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  1. The breast milk bank is a professional organization that collects donor human milk (DHM) for special medical needs by recruiting qualified breast milk donors. Such organizations are also responsible for the di...

    Authors: Ke Liu, Zhiyong Liu, Xufei Chen, Rouzhi Wang and Dan Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:810
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  2. In Sofala province (Mozambique), young people living with HIV (YPLHIV) are estimated at 7% among people aged 15–24 years. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic threatened HIV health services, data on the impact of...

    Authors: Roberto Benoni, Virginia Casigliani, Annachiara Zin, Dara Giannini, Niccolò Ronzoni, Costanza Di Chiara, Kajal Chhaganlal, Daniele Donà, Ada Merolle, Helga Guambe Dos Anjos, Fernando Chenene, Francesca Tognon, Giovanni Putoto and Carlo Giaquinto
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:809
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  3. Immunosuppressive therapies have become a cornerstone of the management of severe COVID-19. The impact of these therapies on secondary infections and antimicrobial prescribing remains unclear. We sought to ass...

    Authors: Peter Crook, Clare Logan, Andrea Mazzella, Rachel M. Wake, Martina Cusinato, Ting Yau, Yee-Ean Ong, Timothy Planche, Marina Basarab and Tihana Bicanic
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:808
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  4. Malaria has not yet been eradicated in Iran, and Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) is the main cause of malaria in the country. This study aimed to investigate and analyze the amount of genetic diversity of Plasmodium ...

    Authors: Sholeh Mansouri, Aliehsan Heidari, Hossein Keshavarz, Parviz Fallah, Amir Bairami and Elaheh Mahmoudi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:807
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  5. Since its beginnings in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic is still a problem of global medical concern. Southern Vietnam is one of the country's vast regions, including 20 provinces and the densely populated metropo...

    Authors: Anna S. Gladkikh, Thang M. Cao, Ekaterina O. Klyuchnikova, Manh H. Dao, Alena A. Sharova, Vasilina D. Melnichenko, Margarita R. Popova, Tatiana V. Arbuzova, Valeriya A. Sbarzaglia, Nadezhda A. Tsyganova, Edward Ramsay and Vladimir G. Dedkov
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:806
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:898

  6. The World Health Organization has proposed that onchocerciasis elimination (interruption) of transmission be verified in 12 (approximately a third) endemic countries by 2030. The strategy to reach this goal is...

    Authors: Kenneth Bentum Otabil, María-Gloria Basáñez, Blessing Ankrah, Emmanuel John Bart-Plange, Theophilus Nti Babae, Prince-Charles Kudzordzi, Vera Achiaa Darko, Abdul Sakibu Raji, Lydia Datsa, Andrews Agyapong Boakye, Michael Tawiah Yeboah, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Henk D. F. H. Schallig and Robert Colebunders
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:805
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  7. Defining patterns of symptoms in long COVID is necessary to advance therapies for this heterogeneous condition. Here we aimed to describe clusters of symptoms in individuals with long COVID and explore the imp...

    Authors: Grace Kenny, Kathleen McCann, Conor O’Brien, Cathal O’Broin, Willard Tinago, Obada Yousif, Tessa O’Gorman, Aoife G. Cotter, John S. Lambert, Eoin R. Feeney, Eoghan de Barra, Corinna Sadlier, Alan Landay, Peter Doran, Stefano Savinelli and Patrick W. G. Mallon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:804
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  8. According to the World Health Organization, foodborne disease is a significant public health issue. We will choose the best model to predict foodborne disease by comparison, to provide evidence for government ...

    Authors: Xiaobing Xian, Liang Wang, Xiaohua Wu, Xiaoqing Tang, Xingpeng Zhai, Rong Yu, Linhan Qu and Mengliang Ye
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:803
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  9. Healthcare utilization is typically adversely affected when the treatment is expensive and requires multiple visits. We examined the determinants of healthcare-seeking for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection whi...

    Authors: Phuong Nguyen Thi Ngoc, Ngoc Nghiem My, Sabrina Rasheed, Fatema Khatun, Jennifer Van Nuil, Dung Nguyen Thanh, Hung Le Mạnh and Motiur Rahman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:802
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  10. Malaria is a significant global health concern, with a majority of cases in Sub-Saharan African nations. Numerous antimalarial drugs have been developed to counter the rampant prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum ...

    Authors: Cheikh Cambel Dieng, Victoria Morrison, Dickson Donu, Liwang Cui, Linda Amoah, Yaw Afrane and Eugenia Lo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:801
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  11. Authors: Yee Ling Lau
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:755
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:697

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2021 21:1162

  12. Post-COVID-19-Syndrome (PCS) frequently occurs after an infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, the understanding of causative mechanisms is still limited. Aim of ...

    Authors: Alexandra Domnica Hoeggerl, Verena Nunhofer, Wanda Lauth, Natalie Badstuber, Nina Held, Georg Zimmermann, Christoph Grabmer, Lisa Weidner, Christof Jungbauer, Nadja Lindlbauer, Heidrun Neureiter, Tuulia Ortner, Maria Flamm, Jürgen Osterbrink, Eva Rohde and Sandra Laner-Plamberger
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:800
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  13. In Turku, Finland, we introduced a home oxygen treatment and app-based monitoring program for hospitalized COVID-19 patients to facilitate an early discharge during the Omicron wave. In this case series we exp...

    Authors: Janne Hänninen, Ulla Anttalainen, Maritta Kilpeläinen, Ulla Hohenthal, Niklas Broman, Jenni Palmén, Jarmo Oksi and Thijs Feuth
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:799
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  14. Antimicrobial resistance is one of the common global public health problems. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance is multifactorial, and tackling its development is challenging. Consequently, infections c...

    Authors: Belay Tafa Regassa, Wagi Tosisa, Daniel Eshetu, Degefu Beyene, Abera Abdeta, Abebe Aseffa Negeri, Dejenie Shiferaw Teklu, Geremew Tasew, Begna Tulu and Tadesse Awoke
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:798
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:40

  15. Persons with non-O and Rh-positive blood types are purported to be more susceptible to infection, including SARS-CoV-2, but there remains uncertainty about the degree to which this is so for both non-viral and...

    Authors: Emily Ana Butler, Rushil Parikh, Sonia M. Grandi, Joel G. Ray and Eyal Cohen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:797
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  16. This study investigated the clinical and antimicrobial characteristics of Acinetobacter spp. bloodstream infection (BSI) in hematological patients. Risk factors for 30-day mortality and carbapenem-resistant Acine...

    Authors: Jia Li, Xiaomeng Feng, Jieru Wang, Qingsong Lin, Yizhou Zheng, Fengkui Zhang, Yingchang Mi, Xiaofan Zhu, Erlie Jiang, Zhijian Xiao, Jianxiang Wang and Sizhou Feng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:796
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  17. A surge of more than 80 million Omicron variant infected cases was reported in China less than a month after the "zero COVID" strategy ended on December 7, 2022. In this circumstance, whether people living wit...

    Authors: Yuting Tan, Songjie Wu, Wei Guo, Jie Liu, Fangzhao Ming, Shi Zou, Weiming Tang, Ke Liang and Junjun Yang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:795
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  18. To investigate the correlation between colorectal polyps (CRP) and Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection, and the correlation between CRP and the expression of phosphorylated ribosomal protein S6 kinase (p-S6...

    Authors: Zeming Jia and Xiaoping Wan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:794
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  19. Men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) have a disproportionately higher risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection than other groups. Oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is ...

    Authors: Nathalia Sernizon Guimarães, Laio Magno, Gabriel Marinho Bahia Monteiro, Izabel Cristina Neves Ramos, Caroline Tianeze de Castro, Thais Regis Aranha-Rossi, Marcos Pereira and Inês Dourado
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:793
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  22. Pro–b-type natriuretic peptide (Pro-BNP) is an inflammatory marker that indicates cardiac damage and inflammation. The elevation of this marker in COVID-19 patients can be used as a predictive factor in the pr...

    Authors: Mahdi Mazandarani, Rahmat Sharififar, Narges Lashkarbolouk and Somayeh Ghorbani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:790
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  23. Dermatophytes are the most common causative pathogens of mycoses worldwide and usually cause superficial infections. However, they can enter deep into the dermis lead to invasive dermatophytosis such as deeper...

    Authors: Henan Si, Yang Li, Zhiyang Huang, Yan Cui and Shanshan Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:789
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  24. Leptospirosis is an infectious disease caused by pathogenic Leptospira spp., which could result in severe illnesses. Indirect contact with these pathogens is more common. Individuals could contract this disease t...

    Authors: Jianyu Ji, Wei Wang, Shulin Xiang, Xiutian Wei, Guangbao Pang, Huirong Shi, Jinda Dong and Jing Pang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:788
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  25. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was reported to be a risk factor of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection. The application of bundled skin antiseptic preparation before CIED implantation decrease...

    Authors: Po-Jui Wu, Huang-Chung Chen, Yen-Nan Fang, Shaur-Zheng Chong, Yung-Lung Chen and Mien-Cheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:787
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  26. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a common complication in patients with cirrhosis. The diagnosis of SBP is still mostly based on ascites cultures and absolute ascites polymorphonuclear (PMN) cell cou...

    Authors: Tao Du, Qing-ping Li, Gui-xiang Jiang, Hui-yuan Tan, Jiao-hua Wu, Shan-yu Qin, Bing Yu, Hai-xing Jiang and Wei Luo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:786
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  27. The organ most commonly invaded in echinococcosis is the liver; the lungs, brain, kidneys, heart, and spleen are rarely invaded, and multi-organ involvement in echinococcosis is even rarer. No studies have rep...

    Authors: Qirui Hu, Simin Chen, Yichen Fan, Qian Lu, Manjun Deng and Haining Fan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:785
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  28. Young students infected with HIV have become a significant public health issue in China, this study aimed to understand the factors influencing the choice of having multiple sexual partners among male college ...

    Authors: Zhongrong Yang, Weiyong Chen, Qiaoqin Ma, Wanjun Chen, Xin Zhou, Hui Wang and Tingting Jiang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:784
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  29. To compare the triage performance of HPV viral loads reflected by cycle threshold values (CtV) from two different HPV testing assays: the PCR based Cobas4800 and the isothermal amplification based AmpFire assay.

    Authors: Yi Zhang, Wei Zhang, Hui Du, Xinfeng Qu, Yun Chen, Jianliu Wang and Ruifang Wu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:783
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  30. Parasitological investigation of bone marrow, splenic or lymph node aspirations is the gold standard for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). However, this invasive test requires skilled clinical and ...

    Authors: Tamalee Roberts, Suzanne H. Keddie, Sayaphet Rattanavong, Santiago Rayment Gomez, John Bradley, Ruth H. Keogh, Oliver Bärenbold, Jane Falconer, Petra F. Mens, Heidi Hopkins and Elizabeth A. Ashley
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:782
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  31. Ciswomen constitute a disproportionately low percentage of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention (PrEP) users compared to men. Despite PrEP’s effectiveness, women are 5.25 times less likely to take PrEP ...

    Authors: Amy K. Johnson, Samantha Devlin, Sadia Haider, Cassandra Oehler, Juan Rivera, Isa Alvarez and Jessica Ridgway
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:781
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  32. The efficacy of antiviral drugs that neutralize antibody drugs and fight against SARS-COV-2 is reported to be attenuated by genetic mutations of the virus in vitro. When B-cell immunocompromised patients are i...

    Authors: Haruka Shimazu, Daiki Wada, Shuhei Maruyama, Akira Inoue, Masami Kashihara, Tomoyuki Yoshihara, Fukuki Saito, Kazuhisa Yoshiya, Yasushi Nakamori and Yasuyuki Kuwagata
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:780
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  33. Infection prevention measures are the gold standard for preventing the spread of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruptions in infection prevention measures, and this has i...

    Authors: Rehab Ismaeil, Abdul Rahman Fata Nahas, Norhidayah Binti Kamarudin, Usman Abubakar, Mohamad Basri Mat-Nor and Mohamad Haniki Nik Mohamed
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:779
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  35. Patients presenting to the emergency department with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are characterized by advanced age, comorbidities, critical illness and less-than-typical symptoms, posing a diagnostic ch...

    Authors: Xueqin Xiao, Yiyu Hong, Shuo Wang, Mingliu Ma and Zhaozhong Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:777
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  36. Clinical evidence suggests that pregnant women are more vulnerable to COVID-19, since they are at increased risk for disease progression and for obstetric complications, such as premature labor, miscarriage, p...

    Authors: Francesco Di Gennaro, Giacomo Guido, Luisa Frallonardo, Francesco Vladimiro Segala, Rosalba De Nola, Gianluca Raffaello Damiani, Elda De Vita, Valentina Totaro, Mario Barbagallo, Emanuele Nicastri, Antonella Vimercati, Ettore Cicinelli, Giuseppina Liuzzi, Nicola Veronese and Annalisa Saracino
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:776
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  37. The investigation of the presence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) within Enterobacteriaceae in both fecal carriers and patients is an essential matter. Furthermore, the assessment of distinct character...

    Authors: Shadi Aghamohammad and Fereshteh Shahcheraghi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:775
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  38. While many studies on the determinants of post-COVID-19 conditions (PCC) have been conducted, little is known about the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 variants and PCC. This study aimed to assess the associat...

    Authors: Huyen Nguyen Thi Khanh, Laura Cornelissen, Diego Castanares-Zapatero, Robby De Pauw, Dieter Van Cauteren, Stefaan Demarest, Sabine Drieskens, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Karin De Ridder, Rana Charafeddine and Pierre Smith
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:774
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  39. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is an essential cause of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma that is increasing in incidence worldwide. However, little is known about the epidemiology of oral HPV infect...

    Authors: Shuting Yu, Yingying Zhu, Huijing He, Yaoda Hu, Xiaoli Zhu, Wenwen Diao, Shuguang Li, Guangliang Shan and Xingming Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:773
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  40. As an opportunistic pathogen, Nocardia often occurring in the immunocompromised hosts. As the unspecifc clinical presentation and low identification rate of the culture dependent methods, Nocardia infection may b...

    Authors: Yingjian Liang, Minmin Lin, Lidi Qiu, Meizhu Chen, Cuiyan Tan, Changli Tu, Xiaobin Zheng and Jing Liu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:772
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  41. Pleural effusion (PE) is a common clinical feature that presents a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. In this retrospective study, we aimed to assess the biomarkers, ratios, and multiple indicators in serum ...

    Authors: Guo Fei, Mo Yijun, Jin Weijiang, Chen Huimin and Liu Fang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:771
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  42. Previous studies have demonstrated an association between diabetes mellitus (DM) and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). This study was conducted to update the current understanding of the association betwee...

    Authors: Guozhong Zhou, Xin Guo, Shunli Cai, Yu Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Rong Long, Yingchen Zhou, Hanse Li, Nan Chen and Chao Song
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:770
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  43. Nontuberculous mycobacteria disease is a common invasive infectious disease in patients with HIV. However, Mycobacterium thermoresistibile association with lymphadenectasis is unusual in AIDS patients.

    Authors: Lele Yu, Hu Wan, Jinchuan Shi, Binhai Zhang and Mengyan Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:769
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  44. Given the widespread prevalence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), oral and neck examinations tend to be avoided in patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. This might delay the diagnosis of con...

    Authors: Tomotaka Miura, Hirotsugu Fukuda, Hiroshi Kawada, Tetsuro Kaga, Masayuki Matsuo, Tsutomu Sakai, Shozo Yoshida, Hideshi Okada, Shinji Ogura and Nobuyuki Tetsuka
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:768
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  45. Increasing life expectancy and persistently low fertility levels have led to old population age structures in most high-income countries, and population ageing is expected to continue or even accelerate in the...

    Authors: Signe Møgelmose, Karel Neels, Philippe Beutels and Niel Hens
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:767
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  46. In recent years, observational studies have been conducted to investigate the potential impact of vitamins on sepsis. However, many of these studies have produced inconsistent results. Our Mendelian randomizat...

    Authors: Chen Lou, Zhizhen Meng, Yiyi Shi, Rui Zheng, Jingye Pan and Songzan Qian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:766
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  47. Neutropenia is the most important cause of life-threatening invasive fungal infections (IFIs). Here, we studied the frequency and antifungal susceptibility profiles of Candida species that colonized or caused inf...

    Authors: Parviz Hassanpour, Adel Spotin, Hamid Morovati, Leili Aghebati-Maleki, Mortaza Raeisi, Mohammad Ahangarzadeh Rezaee, Alka Hasani, Ali Aghebati-Maleki, Hossein Abdollahzadeh and Sanam Nami
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:765
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:196

  48. Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is endemic in Southern Mauritania where recurrent outbreaks have been constantly observed since the 1980’s. The present study is the first to assess CCHFV antibodies and ...

    Authors: Abdellahi El Ghassem, Andrea Apolloni, Laurence Vial, Romain Bouvier, Celia Bernard, Mariem Seyidna Khayar, Mariem Cheikh Ahmed, Hugues Fausther-Bovendo, Abdallahi Diambar Beyit, Barry Yahya, Mohamed Bezeid Ould El Mamy, Ahmed Elbara, Mohamed Abdellahi Bollahi, Catherine Cêtre-Sossah and Ali Ould Mohamed Salem Boukhary
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:764
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  49. Common air pollutants such as ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and particulate matter play significant roles as influential factors in influenza-like illness (ILI). However, evidence rega...

    Authors: Jiao Yang, Ting Zhang, Liuyang Yang, Xuan Han, Xingxing Zhang, Qing Wang, Luzhao Feng and Weizhong Yang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:763
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  50. Globally, there were an estimated 7.1 million new syphilis infections in 2020, with more than 30% of these new infections reported in African countries such as Sierra Leone. Despite this, there is no HIV-speci...

    Authors: Darlinda F. Jiba, Sulaiman Lakoh, Shuchao Wang, Wei Sun, Umu Barrie, Matilda N. Kamara, Abdulai Tejan Jalloh, Francis K. Tamba, George A. Yendewa, Jin-Wen Song and Guang Yang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:762
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