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  1. To examine the clinical characteristics of adult patients with community-acquired spontaneous bacterial meningitis (CASBM) with a fulminant clinical course.

    Authors: Chia-Yi Lien, Chun-Chih Chien, Cheng-Hsien Lu and Wen-Neng Chang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:859
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  2. To ensure emergency infection prevention and control (IPC) can be fully supervised and monitored in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic period, a three-level inspector mechanism called "Internal self-check...

    Authors: Yu Lv, Qian Xiang, Xiaoyan Jiang, Bo Zhang, Jiayu Wu and Hongrong Cao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:858
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  3. Every novel infection requires an assessment of the host response coupled with identification of unique biomarkers for predicting disease pathogenesis, treatment targets and diagnostic utility. Studies have ex...

    Authors: Charles Drago Kato, Julius Nsubuga, Nixon Niyonzima, Annah Kitibwa, Enock Matovu, Emmanuel Othieno, Patrick Ssebugere, Amanda Agnes Tumwine and Monica Namayanja
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:857
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  4. The neurological symptoms caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are of increasing concern. Convulsions are among the main neurological manifestations reported in children with ...

    Authors: Ting Shi, Yuanxi Bian, Jiahui Wu, Xiaohong Li, Jianping Deng, Tao Feng, Linlin Huang, Xiaoxing Kong and Jianmei Tian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:856
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  5. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, extensive testing was undertaken by independent clinical laboratories (ICLs), yet limited research exists on this matter. Drawing from Green Cross Laboratories (GC Labs)' pandemic r...

    Authors: You La Jeon, Sang Gon Lee, Eun Hee Lee, Sungwook Song, O-Jin Lee, Un Yeong Go, Ga-Young Chun, Hyun Mi Choi and Jin Young Choi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:855
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  6. Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a soluble pattern recognition receptor that plays a crucial role in modulating the inflammatory response and activating the complement system. Additionally, plasma PTX3 has emerged as a p...

    Authors: Ana Clara Cadidé Gonzaga Moraes, Renata Clesia Feitosa Viana da Luz, André Luís Magalhães Fernandes, Milena Xavier Silva Barbosa, Lorena Viana de Andrade, Anderson da Costa Armstrong, Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza and Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:853
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  7. Motor neuron disease (MND) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that leads to progressive loss of motor neurons. Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) is a rare etiology of community-acquired pneumonia characterized ...

    Authors: Huade Luo, Lingling Jiang, Jie Chen, Dongying Wang, Yingying Kong and Guangli Cao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:852
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:452

  8. Opioid use disorder (OUD) has been associated with adverse health outcomes, and its potential impact on COVID-19 outcomes is of significant concern. This study aimed to assess the susceptibility and clinical o...

    Authors: Mojtaba Hedayatyaghoobi, Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha, Arman Shafiee, Kyana Jafarabady, Omid Safari, Amirhesam Alirezaei and Mahmood Bakhtiyari
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:851
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  9. Human mpox has increasingly been reported worldwide since May 2022, with higher incidence in men who have sex with men (MSM) and persons living with HIV (PLHIV) with presentation typical for generalized macule...

    Authors: Syeda Sahra, Raul Orozco Villalobos, Brian M. Scott, Deidra J. Bowman, Joseph Sassine, Michelle Salvaggio, Douglas A. Drevets and Nelson Iván Agudelo Higuita
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:850
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  10. The severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections has led to the development of several therapeutic agents, with tocilizumab becoming increasingly used to treat patients with COVID-19-related pneu...

    Authors: Yukari Uemura, Ryoto Ozaki, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Hiroshi Ohtsu, Yousuke Shimizu, Kazuo Izumi, Sho Saito, Nobuaki Matsunaga and Norio Ohmagari
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:849
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  11. Lymphopenia is defined as a decrease below normal value (often 1.0 x 109 cells/L) of blood circulating lymphocyte count. In the general population, lymphopenia is associated with an increased risk of hospitalisat...

    Authors: ZC Elçioğlu, L Errington, B Metes, W Sendama, J Powell, AJ Simpson, AJ Rostron and TP Hellyer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:848
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  12. Research has shown that multidimensional approaches to Chagas disease (CD), integrating its biomedical and psycho-socio-cultural components, are successful in enhancing early access to diagnosis, treatment and...

    Authors: Jordi Gómez i Prat, Maria Serrano Gregori, Isabel Claveria Guiu, Estefa Choque, Maria Delmans Flores-Chavez, Israel Molina, Francesc Zarzuela, Elena Sulleiro, Aurore Dehousse, Pedro Albajar-Vinas and Hakima Ouaarab
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:847
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  13. Protection against SARS-CoV-2 is mediated by humoral and T cell responses. Pakistan faced relatively low morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 through the pandemic. To examine the role of prior immunity in the...

    Authors: Kiran Iqbal Masood, Shama Qaiser, Syed Hani Abidi, Erum Khan, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Areeba Hussain, Zara Ghous, Khekahsan Imtiaz, Natasha Ali, Muhammad Hasan, Haris Ali Memon, Maliha Yameen, Shiza Ali, Sadaf Baloch, Gulzar Lakhani, Paula M. Alves…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:846
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  14. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common pathogen associated with acute lower respiratory tract infections in infants and young children worldwide. RSV commonly presents as bronchiolitis in young c...

    Authors: Yingkang Jin, Dongwei Zhang, Kuimiao Deng, Peiqiong Wu, Diyuan Yang, Zhiwei Xie, Wenjun Qiu and Guangyuan Yu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:845
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  16. Whether different anti-hepatitis B virus (HBV) drugs have different effects on COVID-19 is controversial. We aimed to evaluate the incidence of COVID-19 in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients receiving anti-HBV...

    Authors: Xingmei Liao, Yujie Fan, Chunxiu Zhong, Siru Zhao, Liangxu Guo, Wenjuan Tan, Junhua Yin and Rong Fan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:843
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  17. We present a rare case of pathology-proven CMV pneumonitis in a patient with HIV infection after presenting with cough and fever. This presentation was complicated by recurrence of symptoms after treatment in ...

    Authors: Abbye W. Frederick, Ellen Kitchell, Clare McCormick-Baw, Vishal Kukkar and Mamta K. Jain
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:842
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  18. The studies on SARS-CoV-2 and human microbiota have yielded inconsistent results regarding microbiota α-diversity and key microbiota. To address these issues and explore the predictive ability of human microbi...

    Authors: Jie Zhou, Xiping Yang, Yuecong Yang, Yiru Wei, Dongjia Lu, Yulan Xie, Hao Liang, Ping Cui, Li Ye and Jiegang Huang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:841
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  19. The elderly with severe infection increased dramatically in intensive care unit (ICU). Proper antimicrobial therapy help improve the prognosis. Linezolid, as an antimicrobial drug, is commonly utilized to trea...

    Authors: Ying Xu, Xilan Yang, Pei Liang and Chen Qu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:840
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  21. Considering the fact that COVID-19 has undergone various changes over time, its symptoms have also varied. The aim of this study is to describe and compare the changes in personal characteristics, symptoms, an...

    Authors: Seyed Hossein Torabi, Seyed Mohammad Riahi, Azadeh Ebrahimzadeh and Fatemeh Salmani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:838
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  22. The neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), an inflammatory biomarker, measures innate-adaptive immune system balance. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we aim to analyze the current literature to eva...

    Authors: Jingyang Chen, Sanaz Yasrebinia, Arshin Ghaedi, Monireh Khanzadeh, Stephan Quintin, Abeer Dagra, Rodeania Peart, Brandon Lucke-Wold and Shokoufeh Khanzadeh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:837
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  23. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the vaginal microecology and the distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) subtypes in patients with uterine adhesions and explore the correlation between HPV infecti...

    Authors: Li Wang, Jiuzhi Zeng, Hanbo Liu, Hongzhou Xu, Yan Liu, Mengjun Luo and Weixin Liu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:836
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  24. The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, currently the most prevalent strain, has rapidly spread in Jingzhou, China, due to changes in the country’s epidemic prevention policy, resulting in an unprecedented increase...

    Authors: Wei Xia, Tao Jiang, Yafeng Tan, Chengbin Li, Song Wu and Bing Mei
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:835
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  25. The urgent need for new treatments for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR-TB) is evident. However, the classic randomized controlled trial (RCT) ...

    Authors: Liang Fu, Juan Xiong, Haibo Wang, Peize Zhang, Qianting Yang, Yi Cai, Wenfei Wang, Feng Sun, Xilin Zhang, Zhaoqin Wang, Xinchun Chen, Wenhong Zhang and Guofang Deng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:834
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  26. Droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) is a novel assay to detect pneumocystis jjrovecii (Pj) which has been defined to be more sensitive than qPCR in recent studies. We aimed to explore whether clinical features of pneumoc...

    Authors: Wenjie Bian, Yu Xie, Ying Shang, Lili Zhao, Zhengwu Yang, Xinqian Ma, Yukun He, Wenyi Yu, Wen Xi, Donghong Yang, Fang Wang, Yanwen Chen, Pihua Gong and Zhancheng Gao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:833
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  27. GeneXpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) assay was applied widely to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and rifampicin resistance.

    Authors: Qi Nie, Dan Sun, Muxin Zhu, Shengjin Tu, Nanshan Chen, Hua Chen, Yong Zhou, Ge Yao, Xiaoqing Zhang, Tongcun Zhang, Chengfeng Yang and Lixuan Tao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:832
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  28. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of the GeneXpert® MTB/RIF (Xpert®), Auramine O staining method, and Lowenstein-Jensen medium for bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis a...

    Authors: Kui Li, Qianqian Hu, Jun Liu, Siyi Liu and Yingli He
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:831
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  29. We investigated the associations between the different doses of tigecycline, its efficacy and safety, and the role of tigecycline therapeutic drug monitoring for patients in the intensive care unit.

    Authors: Xiang-rong Bai, Zhi-zhou Wang, Wen-chao Li, Yan-gai Wang, Ran Lou, Xin Qu, Linlin Fan, Wei Zhang, Yan-chuan Wu, Su-ying Yan and Lan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:830
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  30. COVID-19 induced cytokine storm is a well-documented phenomena that contributes significantly in the disease’s evolution and prognosis. Therefore, therapies such as therapeutic plasma exchange, constitute a ma...

    Authors: Mohamed Zakaria Bouayed, Ilyass Laaribi, Iliass Benaini, Asmae Yeznasni, Sara Berrajaa, Younes Oujidi, Houssam Bkiyar, Naima Abda and Brahim Housni
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:829
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:865

  31. With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the impact of recent coronavirus, especially in children, cannot be ignored. In this study, we evaluated the SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and associated features in children less th...

    Authors: Marzieh Jamalidoust, Mohsen Jalil, Zahra Ashkan, Moslem Sharifi, Rouhollah Hemmati, Anahita Sanaei Dashti, Mohammad Rahim Kadivar, Gholamreza Pouladfar, Ali Amanati, Seyeheh Sedigheh Hamzavi, Sadaf Asaie, Maryam Eskandari, Nasrin Aliabadi and Mazyar Ziyaeyan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:828
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  32. Sepsis in low-birth-weight neonates remains one of the most significant causes of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Approximately 3 million newborns suffer from sepsis globally every year. The aim of this stud...

    Authors: Edyta Golińska, Ł Kozień, A Tomusiak-Plebanek, J Kędzierska, M Dorycka, R Lauterbach, D Pawlik, B Rzepecka-Węglarz, M Janiszewska, PB Heczko, J Wojkowska-Mach and M Strus
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:827
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  33. Severe forms of COVID-19 are more common in patients with abnormal fat distribution, particularly high visceral adiposity. The patient’s muscle strength may be reduced during the acute phase of the infection. ...

    Authors: Juliana Bonfleur Carvalho, Grasiela Konkolisc Pina de Andrade, Ludiane Alves do Nascimento, Natalia Golin, Ana Lucia Chalhoub Chediac Rodrigues, Erika Suiter, Maryana Virginia Orellana Soprani and Ariane Severine Nadolskis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:826
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  34. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) ranks second among nosocomial infections in elderly patients after lung infections. Improper treatment can lead to death. This study analysed the risk factor...

    Authors: Li Shen, Ting Fu, Luguang Huang, Huiying Sun, Yu Wang, Lili Sun, Xiaoyun Lu, Jing Zhang, Zhaoxu Yang and Chunping Ni
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:825
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  35. The declaration of SARS-CoV-2 as a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 prompted the need to strengthen infection prevention and control (IPC) capacities within health care faciliti...

    Authors: Landry Kabego, Thierno Balde, Deborah Barasa, Babacar Ndoye, Okou-Bisso Hilde, Tendai Makamure, Guy Ohirweoluhya Mulumeoderwa, Trevor Kanyowa, Rashidatu Fouad Kamara, Boiro Hamadou, Opeayo Ogundiran, Joseph Okeibunor, George Williams, Jayne Byakika Tusiime, Phionah Lynn Atuhebwe, Boniface Oyugi…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:824
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  36. A test-based strategy against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the measures to assess the need for isolation and prevention of infection. However, testing with high sensitivity methods, such as qu...

    Authors: Kenji Ota, Hina Kodama, Yasuhide Kawamoto, Daisuke Sasaki, Fujiko Mitsumoto-Kaseida, Kei Sakamoto, Kosuke Kosai, Hiroo Hasegawa, Takahiro Takazono, Koichi Izumikawa, Hiroshi Mukae, Mya Myat Ngwe Tun, Kouichi Morita and Katsunori Yanagihara
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:823
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  38. Trueperella pyogenes (T. pyogenes) is a bacterium that colonizes the skin and mucosal surfaces of various domestic and wild animals. It rarely leads to infections in humans, with only a few descriptions available...

    Authors: Johann Stuby, Patrizia Lardelli, Christine M. Thurnheer, Manuel R. Blum and Andrea N. Frei
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:821
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  39. Because of the multidrug resistance features of Acinetobacter baumannii, endurance to diverse conditions, and causing health fatalities in healthcare settings, the global health system is looking for the developm...

    Authors: Terefe Hailemichael, Lencho Girma, Paulos Fissiha, Alene Geteneh and Tesfaye Kassa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:820
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:894

  40. The 2017 World Health Organization (WHO) report has listed extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E) as critical pathogens for public health and requiring urgently new antibiotics. The aim...

    Authors: Omer Aurelle Nkengkana, Raspail Carrel Founou, Luria Leslie Founou, Brice Davy Dimani, Patrice Landry Koudoum, Jessica Ravalona Zemtsa, Aurelia Mbossi, Cyrielle Signe Mawout, Larissa Tchakounte Tegang and Michel Noubom
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:819
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  41. Cross-reactive cellular and humoral immunity can substantially contribute to antiviral defense against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC). While the adult SARS-CoV-2 cellular and humoral immunity and its cro...

    Authors: Krystallenia Paniskaki, Sarah Goretzki, Moritz Anft, Margarethe J. Konik, Klara Lechtenberg, Melanie Vogl, Toni L. Meister, Stephanie Pfaender, Markus Zettler, Jasmin Jäger, Sebastian Dolff, Timm H. Westhoff, Hana Rohn, Ursula Felderhoff-Mueser, Ulrik Stervbo, Oliver Witzke…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:818
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  42. Research indicates that women in polygamous relationships may be exposed to unique sexual and reproductive health challenges. However, there are very few studies that examine whether polygamy is associated wit...

    Authors: Satveer Dhillon, Daniel Amoak, George N. Chidimbah Munthali, Yujiro Sano, Roger Antabe and Isaac Luginaah
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:817
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  43. In this study, we describe the epidemiological profile of an outbreak of the circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus type 2 in South Sudan from 2020 to 2021.

    Authors: Ayesheshem Ademe Tegegne, Atem Nathan Anyuon, George Awzenio Legge, Melisachew Adane Ferede, Zingbondo Isaac, Kirbak Anthony Laku, Sibhatu Biadgilign, Ochan Taban David Kilo, Fabian Ndenzako, Ndoutabe Modjirom, Olushayo Oluseun Olu and Sylvester Maleghemi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:816
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  44. Leprosy is rare within non-endemic countries such as Canada, where cases are almost exclusively imported from endemic regions, often presenting after an incubation period of as many as 20 years. Due to its rar...

    Authors: Matt Driedger, Iris Teo and Virginia Roth
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:815
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  45. The organ dysfunction that is associated with death in COVID-19 patients has not been determined in multicenter epidemiologic studies. In this study, we evaluated the major association with death, concomitant ...

    Authors: Ryuichi Nakayama, Naofumi Bunya, Takashi Tagami, Mineji Hayakawa, Kazuma Yamakawa, Akira Endo, Takayuki Ogura, Atsushi Hirayama, Hideo Yasunaga, Shuji Uemura and Eichi Narimatsu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:814
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  46. Both tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are major public health problems threatening global health. TB patients with DM have a higher bacterial burden and affect the absorption and metabolism for ant...

    Authors: Guisheng Xu, Xiaojiang Hu, Yanshu Lian and Xiuting Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:813
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  47. Urinary tract infections (UTI) in men differ relevantly to women by their pathogens. Gram-positive uropathogens play a relevant role in UTI in men. In this study, we aimed to analyze the epidemiology of Enterococ...

    Authors: Jonas Salm, Florian Salm, Patricia Arendarski and Tobias Siegfried Kramer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:812
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  48. The central nervous system is one of the most common sites of aspergillosis involvement in immunocompromised people, just after sinopulmonary infections. Neuroimaging modalities are crucial for the diagnosis o...

    Authors: Ali Amanati, Mehrzad Lotfi, Babak Abdolkarimi, Arian Karimi Rouzbahani and Golnaz Mahmoudvand
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:811
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  49. The breast milk bank is a professional organization that collects donor human milk (DHM) for special medical needs by recruiting qualified breast milk donors. Such organizations are also responsible for the di...

    Authors: Ke Liu, Zhiyong Liu, Xufei Chen, Rouzhi Wang and Dan Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:810
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  50. Malaria has not yet been eradicated in Iran, and Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) is the main cause of malaria in the country. This study aimed to investigate and analyze the amount of genetic diversity of Plasmodium ...

    Authors: Sholeh Mansouri, Aliehsan Heidari, Hossein Keshavarz, Parviz Fallah, Amir Bairami and Elaheh Mahmoudi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:807
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