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  1. Malaria infection during pregnancy has negative health consequences for both mothers and offspring. Sub-microscopic malaria infection during pregnancy is common in most African countries. We sought to identify...

    Authors: Aneth Vedastus Kalinjuma, Anne Marie Darling, Ferdinand M. Mugusi, Ajibola Ibraheem Abioye, Fredros O. Okumu, Said Aboud, Honorati Masanja, Davidson H. Hamer, Ellen Hertzmark and Wafaie W. Fawzi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:796
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Some patients who test positive for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) fail to return for results and treatment. To target improvement actions, we need to find out who these patients are. This study aimed ...

    Authors: Camille Rolland, Elise de La Rochebrochard, Prescillia Piron, Marc Shelly, Christophe Segouin and Pénélope Troude
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:795
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  3. Pulmonary hemorrhage is an important complication of leptospirosis. Once acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) occurs as a secondary condition, treatment is extremely difficult and the mortality rate is v...

    Authors: H. J. Wang, G. Z. Chen, C. J. Zhou, Y. FU and L. N. YAO
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:794
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  4. The program for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was launched in 2003 in China, but few studies have been conducted to describe the panorama of PMTCT...

    Authors: Yu Dong, Wei Guo, Xien Gui, Yanbin Liu, Yajun Yan, Ling Feng and Ke Liang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:792
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health concern in many low-income countries accounting for approximately two-thirds of deaths in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. With p...

    Authors: Henry Dilonga Meriki, Ndze Henry Wung, Kukwah Anthony Tufon, Nyeke James Tony, Irene Ane-Anyangwe and Fidelis Cho-Ngwa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:791
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  6. Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) is a mosquito-borne orthobunyavirus that causes acute febrile illness, meningitis, and meningoencephalitis, mainly among adults. JCV is widely distributed in North America and the ...

    Authors: Hirofumi Kato, Masaaki Satoh, Madoka Kawahara, Satoshi Kitaura, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Shuetsu Fukushi, Kristina Dimitrova, Heidi Wood, Masayuki Saijo and Mutsuyo Takayama-Ito
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:790
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. People successfully completing treatment for tuberculosis remain at elevated risk for recurrent disease, either from relapse or reinfection. Identifying risk factors for recurrent tuberculosis may help target ...

    Authors: Patrick George Tobias Cudahy, Douglas Wilson and Ted Cohen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:789
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  8. Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) represents a diagnostic and management challenge to clinicians. The “Thwaites’ system” and “Lancet consensus scoring system” are utilized to differentiate TBM from bacterial meningiti...

    Authors: Tarek Sulaiman, Sai Medi, Hakan Erdem, Seniha Senbayrak, Derya Ozturk-Engin, Asuman Inan, Rok Civljak, Mihai Nechifor, Ayhan Akbulut, Alexandru Crisan, Muge Ozguler, Mustafa Namiduru, Branislava Savic, Olga Dulovic, Filiz Pehlivanoglu, Gonul Sengoz…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:788
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. A cluster of acute respiratory illness, now known as Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), has become a global pandemic. Aged population with cardiovascular diseas...

    Authors: Shiqiang Xiong, Lin Liu, Feng Lin, Jinhu Shi, Lei Han, Huijian Liu, Lewei He, Qijun Jiang, Zeyang Wang, Wenbo Fu, Zhigang Li, Qing Lu, Zhinan Chen and Shifang Ding
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:787
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  10. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected people in many countries worldwide. Discovering an effective treatment for this disease, particularly in severe cases, has become the subject of intense scienti...

    Authors: Naser Gharebaghi, Rahim Nejadrahim, Seyed Jalil Mousavi, Seyyed-Reza Sadat-Ebrahimi and Reza Hajizadeh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:786
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:895

  12. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Olivia F. Hunter, Furaha Kyesi, Amrit Kaur Ahluwalia, Zeinabou Niamé Daffé, Patricia Munseri, C. Fordham von Reyn and Lisa V. Adams
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:784
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:738

  13. A cost effective and efficient diagnostic tool for COVID-19 as near to the point of care (PoC) as possible would be a game changer in the current pandemic. We tested reverse transcription loop mediated isother...

    Authors: Marc F. Österdahl, Karla A. Lee, Mary Ni Lochlainn, Stuart Wilson, Sam Douthwaite, Rachel Horsfall, Alyce Sheedy, Simon D. Goldenberg, Christopher J. Stanley, Tim D. Spector and Claire J. Steves
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:783
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Primary herpetic gingivostomatitis (PHGS) in children, though usually self-limited, might mimic bacterial and enteroviral pharyngitis clinically. We conducted a study to define the clinical features of PHGS in...

    Authors: Chen-Wei Huang, Chi-Hsien Hsieh, Ming-Ru Lin and Yhu-Chering Huang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:782
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  15. It is important to understand clinical features of bacteremic urinary tract infection (bUTI), because bUTI is a serious infection that requires prompt diagnosis and antibiotic therapy. Escherichia coli is the mos...

    Authors: Anthony D. Bai, Michael J. Bonares, Samuel Thrall, Chaim M. Bell and Andrew M. Morris
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:781
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  16. In December 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) began in Wuhan, China, and rapidly spread to other regions. We aimed to further describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics o...

    Authors: Sheng Lin, Hao Pan, Huanyu Wu, Xiao Yu, Peng Cui, Ruobing Han, Chenyan Jiang, Dechuan Kong, Yaxu Zheng, Xiaohuan Gong, Wenjia Xiao, Shenghua Mao, Bihong Jin, Yiyi Zhu and Xiaodong Sun
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:780
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has become a public health emergency of international concern. SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection is the diagnostic criterion for coronavirus diseas...

    Authors: Jialin Xiang, Zuyi Chen, Jie Zhou, Di Tian, Xiusheng Ran, Zhimin Zhang, Shi Shi, Daimin Xiao and Yuanzhong Zhou
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:779
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  18. International organizations advocate for the elimination of dog-mediated rabies, but there is only limited guidance on interpreting surveillance data for managing elimination programmes. With the regional prog...

    Authors: Kristyna Rysava, Tamara Mancero, Eduardo Caldas, Mary Freire de Carvalho, André P. B. Castro, Veronica Gutiérrez, Daniel T. Haydon, Paul C. D. Johnson, Rebecca Mancy, Lúcia R. Montebello, Silene M. Rocha, Jesús F. Gonzalez Roldan, Marco Antonio Natal Vigilato, Victor Del Rio Vilas and Katie Hampson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:778
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  19. There are limited data on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outcomes at a national level, and none after 60 days of follow up. The aim of this study was to describe national, 60-day all-cause mortality assoc...

    Authors: Ali S. Omrani, Muna A. Almaslamani, Joanne Daghfal, Rand A. Alattar, Mohamed Elgara, Shahd H. Shaar, Tawheeda B. H. Ibrahim, Ahmed Zaqout, Dana Bakdach, Abdelrauof M. Akkari, Anas Baiou, Bassem Alhariri, Reem Elajez, Ahmed A. M. Husain, Mohamed N. Badawi, Fatma Ben Abid…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:777
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Antibiotic resistance is on the rise. A contributing factor to antibiotic resistance is the misuse of antibiotics in hospitals. The current use of antibiotics in ICUs in Malawi is not well documented and there...

    Authors: Raphael Kazidule Kayambankadzanja, Moses Lihaka, Andreas Barratt-Due, Mtisunge Kachingwe, Wezzie Kumwenda, Rebecca Lester, Sithembile Bilima, Jaran Eriksen and Tim Baker
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:776
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Since December 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged as a novel etiologic agent of viral pneumonia. We aimed to compare clinical features of 165 Italian patients with l...

    Authors: Giulia De Angelis, Brunella Posteraro, Federico Biscetti, Gianluca Ianiro, Lorenzo Zileri Dal Verme, Paola Cattani, Francesco Franceschi, Maurizio Sanguinetti and Antonio Gasbarrini
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:775
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Thrombocytopenia was common in the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) patients during the infection, especially in severe COVID-19 patients, but was less in the non-severe Covid-19 patients. However, the platelet ...

    Authors: Xia Wu, Dongxia Luo, Yaling Liu, Yilan Zeng and Yuping Gong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:774
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  23. Globally, the majority of people living with HIV have no or only limited access to HIV drug resistance testing to guide the selection of antiretroviral drugs. This is of particular concern for children and ado...

    Authors: Jennifer Anne Brown, Isaac Ringera, Ezekiel Luoga, Molisana Cheleboi, Namvua Kimera, Josephine Muhairwe, Buntshi Paulin Kayembe, Mosa Molapo Hlasoa, Lorraine Kabundi, Ching Wey David Yav, Buoang Mothobi, Lineo Thahane, Alain Amstutz, Nadine Bachmann, Getrud Joseph Mollel, Moniek Bresser…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:773
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  24. CRF_BC recombinants, including CRF07_BC and CRF08_BC, were considered the predominant subtypes in China. Since the discovery of HIV-1 circulating recombinant form CRF 85_BC in Southwest China in 2016, this BC ...

    Authors: Ling Su, Yi Feng, Shu Liang, Yali Zeng, Yiping Li, Hong Yang, Li Ye, Qiushi Wang, Dongbin Wei, Dan Yuan, Wenhong Lai and Linglin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:772
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. COVID-19 is novel infectious disease with an evolving understanding of its epidemiology and clinical manifestations. Severe cases developed life-threatening complications, such as respiratory failure, shock, a...

    Authors: Jiu-Cong Zhang, Xiao-Hui Yu, Xiao-Han Ding, Hao-Yu Ma, Xiao-Qing Cai, Sheng-Chao Kang and Da-Wei Xiang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:771
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  26. Orbital mucormycosis is a rare but potentially severe and troublesome invasive fungal infection that could be occurred even in healthy individuals. The initial clinical presentation is similar to bacterial pre...

    Authors: Ali Amanati, Hamide Barzegar, Gholamreza Pouladfar, Anahita Sanaei Dashti, Mohamad Bagher Abtahi, Bijan Khademi, Mohammad Javad Ashraf, Parisa Badiee, Seyedeh Sedigheh Hamzavi and Ali Kashkooe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:770
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  27. Norwegian children are more frequently hospitalized with influenza than adults. Little is known about the characteristics of these children. Our aim was to investigate the presence of pre-existing risk conditi...

    Authors: Siri Helene Hauge, Inger Johanne Bakken, Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio and Siri Eldevik Håberg
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:769
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2021 21:197

  28. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a double stranded DNA virus and ubiquitous in nature. Association of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) and CMV is well known but CMV acute myositis is a rare condition. Restriction of move...

    Authors: Varatharajan Sakthivadivel, Palanisamy Naveenraj, Arjun Kachhwaha, Deepak Kumar, Puneeth Babu Anne, Poonam Elhence and Mahadev Meena
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:768
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  29. Ureaplasma urealyticum is an intra-cellular bacterium frequently found colonizing the genital tract. Known complications include localized infections, which can result in premature deliveries. Septic arthritis du...

    Authors: Jaad Mahlouly, Loic Lhopitallier, Véronique Suttels, Linda Mueller, Diane Wernly, Olivier Borens and Sylvain Steinmetz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:767
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  30. Evaluating the completeness of tuberculosis (TB) notification data is important for monitoring of TB surveillance systems. We conducted an inventory study to calculate TB underreporting in Germany in 2013–2017.

    Authors: Teresa Domaszewska, Basel Karo, Ute Preuss, Christian Kollan, Annicka Reuss, Hans-Peter Blank, Bonita Brodhun, Barbara Hauer, Doris Altmann, Lena Fiebig, Walter Haas and Nita Perumal
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:766
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), may lead to severe systemic inflammatory response, pulmonary damage, and even...

    Authors: Sergio Fragoso-Saavedra, David A. Iruegas-Nunez, Alejandro Quintero-Villegas, H. Benjamín García-González, Isaac Nuñez, Sergio L. Carbajal-Morelos, Belem M. Audelo-Cruz, Sarahi Arias-Martínez, Yanink Caro-Vega, Juan José Calva, Verónica Luqueño-Martínez, Alejandra González-Duarte, Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez, José C. Crispín, Juan Sierra-Madero, Pablo F. Belaunzarán-Zamudio…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:765
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  32. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Luz A. González-Hernández, Mariana del Rocio Ruiz-Briseño, Karina Sánchez-Reyes, Monserrat Alvarez-Zavala, Natali Vega-Magaña, Alvaro López-Iñiguez, Julio A. Díaz-Ramos, Pedro Martínez-Ayala, R. A. Soria-Rodriguez, Moises Ramos-Solano and Jaime F. Andrade-Villanueva
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:764
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:234

  33. A lower level of consciousness is a common presentation in critical care, with many different causes and contributory factors, of which more than one may be present concurrently.

    Authors: Chung Li, Ming-Yieh Peng, Chia-Hui Chang, Yuan-Yu Hsu, Min-Shiau Hsieh, Shinn-Kuang Lin, Yi-Hsin Lee and Mei-Chen Yang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:763
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  34. Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is commonly associated with outcomes like recurrence and readmission. The effect of social determinants of health, such as ‘neighborhood’ socioeconomic disadvantage, on a ...

    Authors: Elizabeth Scaria, W. Ryan Powell, Jen Birstler, Oguzhan Alagoz, Daniel Shirley, Amy J. H. Kind and Nasia Safdar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:762
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Device-associated health care-associated infections (DA-HAIs) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients constitute a major therapeutic issue complicating the regular hospitalisation process and having influence on...

    Authors: Wieslawa Duszynska, Victor Daniel Rosenthal, Aleksander Szczesny, Katarzyna Zajaczkowska, Michal Fulek and Jacek Tomaszewski
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:761
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  36. A more stringent QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT) conversion (from negative to positive) definition has been proposed to allow more definite detection of recent tuberculosis (TB) infection. We explored altern...

    Authors: Rosa Sloot, Kwame Shanaube, Mareli Claassens, Lily Telisinghe, Ab Schaap, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Helen Ayles and Sian Floyd
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:760
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination by 2030, as targeted by the World Health Organization (WHO), requires that 90% of people with chronic infection be diagnosed and 80% treated. We estimated the cascade of car...

    Authors: Cécile Brouard, Josiane Pillonel, Marjorie Boussac, Victor de Lédinghen, Antoine Rachas, Christine Silvain, Nathalie Lydié, Stéphane Chevaliez, Corinne Pioche, Julien Durand, Florence Lot and Elisabeth Delarocque-Astagneau
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:759
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. HIV infection exacerbates the prognosis of HCV infection, with a faster progression of hepatitis. Hepatic fibrosis is the major disruption of the hepatic tissue architecture characterized by anarchic depositio...

    Authors: Rodolphe Dobseu, Aubin Nanfack, Mathurin Kowo, Georgia Ambada, Rachel Kamgaing, Collins Chenwi, Nadine Fainguem, Aude Ka’e, Eric Ngangoum, Samuel Sosso, Clergé Tchiegang and Alexis Ndjolo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:758
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Individuals that work and sleep in remote forest and farm locations in the Greater Mekong Subregion continue to remain at high risk of both acquiring and transmitting malaria. These difficult-to-access populat...

    Authors: Sara E. Canavati, Gerard C. Kelly, Cesia E. Quintero, Thuan Huu Vo, Long Khanh Tran, Thang Duc Ngo, Duong Thanh Tran, Kimberly A. Edgel and Nicholas J. Martin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:757
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) dramatically increases the risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB). Several studies have indicated that co-infection with TB increases the risk of HIV ...

    Authors: Vivek Gopalakrishnan, Eliezer Bose, Usha Nair, Yuwei Cheng and Musie Ghebremichael
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:756
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Saksenaea species (spp.) are uncommon causes of mucormycosis but are emerging pathogens mostly associated with trauma and soil contamination often in immunocompetent hosts. Due to lack of sporulation in the labor...

    Authors: N. Davidson, K. Campbell, F. Foroughi, V. Tayal, S. Lynar, L. C. Crawford, S. E. Kidd, R. Baird, J. Davies and E. M. Meumann
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:755
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  42. Herpes esophagitis is uncommon disease caused by Herpes simplex virus (HSV). While the disease most often occurs in immunocompromised patients, including post-chemotherapy, immunosuppression with organ transpl...

    Authors: Nabil Antaki, Ziad Aljarad, Howayda Dabbas, Walid Haddad, M. Amin Akil and Ahmad Sankari Tarabishi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:754
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  43. Safety of live vaccines in patients treated with immunosuppressive therapies is not well known, resulting in contradictory vaccination recommendations. We describe here the first case of vaccine-associated mea...

    Authors: Alix Miauton, Rainer Tan, Vasiliki Pantazou, Renaud Du Pasquier and Blaise Genton
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:753
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  44. Molecular epidemiological studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) are the core of current research to find out the association of the M. tuberculosis genotypes with its outbreak and transmission. The high pre...

    Authors: Anamika Gupta, Pallavi Sinha, Vijay Nema, Pramod K. Gupta, Pampi Chakraborty, Savita Kulkarni, Nalin Rastogi and Shampa Anupurba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:752
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. HIV is a major public health issue, especially in developing countries. It is important to track and design successful intervention programs to explore the spatial pattern, distribution, and associated factors...

    Authors: Bayuh Asmamaw Hailu, Fentaw Tadese, Getahun Gebre Bogale, Asressie Molla, Birhan Asmame Miheretu and Joseph Beyene
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:751
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). Mapping the genetic diversity of MTBC in high TB burden country like Ethiopia is important to understand principles of the disease transmi...

    Authors: Biniam Wondale, Kwon Keehwan, Girmay Medhin, Takele Teklu, Temesgen Mohammed, Samuel Tolosa, Aboma Zewude, Friehiwot Amsalu, Rembert Pieper and Gobena Ameni
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:750
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Two months after the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China, tens of thousands of hospitalized patients had recovered, and little is known about the follow-up of the recovered patients.

    Authors: Tie-Jun Shui, Chao Li, Hong-bing Liu, Xiaohua Chen and Bi-ke Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:749
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Andrea Gramegna, Giovanni Sotgiu, Marta Di Pasquale, Dejan Radovanovic, Silvia Terraneo, Luis F. Reyes, Ester Vendrell, Joao Neves, Francesco Menzella, Francesco Blasi, Stefano Aliberti and Marcos I. Restrepo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:748
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:677

  49. Effective active case finding (ACF) activities are essential for early identification of new cases of active tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI). Accurate diagnostics as well as the ability to ide...

    Authors: Caroline Corbett, Aizat Kulzhabaeva, Tatjana Toichkina, Gulmira Kalmambetova, Sevim Ahmedov, Uladzimir Antonenka, Altyn Iskakova, Dilorom Kosimova, Dasha Migunov, Bakyt Myrzaliev, Evgeni Sahalchyk, Nagira Umetalieva, Monica Vogel, Abdylat Kadyrov and Harald Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:746
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Workers and residents in Care Homes are considered at special risk for the acquisition of SARS-CoV-2 infection, due to the infectivity and high mortality rate in the case of residents, compared to other contai...

    Authors: Jorge Julio Cabrera Alvargonzalez, Sonia Rey Cao, Sonia Pérez Castro, Lucía Martinez Lamas, Olaia Cores Calvo, Julio Torres Piñon, Jacobo Porteiro Fresco, Julio Garcia Comesaña and Benito Regueiro Garcia
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 20:745
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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