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  1. Awake prone positioning has been widely used in non-intubated patients with acute hypoxic respiratory failure (AHRF) due to COVID-19, but the evidence is mostly from observational studies and low-quality rando...

    Authors: Wen Cao, Nannan He, Yannian Luo and Zhiming Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:415
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  2. Systematic reviews (SR) and meta-analyses (MA) have become important in addressing specific questions of clinical importance and presenting evidence from an in-depth analysis of literature and aiding clinical ...

    Authors: Chester Kalinda and Elvis Temfack
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:412
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  3. Historically, malaria has been the predominant cause of acute febrile illness (AFI) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, during the last two decades, malaria incidence has declined due to concerted public health co...

    Authors: Brian K. Kigozi, Grishma A. Kharod, Henry Bukenya, Sean V. Shadomy, Dana L. Haberling, Robyn A. Stoddard, Renee L. Galloway, Phionah Tushabe, Annet Nankya, Thomas Nsibambi, Edward Katongole Mbidde, Julius J. Lutwama, Jamie L. Perniciaro, William L. Nicholson, William A. Bower, Josephine Bwogi…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:411
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  4. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were adopted in Belgium in order to decrease social interactions between people and as such decrease viral transmission of SARS-CoV-2. With the aim to better evaluate th...

    Authors: Adrien Lajot, James Wambua, Pietro Coletti, Nicolas Franco, Ruben Brondeel, Christel Faes and Niel Hens
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:410
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  5. The number of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) cases is increasing in immunocompromised patients without human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV), causing serious morbidity with high mortality. Trimethoprim/su...

    Authors: Hui Qi, Danjiang Dong, Ning Liu, Ying Xu, Mengzhi Qi and Qin Gu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:409
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  6. Non-conversion of sputum smear prolongs the infectivity of pulmonary tuberculosis patients and has been associated with unfavorable tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes. Nevertheless, there is a limited eviden...

    Authors: Gaetan Gatete, Kato J Njunwa, Patrick Migambi, Joseph Ntaganira and Albert Ndagijimana
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:408
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  7. Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis can occur in both previously healthy and immunocompromised hosts. Here, we describe a 55 year-old HIV-negative male with no known prior medical problems, who presented with thr...

    Authors: Mohammad El-Atoum, Jessica C. Hargarten, Yoon-Dong Park, Kenneth Ssebambulidde, Li Ding, Prashant Chittiboina, Dima A. Hammoud, Seher H. Anjum, Seth R. Glassman, Shehzad Merchant, Peter R. Williamson and John C. Hu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:407
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  8. Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most serious infectious diseases worldwide. China has the second highest TB burden globally, but existing studies have mostly neglected the post-tuberculosis (post-TB) dise...

    Authors: Caimei Jing, Huiqiu Zheng, Xuemei Wang, Yanling Wang, Yifan Zhao, Sijia Liu, Jing Zhao and Qianqian Du
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:406
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  9. One of the key obstacles to malaria elimination is largely attributed to Plasmodium vivax’s ability to form resilient hypnozoites in the host liver that cause relapsing infections. As a result, interruption of P....

    Authors: Laurent Dembele, Ousmaila Diakite, Fanta Sogore, Soriya Kedir, Fatalmoudou Tandina, Mohamed Maiga, Andargie Abate, Lemu Golassa and Abdoulaye A. Djimde
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:405
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  10. Sanitation or sanitary workers are exposed to hepatitis virus infections because of filthy and dangerous working conditions. The current global systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to estimate the pooled ...

    Authors: Sina Tolera, Dechasa Adare Mengistu, Fekade Ketema Alemu, Abraham Geremew, Yohannes Mulugeta, Gebisa Dirirsa, Liku Muche Temesgen, Wegene Diriba, Gutema Mulatu, Tamagnu Sintie, Kefelegn Bayu and Ashenafi Berhanu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:404
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  11. Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) differs in its spatio-temporal distribution in Vietnam with the highest incidence seen during the summer months in the northern provinces. AES has multiple aetiologies, and th...

    Authors: Hannah E. Brindle, Leonardo S. Bastos, Robert Christley, Lucie Contamin, Le Hai Dang, Dang Duc Anh, Neil French, Michael Griffiths, Behzad Nadjm, H. Rogier van Doorn, Pham Quang Thai, Tran Nhu Duong and Marc Choisy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:403
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  12. To assess the levels of adherence among pregnant women to the basic COVID-19 preventive measures, and to analyze the effect of risk perception and sociodemographic and clinical factors on adherence.

    Authors: Ranya A. Ghamri and Kholoud A. Ghamri
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:402
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  14. The aim of this study was to define a set of urinary tract infections (UTIs)-specific quality indicators for appropriate prescribing in children and evaluate clinical practices in a district general hospital i...

    Authors: Konstantinos Vazouras, Charlotte Jackson, Laura Folgori, Anastasia Anastasiou-Katsiardani, Yingfen Hsia and Romain Basmaci
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:400
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  15. Staphylococcus aureus is among the top three causative agents of nosocomial infection in Ethiopia. The majority of studies in Ethiopia have focused on the epidemiology of S. aureus in hospital settings, with limi...

    Authors: Rajiha Abubeker. Ibrahim, Zelalem Mekuria, Shu-Hua Wang, Jose R. Mediavilla, Barry Kreiswirth, Eyasu T. Seyoum, Solomon H. Mariam, Wondwossen A. Gebreyes, Tesfa Addis Kefale, Geremew Tasew Guma and Nega Berhe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:399
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  16. Children account for a significant proportion of COVID-19 hospitalizations, but data on the predictors of disease severity in children are limited. We aimed to identify risk factors associated with moderate/se...

    Authors: David Chun-Ern Ng, Chuin-Hen Liew, Kah Kee Tan, Ling Chin, Grace Sieng Sing Ting, Nur Fadzreena Fadzilah, Hui Yi Lim, Nur Emylia Zailanalhuddin, Shir Fong Tan, Muhamad Akmal Affan, Fatin Farihah Wan Ahmad Nasir, Thayasheri Subramaniam, Marlindawati Mohd Ali, Mohammad Faid Abd Rashid, Song-Quan Ong and Chin Chin Ch’ng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:398
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  17. Klebsiella pneumoniae can infect a variety of sites, with the risk of infection being higher in the immunocompromised state such as diabetes mellitus. A distinct invasive syndrome has been detected mostly in Sout...

    Authors: Yu Chang, Jiann-Hwa Chen, Wei-Lung Chen and Jui-Yuan Chung
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:397
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  18. Though bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir (BIC/FTC/TAF) have been regulatory approved and included in the National Reimbursement Drug List in China, due to the affordability concern, generic version of efavir...

    Authors: Cao Jing, Tang Wei, Wang Ning, Zheng Fang, Xiao Gang, Wang Xingzhi, Zhou Guoqiang and Wang Min
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:396
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  19. Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) affects up to 5.000 people in Ecuador each year. L. guyanensis and L. braziliensis are the most common of the eight CL-causing Leishmania species. Earlier CL research concentrated on ...

    Authors: Jacob M. Bezemer, Byron P. Freire-Paspuel, Henk D. F. H. Schallig, Henry J.C. de Vries and Manuel Calvopiña
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:395
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  20. Early data on COVID-19 (based primarily on PCR testing) indicated a low burden in Sub-Saharan Africa. To better understand this, this study aimed to estimate the incidence rate and identify predictors of SARS-...

    Authors: Nongodo Firmin Kaboré, Samiratou Ouédraogo, Ariane Kamga Mamguem, Isidore Tiandiogo Traoré, Dramane Kania, Hermann Badolo, Guillaume Sanou, Amariane Koné, Mimbouré Yara, Thérèse Kagoné, Esperance Ouédraogo, Blahima Konaté, Rachel Médah, Nathalie de Rekeneire, Armel Poda, Arnaud Eric Diendéré…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:394
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  21. Buruli ulcer disease (BUD) caused by Mycobacterium (M.) ulcerans is characterized by necrotic skin lesions. As for other mycobacterial infections, e.g., tuberculosis, the immune response is important for host pro...

    Authors: Jonathan Kofi Adjei, Wilfred Aniagyei, Ernest Adankwah, Julia Seyfarth, Ertan Mayatepek, Daniel Antwi Berko, Nancy Ackam, Max Efui Annani-Akollor, Samuel Asamoah Sakyi, Yaw Ampem Amoako, Dorcas Owusu, Marc Jacobsen and Richard Odame Phillips
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:393
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  22. With the advent of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS), the time of DNA metabolism can be explored after bacteria be killed. In this study, we applied mNGS in investigation of the clearance profile o...

    Authors: Zhuo Li, Shiying Zhang, Mengting Liu, Hongguang Ding, Yin Wen, Huishan Zhu and Hongke Zeng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:392
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  23. Evidence on the relative importance of various factors associated with febrile illness in children and their heterogeneity across countries can inform the prevention, identification, and management of communic...

    Authors: Paddy Ssentongo, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Khush Shah, Thaddeus Harbaugh and Djibril M. Ba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:391
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  24. Although several pathways have been proposed as the prerequisite for a safe phase-out in China, it is not clear which of them are the most important for keeping the mortality rate low, what thresholds should b...

    Authors: Qu Cheng, Xingjie Hao, Degang Wu, Qi Wang, Robert C. Spear and Sheng Wei
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:390
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  25. To compare clinical outcomes in patients with severe pneumonia according to the diagnostic strategy used.

    Authors: Renren Bao, Qing Mei, Tianjun Yang, Lei Zhang, Chunyan Zhu, Xiaoqin Fan, Yinzhong Wang, Fei Tong, Yuxi He, Xiaowei Fang, Shike Geng, Yu Yang, Ximei Sheng and Aijun Pan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:389
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  26. Strong epidemiological links between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) may make household TB contact investigation an efficient strategy for HIV screening and finding individuals in sero...

    Authors: Godwin Anguzu, Amanda J Gupta, Emmanuel Ochom, Ashley S. Tseng, Meixin Zhang, Ruanne V. Barnabas, Abraham D. Flaxman, Achilles Katamba, J. Lucian Davis and Jennifer M. Ross
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:388
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  27. Frequent serial monitoring of plasma cytomegalovirus (CMV) viral load caused unnecessary budgets for laboratory testing without changes in treatment. We aimed to implement diagnostic stewardship to limit CMV v...

    Authors: Akeatit Trirattanapikul, Ekawat Pasomsub, Sukanya Siriyotha, Oraluck Pattanaprateep and Angsana Phuphuakrat
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:387
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  29. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in children, causing frequent outpatient visits and hospitalizations. Our study aimed to describe the clinical a...

    Authors: F. Martinón-Torres, M. Carmo, L. Platero, G. Drago, JL. López-Belmonte, M. Bangert and J. Díez-Domingo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:385
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  30. Data continue to accumulate indicating that many systematic reviews are methodologically flawed, biased, redundant, or uninformative. Some improvements have occurred in recent years based on empirical methods ...

    Authors: Kat Kolaski, Lynne Romeiser Logan and John P. A. Ioannidis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:383
    Content type: Guideline Published on:

  31. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are a public health burden worldwide and often go undetected until sequelae develop. Offering HCV screening for the different vulnerable populations in community pharmacies c...

    Authors: Dominik Stämpfli, Tamara Leila Imfeld-Isenegger, Kurt E. Hersberger and Markus Messerli
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:384
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  32. Limited comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS is highlighted as one of the major factors linked to the high prevalence of HIV among adolescents and young girls. Thus, it is crucial to identify factors that facil...

    Authors: Joseph Kawuki, Ghislaine Gatasi, Quraish Sserwanja, David Mukunya and Milton W. Musaba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:382
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  33. There is a mutual influence between COVID-19, diabetes ketoacidosis, and acute pancreatitis, with clinical manifestations overlapping each other, which can lead to misdiagnosis and delayed treatment that could...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Liu, Qingle Yu, Lanying Li, Songqing Wei, Jin Zeng and Jie Jiang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:381
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  34. Because patients with a “suspicion of Lyme borreliosis (LB)” may experience medical wandering and difficult care paths, often due to misinformation, multidisciplinary care centers were started all over Europe ...

    Authors: Alice Raffetin, Amal Chahour, Julien Schemoul, Giulia Paoletti, Zhuoruo He, Elisabeth Baux, Solène Patrat-Delon, Steve Nguala, Pauline Caraux-Paz, Costanza Puppo, Pauline Arias, Yoann Madec, Sébastien Gallien and Julie Rivière
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:380
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  35. A pertinent risk factor of upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) and pneumonia is the exposure to major ambient air pollutants, with short term exposures to different air pollutants being shown to exacerb...

    Authors: Esther Li Wen Choo, A. Janhavi, Joel Ruihan Koo, Steve H. L. Yim, Borame L Dickens and Jue Tao Lim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:379
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  36. On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic. To control the pandemic, billions of vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Predictor...

    Authors: Ohoud S. Almalki, Eman Y. Santali, Abdulaziz A. Alhothali, Ashraf A. Ewis, Abeer Shady, Ahmed Ibrahim Fathelrahman and Sayed F. Abdelwahab
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:378
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  37. Cervical cancer is caused by oncogenic human papillomaviruses (HR-HPV) and is common among Kenyan women. Identification of factors that increase HR-HPV persistence is critically important. Kenyan women exposed...

    Authors: Yan Tong, Philip Tonui, Omenge Orang’o, Jianjun Zhang, Titus Maina, Kapten Muthoka, John Groopman, Joshua Smith, Erin Madeen, Aaron Ermel, Patrick Loehrer and Darron R. Brown
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:377
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  38. Community-acquired bacterial meningitis is a rare but severe central nervous system infection that may be associated with cerebrovascular complications (CVC). Our objective is to assess the prevalence of CVC i...

    Authors: Amine Benadji, Thomas Debroucker, Guillaume Martin-Blondel, Laurent Argaud, Virginie Vitrat, Charlotte Biron, Michel Wolff, Bruno Hoen, Xavier Duval and Sarah Tubiana
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:376
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  39. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in China is ongoing. Some studies have shown that the incidence of respiratory and intestinal infectious diseases in 2020 decreased significantly compared with ...

    Authors: Qin Zhou, Junxian Hu, Wensui Hu, Hailin Li and Guo-zhen Lin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:375
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  40. University students commonly received COVID-19 vaccinations before returning to U.S. campuses in the Fall of 2021. Given likely immunologic variation among students based on differences in type of primary seri...

    Authors: Peter M. DeJonge, Anastasia S. Lambrou, Hannah E. Segaloff, Allen Bateman, Alana Sterkel, Carol Griggs, Jake Baggott, Patrick Kelly, Natalie Thornburg, Monica Epperson, Rodel Desamu-Thorpe, Glen Abedi, Christopher H. Hsu, Jasmine Y. Nakayama, Jasmine Ruffin, Darlene Turner-Harper…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:374
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  41. Individuals in close contact with active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients showed a high risk of recent infection and, once infected, higher risk of developing active TB in the following years post-exposure...

    Authors: Ying Du, Yijun He, Haoran Zhang, Fei Shen, Ling Guan, Henan Xin, Yongpeng He, Xuefang Cao, Boxuan Feng, Zhusheng Quan, Jianmin Liu and Lei Gao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:373
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  42. Partner-delivered HIV self-testing kits has previously been highlighted as a safe, acceptable and effective approach to reach men. However, less is known about its real-world implementation in reaching partner...

    Authors: Vincent Zishiri, Donaldson F. Conserve, Zelalem T. Haile, Elizabeth Corbett, Karin Hatzold, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Katleho Matsimela, Linda Sande, Marc d’Elbee, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Cheryl C. Johnson, Thato Chidarikire, Francois Venter and Mohammed Majam
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 22(Suppl 1):971
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 22 Supplement 1

  43. Organizing pneumonia (OP) is a rare interstitial lung disease. Secondary organizing pneumonia (SOP) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is extremely rare. Migratory MTB-associated SOP is more deceptive and...

    Authors: Li-Li Huang, Chun Wang, Ying Liu, Xiao-Yan Gu, Wei-Xiao Wang, Wei Chen and Chun-Mei Hu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:372
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  44. Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika are co-endemic in Honduras and are often misdiagnosed due to similar clinical and epidemiological behavior. Most arboviral infections reported in primary care are based on clinica...

    Authors: María Fernanda Ávila Mejía, Pei-Yun Shu and Dar-Der Ji
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:371
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  45. Migration is known to influence human health. China has a high migration rate and a significant number of people who are HIV-positive, but little is known about how these factors intersect in sexual risk behav...

    Authors: Yuyin Zhou, Yan Luo, Feng Cheng, Huatang Zeng, Liqun Wu, Liangmin Gao and Junfang Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:370
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  46. Data on persistent candidemia (PC), a recognized complication of candidemia, are lacking in China. This study aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics and risk factors for the mortality of PC among ad...

    Authors: Yanping Li, Chenghong Gu, Yuling Yang, Yinhuan Ding, Caihong Ye, Min Tang, Jinbo Liu and Zhangrui Zeng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:369
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  47. Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are an internationally recognized strategy for reducing antimicrobial resistance while maintaining patient safety. ASP activities include the restriction of broad-spec...

    Authors: Lina I. Alnajjar, Nourah S. Alrashidi, Njoud Almutairi, Noura Alshamrani, Omar S. Khan, Sajjad Ali, Amira M Youssef and Reem Binsuwaidan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:368
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  48. As countries move towards or achieve measles elimination status, serosurveillance is an important public health tool. However, a major challenge of serosurveillance is finding a feasible, accurate, cost-effect...

    Authors: Chelsea S. Lutz, Alvira Z. Hasan, Shelly Bolotin, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Felicity T. Cutts, Eugene Joh, Stacie Loisate, William J. Moss, Selma Osman and Kyla Hayford
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:367
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  49. Hepatitis B (HB) is a virus which causes a potentially fatal liver infection. It is a DNA virus belonging to the Hepadnaviridae virus family. Africa, after Asia, has the second highest number of chronic HBV ca...

    Authors: Denekew Tenaw Anley, Mequanente Dagnaw, Daniel Gashaneh Belay, Dawit Tefera, Zemenu Tadesse Tessema, Ayenew Molla, Sebwedin Surur Jemal, Edget Abebe Zewde, Melkalem Mamuye Azanaw, Getachew Aragie and Yayehirad Alemu Melsew
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:366
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