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  1. Local understandings of malaria and use of preventive measures-are critical factors in sustained control of malaria. This study assessed caretakers’ knowledge on malaria, use of Long Lasting Insecticide Treate...

    Authors: Zewdie Birhanu, Yemane Ye-ebiyo Yihdego and Delenasaw Yewhalaw
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:629
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  2. Leptospirosis is a re-emerging zoonotic disease caused by pathogenic strains of bacteria belonging to genus Leptospira whose symptoms can range from mild clinical manifestations to a severe life threatening illne...

    Authors: Lalmani Regmi, Kishor Pandey, Meena Malla, Santosh Khanal and Basu Dev Pandey
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:628
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  3. Varicella or chickenpox was not a notifiable disease until 2005 in Sri Lanka and only a few studies have been conducted on the epidemiology of VZV infection in the country. The anti­VZV IgG sero-prevalence amo...

    Authors: Saluwadana Walawwe Pavithra Lakmini Daulagala, Faseeha Noordeen, Mohamed Mukthar Fathina Fara, Chathura Rathnayake and Kapila Gunawardana
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:625
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  4. Hepatitis C (HCV) infection causes an asymptomatic chronic hepatitis in most affected individuals, which often remains undetected until cirrhosis and cirrhosis-related complications occur. Screening of high-ri...

    Authors: H. Kileng, L. Bernfort, T. Gutteberg, O.S. Moen, M.G. Kristiansen, E.J. Paulssen, L.K. Berg, J. Florholmen and R. Goll
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:624
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  5. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to document high pediatric tuberculosis (TB) burden, especially among the urban poor. One recommended preventive strategy involves tracking and isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) f...

    Authors: Florence Nafula Okwara, John Paul Oyore, Fred Nabwire Were and Samson Gwer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:623
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  6. Dolutegravir (DTG) is metabolized mainly by uridine diphosphate (UDP)-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1), and partly by cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A). Therefore, we focused on UGT1A1 gene polymorphisms (*6 and *28...

    Authors: Hiroki Yagura, Dai Watanabe, Hiroyuki Kushida, Kosuke Tomishima, Hiroaki Togami, Atsushi Hirano, Masaaki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Hirota, Motoko Ikuma, Daisuke Kasai, Yasuharu Nishida, Munehiro Yoshino, Kunio Yamazaki, Tomoko Uehira and Takuma Shirasaka
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:622
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  7. A simple and accurate molecular diagnostic method for malaria is urgently needed due to the limitations of conventional microscopic examination. In this study, we demonstrate a new diagnostic procedure for hum...

    Authors: Kazuo Imai, Norihito Tarumoto, Kazuhisa Misawa, Lucky Ronald Runtuwene, Jun Sakai, Kyoko Hayashida, Yuki Eshita, Ryuichiro Maeda, Josef Tuda, Takashi Murakami, Shigefumi Maesaki, Yutaka Suzuki, Junya Yamagishi and Takuya Maeda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:621
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  8. The treatment failure and reinfection rates among syphilis patients are high, and relevant studies in China are limited. The aim of this study was to detect the rates of treatment failure and reinfection after...

    Authors: Zhenzhou Luo, Lin Zhu, Yi Ding, Jun Yuan, Wu Li, Qiuhong Wu, Lishan Tian, Li Zhang, Guomao Zhou, Tao Zhang, Jianping Ma, Zhongwei Chen, Tubao Yang, Tiejian Feng and Min Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:620
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  9. The clinical care of people living with HIV changed fundamentally as a result of the development of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART). HIV infection is now a long-term treatable condition. We report a nat...

    Authors: A. Molloy, H. Curtis, F. Burns and A. Freedman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:619
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  10. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) affects people worldwide but the local burden especially in pregnant women and their new born babies is unknown. In Rwanda HIV-infected individuals who are also infected with HBV are su...

    Authors: Mwumvaneza Mutagoma, Helene Balisanga, Samuel S. Malamba, Dieudonné Sebuhoro, Eric Remera, David J. Riedel, Steve Kanters and Sabin Nsanzimana
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:618
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  11. Surveillance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial susceptibility in Europe is performed through the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP), which additionally provides data to info...

    Authors: Michelle J. Cole, Gianfranco Spiteri, Susanne Jacobsson, Neil Woodford, Francesco Tripodo, Andrew J. Amato-Gauci and Magnus Unemo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:617
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  12. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely acknowledged as a global problem, yet in many parts of the world its magnitude is still not well understood. This review, using a public health focused approach, aimed ...

    Authors: Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Elizabeth A. Ashley, Stefano Ongarello, Joshua Havumaki, Miranga Wijegoonewardena, Iveth J. González and Sabine Dittrich
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:616
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  14. Bacterial pathogens are a major cause of childhood community acquired lower respiratory tract infections (CA-LRTIs), and few data described the impact of antimicrobial resistance on children with CA-LRTIs. Thi...

    Authors: Xiaoguang He, Mingyu Xie, Siping Li, Junqin Ye, Qi Peng, Qiang Ma, Xiaomei Lu and Baimao Zhong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:614
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  15. The relatively simple and cheaper light-emitting diode fluorescent microscopy (LED-FM) was recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to replace the conventional tuberculosis (TB) microscopy in both hi...

    Authors: Alemu Gadissa Gelalcha, Abebaw Kebede and Hassen Mamo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:613
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  16. Individual-based models (IBMs) are useful to simulate events subject to stochasticity and/or heterogeneity, and have become well established to model the potential (re)emergence of pathogens (e.g., pandemic in...

    Authors: Lander Willem, Frederik Verelst, Joke Bilcke, Niel Hens and Philippe Beutels
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:612
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  17. With potent antiretroviral drugs, HIV infection is becoming a chronic disease. Emergence of comorbidities, particularly cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become a leading concern for patients living with the in...

    Authors: Madeleine Durand, Carl Chartrand-Lefebvre, Jean-Guy Baril, Sylvie Trottier, Benoit Trottier, Marianne Harris, Sharon Walmsley, Brian Conway, Alexander Wong, Jean-Pierre Routy, Colin Kovacs, Paul A. MacPherson, Kenneth Marc Monteith, Samer Mansour, George Thanassoulis, Michal Abrahamowicz…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:611
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  18. Concurrent diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis represent a significant health problem worldwide. Patients with diabetes mellitus have a high risk of tuberculosis, which may be mediated by an abnormal innate imm...

    Authors: María Teresa Herrera, Yolanda Gonzalez, Fernando Hernández-Sánchez, Guadalupe Fabián-San Miguel and Martha Torres
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:610
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  19. Clinical syndromes associated with West Nile virus (WNV) infection range from fever to neuroinvasive disease. Understanding WNV epidemiology and disease history is important for guiding patient care and health...

    Authors: Man Wah Yeung, Emily Shing, Mark Nelder and Beate Sander
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:609
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  20. Kerstersia gyiorum is an extremely rare pathogen of human infection. It can cause chronic infection in patients with underlying conditions. It can easily be misdiagnosed if proper diag...

    Authors: Irmak Baran, Arife Polat Düzgün, İpek Mumcuoğlu and Neriman Aksu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:608
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  21. Device-associated health care-associated infections (DA-HAI) pose a threat to patient safety, particularly in the intensive care unit. The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of DA-HAIs, mortality an...

    Authors: Stelios Iordanou, Nicos Middleton, Elizabeth Papathanassoglou and Vasilios Raftopoulos
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:607
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  22. Little is known regarding the restoration of the specific immune response after combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) and anti-tuberculosis (TB) therapy introduction among TB-HIV patients. In this study, we e...

    Authors: Tatiana Pereira da Silva, Carmem Beatriz Wagner Giacoia-Gripp, Carolina A. Schmaltz, Flavia Marinho Sant’Anna, Maria Helena Saad, Juliana Arruda de Matos, Julio Castro Alves de Lima e Silva, Valeria Cavalcanti Rolla and Mariza Gonçalves Morgado
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:606
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  23. We describe the accumulation of HIV-1 drug resistance and its effect on the activity of next-line components in patients with virological failure (HIV-1 RNA >1000 copies/mL) after 1 year (t1) of first-line ant...

    Authors: Andrea De Luca, Zita Jorge Sidumo, Giacomo Zanelli, Noorjehan Abdul Magid, Richard Luhanga, Davide Brambilla, Giuseppe Liotta, Sandro Mancinelli, Maria Cristina Marazzi, Leonardo Palombi and Susanna Ceffa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:605
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  24. Every year, over 1 million people develop isoniazid (INH) resistant tuberculosis (TB). Yet, the optimal treatment regimen remains unclear. Given increasing prevalence, the clinical efficacy of regimens used by...

    Authors: Kamila Romanowski, Leslie Y. Chiang, David Z. Roth, Mel Krajden, Patrick Tang, Victoria J. Cook and James C. Johnston
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:604
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  25. The majority of antibiotics consumed in developed countries are prescribed in primary care. However, little is known about resistance levels in the primary care population.

    Authors: Mia Tyrstrup, Eva Melander, Katarina Hedin, Anders Beckman and Sigvard Mölstad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:603
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  26. Despite the guidelines for managing sexual assault being in place, victims of sexual assault attended to at Kadoma General Hospital consistently raised complaints related to the quality of care offered. Medico...

    Authors: Stanley Tapesana, Daniel Chirundu, Gerald Shambira, Notion Tafara Gombe, Tsitsi Patience Juru and Tshimanga Mufuta
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:602
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  27. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major public health problem globally. HBV genotypes and subgenotypes influence disease transmission, progression, and treatment outcome. A study was conducted among treat...

    Authors: Thi Ton Taht Bui, Tan Thanh Tran, My Ngoc Nghiem, Pierre Rahman, Thi Thanh Thanh Tran, Man Nguyen Huy Dinh, Manh Hung Le, Van Vinh Chau Nguyen, Guy Thwaites and Motiur Rahman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:601
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  28. In the search for fast, simple and better ways for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB), there is need to discover and evaluate new biomarkers that are found in samples other than sputum to determine their effective...

    Authors: Anna Ritah Namuganga, Novel N. Chegou, Paul Mubiri, Gerhard Walzl and Harriet Mayanja-Kizza
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:600
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  29. Rabies is a global fatal infectious viral disease that is characterized by a high mortality after onset of clinical symptoms. Recently, there has been an increase in the incidence of rabies in China. The aim o...

    Authors: Jian-Ming Zhang, Zhi-Shan Zhang, Yan-Qin Deng, Shou-Li Wu, Wei Wang and Yan-Sheng Yan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:599
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  30. Information is limited about the effect of restricted carbapenem use on clearance of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDRAB). We sought to determine the time effect of antibiotic exposure on multi-dr...

    Authors: Po-Yen Huang, Shian-Sen Shie, Jung-Jr Ye, Shih-Pin Lin, Tsui-Ping Liu, Ting-Shu Wu, Tsu-Lan Wu, Shiow-Shuh Chuang, Ming-Huei Cheng, Yu-Chia Hsieh and Ching-Tai Huang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:598
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  31. During the 2013–2016 West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic, some EVD patients, mostly health care workers, were evacuated to Europe and the USA.

    Authors: Emanuele Nicastri, Antonio Brucato, Nicola Petrosillo, Gianluigi Biava, Timothy M. Uyeki and Giuseppe Ippolito
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:597
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  32. A marked increase in the incidence rate of scarlet fever imposed a considerable burden on the health of children aged 5 to 15 years. The main purpose of this study was to depict the spatiotemporal epidemiologi...

    Authors: Qi Zhang, Wendong Liu, Wang Ma, Yingying Shi, Ying Wu, Yuan Li, Shuyi Liang, Yefei Zhu and Minghao Zhou
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:596
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  33. Current antiretroviral therapy (ART) used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients is life-long because it only suppresses de novo infections. Recent efforts to eliminate HIV have tested the abilit...

    Authors: Kristian Thorlund, Marc S. Horwitz, Brian T. Fife, Richard Lester and D. William Cameron
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:595
    Content type: Review Published on:

  34. Rapid immunochromatographic tests (ICT) for dengue non-structural protein 1 (NS1) have shown good performance for diagnosing acute-phase dengue in serum in laboratory settings, but rarely have been assessed in...

    Authors: Verónica Elizabeth Mata, Sonia Regina Lambert Passos, Yara Hahr Marques Hökerberg, Guilherme Miguéis Berardinelli, Maria Angelica Borges dos Santos, Levy Vilas Boas Fukuoka, Anna Carolina Fontoura Seixas Rangel Maciel, Cintia Damasceno dos Santos Rodrigues, Aline da Silva Santos and Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:594
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:710

  35. The relative fitness of organisms causing drug-susceptible (DS) and multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) is unclear. We compared the risk of TB infection and TB disease in young child household contacts...

    Authors: Vera Golla, Kathryn Snow, Anna M. Mandalakas, H. Simon Schaaf, Karen Du Preez, Anneke C. Hesseling and James A. Seddon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:593
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:713

  36. A combination of laboratory, histopathological and microbiological tests for diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection (PJI) have been strongly recommended. This study aims to characterize the accuracy of indivi...

    Authors: M. Fernández-Sampedro, C. Fariñas-Alvarez, C. Garces-Zarzalejo, M. A. Alonso-Aguirre, C. Salas-Venero, L. Martínez-Martínez and M. C. Fariñas
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:592
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  37. Respiratory diseases cause substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide, with sub-Saharan Africa bearing the greatest burden. Identifying etiologies of respiratory disease is important to inform cost effectiv...

    Authors: Henry N. Njuguna, Sandra S. Chaves, Gideon O. Emukule, Bryan Nyawanda, Victor Omballa, Bonventure Juma, Clayton O. Onyango, Joshua A. Mott and Barry Fields
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:591
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  38. Infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) still challenge health systems around the world, even with advances in vaccination programs. The present study evaluated the frequency of various Spn serotypes ...

    Authors: Marta Inês Cazentini Medeiros, Samanta Cristine Grassi Almeida, Maria Luiza Leopoldo Silva Guerra, Paulo da Silva, Ana Maria Machado Carneiro and Denise de Andrade
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:590
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  39. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) is the leading cause of infective endocarditis in several countries. Since socioeconomic status (SES) is known to influence the risk of infectiou...

    Authors: Louise Bruun Oestergaard, Michelle D. Schmiegelow, Niels Eske Bruun, Robert L. Skov, Andreas Petersen, Paal Skytt Andersen and Christian Torp-Pedersen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:589
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  40. We conducted an ancillary study among individuals who had participated in a cluster-randomized PCV-7 trial in rural Gambia (some clusters were wholly-vaccinated while in others only young children had been vac...

    Authors: Abdoulie Bojang, Lindsay Kendall, Effua Usuf, Uzochukwu Egere, Sarah Mulwa, Martin Antonio, Brian Greenwood, Philip C. Hill and Anna Roca
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:588
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  41. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. In immunocompromised patients, the chronicity rates of HBV infection are higher, but the rates of hepatitis Be antigen (HB...

    Authors: Fatima Mitiko Tengan, Edson Abdala, Marisa Nascimento, Wanderley Marques Bernardo and Antonio Alci Barone
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:587
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  43. The PfEMP1 family of Plasmodium falciparum antigens play a key role in pathogenesis of severe malaria through their insertion into the surface of parasite infected erythrocytes, and adhesion to host cells. Previo...

    Authors: Abdirahman I. Abdi, Susanne H. Hodgson, Michelle K. Muthui, Cheryl A. Kivisi, Gathoni Kamuyu, Domtila Kimani, Stephen L. Hoffman, Elizabeth Juma, Bernhards Ogutu, Simon J. Draper, Faith Osier, Philip Bejon, Kevin Marsh and Peter C. Bull
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:585
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  44. It has been suggested that more than 100 bacterial species can be identified using only seven universal bacterial primer sets in the melting temperature (Tm) mapping method and that these findings can be obtai...

    Authors: Yoshitsugu Higashi, Shigeki Nakamura, Hideki Niimi, Tomohiro Ueno, Kaoru Matsumoto, Koyomi Kawago, Ippei Sakamaki, Isao Kitajima and Yoshihiro Yamamoto
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:584
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  45. Human influenza represents a major public health concern, especially in south-east Asia where the risk of emergence and spread of novel influenza viruses is particularly high. The BaliMEI study aims to conduct...

    Authors: W. Adisasmito, S. N. Budayanti, D. N. Aisyah, T. Gallo Cassarino, J. W. Rudge, S. J. Watson, Z. Kozlakidis, G. J. D. Smith and R. Coker
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:583
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  46. Switch from first to second-line ART is recommended by WHO for patients with virologic failure. Delays in switching may contribute to accumulated drug resistance, advanced immunosuppression, increased morbidit...

    Authors: Victor Ssempijja, Gertrude Nakigozi, Larry Chang, Ron Gray, Maria Wawer, Anthony Ndyanabo, Jingo Kasule, David Serwadda, Barbara Castelnuovo, Anja van’t Hoog and Steven James Reynolds
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:582
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  47. Persistent residual viremia (RV) and low grade inflammation and immune activation have been associated with non-AIDS defining events. The impact of persistent RV and HIV-DNA load on immune activation/inflammat...

    Authors: Francesca Falasca, Daniele Di Carlo, Corrado De Vito, Isabella Bon, Gabriella d’Ettorre, Alessandra Fantauzzi, Ivano Mezzaroma, Caterina Fimiani, Maria Carla Re, Vincenzo Vullo, Guido Antonelli and Ombretta Turriziani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:581
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  48. Globally, almost 40% of tuberculosis (TB) patients remain undiagnosed, and those that are diagnosed often experience prolonged delays before initiating correct treatment, leading to ongoing transmission. While...

    Authors: Richard James, Keovathanak Khim, Lydia Boudarene, Joanne Yoong, Chea Phalla, Saly Saint, Pichenda Koeut, Tan Eang Mao, Richard Coker and Mishal Sameer Khan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:580
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  49. Emergence of Multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains constitutes a significant public health problem worldwide. Prevalence of MDR tuberculosis from Chad is unavailable to date.

    Authors: Awa Ba Diallo, Gedeon W. Ossoga, Geraldine Daneau, Seynabou Lo, Richard Ngandolo, Colette Diguimbaye Djaibé, Barou Djouater, Souleymane Mboup, Bouke C. de Jong, Aissatou G. Diallo and Florian Gehre
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:579
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  50. Although the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in most parts of China are well under control now, in less developed areas such as Qinghai, TB still remains a major public health problem. This study aims to reveal...

    Authors: Huaxiang Rao, Xinyu Shi and Xi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:578
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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