Research article
The objectives of this study were to determine the proportion of malaria, bacteraemia, scrub typhus, leptospirosis, chikungunya and dengue among hospitalized patients with acute undifferentiated fever in India...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:665
Published on: 4 October 2017
Research article
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common commensal capable of causing severe invasive infections. Most GBS infections occur in neonates (often as pneumonia). GBS can also cause infection in adults with diabetes...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:660
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research article
There is limited information on patterns of treatment change among new initiators of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the regions most affected by HIV/AIDS. This makes it difficult to identify t...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:664
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research article
Reported tuberculosis (TB) incidence globally continues to be heavily influenced by expert opinion of case detection rates and ecological estimates of disease duration. Both approaches are recognised as having...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:662
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research article
Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (Salmonella Enteritidis) has become a significant pathogen in South Africa, and the need for improved molecular surveillance of this pathogen ha...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:661
Published on: 2 October 2017
Technical advance
Maintaining the quality of clinical specimens for tuberculosis (TB) testing is a major challenge in many high TB burden-limited resources countries. Sample referral systems in low and middle income countries a...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:663
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research article
Dolutegravir (DTG) plus darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) is a simple combination of drugs that has the best genetic barrier to HIV-1 resistance and may be fit for salvage therapy.
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:658
Published on: 30 September 2017
Research article
Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis is a chronic structural lung condition that courses with recurrent infectious exacerbations that lead to frequent antibiotic treatment making this population more susceptible...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:659
Published on: 30 September 2017
Research article
Interim treatment outcomes at 6-months for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment are among the most basic performance monitoring and key evaluation indicators in the Stop and End TB strategy of t...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:655
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research article
Norovirus is a common cause of infectious gastrointestinal disease. Despite the increased ability to detect norovirus in affected people, the number of reported cases and outbreaks in the community is still su...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:657
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research article
Urinary tract infection is the second most common type of infection and the problem is further compounded by the emergence of drug resistance in bacterial uropathogens. The aim of this study was to determine t...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:654
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research article
Workers in clinical microbiology laboratories are exposed to a variety of pathogenic microorganisms. Salmonella species is among the most commonly reported bacterial causes of laboratory-acquired infections. We r...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:656
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research article
The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) focus is on randomized trials of different approaches to mass drug administration (MDA) in endemic countries in Africa. Because th...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:652
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research article
For hepatitis B patients who do not meet the treatment criteria recommended by guidelines, therapy decisions depend on hepatic histology. Angiopoietin-like protein 2 (Angptl2) is a mediator of chronic inflamma...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:650
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research article
Accurately identifying individuals who are on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important to determine ART coverage and proportion on ART who are virally suppressed. ART is also included in recent infection test...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:653
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research article
Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is an acute infectious disease caused by enteroviruses, and HFMD complicated by cardiopulmonary failure has a high mortality. B type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is widely applied i...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:651
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research article
While a new generation of computational statistics algorithms and availability of data streams raises the potential for recurrently regrounding dynamic models with incoming observations, the effectiveness of s...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:648
Published on: 26 September 2017
Case report
Orbital apex syndrome is a localized type of orbital cellulitis, where mass lesions occur at the apex of the cranial nerves. Although nasal septal abscess is uncommon, the organism most likely to cause nasal s...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:649
Published on: 26 September 2017
Research article
A global pandemic mortality study found prominent regional mortality variations in 2009 for Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09. Our study attempts to identify factors that explain why the pandemic mortality burden was hig...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:642
Published on: 25 September 2017
Research article
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is one of the highest reported infectious diseases with several outbreaks across the world. This study aimed at describing epidemiological characteristics, investigating spa...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:645
Published on: 25 September 2017
Study protocol
The epidemiology of ICU pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is not fully described, but is urgently needed to support the development of effective inte...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:643
Published on: 25 September 2017
Case report
Bordetella bronchiseptica (B.bronchiseptica) is a frequent cause of respiratory infections in animals but rarely causes serious infection in humans. We present a rare case of B. bronch...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:644
Published on: 25 September 2017
Research article
Neonatal tetanus continues to occur in many resource-limited settings but there are few data regarding long-term neurological outcome from the disease, especially in settings with critical care facilities.
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:646
Published on: 25 September 2017
Research article
Between January and June, 2015, a large typhoid fever outbreak occurred in Kampala, Uganda, with 10,230 suspected cases. During the outbreak, area surgeons reported a surge in cases of typhoid intestinal perfo...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:641
Published on: 25 September 2017
Research article
Cervical cancer is the predominant cancer among women in Kenya and second most common in women in developing regions. Population-based cytological screening and early treatment reduces morbidity and mortality ...
BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:647
Published on: 25 September 2017
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