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  1. The endgame for polio eradication involves coordinated global cessation of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) with cessation of serotype 2 OPV (OPV2 cessation) implemented in late April and early May 2016 and cessa...

    Authors: Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Lee M. Hampton and Kimberly M. Thompson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:231
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  2. The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was established in 2008 to answer strategic questions about schistosomiasis control. For programme managers, a high-priority quest...

    Authors: Amara E. Ezeamama, Chun-La He, Ye Shen, Xiao-Ping Yin, Sue C. Binder, Carl H. Campbell Jr., Stephen Rathbun, Christopher C. Whalen, Eliézer K. N’Goran, Jürg Utzinger, Annette Olsen, Pascal Magnussen, Safari Kinung’hi, Alan Fenwick, Anna Phillips, Josefo Ferro…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:229
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  3. This study was designed to determine the Human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence and its distribution of genotypes in various regions of Yunnan Province, China.

    Authors: Zulqarnain Baloch, Yuanyue Li, Tao Yuan, Yue Feng, Yanqing Liu, Wenlin Tai, Li Liu, Binghui Wang, A-mei Zhang, Xiaomei Wu and Xueshan Xia
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:228
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  4. Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) may experience higher mortality of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) than patients without CHF due to insufficient cardiovascular responses during systemic infection...

    Authors: Jesper Smit, Kasper Adelborg, Reimar Wernich Thomsen, Mette Søgaard and Henrik Carl Schønheyder
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:227
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  5. There is a marked variation in both antibiotic prescribing practice and urine sampling rates for diagnostic microbiology across general practices in England. To help understand factors driving this variation, ...

    Authors: Dean Ironmonger, Obaghe Edeghere, Savita Gossain and Peter M. Hawkey
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:226
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  6. Cervical cancer is the most common female cancer in Rwanda that, in 2011, became the first African country to implement a national vaccination programme against human papillomavirus (HPV).

    Authors: Fidele Ngabo, Silvia Franceschi, Iacopo Baussano, M. Chantal Umulisa, Peter J. F. Snijders, Anne M. Uyterlinde, Fulvio Lazzarato, Vanessa Tenet, Maurice Gatera, Agnes Binagwaho and Gary M. Clifford
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:225
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  7. Prior studies suggested that vancomycin may be inferior to β-lactams for the empiric treatment of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) bacteremia. We assessed whether empiric therapy with β-lactams compared t...

    Authors: Davie Wong, Titus Wong, Marc Romney and Victor Leung
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:224
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:568

  8. Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is responsible for significant mortality and morbidity worldwide. There are however few longitudinal studies on the changes in case fatality rate of IPD in recent years. We ...

    Authors: Åsa Askim, Arne Mehl, Julie Paulsen, Andrew T. DeWan, Didrik F. Vestrheim, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Jan Kristian Damås and Erik Solligård
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:223
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  9. Worldwide, there is a wealth of literature examining patient-level risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia. At the hospital-level it is generally accepted that MRSA bactera...

    Authors: Cheryl L. Gibbons, Bram A. D. van Bunnik, Oliver Blatchford, Chris Robertson, Thibaud Porphyre, Laura Imrie, Julie Wilson, J. Ross Fitzgerald, Mark E. J. Woolhouse and Margo E. Chase-Topping
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:222
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  10. Cystoisosporiasis is an opportunistic infection seen more commonly in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Although uncommon, Cystoisospora infection can occur in immunocompetent individuals but tend...

    Authors: Sze-Ann Woon, Rongchang Yang, Una Ryan, Peter Boan and David Prentice
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:221
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  11. The aim of this study was to assess the burden of respiratory disease, considering the influenza A pandemic season (H1N1pdm09), within the Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity, and f...

    Authors: L. C. Pfitscher, J. G. Cecatti, R. C. Pacagnella, S. M. Haddad, M. A. Parpinelli, J. P. Souza, S. M. Quintana, F. G. Surita, M. H. Sousa and M. L. Costa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:220
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  12. In epidemic regions of the world, brucellosis is a reemerging zoonosis with minimal mortality but is a serious public hygiene problem. Currently, there are various methods for brucellosis diagnosis, however fe...

    Authors: Dehui Yin, Li Li, Xiuling Song, Han Li, Juan Wang, Wen Ju, Xiaofeng Qu, Dandan Song, Yushen Liu, Xiangjun Meng, Hongqian Cao, Weiyi Song, Rizeng Meng, Jinhua Liu, Juan Li and Kun Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:219
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  13. In order to better understand respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) epidemiology and burden in tropical Africa, optimal case definitions for detection of RSV cases need to be identified.

    Authors: Bryan O. Nyawanda, Joshua A. Mott, Henry N. Njuguna, Lilian Mayieka, Sammy Khagayi, Reuben Onkoba, Caroline Makokha, Nancy A. Otieno, Godfrey M. Bigogo, Mark A. Katz, Daniel R. Feikin and Jennifer R. Verani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:218
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  14. The effectiveness of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets and Indoor Residual Spraying in malaria vector control is threatened by vector resistance to insecticides. Knowledge of mosquito habitats and patterns of ins...

    Authors: Josiane Etang, Arthur Mbida Mbida, Patrick Ntonga Akono, Jerome Binyang, Carole Else Eboumbou Moukoko, Leopold Gustave Lehman, Parfait Awono-Ambene, Abdou Talipouo, Wolfgang Ekoko Eyisab, Darus Tagne, Romeo Tchoffo, Lucien Manga and Remy Mimpfoundi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:217
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  15. Increasing pneumococcal resistance to commonly used antibiotics and multidrug resistance is a serious public health concern. Data on distribution of resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPn) strains among children...

    Authors: Indrė Stacevičienė, Sigita Petraitienė, Daiva Vaičiūnienė, Tomas Alasevičius, Jūratė Kirslienė and Vytautas Usonis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:216
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  16. Modelling studies suggest that workplaces may be important sites of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in high burden countries today. Contemporary data on tuberculosis by occupation from these settings are ...

    Authors: Charlotte Jackson, Joanna H. Mostowy, Helen R. Stagg, Ibrahim Abubakar, Nick Andrews and Tom A. Yates
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:215
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  17. In Mozambique, there is limited data regarding the monitoring of Tuberculosis (TB) treatment results and determinants of adverse outcomes under routine surveillance conditions. The objectives of this study wer...

    Authors: Alberto L. García-Basteiro, Durval Respeito, Orvalho J. Augusto, Elisa López-Varela, Charfudin Sacoor, Victor G. Sequera, Aina Casellas, Quique Bassat, Ivan Manhiça, Eusebio Macete, Frank Cobelens and Pedro L. Alonso
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:214
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:603

  18. Migrant travellers who return to their country of origin to visit family and friends (VFR) are less likely to seek travel-related medical care and are less likely to adhere to recommended medications and trave...

    Authors: Holly Seale, Rajneesh Kaur, Abela Mahimbo, C. Raina MacIntyre, Nicholas Zwar, Mitchell Smith, Heather Worth and Anita E Heywood
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:213
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  19. The purpose of this study is to explore the correlations of interleukin 36 (IL-36) and Soluble B7-H3 (sB7-H3) levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) with clinical characteristics and laboratory findings.

    Authors: Zhengrong Chen, Xin Zhao, Xinxing Zhang, Guangbo Zhang, Huiming Sun, Wujun Jiang, Yuqing Wang, Canhong Zhu, Wei Ji and Yongdong Yan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:212
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  20. Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a widespread infectious disease in humans. Urine culture, a huge workload in the microbiology laboratory, is still the standard diagnostic test for UTI, but most of the culture...

    Authors: Bijan Moshaver, Foppie de Boer, Heidi van Egmond-Kreileman, Ellen Kramer, Coen Stegeman and Paul Groeneveld
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:211
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  21. Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) is a neglected disease that has been restricted to East Africa for many decades. Several cases in refugees from the Horn of Africa have been recently diagnosed in four Europe...

    Authors: Michael Osthoff, Adrian Schibli, Davide Fadini, Pietro Lardelli and Daniel Goldenberger
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:210
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  22. Paracoccidioidomycosis, a chronic granulomatous fungal disease caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis yeast cells affects mainly rural workers, albeit recently cases in immunosuppressed individuals has been repo...

    Authors: Rosaria Di Gangi, Thiago Alves da Costa, Rodolfo Thomé, Gabriela Peron, Eva Burger and Liana Verinaud
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:209
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  23. Antibiotic overuse is driving the emergence of antibiotic resistance worldwide. Good data on prescribing behaviours of healthcare providers are needed to support antimicrobial stewardship initiatives. This stu...

    Authors: Norazida Ab Rahman, Cheong Lieng Teng and Sheamini Sivasampu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:208
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  24. Mycobacterium abscessus complex (MABC) is the most drug resistant of the mycobacterial pathogens. M. abscessus subsp. abscessus encodes a functional erythromycin ribosomal methylase ge...

    Authors: Su-Young Kim, Sung Jae Shin, Byeong-Ho Jeong and Won-Jung Koh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:207
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  25. The incidence of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is extremely high, and has constituted a huge disease burden throughout Beijing in recent years. This study aimed to determine the spatiotemporal distribut...

    Authors: Haikun Qian, Da Huo, Xiaoli Wang, Lei Jia, Xitai Li, Jie Li, Zhiyong Gao, Baiwei Liu, Yi Tian, Xiaona Wu and Quanyi Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:206
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  26. Pyrazinamide (PZA) plays an essential part in the shortened six-month tuberculosis (TB) treatment course due to its activity against slow-growing and non-replicating organisms. We tested whether PZA preferenti...

    Authors: Steven T. Pullan, Jon C. Allnutt, Rebecca Devine, Kim A. Hatch, Rose E. Jeeves, Charlotte L. Hendon-Dunn, Philip D. Marsh and Joanna Bacon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:205
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  27. Control of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is an important step towards tuberculosis elimination. Preventive treatment will prevent the development of disease in most cases diagnosed with LTBI. However, l...

    Authors: Andreas Sandgren, Marije Vonk Noordegraaf-Schouten, Femke van Kessel, Anke Stuurman, Anouk Oordt-Speets and Marieke J. van der Werf
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:204
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  28. The impact of sink location on hand washing compliance after contact with patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is poorly understood. The aim of this study is to determine the location of hand wash ...

    Authors: Alexander Deyneko, Fernanda Cordeiro, Laurie Berlin, Debby Ben-David, Silvana Perna and Yves Longtin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:203
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  29. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment uptake globally is low. A barrier to treatment is the necessity to attend specialists, usually in a tertiary hospital. We investigate the literature to assess the effect of pr...

    Authors: Amanda J. Wade, Vanessa Veronese, Margaret E. Hellard and Joseph S. Doyle
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:202
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  30. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have been commercialized in order to help physicians in dengue diagnosis. Until recently, only blood samples were used for those tests but it has been shown in several studies tha...

    Authors: Anne-Claire Andries, Veasna Duong, Sivuth Ong, Sopheaktra Ros, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Paul Horwood, Philippe Dussart and Philippe Buchy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:201
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  31. Interleukin-33 (IL-33) and ST2 have been demonstrated to be associated with liver damage. However, their potential value in hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains unknown. This study was designed to investi...

    Authors: Shu-Ling Huan, Ji-Guang Zhao, Zhen-Li Wang, Shuai Gao and Kai Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:200
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  32. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major human pathogen associated with nosocomial and community infections. Panton Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is considered one of the important virulence fac...

    Authors: Dharm R. Bhatta, Lina M. Cavaco, Gopal Nath, Kush Kumar, Abhishek Gaur, Shishir Gokhale and Dwij R. Bhatta
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:199
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  33. Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus (CFF) is an important pathogen for both cattle and humans. We performed a systematic epidemiological and clinical study of patients and evaluated the genetic relatedness of 17...

    Authors: Robert Escher, Colette Brunner, Niklaus von Steiger, Isabelle Brodard, Sara Droz, Carlos Abril and Peter Kuhnert
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:198
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  34. In our study, we have hypothesized that proviral DNA may show the history of mutations that emerged at previous failures to a Raltegravir containing regimen, in patients who are currently undetectable and cand...

    Authors: Jose Ángel Fernández-Caballero, Natalia Chueca, Marta Álvarez, María Dolores Mérida, Josefa López, José Antonio Sánchez, David Vinuesa, María Ángeles Martínez, José Hernández and Federico García
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:197
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  35. Campylobacter is a leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis, but sensitive diagnostic methods such as culture are expensive and often not available in resource limited settings. Ther...

    Authors: Lorena Porte, Carmen Varela, Thomas Haecker, Sara Morales and Thomas Weitzel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:196
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  36. The incidence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolation from humans is increasing worldwide. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EW&NI) the reported rate of NTM more than doubled between 1996 and 200...

    Authors: Neeraj M. Shah, Jennifer A. Davidson, Laura F. Anderson, Maeve K. Lalor, Jusang Kim, H. Lucy Thomas, Marc Lipman and Ibrahim Abubakar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:195
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  37. Antibiotic resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii have been responsible for an increasing number of nosocomial infections including bacteremia and ventilator-associated pneumonia. In this study, we analyzed...

    Authors: Wayne A. Warner, Shan N. Kuang, Rina Hernandez, Melissa C. Chong, Peter J. Ewing, Jen Fleischer, Jia Meng, Sheena Chu, Dawn Terashita, L’Tanya English, Wangxue Chen and H. Howard Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:194
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  38. Globally it is estimated that 480 000 people developed multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2014 and 190 000 people died from the disease. Successful treatment outcomes are achieved in only 50 % of pat...

    Authors: Rebecca C. Harris, Louis Grandjean, Laura J. Martin, Alexander J. P. Miller, Joseph-Egre N. Nkang, Victoria Allen, Mishal S. Khan, Katherine Fielding and David A. J. Moore
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:193
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  39. The present study aimed to identify factors affecting vaccination against influenza among health professionals.

    Authors: Süheyl Asma, Hülya Akan, Yücel Uysal, A. Gürhan Poçan, Mustafa Haki Sucaklı, Erhan Yengil, Çiğdem Gereklioğlu, Aslı Korur, İbrahim Başhan, A. Ferit Erdogan, A. Kürşat Özşahin and Altuğ Kut
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:192
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  40. Chronic Chagas disease presents different clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic (namely indeterminate) to severe cardiac and/or digestive. Previous results have shown that the immune response plays...

    Authors: Ana Thereza Chaves, Juliana de Assis Silva Gomes Estanislau, Jacqueline Araújo Fiuza, Andréa Teixeira Carvalho, Karine Silvestre Ferreira, Rafaelle Christine Gomes Fares, Pedro Henrique Gazzinelli Guimarães, Elaine Maria de Souza Fagundes, Maria José Morato, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara, Manoel Otávio da Costa Rocha and Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:191
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  41. After the global implementation of national immunization programs for prevention of measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), the prevalences of protective antibodies to these viruses are high in general population. ...

    Authors: Romanee Chaiwarith, Jutarat Praparattanapan, Khanuengnit Nuket, Wilai Kotarathitithum and Khuanchai Supparatpinyo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:190
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  42. Multiple prevention interventions, including early antiretroviral therapy initiation, may reduce HIV incidence in hyperendemic settings. Our aim was to predict the short-term impact of various single and combi...

    Authors: Stéphanie Blaizot, David Maman, Benjamin Riche, Irene Mukui, Beatrice Kirubi, René Ecochard and Jean-François Etard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:189
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  44. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae commonly cause infections worldwide. BlaCTX-M-15 has been commonly detected in hospital isolates in Mwanza, Tanzania. Little is known regarding...

    Authors: Stephen E. Mshana, Linda Falgenhauer, Mariam M. Mirambo, Martha F. Mushi, Nyambura Moremi, Rechel Julius, Jeremiah Seni, Can Imirzalioglu, Mecky Matee and Trinad Chakraborty
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:187
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  45. Rio de Janeiro in Brazil will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. About 400,000 non-immune foreign tourists are expected to attend the games. As Brazil is the country with the highest number of dengue cases...

    Authors: Raphael Ximenes, Marcos Amaku, Luis Fernandez Lopez, Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho, Marcelo Nascimento Burattini, David Greenhalgh, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Claudio José Struchiner and Eduardo Massad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:186
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  46. The isolation of Propionibacterium acnes in blood cultures is often considered a contaminant. On rare occasions, P. acnes can cause severe infections, including endocarditis and intravascular prosthesis-associate...

    Authors: T. Herren, M. A. Middendorp and R. Zbinden
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:185
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  47. Little is known about the management of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers in the German outpatient sector and about the impact of MRSA on their daily life. Reimbursement for MRSA related...

    Authors: Heike Raupach-Rosin, Nicole Rübsamen, Sebastian Szkopek, Oliver Schmalz, André Karch, Rafael Mikolajczyk and Stefanie Castell
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:184
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  48. In spite of increasing reports of dengue and chikungunya activity in Tanzania, limited research has been done to document the general epidemiology of dengue and chikungunya in the country. This study aimed at ...

    Authors: Debora C. Kajeguka, Robert D. Kaaya, Steven Mwakalinga, Rogathe Ndossi, Arnold Ndaro, Jaffu O. Chilongola, Franklin W. Mosha, Karin L. Schiøler, Reginald A. Kavishe and Michael Alifrangis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:183
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  49. People with HIV are living longer with the health-related consequences of HIV, multi-morbidity, and aging. Exercise is a key strategy that may improve or sustain health for people living with HIV. Our aim was ...

    Authors: Kelly K. O’Brien, Anne-Marie Tynan, Stephanie A. Nixon and Richard H. Glazier
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:182
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