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364 result(s) within Volume 10 of BMC Infectious Diseases

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  1. Influenza pandemic outbreaks occurred in the US in 1918, 1957, and 1968. Historical evidence suggests that the majority of influenza-related deaths during the 1918 US pandemic were attributable to bacterial pn...

    Authors: Jaime L Rubin, Lisa J McGarry, Keith P Klugman, David R Strutton, Kristen E Gilmore and Milton C Weinstein
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Gonorrhea is a major sexually transmitted disease (STD) in many countries worldwide. The emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance has complicated efforts to control and treat this disease. We report the first s...

    Authors: Loubna Tazi, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Weiming Gu, Yang Yang, Lin Xue, Keith A Crandall and Raphael P Viscidi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:13
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Evidence for protection of preterm born infants from invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) by 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV7) is relatively sparse. Data from randomized trials is based on rela...

    Authors: Simon Rückinger, Mark van der Linden and Rüdiger von Kries
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:12
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Currently available tools cannot be used to distinguish between sub-species of the M. tuberculosis complex causing latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. M. africanum causes up to half of TB in West- Africa and its ...

    Authors: Bouke C de Jong, Abdulrahman Hammond, Jacob K Otu, Martin Antonio, Richard A Adegbola and Martin O Ota
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:11
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. It has been shown previously that administration of Francisella tularensis (Ft) Live Vaccine Strain (LVS) lipopolysaccharide (LPS) protects mice against subsequent challenge with Ft LVS and blunts the pro-inflamm...

    Authors: Saroj K Mohapatra, Leah E Cole, Clive Evans, Bruno W Sobral, Josep Bassaganya-Riera, Raquel Hontecillas, Stefanie N Vogel and Oswald R Crasta
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Few studies have assessed long term persisting immunity against hepatitis B virus (HBV) in children vaccinated during infancy with combined vaccines containing recombinant HBV surface antigen (HBs). We assesse...

    Authors: Michael Steiner, Gunasekaran Ramakrishnan, Britta Gartner, Olivier Van Der Meeren, Jeanne-Marie Jacquet and Volker Schuster
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:9
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Influenza immunisation for healthcare workers is encouraged to protect their often vulnerable patients but also due to a perceived higher risk for influenza. We aimed to compare the risk of influenza infection...

    Authors: Chris J Williams, Brunhilde Schweiger, Genia Diner, Frank Gerlach, Frank Haaman, Gérard Krause, Albert Nienhaus and Udo Buchholz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. We have previously reported a HIV-1 subtype A infection in a community of injection drug users (IDUs) in Karachi, Pakistan. We now show that this infection among the IDUs may have originated from a single source.

    Authors: Mohammad A Rai, Vivek R Nerurkar, Suhail Khoja, Saeed Khan, Richard Yanagihara, Arish Rehman, Shahana U Kazmi and Syed H Ali
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Induction-maintenance therapy is a treatment regime where patients are prescribed an intense course of treatment for a short period of time (the induction phase), followed by a simplified long-term regimen (ma...

    Authors: Rachelle E Miron and Robert J Smith
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. A pandemic novel H1N1 swine-origin influenza virus has emerged. Most recently the World Health Organization has announced that in a country-dependent fashion, up to 15% of cases may require hospitalization, of...

    Authors: Tom Reichert, Gerardo Chowell, Hiroshi Nishiura, Ronald A Christensen and Jonathan A McCullers
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:5
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  11. Toxoplasmosis is an important zoonotic parasitic disease worldwide. In immune competent individuals, Toxoplasma gondii preferentially infects tissues of central nervous systems, which might be an adding factor of...

    Authors: Yue Xiao, Jigang Yin, Ning Jiang, Mei Xiang, Lili Hao, Huijun Lu, Hong Sang, Xianying Liu, Huiji Xu, Johan Ankarklev, Johan Lindh and Qijun Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Influenza is a major cause of morbidity and hospitalization among children. While less often reported in adults, gastrointestinal symptoms have been associated with influenza in children, including abdominal p...

    Authors: Charisma Dilantika, Endang R Sedyaningsih, Matthew R Kasper, Magdarina Agtini, Erlin Listiyaningsih, Timothy M Uyeki, Timothy H Burgess, Patrick J Blair and Shannon D Putnam
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Valganciclovir, the oral prodrug of ganciclovir, has been demonstrated equivalent to iv ganciclovir for CMV disease treatment in solid organ transplant recipients. Variability in ganciclovir exposure achieved ...

    Authors: Nancy Perrottet, Oriol Manuel, Frédéric Lamoth, Jean-Pierre Venetz, Roland Sahli, Laurent A Decosterd, Thierry Buclin, Manuel Pascual and Pascal Meylan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:2
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Bacteremia and systemic complications both play important roles in brain pathophysiological alterations and the outcome of pneumococcal meningitis. Their individual contributions to the development of brain da...

    Authors: Christian Østergaard, Stephen L Leib, Ian Rowland and Christian T Brandt
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:1
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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