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  1. The outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic (H1N1pdm) affected thousands of people in Mexico and the United States, and spread rapidly throughout the world from April 2009 to July 2010. To explore the age...

    Authors: Jin Lv, Zhen-Yong Ren, Ying-Ying Zhang, Yun-E Liu, Jun Gao, Kun Yao, Dan Feng, Zhen-Yuan Li, Xin Feng, Yun-Xi Liu and Na Jia
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:136
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  2. Pneumococcal carriage is the precursor for development of pneumococcal disease, and is also responsible for transmission of the organism from person-to-person. In Africa, little is known about the pneumococcus...

    Authors: Eric S. Donkor, Jennifer A. Annan, Ebenezer V. Badoe, Nicholas T. K. D. Dayie, Appiah-Korang Labi and Hans-Christian Slotved
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:133
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  3. Tuberculosis/Human immunodeficiency virus (TB/HIV) co-infection is bidirectional and synergistic which mainly affects interventions that have been taken on the area. Tb patients co-infected with HIV have poore...

    Authors: Yenework Sinshaw, Shitaye Alemu, Abel Fekadu and Mucheye Gizachew
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:132
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  4. Inappropriate use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials affects adversely both the individual patient and the general public. The aim of the study was to identify patients at risk for excessively prolonged carbapen...

    Authors: Juri Katchanov, Benno Kreuels, Florian P. Maurer, Kai Wöstmann, Johannes Jochum, Christina König, Kariem Seoudy, Holger Rohde, Ansgar W. Lohse, Dominic Wichmann, Michael Baehr, Camilla Rothe and Stefan Kluge
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:131
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  6. Ukraine is among ten countries with the highest burden of multidrug- resistant TB (MDR-TB) worldwide. Treatment success rates for MDR-TB in Ukraine remain below global success rates as reported by the World He...

    Authors: Omowunmi Aibana, Mariya Bachmaha, Viatcheslav Krasiuk, Natasha Rybak, Timothy P. Flanigan, Vasyl Petrenko and Megan B. Murray
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:129
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  7. Respiratory viruses are associated with a huge socio-economic burden and are responsible for a large proportion of acute respiratory illness in hospitalised adults. Laboratory PCR is accurate but takes at leas...

    Authors: Nathan J. Brendish, Ahalya K. Malachira and Tristan W. Clark
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:128
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  8. In the last 20 years routine T CD4+ lymphocyte (CD4+) cell count has proved to be a key factor to determine the stage of HIV infection and start or discontinue of prophylaxis for opportunistic infections. Howe...

    Authors: Antonio Di Biagio, Marta Ameri, Davide Sirello, Giovanni Cenderello, Enrico Di Bella, Lucia Taramasso, Barbara Giannini, Mauro Giacomini, Claudio Viscoli, Giovanni Cassola and Marcello Montefiori
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:127
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  9. The Human papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted virus worldwide. The objective of this study was to estimate: 1) the prevalence and the incidence of external genital warts (eGW) in a sample of...

    Authors: Barbara Suligoi, Giorgio Vittori, Maria Cristina Salfa, Laura Timelli, Dario Corsini, Giovanni Fattorini and Luciano Mariani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:126
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  10. Diabetes complicates tuberculosis (TB) treatment including a prolonged time of sputum culture conversion to negative growth. Since 2013 in Virginia, interventions early in the treatment course have used therap...

    Authors: Yosra Alkabab, Suzanne Keller, Denise Dodge, Eric Houpt, Deborah Staley and Scott Heysell
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:125
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  11. In the course of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that was witnessed since early 2014, the response mechanisms showed deficits in terms of timeliness, volume and adequacy. The authors were deployed in the Ebo...

    Authors: Christian Janke, Katrin Moira Heim, Florian Steiner, Moses Massaquoi, Miatta Zenabu Gbanya, Claudia Frey and Guenter Froeschl
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:124
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  12. As access to Xpert expands in high TB-burden settings, its performance against clinically diagnosed TB as a reference standard provides important insight as the majority of childhood TB is bacteriologically un...

    Authors: Jason M. Bacha, Katherine Ngo, Petra Clowes, Heather R. Draper, Elias N. Ntinginya, Andrew DiNardo, Chacha Mangu, Issa Sabi, Bariki Mtafya and Anna M. Mandalakas
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:123
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  13. Data on the impact of empirical antibiotic treatment (EAT) on patient outcome in a population-based setting are sparse. We assessed the association between EAT and the risk of recurrence within one year, short...

    Authors: Kim O. Gradel, Ulrich S. Jensen, Henrik C. Schønheyder, Christian Østergaard, Jenny D. Knudsen, Sonja Wehberg and Mette Søgaard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:122
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  14. The purpose of this study was to describe what is known about HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases, infection transmission routes, care, and sources of information, from the viewpoint of men h...

    Authors: Tarja Suominen, Teppo Heikkinen, Marja Pakarinen, Anne-Mari Sepponen and Jari Kylmä
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:121
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  15. Due to a lack of survey of health care seeking behavior for influenza, the actual magnitude of influenza in Beijing of China has not been well described.

    Authors: Xiaoli Wang, Shuangsheng Wu, Peng Yang, Hongjun Li, Yanhui Chu, Yaqing Tang, Weiyu Hua, Haiyan Zhang, Chao Li and Quanyi Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:120
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  16. Surgical site infections are commonest nosocomial infections and responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality as well as increased hospitalizations and treatment cost related to surgical operations. Th...

    Authors: Tamrat Legesse Laloto, Desta Hiko Gemeda and Sadikalmahdi Hussen Abdella
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:119
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  17. Tuberculosis is considered the second most common cause of death due to infectious agent. The currently preferred regimen for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and...

    Authors: Mohammad H. Al-Shaer, Hanine Mansour, Hazem Elewa, Pascale Salameh and Fatima Iqbal
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:118
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  18. Bacterial diarrhoeal disease is among the most common causes of mortality and morbidity in children 0–59 months at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. However, most cases are treated empiricall...

    Authors: Harriet Chiyangi, John B. Muma, Sydney Malama, Joel Manyahi, Ahmed Abade, Geoffrey Kwenda and Mecky I. Matee
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:117
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  19. The occurrence of bloodstream infection (BSI) and antimicrobial resistance have been increasing in many countries. We studied trends in antimicrobial resistance and empiric antibiotic therapy at a medium-sized...

    Authors: Arne Mehl, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Angela Kümmel, Stian Lydersen, Julie Paulsen, Ingvild Haugan, Erik Solligård, Jan Kristian Damås, Stig Harthug and Tom-Harald Edna
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:116
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:446

  20. Although Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infection may cause extrapulmonary disease in HIV-infected adults, HIV-associated hepatic TB has been poorly characterized. Our objective was to describe hepatic TB in HIV...

    Authors: Lilishia Gounder, Pravikrishnen Moodley, Paul K. Drain, Andrew J. Hickey and Mahomed-Yunus S. Moosa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:115
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  22. Reactivated cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection has been known to cause significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. However, CMV disease rarely develops in immunocompetent patients, and repo...

    Authors: Chun-Yuan Lee, Yen-Hsu Chen and Po-Liang Lu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:113
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  23. Nosocomial pneumonia has correlated to dental plaque and to oropharynx colonization in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. The interruption of this process, by preventing colonization of pathogenic bact...

    Authors: Claudia Fernanda de Lacerda Vidal, Aurora Karla de Lacerda Vidal, José Gildo de Moura Monteiro Jr., Aracele Cavalcanti, Ana Paula da Costa Henriques, Márcia Oliveira, Michele Godoy, Mirella Coutinho, Pollyanna Dutra Sobral, Claudia Ângela Vilela, Bárbara Gomes, Marta Amorim Leandro, Ulisses Montarroyos, Ricardo de Alencar Ximenes and Heloísa Ramos Lacerda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:112
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:173

  25. Early rising asexual parasitaemia (ERAP), initially defined as ‘an increase in the parasite count over the baseline pre-treatment level during the first 24 h of treatment’ of falciparum malaria with artemisini...

    Authors: Akintunde Sowunmi, Kazeem Akano, Adejumoke I. Ayede, Elsie O. Adewoye, Godwin Ntadom, Bayo Fatunmbi, Grace O. Gbotosho, Onikepe A. Folarin and Christian T. Happi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:110
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  27. Community-genotype methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CG-MRSA) clones are a global concern due to their resistance and increased virulence and their ability to cause infections both hospitalized patient...

    Authors: Javier Escobar-Perez, Niradiz Reyes, Ricaurte Alejandro Marquez-Ortiz, Juan Rebollo, Hernando Pinzón, Catalina Tovar, Jaime Moreno-Castañeda, Zayda Lorena Corredor, Betsy Esperanza Castro, Maria Victoria Moncada and Natasha Vanegas
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:108
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  28. Cervical cancer and its precursor, high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN2/3), are associated with persistent high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. HPV genotype prevalence varies with sev...

    Authors: Lei Zhang, Qingqing Bi, Hua Deng, Jing Xu, Juan Chen, Meilian Zhang and Xiaofeng Mu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:107
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  29. Neurocysticercosis is endemic in most countries of Central and South America but has rarely been described in the French West Indies. We aimed to better understand the clinical and radiological presentation of...

    Authors: R. Blaizot, B. Melot, K. Schepers, M. Nicolas, S. Gaumond, P. Poullain, L. Belaye, A. Lannuzel and B. Hoen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:106
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  30. Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection that usually presents as a primary lung infection. The fungus is endemic to the Southwest United States of America, northern Mexico and parts of Central and South Ameri...

    Authors: Ole Bæk, Karen Astvad, Reza Serizawa, Lawrence J. Wheat, Pia T. Brenøe and Ann-Brit E. Hansen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:105
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  31. The diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) can be extremely difficult in the absence of culture confirmation. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) adenosine deaminase (ADA) can potentially assist in this regard, altho...

    Authors: Pieter Ekermans, Adriano Dusé and Jaya George
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:104
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  32. Data on the burden of dysglycemia among HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Africa are limited. We determined the prevalence of pre-diabetes and diabetes among HIV-infected patients who st...

    Authors: George PrayGod, John Changalucha, Saidi Kapiga, Robert Peck, Jim Todd and Suzanne Filteau
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:103
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  33. In patients, rapid identification of bacterial species may help to guide treatment at early stages. New protocols for the identification directly from positive blood culture flasks significantly helped in the ...

    Authors: Matthias von Rotz, Alexa Dierig, Ulrich Heininger, Carl Chrobak, Veronika Baettig and Adrian Egli
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:102
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  34. Brucellosis is one of the major zoonoses globally with great veterinary and public health importance, particularly in developing countries where people are having frequent contact with livestock and animal pro...

    Authors: Amanuel Tsegay, Getachew Tuli, Tesfu Kassa and Nigatu Kebede
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:101
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  35. Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest communicable diseases. In Ethiopia, tuberculosis patients have different pattern of health care seeking behavior. They usually adopt other approaches like...

    Authors: Dejene Derseh, Feleke Moges and Belay Tessema
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:100
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  36. The sodium taurocholate co-transporting polypeptide, encoded by SLC10A1, was identified as a functional receptor for hepatitis B virus (HBV). The objective of this study was to determine if there was an associ...

    Authors: Sayeh Ezzikouri, Hajar Chihab, Abdellah Elhabazi, Lahcen Wakrim and Soumaya Benjelloun
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:99
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Hyponatremia is a frequent electrolyte disorder in HIV-infected patients with a prevalence of up to 56% in the pre-cART era. Several studies have demonstrated that patients with hyponatremia are at an increase...

    Authors: Philippe Braconnier, Marc Delforge, Maria Garjau, Karl Martin Wissing and Stéphane De Wit
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:98
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  38. To understand the relationship between the Staphylococcus aureus infection rate and the reasonable usage of antibiotics, which will help in the effective control of MRSA infection.

    Authors: Kaisen Chen, Yanfang Huang, Qiuyue Song, Chenhui Wu, Xiaowen Chen and Lingbing Zeng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:97
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  39. Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL), a protozoan infectious disease, is very rare in Iran despite the endemicity of both cutaneous and visceral forms. It is transmitted by the Phlebotomus sand fly. The lip is consi...

    Authors: Iraj Mohammadpour, Mohammad Hossein Motazedian, Farhad Handjani and Gholam Reza Hatam
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:96
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  40. HIV-1 subtype C demonstrates several biological properties distinct from other viral subtypes. One such variation is the duplication of PTAP motif in p6 Gag. PTAP motif is a key player in viral budding. Here, ...

    Authors: Shilpee Sharma, Shambhu G. Aralaguppe, Melissa-Rose Abrahams, Carolyn Williamson, Clive Gray, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Shanmugam Saravanan, Kailapuri G. Murugavel, Suniti Solomon and Udaykumar Ranga
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:95
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Fasciolosis remains a significant food-borne trematode disease causing high morbidity around the world and affecting grazing animals and humans. A deeper understanding concerning the molecular mechanisms by wh...

    Authors: Jose Rojas-Caraballo, Julio López-Abán, Darwin Andrés Moreno-Pérez, Belén Vicente, Pedro Fernández-Soto, Esther del Olmo, Manuel Alfonso Patarroyo and Antonio Muro
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:94
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  42. To investigate the impact of initial antifungal therapeutic strategies on the prognosis of invasive Candida infections (ICIs) in intensive care units (ICUs) in China.

    Authors: Na Cui, Hao Wang, Longxiang Su, Haibo Qiu, Ruoyu Li and Dawei Liu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:93
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  43. The burden, clinical features, and molecular epidemiology of norovirus infection in young children in southern Africa are not well defined.

    Authors: Leigh M. Howard, Innocent Mwape, Mpanji Siwingwa, Michelo Simuyandi, M. Brad Guffey, Jeffrey S. A. Stringer, Benjamin H. Chi, Kathryn M. Edwards and Roma Chilengi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:92
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. There are significant delays in initiation of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR –TB) treatment. The Xpert MTB/RIF test has been shown to reduce the time to diagnosis and treatment of MDR-TB predominantly i...

    Authors: Joshua Iruedo, Don O’Mahony, Sikhumbuzo Mabunda, Graham Wright and Busisiwe Cawe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:91
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Neuroborreliosis represents a relevant infectious disease and can cause a variety of neurological manifestations. Different stages and syndromes are described and atypical symptoms can result in diagnostic del...

    Authors: Philipp Schwenkenbecher, Refik Pul, Ulrich Wurster, Josef Conzen, Kaweh Pars, Hans Hartmann, Kurt-Wolfram Sühs, Ludwig Sedlacek, Martin Stangel, Corinna Trebst and Thomas Skripuletz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:90
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  46. Dengue virus infection (DVI) is a prevalent and potentially fatal viral disease associated with coagulopathy. So far, the coagulation profile of DVI patients with thrombocytopenia has not been assessed through...

    Authors: Felipe Maia de Toledo Piza, Thiago Domingos Corrêa, Alexandre Rodrigues Marra, João Carlos Campos Guerra, Roseny dos Reis Rodrigues, Andrea Aparecida Rocco Villarinho, Valdir Fernandes de Aranda, Sandra Christina Pereira Lima Shiramizo, Maria Roza de Jesus de Lima, Esper Georges Kallas and Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:89
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  47. Intimate partner violence (IPV), alcohol use, and depression are key vulnerabilities for HIV in Uganda, and taken together may have a synergistic effect on risk. Our objective was to investigate the associatio...

    Authors: Susan M. Kiene, Haruna Lule, Katelyn M. Sileo, Kazi Priyanka Silmi and Rhoda K. Wanyenze
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:88
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  48. In Ethiopia, measles case-based surveillance was introduced in 2004 as one strategy for measles control by laboratory confirmation of suspected cases. In this article, epidemiological distribution of laborator...

    Authors: Mekonen Getahun, Berhane Beyene, Ayesheshem Ademe, Birke Teshome, Mesfin Tefera, Aklog Afework, Yoseph HaileMariam, Esete Assefa, Yonas Hailegiorgis and Anjelo Asha
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:87
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  49. Cleaning of environmental surfaces in hospitals is important for the control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other hospital-acquired infections transmitted by the contact route. Guidance...

    Authors: Hao Lei, Rachael M. Jones and Yuguo Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:85
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  50. Although the prevalence of tuberculosis has decreased significantly over the past decades, the certain populations with mental illness are at increased risk for tuberculosis infection and transmission. However...

    Authors: Li Wang, Zhiguo Zhang, Qiuli Yan, Jie Lu, Baoyin Gao, Yanlin Zhao and Yu Pang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:83
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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