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  1. The impaired transplacental passage of IgG from mothers living with HIV to their infants could be one of the causes of the high vulnerability to infections of HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) infants, but controve...

    Authors: Silvia Baroncelli, Clementina M. Galluzzo, Stefano Orlando, Robert Mphwere, Thom Kavalo, Richard Luhanga, Roberta Amici, Marco Floridia, Mauro Andreotti, Fausto Ciccacci, Maria Cristina Marazzi and Marina Giuliano
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:342
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  2. Some tuberculosis (TB) treatment guidelines recommend daily TB treatment in both the intensive and continuation phases of treatment in HIV-positive persons to decrease the risk of relapse and acquired drug res...

    Authors: Brenda Crabtree-Ramirez, Cathy A. Jenkins, Bryan E. Shepherd, Karu Jayathilake, Valdilea G. Veloso, Gabriela Carriquiry, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Claudia P. Cortes, Dennis Padgett, Catherine McGowan, Juan Sierra-Madero, Serena Koenig, Jean W. Pape and Timothy R. Sterling
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:341
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  3. Knowledge of the prevalence of HPV infection among adolescent and early adult girls is essential to determining the best age for the introduction of HPV vaccine, monitoring vaccine efficacy, and giving insight...

    Authors: Nanma T. Cosmas, Lohya Nimzing, Daniel Egah, Ayo Famooto, Sally N. Adebamowo and Clement A. Adebamowo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:340
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  4. Non-conversion of sputum culture or smear within 2 months after the start of treatment is a known poor prognostic factor of pulmonary tuberculosis. In elderly patients, sputum conversion may be delayed because...

    Authors: Yuta Nakamura, Mari Yamasue, Kosaku Komiya, Shuichi Takikawa, Kazufumi Hiramatsu and Jun-ichi Kadota
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:339
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  5. To analyse clinical characteristics, antibiotic susceptibility, and risk factors for mortality in paediatric invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in Beijing.

    Authors: Man Jiang, Xi Wang, Liang Zhu, Yong-hong Yang, Kai-hu Yao, Fang Dong, Wei Shi, Qing Wang, Wen-qi Song and Gang Liu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:338
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  7. The epidemiology of bloodstream infection (BSI) is well-established; however, little is known about the contribution of different pathogens to mortality. To understand true burden of BSI, pathogens contributin...

    Authors: Seok Jun Mun, Si-Ho Kim, Hyoung-Tae Kim, Chisook Moon and Yu Mi Wi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:336
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  8. Aureobasidium melanigenum is a ubiquitous dematiaceous fungus that rarely causes invasive human infections. Here, we present a case of Aureobasidium melanigenum bloodstream infection in a 20-year-old man with lon...

    Authors: Shinya Yamamoto, Mahoko Ikeda, Yuki Ohama, Tomohiro Sunouchi, Yasutaka Hoshino, Hiroshi Ito, Marie Yamashita, Yoshiaki Kanno, Koh Okamoto, Satoshi Yamagoe, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Shu Okugawa, Jun Fujishiro and Kyoji Moriya
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:335
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  10. Despite the vaccination process in Germany, a large share of the population is still susceptible to SARS-CoV-2. In addition, we face the spread of novel variants. Until we overcome the pandemic, reasonable mit...

    Authors: Martin J. Kühn, Daniel Abele, Sebastian Binder, Kathrin Rack, Margrit Klitz, Jan Kleinert, Jonas Gilg, Luca Spataro, Wadim Koslow, Martin Siggel, Michael Meyer-Hermann and Achim Basermann
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:333
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  11. The current surveillance system only focuses on notifiable infectious diseases in China. The arrival of the big-data era provides us a chance to elaborate on the full spectrum of infectious diseases.

    Authors: Lin Zhao, Hai-Tao Wang, Run-Ze Ye, Zhen-Wei Li, Wen-Jing Wang, Jia-Te Wei, Wan-Yu Du, Chao-Nan Yin, Shan-Shan Wang, Jin-Yue Liu, Xiao-Kang Ji, Yong-Chao Wang, Xiao-Ming Cui, Xue-Yuan Liu, Chun-Yu Li, Chang Qi…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:332
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  12. A range of strict nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were implemented in many countries to combat the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. These NPIs may also be effective at controlling seasonal influenz...

    Authors: Zekai Qiu, Zicheng Cao, Min Zou, Kang Tang, Chi Zhang, Jing Tang, Jinfeng Zeng, Yaqi Wang, Qianru Sun, Daoze Wang and Xiangjun Du
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:331
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  13. Respiratory infections among children, particularly community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), is a major disease with a high frequency among outpatient and inpatient visits. The causes of CAP vary depending on indiv...

    Authors: Eui Jeong Roh, Mi-Hee Lee, Ji Young Lee, Hyo-Bin Kim, Young Min Ahn, Ja Kyoung Kim, Hyoung Young Kim, Sung-Su Jung, Minji Kim, Eun Kyeong Kang, Eun-Ae Yang, Soo Jin Lee, Yang Park, Ju-Hee Seo, Eun Lee, Eun Seok Yang…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:330
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  14. The COVID-19 pandemic remains the main public health problem, due to the quick and easy dissemination of the causal agent, SARS-CoV-2 virus, around the world. Since the beginning of the pandemic, an opportune ...

    Authors: Diana Flores-León, Willi Quino, Alejandra E. Cúneo, Junior Caro-Castro, Evans Cucho-Meza and Ronnie G. Gavilan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:329
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  15. The host blood transcriptional levels of several genes, such as guanylate binding protein 5 (GBP5), have been reported as potential biomarkers for active tuberculosis (aTB) diagnosis. The aim of this study was to...

    Authors: Xiangyang Yao, Wei Liu, Xiaofei Li, Chenxi Deng, Tingdong Li, Zhouyue Zhong, Shuping Chen, Zhitan Ge, Xuejie Zhang, Shiyin Zhang, Yingbin Wang, Yongliang Liu, Chao Zheng, Shengxiang Ge and Ningshao Xia
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:328
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  16. Despite the high global disease burden of tuberculosis (TB), the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection, novel treatments remain an urgent medical need. Development efforts continue to be ha...

    Authors: Aksana Jones, Jay Saini, Belinda Kriel, Laura E. Via, Yin Cai, Devon Allies, Debra Hanna, David Hermann, Andre G. Loxton, Gerhard Walzl, Andreas H. Diacon, Klaus Romero, Ryo Higashiyama, Yongge Liu and Alexander Berg
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:327
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  17. The purpose of this study was to evaluate different pretreatment, extraction, amplification, and library generation methods for metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and to...

    Authors: Hanfang Jiang, Zhihao Xing, Xiaorong Liu, Qiang Chai, Zefeng Xin, Chunqing Zhu, Ruihong Lin, Xuwen Deng, Dong Cui, HongDan Gao and Dongli Ma
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:326
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  18. The health impacts of COVID-19 are not evenly distributed in societies. Chronic patients are highly affected and develop dangerous symptoms of COVID-19. Understanding their information seeking about COVID-19 m...

    Authors: Sisay Yitayih Kassie, Tesfahun Melese, Simegnew Handebo, Yakub Sebastian and Habtamu Setegn Ngusie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:325
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  20. The purpose of this study was to perform an assessment of circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) as promising biomarker for hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCV-HCC) through a meta-analysis.

    Authors: Yicheng Huang, Yingsha Chen, Sheng Tu, Jiajie Zhang, Yunqing Qiu and Wei Yu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:323
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  21. The world has been dealing with the SARS-COV-2 pandemic since December 2019 and a lot of effort has focused on tracking the spread of the virus by gathering information regarding testing statistics and generat...

    Authors: Halim Tannous, Shadi Akiki, Rasha E. Boulos, Charlene El Khoury Eid, Ghadi El Hasbani, Lea Maria Khoueiry, Lynn El Khoury, Rawan Tohme, Rim Moussa and Georges Khazen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:322
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  22. Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Control of TB is lingering by the lack of diagnostic tests that are simple, rapid, yet accurate. Thus, smear-negative pulmonary TB oft...

    Authors: Raksha Rimal, Dhiraj Shrestha, Susil Pyakurel, Rashmi Poudel, Prasha Shrestha, Kul Raj Rai, Gokarna Raj Ghimire, Ganesh Rai and Shiba Kumar Rai
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:321
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  24. Since the first official report of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Iran on 19 February 2020, our country has been one of the worst affected countries by the COVID-19 epidemic in the Middle East. In addition to demogra...

    Authors: Ezat Hesni, Babak Sayad, Fatemeh Khosravi Shadmani, Farid Najafi, Reza Khodarahmi, Zohreh Rahimi, Arezoo Bozorgomid and Nazanin Sayad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:319
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  25. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteria (ESBL-PE) in carriers have become a global health problem. Using molecular typing techniques, including PFGE, could be useful to determine the source o...

    Authors: Shadi Aghamohammad, Vajihe Sadat Nikbin, Farzad Badmasti and Fereshteh Shahcheraghi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:318
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  26. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 29% of global tuberculosis (TB) and almost 47% of childhood TB cases were not reported to national TB programs in 2019. In Cambodia, most childhood TB cases w...

    Authors: Yom An, Alvin Kuo Jing Teo, Chan Yuda Huot, Sivanna Tieng, Kim Eam Khun, Sok Heng Pheng, Chhenglay Leng, Serongkea Deng, Ngak Song, Sotheara Nop, Daisuke Nonaka and Siyan Yi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:317
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:370

  27. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation on the day of an HIV diagnosis or as soon as possible after diagnosis, known as rapid ART (henceforth “RAPID”), is considered to be a safe and effective intervention to ...

    Authors: Kimberly A. Koester, Lissa Moran, Noelle LeTourneau, Lyndon VanderZanden, Susa Coffey, Pierre-Cedric Crouch, Janessa Broussard, John Schneider and Katerina A. Christopoulos
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:316
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  28. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRI) leading to infant hospitalization, morbidity and postnatal mortality in children younger than 5 years of age...

    Authors: Marco Heppe-Montero, Stefan Walter, Valentín Hernández-Barrera, Ruth Gil-Prieto and Ángel Gil-de-Miguel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:315
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  29. To improve understanding of the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 infection, we examined seroprevalence, incidence of infection, and seroconversion among a cohort of young adults living on university campuses du...

    Authors: Christine C. Lee, Hannah E. Segaloff, Devlin Cole, Hannah G. Rosenblum, Clint N. Morgan, Tarah Somers, Rodel Desamu-Thorpe, Monique A. Foster, Dustin Currie, Jeanne Ruff, David Payne, Thomas J. Whyte, Glen R. Abedi, John Paul Bigouette, Juliana Kahrs, Kimberly Langolf…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:314
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  30. Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in infants and young children. However, the etiological role of viruses and the timing of developing LRTI are not well ...

    Authors: Kanako Otani, Mayuko Saito, Michiko Okamoto, Raita Tamaki, Mariko Saito-Obata, Taro Kamigaki, Irene C. Lirio, Edelwisa Segubre-Mercado, Veronica Tallo, Socorro Lupisan and Hitoshi Oshitani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:313
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  31. Kashgar prefecture is an important transportation and trade hub with a high incidence of tuberculosis. The following study analyzed the composition and differences in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) lineage and...

    Authors: Ai-Min Xu, Chuan-Jiang He, Xiang Cheng, AniKiz Abuduaini, Zureguli Tuerxun, Yin-Zhong Sha, Aihemaitijiang Kaisaier, Hong-Mei Peng, Ya-Hui Zhen, Su-Jie Zhang, Jing-Ran Xu, Li Li and Xiao-Guang Zou
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:312
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  32. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) impacts disadvantaged groups most. Lifestyle factors are also associated with adverse COVID-19 outcomes. To inform COVID-19 policy and interventions, we explored effe...

    Authors: Hamish M. E. Foster, Frederick K. Ho, Frances S. Mair, Bhautesh D. Jani, Naveed Sattar, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Jill P. Pell, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Claire E. Hastie, Jana J. Anderson, Barbara I. Nicholl, Jason M. R. Gill, Carlos Celis-Morales and Catherine A. O’Donnell
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:273
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  33. Knowing the age-specific rates at which individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop severe and critical disease is essential for designing public policy, for infectious disease modeling, and for individual ri...

    Authors: Daniel Herrera-Esposito and Gustavo de los Campos
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:311
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  34. Actinomycosis is an uncommon endogenous bacterial infection caused by Actinomyces species, characterized by the development of abscesses, tissue fibrosis, and fistulisation. It remains a diagnostic challenge, due...

    Authors: Flávia Cunha, David Lopes Sousa, Luís Trindade and Vítor Duque
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:310
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  36. While several safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines have been available since December 2020, many eligible individuals choose to remain unvaccinated. This vaccine hesitancy is an important factor affecting our ...

    Authors: Jessica Gardner, Gabriel Brown, Jadisha Vargas-Correa, Frances Weaver, Israel Rubinstein and Howard S. Gordon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:308
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  37. The air borne SARS-CoV-2 poses a high threat to the elderly and people with underlying diseases. COVID-19 spread quickly in South German nursing homes and for this reason called for preventive measures by the ...

    Authors: Linda Eichner, Christiane Schlegel, Gottfried Roller, Hannes Fischer, Rieke Gerdes, Felix Sauerbrey, Sarah Schönleber, Franziska Weinhart and Martin Eichner
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:307
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  38. Checkpoints inhibitors (CPIs) are increasingly used for the treatment of several malignancies. The most common side effects are Immune Related Adverse Events, while infectious complications are rare, especiall...

    Authors: Paul Petitgas, Mathieu Lesouhaitier, Sarrah Boukthir, Vincent Cattoir, Pierre Tattevin and François Bénézit
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:306
    Content type: Case report Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:371

  39. Cutibacterium modestum is one of the five species of the genus Cutibacterium. While C. acnes has been reported as an important pathogen in bone and joint infections, the clinical characteristics of C. modestum in...

    Authors: Hirokazu Toyoshima, Kaori Tanaka, Motoaki Tanigawa, Naoto Masuda, Chiaki Ishiguro, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yuki Nakanishi and Shigetoshi Sakabe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:305
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  40. Fungal infection secondary to a penetrating plant thorn injury in upper extremities is infrequently reported especially in immunocompetent hosts. Alternaria is a dematicaceous hyphomycete, commonly found in decay...

    Authors: Gyeongmin Kim, Seung Jin Yoo, Jeong Rae Yoo and Kyu Bum Seo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:304
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  41. To analyze the clinical features, risk factors and outcomes of Aeromonas bloodstream infections (BSIs) in patients with hematological diseases to establish an effective optimal therapy against it.

    Authors: Chunhui Xu, Qingsong Lin, Yuanqi Zhao, Guoqing Zhu, Erlie Jiang, Shangzhu Li, Yingchang Mi, Yizhou Zheng, Fengkui Zhang, Xiaofan Zhu, Zhijian Xiao, Mingzhe Han, Jianxiang Wang and Sizhou Feng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:303
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  42. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) are often associated with rural territories and vulnerable communities with limited access to health care services. The objective of this...

    Authors: Martha Milena Bautista-Gomez, Juliane Doerfler and Maria del Mar Castro
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:302
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  43. Globally, displaced populations face an increased burden of tuberculosis (TB). Uganda is currently hosting unprecedented big numbers of refugees from the East African region. Recent evidence shows increased sp...

    Authors: Esther Buregyeya, Edwinah Atusingwize, Juliet N. Sekandi, Richard Mugambe, Rebecca Nuwematsiko and Lynn Atuyambe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:301
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  44. Severe inflammation and one or more extrapulmonary organ dysfunctions have been reported and this clinical picture is defined as "multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults" (MIS-A) in severe coronavirus dis...

    Authors: Istemi Serin, Nagehan Didem Sari, Murat Gunaltili, Ayse Karakilic, Begum Gulesir, Beyza Kal Kolik, Gulnihal Cevik, Hilal Sungurlu, Melike Keskin, Muhammed Baltik, Onurhan Cakmak and Tahir Alper Cinli
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:300
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  45. This study explored disparities in characteristics and mortalities among four major transmission groups on antiretroviral therapy in northwest China as well as the survival impact of each transmission route.

    Authors: Shuo Feng, Zirong Zhu, Pengju Yang, Juan Jin, Huihui Tuo, Ning Wang, Ruimin Bai, Yan Sun, Liumei Song, Xiu Zhang, Shengbang Wang, Qiqi Duan, Yingjian Huang, Yan Zheng and Songhua Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:299
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  46. As a Neglected Tropical Disease associated with Latin America, Chagas Disease (CD) is little known in non-endemic territories of the Americas, Europe and Western Pacific, making its control challenging, with l...

    Authors: Jordi Gómez i Prat, Hakima Ouaarab Essadek, Juliana Esperalba, Francesc Zarzuela Serrat, Isabel Claveria Guiu, Lidia Goterris, Ricardo Zules-Oña, Estefa Choque, Conxita Pastoret, Natàlia Casamitjana Ponces, Juan José de los Santos, Jordi Serrano Pons, Aurore Dehousse, Pedro Albajar-Viñas, Tomàs Pumarola, Magda Campins…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:298
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  47. Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal parasite that can cause chronic infection, hyperinfection and/or a dissemination syndrome in humans. The use of techniques targeting ova fails to detect S. stercoralis, ...

    Authors: Tadesse Hailu, Arancha Amor, Endalkachew Nibret, Abaineh Munshea, Melaku Anegagrie, Maria Delmans Flores-Chavez, Thuy-Huong Ta Tang, Jose M. Saugar and Agustín Benito
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:297
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  48. The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has attracted great public health efforts across the world. Few studies, however, have described the potential impact of these measures on other impor...

    Authors: Haopeng Li, Feng Ling, Shiyu Zhang, Ying Liu, Chongjian Wang, Hualiang Lin, Jimin Sun and Yinglin Wu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:296
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  49. In the Emergency Department (ED), early and accurate recognition of infection is crucial to prompt antibiotic therapy but the initial presentation of patients is variable and poorly characterized. Lymphopenia ...

    Authors: Arthur Baïsse, Thomas Daix, Ana Catalina Hernandez Padilla, Robin Jeannet, Olivier Barraud, François Dalmay, Bruno François, Philippe Vignon and Thomas Lafon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:295
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  50. The impact of ventriculoperitoneal shunt on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biochemical profiles in HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis (HCM) patients remains unclear.

    Authors: Ran Tao, Lijun Xu, Yongzheng Guo, Xiaoke Xu, Jiesheng Zheng and Biao Zhu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:286
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