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  1. 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
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  2. 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
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  3. 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
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  4. 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
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  5. 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
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  6. 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
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  7. 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
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  9. 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
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  10. 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
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  11. 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
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  12. 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
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  13. 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
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  14. 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
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  15. 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
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  16. 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
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  17. 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
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  18. 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
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

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  19. 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
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  20. 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
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  21. 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
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  22. 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
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  23. 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
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  24. 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
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  25. 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
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  26. 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
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  28. 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
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  29. 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
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  30. 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
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  31. 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
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  32. 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
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  33. 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
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  34. 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
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  35. 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
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  36. The link between infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and personality disorders (PD) has not been investigated in detail. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of HCV treatment in prisoners ...

    Authors: Andrés Marco, José J. Antón, Joan Trujols, Pablo Saíz de la Hoya, José de Juan, Inmaculada Faraco and Joan A Caylà
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:355
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  37. 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
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  38. As part of the EU funded project “HEPscreen”, the aim of this study is to identify hepatitis B and C screening and patient management guidelines, to assess the awareness of these among health professionals (HP...

    Authors: Angela Bechini, Abby Falla, Amena Ahmad, Irene Veldhuijzen, Sara Boccalini, Barbara Porchia and Miriam Levi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:353
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  39. Cryptococcal meningitis is the most common fungal infection of the central nervous system (CNS) in HIV/AIDS. HIV-1 virotoxins (e.g., gp41) are able to induce disorders of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which m...

    Authors: Bao Zhang, Jing-Yi Yu, Li-Qun Liu, Liang Peng, Feng Chi, Chun-Hua Wu, Ambrose Jong, Shi-Fu Wang, Hong Cao and Sheng-He Huang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:352
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  41. The objectives of this study were to describe hospital stays related to HZ and to evaluate the direct and indirect cost of hospitalizations due to HZ among patients aged over 50 years.

    Authors: Cecile Blein, Gaetan Gavazzi, Marc Paccalin, Charles Baptiste, Gilles Berrut and Alexandre Vainchtock
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:350
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  42. Avahan, a large-scale HIV prevention program in India, transitioned over 130 intervention sites from donor funding and management to government ownership in three rounds. This paper examines the transition exp...

    Authors: Daniela C. Rodríguez, Vandana Tripathi, Meghan Bohren, Amy Paul, Kriti Singh, Vibha Chhabra, Suneeta Singh and Sara Bennett
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:349
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  43. Efficacy trials investigating the effect of multivitamin (MV) supplementations among patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) have so far been inconclusive. We conducted a randomized, double bl...

    Authors: David Guwatudde, Molin Wang, Amara E. Ezeamama, Danstan Bagenda, Rachel Kyeyune, Henry Wamani, Yukari C. Manabe and Wafaie W. Fawzi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:348
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  44. Community-acquired-pneumonia is the leading cause of child mortality worldwide. Very few studies have explored the predictive value of Proadrenomedullin and Copeptin in pediatric severe pneumonia and bacteremia.

    Authors: Gabriel Alcoba, Sergio Manzano, Laurence Lacroix, Annick Galetto-Lacour and Alain Gervaix
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:347
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  46. Meningoencephalitis is one of the most common disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) worldwide. Viral meningoencephalitis differs from bacterial meningitis in several aspects. In some developing countri...

    Authors: Michele Souza Bastos, Jordana Grazziela Coelho-dos-Reis, Danielle Alves Gomes Zauli, Felipe Gomes Naveca, Rossicleia Lins Monte, João Paulo Pimentel, Valéria Munique Kramer Macário, Natália Lessa da Silva, Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães, Marcelo Antônio Pascoal-Xavier, Allyson Guimaraes, Andréa Teixeira Carvalho, Adriana Malheiro, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho and Maria Paula Gomes Mourão
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:345
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  47. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels are generally lower in chronic hepatitis C patients than in healthy individuals. The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors which affect serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 level...

    Authors: Masanori Atsukawa, Akihito Tsubota, Noritomo Shimada, Kai Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Abe, Toru Asano, Yusuke Ohkubo, Masahiro Araki, Tadashi Ikegami, Chisa Kondo, Norio Itokawa, Ai Nakagawa, Taeang Arai, Yoko Matsushita, Katsuhisa Nakatsuka, Tomomi Furihata…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:344
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  49. During early HIV-1 infection (EHI), the interaction between the immune response and the virus determines disease progression. Although CD1c + myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) can trigger the immune response, the...

    Authors: Yingying Diao, Wenqing Geng, Xuejie Fan, Hualu Cui, Hong Sun, Yongjun Jiang, Yanan Wang, Amy Sun and Hong Shang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:342
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  50. In 2011 the largest measles outbreak in North America in a decade occurred in Quebec, Canada with over 700 cases. In contrast, measles activity in neighbouring province Ontario remained low (8 cases). Our obje...

    Authors: Sarah E. Wilson, Kamran Khan, Vladimir Gilca, Jennifer Miniota, Shelley L. Deeks, Gillian Lim, Rose Eckhardt, Shelly Bolotin and Natasha S. Crowcroft
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:341
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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