Vieira Souza, Edimilson Domingos da Silva, Yara Miranda Gomes and Fred Luciano Neves Santos
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:251
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  48. Schistosoma sp. infection has been shown to interact with HIV-1 by modifying susceptibility to the virus and impacting AIDS outcome, but very little is known about the potential impact of Schistosoma sp. infectio...

    Authors: Peter Masikini, Soledad Colombe, Amon Marti, Bernard Desderius, Claudia J. de Dood, Paul L. A. M. Corstjens, Govert J. van Dam, Mwanaisha Seugendo, Samuel Kalluvya and Jennifer A. Downs
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:249
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  49. Evidence on patient-reported outcomes of newly diagnosed HIV patients is scarce, and largely cross-sectional. This prospective cohort study describes the prevalence of, and changes in, patient-reported outcome...

    Authors: Victoria Simms, Julia Downing, Eve Namisango, R. Anthony Powell, Faith Mwangi-Powell, Irene J. Higginson and Richard Harding
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:248
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  50. Buruli ulcer (BU) is a chronic, necrotizing infectious skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. In recent years, there has been a decrease in the number of new cases detected. This study aimed to show the e...

    Authors: Esaï Gimatal Anagonou, Roch Christian Johnson, Yves Thierry Barogui, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, Gilbert Adjimon Ayelo, Akpeedje Carolle Wadagni, Jean Gabin Houezo, Didier Codjo Agossadou and Michel Boko
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:247
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