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  1. Cisgender gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Mexico experience disparities in sexual health outcomes, perhaps most notably in HIV prevalence, HIV testing and status awareness, and cond...

    Authors: John Mark Wiginton, Sarah M. Murray, Angel B. Algarin, Stefan D. Baral, Travis H. Sanchez and Laramie R. Smith
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:690
  2. Inappropriate use of antibiotics could have a profound negative impact on individual and community. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of inappropriate use behaviors of antibiotics in Chinese antibiotic...

    Authors: Xiaoxv Yin, Yanhong Gong, Na Sun, Dandan Li, Jianxiong Wu, Jing Wang, Lei Qiu and Hui Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:689
  3. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the causative agent for sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhoea, has emerged with a significant public health impact on acquiring resistance to antimicrobials available for treatme...

    Authors: Kelvin L. Sarenje, Owen Ngalamika, Margaret C. Maimbolwa, Amon Siame, Sody M. Munsaka and Geoffrey Kwenda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:688
  4. The Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (SWAB) in collaboration with relevant professional societies, has updated their evidence-based guidelines on empiric antibacterial therapy of sepsis in adults.

    Authors: Elske Sieswerda, Hannelore I. Bax, Jacobien J. Hoogerwerf, Mark G. J. de Boer, Marja Boermeester, Marc J. M. Bonten, Douwe Dekker, Roy Gerth van Wijk, Nicole P. Juffermans, Marnix Kuindersma, Paul D. van der Linden, Damian C. Melles, Peter Pickkers, Jeroen A. Schouten, Jasper R. Rebel, Arthur R. H. van Zanten…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:687
  5. To find pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic parameters of vancomycin associated with the optimal outcome of severe infection due to Enterococcus species.

    Authors: Eliel Nham, Kyungmin Huh, You Min Sohn, Hyo Jung Park, Hyemee Kim, Sook Young Woo, Jae-Hoon Ko, Sun Young Cho, Cheol-In Kang, Doo Ryeon Chung, Hee Jae Huh, Hyung-Doo Park, Nam Yong Lee and Kyong Ran Peck
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:686
  6. To investigate the epidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) inducing pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) in east China and the role of hypervirulent carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae (Hv-CRKP).

    Authors: Hongchao Chen, Lanfang Fang, Wenjie Chen, Qing Yang, Dan Li, Dakang Hu and Jin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:685
  7. Papiliotrema flavescens is a rare environmental yeast, which has been isolated from air, trees, kernels of wheat and corn, fermenting soya sauce, and cerebrospinal fluid of patient with AIDS. Additionally, it is ...

    Authors: Siang Zhang, Liangzhe Wang, Qianyu Han, An Sun, Xiaogang Liu and Lei Xue
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:684
  8. Despite the development of safe and effective vaccines, effective treatments for COVID-19 disease are still urgently needed. Several antiviral drugs have shown to be effective in reducing progression of COVID-...

    Authors: Laura Matrajt, Elizabeth R. Brown, Myron S. Cohen, Dobromir Dimitrov and Holly Janes
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:683
  9. Immunization against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) began in January 2021 in Iran; nonetheless, due to a lack of vaccination among children under 12, this age group is still at risk of SARS-CoV-2 infe...

    Authors: Ali Amanati, Seyyed Bozorgmehr Hedayati, Mazyar Ziyaeyan, Alireza Honar, Reyhaneh Dashtianeh, Negin Rabiei, Nasrin Saki and Leila Karami
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:682
  10. RSV-incidence estimates obtained from routinely-collected healthcare data (e.g., MarketScan) are commonly adjusted for under-reporting using test positivity reported in national Surveillance Systems (NREVSS). ...

    Authors: Phuong T. Tran, Sabina O. Nduaguba, Vakaramoko Diaby, Yoonyoung Choi and Almut G. Winterstein
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:681
  11. People living with HIV need to take lifelong, combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), but there have been only limited explorations of how factors affecting adherence can change over the course of an indivi...

    Authors: Marian Loveday, Jennifer Furin, Sindisiwe Hlangu and Tasneem Naidoo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:680
  12. Interventions aimed at reducing risky sexual behavior are considered an important strategy for averting Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection among youth (15–24 years) who continue to be at risk of the ...

    Authors: Fungai Mbengo, Esther Adama, Amanda Towell-Barnard, Arvin Bhana and Maggie Zgambo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:679

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:781

  13. Vulvovaginal candidiasis is an important cause of morbidity among women due to Candida species. In the last decades, resistance to azoles, first-line antifungals has increased. One molecular mechanism of azole re...

    Authors: Essi Etonam Dovo, Théodora Mahoukèdè Zohoncon, Sessi Frida Tovo, Serge Théophile Soubeiga, Isabelle Touwendpoulimdé Kiendrebeogo, Albert Théophane Yonli, Rogomenona Alice Ouedraogo, Amana Mètuor Dabire, Florencia Wendkuuni Djigma, Christelle Wendyam Nadembega, Marius Belemgnegre, Paul Ouedraogo, Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah and Jacques Simpore
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:678
  14. The most appropriate alternative to induction therapy for HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis (CM) remains unclear when standard treatment is unavailable, inaccessible, intolerable, or ineffective.

    Authors: Ting Zhao, Xiaolei Xu, Yushan Wu, Wei Zhang, Qin Zeng, Yanqiu Lu, Tongtong Yang, Guoqiang Zhou, Jianhua Yu, Ke Lan, Vijay Harypursat and Yaokai Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:677
  15. The incidence of high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV)-driven head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, in particular oropharyngeal cancers (OPC), is increasing in high-resource countries. Patients with HPV-indu...

    Authors: Cindy Simoens, Tarik Gheit, Ruediger Ridder, Ivana Gorbaslieva, Dana Holzinger, Eric Lucas, Susanne Rehm, Peter Vermeulen, Martin Lammens, Olivier M. Vanderveken, Rekha Vijay Kumar, Nitin Gangane, Alessandro Caniglia, Fausto Maffini, Maria Belén Lloveras Rubio, Devasena Anantharaman…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:676
  16. Infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN) is a life-threatening complication of acute pancreatitis (AP). Timely diagnosis of IPN could facilitate appropriate treatment, but there is a lack of reliable non-invasive sc...

    Authors: Donghuang Hong, Peng Wang, Jingzhu Zhang, Kaiwei Li, Bo Ye, Gang Li, Jing Zhou, Zhihui Tong, Lu Ke, Songjing Shi and Weiqin Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:675
  17. To quantitatively assess the impact of the onset-to-diagnosis interval (ODI) on severity and death for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.

    Authors: Qing-Bin Lu, Tian-Le Che, Li-Ping Wang, An-Ran Zhang, Xiang Ren, Tao Wang, Meng-Jie Geng, Yi-Fei Wang, Meng-Yang Liu, Hai-Yang Zhang, Li-Qun Fang, Wei Liu and Zhong-Jie Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:674
  18. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can significantly reduce HIV acquisition especially among communities with high HIV prevalence, including men who have sex with men (MSM). Much research has been finding subopti...

    Authors: Brooke G. Rogers, C. Sosnowy, A. Zanowick-Marr, P. A. Chan, L. A. Mena, R. R. Patel, W. C. Goedel, T. Arnold, C. Chu, D. Galipeau, M. C. Montgomery, K. Curoe, A. Underwood, J. Villalobos, C. Gomillia and A. S. Nunn
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:673
  19. Factors that lead to successful SARS-CoV-2 transmission are still not well described. We investigated the association between a case’s viral load and the risk of transmission to contacts in the context of othe...

    Authors: Darlene Bhavnani, Emily R. James, Kaitlyn E. Johnson, Sylvie Beaudenon-Huibregtse, Patrick Chang, Paul J. Rathouz, Minda Weldon, Andreas Matouschek and Amy E. Young
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:672
  20. Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common child infectious disease caused by more than 20 enterovirus (EV) serotypes. In recent years, enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) has been replaced by Coxsackievirus A6 (CV-A6...

    Authors: Wei Guo, Danhan Xu, Shanri Cong, Zengqing Du, Li Li, Ming Zhang, Changzeng Feng, Guohong Bao, Hao Sun, Zhaoqing Yang and Shaohui Ma
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:671
  21. Vibrio vulnificus infections develop rapidly and are associated with a high mortality rate. The rates of diagnosis and treatment are directly associated with mortality.

    Authors: Weihua Di, Jing Cui, Hui Yu, Xiao Cui, Huanlan Sa, Zhong Fu, Bingjin Fu, Guofeng Guan, Rui Du, Cuijie Shao and Yong Gao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:670
  22. At present, no single efficacious therapeutic exists for acute COVID-19 management and a multimodal approach may be necessary. 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2-DG) is a metabolic inhibitor that has been shown to limit multip...

    Authors: Anant Narayan Bhatt, Srinivas Shenoy, Sagar Munjal, Vijayakumar Chinnadurai, Apurva Agarwal, A. Vinoth Kumar, A. Shanavas, Ratnesh Kanwar and Sudhir Chandna
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:669
  23. Uganda accounts for 5% of all malaria cases and deaths reported globally and, in endemic countries, pregnancy is a risk factor for both acquisition of P. falciparum infection and development of severe malaria. In...

    Authors: Francesco Vladimiro Segala, Francesco Di Gennaro, Jerry Ictho, Mariangela L’Episcopia, Emmanuel Onapa, Claudia Marotta, Elda De Vita, James Amone, Valentina Iacobelli, Joseph Ogwang, Giovanni Dall’Oglio, Benedict Ngole, Rita Murri, Lameck Olal, Massimo Fantoni, Samuel Okori…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:668
  24. A prospective interventional study comparing outcomes in critically ill patients receiving intermittent infusion (II) or continuous infusion (CI) of vancomycin during continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH...

    Authors: Jinhui Xu, Lufen Duan, Jiahui Li, Fang Chen, Xiaowen Xu, Jian Lu, Zhiwei Zhuang, Yifei Cao, Yunlong Yuan, Xin Liu, Jiantong Sun, Qin Zhou, Lu Shi and Lian Tang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:667
  25. Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) affects the quality of life of many people worldwide and can cause comorbidities. Our previous research proved that Sjogren’s syndrome (SS) is a predisposing factor for CRS, with a...

    Authors: Pei-Rung Yang, Wei-Tai Shih, Yao-Hsu Yang, Chia-Yen Liu, Ming-Shao Tsai, Yao-Te Tsai, Cheng-Ming Hsu, Ching-Yuan Wu, Pey-Jium Chang and Geng-He Chang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:666
  26. Patients with adult-onset immunodeficiency syndrome due to anti-interferon-γ autoantibodies (AIGAs) are susceptible to disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infections. M. chimaera, a newly identified MA...

    Authors: Yi-Fu Lin, Tai-Fen Lee, Un-In Wu, Chun-Fu Huang, Aristine Cheng, Kuan-Yin Lin and Chien-Ching Hung
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:665
  27. Numerous scoring tools have been developed for assessing the probability of SARS-COV-2 test positivity, though few being suitable or adapted for outpatient triage of health care workers.

    Authors: Hannah Tuulikki Hohl, Guenter Froeschl, Michael Hoelscher and Christian Heumann
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:664
  28. China has experienced a continuous decreasing trend in the incidence of hepatitis A in recent years. Temporal trend analyses are helpful in exploring the reasons for the changing trend. Thus, this study aims t...

    Authors: Yuan-Sheng Li, Bei-Bei Zhang, Xi Zhang, Song Fan, Li-Ping Fei, Chao Yang, Ning-Jun Ren, Xiang Li, Ya-Mei Luo and Jun-Hui Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:663
  29. We aimed to explore the prognostic utilities of C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), neutrophil CD64 (nCD64) index, in combination or alone, in septic patients.

    Authors: Na Huang, Jing Chen, Yu Wei, Yongrui Liu, Kang Yuan, Jingli Chen, Mingfeng He and Nan Liu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:662
  30. Regional labour markets and their properties are named as potential reasons for regional variations in levels of SARS-CoV-2 infections rates, but empirical evidence is missing.

    Authors: Morten Wahrendorf, Marvin Reuter, Jens Hoebel, Benjamin Wachtler, Annika Höhmann and Nico Dragano
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:661
  31. Increased intensity of pyrethroid resistance is threatening the effectiveness of insecticide-based interventions to control malaria in Africa. Assessing the extent of this aggravation and its impact on the eff...

    Authors: Benjamin D. Menze, Magellan Tchouakui, Leon M. J. Mugenzi, Williams Tchapga, Micareme Tchoupo, Murielle J. Wondji, Martin Chiumia, Themba Mzilahowa and Charles S. Wondji
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:660
  32. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all people across the globe. Regional and community differences in timing and severity of surges throughout the pandemic can provide insight into risk factors for worse outco...

    Authors: Suneha S. Sundaram, Stephanie Melquist, Pankush Kalgotra, Sachin Srinivasan, Sravanthi Parasa, Madhav Desai and Prateek Sharma
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:659
  33. Sarcoptes scabiei is one of the most impactful mammalian parasites. There has been much research on immunological and clinical pathological changes associated with S. scabiei parasitism across a range of host spe...

    Authors: Christina Næsborg-Nielsen, Vicky Wilkinson, Natalia Mejia-Pacheco and Scott Carver
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:658
  34. Immunosuppressive chemotherapy increase the risk of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases in children; nevertheless, chemotherapy may result in delay or miss updated immunization schedules. The predictable a...

    Authors: Babak Abdolkarimi, Ali Amanati, Hossein Molavi Vardanjani, Safura‏ ‏Jamshidi and Seid Amir Pasha Tabaeian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:657
  35. Multiple waves of the COVID-19 epidemic have hit most countries by the end of 2021. Most of those waves are caused by emergence and importation of new variants. To prevent importation of new variants, combinat...

    Authors: Keisuke Ejima, Kwang Su Kim, Ana I. Bento, Shoya Iwanami, Yasuhisa Fujita, Kazuyuki Aihara, Kenji Shibuya and Shingo Iwami
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:656
  36. Although previous epidemiological studies have examined the potential risk factors that increase the likelihood of acquiring Helicobacter pylori infections, most of these analyses have utilized conventional stati...

    Authors: Van Tran, Tazmilur Saad, Mehret Tesfaye, Sosina Walelign, Moges Wordofa, Dessie Abera, Kassu Desta, Aster Tsegaye, Ahmet Ay and Bineyam Taye
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:655
  37. The rapid course of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic calls for fast implementation of clinical trials to assess the effects of new treatment and prophylactic interventi...

    Authors: Katharina Kusejko, Frédérique Chammartin, Daniel Smith, Marc Odermatt, Julian Schuhmacher, Michael Koller, Huldrych F. Günthard, Matthias Briel, Heiner C. Bucher and Benjamin Speich
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:654
  38. While national malaria incidence has been declining in Myanmar, some subregions within the nation continue to have high burdens of malaria morbidity and mortality. This study assessed the malaria situation in ...

    Authors: Pyae Linn Aung, Myat Thu Soe, Thit Lwin Oo, Kyaw Thu Aung, Kyaw Kyaw Lin, Aung Thi, Lynette Menezes, Daniel M. Parker, Liwang Cui and Myat Phone Kyaw
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:653

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:708

  39. Staphylococcus aureus causes many human infections, including wound infections, and its pathogenicity is mainly influenced by several virulence factors.

    Authors: Asia Helmi Rasmi, Eman Farouk Ahmed, Abdou Mohammed Abdullah Darwish and Gamal Fadl Mahmoud Gad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:652
  40. At present, skeletal tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis is mostly by histopathology, but the positivity rate is low. There is a need to develop new methods for the molecular identification of this disorder. Therefore...

    Authors: Gang He, Chun-yu Chen, Xin Zhang, Pei-pei Ding, Chang-zheng Hu, Xiu-fang Huang, Xian Zhang, Xu Gong, Pei-lin Zhen and Liang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:651
  41. Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) are highly effective in achieving sustained virologic response among those with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Quality of life (QOL) benefits for an HCV-infected pop...

    Authors: M. Benade, S. Rosen, S. Antoniak, C. Chasela, Y. Stopolianska, T. Barnard, M. M. Gandhi, I. Ivanchuk, V. Tretiakov, J. Dible, T. Minior, K. W. Chew, C. van der Horst, Z. Tsenilova and I. Sanne
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:650
  42. Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, evolutionary pressure has driven large increases in the transmissibility of the virus. However, with increasing levels of immunity through vaccination and natural infection t...

    Authors: Oliver Eales, Andrew J. Page, Leonardo de Oliveira Martins, Haowei Wang, Barbara Bodinier, David Haw, Jakob Jonnerby, Christina Atchison, Deborah Ashby, Wendy Barclay, Graham Taylor, Graham Cooke, Helen Ward, Ara Darzi, Steven Riley, Marc Chadeau-Hyam…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:647
  43. It is vital to distinguish between inflammatory and malignant lymphadenopathy in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals. The purpose of our study was to differentiate the variations in the cli...

    Authors: Donghe Chen, Yunqi Zhu, Yunbo Chen, Danhua Zhu, Zhengfeng Liu, Tiancheng Li, Yinuo Liu, Kui Zhao, Xinhui Su and Lanjuan Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:646
  44. Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) prevent COVID-19 progression when administered early. We compared mAb treatment outcomes among vaccinated and unvaccinated patients during Delta wave and assessed the feasibility of...

    Authors: Yi Guo, Kelsie Cowman, Mei Chang, Hongkai Bao, Austin Golia, Terrence Mcsweeney, Linda Bard, Roxanne Simpson, Erin Andrews, Liise-anne Pirofski and Priya Nori
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:645
  45. The ability of SARS-CoV-2 to remain in asymptomatic individuals facilitates its dissemination and makes its control difficult. Objective. To establish a cohort of asymptomatic individuals, change to the sympto...

    Authors: Caty Martínez, Héctor Serrano-Coll, Álvaro Faccini, Verónica Contreras, Ketty Galeano, Yesica Botero, Yonairo Herrera, Alejandra Garcia, Evelin Garay, Ricardo Rivero, Héctor Contreras, Yesica López, Camilo Guzmán, Jorge Miranda, Germán Arrieta and Salim Mattar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:644
  46. Serological methods provide useful metrics to estimate age-specific period prevalence in settings of low malaria transmission; however, evidence on the use of seropositivity as an endpoint remains scarce in st...

    Authors: T. Druetz, L. van den Hoogen, G. Stresman, V. Joseph, K. E. S. Hamre, C. Fayette, F. Monestime, J. Presume, I. Romilus, G. Mondélus, T. Elismé, S. Cooper, D. Impoinvil, R. A. Ashton, E. Rogier, A. Existe…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:643
  47. Patient retention in care and sustained viral load suppression are a cornerstone to improved health and quality of life, among people living with HIV. However, challenges of retention on ART remain among femal...

    Authors: Lydia Atuhaire, Constance S. Shumba, Lovemore Mapahla and Peter S. Nyasulu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:642
  48. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven public health intervention strategies, including keeping social distance, wearing masks in crowded places, and having good health habits, to prevent the transmission of the nov...

    Authors: Ziwei Wu, Ziyi Chen, Siyu Long, Aiping Wu and Hongsheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:641

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