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  1. Elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the general population, but its role as a predictive marker in HIV-positive patients remains unclear. ...

    Authors: Andrea De Luca, Katleen de Gaetano Donati, Manuela Colafigli, Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Amalia De Curtis, Andrea Gori, Laura Sighinolfi, Andrea Giacometti, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Alessandro D’Avino, Licia Iacoviello, Roberto Cauda and Antonella D’Arminio Monforte
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:414
  2. Chronic Q fever usually presents as endocarditis or endovascular infection. We investigated whether 18F-FDG PET/CT and echocardiography were able to detect the localization of infection. Also, the utility of the ...

    Authors: Dennis G Barten, Corine E Delsing, Stephan P Keijmel, Tom Sprong, Janneke Timmermans, Wim JG Oyen, Marrigje H Nabuurs-Franssen and Chantal P Bleeker-Rovers
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:413
  3. Enteric viruses are a major cause of diarrhea in children, especially those <5 years old. Identifying the viral agents is critical to the development of effective preventive measures. This study aimed to deter...

    Authors: Zengzhi Ren, Yuanmei Kong, Jun Wang, Qianqian Wang, Ailong Huang and Hongmei Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:412
  4. Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii cause coccidioidomycosis, a disease that is endemic to North and South America, but for Central America, the incidence of coccidioidomycosis has not been clearly established...

    Authors: Esperanza Duarte-Escalante, Gerardo Zúñiga, María Guadalupe Frías-De-León, Cristina Canteros, Laura Rosio Castañón-Olivares and María Rocío del Reyes-Montes
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:411
  5. An outbreak of serotype 1 invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) occurred in Central Australia from October 2010 to the latter part of 2012. Surveillance of serotype 1 carriage was conducted to determine epidemio...

    Authors: Jana YR Lai, Heather Cook, Teem-Wing Yip, Jeanette Berthelsen, Stephen Gourley, Vicki Krause, Helen Smith, Amanda J Leach and Heidi Smith-Vaughan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:409
  6. Detection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall antigen lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in urine permits diagnoses of tuberculosis (TB) to be made in HIV-infected patients with advanced immunodeficiency. This can b...

    Authors: Stephen D Lawn, Keertan Dheda, Andrew D Kerkhoff, Jonathan G Peter, Susan Dorman, Catharina C Boehme and Mark P Nicol
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:407
  7. Natural killer (NK) cells have emerged as pivotal players in innate immunity, especially in the defense against viral infections and tumors. Killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) – an important recogniti...

    Authors: Yongjun Jiang, Ou Chen, Chen Cui, Bin Zhao, Xiaoxu Han, Zining Zhang, Jing Liu, Junjie Xu, Qinghai Hu, Christina Liao and Hong Shang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:405
  8. Flexible bronchoscopy with bronchial washing is a useful procedure for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), when a patient cannot produce sputum spontaneously or when sputum smears are negative. However, ...

    Authors: Hongseok Yoo, Jae-Uk Song, Won-Jung Koh, Kyeongman Jeon, Sang-Won Um, Gee Young Suh, Man Pyo Chung, Hojoong Kim, O Jung Kwon, Nam Yong Lee, Sookyoung Woo and Hye Yun Park
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:404
  9. In Australia, higher rates of chronic hepatitis B (HBsAg) have been reported among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) compared with non-Indigenous people. In 2000, the Australian government imp...

    Authors: Simon Graham, Rebecca J Guy, Benjamin Cowie, Handan C Wand, Basil Donovan, Snehal P Akre and James S Ward
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:403
  10. Non-touch fittings have been reported to be susceptible for Pseudomonas aeruginosa accumulation. A number of factors may contribute to this, including the frequency of usage, duration of water stagnation, or pres...

    Authors: Miranda Suchomel, Magda Diab-Elschahawi, Michael Kundi and Ojan Assadian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:402
  11. Adherence to Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is a major predictor of the success of HIV/AIDS treatment. Good adherence to HAART is necessary to achieve the best virologic response, lower the risk ...

    Authors: Afiong O Oku, Eme T Owoaje, Olusimbo K Ige and Angela Oyo-ita
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:401
  12. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common agent of septic arthritis that is a severe, rapidly progressive and destructive joint disease. Superantigens produced by S. aureus are considered the major arthritogenic ...

    Authors: Priscila Maria Colavite-Machado, Larissa Lumi Watanabe Ishikawa, Thaís Graziela Donegá França, Sofia Fernanda Gonçalves Zorzella-Pezavento, Larissa Camargo da Rosa, Fernanda Chiuso-Minicucci, Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha, Gustavo Pompermaier Garlet and Alexandrina Sartori
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:400
  13. Assessing whether hepatitis C (HCV) co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated with increased inflammation is complex. The liver, integral to inflammatory biomarker synthesis, is compro...

    Authors: Kaku A Armah, Emily K Quinn, Debbie M Cheng, Russell P Tracy, Jason V Baker, Jeffrey H Samet and Matthew S Freiberg
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:399
  14. Descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM), a severe infection with a high fatality rate, develops in mediastinal spaces due mainly to deep cervical abscesses. The majority of causative microbes of DNM are Strept...

    Authors: Takahito Nei, Shunta Inai, Iwao Mikami, Akira Sato, Junichi Okamoto, Kazuhiko Yokoshima, Munenaga Nakamizo, Shuji Haraguchi, Kazunari Sonobe and Ryoichi Saito
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:398
  15. The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex circulating in patients with no known risk factors for multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) living i...

    Authors: Francesca Barletta, Larissa Otero, Jimena Collantes, Belisa Asto, Bouke C de Jong, Carlos Seas and Leen Rigouts
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:397
  16. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is an uncommon pathology characterized by the acute onset of headache, vomiting, altered consciousness, seizures and focal neurological deficits. It was init...

    Authors: Sarah C Sasson, Aileen Oon, Joga Chagantri, Bruce J Brew and Andrew Carr
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:396
  17. Adherence is one of the most important determinants of viral suppression and drug resistance in HIV-infected people receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART).

    Authors: Sylvia Kiwuwa-Muyingo, Hannu Oja, Ann Sarah Walker, Pauliina Ilmonen, Jonathan Levin, Ivan Mambule, Andrew Reid, Peter Mugyenyi and Jim Todd
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:395
  18. Reactivation of hepatitis B virus (HBV), characterized by increased levels of serum HBV DNA, abnormal liver function and hepatic failure, is a frequent complication of immunosuppressive therapy and chemotherap...

    Authors: Wenjun Du, Zhaomin Zheng, Shaolei Han, Shumin Ma and Shijun Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:394
  19. Bacterial meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae leads to death in up to 30% of patients and leaves up to half of the survivors with neurological sequelae. The inflammatory host reaction initiates the indu...

    Authors: Denise C Zysset-Burri, Caroline L Bellac, Stephen L Leib and Matthias Wittwer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:393
  20. Young children exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis have a high risk of disease progression following infection. This study aimed to determine risk factors for M. tuberculosis infection and disease in children f...

    Authors: James A Seddon, Anneke C Hesseling, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Katherine Fielding and H Simon Schaaf
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:392
  21. Interruption of measles transmission was achieved in Catalonia (Spain) in 2000. Six years later, a measles outbreak occurred between August 2006 and June 2007 with 381 cases, 11 of whom were health care worker...

    Authors: Luis Urbiztondo, Eva Borràs, Josep Costa, Sonia Broner, Magda Campins, José María Bayas, María Esteve and Angela Domínguez
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:391
  22. Despite increases in HIV testing, only a fraction of people newly diagnosed with HIV infection enter the care system and initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africa. We report on the design and initi...

    Authors: Ingrid V Bassett, Janet Giddy, Christine E Chaisson, Douglas Ross, Laura M Bogart, Sharon M Coleman, Tessa Govender, Marion Robine, Alison Erlwanger, Kenneth A Freedberg, Jeffrey N Katz, Rochelle P Walensky and Elena Losina
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:390
  23. Blastocystis sp. are among the most commonly observed intestinal parasites in routine clinical parasitology. Blastocystis in humans consists of at least 9 genetic subtypes. Different subtypes of Blastocystis may...

    Authors: Aldert Bart, Ellen MS Wentink-Bonnema, Henk Gilis, Nienke Verhaar, Carla JA Wassenaar, Michèle van Vugt, Abraham Goorhuis and Tom van Gool
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:389
  24. There are no accurate data regarding the real prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Spain. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of C. trachomatis infections and the risk factors for acquiring them a...

    Authors: Carlos Fernández-Benítez, Patricia Mejuto-López, Luis Otero-Guerra, Mario Juan Margolles-Martins, Pilar Suárez-Leiva and Fernando Vazquez
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:388
  25. Early and rapid detection of dengue virus (DENV) infection during the febrile period is crucial for proper patient management and prevention of disease spread. An easy to perform and highly sensitive method is...

    Authors: Boon-Teong Teoh, Sing-Sin Sam, Kim-Kee Tan, Jefree Johari, Mohammed Bashar Danlami, Poh-Sim Hooi, Rafi Md-Esa and Sazaly AbuBakar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:387
  26. With the remarkable increase of microbial and viral sequence data obtained from high-throughput DNA sequencers, novel tools are needed for comprehensive analysis of the big sequence data. We have developed “Ba...

    Authors: Yuki Iwasaki, Takashi Abe, Yoshiko Wada, Kennosuke Wada and Toshimichi Ikemura
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:386
  27. Escherichia coli is a major human pathogen, both in community and healthcare settings. To date however, relatively few studies have defined the population burden of E. coli bloodstream infections. Such informati...

    Authors: Deborah A Williamson, Alwin Lim, Siouxsie Wiles, Sally A Roberts and Joshua T Freeman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:385
  28. Australia uses acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance to monitor its polio-free status. The World Health Organization criterion for a sensitive AFP surveillance system is the annual detection of at least o...

    Authors: Linda K Hobday, Bruce R Thorley, Janet Alexander, Thomas Aitken, Peter D Massey, Michelle Cretikos, Anthony Slater and David N Durrheim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:384
  29. To clarify the molecular mechanisms that participate in the severe hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) infected by Enterovirus 71 and to detect any related protein biomarkers, we performed proteomic analysis o...

    Authors: Li Deng, Hong-Ling Jia, Chao-Wu Liu, Yu-Fen Xu, Li-Jia Mao, Chun-Hui He, Gen-Quan Yin, Jun-Hong Lin, Jian-Ping Tao and Li Zhu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:383
  30. Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has produced significant changes in mortality of HIV-infected persons. Our objective was to estimate mortality rates, standardized mortality ratios and excess mortalit...

    Authors: Victoria Hernando, Belen Alejos, Susana Monge, Juan Berenguer, Lourdes Anta, David Vinuesa, Rosario Palacios, Roberto Muga, Santiago Moreno and Inma Jarrin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:382
  31. Fournier’s gangrene is a rare necrotizing soft tissue infection of the scrotum and penis. We report, to our knowledge, the first case of Fournier’s gangrene caused by Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis

    Authors: Ram V Anantha, Katherine J Kasper, Kelcey G Patterson, Joseph J Zeppa, Johan Delport and John K McCormick
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:381
  32. Data regarding the most efficacious and least toxic schedules for the use of colistin are scarce. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and the potential risk factors of colistin-associated neph...

    Authors: Luisa Sorlí, Sonia Luque, Santiago Grau, Núria Berenguer, Concepción Segura, María Milagro Montero, Francisco Álvarez-Lerma, Hernando Knobel, Natividad Benito and Juan P Horcajada
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:380
  33. Chlamydia trachomatis is the most commonly diagnosed bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the developed world and diagnosis rates have increased dramatically over the last decade. Repeat infections of chl...

    Authors: Jane S Hocking, Lenka A Vodstrcil, Wilhelmina M Huston, Peter Timms, Marcus Y Chen, Karen Worthington, Ruthy McIver and Sepehr N Tabrizi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:379
  34. Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women. High-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) play a crucial role in the etiology of cervical cancer and the most prevalent genotype is HPV16. HPV 1...

    Authors: Zineb Qmichou, Meriem Khyatti, Mohamed Berraho, My Mustapha Ennaji, Laila Benbacer, Chakib Nejjari, Noureddine Benjaafar, Abdellatif Benider, Mohammed Attaleb and Mohammed El Mzibri
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:378
  35. Recent sepsis guidelines have focused on the early identification and risk stratification of patients on presentation. Obesity is associated with alterations in multiple inflammatory regulators similar to chan...

    Authors: Ethan F Kuperman, John W Showalter, Erik B Lehman, Amy E Leib and Jennifer L Kraschnewski
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:377
  36. Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients. Its epidemiology has shifted in recent years from almost exclusively infecting elderly patients in whom the gut microbi...

    Authors: Laith Yakob, Thomas V Riley, David L Paterson and Archie CA Clements
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:376
  37. High seroprevalence of parvovirus B19 (B19V) coinfection with Plasmodium falciparum has been previously reported. However, the impact of B19V-infection on the clinical course of malaria is still elusive. In this ...

    Authors: Nguyen L Toan, Bui T Sy, Le H Song, Hoang V Luong, Nguyen T Binh, Vu Q Binh, Reinhard Kandolf, Thirumalaisamy P Velavan, Peter G Kremsner and C-Thomas Bock
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:375
  38. The prevalence of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the Italian correctional population is estimated to be around 38%. In this setting HCV infection treatment is controversial because of several fac...

    Authors: Fabio Iacomi, Giuseppina Iannicelli, Andrea Franceschini, Paolo Migliorisi, Silvia Rosati, Pierluca Piselli, Paola Scognamiglio, Gabriella De Carli, Sonia Marcellini and Fabrizio Palmieri
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:374
  39. Mucosal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a necessary cause of cervical cancer. Vaccine and non-vaccine genotype prevalences may change after vaccine introduction. Therefore, it appears essential to rank...

    Authors: Erik Bernard, Margarita Pons-Salort, Michel Favre, Isabelle Heard, Elisabeth Delarocque-Astagneau, Didier Guillemot and Anne CM Thiébaut
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:373
  40. HIV infection is a risk factor for the development of Herpes zoster (HZ) and its complications. Prior to antiretroviral therapy (ART), HZ incidence in HIV-infected individuals ranged from 2.9–5.1/100 person-ye...

    Authors: Klaus Jansen, Burkhard Haastert, Claudia Michalik, Adrienne Guignard, Stefan Esser, Stephan Dupke, Andreas Plettenberg, Adriane Skaletz-Rorowski and Norbert H Brockmeyer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:372
  41. Legionella pneumophila (Lp) flagellin activates signaling pathways in murine macrophages that control Lp replication. Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD) containing-like receptor (NLR) family, caspas...

    Authors: William R Berrington, Kelly D Smith, Shawn J Skerrett and Thomas R Hawn
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:371
  42. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is recognized as an important cause of not only hospital acquired pneumonia, but also non-nosocomial pneumonia. However, the risk factors for non-nosocomial MRSA...

    Authors: Won Jai Jung, Young Ae Kang, Moo Suk Park, Seon Cheol Park, Ah Young Leem, Eun Young Kim, Kyung Soo Chung, Young Sam Kim, Se Kyu Kim, Joon Chang and Ji Ye Jung
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:370
  43. Mayaro virus is endemic in South America and sporadic outbreaks have been described. It causes a dengue-like febrile illness accompanied by severe and long-lasting polyarthralgias. Outside endemic regions, how...

    Authors: Christian Theilacker, Jürgen Held, Ludger Allering, Petra Emmerich, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Winfried V Kern and Marcus Panning
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:369
  44. Increasing virulence of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a mosquito-borne zoonotic pathogen is of grave concern because it causes a neurotrophic killer disease Japanese Encephalitis (JE) which, in turn, is r...

    Authors: Arindam Sarkar, Avishek Banik, Bani K Pathak, Subhra K Mukhopadhyay and Shyamalendu Chatterjee
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:368
  45. The emergency department (ED) represents an environment with a high density of invasive, and thus, infection-prone procedures. The two primary goals of this study were (1) to define the number of hand-rubs nee...

    Authors: Simone Scheithauer, Vanessa Kamerseder, Peter Petersen, Jörg Christian Brokmann, Luis-Alberto Lopez-Gonzalez, Carsten Mach, Roland Schulze-Röbbecke and Sebastian W Lemmen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:367
  46. Cholera has been endemic in Douala, since 1971 when it was first recorded in Cameroon. Outbreaks have often started in slum areas of the city including New Bell. Despite the devastating nature of outbreaks, al...

    Authors: Jane-Francis Tatah Kihla Akoachere, Thomas Njinuwoh Masalla and Henry Akum Njom
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:366
  47. The need for mandatory confirmation of negative conversion in Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia (KpB) has not been adequately addressed. We conducted a retrospective case–control study of adult patients with KpB o...

    Authors: Chang Kyung Kang, Eu Suk Kim, Kyoung-Ho Song, Hong Bin Kim, Taek Soo Kim, Nak-Hyun Kim, Chung-Jong Kim, Pyoeng Gyun Choe, Ji-Hwan Bang, Wan Beom Park, Kyoung Un Park, Sang Won Park, Nam-Joong Kim, Eui-Chong Kim and Myoung-don Oh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:365
  48. The present study aimed to characterize Mycobacterium tuberculosis population structure and to identify transmission chains and risk factors by prospective molecular typing in conjunction with conventional epidem...

    Authors: Séverine Ferdinand, Julie Millet, Annick Accipe, Sylvie Cassadou, Pascal Chaud, Maryse Levy, Max Théodore and Nalin Rastogi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:364
  49. The conjugate vaccine against serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis (NmA), MenAfriVac, was first introduced in mass vaccination campaigns of the 1-29-year-olds in Burkina Faso in 2010. The aim of this study was to g...

    Authors: Paul A Kristiansen, Absatou Ky Ba, Idrissa Sanou, Abdoul-Salam Ouédraogo, Rasmata Ouédraogo, Lassana Sangaré, Fabien Diomandé, Denis Kandolo, Jennifer Dolan Thomas, Thomas A Clark, Marc LaForce and Dominique A Caugant
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:363
  50. Countries of the Americas have been working towards rubella elimination since 2003 and endemic rubella virus transmission appears to have been interrupted since 2009. To contribute towards monitoring of rubell...

    Authors: Gillian H Lim, Tara Harris, Shalini Desai, Natasha S Crowcroft, Tony Mazzulli, Tina Kozlowski and Shelley L Deeks
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:362

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