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  1. Interventions to support decision-making can reduce inappropriate antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections (ARI), but they may not be sustainable. The objective of the study is to evaluate the long-term...

    Authors: Jeneen Gifford, Elisabeth Vaeth, Katherine Richards, Tariq Siddiqui, Christine Gill, Lucy Wilson and Sylvain DeLisle
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:528
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  2. Testing for reinfection at 3 to 6 months following treatment for Chlamydia Trachomatis or Neisseria gonorrhoea is recommended in best practice sexual health management guidelines. This study aimed to describe rat...

    Authors: Sally B. Rose, Susan M. Garrett, James Stanley and Susan R. H. Pullon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:526
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  3. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), syphilis, Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) are sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and share modes of transmission. These infections are generally more...

    Authors: Mwumvaneza Mutagoma, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Dieudonné Sebuhoro, David J. Riedel and Joseph Ntaganira
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:525
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  4. Zika virus, an emerging serious infectious disease, is a threat to persons living or travelling to regions where it is currently endemic, and also to contacts of infected individuals. The aim of this study was...

    Authors: Sohaila Cheema, Patrick Maisonneuve, Ingmar Weber, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Amit Abraham, Hekmat Alrouh, Javaid Sheikh, Albert B. Lowenfels and Ravinder Mamtani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:524
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  5. To predict the risk of infectious diseases originating in wildlife, it is important to identify habitats that allow the co-occurrence of pathogens and their hosts. Puumala hantavirus (PUUV) is a directly-trans...

    Authors: Hussein Khalil, Gert Olsson, Magnus Magnusson, Magnus Evander, Birger Hörnfeldt and Frauke Ecke
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:523
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  6. Combined prevention interventions, including early antiretroviral therapy initiation, may substantially reduce HIV incidence in hyperendemic settings. Our aim was to assess the potential short-term impact of c...

    Authors: Stéphanie Blaizot, Helena Huerga, Benjamin Riche, Tom Ellman, Amir Shroufi, Jean-François Etard and René Ecochard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:522
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  7. Mixing patterns of human populations play a crucial role in shaping the spreading paths of infectious diseases. The diffusion of mobile and wearable devices able to record close proximity interactions represen...

    Authors: Piero Poletti, Roberto Visintainer, Bruno Lepri and Stefano Merler
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:521
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  8. Even though reported cases of syphilis have been increasing, cases of tertiary syphilis remain extremely rare. The majority of our knowledge with regard to complications of syphilis such as aortitis was acquir...

    Authors: Maaike Spaltenstein, Françoise Humbert, Diem-Lan Vu, Ilker Uçkay and Gregor John
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:520
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  9. Human psittacosis is a highly under diagnosed zoonotic disease, commonly linked to psittacine birds. Psittacosis in birds, also known as avian chlamydiosis, is endemic in poultry, but the risk for people livin...

    Authors: Lenny Hogerwerf, Manon M. C. Holstege, Elisa Benincà, Frederika Dijkstra and Wim van der Hoek
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:519
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  10. Diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) in children has been hampered by difficulty in obtaining convalescent serum and time constraints. In this study, the two diagno...

    Authors: Le Wang, Zhishan Feng, Mengchuan Zhao, Shuo Yang, Xiaotong Yan, Weiwei Guo, Zhongren Shi and Guixia Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:518
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  11. Understanding the immune response to combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is essential for a clear approach to tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy. We investigated the immunological recovery in cART-trea...

    Authors: Basel Karo, Gérard Krause, Stefanie Castell, Christian Kollan, Osamah Hamouda and Walter Haas
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:517
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  12. When bacteria colony persist within a biofilm, suitable drugs are not yet available for the eradication of biofilm-producing bacteria. The aim of this study is to study the effect of magnetic nano-particles-in...

    Authors: Chih-Hsiang Fang, Pei-I Tsai, Shu-Wei Huang, Jui-Sheng Sun, Jenny Zwei-Chieng Chang, Hsin-Hsin Shen, San-Yuan Chen, Feng Huei Lin, Lih-Tao Hsu and Yen-Chun Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:516
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  14. As a novel biomarker of inflammation, procalcitonin (PCT) has proven useful to guide antibiotic therapy in intensive care unit (ICU). However, there are controversial on mortality. The aim of this study was to...

    Authors: Tao Zhang, Yan Wang, Qianting Yang and Yalin Dong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:514
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:1077

  15. The incidence of tertiary syphilis involvement in the spinal column with destructive bone lesions is very rare. It is difficult to establish the correct diagnosis from radiographs and histological examination ...

    Authors: Yang Bai, Feng Niu, Lidi Liu, Hui Sha, Yimei Wang and Song Zhao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:513
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. Stigma associated with tuberculosis (TB) has been an object of interest in several regions of the world. The behaviour presented by patients as a result of social discrimination has contributed to delays in di...

    Authors: Juliane de Almeida Crispim, Laís Mara Caetano da Silva, Mellina Yamamura, Marcela Paschoal Popolin, Antônio Carlos Vieira Ramos, Luiz Henrique Arroyo, Ana Angélica Rêgo de Queiroz, Aylana de Souza Belchior, Danielle Talita dos Santos, Flávia Meneguetti Pieri, Ludmila Barbosa Bandeira Rodrigues, Simone Terezinha Protti, Ione Carvalho Pinto, Pedro Fredemir Palha and Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:510
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  19. Prostatic abscess is a rare complication of acute bacterial prostatitis and is most commonly caused by Enterobacteriaceae. We report on a case of prostatic abscess caused by Staphylococcus aureus and conduct a re...

    Authors: David E. Carroll, Ian Marr, G Khai Lin Huang, Deborah C. Holt, Steven Y. C. Tong and Craig S. Boutlis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:509
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  20. Bacterial species belonging to the genus Exiguobacterium are facultative anaerobic, non-spore-forming, Gram-positive bacilli, and rarely associated with human infections. Herein, we reported the first case of com...

    Authors: Xingchun Chen, Lijun Wang, Jiali Zhou, Honglong Wu, Dong Li, Yanchao Cui and Binghuai Lu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:508
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  22. Recent WHO guidelines identify virologic monitoring for diagnosing and confirming ART failure. In view of this, validation and scale up of point of care viral load technologies is essential in resource limited...

    Authors: Smita Kulkarni, Sushama Jadhav, Priyanka Khopkar, Suvarna Sane, Rajkumar Londhe, Vaishali Chimanpure, Veronica Dhilpe, Manisha Ghate, Rajendra Yelagate, Narayan Panchal, Girish Rahane, Dilip Kadam, Nitin Gaikwad, Bharat Rewari and Raman Gangakhedkar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:506
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  23. Existing biomarkers such as AST, ALT and hematocrit have been associated with severe dengue but evidence are mixed. Recently, interests in creatine kinase as a dengue biomarker have risen. These biomarkers rep...

    Authors: Saiful Safuan Md Sani, Winn Hui Han, Mohamad Adam Bujang, Hui Jen Ding, Kiah Loon Ng and Mohd Azizuddin Amir Shariffuddin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:505
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  24. The impact of HIV on TB, and the implications for TB control, has been acknowledged as a public health challenge. It is imperative therefore to assess the burden of HIV on TB patients as an indicator for monit...

    Authors: Eric Osei, Joyce Der, Richard Owusu, Philip Kofie and Wisdom Kudzo Axame
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:504
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  25. In the aftermath of an upsurge in the number of dengue cases in 2013 and 2014, the SD BIOLINE Dengue Duo rapid diagnostic Point-of-Care Test (POCT) kit was introduced in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore in June ...

    Authors: Qinghui Tan, Zoe J-L Hildon, Shweta Singh, Jin Jing, Tun Linn Thein, Richard Coker, Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef and Yee Sin Leo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:503
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  26. China has a high prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) and a consequently high burden of disease with respect to cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine has proved to be effective in preventing cervical cancer and...

    Authors: Xiuting Mo, Ruoyan Gai Tobe, Lijie Wang, Xianchen Liu, Bin Wu, Huiwen Luo, Chie Nagata, Rintaro Mori and Takeo Nakayama
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:502
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  27. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) establishes a lifelong infection that is efficiently controlled by the immune system; this infection can be reactivated in case of immunosuppression such as following solid organ transpla...

    Authors: Linda A. Selvey, Wai H. Lim, Peter Boan, Ramyasuda Swaminathan, Claudia Slimings, Amy E. Harrison and Aron Chakera
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:501
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  28. Although the proportion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections has reduced after the introduction of antibiotics with anti-pseudomonal effects, P. aeruginosa bacteremia still causes high mortality in immunocompromi...

    Authors: Hyo Sup Kim, Bo Kyoung Park, Seong koo Kim, Seung Beom Han, Jae Wook Lee, Dong-Gun Lee, Nack-Gyun Chung, Bin Cho, Dae Chul Jeong and Jin Han Kang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:500
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  29. In the wake of a decline in global malaria, it is imperative to describe the epidemiology of malaria in a country to inform control policies. The purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiological and c...

    Authors: Tebit Emmanuel Kwenti, Tayong Dizzle Bita Kwenti, Andreas Latz, Longdoh Anna Njunda and Theresa Nkuo-Akenji
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:499
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  30. In 2015, the largest outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection outside the Middle East occurred in South Korea. We summarized the epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory f...

    Authors: Ji Yeon Lee, You-Jin Kim, Eun Hee Chung, Dae-Won Kim, Ina Jeong, Yeonjae Kim, Mi-ran Yun, Sung Soon Kim, Gayeon Kim and Joon-Sung Joh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:498
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  31. Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is endemic in Eastern European and Balkan region countries. In 2012, Bulgaria showed the highest rate (67.13 cases per 100,000) in Europe. Nevertheless, HAV genotypes and stra...

    Authors: Roberto Bruni, Stefania Taffon, Michele Equestre, Eleonora Cella, Alessandra Lo Presti, Angela Costantino, Paola Chionne, Elisabetta Madonna, Elitsa Golkocheva-Markova, Diljana Bankova, Massimo Ciccozzi, Pavel Teoharov and Anna Rita Ciccaglione
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:497
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  32. Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) is key component of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV, but existing tools to monitor drug adherence are often inaccurate. Detection of...

    Authors: Tim R. Cressey, Oraphan Siriprakaisil, Virat Klinbuayaem, Justice Quame-Amaglo, Rachel W. Kubiak, Pra-ornsuda Sukrakanchana, Kanchana Than-in-at, Jared Baeten, Wasna Sirirungsi, Ratchada Cressey and Paul K. Drain
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:496
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  33. Although live-attenuated varicella-zoster virus (VZV) vaccines have been proven to be safe and effective in preventing varicella and real-word evidence shows routine childhood immunization programs are effecti...

    Authors: Z. Meszner, Z. Molnar, E. Rampakakis, H. K. Yang, B. J. Kuter and Lara J. Wolfson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:495
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  34. In China, there were few studies about the pathogens of acute viral encephalitis and meningitis in children in recent years. The aims of this study were to characterize the etiology and prognosis of acute vira...

    Authors: Junhong Ai, Zhengde Xie, Gang Liu, Zongbo Chen, Yong Yang, Yuning Li, Jing Chen, Guo Zheng and Kunling Shen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:494
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  35. Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are associated with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. However their aetiology, antimicrobial susceptibilities and associated outcomes differ between developed and developing...

    Authors: Vu Quoc Dat, Hieu Ngoc Vu, Hung Nguyen The, Hoa Thi Nguyen, Long Bao Hoang, Dung Vu Tien Viet, Chi Linh Bui, Kinh Van Nguyen, Trung Vu Nguyen, Dao Tuyet Trinh, Alessandro Torre, H. Rogier van Doorn, Behzad Nadjm and Heiman F.L. Wertheim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:493
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  36. Whether viral coinfections cause more severe disease than Bordetella pertussis (B. pertussis) alone remains unclear. We compared clinical disease severity and sought clinical and demographic differences between i...

    Authors: A. Frassanito, R. Nenna, A. Nicolai, A. Pierangeli, A. E. Tozzi, P. Stefanelli, R. Carsetti, C. Concato, I. Schiavoni and F. Midulla
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:492
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  37. The ongoing epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Georgia highlights the need for more effective control strategies. A new regimen to treat MDR-TB that includes pyrazinamide (PZA) is current...

    Authors: Sarah Sengstake, Indra L Bergval, Anja R Schuitema, Jessica L de Beer, Jody Phelan, Rina de Zwaan, Taane G Clark, Dick van Soolingen and Richard M Anthony
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:491
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  38. Infections with multi drug resistant (MDR) organisms are a major problem in intensive care units (ICUs). Proper infection control procedures are mandatory to combat the spread of resistant organisms within ICU...

    Authors: Kavinda Tissera, Veranja Liyanapathirana, Nilanthi Dissanayake, Vasanthi Pinto, Asela Ekanayake, Manjula Tennakoon, Dinuka Adasooriya and Dulmini Nanayakkara
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:490
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  39. Observed adverse effects of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on the lipid profile could be of significance in pregnancy. This systematic review aims to summarize studies that investigated the association between H...

    Authors: Marissa J. Harmsen, Joyce L. Browne, Francois Venter, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch and Marcus J. Rijken
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:489
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  40. Gene polymorphisms impact greatly on a person’s susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). Macrophage receptor with collagenous structure (MARCO) and CD36 are two scavenger receptors (SRs) that can recogn...

    Authors: Wenting Lao, Hui Kang, Guojiang Jin, Li Chen, Yang Chu, Jiao Sun and Bingqi Sun
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:488
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  41. Schistosomiasis is a disease of public health importance with long term complications mostly common among children, rural dwellers, poor and migrant workers. Studies have not documented the burden among migran...

    Authors: Obioma Uchendu, Victoria Oladoyin, Michael Idowu, Oluwapelumi Adeyera, Oluwatosin Olabisi, Oluwafisayomi Oluwatosin and Gbemisola Leigh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:487
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  42. Giardia is a leading but neglected cause of infectious gastroenteritis worldwide and is treatable. There is a substantial burden of undetected Giardia in the UK and for every one case ...

    Authors: Alison Waldram, Roberto Vivancos, Catherine Hartley and Kenneth Lamden
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:486
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  43. Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease caused by different Brucella species and human brucellosis is commonly prevalent in different states of India. Among various Brucella species, B. melitensis is most pa...

    Authors: Prachi Pathak, Ashu Kumar and Duraipandian Thavaselvam
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:485
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  44. The HIV surveillance system in Germany is based on mandatory, anonymous notification of newly diagnosed HIV cases by laboratories. Because the time between HIV infection and the diagnosis of HIV varies widely ...

    Authors: Alexandra Hofmann, Andrea Hauser, Ruth Zimmermann, Claudia Santos-Hövener, Jörg Bätzing-Feigenbaum, Stephan Wildner, Claudia Kücherer, Norbert Bannert, Osamah Hamouda, Viviane Bremer and Barbara Bartmeyer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:484
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  46. Toxoplasmosis is one of the common worldwide parasitic zoonosis due to Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii). Toxoplasmosis during pregnancy can result in fetal and neonatal death or various congenital defects. The aim o...

    Authors: Sanata Bamba, Mamoudou Cissé, Ibrahim Sangaré, Adama Zida, Souleymane Ouattara and Robert T. Guiguemdé
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:482
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  47. Cost-effectiveness studies of echinocandins for the treatment of invasive candidiasis, including candidemia, are rare in Asia. No study has determined whether echinocandins are cost-effective for both Candida alb...

    Authors: Huang-Tz Ou, Tsung-Ying Lee, Yee-Chun Chen and Claudie Charbonneau
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:481
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  48. Dengue has been prevalent in Colombia with high risk of outbreaks in various locations. While the prediction of dengue epidemics will bring significant benefits to the society, accurate forecasts have been a c...

    Authors: Jung-Seok Lee, Mabel Carabali, Jacqueline K. Lim, Victor M. Herrera, Il-Yeon Park, Luis Villar and Andrew Farlow
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:480
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  49. The bla NDM-1 gene in Salmonella species is mostly reported in clinical cases, but is rarely isolated from red and white meat in China.

    Authors: Wei Wang, Zulqarnain Baloch, Zixin Peng, Yujie Hu, Jin Xu, Séamus Fanning and Fengqin Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:479
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  50. Leishmaniasis is a protozoan disease caused by parasites of the genus Leishmania, transmitted to humans by sandflies. The diagnosis of leishmaniasis is often challenging as it mimics many other infectious or mali...

    Authors: Gilles Darcis, Gert Van der Auwera, Jean-Baptiste Giot, Marie-Pierre Hayette, Françoise Tassin, Jorge Arrese Estrada, Lieselotte Cnops, Michel Moutschen, Laurence de Leval and Philippe Leonard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:478
    Content type: Case report Published on:

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