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  1. Toxoplasma gondii can infect almost all warm-blood animals including human beings. The plant-like calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) harbored by T. gondii are involved in gliding motility, cell invasion, ...

    Authors: Nian-Zhang Zhang, Si-Yang Huang, Dong-Hui Zhou, Jia Chen, Ying Xu, Wei-Peng Tian, Jing Lu and Xing-Quan Zhu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:512
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Association studies have been employed to investigate the relationships between host single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and susceptibility to pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB). However, such candidate genetic m...

    Authors: Yu Yang, Xiangwei Li, Wei Cui, Ling Guan, Fei Shen, Jinsheng Xu, Feng Zhou, Mufei Li, Cong Gao, Qi Jin, Jianmin Liu and Lei Gao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:511
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  3. HIV transmitted drug resistance (TDR) surveillance is usually conducted by sampling from a large population. However, overall TDR prevalence results may be inaccurate for many individual clinical setting. We a...

    Authors: James I Brooks, Harrison Niznick, Marianna Ofner, Harriet Merks and Jonathan B Angel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:509
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  4. Maraviroc is an HIV-1 coreceptor antagonist that has shown good efficacy and tolerability in treatment-naive and treatment-experienced patients harboring CCR5-tropic virus. The use of Maraviroc in treatment si...

    Authors: Genny Meini, Angelo Materazzi, Francesco Saladini, Andrea Rosi, Ilaria Vicenti, Michele Mancini, Antonella Pirazzoli, Cinzia Caudai and Maurizio Zazzi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:508
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  5. Smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (SN-PTB), which is common in HIV-infected patients, is difficult to diagnose using smear microscopy alone. In 2007, the WHO developed an algorithm to improve the diagnosis...

    Authors: Simon Walusimbi, Freddie Bwanga, Ayesha De Costa, Melles Haile, Moses Joloba and Sven Hoffner
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:507
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  6. Noninvasive and convenient biomarkers for early diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) remain an urgent need. The aim of this study was to discover and identify potential biomarkers specific for TB.

    Authors: Jiyan Liu, Tingting Jiang, Liliang Wei, Xiuyun Yang, Chong Wang, Xing Zhang, Dandan Xu, Zhongliang Chen, Fuquan Yang and Ji-Cheng Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:506
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a serious challenge for antimicrobial therapy of nosocomial infections, as it possesses several mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance. In Central Greece, a sudden in...

    Authors: Apostolos Liakopoulos, Angeliki Mavroidi, Efstathios A Katsifas, Alexandros Theodosiou, Amalia D Karagouni, Vivi Miriagou and Efthymia Petinaki
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:505
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) bloodstream infection (BSI) is generally associated with the delayed administration of adequate antibiotics. The identification of risk factors and outcomes of VRE BSI is n...

    Authors: Sung-Yeon Cho, Dong-Gun Lee, Su-Mi Choi, Jae-Cheol Kwon, Si-Hyun Kim, Jae-Ki Choi, Sun Hee Park, Yeon-Joon Park, Jung-Hyun Choi and Jin-Hong Yoo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:504
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. The World Health Organization reported in 2007 that inclusion of PCV7 in national immunization programs should be seen as a priority, also encouraging countries to conduct appropriate surveillances for monitor...

    Authors: Juan Picazo, Joaquin Dueñas, Antonio Ramirez, Andres-Ricardo Perez, Emma Padilla, Susana Herrero, Carmen Gallegos, Esther Culebras, Cesar Balseiro and Cristina Mendez
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:503
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Hantavirus infections cause potentially life-threatening disease in humans world-wide. Infections with American hantaviruses may lead to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome characterised by severe cardiopulmonary di...

    Authors: Johan Rasmuson, Per Lindqvist, Karen Sörensen, Magnus Hedström, Anders Blomberg and Clas Ahlm
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:501
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  12. Evidence for the impact of inappropriate antimicrobial therapy on bacteremia is mainly from studies in medical centers. We investigated the impact of inappropriate antimicrobial therapy on bacteremia in a comm...

    Authors: Chih-Jen Yang, Yu-Chieh Chung, Tun-Chieh Chen, Hsu-Liang Chang, Ying-Ming Tsai, Ming-Shyan Huang, Yen-Hsu Chen and Po-Liang Lu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:500
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  13. Cervical cancer is caused by high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV). DNA testing of such high-risk types of HPV could improve cervical screening.The aim of the study was to compare the sensitivities and...

    Authors: Philippe Halfon, Maria Teresa Sandri, Audrey Raimondo, Sophie Ravet, Hacène Khiri, Mario Sideri, Guillaume Penaranda, Claire Camus and Maria Luisa Mateos Lindemann
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:499
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  14. The recommendation from the 2009 World Health Organization guidelines for managing dengue suggests that patients with any warning sign can be hospitalized for observation and management. We evaluated the utili...

    Authors: Yee-Sin Leo, Victor C Gan, Ee-Ling Ng, Ying Hao, Lee-Ching Ng, Kwoon-Yong Pok, Frederico Dimatatac, Chi-Jong Go and David C Lye
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:498
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  15. Despite efforts to eliminate leprosy as public health problem, delayed diagnosis and disabilities still occur in many countries. Leprosy diagnosis remains based on clinical manifestations and the number of cli...

    Authors: Ludimila Paula Vaz Cardoso, Ronaldo Ferreira Dias, Aline Araújo Freitas, Emerith Mayra Hungria, Regiane Morillas Oliveira, Marco Collovati, Steven G Reed, Malcolm S Duthie and Mariane Martins Araújo Stefani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:497
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  16. Following the recent transfer of all accepted species of Penicillium subgenus Biverticillium to Talaromyces (including Talaromyces marneffei, formerly Penicillium marneffei), Penicillium species are becoming incr...

    Authors: Min Chen, Jos Houbraken, Weihua Pan, Chao Zhang, Hao Peng, Lihui Wu, Deqiang Xu, Yiping Xiao, Zhilong Wang and Wanqing Liao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:496
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  17. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been described as an emerging pathogen in Brazil and seems to be widely disseminated among swine herds. An autochthonous human case of acute hepatitis E was recently reported. To ob...

    Authors: Lilian G de Carvalho, Renato S Marchevsky, Debora RL dos Santos, Jaqueline M de Oliveira, Vanessa S de Paula, Leilane M Lopes, Wilhelmus HM Van der Poel, Jorge E González, Maria S Munné, Julio Moran, Ana Carolina R A Cajaraville, Marcelo Pelajo-Machado, Oswaldo G Cruz and Marcelo A Pinto
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:495
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  18. Toxoplasma gondii is a widespread intracellular parasite, which infects most vertebrate animal hosts and causes zoonotic infection in humans. Vaccine strategy remains a promising method for the prevention and co...

    Authors: Min Meng, Aihua Zhou, Gang Lu, Lin Wang, Guanghui Zhao, Yali Han, Huaiyu Zhou, Hua Cong, Qunli Zhao, Xing-Quan Zhu and Shenyi He
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:494
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are opportunistic pathogens in immuno-compromised patients. They are also increasingly recognized as pathogens in immuno-competent individuals. Globally, an increase in NTM i...

    Authors: Imran Ahmed, Kauser Jabeen and Rumina Hasan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:493
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. More than 90 immunologically distinct serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae exist, and it is not fully elucidated whether the serotype is a risk factor for severity of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). Our hyp...

    Authors: Jonas Ahl, Nils Littorin, Arne Forsgren, Inga Odenholt, Fredrik Resman and Kristian Riesbeck
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:492
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Patients newly colonised with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are at higher risk of clinical MRSA infection. At present, there are limited data on the duration or magnitude of this risk in a ho...

    Authors: Michelle ND Balm, Andrew A Lover, Sharon Salmon, Paul A Tambyah and Dale A Fisher
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:491
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  22. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of nasopharyngeal carriage, serotype distribution, and penicillin resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children ≤6 years of age in Ghana.

    Authors: Nicholas TKD Dayie, Reuben E Arhin, Mercy J Newman, Anders Dalsgaard, Magne Bisgaard, Niels Frimodt-Møller and Hans-Christian Slotved
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:490
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  23. A rapid expansion of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) outbreaks has occurred and caused deaths in China in recent years, but little is known about the other etiologic agents except enterovirus 71 (EV71) an...

    Authors: Menghua Xu, Liyun Su, Lingfeng Cao, Huaqing Zhong, Niuniu Dong and Jin Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:489
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  24. The recent outbreak of Q fever in the Netherlands between 2007 and 2009 is the largest recorded Q fever outbreak. Exposure to Coxiella burnetii may cause Q fever but the size of the population exposed during t...

    Authors: Russell John Brooke, Mirjam EE Kretzschmar, Nico T Mutters and Peter F Teunis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:488
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  25. Enterovirus and herpes simplex viruses are common causes of lymphocytic meningitis. The purpose of this study was to analyse the impact of the use molecular testing for Enteroviruses and Herpes simplex viruses...

    Authors: Eduardo Casaroto, Alexandre R Marra, Fernando Morgadinho S Coelho, Joao Renato Rebello Pinho, Roberta Sitnik, Fernando Colombari, Elivane Silva Victor, Nair Hideko Muto, Carlos Senne, Oscar Fernando Pavão dos Santos and Michael B Edmond
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:487
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  26. Few studies have assessed the time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcome in fungal bloodstream infections (BSIs). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the time to positivity (TTP)...

    Authors: Cintia Zoya Nunes, Alexandre R Marra, Michael B Edmond, Elivane da Silva Victor and Carlos Alberto Pires Pereira
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:486
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. High prevalence rates of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) have been reported in Aboriginal people in remote and regional areas of Australia for well over two decades, and repeat positivit...

    Authors: Rebecca J Guy, Lisa Natoli, James Ward, Louise Causer, Belinda Hengel, David Whiley, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Basil Donovan, Christopher K Fairley, Steven B Badman, Annie Tangey, Handan Wand, Mark Shephard, David G Regan, David Wilson, David Anderson…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:485
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  28. Previous studies have shown that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) Uganda family, a sub-lineage of the MTB Lineage 4, is the main cause of tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda. Using a well characterized patient population...

    Authors: Eddie M Wampande, Ezekiel Mupere, Sara M Debanne, Benon B Asiimwe, Mary Nsereko, Harriet Mayanja, Kathleen Eisenach, Gilla Kaplan, Henry W Boom, Sebastien Gagneux and Moses L Joloba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:484
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. A high prevalence of bacterial nasopharyngeal co-infections has been reported in children, however, such data is limited in adults. We examined the interaction of Haemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus aureus and...

    Authors: Tinevimbo Shiri, Marta C Nunes, Peter V Adrian, Nadia Van Niekerk, Keith P Klugman and Shabir A Madhi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:483
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Administration of rifampicin along with nevirapine reduces the plasma concentration of nevirapine in human immunodeficiency virus positive individuals with concomitant tuberculosis (HIV-TB patients). Nevirapin...

    Authors: Sanjeev Sinha, Puroshottam Raghunandan, Rahul Chandrashekhar, Surendra K Sharma, Sanjiv Kumar, Sahajal Dhooria, Meera Ekka, Thirumurthy Velpandian, Sanjay Ranjan, Hafeez Ahmad, Jyotish Chandra Samantaray, Srinivasaraghavan Venkatesh, Bharat Bhushan Rewari, Nawaid Hussain Khan and Ravindra Mohan Pandey
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:482
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  31. Sexually transmitted diseases and most notably syphilis-infections are rising amongst men who have sex with men. In HIV-co-infected patients, an accelerated clinical course of syphilis neurological involvement...

    Authors: Christoph D Spinner, Sebastian Noe, Christiane Schwerdtfeger, Antonia Todorova, Jochen Gaa, Roland M Schmid, Dirk H Busch and Michael Neuenhahn
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:481
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  32. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common condition, although its aetiology remains unexplained. The aim of this study was to analyse the composition of vaginal microbiota in women from Greenland to provide a quant...

    Authors: Raluca Datcu, Dionne Gesink, Gert Mulvad, Ruth Montgomery-Andersen, Elisabeth Rink, Anders Koch, Peter Ahrens and Jørgen Skov Jensen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:480
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  33. Mycobacteirum wolinskyi is a member of the Mycobacterium smegmatis group, which is less frequently found in clinical settings than other nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) species. However, its clinical signific...

    Authors: Seung Jin Yoo, Keun Hwa Lee, Sung-No Jung and Sang Taek Heo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:479
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  34. Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), including resistance to both rifampicin (RIF) and isoniazid (INH) referred to as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), has become an increasing global threat in recent ye...

    Authors: Eunjin Cho, Isdore Chola Shamputa, Hyun-Kyung Kwak, Jiim Lee, Myungsun Lee, Soohee Hwang, Doosoo Jeon, Cheon Tae Kim, Sangnae Cho, Laura E Via, Clifton E Barry 3rd and Jong Seok Lee
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:478
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Antibiotic resistance is a major global public health concern, particularly in settings where few treatment options are available. Limited research has been done on antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli of In...

    Authors: Pragya Shakya, Peter Barrett, Vishal Diwan, Yogyata Marothi, Harshada Shah, Neeraj Chhari, Ashok J Tamhankar, Ashish Pathak and Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:477
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up in resource-limited countries, with limited capacity for CD4 and HIV viral load monitoring, presents a unique challenge. We determined the effectiveness of first-line ART ...

    Authors: Oliver Barry, Jonathan Powell, Lorna Renner, Evelyn Y Bonney, Meghan Prin, William Ampofo, Jonas Kusah, Bamenla Goka, Kwamena WC Sagoe, Veronika Shabanova and Elijah Paintsil
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:476
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. We investigated the immune response to serogroup 6 with the opsonophagocytic killing assay (OPKA) in children aged 12–23 months of age after immunization with the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7)...

    Authors: Hyunju Lee, Jung Hwa Cha, Moon H Nahm, Robert L Burton and Kyung-Hyo Kim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:474
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  39. The aim of our work was to evaluate the potential impact of the European policy of testing for HIV all individuals presenting with an indicator disease, to prevent late diagnosis of HIV. We report on a retrosp...

    Authors: Paola Scognamiglio, Giacomina Chiaradia, Gabriella De Carli, Massimo Giuliani, Claudio Maria Mastroianni, Stefano Aviani Barbacci, Anna Rita Buonomini, Susanna Grisetti, Alessandro Sampaolesi, Angela Corpolongo, Nicoletta Orchi, Vincenzo Puro, Giuseppe Ippolito and Enrico Girardi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:473
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Some manufacturers recommend using 1.1 mL per application of alcohol-based handrubs for effective hand disinfection. However, whether this volume is sufficient to cover both hands, as recommended by the World ...

    Authors: Günter Kampf, Sigunde Ruselack, Sven Eggerstedt, Nicolas Nowak and Muhammad Bashir
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:472
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  41. Non-AIDS defining cancers (NADC) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV-positive individuals. Using data from a large international cohort of HIV-positive individuals, we described the incide...

    Authors: Signe W Worm, Mark Bower, Peter Reiss, Fabrice Bonnet, Matthew Law, Gerd Fätkenheuer, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte, Donald I Abrams, Andrew Grulich, Eric Fontas, Ole Kirk, Hansjakob Furrer, Stephane De Wit, Andrew Phillips, Jens D Lundgren and Caroline A Sabin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:471
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. In Italy the prevalence of genital warts in women (15–64 years) is approximately 0.6% with an incidence of 0.4% per year. Treatments for GW are usually long, with moderate success and high costs. The aim of th...

    Authors: Maria Michela Gianino, Sergio Delmonte, Emanuela Lovato, Morena Martinese, Sabrina Rondoletti, Maria Grazia Bernengo and Carla Maria Zotti
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:470
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  43. The Erythrocyte Binding Antigen (EBA) 175 has been considered as one of the most important Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) merozoite ligands that mediate invasion of the erythrocytes through their sialated ...

    Authors: Ahmed AM Adam, Ahmed AA Amine, Dina A Hassan, Waleed H Omer, Bakri Y Nour, Arulanantham Zechariah Jebakumar, Muntaser E Ibrahim, Nasreldin H Abdulhadi and Hiba S Mohamed
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:469
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  44. Despite the latest World Health Organization guidelines advocating daily therapy in HIV-TB co-infected individuals, there are few recent studies comparing outcomes of thrice-weekly anti-tuberculosis treatment ...

    Authors: Richa Vashishtha, Krishna Mohan, Bhagteshwar Singh, Satish K Devarapu, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Sanjay Ranjan, Deepak Gupta, Sanjeev Sinha and Surendra K Sharma
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:468
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  45. Differences in the susceptibility of Candida species to antifungal drugs make identification to the species level important for clinical management of candidemia. Molecular tests are not yet standardized or avail...

    Authors: Hemílio Xafranski, Analy SA Melo, Antonia M Machado, Marcelo RS Briones and Arnaldo L Colombo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:467
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  46. Klebsiella pneumoniae strains expressing ESBLs are a predominant cause of hospital acquired infections. Here we describe the molecular epidemiology of these isolates in a tertiary hospital in Tanzania, as potent...

    Authors: Stephen E Mshana, Torsten Hain, Eugen Domann, Eligius F Lyamuya, Trinad Chakraborty and Can Imirzalioglu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:466
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  47. Parvovirus B19 can cause petechial rashes in the acute phase of illness as well as erythema infectiosum (fifth disease) during convalescence. This petechial rash is often called “gloves and socks” syndrome bec...

    Authors: Masato Takeuchi, Ryosuke Shiozawa, Mayumi Hangai, Junko Takita and Sachiko Kitanaka
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:465
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. Penicilliosis marneffei is increasingly observed in individuals without HIV infection. This study aimed to compare the clinical and laboratory features among HIV infected and uninfected individuals with penici...

    Authors: Rathakarn Kawila, Romanee Chaiwarith and Khuanchai Supparatpinyo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:464
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  49. Epidemiologic data of Herpes Zoster (HZ) disease in Spain are scarce. The objective of this study was to assess the epidemiology of HZ in the Valencian Community (Spain), using outpatient and hospital electron...

    Authors: Nuria Morant-Talamante, Javier Diez-Domingo, Sergio Martínez-Úbeda, Joan Puig-Barberá, Sara Alemán-Sánchez and Lina Pérez-Breva
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:463
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  50. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually-transmitted pathogens. A number of studies in the literature have estimated the burden of HPV-related diseases by collecting data at primary care l...

    Authors: Vincenzo Baldo, Silvia Cocchio, Alessandra Buja, Tatjana Baldovin, Patrizia Furlan, Chiara Bertoncello and Mario Saia
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:462
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