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  1. The aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence of faecal carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae among residents living in nursing homes and to compare it with a c...

    Authors: Andreas Blom, Jonas Ahl, Fredrik Månsson, Fredrik Resman and Johan Tham
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:111
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  2. Although there is a large increase in investment for tuberculosis control in Myanmar, there are few operational analyses to inform policies. Only 34 % of nationally reported cases are from women. In this study...

    Authors: MS. Khan, TM. Khine, C. Hutchison, RJ. Coker, KM. Hane, AL. Innes and S. Aung
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:110
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  5. Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in China. The Hebei province is located in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration region; however little information about the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium ...

    Authors: Yanan Li, Xinrui Cao, Shiming Li, Hao Wang, Jianlin Wei, Peng Liu, Jing Wang, Zhi Zhang, Huixia Gao, Machao Li, Kanglin Wan and Erhei Dai
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:107
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  6. The range of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) regimens available in many middle-income countries differs from those suggested in international HIV treatment guidelines. We compared first-line cART reg...

    Authors: Gordana Dragovic, Colette J. Smith, Djordje Jevtovic, Bozana Dimitrijevic, Jovana Kusic, Mike Youle and Margaret A. Johnson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:106
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Chikungunya and dengue infections are spatio-temporally related. The current review aims to determine the geographic limits of chikungunya, dengue and the principal mosquito vectors for both viruses and to syn...

    Authors: Luis Furuya-Kanamori, Shaohong Liang, Gabriel Milinovich, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhaes, Archie C. A. Clements, Wenbiao Hu, Patricia Brasil, Francesca D. Frentiu, Rebecca Dunning and Laith Yakob
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:84
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:188

  8. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a viral respiratory disease. Most people infected with MERS-CoV develop severe acute respiratory illness. It was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 201...

    Authors: Haleema Alserehi, Ghassan Wali, Abeer Alshukairi and Basem Alraddadi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:105
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  9. Authors: Joanna Jabłońska, Tomasz Pawłowski, Tomasz Laskus, Małgorzata Zalewska, Małgorzata Inglot, Sylwia Osowska, Karol Perlejewski, Iwona Bukowska-Ośko, Kamila Caraballo Cortes, Agnieszka Pawełczyk, Piotr Ząbek and Marek Radkowski
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:104
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:556

  10. Optimal antibiotic dosing is key to maximising patient survival, and minimising the emergence of bacterial resistance. Evidence-based antibiotic dosing guidelines for critically ill patients receiving RRT are ...

    Authors: Jason A. Roberts, Gordon Y. S. Choi, Gavin M. Joynt, Sanjoy K. Paul, Renae Deans, Sandra Peake, Louise Cole, Dianne Stephens, Rinaldo Bellomo, John Turnidge, Steven C. Wallis, Michael S. Roberts, Darren M. Roberts, Melissa Lassig-Smith, Therese Starr and Jeffrey Lipman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:103
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. Dengue virus is transmitted by mosquito around the tropical and sub-tropical regions. There was a large-scale dengue epidemic in Guangdong province, China during 2014 and around fifty thousands dengue fever ca...

    Authors: Yong Ping Lin, Yasha Luo, Yuan Chen, Mart Matthias Lamers, Qiang Zhou, Xiao Han Yang, Sumana Sanyal, Chris Ka Pun Mok and Zhong Min Liu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:102
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Viral hepatitis is a major concern worldwide, with hepatitis A (HAV) and E (HEV) viruses showing sporadic outbreaks while hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) viruses are associated with chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis ...

    Authors: Missiani Ochwoto, James H. Kimotho, Julius Oyugi, Fredrick Okoth, Henry Kioko, Simeon Mining, Nancy L. M. Budambula, Elizabeth Giles, Anton Andonov, Elijah Songok and Carla Osiowy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:101
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  13. Musculoskeletal manifestations of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have been described since the outset of the global HIV epidemic. Articular syndromes that have been described in association with HIV in...

    Authors: T. Adizie, R. J. Moots, B. Hodkinson, N. French and A. O. Adebajo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:100
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Herpes zoster (HZ) may result in severe complications requiring hospital treatment, particularly in patients with comorbidity. Nevertheless, data on HZ from nationwide population-based hospital registries are ...

    Authors: Sigrun A. J. Schmidt, Johnny Kahlert, Mogens Vestergaard, Henrik C. Schønheyder and Henrik T. Sørensen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:99
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  16. Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programs collect socio-demographic and HIV testing information similar to that collected by unlinked anonymous testing sero-surveillance (UAT) in anten...

    Authors: E. Gonese, A. Mushavi, M. Mungati, M. Mhangara, J. Dzangare, O. Mugurungi, J. Dee, P. H. Kilmarx, G. Shambira, M. T. Tshimanga and J. Hargrove
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:97
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Appropriate antibiotic prescribing is associated with favourable levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and clinical outcomes. Most intervention studies on antibiotic prescribing originate from settings with...

    Authors: June Utnes Høgli, Beate Hennie Garcia, Frode Skjold, Vegard Skogen and Lars Småbrekke
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:96
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  18. The international guidelines recommend the administration of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP) prophylaxis for six months after transplantation. The aim of this stud...

    Authors: Ramandeep Singh, Frederike J. Bemelman, Caspar J. Hodiamont, Mirza M. Idu, Ineke J. M. ten Berge and Suzanne E. Geerlings
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:90
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Leishmaniasis caused by two new species of Leishmania; L. siamensis and L. martiniquensis have been recently described in Thailand. The disease has mainly been documented in AIDS patients from southern Thailand. ...

    Authors: Padet Siriyasatien, Sarunyou Chusri, Kanyarat Kraivichian, Narissara Jariyapan, Thanaporn Hortiwakul, Khachornsakdi Silpapojakul, Adam M. Pym and Atchara Phumee
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:89
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Determining the age-specific hospitalization burden associated with seasonal influenza and the (H1N1) 2009 pandemic is important for the development of effective vaccine strategies and clinical management. The...

    Authors: Shew-Meei Sheu, Ching-Fang Tsai, Hsin-Yi Yang, Hui-Wen Pai and Solomon Chih-Cheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:88
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Histoplasmosis is worldwide systemic mycoses caused by the dimorphic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. The isolation and identification of H. capsulatum in culture is the reference test for histoplasmosis diagnosis ...

    Authors: Marcos de Abreu Almeida, Cláudia Vera Pizzini, Lisandra Serra Damasceno, Mauro de Medeiros Muniz, Rodrigo Almeida-Paes, Regina Helena Saramago Peralta, José Mauro Peralta, Raquel de Vasconcelos Carvalhaes Oliveira, Alexandre Gomes Vizzoni, Carla Lourenço Tavares de Andrade and Rosely Maria Zancopé-Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:87
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  22. Because of the inherent immunosuppression of cancer patients opportunistic infections by Candida spp, occur frequently. This study aimed to identify Candida species in the oral mucosa of 59 patients with orogastr...

    Authors: Lourimar Viana Nascimento F. de Sousa, Vera Lúcia Santos, Andrea de Souza Monteiro, Marcus Vinicíus Dias-Souza, Sirlei Garcia Marques, Elaine Speziali de Faria, Elaine Alves de Oliveira Assunção, Simone Gonçalves dos Santos, Juan Moises Zonis, Daniel Gomes de Alvarenga, Rodrigo Assunção de Holanda, Jaqueline Gontijo de Sousa, Kênia Valéria dos Santos and Maria Aparecida de Resende Stoianoff
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:86
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  24. Even if daptomycin does not have approval for the treatment of bone and joint infections (BJI), the Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines propose this antibiotic as alternative therapy for prosthet...

    Authors: Sandrine Roux, Florent Valour, Judith Karsenty, Marie-Claude Gagnieu, Thomas Perpoint, Sébastien Lustig, Florence Ader, Benoit Martha, Frédéric Laurent, Christian Chidiac and Tristan Ferry
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:83
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Cancer is responsible for elevated HIV-related morbidity and mortality. Research on HIV-infected patients with concurrent cancer is rare in China. The purpose of our study was to investigate the prevalence and...

    Authors: Jun Yang, Shu Su, Hongxin Zhao, Dennis Wang, Jiali Wang, Fujie Zhang and Yan Zhao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:82
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. No Danish guidelines for screening of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in women living with HIV (WLWH) exist, except for annual syphilis testing. Drug-drug interaction between hormonal contraceptives and...

    Authors: Kristina Thorsteinsson, Steen Ladelund, Merete Storgaard, Frederikke Falkencrone Rønsholt, Isik Somuncu Johansen, Gitte Pedersen, Lars Nørregård Nielsen, Jesper Bonde, Henrik Westh, Niels Obel, Terese L. Katzenstein and Anne-Mette Lebech
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:81
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of hepatitis in developing countries and poses a threat to public health worldwide. Tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri chinensis) is a useful animal model in studies on hepatiti...

    Authors: Wenhai Yu, Chenchen Yang, Yanhong Bi, Feiyan Long, Yunlong Li, Jue Wang and Fen Huang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:80
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Fusarium species are ubiquitous environmental fungi that occasionally provoke serious invasive infections in immunocompromised hosts. Among Fusarium species, Fusarium ramigenum, belong...

    Authors: Ruxandra V. Moroti, Valeriu Gheorghita, Abdullah M. S. Al-Hatmi, G. Sybren de Hoog, Jacques F. Meis and Mihai G. Netea
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:79
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  29. Parasitic infection(s) during pregnancy have been associated with increased risk of pregnancy complications and adverse outcomes in low resource settings. However, little is known about their influence on preg...

    Authors: Aneth Mkunde Mahande and Michael Johnson Mahande
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:78
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Hand disinfectants are important for the prevention of virus transmission in the health care system and environment. The development of broad antiviral spectrum hand disinfectants with activity against envelop...

    Authors: Georgios Ionidis, Judith Hübscher, Thomas Jack, Britta Becker, Birte Bischoff, Daniel Todt, Veronika Hodasa, Florian H. H. Brill, Eike Steinmann and Jochen Steinmann
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:77
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Since the novel H7N9 avian influenza outbreak occurred in China in 2013, neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs) such as oseltamivir and peramivir have been used as first-line drugs to treat the influenza virus infect...

    Authors: Yan Zhang, Hainv Gao, Weifeng Liang, Lingling Tang, Yida Yang, Xiaoxin Wu, Liang Yu, Ping Chen, Shufa Zheng, Huilin Ou and Lanjuan Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:76
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  32. Legionnaires’ disease (LD) is associated with high mortality rates and poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Use of the rapid urinary antigen test (UAT) has been linked to improved outcome. We examined...

    Authors: Ariela Levcovich, Tsilia Lazarovitch, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Chava Peretz, Eugenia Yakunin, Lea Valinsky and Miriam Weinberger
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:75
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Long-term outcomes in non-HIV immunocompromised patients with disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (dMAC) infections are unknown and the need for post-treatment secondary prophylaxis against MAC is uncertain ...

    Authors: Siddharth Sridhar, Kitty S. C. Fung, Jasper F. W. Chan, Jimmy Y. W. Lam, Eric K. T. Yip, Ivan F.N. Hung, Alan K. L. Wu, Tak-Lun Que, Susanna K. P. Lau and Patrick C. Y. Woo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:74
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Invasive diseases due to Moraxella catarrhalis are rare in children, even in immunocompromised hosts. Therefore, data regarding clinical characteristics and risk factors of such patients are limited. The aim of t...

    Authors: Takanori Funaki, Eisuke Inoue and Isao Miyairi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:73
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. In high incidence settings, the majority of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) transmission occurs outside the household. Little is known about where people’s indoor contacts occur outside the household, and how t...

    Authors: Nicky McCreesh, Clare Looker, Peter J. Dodd, Ian D. Plumb, Kwame Shanaube, Monde Muyoyeta, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Elizabeth L. Corbett, Helen Ayles and Richard G. White
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:71
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is highly endemic in mainland China, where human cases account for 90 % of the total global cases. Yiyuan County is one of the most serious affected areas in China....

    Authors: Tao Wang, Jie Liu, Yunping Zhou, Feng Cui, Zhenshui Huang, Ling Wang and Shenyong Zhai
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:69
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  39. Abdominal tuberculosis (TB) is an uncommon affliction in adolescence. It is usually associated with pulmonary tuberculosis. The disease is caused by lymphohaematogenous spread after primary infection in the lu...

    Authors: Sze Li Siow, Hon Leong Sha and Chee Ming Wong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:68
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  40. Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) is a public health problem in India. Neuroinfections are believed to be the most important etiology. Minocycline is a semisythetic tetracycline having excellent penetration in...

    Authors: Rashmi Kumar, Anirban Basu, Subrata Sinha, Manoj Das, Piyush Tripathi, Amita Jain, Chandrakanta Kumar, Virendra Atam, Saima Khan and Amit Shanker Singh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:67
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  41. Document seasonality occurrence and epidemiologic characteristics of Cyclospora cayetanensis infections during a 10-year period from patients consulting at the University Hospital, Honduras.

    Authors: Rina Girard Kaminsky, Javier Lagos, Gabriela Raudales Santos and Samuel Urrutia
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:66
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  42. The National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood (NSHPC) conducts comprehensive population-based surveillance of pregnancies in women with HIV infection in the United Kingdom/Ireland. Use of antepartum ant...

    Authors: Pat A. Tookey, Claire Thorne, Jean van Wyk and Michael Norton
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:65
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus infection continue to occur in Southeast Asia. The objective of this study was to identify when and where human H5N1 cases have occurred in Vietn...

    Authors: Toshie Manabe, Kazue Yamaoka, Toshiro Tango, Nguyen Gia Binh, Dao Xuan Co, Nguyen Dang Tuan, Shinyu Izumi, Jin Takasaki, Ngo Quy Chau and Koichiro Kudo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:64
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  44. Male sex workers (MSW) are particularly exposed to sexually transmitted infections (STI) including HIV. In the Netherlands, data about STI among MSW are scarce. We estimated chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and...

    Authors: N. Fournet, F. D. H. Koedijk, A. P. van Leeuwen, M. S. van Rooijen, M. A. B. van der Sande and M. G. van Veen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:63
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Rabies is a global problem which occurs in more than 150 countries and territories including Sri Lanka, where human deaths from rabies are in decline whilst resources incurred for prevention of rabies are in s...

    Authors: Senanayake Abeysinghe Mudiyanselage Kularatne, Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Priyantha Udaya Kumara Ralapanawa, Koasala Weerakoon, Usha Kumari Bokalamulla and Nanada Abagaspitiya
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:62
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  46. C-Reactive Protein (CRP) has been shown to be an accurate biomarker for discriminating bacterial from viral infections in febrile patients in Southeast Asia. Here we investigate the accuracy of existing rapid ...

    Authors: Koukeo Phommasone, Thomas Althaus, Phonesavanh Souvanthong, Khansoudaphone Phakhounthong, Laxoy Soyvienvong, Phatthaphone Malapheth, Mayfong Mayxay, Rebecca L. Pavlicek, Daniel H. Paris, David Dance, Paul Newton and Yoel Lubell
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:61
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  47. Trachoma, a preventable blinding eye disease, is initiated by ocular infection with Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct). We previously showed that microRNAs (miR) -147b and miR-1285 were up-regulated in inflammatory trach...

    Authors: Tamsyn Derrick, Anna R. Last, Sarah E. Burr, Chrissy h. Roberts, Meno Nabicassa, Eunice Cassama, Robin L. Bailey, David C. W. Mabey, Matthew J. Burton and Martin J. Holland
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:60
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Survey of patients exiting health facilities is a common way to assess consultation practices. It is, however, unclear to what extent health professionals may change their practices when they are aware of such...

    Authors: Baptiste Leurent, Hugh Reyburn, Florida Muro, Hilda Mbakilwa and David Schellenberg
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:59
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  49. HIV-infected children in sub-Saharan Africa may be at a high risk of staying on a failing first-line regimen and developing drug-resistance HIV variants due to lack of routine viral load monitoring. We investi...

    Authors: Omobolawa Kukoyi, Lorna Renner, Jonathan Powell, Oliver Barry, Meghan Prin, Jonas Kusah, Xiangyu Cong and Elijah Paintsil
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:58
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  50. Schistosomes and soil-transmitted helminths (STH) (hookworm, Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides) are widely distributed in developing countries where they infect over 230 million and 1.5 billion people,...

    Authors: Kariuki H. Njaanake, Birgitte J. Vennervald, Paul E. Simonsen, Henry Madsen, Dunstan A. Mukoko, Gachuhi Kimani, Walter G. Jaoko and Benson B. Estambale
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:57
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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