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  1. Tuberculosis has remained a leading cause of death among people living with HIV (PLHIV) globally. Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) is the recommended strategy by the World Health Organization to prevent TB d...

    Authors: Renatus Fabiano Nyarubamba, Adam Silumbwe, Choolwe Jacobs, Patricia Maritim, Paschal Mdoe and Joseph Mumba Zulu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:884
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  2. Authors: Vincenzo Scaglione, Salvatore Rotundo, Nadia Marascio, Carmela De Marco, Rosaria Lionello, Claudia Veneziano, Lavinia Berardelli, Angela Quirino, Vincenzo Olivadese, Francesca Serapide, Bruno Tassone, Helen Linda Morrone, Chiara Davoli, Valentina La Gamba, Andrea Bruni, Bruno Mario Cesana…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:883
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    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:793

  3. Antimicrobial resistance has reached an alarming rate globally, especially in middle-income countries such as Lebanon. The development of antifungal resistance is associated with the increased population’s inj...

    Authors: Deema Rahme, Mayssam Ayoub, Khalil Shaito, Nadine Saleh, Sara Assaf and Nathalie Lahoud
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:882
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  4. Group B Streptococci (GBS) colonize almost one third of human gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts, particularly in females. The aim of this study is to evaluate the epidemiology, microbiological characteris...

    Authors: Maisa Ali, Mohammed A. Alamin, Gawahir A. Ali, Khalid Alzubaidi, Bashir Ali, Abdellatif Ismail, Joanne Daghfal, Muna Almaslamani and Hamad Abdel Hadi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:881
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  6. The efficacy of early treatment with convalescent plasma in patients with COVID-19 is debated. Nothing is known about the potential effect of other plasma components other than anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

    Authors: Paola Maria Manzini, Giovannino Ciccone, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa, Rossana Cavallo, Valeria Ghisetti, Sergio D’Antico, Claudia Galassi, Fabio Saccona, Anna Castiglione, Nadia Birocco, Tiziana Francisci, Huijing Hu, Clara Pecoraro, Franca Danielle, Luciana Labanca, Anna Maria Bordiga…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:879
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  7. Obstetrical infection is one of the causes of maternal death and a difficult problem for many clinicians. Changes in the demographic and obstetric background of pregnant women following the Universal Two-Child...

    Authors: Huiqing Yuan, Cui Zhang, Ei Ni Tar Maung, Songli Fan, Zijia Shi, Fang Liao, Shuo Wang, Ying Jin, Le Chen and Li Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:878
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  8. Bacterial infections are a common complication in patients with seasonal viral respiratory tract infections and are associated with poor prognosis, increased risk of intensive care unit admission and 29–55% mo...

    Authors: Jeniffer Munyiva Mutua, John Mwaniki Njeru and Abednego Moki Musyoki
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:877
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  9. Bedaquiline (BDQ) is a core drug for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) treatment. Accurate prediction of a BDQ-resistant phenotype from genomic data is not yet possible. A Bayesian method to predict BD...

    Authors: Pham Hien Trang Tu, Degefaye Zelalem Anlay, Anzaan Dippenaar, Emilyn Costa Conceição, Jasna Loos and Annelies Van Rie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:876
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  10. In order to verify the existence of an anthrax outbreak, determine its scope, grasp the epidemiological characteristics and find out the cause of the outbreak and recommend preventive and control measures.

    Authors: Xiaolin Yu, Ming Fang, Shuang Wang, Zhong Li, Lixiao Cheng, Zhaoshan Liu, Dandan Zhang, Dandan Dong and Zengqiang Kou
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:875
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  11. The Mycobacterium abscessus complex (MABC) is a group of acid-fast, rapidly dividing non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) that include a number of clinically important subspecies, including M. abscessus, M. bolleti...

    Authors: Ashley R. Rizzo and Nader H. Moniri
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:874
    Content type: Review Published on:

  13. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality after transplantation. This study aimed to investigate CMV seroprevalence, infection, and disease in Chinese thoracic organ transpl...

    Authors: Chunrong Ju, Xiaohua Wang, Xin Xu, Shaobo Xie, Qingdong Cao, Wanli Lin, Jianheng Zhang, Yu Xu, Qiaoyan Lian, Danxia Huang, Rongchang Chen and Jianxing He
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:872
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  14. In Bangladesh, safely managed sanitation (SMS) coverage is low, and diarrheal disease is a significant health problem. This study estimated the inequality in access to SMS facilities at the national and sub-na...

    Authors: Jahanara Akter, Md. Rashedul Islam, Shamima Akter, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Fahima Hossain, Md Rifat Anam, Md. Ashraful Alam, Papia Sultana and Shahedur Rashid
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:871
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  15. This retrospective cohort study assessed benefits and risks of bedaquiline treatment in multidrug-resistant-tuberculosis (MDR-TB) combination therapy by evaluating safety, effectiveness, drug utilization and e...

    Authors: Helen Pai, Norbert Ndjeka, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Koné Kaniga, Eileen Birmingham, Gary Mao, Lori Alquier, Kourtney Davis, Arianne Bodard, Abeda Williams, Magalie Van Tongel, Florence Thoret-Bauchet, Shaheed V. Omar and Nyasha Bakare
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:870
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  16. Epidemiology of febrile illness in Uganda is shifting due to increased HIV treatment access, emerging viruses, and increased surveillance. We investigated the aetiology and outcomes of acute febrile illness in...

    Authors: Paul W. Blair, Kenneth Kobba, Francis Kakooza, Matthew L. Robinson, Emmanuel Candia, Jonathan Mayito, Edgar C. Ndawula, Abraham J. Kandathil, Alphonsus Matovu, Gilbert Aniku, Yukari C. Manabe and Mohammed Lamorde
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:869
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  17. Human brucellosis has become one of the major public health problems in China, and increases atypical manifestations, such as fever of unknown origin (FUO), and misdiagnosis rates has complicated the diagnosis...

    Authors: Zhi-guo Wu, Zhi-ying Song, Wei-xin Wang, Wen-na Xi, Di Jin, Mao-xing Ai, Yu-chan Wu, Yu Lan, Shu-fen Song, Gong-chang Zhang, Xue-bing Yao, Zhen Gao, Cui-yun Liu, Ke Sun, Dong-shan Yu, Bao-gang Xie…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:868
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:23

  18. Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) can successfully suppress human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral replication and reconstruct immune function reconstruction in HIV-1-infected patients. However, ...

    Authors: Xiaojie Lao, Xinyin Mei, Jun Zou, Qing Xiao, Qiuyue Ning, Xianli Xu, Chunlan Zhang, Lei Ji, Shengwei Deng, Bingyang Lu and Maowei Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:867
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  19. The efficacy of non-carbapenems as an empirical antibiotic for extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia in children remains controversial. We compared ...

    Authors: Saera Park, HyeJin So, Mi-Na Kim and Jina Lee
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:866
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  20. The early diagnosis of sepsis is beneficial to put forward a reasonable clinical treatment plan as soon as possible. This study was to explore the expression of Tripartite Motif 7 (TRIM7) in peripheral blood m...

    Authors: Mingfeng Lu, Aiwen Ma, Jianwei Liu, Wenzhen Zhou, Peng Cao, Tao Chu and Lu Fan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:865
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  21. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has been found to persist within cavities in patients who have completed their anti-tuberculosis therapy. The clinical implications of Mtb persistence after therapy include recurr...

    Authors: Sergo A. Vashakidze, Abivarma Chandrakumaran, Merab Japaridze, Giorgi Gogishvili, Jeffrey M. Collins, Manana Rekhviashvili and Russell R. Kempker
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:864
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  22. The long-term protective effect of hepatitis B vaccine (HepB), the incidence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine breakthrough infections (VBIs), and whether a booster HepB is necessary remain to be clarified in...

    Authors: Yarong Song, Xin Zhang, Minmin Liu, Xiangjun Zhai, Jianxun Liu, Yi Li, Lili Li, Yiwei Xiao, Zhongping Duan, Jing Jiang, Feng Ding, Liguo Zhu, Jie Jiang, Huaibin Zou, Hui Zhuang, Jie Wang…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:863
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  24. In order to estimate the prevalence and understand the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Sweden, the Public Health Agency of Sweden, with support from the Swedish Armed Forces, conducted a series of point prevalence sur...

    Authors: Ramona Groenheit, Jessica Beser, Sharon Kühlmann Berenzon, Ilias Galanis, Edward van Straten, Jan Duracz, Marie Rapp, Disa Hansson, Mikael Mansjö, Sandra Söderholm, Shaman Muradrasoli, Anna Risberg, Richard Ölund, Andreas Wiklund, Kristoffer Metzkes, Matilda Lundberg…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:861
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  25. Our understanding of the influence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection on bacterial colonization in the children’s upper nasopharyngeal tract during the coronavirus infect...

    Authors: Vincentia Rizke Ciptaningtyas, Rebriarina Hapsari, Endang Sri Lestari, Helmia Farida, Quirijn de Mast and Marinus Isaäk de Jonge
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:860
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  26. Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in the northern hemisphere. The diagnosis of LB is usually made by clinical symptoms and subsequently supported by serology. In Europe, a ...

    Authors: Julia Häring, Max J. Hassenstein, Matthias Becker, Julia Ortmann, Daniel Junker, André Karch, Klaus Berger, Tatia Tchitchagua, Olaf Leschnik, Manuela Harries, Daniela Gornyk, Pilar Hernández, Berit Lange, Stefanie Castell, Gérard Krause, Alex Dulovic…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:859
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  27. In the general population, sport activity is associated with better health and better self-esteem. Among people living with HIV (PLHIV), sport activity could also be associated with better self-esteem. The mai...

    Authors: Lucia Grandiere Perez, Clotilde Allavena, Solène Sécher, Sylvain Durand, Antoine Grégoire, Yves-Marie Vandamme, Hikombo Hitoto, Sophie Leautez-Nainville, Christophe Michau and Eric Billaud
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:858
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  28. The systematic collection of valid data related to hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) is considered effective for nosocomial infection prevention and control programs. New strategies to reduce HAIs have recen...

    Authors: Ruiling Wen, Xinying Li, Tingting Liu and Guihong Lin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:857
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  29. Increased occurrence of mucormycosis during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in early 2021 in India prompted us to undertake a multi-site case–control investigation. The objectives were to examine the mon...

    Authors: Tanu Anand, Aparna Mukherjee, Aanchal Satija, Poonam Sharma Velamuri, Kh. Jitenkumar Singh, Madhuchhanda Das, Kripa Josten, Pragya D. Yadav, Rima R. Sahay, Archana Y. Keche, Nitin M. Nagarkar, Prashant Gupta, D. Himanshu, Sejal N. Mistry, Jimy D. Patel, Prajwal Rao…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:856
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  30. Prior studies have identified that vancomycin resistant enterococcus (VRE) bacteremia that persists for four days or more is an independent predictor of mortality. Despite this, there is no published data to i...

    Authors: Emily Fox, David Ha, Mark Bounthavong, Lina Meng, Emily Mui, Marisa Holubar, Stanley Deresinski and William Alegria
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:855
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  31. Rapid/point-of-care respiratory virus nucleic acid tests (NAT) may improve oseltamivir, antibiotic, diagnostic test, and hospital bed utilization. Previous randomized controlled trials (RCT) on this topic have...

    Authors: Helen L. Bibby, Lawrence de Koning, Isolde Seiden-Long, Nathan Zelyas, Deirdre L. Church and Byron M. Berenger
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:854
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  32. In the past decade, Brazil has significantly reduced the prevalence of schistosomiasis through a combined effort of early treatment of infected people, expansion of basic sanitation infrastructure and educatio...

    Authors: Felipe Leão Gomes Murta, Cristiano Lara Massara, Maria Gabriela Rodrigues, Lilian Christina Nóbrega Holsbach Beck and Tereza Cristina Favre
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:853
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  33. There is no report on antibody titers after vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in Japanese dialysis patients. As dialysis is different between Japan and other countries, changes in antibody titers were examined.

    Authors: Haruki Wakai, Natsumi Abe, Touno Tokuda, Rika Yamanaka, Satoshi Ebihara, Kensuke Izumaru, Daisuke Ishii, Toru Hyodo and Kazunari Yoshida
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:852
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  34. Taenia solium cysticercosis is a zoonotic disease that is endemic in many low- and middle-income countries where risk factors for disease transmission are present. The economic impact of cysticercosis on public h...

    Authors: Salvator Minani, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Anastasie Gasogo, Jean-Bosco Ntirandekura, Sarah Gabriël, Pierre Dorny and Chiara Trevisan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:851
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  35. Despite a large amount of behavioral interventions to reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related high-risk sexual behaviors, consistent condom use remains suboptimal among men who have sex with men (MSM...

    Authors: Yan Shen, Ci Zhang, Maritta A. Valimaki, Hanzhu Qian, Leila Mohammadi, Yuanyuan Chi and Xianhong Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:850
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  36. Monocyte Distribution Width (MDW), a simple cellular marker of innate monocyte activation, can be used for the early recognition of sepsis. We performed an observational prospective monocentric study to assess...

    Authors: Ennio Polilli, Giancarlo Di Iorio, Claudio Silveri, Gilda Angelini, Maria Chiara Anelli, Jessica Elisabetta Esposito, Milena D’Amato, Giustino Parruti and Fabrizio Carinci
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:849
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  37. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global public health problem, with ~ 11 million people in Africa infected. There is incomplete information on HCV in Sudan, particularly in haemodialysis patients, who have a highe...

    Authors: Trodia Zitha, Chien-Yu Chen, Hatim Mudawi, Waleed Hussein, Maowia Mukhtar, Mazin Shigidi, Mohamed Elamin Awad Yousif, Mohammed Ahmed Ali, Dieter Glebe and Anna Kramvis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:848
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  38. Nanobiosensor platforms have emerged as convenient and promising approaches with remarkable efficacy for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been widely used due to numerous a...

    Authors: Someye Deris, Mahmoud Osanloo, Abdolmajid Ghasemian, Saeed Ataei, Maryam Kohansal, Sahar Samsami, Ava Yazdanpanah, Alireza Ebrahimnezhad and Ali Ghanbariasad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:847
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  39. African countries stand out globally as the region seemingly least affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. Besides a younger population and potential pre-existing immunity to a SARS-...

    Authors: Eric Lyimo, Cyrielle Fougeroux, Anangisye Malabeja, Joyce Mbwana, Paul M. Hayuma, Edwin Liheluka, Louise Turner, Samwel Gesase, Thomas Lavstsen, John P. A. Lusingu, Daniel T. R. Minja and Christian W. Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:846
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  40. From 20 July to 26 August 2021, local outbreaks of COVID-19 occurred in Nanjing City and Yangzhou City (Jiangsu Province, China). We analyzed the characteristics of these outbreaks in an effort to develop spec...

    Authors: Wenlong Zhu, Yue Zhu, Zexuan Wen, Bo Zheng, Ao Xu, Ye Yao and Weibing Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:845
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  41. We aimed to assess harms (post-vaccine myocarditis and pericarditis) and benefits (preventing severe disease) of COVID-19 vaccination.

    Authors: Giovanni Corrao, Matteo Franchi, Danilo Cereda, Francesco Bortolan, Olivia Leoni, Eugenio Vignati, Giovanni Pavesi and Andrea Gori
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:844
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  42. Bloodstream infections caused by Candida species are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, with an ever-changing epidemiology. We conducted this study to assess trends in the epidemiologi...

    Authors: Didien Meyahnwi, Bekure B. Siraw and Arthur Reingold
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:843
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  43. This study was designed to analyze the liver tissue changes among the CHB patients who received treatment for at least 6 months and follow-up for at least 1 year, together with the correlation between the diff...

    Authors: Shanshan Wu, Xinfang Du, Guohua Lou, Shuihong Yu, Kecong Lai, Jinjin Qi, Shujun Ni, Zhi Chen and Feng Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:842
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  44. Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. We evaluate incidence of community- and hospital-onset BSI rates and outcomes before and during the SAR...

    Authors: Karri A. Bauer, Laura A. Puzniak, Kalvin C. Yu, Lyn Finelli, Pamela Moise, ChinEn Ai, Janet A. Watts and Vikas Gupta
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:841
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  45. Sore throat is a common reason for prescribing antibiotics in primary care, and 10 days of treatment is recommended for patients with pharyngotonsillitis with group A streptococcus (GAS). Our group recently sh...

    Authors: David Tell, Mia Tyrstrup, Charlotta Edlund, Karin Rystedt, Gunilla Skoog Ståhlgren, Pär-Daniel Sundvall and Katarina Hedin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:840
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  46. Differences in the genetic material of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants may result in altered virulence characteristics. Assessing the disease severity caused by newly emer...

    Authors: Marjan Meurisse, Herman Van Oyen, Koen Blot, Lucy Catteau, Ben Serrien, Sofieke Klamer, Emilie Cauët, Annie Robert and Nina Van Goethem
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:839
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  47. Multi-assay algorithms (MAAs) are used to estimate population-level HIV incidence and identify individuals with recent infection. Many MAAs use low viral load (VL) as a biomarker for long-term infection. This ...

    Authors: Wendy Grant-McAuley, Oliver Laeyendecker, Daniel Monaco, Athena Chen, Sarah E. Hudelson, Ethan Klock, Ron Brookmeyer, Douglas Morrison, Estelle Piwowar-Manning, Charles S. Morrison, Richard Hayes, Helen Ayles, Peter Bock, Barry Kosloff, Kwame Shanaube, Nomtha Mandla…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:838
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  48. Mortality is elevated after prison release and may be higher in people with HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD). Maintenance with opioid agonist therapy (OAT) like methadone or buprenorphine reduces mortality in...

    Authors: Alexander R. Bazazi, Gabriel J. Culbert, Martin P. Wegman, Robert Heimer, Adeeba Kamarulzaman and Frederick L. Altice
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:837
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  49. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness of infection prevention and control. We found that the incidence of nosocomial infection in neurosurgery has changed. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of “coro...

    Authors: Shuang-Jun Pan, Yong Hou, Yu-Pei Yang, Geng-Ge Wang, Xiao-Yan Chen, Wei-Yang Qian, Tao-Hsin Tung and Xiao-Ming Hu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:836
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