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  1. Current understanding of tuberculosis (TB) genotype clustering in the US is based on individual risk factors. This study sought to identify whether area-based socioeconomic status (SES) was associated with gen...

    Authors: Eyal Oren, Masahiro Narita, Charles Nolan and Jonathan Mayer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:227
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  2. The prevalence of HIV and syphilis among middle and high-fee female sex workers (FSWs) has been widely reported but little is known among low-fee FSWs. This study aims to determine the prevalence and associate...

    Authors: Chu Zhou, Keming Rou, Willa M Dong, Yu Wang, Wei Dong, Yuejiao Zhou, Xi Chen, Manhong Jia, Wei Liu, Jun Zheng, Yanling Ma, Youfang Li and Zunyou Wu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:225
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  3. We investigated the diagnostic and prognostic utilities of procalcitonin (PCT), B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in critically ill patients with suspected...

    Authors: Mina Hur, Hanah Kim, Seungho Lee, Flavia Cristofano, Laura Magrini, Rossella Marino, Chiara Serena Gori, Cristina Bongiovanni, Benedetta Zancla, Patrizia Cardelli and Salvatore Di Somma
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:224
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  4. Repeat infection with Chlamydia trachomatis is common and increases the risk of sequelae in women and HIV seroconversion in men who have sex with men (MSM). Despite guidelines recommending chlamydia retesting thr...

    Authors: Kirsty S Smith, Jane S Hocking, Marcus Chen, Christopher K Fairley, Anna McNulty, Phillip Read, Catriona S Bradshaw, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Handan Wand, Marion Saville, William Rawlinson, Suzanne M Garland, Basil Donovan, John M Kaldor and Rebecca Guy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:223
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  5. A good correlation between HCV core antigen (HCVAg) and different HCV-RNA assays has been described, but little data are available in HCV/HIV co-infection. We aimed to evaluate HCVAg in comparison with HCV-RNA...

    Authors: Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Alessia Monachetti, Claudio Galli, Rosella Sabatini, Monica Lucia Ferreri, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi and Patrizia Bagnarelli
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:222
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  6. Tuberculosis (TB) transmission rates are exceptionally high in endemic TB settings. Adolescence represents a period of increasing TB infection and disease but little is known as to where adolescents acquire TB...

    Authors: Keren Middelkoop, Linda-Gail Bekker, Carl Morrow, Namee Lee and Robin Wood
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:221
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  7. Postoperative bacterial meningitis is a rare complication of spinal surgery and is considered to be a complication related to intraoperative incidental durotomy. A high index of suspicion for meningitis is ess...

    Authors: Tung-Yi Lin, Wen-Jer Chen, Ming-Kai Hsieh, Meng-Ling Lu, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Po-Liang Lai, Tsai-Sheng Fu, Chi-Chien Niu and Lih-Huei Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:220
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  8. Sporotrichosis is a chronic subcutaneous mycosis of humans and animals, which is typically acquired by traumatic inoculation of plant material contaminated with Sporothrix propagules, or via animals, mainly felin...

    Authors: Anderson Messias Rodrigues, G Sybren de Hoog, Débora de Cássia Pires, Raimunda Sâmia Nogueira Brihante, José Júlio da Costa Sidrim, Marcos Fabio Gadelha, Arnaldo Lopes Colombo and Zoilo Pires de Camargo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:219
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  9. Transfusion-transmitted infections are a major problem associated with blood transfusion. The aim of this study was to determine prevalence and trends of HBV, HCV and HIV in blood donors in Argentina.

    Authors: Diego M Flichman, Jorgelina L Blejer, Beatriz I Livellara, Viviana E Re, Sonia Bartoli, Juan A Bustos, Claudia P Ansola, Susana Hidalgo, Martin E Cerda, Alicia E Levin, Adriana Huenul, Victoria Riboldi, Elena MC Treviño, Horacio J Salamone, Felix A Nuñez, Robert J Fernández…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:218
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  10. Few studies have explored how utilization of outpatient services differ for HIV/HCV coinfected patients compared to HIV or HCV monoinfected patients. The objectives of this study were to (1) compare annual out...

    Authors: Terence L Johnson, Joshua C Toliver, Lu Mao and Christine U Oramasionwu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:217
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  11. Blinding trachoma, caused by the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis, is a neglected tropical disease targeted for elimination by 2020. A major component of the elimination strategy is mass drug administration (MDA) w...

    Authors: Erica Brook Goodhew, Sheri Maria G Morgan, Andrew J Switzer, Beatriz Munoz, Laura Dize, Charlotte Gaydos, Harran Mkocha, Sheila K West, Ryan E Wiegand, Patrick J Lammie and Diana L Martin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:216
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  12. Mortality associated with aortic graft infection is considerable. The gold standard for surgical treatment remains explantation of the graft. However, prognostic factors associated with early mortality due to ...

    Authors: Matthias Garot, Pierre-Yves Delannoy, Agnès Meybeck, Béatrice Sarraz-Bournet, PierVito d’Elia, Thibaud d’Escrivan, Patrick Devos and Olivier Leroy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:215
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  13. Cervical cancer ranks third in prevalence and fourth as cause of death in women worldwide. In Brazil, 17,540 women were diagnosed in 2012 with the disease. Persistent infection with high-risk HPV types is a ne...

    Authors: Leandro Santos de Araújo Resende, Sílvia Helena Rabelo-Santos, Luís Otávio Sarian, Rosane Ribeiro Figueiredo Alves, Andréa Alves Ribeiro, Luiz Carlos Zeferino and Sophie Derchain
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:214
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  14. Coccidioides spp. is the ethiological agent of coccidioidomycosis, an infection that can be fatal. Its diagnosis is complicated, due to that it shares clinical and histopathological characteristics with other pu...

    Authors: Bertha Muñoz-Hernández, Gabriel Palma-Cortés, Carlos Cabello-Gutiérrez and María Angeles Martínez-Rivera
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:213
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  15. Rabies reemerged in China during the 1990s with a gradual increase in the number and geographical dispersion of cases. As a consequence, a national surveillance program was introduced in 2005 to investigate th...

    Authors: Miao Song, Qing Tang, Simon Rayner, Xiao-Yan Tao, Hao Li, Zhen-Yang Guo, Xin-Xin Shen, Wen-Tao Jiao, Wei Fang, Jun Wang and Guo-Dong Liang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:212
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  16. Determining the variation of circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) in urine and egg counts variation in stool between days in Schistosoma mansoni (S. mansoni) infected individuals is vital to decide whether or not t...

    Authors: Abraham Degarege, Mengistu Legesse, Girmay Medhin, Tilahun Teklehaymanot and Berhanu Erko
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:210
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  17. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea, and several outbreaks with increased severity and mortality have been reported. In this study we report a C. difficil...

    Authors: Mónica Oleastro, Marta Coelho, Marília Gião, Salomé Coutinho, Sandra Mota, Andrea Santos, João Rodrigues and Domitília Faria
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:209
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  19. School closure is a non-pharmaceutical intervention that was considered in many national pandemic plans developed prior to the start of the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic, and received considerable attention ...

    Authors: Simon Cauchemez, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Brett N Archer, Martin Cetron, Benjamin J Cowling, Peter Grove, Darren Hunt, Mira Kojouharova, Predrag Kon, Kumnuan Ungchusak, Hitoshi Oshitani, Andrea Pugliese, Caterina Rizzo, Guillaume Saour, Tomimase Sunagawa, Amra Uzicanin…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:207
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  20. The prevalence of Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean region is increasing and in Southern Europe often caused by Leishmania infantum. Spontaneous healing of cutaneous leishmaniasis is commonly...

    Authors: Arne Kroidl, Inge Kroidl, Gisela Bretzel and Thomas Löscher
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:206
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  21. The HIV prevalence and incidence among men who have sex with men (MSM) are high. Unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) with male regular partners (RP) is an important but under-emphasized risk behavior. The curre...

    Authors: Yong Cai and Joseph T F Lau
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:205
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  22. Few studies have comprehensively described tropical respiratory disease surveillance in military populations. There is also a lack of studies comparing clinical characteristics of the non-influenza pathogens w...

    Authors: Xin Quan Tan, Xiahong Zhao, Vernon J Lee, Jin Phang Loh, Boon Huan Tan, Wee Hong Victor Koh, Sock Hoon Ng, Mark I-Cheng Chen and Alex Richard Cook
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:204
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:326

  24. Mycobacterium ulcerans (M. ulcerans) causes a devastating necrotising infection of skin tissue leading to progressive ulceration. M. ulcerans is the only human pathogen that secretes mycolactone, a polyketide mo...

    Authors: Fred S Sarfo, Richard O Phillips, Jihui Zhang, Mohammed K Abass, Justice Abotsi, Yaw A Amoako, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Clive Robinson and Mark H Wansbrough-Jones
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:202
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  25. Restricted use of third-generation cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones has been linked to a reduced incidence of hospital-acquired infections with multidrug-resistant bacteria. We implemented an intensified an...

    Authors: Johannes P Borde, Klaus Kaier, Michaela Steib-Bauert, Werner Vach, Annette Geibel-Zehender, Hansjörg Busch, Hartmut Bertz, Martin Hug, Katja de With and Winfried V Kern
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:201
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  26. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major public health problem. Early diagnosis of MDR-TB patients is essential for minimizing the risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) transmission. The convention...

    Authors: Ruijuan Zheng, Changtai Zhu, Qi Guo, Lianhua Qin, Jie Wang, Junmei Lu, Haiyan Cui, Zhenling Cui, Baoxue Ge, Jinming Liu and Zhongyi Hu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:200
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  27. To analyse whether the availability of written standards for management of mechanically ventilated patients and/or the existence of a surveillance system for cases of ventilation-associated pneumonia (VAP) are...

    Authors: Klaus Kaier, Marie-Laurence Lambert, Uwe K Frank, Werner Vach, Martin Wolkewitz, Evelina Tacconelli, Jordi Rello, Ursula Theuretzbacher and Maria Martin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:199
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  28. Recently, necrotizing fasciitis has been reported in patients treated with bevacizumab, usually secondary to wound healing complications, gastrointestinal perforations, or fistula formation. The risk of invasive

    Authors: Tomotaka Ugai, Masataro Norizuki, Takahiro Mikawa, Goh Ohji and Makito Yaegashi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:198
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  29. Well-characterized mice models will afford a cheaper, easy-handling opportunity for a more comprehensive understanding of 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus’s pathogenesis potential. We aimed to provide a robust de...

    Authors: Jin Lv, Dan Wang, Yan-Hong Hua, Shi-Jia Pei, Jin Wang, Wen-Wei Hu, Xi-Liang Wang, Na Jia and Qi-Sheng Jiang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:197
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  30. In Tanzania, routine individual-level testing for HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) using laboratory genotyping and phenotyping is not feasible due to resource constraints. To monitor the prevention or emergence of ...

    Authors: James M Juma, Jenny K Tiberio, Mathias I Abuya, Bonita K Kilama, Geoffrey R Somi, Veryeh Sambu, Richard Banda, Boniphace S Jullu and Angela A Ramadhani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:196
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  31. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous pathogen that causes serious problems in immunocompromised or immunologically immature hosts. Vaccination is the preferred approach for prevention of HCMV infection...

    Authors: Huadong Wang, Yanfeng Yao, Chaoyang Huang, Xingxing Fu, Quanjiao Chen, Hongbo Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Fang Fang, Zhenyuan Xie and Ze Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:195
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  33. Highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus has been shown to infect organs other than the lung, and this is likely to be mediated by systemic spread resulting from viremia which has been detected in blood in se...

    Authors: Xue Wang, Jiying Tan, Jiangqin Zhao, Zhiping Ye and Indira Hewlett
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:192
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  34. Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) has become an important public health concern because of the high incidence and mortality rates, and limited treatment and vaccination. Until now, clinical studies ...

    Authors: Hong Du, Ping-Zhong Wang, Jing Li, Lu Bai, Huan Li, Hai-Tao Yu, Wei Jiang, Ye Zhang, Jun-Ning Wang and Xue-Fan Bai
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:191
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  35. Complex traumatic injuries sustained by military personnel, particularly when involving extremities, often result in infectious complications and substantial morbidity. One factor that may further impair patie...

    Authors: Kevin S Akers, Katrin Mende, Kristelle A Cheatle, Wendy C Zera, Xin Yu, Miriam L Beckius, Deepak Aggarwal, Ping Li, Carlos J Sanchez, Joseph C Wenke, Amy C Weintrob, David R Tribble and Clinton K Murray
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:190
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  36. In Africa, especially in West Africa, studies about the prevalence and diversity of respiratory viruses (influenza and others) in elderly people are largely lacking. In studies done elsewhere, it is well estab...

    Authors: Ndongo Dia, Vincent Richard, Davy Kiori, El Hadj Abdoul Khadir Cisse, Fatoumata Diène Sarr, Abdourahmane Faye, Déborah G Goudiaby, Ousmane M Diop and Mbayame N Niang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:189
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  37. Candida glabrata has emerged as an important human pathogen associated with systemic and mucosal infections. Here, we describe isolation of two cholesterol-dependent Candida glabrata strains from a candidemia pa...

    Authors: Ziauddin Khan, Suhail Ahmad, Leena Joseph and Khaled Al-Obaid
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:188
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Healthcare-acquired infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are a significant cause of increased mortality, morbidity and additional health care costs in United States. Surface decontam...

    Authors: Chetan Jinadatha, Ricardo Quezada, Thomas W Huber, Jason B Williams, John E Zeber and Laurel A Copeland
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:187
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  39. Human leptospirosis is an emerging infectious disease of global significance, and is endemic to several countries in the Pacific. Zoonotic transmission dynamics combined with diagnostic challenges lead to diff...

    Authors: Susannah Colt, Boris I Pavlin, Jacob L Kool, Eliaser Johnson, Judith P McCool and Alistair J Woodward
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:186
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:267

  40. Despite Southern Norway is an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis there is a lack of data on Lyme arthritis (LA). In the literature controversies exist if acute LA can develop into chronic arthritis. Our objecti...

    Authors: Glenn Haugeberg, Inger Johanne W Hansen, Tone Skarpaas, Sølvi Noraas and Vivian Kjelland
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:185
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. BCG immunogenicity in infants differs between populations and these differences have been attributed to various factors. In this study, the influence of geographical location, season of birth, timing of vaccin...

    Authors: Yun-Gyoung Hur, Patricia Gorak-Stolinska, Maeve K Lalor, Hazzie Mvula, Sian Floyd, John Raynes, Anne Ben-Smith, Joseph R Fitchett, Katie L Flanagan, Sarah Burl, Martin O Ota, Amelia C Crampin, Steven G Smith and Hazel M Dockrell
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:184
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  42. Existing data are not consistently supportive of improved clinical outcome when vancomycin dosing regimens aimed at achieving target trough levels are used. A retrospective, post hoc, subgroup analysis of pros...

    Authors: Steven L Barriere, Martin E Stryjewski, G Ralph Corey, Fredric C Genter and Ethan Rubinstein
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:183
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Amoebic liver abscess (ALA) is the most common clinical manifestation of extraintestinal amoebiasis especially in developing countries, causing up to 100 000 fatal cases annually. Accurate and early diagnosis ...

    Authors: Syazwan Saidin, Muhammad Hafiznur Yunus, Nor Dyana Zakaria, Khairunisak Abdul Razak, Lim Boon Huat, Nurulhasanah Othman and Rahmah Noordin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:182
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:533

  44. The ongoing scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa has prompted the interest in surveillance of transmitted and acquired HIV drug resistance. Resistance data on virological failure and ...

    Authors: Alemseged Abdissa, Daniel Yilma, Jannik Fonager, Anne M Audelin, Lone H Christensen, Mette F Olsen, Markos Tesfaye, Pernille Kaestel, Tsinuel Girma, Abraham Aseffa, Henrik Friis, Court Pedersen and Aase B Andersen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:181
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  45. Coinfection with the hepatitis viruses is common in the HIV population in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this study was to assess, in a cohort of HIV-infected pregnant women receiving antiretroviral drugs (ARV...

    Authors: Mauro Andreotti, Maria Franca Pirillo, Giuseppe Liotta, Haswell Jere, Martin Maulidi, Jean-Baptiste Sagno, Richard Luhanga, Roberta Amici, Maria Grazia Mancini, Elisabetta Gennaro, Maria Cristina Marazzi, Stefano Vella, Marina Giuliano, Leonardo Palombi and Sandro Mancinelli
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:180
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  46. Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is known to be only partially effective in inhibiting M. tuberculosis (MTB) multiplication in human. A new recombinant (r) urease-deficient BCG (BCG-dHCM) that ...

    Authors: Yumiko Tsukamoto, Yumi Maeda, Toshiki Tamura, Tetsu Mukai and Masahiko Makino
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:179
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  47. A recent longitudinal study in the Dadaab refugee camp near the Kenya-Somalia border identified unusual biannual respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) epidemics. We characterized the genetic variability of the ass...

    Authors: Charles N Agoti, Lillian M Mayieka, James R Otieno, Jamal A Ahmed, Barry S Fields, Lilian W Waiboci, Raymond Nyoka, Rachel B Eidex, Nina Marano, Wagacha Burton, Joel M Montgomery, Robert F Breiman and D James Nokes
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:178
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  48. No published systematic reviews have assessed the natural history of colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE). Time to clearance of colonizat...

    Authors: Erica S Shenoy, Molly L Paras, Farzad Noubary, Rochelle P Walensky and David C Hooper
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:177
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  50. We examined the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of 30 cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in Hangzhou and investigated their external environments to provide evidence for c...

    Authors: Hua Ding, Li Xie, Zhou Sun, Qing-Jun Kao, Ren-Jie Huang, Xu-Hui Yang, Chun-ping Huang, Yuan-Yuan Wen, Jing-Cao Pan, Xiao-Ying Pu, Tao Jin, Xiao-Hong Zhou, Lin Zheng, Jian Li and Feng-Juan Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:175
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