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  1. HIV self-testing represents a convenient and confidential option for HIV testing—the present study aimed to assess the acceptability of blood versus saliva self-tests among key populations in Kisangani.

    Authors: Tepungipame Tagoto, Serge Tonen-Wolyec, Lukongo Panda, Agasa Batina, Sadiki Falay and Likwela Losimba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1082
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  2. False negative rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) accruing to the non-detection of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2/3 (Pfhrp2/3) is threatening the diagnosis and management of malaria. Although regular m...

    Authors: Tobias Obejum Apinjoh, Livinus Ngu Tangi, Eniyou Cheryll Oriero, Sainabou Drammeh, Vincent Ntui Ntui-Njock, Blessed Etoketim, Hanesh Fru Chi, Pilate Nkineh Kwi, Bekai Njie, Mary Aigbiremo Oboh, Eric Akum Achidi and Alfred Amambua-Ngwa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1080
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  4. Viral neutralization (NT) assays can be used to determine the immune status of patients or assess the potency of candidate vaccines or therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). Focus reduction neutralization t...

    Authors: Hui-Chung Lin, Shu-Fen Chang, Chien-Ling Su, Huai-Chin Hu, Der-Jiang Chiao, Yu-Lin Hsu, Hsuan-ying Lu, Chang-Chi Lin, Pei-Yun Shu and Szu-Cheng Kuo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1076
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  5. After recovering from the acute phase of COVID-19, some of the infected children manifest long COVID symptoms. The present study aims to identify long COVID symptoms in children and adolescents admitted to hos...

    Authors: Mohsen Sarani, Niloofar Motamed, Gisou Hatami, Akbar Namvar and Maryam Ravanipour
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1074
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  6. Pulmonary nocardiosis (PN) is a rare and opportunistic infection. This study aimed to analyze clinical, radiological, and microbiological features, treatment and outcome of PN in southern china.

    Authors: Li-Da Chen, Hong-Yuan Li, Jian-Jun Xie, Miao-Fen Hu, Xiang-Xing Chen, Zhi-Ming Cai, Li Lin, Xiao-Bin Zhang, Gong-Ping Chen and Kai-Xiong Liu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1073
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  7. Malaria is an intravascular parasitic-related blood disease that causes bleeding, coagulopathy, and thrombocytopenia. However, limited data shows the effect of Plasmodium species infection on basic coagulation...

    Authors: Tegenaw Tiruneh, Andargachew Almaw, Aynework Abebaw, Teklehaimanot Kiros, Ayenew Berhan, Shewaneh Damtie, Biruk Legese, Dejen Getaneh Feleke, Meslo Sema, Ermias Sisay Chanie, Tadila Dires, Desalegn Andargie, Barnabas Achaw and Tahir Eyayu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1069
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  8. HIV/AIDS has left a profound impact, leading to significant mortality, morbidity, economic strain, and disability on a global scale. The introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has played a pivotal role i...

    Authors: Abel Andargie Berhane, Hawibilisuma Fituma Chimdesa, Atalel Fentahun Awedew, Nahom Addisu Bekele, Henok Mulatu Teferi and Getachew W/Yohannes
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1068
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  9. Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a well-known retrovirus, particularly prevalent in northeastern Iran, where it is associated with a range of disorders, including liver dysfunction. Previous stud...

    Authors: Farzam Kamrani, Amirhossein Esfandiari, Hojat ghahvechi, Samaneh Abolbashari, Zahra Mashkat, Habibollah Esmaily, Majid ghayour-Mobarhan and Susan Darroudi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1067
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  10. Scrub typhus (ST, also known as tsutsugamushi disease) is a common febrile vector-borne disease in South Korea and commonly known as autumn- and female-dominant disease. Although understanding changes in seaso...

    Authors: Jeehyun Kim, Penelope Vounatsou and Byung Chul Chun
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1066
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  11. Biofilm formation is an essential virulence factor that creates a highly protected growth mode for Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) to survive in any hostile environment. Antibiotic sub-minimal inhibitory concen...

    Authors: Raghda Elawady, Aliaa G. Aboulela, Ahmed Gaballah, Abeer A. Ghazal and Ahmed N. Amer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1065
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  12. A 26-year-old man with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, recurrent otitis externa, and chronic otitis media sustained a left lower extremity amputation and open femur fracture with internal hardware fixation after a mot...

    Authors: Andrea L. Covington, Filipe M. Cerqueira, Jonathan E. Pavia, David Reynoso and Ping Ren
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1064
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  13. A significant portion of the Muslim community participates in the Arba’een pilgrimage, with participant numbers increasing each year. There have been relatively few studies on the health of Arba’een Mass gathe...

    Authors: Hosein Azizi, Elham Davtalab Esmaeili, Behrouz Naghili, Shahriyar Ghanbarzadeh Javid, Ehsan Sarbazi and Fariba Abbasi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1063
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  14. Zoonotic infections, characterized with huge pathogen diversity, wide affecting area and great society harm, have become a major global public health problem. Early and accurate prediction of their outbreaks i...

    Authors: Chunrong Chen, Zhaoyuan He, Jin Zhao, Xuhui Zhu, Jiabao Li, Xinnan Wu, Zhongting Chen, Hailan Chen and Gengjie Jia
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1062
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  15. Evidence suggests that semi-facial respirators provide protection against contamination in high-risk environments, although the COVID-19 pandemic called for greater protection and viral inactivation capacity. ...

    Authors: Aline Midori Adati Kubota, Mário Fabrício Fleury Rosa, Solange Baraldi, Janine Araújo Montefusco Vale, Joana D`arc Gonçalves da Silva, Marcella Lemos Brettas Carneiro, Rosimeire Simprini Padula, Rodrigo Haddad, Graziella Anselmo Joanitti, Glécia Virgolino da Silva Luz, Marcus Vinícius Lia Fook, Ivan Ricardo Zimmermann, Suélia de Siqueira Rodrigues Fleury Rosa, Henry Maia Peixoto and Rodrigo Luiz Carregaro
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1061
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  17. Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is a common neurological complication of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) that can significantly affect patients’ quality of life. In Ethiopia, children living with HIV are at an i...

    Authors: Habtamu Wondmagegn, Asaminew Birhanu, Abinet Gebremickael, Habtamu Esubalew, Muluken Birhanu and Maycas Gembe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1059
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  18. Rifampicin-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (RR-PTB) presents a significant threat to global public health security. China bears a substantial burden of RR-PTB cases globally, with Guizhou Province experiencin...

    Authors: Jian Zhou, Jinlan Li, Yong Hu and Shijun Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1058
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  19. In Uganda, 20% (19,073/94,579) of children and adolescents (0-19 years) living with HIV (CALHIV) were receiving second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) by the end of March 2020. Data on incidence and predicto...

    Authors: Fiona Musiime-Mwase, Damalie Nakanjako, Jacqueline Balungi Kanywa, Esther M. Nasuuna, Ronald Naitala, Ronald Oceng, Nelson Sewankambo and Peter Elyanu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1057
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  20. Dengue is a vector-borne viral infection caused by the dengue virus transmitted to humans primarily by Aedes aegypti. The year 2024 has been a historic year for dengue in Brazil, with the highest number of probab...

    Authors: Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza, Rafael Pedro de Souza Nascimento, Márcio Bezerra-Santos, Anderson da Costa Armstrong, Orlando Vieira Gomes, Jandir Mendonça Nicácio, José Valter Joaquim Silva Júnior and Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1056
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  21. The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, led to 622,119,701 reported cases and 6,546,118 deaths. Most studies on COVID-19 patients in hospitals are from high-income countries, lacking data for developing c...

    Authors: Ali B. Anteneh, Marissa LeBlanc, Abebe A. Natnael and Zeytu Gashaw Asfaw
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1055
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  22. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody self-testing (HCVST) may help expand screening access and support HCV elimination efforts. Despite potential benefits, HCVST is not currently implemented in Pakistan. This stud...

    Authors: Sara Mazzilli, Muhammad K. Aslam, Javed Akhtar, Marta Miazek, Yves Wailly, Saeed Hamid, Sonjelle Shilton, Dimitri Donchuk, William A. de Glanville and Petros Isaakidis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1054
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  23. Noroviruses (NoVs) are the leading cause of diarrheal disease among all age groups worldwide, with an increased burden in developing countries. As there is no surveillance, epidemiological data is limited in E...

    Authors: Dessie Tegegne, Aschalew Gelaw, Girma Zerefaw, Getachew Ferede and Baye Gelaw
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1053
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  24. COVID-19 vaccines effectively prevent infection and hospitalization. However, few population-based studies have compared the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 using ad...

    Authors: Eduardo Villela de Moraes, Magda Carvalho Pires, Amanda Abrantes Abreu Costa, Aline Gabrielle Sousa Nunes, Caroline Lopes de Amorim, Euler Roberto Fernandes Manenti, Fernanda Barbosa Lucas, Fernanda d’Athayde Rodrigues, Fernando Anschau, Guilherme Fonseca do Nascimento, Giovanna Grunewald Vietta, Jessica Fernandes Benavides Moreira, Karen Brasil Ruschel, Monica Aparecida Costa, Pamela Andrea Alves Duraes, Pedro Augusto Van Der Sand Germani…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1052
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  25. The Hybrid NAR-RBFs Networks for COVID-19 fractional order model is examined in this scientific study. Hybrid NAR-RBFs Networks for COVID-19, that is more infectious which is appearing in numerous areas as peo...

    Authors: Aqeel Ahmad, Muhammad Farman, Muhammad Sultan, Hijaz Ahmad and Sameh Askar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1051
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  26. To analyze the value of combining computed tomography (CT) with serum tumor markers in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs).

    Authors: Huijuan Xiao, Yihe Liu, Pan Liang, Ping Hou, Yonggao Zhang and Jianbo Gao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1050
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  27. We assessed the prognostic value of serological humoral markers measured one month after the last dose of the primary COVID-19 vaccine course for predicting the risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome corona...

    Authors: Mathieu Chalouni, Paul Loubet, Edouard Lhomme, Laetitia Ninove, Benoit Barrou, Jean-Yves Blay, Maryvonne Hourmant, Jérome de Seze, Martine Laville, Bruno Laviolle, Jean-Daniel Lelièvre, Jacques Morel, Stéphanie Nguyen Quoc, Jean-Philippe Spano, Benjamin Terrier, Anne Thiebaut…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1049
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  28. Huazhou County has one of the highest rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection incidence and prevalence in Shaanxi Province, northwest China. Understanding the characteristics of HCV transmission patterns in...

    Authors: Mengyan Zhang, Shaoqi Ning, Luqian Zhang, Gang Liu, Sa Chen and Yi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1048
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  29. Osteoporosis, a systemic skeletal disease, is characterized by a quantitative and qualitative, and progressive decrease in bone mass, which is related to inflammation. Since a cytokine storm is triggered in Co...

    Authors: Siamak Kazemi-Sufi, Shahriar Alipour, Masome Rabieepour, Shiva Roshan-Milani and Roya Naderi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1047
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  30. Healthcare workers are a high-risk group for COVID-19 and protecting them is crucial for healthcare delivery. Limited studies have explored compliance with infection prevention and control (IPC) practices amon...

    Authors: Abdullahi Ibrahim Janay, Bulent Kilic and Belgin Unal
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1046
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  31. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can lead to a type of primary liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Georgia, a high HCV prevalence country, started an HCV elimination program in 2015. In additi...

    Authors: Sophia Surguladze, Paige A. Armstrong, Geoff A. Beckett, Shaun Shadaker, Amiran Gamkrelidze, Maia Tsereteli, Vladimer Getia and Benedict Oppong Asamoah
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1045
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  32. Enteric hepatitis A virus (HAV) infections during childhood are often asymptomatic but may cause severe illness in adults. To improve public health surveillance we assessed the applicability of sewage monitori...

    Authors: Maarten de Jong, Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff, Rémy Schilperoort, Harry Vennema, Charlie van der Weijden, Jeroen Langeveld, Matthijs Welkers, Maria Prins, Ana Maria de Roda Husman, Ewout Fanoy and Gertjan Medema
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1044
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  33. Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains a significant global health threat. It results in substantial mortality and may be underrecognized due to insufficient screening and diagnostic ...

    Authors: Mohammad Javad Fallahi, Mohammad Nazemi, Ali Zeighami and Reza Shahriarirad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1043
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  34. SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, is a betacoronavirus belonging to the same genus as endemic human coronaviruses (hCoVs) OC43 and HKU1 and is distinct from alpha hCoVs 229E and NL63. In a study of ...

    Authors: Janet O. Joseph, Michelle Ylade, Jedas Veronica Daag, Rosemary Aogo, Maria Vinna Crisostomo, Patrick Mpingabo, Lakshmanane Premkumar, Jacqueline Deen and Leah C. Katzelnick
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1042
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  35. Coxiella burnetii (C. burnetii) is the causative agent of Q fever, a type of zoonoses withwidespread distribution. In 2019, a case of Q fever was diagnosed by metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) method ...

    Authors: Lele Ai, Yong Qi, Yue Hu, Changqiang Zhu, Kangle Liu, Feng Li, Fuqiang Ye, Han Dai, Yifan Wu, Qiyuan Kuai, Danyue Nie, Laiyou Shan, Yan Zhang, Changjun Wang and Weilong Tan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1041
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  36. Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that affects over 250 million people, predominantly in impoverished communities, including those in Ethiopia. However, there is currently no available national d...

    Authors: Deresse Abebe Gebrehana, Gebretsadik Endeshaw Molla, Woretaw Endalew, Destaw Fetene Teshome, Fantahun Ayenew Mekonnen and Dessie Abebaw Angaw
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1040
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  37. Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) accounts for the highest burden of curable, non-viral sexually transmitted infections worldwide. Prevalence in India ranges from 0.4 to 27.4% in women and 0.0-5.6% in men. In 2015, the ...

    Authors: Nagarajan L. Surya, Thangamani Suji, Santhosh Rani, Irene Dorathy, Shantidani Minz and Rani Diana Sahni
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1039
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  38. Malaria and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection coexist in significant numbers in some geographic areas including sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). HIV-infected patients are a World Health Organization (WHO) r...

    Authors: Asukwo Onukak, Enoch Aninagyei, Agantem Ekuma, Simji Gomerep, Nathan Shehu and Samson Isa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1038
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  39. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a persistent threat to global public health and traditional treatment monitoring approaches are limited by their potential for contamination and need for timely evaluation. Therefore,...

    Authors: Zeyou Wei, Yuanjin Chen, Pengyan Dong, Zhihui Liu, Xiaomin Lai, Nan Wang, Hua Li, Qi Wang, Lan Tao, Ning Su, Yu Yang and Fanrong Meng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1037
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  40. We report the case of a young woman sough care for disseminated form of Yersinia enterocolitica infection (pseudoappendicitis with mesenteric lymph node, arthralgia, glomerulonephritis and hepatitis) diagnosed on...

    Authors: Pauline Escoffier, Vincent Gendrin, Samantha Poloni, Johanna Clerc, Anne Ducournau, Timothée Klopfenstein and Souheil Zayet
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1036
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  41. Disparities in HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) persist among cisgender sexually minoritized men in the United States, driven in part by sexual behavior stigma, which is a barrier to clinic...

    Authors: John Mark Wiginton, Joel Chavez Ortiz, Sarah M. Murray, Travis H. Sanchez and Stefan D. Baral
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1035
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  42. In Yemen, diphtheria has become an important health problem since 2017 when diphtheria re-emergence as a consequence of war and the collapse of the health system. In 2023, there has been a 57% increase in diph...

    Authors: Sameer Shedaiwah, Hamood Alsharabi, Labiba Anam and Mohammed Abdullah Al Amad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1034
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  43. Idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL) is an underdiagnosed immunodeficiency syndrome characterised by persistent low CD4 counts in the absence of HIV and other causes of lymphocytopenia. ICL patients are suscep...

    Authors: Tejasvi Kanagiri, Durga Shankar Meena, Deepak Kumar, Naresh Kumar Midha, Sarika Kombade and Taruna Yadav
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1033
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  44. The performance and availability of invasive and non-invasive investigations for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) vary across clinical settings. Estimating the pre-test probability of PC...

    Authors: Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer, Olivier Del Corpo, Marc-Alexandre Gingras, Aaron Hass, Jimmy M. Hsu, Cecilia T. Costiniuk, Nicole Ezer, Richard S. Fraser, Todd C. Lee and Emily G. McDonald
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1032
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  45. In this paper, we propose a numerical algorithm to obtain the optimal epidemic parameters for a time-dependent Susceptible-Unidentified infected-Confirmed (tSUC) model. The tSUC model was developed to investig...

    Authors: Youngjin Hwang, Soobin Kwak, Jyoti and Junseok Kim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1031
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  46. In order to synthesize available results regarding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to provide quantitative ...

    Authors: Wei Huang, Yao-dan Zhang, Ping Wang, Cong-ying Song, Xuan Lu, Meng-xiao Feng and Yuan-qiang Lu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1030
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  47. Although Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infection has been linked to cardiac injury, the extent to which it increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality remains unclear. We aimed to assess the a...

    Authors: Lihua Huang, Xiaoyan You, Zhanpeng Lu, Xiaoqing Zhou, Liuliu He, Chunsheng zou and Qifang Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1029
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  50. Authors: Diwenxin Zhou, Shuai Zhao, Keting He, Qiuhong Liu, Fen Zhang, Zhangya Pu, Lanlan Xiao, Lingjian Zhang, Shangci Chen, Xiaohan Qian, Xiaoxin Wu, Yangfan Shen, Ling Yu, Huafen Zhang, Jiandi Jin, Min Xu…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1024
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