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  1. Appropriate antibiotic use in patients with complicated urinary tract infections can be measured by a valid set of nine quality indicators (QIs). We evaluated the performance of these QIs in a national setting...

    Authors: V. Spoorenberg, S. E. Geerlings, R. B. Geskus, T. M. de Reijke, J. M. Prins and M. E. J. L. Hulscher
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:505
  2. Treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infection (cSSSI) places a tremendous burden on the health care system. Understanding relative resource utilization associated with different antimicrobials is ...

    Authors: Teresa L. Kauf, Peggy McKinnon, G. Ralph Corey, John Bedolla, Paul F. Riska, Matthew Sims, Luis Jauregui-Peredo, Bruce Friedman, James D. Hoehns, Renée-Claude Mercier, Julia Garcia-Diaz, Susan K. Brenneman, David Ng and Thomas Lodise
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:503
  3. Herpes zoster (HZ), also known as shingles, is a painful and commonly occurring condition in the United States. In spite of a universally recommended vaccine for use in immunocompetent adults aged 60 years and...

    Authors: Barbara H. Johnson, Liisa Palmer, Justin Gatwood, Gregory Lenhart, Kosuke Kawai and Camilo J. Acosta
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:502
  4. Laboratory testing is a fundamental component of influenza surveillance for detecting novel strains with pandemic potential and informing biannual vaccine strain selection. The United States (U.S.) Centers for...

    Authors: Lucinda E. A. Johnson, Sarah A. Muir-Paulik, Pam Kennedy, Steven Lindstrom, Amanda Balish, Tricia Aden and Ann C. Moen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:501
  5. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infection is an emerging health problem. We present here the Zambia-specific national level data of prevalence, symptomatic, radiological and microbiological characteristics ...

    Authors: Pascalina Chanda-Kapata, Nathan Kapata, Eveline Klinkenberg, Lutinala Mulenga, Mathias Tembo, Patrick Katemangwe, Veronica Sunkutu, Peter Mwaba and Martin P. Grobusch
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:500
  6. Authors: Katja Polman, Sören L. Becker, Emilie Alirol, Nisha K. Bhatta, Narayan R. Bhattarai, Emmanuel Bottieau, Martin W. Bratschi, Sakib Burza, Jean T. Coulibaly, Mama N. Doumbia, Ninon S. Horié, Jan Jacobs, Basudha Khanal, Aly Landouré, Yodi Mahendradhata, Filip Meheus…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:499

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  7. Contradicting results on the effect of abacavir (ABC) on hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment responses in HIV/HCV co-infected patients have been reported. We evaluated the influence of ABC on the response to peg...

    Authors: Colette Smit, Joop Arends, Lars Peters, Antonella d’Arminio Montforte, Francois Dabis, Robert Zangerle, George Daikos, Christina Mussini, Josep Mallolas, Stephane de Wit, Annelies Zinkernagel, Jaime Cosin, Genevieve Chene, Dorthe Raben and Jürgen Rockstroh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:498
  8. Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) is an important public health problem worldwide. Consumption of animal-derived food products and direct and/or indirect contact with animals are the major routes of acquiring infect...

    Authors: Tadesse Eguale, Wondwossen A. Gebreyes, Daniel Asrat, Haile Alemayehu, John S. Gunn and Ephrem Engidawork
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:497
  9. The Belgian HIV epidemic is largely concentrated among men who have sex with men and Sub-Saharan Africans. We studied the continuum of HIV care of those diagnosed with HIV living in Belgium and its associated ...

    Authors: D. Van Beckhoven, E. Florence, J. Ruelle, J. Deblonde, C. Verhofstede, S. Callens, E. Vancutsem, P. Lacor, R. Demeester, J.-C. Goffard and A. Sasse
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:496
  10. Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is an infectious disease caused by a group of enteroviruses, including Coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16) and Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71). In recent decades, Asian countries have expe...

    Authors: Banghua Chen, Ayako Sumi, Shin’ichi Toyoda, Quan Hu, Dunjin Zhou, Keiji Mise, Junchan Zhao and Nobumichi Kobayashi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:495
  11. Models of infectious disease increasingly seek to incorporate heterogeneity of social interactions to more accurately characterise disease spread. We measured attributes of social encounters in two areas of Gr...

    Authors: David A. Rolls, Nicholas L. Geard, Deborah J. Warr, Paula M. Nathan, Garry L. Robins, Philippa E. Pattison, James M. McCaw and Jodie McVernon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:494
  12. Dengue is one of the leading causes of morbidity in tropical and subtropical regions and infection with any of the four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) result in a wide range of clinical manifestations. Given...

    Authors: Erik Alm, Gunnel Lindegren, Kerstin Ingrid Falk and Nina Lagerqvist
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:493
  13. Zika virus (ZIKV; genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae) is an emerging virus of medical importance maintained in a zoonotic cycle between arboreal Aedes spp. mosquitoes and nonhuman primates in African and Asian...

    Authors: Cheikh Tidiane Diagne, Diawo Diallo, Oumar Faye, Yamar Ba, Ousmane Faye, Alioune Gaye, Ibrahima Dia, Ousmane Faye, Scott C. Weaver, Amadou Alpha Sall and Mawlouth Diallo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:492
  14. Taiwan has integrated the previous vertical tuberculosis (TB) control system into the general health care system. With the phase out of the specialized TB care system and the declining TB incidence, it is like...

    Authors: Chien-Chou Chen, Chen-Yuan Chiang, Sung-Ching Pan, Jann-Yuan Wang and Hsien-Ho Lin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:491
  15. More detailed understanding of herpes zoster (HZ) is called for in the context of an increasing observed frequency of disease, and ongoing discussions regarding potential consequences of the disease. Thus, pop...

    Authors: Karin Sundström, Caroline E. Weibull, Karin Söderberg-Löfdal, Tomas Bergström, Pär Sparén and Lisen Arnheim-Dahlström
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:488
  16. Hand foot mouth disease (HFMD) is a common childhood infection that can potentially lead to serious complications. The aim of this study is to identify risk factors of acquiring severe HFMD in our population.

    Authors: So-Phia Chew, Shu-Ling Chong, Sylvaine Barbier, Aji Matthew, Jan Hau Lee and Yoke Hwee Chan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:486
  17. Many patients with tuberculosis (TB) are seropositive for human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV-8), and many patients with primary effusion lymphoma have high levels of HHV-8 DNA in their effusions. However, the statu...

    Authors: Shih-Ming Tsao, Chun-Liang Lai, Ming-Nan Lin, Jen-Pi Tsai and Cheng-Chuan Su
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:489
  18. The aim of the study was to determine clinical and microbiological differences between patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) catheter-related bacteraemia (CRB) undergoing or not undergo...

    Authors: Guillermo Cuervo, Mariana Camoez, Evelyn Shaw, María Ángeles Dominguez, Oriol Gasch, Belén Padilla, Vicente Pintado, Benito Almirante, José Molina, Francisco López-Medrano, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui, José A. Martinez, Elena Bereciartua, Fernando Rodriguez-Lopez, Carlos Fernandez-Mazarrasa, Miguel Ángel Goenaga…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:484
  19. Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection affects up to 7 % of the European population. Specific HBV genotypes are associated with rapid progression to end-stage liver disease and sub-optimal interferon treatm...

    Authors: Cédric Hirzel, Gilles Wandeler, Marta Owczarek, Meri Gorgievski-Hrisoho, Jean-Francois Dufour, Nasser Semmo and Samuel Zürcher
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:483
  20. The objective of this study is to evaluate rates of all-cause pneumonia among “at-risk” and “high-risk” children and adults in Germany—in comparison with age-stratified healthy counterparts—during the period f...

    Authors: Stephen I. Pelton, Kimberly M. Shea, Raymond A. Farkouh, David R. Strutton, Sebastian Braun, Christian Jacob, Rogier Klok, Elana S. Gruen and Derek Weycker
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:470
  21. Streptococcus pneumoniae is an important cause of microbial disease in humans. The introduction of multivalent vaccines has coincided with a dramatic decrease in the number of pneumococcal-related deaths. In spit...

    Authors: Eoin Clancy, Owen Higgins, Matthew S. Forrest, Teck Wee Boo, Martin Cormican, Thomas Barry, Olaf Piepenburg and Terry J. Smith
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:481
  22. Antimicrobial decision making in intensive care units (ICUs) is challenging. Unnecessary antimicrobials contribute to the development of resistant pathogens, Clostridium difficile infection and drug related adver...

    Authors: Linda R. Taggart, Elizabeth Leung, Matthew P. Muller, Larissa M. Matukas and Nick Daneman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:480
  23. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most recently discovered of the hepatotropic viruses, and is considered an emerging pathogen in developed countries with the possibility of fulminant hepatitis in immunocompromis...

    Authors: Detlev Schultze, Bernhard Mani, Günter Dollenmaier, Roland Sahli, Andrea Zbinden and Pierre Alexandre Krayenbühl
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:474
  24. The detection of HIV-1 p24 antigen in diagnostic tests relies on antibodies binding to conserved areas of the protein to cover the full range of HIV-1 subtypes. Using a panel of 43 different virus-like particl...

    Authors: Beatrice N. Vetter, Vanessa Orlowski, Christoph Niederhauser, Louise Walter and Jörg Schüpbach
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:468
  25. The prison management in Malaysia is proactively seeking to improve the health status of the prison inmates. Intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) are widely distributed throughout the world and are still gai...

    Authors: Lorainne Angal, Rohela Mahmud, Sajideh Samin, Nan-Jiun Yap, Romano Ngui, Amirah Amir, Init Ithoi, Adeeba Kamarulzaman and Yvonne AL Lim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:467
  26. Food insecurity is an important barrier to retention in care and adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people living with HIV infection (PLHIV). However, there is a lack of rigorous evidence about ho...

    Authors: Sandra I. McCoy, Prosper F. Njau, Nancy L. Czaicki, Suneetha Kadiyala, Nicholas P. Jewell, William H. Dow and Nancy S. Padian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:490
  27. Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) remain among of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality among children. Several studies have associated vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk of RTIs, and...

    Authors: Susanna Esposito and Mara Lelii
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:487
  28. Lung nodules caused by mycobacteria can resemble lung cancer on chest imaging. The advent of lung cancer screening with low-dose Computed Tomography is accompanied by high false-positive rates, making it neces...

    Authors: Cesar J. Figueroa, Elyn Riedel and Michael S. Glickman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:482
  29. Syphilis remains a global public health threat and can lead to severe complications. In addition to resolution of clinical manifestations, a reduction in nontreponemal antibody titers after treatment is regard...

    Authors: Arlene C. Seña, Xiao-Hui Zhang, Trudy Li, He-Ping Zheng, Bin Yang, Li-Gang Yang, Juan C. Salazar, Myron S. Cohen, M. Anthony Moody, Justin D. Radolf and Joseph D. Tucker
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:479
  30. Multidrug resistant-tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a threat to global tuberculosis control which is worsened by human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) co-infection. There is however paucity of data on the effects of an...

    Authors: Teye Umanah, Jabulani Ncayiyana, Xavier Padanilam and Peter S. Nyasulu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:478
  31. Acute inflammatory reactions are a frequently occurring, tissue destructing phenomenon in infectious- as well as autoimmune diseases, providing clinical challenges for early diagnosis. In leprosy, an infectiou...

    Authors: Saraswoti Khadge, Sayera Banu, Kidist Bobosha, Jolien J. van der Ploeg-van Schip, Isabela M. Goulart, Pratibha Thapa, Chhatra B. Kunwar, Krista E. van Meijgaarden, Susan J.F. van den Eeden, Louis Wilson, Senjuti Kabir, Hymonti Dey, Luiz R. Goulart, Janaina Lobato, Washington Carvalho, Yonas Bekele…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:477
  32. Intraocular tuberculosis is uncommon and has various clinical presentations. Lack of specific clinical clues can make the diagnosis challenging. The purpose of this study is to report a clinical presentation o...

    Authors: Sunee Chansangpetch, Anita Manassakorn, Prasart Laksanaphuk and Usanee Reinprayoon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:476
  33. Multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli and other enteric bacteria producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) have emerged as an important cause of invasive infection. Targeting the primary (intestinal) niche b...

    Authors: Siegbert Rieg, M. Fabian Küpper, Katja de With, Annerose Serr, Jürgen A. Bohnert and Winfried V. Kern
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:475
  34. Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) are a worldwide problem. International migration and travel facilitate the spread of MDRO. Therefore the goal of our study was to assess the risk of influx of MDRO from pat...

    Authors: Nico T. Mutters, Frank Günther, Anja Sander, Alexander Mischnik and Uwe Frank
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:466
  35. Bacterial meningitis remains an important infection globally, with the greatest burden in children in low-income settings, including Papua New Guinea (PNG). We present serotype, antimicrobial susceptibility an...

    Authors: Andrew R. Greenhill, Suparat Phuanukoonnon, Audrey Michael, Mition Yoannes, Tilda Orami, Helen Smith, Denise Murphy, Christopher Blyth, John Reeder, Peter Siba, William Pomat and Deborah Lehmann
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:485
  36. The adoption of quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) to replace trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) in immunization programs is growing worldwide, thus helping to address the problem of influenza B lineage misma...

    Authors: Edward W. Thommes, Afisi Ismaila, Ayman Chit, Genevieve Meier and Christopher T. Bauch
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:465
  37. Nephropathia epidemica (NE) is a mild form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) that is caused by the Puumala virus. Periodic outbreaks have been described in endemic areas, with a substantial numbe...

    Authors: Hanno Bunz, Peter Weyrich, Andreas Peter, Dorothea Baumann, Otto Tschritter, Martina Guthoff, Robert Beck, Gerhard Jahn, Ferruh Artunc, Hans-Ulrich Häring, Nils Heyne and Robert Wagner
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:464
  38. Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common tick-borne infection in the United States. Although humans can be infected by at least 16 different strains of B. burgdorferi, the overwhelming maj...

    Authors: Camilo E. Khatchikian, Robert B. Nadelman, John Nowakowski, Ira Schwartz, Michael Z. Levy, Dustin Brisson and Gary P. Wormser
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:472
  39. Recent advances in Hepatitis C therapeutics offer the possibility of cure but will be expensive. The cost of treatment may be partially offset by the avoidance of advanced liver disease. We performed a micro-c...

    Authors: Jennifer Ann Kieran, Suzanne Norris, Aisling O’Leary, Cathal Walsh, Raphael Merriman, D. Houlihan, P. Aiden McCormick, Susan McKiernan, Colm Bergin and Michael Barry
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:471
  40. Abacavir is one of the recommended nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) for the treatment of HIV infections among children and adolescents. However, there are concerns that the antiviral efficac...

    Authors: Olatunji O. Adetokunboh, Anel Schoonees, Tolulope A. Balogun and Charles S. Wiysonge
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:469
  41. Despite acute respiratory infections being a major cause of death among children in developing countries including India, there is a lack of community-based studies that document its burden and aetiology.

    Authors: Anand Krishnan, Ritvik Amarchand, Vivek Gupta, Kathryn E. Lafond, Rizwan Abdulkader Suliankatchi, Siddhartha Saha, Sanjay Rai, Puneet Misra, Debjani Ram Purakayastha, Abhishek Wahi, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Arti Kapil, Fatimah Dawood, Chandrakant S. Pandav, Shobha Broor, Suresh K. Kapoor…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:462
  42. Multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an emerging challenge for TB control programs globally. According to World health organization, 2012 report Ethiopia stands 15th out of the 27 high priority countries...

    Authors: Feleke Mekonnen, Belay Tessema, Feleke Moges, Aschalew Gelaw, Setegn Eshetie and Gemechu Kumera
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:461
  43. A rapid rise in PubMed citations on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) occurred after 2000, but the relationship of trends in citation to epidemiologic trends for infectious disease is not known.

    Authors: Ethan Morgan and Michael Z. David
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:460
  44. Both cervical cancer and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are major public health problems in Sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of the study were to investigate human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence accordi...

    Authors: Zizipho Z A Mbulawa, David Coetzee and Anna-Lise Williamson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:459
  45. The Gram stain has been used as an essential tool for antimicrobial stewardship in our hospital since the 1970s. The objective of this study was to clarify the difference in the targeted therapies selected bas...

    Authors: Tomohiro Taniguchi, Sanefumi Tsuha, Soichi Shiiki and Masashi Narita
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:458
  46. As the average age of the HIV-positive population increases, there is increasing need to monitor patients for the development of comorbidities as well as for drug toxicities.

    Authors: Jennifer Gillis, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Ann N Burchell, Curtis Cooper, Marina B Klein, Mona Loutfy, Nima Machouf, Julio SG Montaner, Chris Tsoukas, Robert S Hogg and Janet Raboud
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:453
  47. While WHO recommendations are to treat people earlier and earlier, it will considerably increase the number of HIV infected people eligible for antiretroviral therapy (ART). In South Africa, a country which ca...

    Authors: Mélanie PLAZY, François DABIS, Kevindra NAIDU, Joanna ORNE-GLIEMANN, Till BARNIGHAUSEN and Rosemary DRAY-SPIRA
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:452
  48. The use of molecular diagnostic techniques for the evaluation of the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) has not been documented. We aimed to evaluate the impact of PCVs on invasive pneumococcal d...

    Authors: Stefano Tempia, Nicole Wolter, Cheryl Cohen, Sibongile Walaza, Claire von Mollendorf, Adam L. Cohen, Jocelyn Moyes, Linda de Gouveia, Susan Nzenze, Florette Treurnicht, Marietjie Venter, Michelle J. Groome, Shabir A. Madhi and Anne von Gottberg
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:450
  49. The most common cause of Gram-negative bacterial neonatal meningitis is E. coli K1. It has a mortality rate of 10–15 %, and neurological sequelae in 30–50 % of cases. Infections can be attributable to nosocomial ...

    Authors: Aldukali Alkeskas, Pauline Ogrodzki, Mohamed Saad, Naqash Masood, Nasreddin R. Rhoma, Karen Moore, Audrey Farbos, Konrad Paszkiewicz and Stephen Forsythe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:449

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