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  1. Mycobacterium intracellulare is a major cause of Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease in many countries. Molecular studies have revealed several new Mycobacteria species that are closely related to M. intrace...

    Authors: Su-Young Kim, Hye Yun Park, Byeong-Ho Jeong, Kyeongman Jeon, Hee Jae Huh, Chang-Seok Ki, Nam Yong Lee, Seung-Jung Han, Sung Jae Shin and Won-Jung Koh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:406
  2. Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in Ethiopia. In 2010 the TB treatment regimen was shortened from 8 to 6-months treatment. With this new regimen, the full course of treatment should be taken ...

    Authors: Daniel Fiseha and Meaza Demissie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:405
  3. While patient-provider interactions are commonly understood as mutually constructed relationships, the role of patient behaviour, participation in interactions, and characteristics, particularly ideals surroun...

    Authors: Catherine Campbell, Kerry Scott, Morten Skovdal, Claudius Madanhire, Constance Nyamukapa and Simon Gregson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:404
  4. Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPn) is an important pathogen causing a variety of clinical manifestations. The effects of SPn nasopharyngeal colonization on respiratory tract infections are poorly studied. We evaluate...

    Authors: Sigita Petraitiene, Tomas Alasevicius, Indre Staceviciene, Daiva Vaiciuniene, Tomas Kacergius and Vytautas Usonis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:403
  5. End-stage liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma due to hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection are increasingly common causes of death among HIV-infected individuals. However, there are few clinical investig...

    Authors: Kali Zhou, Fengyu Hu, Charles Wang, Min Xu, Yun Lan, Jamie P. Morano, Stanley M. Lemon, Joseph D. Tucker and Weiping Cai
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:401
  6. The incidence of dengue is rising steadily in Malaysia since the first major outbreak in 1973. Despite aggressive measures taken by the relevant authorities, Malaysia is still facing worsening dengue crisis ov...

    Authors: Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi, Amer Hayat Khan, Azreen Syazril Adnan, Azmi Sarriff, Yusra Habib Khan and Fauziah Jummaat
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:399
  7. The commercial Kalon HSV-2 IgG ELISA is currently recommended for research use in sub-Saharan Africa because of its superior accuracy compared to other serologic assays. However, there are no data on key preci...

    Authors: Eshan U. Patel, Jordyn Manucci, Erin M. Kahle, Jairam R. Lingappa, Rhoda Ashley Morrow, Estelle Piwowar-Manning, Anelet James, Kwitaka F. Maluzi, Maina M. Cheeba, Glenda Gray, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Mubiana Inambao, Bellington Vwalika, Thomas C. Quinn and Oliver Laeyendecker
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:398

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:355

  8. Unplanned care interruption (UCI) challenges effective HIV treatment. We determined the frequency and risk factors for UCI in Nigeria.

    Authors: Aimalohi A. Ahonkhai, Bolanle Banigbe, Juliet Adeola, Ifeyinwa Onwuatuelo, Ingrid V. Bassett, Elena Losina, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Prosper Okonkwo and Susan Regan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:397
  9. Accurate and high-throughput genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) may be important for understanding the epidemiology and pathogenesis of tuberculosis (TB). In this study, we report the develop...

    Authors: Eddie M. Wampande, Stavroula K. Hatzios, Beatrice Achan, Ezekiel Mupere, Mary Nsereko, Harriet K. Mayanja, Kathleen Eisenach, W Henry Boom, Sebastien Gagneux and Moses L. Joloba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:396
  10. The rapid global spread of multi-resistant bacteria and loss of antibiotic effectiveness increases the risk of initial inappropriate antibiotic therapy (IAT) and poses a serious threat to patient safety. We co...

    Authors: Gowri Raman, Esther Avendano, Samantha Berger and Vandana Menon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:395
  11. Peritoneal tuberculosis is an important problem in regions of the world where tuberculosis is still prevalent (Chest 1991; 99:1134). Atypical presentations such as portal vein thrombosis can delay diagnosis or...

    Authors: Ushani Mayurika Wariyapperuma and Champa Indrani Welikala Jayasundera
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:394
  12. Streptococcus suis is a zoonotic pathogen that causes invasive infections in humans and pigs. It has been reported that S. suis infection in humans is mostly caused by serotype 2. However, human cases caused by o...

    Authors: Rujirat Hatrongjit, Anusak Kerdsin, Marcelo Gottschalk, Dan Takeuchi, Shigeyuki Hamada, Kazunori Oishi and Yukihiro Akeda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:392
  13. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) poses an increasingly large disease and economic burden worldwide. The effectiveness of screening programs in the tropics is poorly understood. The aims of this ...

    Authors: Mar-Kyaw Win, Tarek Abdellatif Aly Soliman, Linda Kay Lee, Chia Siong Wong, Angela Chow, Brenda Ang, Carrasco L. Roman and Yee-Sin Leo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:391
  14. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative plans for coordinated cessation of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) use, beginning with serotype 2-containing OPV (i.e., OPV2 cessation) followed by the remaining two OPV s...

    Authors: Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens and Kimberly M. Thompson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:390
  15. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative plans for coordinated cessation of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) after interrupting all wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission, but many questions remain related to long-ter...

    Authors: Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Mark A. Pallansch, Stephen L. Cochi, Steven G.F. Wassilak and Kimberly M. Thompson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:389
  16. Thromboembolic events among HIV infected persons are a recognized clinical problem but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. To assess whether coagulation and fibrinolysis differ between long-term t...

    Authors: Frederikke Falkencrone Rönsholt, Jan Gerstoft, Henrik Ullum, Pär Ingemar Johansson, Terese Lea Katzenstein and Sisse Rye Ostrowski
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:388
  17. A specialist neurological infectious disease service has been run jointly by the departments of infectious disease and neurology at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital since 2005. We sought to describe the...

    Authors: Lance Turtle, Agam Jung, Nick J Beeching, Derek Cocker, Gerry R Davies, Andy Nicolson, Michael BJ Beadsworth, Alastair RO Miller and Tom Solomon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:387
  18. Sub-Saharan Africa has a high prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections. Health care workers (HCWs) are at high risk of contracting HBV infection through their occupation. Vaccination of HCWs against HB...

    Authors: A. Mueller, L. Stoetter, S. Kalluvya, A. Stich, C. Majinge, B. Weissbrich and C. Kasang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:386
  19. Cryptococcus neoformans infection usually presents as chronic meningitis and is increasingly being recognized in immunocompromised patients. Presentation with pleural effusion is rare in cryptococcal disease; in ...

    Authors: Mayun Chen, Xiaomi Wang, Xianjuan Yu, Caijun Dai, Dunshun Chen, Chang Yu, Xiaomei Xu, Dan Yao, Li Yang, Yuping Li, Liangxing Wang and Xiaoying Huang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:385
  20. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) can be fatal without timely diagnosis and treatment. Treatment efficacies vary due to drug resistance, drug toxicity and co-morbidities. It is important to monitor treatment respons...

    Authors: Aarthy C. Vallur, Yeung L. Tutterrow, Raodoh Mohamath, Sowmya Pattabhi, Asrat Hailu, Asim O. Abdoun, Abdalla E. Ahmed, Maowia Mukhtar, Md Abdus Salam, Meirielly Lima Almeida, Roque P. Almeida, Dinesh Mondal, Audrey Albertini, Hashim Ghalib, Malcolm S. Duthie and Steven G. Reed
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:384
  21. Temporary increases in plasma HIV RNA ('blips') are common in HIV patients on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). Blips above 500 copies/mL have been associated with subsequent viral rebound. It is not ...

    Authors: Jim Young, Martin Rickenbach, Alexandra Calmy, Enos Bernasconi, Cornelia Staehelin, Patrick Schmid, Matthias Cavassini, Manuel Battegay, Huldrych F. Günthard and Heiner C. Bucher
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:382
  22. Serial interferon-gamma-release-assay (IGRA) result can show variance due to within-subject variation and difference in host immune status, and may be affected by latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) treatment...

    Authors: Seung Heon Lee, Hee Jin Kim, Seok Ju Park, Tae Hee Kim, So Jeong Park, Sun Woo Kang, Yeong Hoon Kim and Dick Menzies
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:381
  23. Community-onset (CO) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia is an evolving problem, and there is a great need for a reliable method to assess MRSA risk at hospital admission. A new MRSA pred...

    Authors: Besu F. Teshome, Grace C. Lee, Kelly R. Reveles, Russell T. Attridge, Jim Koeller, Chen-pin Wang, Eric M. Mortensen and Christopher R. Frei
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:380
  24. A small number of individuals with B-cell-related primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) may exhibit long-term (prolonged or chronic) excretion of immunodeficiency-associated vaccine-derived polioviruses (iV...

    Authors: Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Mark A. Pallansch and Kimberly M. Thompson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:379
  25. Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains with resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins (ESCs), last options for first-line monotherapy of gonorrhoea, likely emerged and initially disseminated in Japan, followed by int...

    Authors: Ken Shimuta, Yuko Watanabe, Shu-ichi Nakayama, Tomoko Morita-Ishihara, Toshiro Kuroki, Magnus Unemo and Makoto Ohnishi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:378
  26. Since 2007, a Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme against cervical cancer (CC) is implemented in Italy in 11-year-old girls. The extension of HPV vaccination to young adult women, or to 11-year-ol...

    Authors: Paolo Bonanni, Giovanni Gabutti, Nadia Demarteau, Sara Boccalini and Giuseppe La Torre
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:377
  27. Prior analyses demonstrated the need for some countries and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to conduct additional supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) with trivalent oral poliovirus vacci...

    Authors: Kimberly M. Thompson and Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:376
  28. The recent Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic highlights the need for efficacious virucidal products to help prevent infection and limit the spread of Ebola virus disease. However, there is limited data on the effica...

    Authors: Maren Eggers, Markus Eickmann, Katharina Kowalski, Juergen Zorn and Karen Reimer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:375
  29. World leaders remain committed to globally-coordinated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) cessation following successful eradication of wild polioviruses, but the best timing and strategy for implementation depend ...

    Authors: Kimberly M. Thompson and Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:374
  30. Authors: Mark K. Webale, Valentine Budambula, Raphael Lihana, Francis O. Musumba, Anthony K. Nyamache, Nancy L. M. Budambula, Aabid A. Ahmed, Collins Ouma and Tom Were
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:373

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:299

  31. In spring 2008, a goat farm experiencing Q fever abortions (“Farm A”) was identified as the probable source of a human Q fever outbreak in a Dutch town. In 2009, a larger outbreak with 347 cases occurred in th...

    Authors: Georgia A. F. Ladbury, Jeroen P.G. Van Leuken, Arno Swart, Piet Vellema, Barbara Schimmer, Ronald Ter Schegget and Wim Van der Hoek
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:372
  32. Infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV) in immunocompromised patients can lead to severe liver disease. Treatment options for HEV include peginterferon or ribavirin, routinely also used for the treatment of hep...

    Authors: Ludi Koning, Michael R. Charlton, Suzan D. Pas, Julie K. Heimbach, Albert DME Osterhaus, Kymberly D. Watt, Harry LA Janssen, Robert J. de Knegt and Annemiek A. van der Eijk
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:371
  33. In Australia, chlamydia is the most commonly notifiable infection and over the past ten years chlamydia and gonorrhoea notification rates have increased. Aboriginal compared with non-Aboriginal Australians hav...

    Authors: Simon Graham, Rebecca J. Guy, Handan C. Wand, John M. Kaldor, Basil Donovan, Janet Knox, Debbie McCowen, Patricia Bullen, Julie Booker, Chris O’Brien, Kristine Garrett and James S. Ward
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:370
  34. Influenza and pneumonia combined are the leading causes of death due to infectious diseases in the United States. We describe factors associated with pneumonia among adults hospitalized with influenza.

    Authors: Shikha Garg, Seema Jain, Fatimah S. Dawood, Michael Jhung, Alejandro Pérez, Tiffany D’Mello, Arthur Reingold, Ken Gershman, James Meek, Kathryn E. Arnold, Monica M. Farley, Patricia Ryan, Ruth Lynfield, Craig Morin, Joan Baumbach, Emily B. Hancock…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:369
  35. Proper adherence to isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) may depend upon the results of tuberculosis (TB) screening test and patients’ understanding of their risk of developing active TB. We conducted a study to...

    Authors: Grace A. Shayo, Candida Moshiro, Said Aboud, Muhammad Bakari and Ferdinand M. Mugusi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:368
  36. Experimental studies suggest that changes in brain ventricle size are key events in bacterial meningitis. This study investigated the relationship between ventricle size, clinical condition and risk of poor ou...

    Authors: Janni L. Sporrborn, Gertrud B. Knudsen, Mette Sølling, Karina Seierøe, Annette Farre, Bjarne Ø. Lindhardt, Thomas Benfield and Christian T. Brandt
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:367
  37. Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis helps to understand the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis and to address evolutionary questions about the disease spread. Certain genotypes also have implications for...

    Authors: Vivi Lisdawati, Nelly Puspandari, Lutfah Rif’ati, Triyani Soekarno, Melatiwati M, Syamsidar K, Lies Ratnasari, Nur Izzatun and Ida Parwati
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:366
  38. New Zealand initiated HPV vaccination in 2008, and has attained 3-dose coverage of ~50 % in 12–13 year old girls. Due to the success of program initiatives in Māori girls, higher coverage rates of ~60 % have b...

    Authors: Yoon-Jung Kang, Hazel Lewis, Megan A. Smith, Leonardo Simonella, Harold Neal, Collette Bromhead and Karen Canfell
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:365
  39. Rift valley fever (RVF) is a re-emerging viral vector-borne disease with rapid global socio-economic impact. A large RVF outbreak occurred in Tanzania in 2007 and affected more than half of the regions with hi...

    Authors: Sasita S. Shabani, Mangi J. Ezekiel, Mohamed Mohamed and Candida S. Moshiro
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:363
  40. The emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus was associated with dramatically increased skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI) incidence in the first few years of the 21st century in the U...

    Authors: Loren G. Miller, Debra F. Eisenberg, Honghu Liu, Chun-Lan Chang, Yan Wang, Rakesh Luthra, Anna Wallace, Christy Fang, Joseph Singer and Jose A. Suaya
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:362
  41. Delay in tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis adversely affects patients’ outcomes and prolongs transmission in the community. The influence of social contacts on steps taken by active pulmonary TB patients to seek a d...

    Authors: Juliet N. Sekandi, Sarah Zalwango, Leonardo Martinez, Andreas Handel, Robert Kakaire, Allan K. Nkwata, Amara E. Ezeamama, Noah Kiwanuka and Christopher C. Whalen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:361
  42. Nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) Ag-based tests are useful for detecting dengue virus (DENV), but there is lack of evidence on the diagnostic accuracy of NS1 Ag-based tests in Asian population. Thus, we conducted...

    Authors: Xiaoyun Shan, Xiangmei Wang, Qing Yuan, Yaping Zheng, Honghe Zhang, Yihua Wu and Jun Yang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:360
  43. Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) remains a major foodborne pathogen in North America yet studies examining the spatial epidemiology of salmonellosis in urban environments are lacking. Our...

    Authors: Csaba Varga, David L. Pearl, Scott A. McEwen, Jan M. Sargeant, Frank Pollari and Michele T. Guerin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:359
  44. The importance of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) in Chinese hospitals is not clearly delineated. Thus we sought to assess the prevalence of MDRO in Chinese intensive care units (ICUs).

    Authors: Xiaojun Ma, Yinghong Wu, Liuyi Li, Qian Xu, Bijie Hu, Yuxing Ni, Anhua Wu, Shumei Sun, Vincent Jarlier and Jérôme Robert
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:358
  45. Describing the circulation of influenza viruses and the characteristics of seasonal epidemics remains an essential tool to optimize the strategies of influenza prevention and control. Special attention has bee...

    Authors: Anne Mosnier, Saverio Caini, Isabelle Daviaud, Jean-Louis Bensoussan, Françoise Stoll-Keller, Tan Tai Bui, Bruno Lina, Sylvie Van der Werf and Jean Marie Cohen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:357
  46. The re-emergence of syphilis among HIV-positive gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM) requires vigilance. We estimated incidence of and risk factors for first and subsequent syphilis diagnoses among MS...

    Authors: Ann N. Burchell, Vanessa G. Allen, Sandra L. Gardner, Veronika Moravan, Darrell H. S. Tan, Ramandip Grewal, Janet Raboud, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, Rupert Kaul, Tony Mazzulli, Frank McGee and Sean B. Rourke
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:356
  47. Mycobacterium lentiflavum (M. lentiflavum), a slow growing nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), has recently been described as an emerging human pathogen regardless of the immune status of the host. Previous repor...

    Authors: Yong Chul Lee, Seung Bum Kim, Su Jin Gang, Seung Yong Park and So Ri Kim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:354

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