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  1. Azithromycin has been widely used for Mycoplasma genitalium treatment internationally. However, the eradication efficacy has substantially declined recent decade. In Russia, josamycin (another macrolide) is the r...

    Authors: Alexander Guschin, Pavel Ryzhikh, Tatiana Rumyantseva, Mikhail Gomberg and Magnus Unemo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:40
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. In Ethiopia a tiebreaker algorithm using 3 rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in series is used to diagnose HIV. Discordant results between the first 2 RDTs are resolved by a third ‘tiebreaker’ RDT. Médecins Sans F...

    Authors: Leslie Shanks, M Ruby Siddiqui, Jarmila Kliescikova, Neil Pearce, Cono Ariti, Libsework Muluneh, Erwan Pirou, Koert Ritmeijer, Johnson Masiga and Almaz Abebe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:39
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  3. Brucellosis is a common zoonotic disease and remains a major burden in both human and domesticated animal populations worldwide. Few geographic studies of human Brucellosis have been conducted, especially in C...

    Authors: Peng Jia and Andrew Joyner
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:36
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  4. For a long time, the role of CD8+ T cells in blood-stage malaria was not considered important because erythrocytes do not express major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I proteins. While recent evidences su...

    Authors: Natália Satchiko Hojo-Souza, Dhelio Batista Pereira, Lívia Silva Araújo Passos, Pedro Henrique Gazzinelli-Guimarães, Mariana Santos Cardoso, Mauro Shugiro Tada, Graziela Maria Zanini, Daniella Castanheira Bartholomeu, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara and Lilian Lacerda Bueno
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:35
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  5. After more than 10 years without a case of wild poliovirus (WPV) in China, an outbreak occurred in 2011 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

    Authors: Hai-Bo Wang, Wen-Zhou Yu, Xin-Qi Wang, Fuerhati Wushouer, Jian-Ping Wang, Dong-Yan Wang, Fu-Qiang Cui, Jing-Shan Zheng, Ning Wen, Yi-Xin Ji, Chun-Xiang Fan, Hui-Ling Wang, Gui-Jun Ning, Guo-Hong Huang, Dong-Mei Yan, Qi-Ru Su…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:34
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  6. Herpes zoster ophthalmicus is defined as herpes zoster involvement of the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve. Ocular involvement occurs in 20–70% of patients with herpes zoster ophthalmicus and may in...

    Authors: Chun-Yuan Lee, Hung-Chin Tsai, Susan Shin-Jung Lee and Yao-Shen Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:33
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  7. Tuberculosis (TB) is generally well controlled in Malaysia, but remains an important problem in the nation’s eastern states. In order to better understand factors contributing to high TB rates in the eastern s...

    Authors: Timothy William, Uma Parameswaran, Wai Khew Lee, Tsin Wen Yeo, Nicholas M Anstey and Anna P Ralph
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:32
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Chlamydia notifications continue to rise in young people in many countries and regular chlamydia testing is an important prevention strategy. Although there have been initiatives to increase testing in primary...

    Authors: Rebecca Lorch, Jane Hocking, Rebecca Guy, Alaina Vaisey, Anna Wood, Basil Donovan, Christopher Fairley, Jane Gunn, John Kaldor and Meredith Temple-Smith
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:31
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  9. Hepatitis B infection is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. Health care workers are at increased risk of acquiring hepatitis B infection due to occupational exposure. There is effective and safe vaccin...

    Authors: Gedefaw Abeje and Muluken Azage
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:30
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  10. Gonorrhoea and widely spread antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in its etiological agent Neisseria gonorrhoeae are major public health concerns worldwide. Gonococcal AMR surveillance nationally and internationally, t...

    Authors: Fiodar Lebedzeu, Daniel Golparian, Leonid Titov, Nataliya Pankratava, Slavyana Glazkova, Irina Shimanskaya, Natallia Charniakova, Aliaksandr Lukyanau, Marius Domeika and Magnus Unemo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:29
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  11. Around 3.3 million children worldwide are infected with HIV and 90% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. Our study aimed to estimate adherence levels and find the determinants, facilitators and barriers of ART ...

    Authors: Daniel Nyogea, Sally Mtenga, Lars Henning, Fabian C Franzeck, Tracy R Glass, Emilio Letang, Marcel Tanner and Eveline Geubbels
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:28
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  12. The editors of BMC Infectious Diseases would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 14 (2014).

    Authors: Philippa K Harris
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:27
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledgement Published on:

  13. Data on the association between influenza and tuberculosis are limited. We describe the characteristics of patients with laboratory-confirmed tuberculosis, laboratory-confirmed influenza and tuberculosis-influ...

    Authors: Sibongile Walaza, Stefano Tempia, Halima Dawood, Ebrahim Variava, Jocelyn Moyes, Adam L Cohen, Nicole Wolter, Michelle Groome, Claire von Mollendorf, Kathleen Kahn, Marthi Pretorius, Marietjie Venter, Shabir A Madhi and Cheryl Cohen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:26
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  14. The human major histocompatibility complex class I polypeptide-related sequence B (MICB) is a protein that modulates the NK and T cell activation through the NKG2D receptor and is related to several diseases i...

    Authors: Hoang Van Tong, Le Huu Song, Nghiem Xuan Hoan, Bui Khac Cuong, Bui Tien Sy, Ho Anh Son, Do Quyet, Vu Quoc Binh, Peter G Kremsner, Claus Thomas Bock, Thirumalaisamy P Velavan and Nguyen Linh Toan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:25
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Theory suggests that individual behavioral responses impact the spread of flu-like illnesses, but this has been difficult to empirically characterize. Social distancing is an important component of behavioral ...

    Authors: Michael Springborn, Gerardo Chowell, Matthew MacLachlan and Eli P Fenichel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:21
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:474

  16. Tuberculosis (TB) rates among prisoners are more than 20 times that of the general population in Brazil, yet there are limited data available to facilitate the development of effective interventions in this hi...

    Authors: Andrea da Silva Santos Carbone, Dayse Sanchez Guimarães Paião, Renata Viebrantz Enne Sgarbi, Everton Ferreira Lemos, Renato Fernando Cazanti, Marcos Massaki Ota, Alexandre Laranjeira Junior, José Victor Bortolotto Bampi, Vanessa Perreira Fayad Elias, Simone Simionatto, Ana Rita Coimbra Motta-Castro, Maurício Antonio Pompílio, Sandra Maria do Valle de Oliveira, Albert I Ko, Jason R Andrews and Julio Croda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:24
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. China is approaching measles elimination, but indigenous measles still circulates. County L in China has reported measles-containing vaccine (MCV) coverage rates >95% since 2000. Despite high reported coverage...

    Authors: Chao Ma, Fangjun Li, Xiang Zheng, Hong Zhang, Mengjuan Duan, Yanhua Yang, Lixin Hao, Qiru Su, Lance Rodewald, Bosong Guo, Shanliang Xiao, Huaqing Wang, Li Li, Junhua Li, Huiming Luo and Lidong Gao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:23
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  18. Evidence suggests that human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles influence the host immune response against Mycobacterium leprae. However, the association between HLA alleles and borderline (B) leprosy has not been s...

    Authors: Fabiana Covolo de Souza-Santana, Elaine Valim Camarinha Marcos, Maria Esther Salles Nogueira, Somei Ura and Jane Tomimori
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:22
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  19. Many low and middle-income countries are experiencing colliding epidemics of chronic infectious (ID) and non-communicable diseases (NCD). As a result, the prevalence of multiple morbidities (MM) is rising.

    Authors: Tolu Oni, Elizabeth Youngblood, Andrew Boulle, Nuala McGrath, Robert J Wilkinson and Naomi S Levitt
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:20
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. The goal of chronic hepatitis C treatment is to remove the virus to avoid progression of HCV-related disease. Sustained virologic response (SVR) is the most widely used efficacy endpoint in clinical studies of...

    Authors: Jayne Smith-Palmer, Karin Cerri and William Valentine
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:19
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  21. This report describes emergency response following an imported vaccine derived poliovirus (VDPV) case from Myanmar to Yunnan Province, China and the cross-border collaboration between China and Myanmar. Immedi...

    Authors: Hai-Bo Wang, Li-Fen Zhang, Wen-Zhou Yu, Ning Wen, Dong-Mei Yan, Jing-Jing Tang, Yong Zhang, Chun-Xiang Fan, Kathleen H Reilly, Wen-Bo Xu, Li Li, Zheng-Rong Ding and Hui-Ming Luo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:18
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  22. The association between heart failure (HF) and herpes zoster has rarely been studied. We investigated the hypothesis that HF may increase the risk of herpes zoster in Taiwan using a nationwide Taiwanese popula...

    Authors: Ping-Hsun Wu, Yi-Ting Lin, Chun-Yi Lin, Ming-Yii Huang, Wei-Chiao Chang and Wei-Pin Chang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:17
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Pneumonia and diarrhea are leading causes of death for children under five (U5). It is challenging to estimate the total number of deaths and cause-specific mortality fractions. Two major efforts, one led by t...

    Authors: Stephanie D Kovacs, Kim Mullholland, Julia Bosch, Harry Campbell, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Ibrahim Khalil, Stephen Lim, Li Liu, Stephen N Maley, Colin D Mathers, Alastair Matheson, Ali H Mokdad, Kate O’Brien, Umesh Parashar, Torin T Schaafsma, Duncan Steele…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:16
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  24. Syphilis infection during pregnancy leads to avoidable morbidity and mortality and remains a significant problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite global initiatives to increase the proportion of pregnant women s...

    Authors: Yukari C Manabe, Gertrude Namale, Elizabeth Nalintya, Joseph Sempa, Rosalind Parkes Ratanshi, Nadine Pakker and Elly Katabira
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:15
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. In recent years community-based voluntary counselling and testing sites (CB-VCT) for men having sex with men (MSM) have been established in larger cities in Germany to offer more opportunities for HIV testing....

    Authors: Ulrich Marcus, Jasmin Ort, Marc Grenz, Kai Eckstein, Karin Wirtz and Andreas Wille
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:14
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  26. Previous studies reported that the incidence of intestinal spirochetosis was high in homosexual men, especially those with Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection. The aim of the present study was to clarify th...

    Authors: Yoko Tateishi, Masae Takahashi, Shin-ichiro Horiguchi, Nobuaki Funata, Koichi Koizumi, Koji Okudela, Tsunekazu Hishima and Kenichi Ohashi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:13
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. We evaluated predictors and outcomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia among participants undergoing baseline mycobacterial blood culture in the ACTG A5221 STRIDE study, a randomized clinical trial compari...

    Authors: John A Crump, Xingye Wu, Michelle A Kendall, Prudence D Ive, Johnstone J Kumwenda, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Ute Jentsch and Susan Swindells
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:12
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  28. Serratia marcescens represents an important pathogen involved in hospital acquired infections. Outbreaks are frequently reported and are difficult to eradicate. The aim of this study is to describe an outbreak of...

    Authors: Carlotta Montagnani, Priscilla Cocchi, Laura Lega, Silvia Campana, Klaus Peter Biermann, Cesare Braggion, Patrizia Pecile, Elena Chiappini, Maurizio de Martino and Luisa Galli
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:11
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  29. Panton Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) has been associated with invasive Staphylococcus aureus soft tissue and pneumonic infections.

    Authors: Peter Boan, Hui-Leen Tan, Julie Pearson, Geoffrey Coombs, Christopher H Heath and James Owen Robinson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:10
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  30. To date, more than 125 species of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) have been identified. In this study, we investigated the frequency and clinical implication of the rarely isolated NTM from respiratory speci...

    Authors: Junghyun Kim, Moon-Woo Seong, Eui-Chong Kim, Sung Koo Han and Jae-Joon Yim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:9
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  31. HPV infection is an established risk factor for oropharyngeal cancer, and it has been proposed that cigarette smoking may potentiate HPV infection in the oral epithelium. We sought to test the hypothesis that ...

    Authors: Karl T Kelsey, Heather H Nelson, Stephanie Kim, Michael Pawlita, Scott M Langevin, Melissa Eliot, Dominique S Michaud and Michael McClean
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:8
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  32. Although mouse brain-derived, inactivated Japanese encephalitis vaccines (JE-MBs) have been successfully used for a long time, potential rare neurological complications have prompted the development of a Vero ...

    Authors: Ki Wook Yun, Hoan Jong Lee, Jin Han Kang, Byung Wook Eun, Yae-Jean Kim, Kyung-Hyo Kim, Nam Hee Kim, Young Jin Hong, Dong Ho Kim, Hwang Min Kim and Sung-Ho Cha
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:7
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  33. Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bloodstream infections among hemodialysis patients and of exit-site infections among peritoneal dialysis patients. However, the risk and prognosis of Staphylococcus aur...

    Authors: Lise H Nielsen, Søren Jensen-Fangel, Thomas Benfield, Robert Skov, Bente Jespersen, Anders R Larsen, Lars Østergaard, Henrik Støvring, Henrik C Schønheyder and Ole S Søgaard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:6
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  34. The burden of catheter-related infections (CRIs) in developing countries is severe. In South Africa, a standardised surveillance definition does not exist and the collection of catheter days is challenging. Th...

    Authors: Wilhelmina Strasheim, Martha M Kock, Veronica Ueckermann, Ebrahim Hoosien, Andries W Dreyer and Marthie M Ehlers
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:5
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  35. After the control of the main modes of Chagas disease (CD) transmission in most endemic countries, it is important to identify the participation of native sylvatic vectors in CD transmission. Although CD is no...

    Authors: Luiz Henrique Conde Sangenis, Roberto Magalhães Saraiva, Ingebourg Georg, Liane de Castro, Valdirene dos Santos Lima, André Luiz R Roque, Samanta Cristina das Chagas Xavier, Laura Cristina Santos, Fabiano A Fernandes, Otília Sarquis, Marli Maria Lima, Filipe Aníbal Carvalho-Costa and Márcio Neves Bóia
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. In patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), short-term mortality is largely dependent on pneumonia severity, whereas long-term mortality is considered to depend on comorbidity. However, evidence indic...

    Authors: Thomas Wesemann, Harald Nüllmann, Marc Andre Pflug, Hans Jürgen Heppner, Ludger Pientka and Ulrich Thiem
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:2
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic highlighted the need to routinely monitor severe influenza, which lead to the establishment of sentinel hospital-based surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in sever...

    Authors: Tamara J Meerhoff, Artan Simaku, Dritan Ulqinaku, Liana Torosyan, Natalia Gribkova, Veronica Shimanovich, Giorgi Chakhunashvili, Irakli Karseladze, Aizhan Yesmagambetova, Ainagul Kuatbayeva, Zuridin Nurmatov, Dinagul Otorbaeva, Emilia Lupulescu, Odette Popovici, Elizaveta Smorodintseva, Anna Sominina…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:1
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  39. Dilated cardiomyopathy occurring in HIV-infected patients raises both diagnostic and therapeutic challenging problems. Indeed myocardial involvement in HIV infection has been variously attributed to several ca...

    Authors: Andrea Frustaci, Nicola Petrosillo, Marco Francone, Romina Verardo, Giuseppe Ippolito and Cristina Chimenti
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:729
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  40. Impetigo is caused by both Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus; the relative contributions of each have been reported to fluctuate with time and region. While S. aureus is reportedly on the increase ...

    Authors: Asha C Bowen, Steven YC Tong, Mark D Chatfield and Jonathan R Carapetis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:727
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. A multicenter observational study was conducted in Italy to assess the safety of micafungin in the daily clinical practice for the treatment of proven and suspected invasive candidiasis (IC), as well as to des...

    Authors: Claudio Viscoli, Matteo Bassetti, Elio Castagnola, Simone Cesaro, Francesco Menichetti, Sandra Ratto, Carlo Tascini and Daniele Roberto Giacobbe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:725
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. As healthy children are the main reservoir of respiratory pathogens and the main cause of bacterial diffusion in the community, it could be interesting to investigate the type of screening that should be used ...

    Authors: Susanna Esposito, Leonardo Terranova, Alberto Zampiero, Valentina Ierardi, Walter Peves Rios, Claudio Pelucchi and Nicola Principi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:723
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. The diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology for the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBLN) is confounded by mimicking cytomorphologic disorders. The objective of this study was to d...

    Authors: Ketema Abdissa, Mulualem Tadesse, Mesele Bezabih, Alemayehu Bekele, Ludwig Apers, Leen Rigouts and Gemeda Abebe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:720
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Few data exist on the use of text messaging as a tool to promote retention in HIV care and virologic suppression at the clinic level in the United States. We describe the protocol for a study designed to inves...

    Authors: Katerina A Christopoulos, Elise D Riley, Jacqueline Tulsky, Adam W Carrico, Judith T Moskowitz, Leslie Wilson, Lara S Coffin, Veesta Falahati, Jordan Akerley and Joan F Hilton
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:718
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Among methods for preventing pneumonia and possibly also bacteremia in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, Selective Digestive Decontamination (SDD) appears most effective within randomized concurrent controll...

    Authors: James C Hurley
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:714
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Influenza pandemics are usually caused by the re-assortment of several influenza viruses, results in the emergence of new influenza virus strains that can infect the entire population. These pandemic strains, ...

    Authors: Hilda Sherbany, John McCauley, Tal Meningher, Musa Hindiyeh, Rita Dichtiar, Michal Perry Markovich, Ella Mendelson and Michal Mandelboim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:710
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. A total of 453 laboratory-confirmed cases infected with avian influenza A (H7N9) virus (including 175 deaths) have been reported till October 2,2014, of which 30.68% (139/453) of the cases were identified from...

    Authors: Hua Ding, Yin Chen, Zhao Yu, Peter W Horby, Fenjuan Wang, Jingfeng Hu, Xuhui Yang, Haiyan Mao, Shuwen Qin, Chengliang Chai, Shelan Liu, Enfu Chen and Hongjie Yu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:698
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Variations at DEPDC5 gene have been recently reported as genetic markers associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression in chronic HCV-infected patients. This study was conducted to assess the asso...

    Authors: Mashael R Al-Anazi, Sabine Matou-Nasri, Ayman A Abdo, Faisal M Sanai, Mohammed Q Khan, Ali Albenmousa, Hamad I Al-Ashgar, Nisreen Z Khalaf, Mohammed N Al-Ahdal and Ahmed A Al-Qahtani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:632
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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