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  1. Schistosoma mansoni and Hepatitis C virus (HCV) are co-existence in sub-Saharan Africa and co-infection is common among humans population. The immunological responses characterized wit...

    Authors: Humphrey D. Mazigo, Stella Kepha, Godfrey M. Kaatano and Safari M. Kinung’hi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:668
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  2. The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains is threatening antimicrobial treatment.

    Authors: Sara Giordana Rimoldi, Bernardina Gentile, Cristina Pagani, Annamaria Di Gregorio, Anna Anselmo, Anna Maria Palozzi, Antonella Fortunato, Valentina Pittiglio, Anna Lisa Ridolfo, Maria Rita Gismondo, Giuliano Rizzardini and Florigio Lista
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:666
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  3. The objectives of this study were to determine the proportion of malaria, bacteraemia, scrub typhus, leptospirosis, chikungunya and dengue among hospitalized patients with acute undifferentiated fever in India...

    Authors: Kristine Mørch, Anand Manoharan, Sara Chandy, Novin Chacko, Gerardo Alvarez-Uria, Suvarna Patil, Anil Henry, Joel Nesaraj, Cijoy Kuriakose, Ashita Singh, Siby Kurian, Christel Gill Haanshuus, Nina Langeland, Bjørn Blomberg, George Vasanthan Antony and Dilip Mathai
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:665
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  4. There is limited information on patterns of treatment change among new initiators of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the regions most affected by HIV/AIDS. This makes it difficult to identify t...

    Authors: Daniel N. A. Ankrah, Margaret Lartey, Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse and Hubert G. M. Leufkens
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:664
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  5. Maintaining the quality of clinical specimens for tuberculosis (TB) testing is a major challenge in many high TB burden-limited resources countries. Sample referral systems in low and middle income countries a...

    Authors: Elisa Tagliani, Riccardo Alagna, Silva Tafaj, Hasan Hafizi and Daniela Maria Cirillo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:663
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  6. Reported tuberculosis (TB) incidence globally continues to be heavily influenced by expert opinion of case detection rates and ecological estimates of disease duration. Both approaches are recognised as having...

    Authors: Debebe Shaweno, James M. Trauer, Justin T. Denholm and Emma S. McBryde
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:662
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  7. Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (Salmonella Enteritidis) has become a significant pathogen in South Africa, and the need for improved molecular surveillance of this pathogen ha...

    Authors: Munyadziwa Muvhali, Anthony Marius Smith, Andronica Moipone Rakgantso and Karen Helena Keddy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:661
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  8. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common commensal capable of causing severe invasive infections. Most GBS infections occur in neonates (often as pneumonia). GBS can also cause infection in adults with diabetes...

    Authors: Kate Skolnik, Austin Nguyen, Christina S. Thornton, Barbara Waddell, Tyler Williamson, Harvey R. Rabin and Michael D. Parkins
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:660
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  9. Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis is a chronic structural lung condition that courses with recurrent infectious exacerbations that lead to frequent antibiotic treatment making this population more susceptible...

    Authors: Rosario Menéndez, Raúl Méndez, Eva Polverino, Edmundo Rosales-Mayor, Isabel Amara-Elori, Soledad Reyes, José Miguel Sahuquillo-Arce, Laia Fernández-Barat, Victoria Alcaraz and Antoni Torres
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:659
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  10. Dolutegravir (DTG) plus darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) is a simple combination of drugs that has the best genetic barrier to HIV-1 resistance and may be fit for salvage therapy.

    Authors: Amedeo F. Capetti, Maria Vittoria Cossu, Giancarlo Orofino, Gaetana Sterrantino, Giovanni Cenderello, Giuseppe V. De Socio, Anna Maria Cattelan, Alessandro Soria, Stefano Rusconi, Niccolò Riccardi, Gian Maria Baldin, Fosca P. Niero, Giorgio Barbarini and Giuliano Rizzardini
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:658
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  11. Norovirus is a common cause of infectious gastrointestinal disease. Despite the increased ability to detect norovirus in affected people, the number of reported cases and outbreaks in the community is still su...

    Authors: Thomas Inns, John Harris, Roberto Vivancos, Miren Iturriza-Gomara and Sarah O’Brien
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:657
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  12. Workers in clinical microbiology laboratories are exposed to a variety of pathogenic microorganisms. Salmonella species is among the most commonly reported bacterial causes of laboratory-acquired infections. We r...

    Authors: Anthony Marius Smith, Shannon Lucrecia Smouse, Nomsa Pauline Tau, Colleen Bamford, Vineshree Mischka Moodley, Charlene Jacobs, Kerrigan Mary McCarthy, Adré Lourens and Karen Helena Keddy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:656
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  13. Interim treatment outcomes at 6-months for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment are among the most basic performance monitoring and key evaluation indicators in the Stop and End TB strategy of t...

    Authors: Muhammad Atif, Arslan Bashir, Nafees Ahmad, Razia Kaneez Fatima, Sehar Saba and Shane Scahill
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:655
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  14. Urinary tract infection is the second most common type of infection and the problem is further compounded by the emergence of drug resistance in bacterial uropathogens. The aim of this study was to determine t...

    Authors: Adane Bitew, Tamirat Molalign and Meseret Chanie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:654
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  15. Accurately identifying individuals who are on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important to determine ART coverage and proportion on ART who are virally suppressed. ART is also included in recent infection test...

    Authors: Helena Huerga, Fisseha Shiferie, Eduard Grebe, Ruggero Giuliani, Jihane Ben Farhat, Gilles Van-Cutsem and Karen Cohen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:653
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  16. The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) focus is on randomized trials of different approaches to mass drug administration (MDA) in endemic countries in Africa. Because th...

    Authors: Ye Shen, Charles H. King, Sue Binder, Feng Zhang, Christopher C. Whalen, W. Evan Secor, Susan P. Montgomery, Pauline N. M. Mwinzi, Annette Olsen, Pascal Magnussen, Safari Kinung’hi, Anna E. Phillips, Rassul Nalá, Josefo Ferro, H. Osvaldo Aurelio, Fiona Fleming…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:652
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  17. Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is an acute infectious disease caused by enteroviruses, and HFMD complicated by cardiopulmonary failure has a high mortality. B type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is widely applied i...

    Authors: AYuan Zhang, Lin Yang, Pengfei Guo, Shaojun Li, Xiaoxiao Ao, Feng Xu and Liping Tan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:651
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  18. For hepatitis B patients who do not meet the treatment criteria recommended by guidelines, therapy decisions depend on hepatic histology. Angiopoietin-like protein 2 (Angptl2) is a mediator of chronic inflamma...

    Authors: Yongqiong Deng, Hong Zhao, Jiyuan Zhou, Linlin Yan and Guiqiang Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:650
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Orbital apex syndrome is a localized type of orbital cellulitis, where mass lesions occur at the apex of the cranial nerves. Although nasal septal abscess is uncommon, the organism most likely to cause nasal s...

    Authors: Ippei Kishimoto, Shogo Shinohara, Tetsuhiro Ueda, Shoichi Tani, Hajime Yoshimura and Yukihiro Imai
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:649
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  20. While a new generation of computational statistics algorithms and availability of data streams raises the potential for recurrently regrounding dynamic models with incoming observations, the effectiveness of s...

    Authors: Anahita Safarishahrbijari, Aydin Teyhouee, Cheryl Waldner, Juxin Liu and Nathaniel D. Osgood
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:648
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  21. Cervical cancer is the predominant cancer among women in Kenya and second most common in women in developing regions. Population-based cytological screening and early treatment reduces morbidity and mortality ...

    Authors: Evalyne Wambui Kanyina, Lucy Kamau and Margaret Muturi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:647
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  22. Neonatal tetanus continues to occur in many resource-limited settings but there are few data regarding long-term neurological outcome from the disease, especially in settings with critical care facilities.

    Authors: Huynh T. Trieu, Nguyen Thi Kim Anh, Huynh Ngoc Thien Vuong, T. T. M. Dao, Nguyen Thi Xuan Hoa, Vo Ngoc Cat Tuong, Pham Tam Dinh, Bridget Wills, Phan Tu Qui, Le Van Tan, Lam Minh Yen, Saraswathy Sabanathan and Catherine Louise Thwaites
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:646
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  23. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is one of the highest reported infectious diseases with several outbreaks across the world. This study aimed at describing epidemiological characteristics, investigating spa...

    Authors: Xinrui Wu, Shixiong Hu, Abuaku Benjamin Kwaku, Qi Li, Kaiwei Luo, Ying Zhou and Hongzhuan Tan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:645
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  24. Bordetella bronchiseptica (B.bronchiseptica) is a frequent cause of respiratory infections in animals but rarely causes serious infection in humans. We present a rare case of B. bronch...

    Authors: Manlio Monti, Danila Diano, Francesco Allegrini, Angelo Delmonte, Valentina Fausti, Paola Cravero, Giulia Marcantognini and Giovanni Luca Frassineti
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:644
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  25. The epidemiology of ICU pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is not fully described, but is urgently needed to support the development of effective inte...

    Authors: Fleur P. Paling, Darren P. R. Troeman, Martin Wolkewitz, Rubana Kalyani, Daniël R. Prins, Susanne Weber, Christine Lammens, Leen Timbermont, Herman Goossens, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar, Frangiscos Sifakis, Marc J. M. Bonten and Jan A. J. W. Kluytmans
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:643
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  26. A global pandemic mortality study found prominent regional mortality variations in 2009 for Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09. Our study attempts to identify factors that explain why the pandemic mortality burden was hig...

    Authors: Kathleen F. Morales, John Paget and Peter Spreeuwenberg
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:642
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Between January and June, 2015, a large typhoid fever outbreak occurred in Kampala, Uganda, with 10,230 suspected cases. During the outbreak, area surgeons reported a surge in cases of typhoid intestinal perfo...

    Authors: Lilian Bulage, Ben Masiira, Alex R. Ario, Joseph K.B Matovu, Peter Nsubuga, Frank Kaharuza, Victoria Nankabirwa, Janell Routh and Bao-Ping Zhu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:641
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Since the recent introduction of GeneXepert for the detection of Tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance mutations in both primary resistance and acquired resistance in Zambia, little has been documented in literatu...

    Authors: Sepiso K. Masenga, Harrison Mubila and Benson M. Hamooya
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:640
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Due to outdoor and residual transmission and insecticide resistance, long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) will be insufficient as stand-alone malaria vector control interve...

    Authors: Robert S. McCann, Henk van den Berg, Peter J. Diggle, Michèle van Vugt, Dianne J. Terlouw, Kamija S. Phiri, Aurelio Di Pasquale, Nicolas Maire, Steven Gowelo, Monicah M. Mburu, Alinune N. Kabaghe, Themba Mzilahowa, Michael G. Chipeta and Willem Takken
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:639
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  30. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S. maltophilia) bacteremia causes significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hosts. However, incidence and risk factors for mortality in S. ...

    Authors: Kaito Harada, Noritaka Sekiya, Tatsuya Konishi, Akihito Nagata, Yuta Yamada, Toshiaki Takezaki, Satoshi Kaito, Shuhei Kurosawa, Masahiro Sakaguchi, Shunichiro Yasuda, Shugo Sasaki, Kosuke Yoshioka, Kyoko Watakabe-Inamoto, Aiko Igarashi, Yuho Najima, Takeshi Hagino…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:638
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  31. The purpose of this study was to determine the shifting trends in bacteriology and antimicrobial resistance of infectious specimens isolated from gastrointestinal (GI) fistula patients over eight years in China.

    Authors: Qinjie Liu, Jianan Ren, Xiuwen Wu, Gefei Wang, Zhiwei Wang, Jie Wu, Jinjian Huang, Tianyu Lu and Jieshou Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:637
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  32. Radiotherapy may represent an alternative treatment modality for cystic echinococcosis (CE), but there is no adequate evidence for it up to now. In this study, we aim to investigate the parasiticidal effects o...

    Authors: Rui Mao, Ge Wu, Hui Wang, Pengfei Lu, Jun Li, Haitao Li, Aimudula Ainiwaer, Yiwei Bai, Mingyang Shu, Yongxing Bao and Wenbao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:636
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  33. Current knowledge of the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Asia, and in particular the Greater Mekong Subregion, is very limited. Only a few studies from Thailand and Vietnam have been reported f...

    Authors: Elaine Cheong, Tamalee Roberts, Sayaphet Rattanavong, Thomas V. Riley, Paul N. Newton and David A. B. Dance
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:635
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  34. Models of infectious disease are increasingly utilising empirical contact data to quantify the number of potentially infectious contacts between age groups. While a growing body of data is being collected on c...

    Authors: Patricia Therese Campbell, Jodie McVernon, Niraj Shrestha, Paula M. Nathan and Nicholas Geard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:634
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  35. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is an uncommon systemic inflammatory condition that can result from infections, autoimmune diseases and malignancies. It is a rarely reported life threatening complicat...

    Authors: Farheen Manji, Evan Wilson, Etienne Mahe, John Gill and John Conly
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:633
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  36. Protective antibody immunity against the influenza A virus wanes in 2–7 years due to antigenic drift of the virus’ surface proteins. The duration of immune protection is highly variable because antigenic evolu...

    Authors: Rutger G. Woolthuis, Jacco Wallinga and Michiel van Boven
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:632
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  37. Infectious disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, and diagnosis of polymicrobial and fungal infections is increasingly challenging in the clinical setting. Conventionally, molecular detection is stil...

    Authors: Lalanika M. Abayasekara, Jennifer Perera, Vishvanath Chandrasekharan, Vaz S. Gnanam, Nisala A. Udunuwara, Dileepa S. Liyanage, Nuwani E. Bulathsinhala, Subhashanie Adikary, Janith V. S. Aluthmuhandiram, Chrishanthi S. Thanaseelan, D. Portia Tharmakulasingam, Tharaga Karunakaran and Janahan Ilango
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:631
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  39. Local understandings of malaria and use of preventive measures-are critical factors in sustained control of malaria. This study assessed caretakers’ knowledge on malaria, use of Long Lasting Insecticide Treate...

    Authors: Zewdie Birhanu, Yemane Ye-ebiyo Yihdego and Delenasaw Yewhalaw
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:629
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Leptospirosis is a re-emerging zoonotic disease caused by pathogenic strains of bacteria belonging to genus Leptospira whose symptoms can range from mild clinical manifestations to a severe life threatening illne...

    Authors: Lalmani Regmi, Kishor Pandey, Meena Malla, Santosh Khanal and Basu Dev Pandey
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:628
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Human strongyloidiasis is a chronic and persistent gastrointestinal disease caused by infection with soil-transmitted helminths of the genus Strongyloides. The aim of this research was to obtain diagnostic preval...

    Authors: Thidarat K. Prasongdee, Pokkamol Laoraksawong, Wanida Kanarkard, Ratthaphol Kraiklang, Kraisit Sathapornworachai, Sureeporn Naonongwai, Porntip Laummaunwai, Oranuch Sanpool, Pewpan M. Intapan and Wanchai Maleewong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:627
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  42. Maternal syphilis is a health threat to both the pregnant women and the children. This study aimed to delineate the longitudinal trend of maternal syphilis and burden of associated adverse pregnant outcomes (A...

    Authors: Yang Li, Liping Zhu, Li Du, Lingxiao Qu, Weili Jiang and Biao Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:626
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Varicella or chickenpox was not a notifiable disease until 2005 in Sri Lanka and only a few studies have been conducted on the epidemiology of VZV infection in the country. The anti­VZV IgG sero-prevalence amo...

    Authors: Saluwadana Walawwe Pavithra Lakmini Daulagala, Faseeha Noordeen, Mohamed Mukthar Fathina Fara, Chathura Rathnayake and Kapila Gunawardana
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:625
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  44. Hepatitis C (HCV) infection causes an asymptomatic chronic hepatitis in most affected individuals, which often remains undetected until cirrhosis and cirrhosis-related complications occur. Screening of high-ri...

    Authors: H. Kileng, L. Bernfort, T. Gutteberg, O.S. Moen, M.G. Kristiansen, E.J. Paulssen, L.K. Berg, J. Florholmen and R. Goll
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:624
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  45. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to document high pediatric tuberculosis (TB) burden, especially among the urban poor. One recommended preventive strategy involves tracking and isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) f...

    Authors: Florence Nafula Okwara, John Paul Oyore, Fred Nabwire Were and Samson Gwer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:623
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  46. Dolutegravir (DTG) is metabolized mainly by uridine diphosphate (UDP)-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1), and partly by cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A). Therefore, we focused on UGT1A1 gene polymorphisms (*6 and *28...

    Authors: Hiroki Yagura, Dai Watanabe, Hiroyuki Kushida, Kosuke Tomishima, Hiroaki Togami, Atsushi Hirano, Masaaki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Hirota, Motoko Ikuma, Daisuke Kasai, Yasuharu Nishida, Munehiro Yoshino, Kunio Yamazaki, Tomoko Uehira and Takuma Shirasaka
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:622
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. A simple and accurate molecular diagnostic method for malaria is urgently needed due to the limitations of conventional microscopic examination. In this study, we demonstrate a new diagnostic procedure for hum...

    Authors: Kazuo Imai, Norihito Tarumoto, Kazuhisa Misawa, Lucky Ronald Runtuwene, Jun Sakai, Kyoko Hayashida, Yuki Eshita, Ryuichiro Maeda, Josef Tuda, Takashi Murakami, Shigefumi Maesaki, Yutaka Suzuki, Junya Yamagishi and Takuya Maeda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:621
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  48. The treatment failure and reinfection rates among syphilis patients are high, and relevant studies in China are limited. The aim of this study was to detect the rates of treatment failure and reinfection after...

    Authors: Zhenzhou Luo, Lin Zhu, Yi Ding, Jun Yuan, Wu Li, Qiuhong Wu, Lishan Tian, Li Zhang, Guomao Zhou, Tao Zhang, Jianping Ma, Zhongwei Chen, Tubao Yang, Tiejian Feng and Min Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:620
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  49. The clinical care of people living with HIV changed fundamentally as a result of the development of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART). HIV infection is now a long-term treatable condition. We report a nat...

    Authors: A. Molloy, H. Curtis, F. Burns and A. Freedman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:619
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Bacterial pathogens are a major cause of childhood community acquired lower respiratory tract infections (CA-LRTIs), and few data described the impact of antimicrobial resistance on children with CA-LRTIs. Thi...

    Authors: Xiaoguang He, Mingyu Xie, Siping Li, Junqin Ye, Qi Peng, Qiang Ma, Xiaomei Lu and Baimao Zhong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:614
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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