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  1. Human papillomavirus (HPV) currently represents an important risk factor for cancer development and infertility in humans. Whilst binding of HPV to spermatozoa has been associated with male infertility, an inv...

    Authors: Carlo Foresta, Alessandro Bertoldo, Andrea Garolla, Damiano Pizzol, Silvia Mason, Andrea Lenzi and Luca De Toni
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:593
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Live-animal markets are a culturally important feature of meat distribution chains in many populations, yet they provide an opportunity for the maintenance and transmission of potentially emergent zoonotic pat...

    Authors: Kim M Pepin, James O Lloyd-Smith, Colleen T Webb, Karen Holcomb, Huachen Zhu, Yi Guan and Steven Riley
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:592
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  3. Recent epidemiologic data suggest that the prevalence of macrolide resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MR-M. pneumoniae) is increasing rapidly worldwide. This study assessed the present status of M. pneumoniae infec...

    Authors: Kentaro Matsuda, Mitsuo Narita, Nobuyuki Sera, Eriko Maeda, Hideaki Yoshitomi, Hitomi Ohya, Yuko Araki, Tatsuyuki Kakuma, Atsushi Fukuoh and Kenji Matsumoto
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:591
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Authors: Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Anca Victorița Trifan, Florin Alexandru Căruntu, Ioan Sporea, Liliana Simona Gheorghe, Manuela Curescu, Mihai Mircea Diculescu, Mihai Voiculescu, Oliviu Pascu, Isabelle Lonjon-Domanec, Andrew Martin Hill and Sorin Rugină
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13(Suppl 1):P59
    Content type: Poster presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  10. Authors: Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Anca Victorița Trifan, Florin Alexandru Căruntu, Ioan Sporea, Liliana Simona Gheorghe, Manuela Curescu, Mihai Mircea Diculescu, Mihai Voiculescu, Oliviu Pascu, Isabelle Lonjon-Domanec, Andrew Martin Hill and Sorin Rugină
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13(Suppl 1):P58
    Content type: Poster presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  16. Authors: Dan Dumitru Hurezeanu, Livia Dragonu, Carmen Canciovici, Daniela Ristea, Doina Ene, Mioara Cotulbea, Magdalena Peter, Felicia Dumitraşcu and Maria Bălan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13(Suppl 1):P40
    Content type: Poster presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  18. Authors: Raluca Mihăilescu, Daniela Tălăpan, Olga Dorobăț, Alexandru Rafila, Emilia Capraru, Daniela Munteanu, Anca Streinu-Cercel, Oana Streinu-Cercel, Vlad Predescu, Florian Purghel, Cătălin Cârstoiu, Razvan Ene, Dana Mihaela Jianu, Cristina Popescu, Victoria Aramă and Adrian Streinu-Cercel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13(Suppl 1):O35
    Content type: Oral presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  20. Authors: Gabriel Adrian Popescu, Roxana Șerban, Ionel Iosif, Irina Codiță, Olga Dorobăț, Daniela Tălăpan, Mariana Buzea, Edit Szekely, Olivia Dorneanu, Karina Bota, Manuela Nica, Raluca Papageorghe, Camelia Ghiță, Irina Nistor, Marina Indrared, Adriana Pistol…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13(Suppl 1):O16
    Content type: Oral presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  29. Authors: Mariana Mărdărescu, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Cristina Petre, Ruxandra Neagu-Drăghicenoiu, Rodica Ungurianu, Sorin Petrea, Ana Maria Tudor, Alina Cibea, Delia Vlad, Carina Matei, Marieta Iancu, Alexandra Mărdărescu, Ioana Anca, Cosmina Cristea and Mihai Mitran
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13(Suppl 1):P3
    Content type: Poster presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  30. Authors: Mariana Mărdărescu, Cristina Petre, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Sorin Petrea, Ruxandra Neagu-Drăghicenoiu, Rodica Ungurianu, Ana Maria Tudor, Alina Cibea, Delia Vlad, Mihai Mitran, Otilia Benea, Dan Oțelea, Carmen Crăciun, Tatiana Colțan, Marieta Iancu, Ionel Ionel…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13(Suppl 1):O1
    Content type: Oral presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  31. Realization of the public health benefits of mass drug administration (MDA) for the control of schistosomiasis depends on achieving and maintaining high annual treatment coverage. In Uganda, the uptake of prev...

    Authors: Simon Muhumuza, Anne Katahoire, Fred Nuwaha and Annette Olsen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:590
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Severe sepsis is a common cause for admission to the general medical ward. Previous work has demonstrated substantial new long-term disability in patients with severe sepsis, but the short-term functional outc...

    Authors: Andrew J Odden, Jeffrey M Rohde, Catherine Bonham, Latoya Kuhn, Preeti N Malani, Lena M Chen, Scott A Flanders and Theodore J Iwashyna
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:588
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is endemic in Latin America. Thirty percent of infected individuals develop chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC), an inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy th...

    Authors: Amanda Farage Frade, Cristina Wide Pissetti, Barbara Maria Ianni, Bruno Saba, Hui Tzu Lin-Wang, Luciana Gabriel Nogueira, Ariana de Melo Borges, Paula Buck, Fabrício Dias, Monique Baron, Ludmila Rodrigues Pinto Ferreira, Andre Schmidt, José Antonio Marin-Neto, Mario Hirata, Marcelo Sampaio, Abílio Fragata…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:587
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. The herpes zoster burden of disease in Sweden is not well investigated. There is no Swedish immunization program to prevent varicella zoster virus infections. A vaccine against herpes zoster and its complicati...

    Authors: Marie Studahl, Max Petzold and Tobias Cassel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:586
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Medical textbooks often list Legionnaires’ disease as a differential diagnosis of the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of anti-diuretic hormone (ADH) (SIADH), but evidence supporting this association is lar...

    Authors: Philipp Schuetz, Sebastian Haubitz, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Werner C Albrich, Werner Zimmerli and Beat Mueller
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:585
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. This study aimed to explore the in vitro antibacterial activity of the bioglass BAG S53P4 against multi-resistant microorganisms commonly involved in osteomyelitis and to evaluate its use in surgical adjunctiv...

    Authors: Lorenzo Drago, Delia Romanò, Elena De Vecchi, Christian Vassena, Nicola Logoluso, Roberto Mattina and Carlo Luca Romanò
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:584
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. The aim of this study was to determine the distribution of vancomycin and daptomycin MICs among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood isolates, the prevalence of heterogeneous vancomycin-interm...

    Authors: Banu Sancak, Server Yagci, Deniz Gür, Zeynep Gülay, Dilara Ogunc, Güner Söyletir, Ata Nevzat Yalcin, Devrim Öztürk Dündar, Ayşe Willke Topçu, Filiz Aksit, Gaye Usluer, Cüneyt Özakin, Halis Akalin, Mutlu Hayran and Volkan Korten
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:583
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common opportunistic infection following lung transplantation. CMV replication in the lung allograft is described as accelerating the development of bronchiolitis obliterans s...

    Authors: Inger Johansson, Gunnar Mårtensson, Ulla Nyström, Salmir Nasic and Rune Andersson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:582
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Despite the importance of invasive Staphylococcus aureus (ISA) infection, its overall burden in non-selected populations has only been defined in a small number of studies in Europe and North America. To define t...

    Authors: Kyoung-Ho Song, Eu Suk Kim, Hye-yun Sin, Kyung-Hwa Park, Sook-In Jung, Nara Yoon, Dong-Min Kim, Chang Seop Lee, Hee-Chang Jang, Yoonseon Park, Kkot Sil Lee, Yee Gyung Kwak, Jae Hoon Lee, Seong Yeon Park, Minkyo Song, Sue K Park…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:581
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Only limited data are available relating to the etiology of diarrhea in children and adults in Senegal. The aim of this prospective study was to describe the epidemiology and etiology of community-acquired dia...

    Authors: Bissoume Sambe-Ba, Emmanuelle Espié, Mamadou Elimane Faye, Lassina Gadi Timbiné, Mbacké Sembene and Amy Gassama-Sow
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:580
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Whipple’s disease is a rare, multisystemic, chronic infectious disease which classically presents as a wasting illness characterized by polyarthralgia, diarrhea, fever, and lymphadenopathy. Pleuropericardial i...

    Authors: George Stojan, Michael T Melia, Sandeep J Khandhar, Peter Illei and Alan N Baer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:579
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  43. Percutaneous drainage (PCD) and surgical intervention are two primary treatment options for iliopsoas abscess (IPA). However, there is currently no consensus on when to use PCD or surgical intervention, especi...

    Authors: Ming-Shun Hsieh, Shih-Che Huang, El-Wui Loh, Che-An Tsai, Ying-Ying Hung, Yu-Tse Tsan, Jin-An Huang, Lee-Min Wang and Sung-Yuan Hu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:578
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Osteoporosis and bone fractures seem to be higher in HIV-infected Patients compared to the general populations. Moreover, bone turnover markers are increased in patients on antiretroviral therapy and vitamin D...

    Authors: Rein Jan Piso, Madeleine Rothen, Jean Pierre Rothen, Matthias Stahl and Christoph Fux
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:577
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. The epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in the African ‘meningitis belt’ changes periodically. In order to design an effective vaccination strategy, we have examined the epidemiological and microbiological pa...

    Authors: Jean-Marc Collard, Bassira Issaka, Maman Zaneidou, Stéphane Hugonnet, Pierre Nicolas, Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Brian Greenwood and Jean-François Jusot
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:576
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection. In Italy, HPV vaccination is now offered free of charge to 12-year-old females. However, some regional health authorities have exte...

    Authors: Donatella Panatto, Daniela Amicizia, Elisabetta Tanzi, Silvia Bianchi, Elena Rosanna Frati, Carla Maria Zotti, Piero Luigi Lai, Angela Bechini, Stefania Rossi and Roberto Gasparini
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:575
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Pyomyoma is a life-threatening complication of uterine leiomyoma. It may occur in post- menopausal women, during pregnancy and in the postpartum period. Fever may be the only manifestation during the early sta...

    Authors: Cosmo Del Borgo, Francesco Maneschi, Valeria Belvisi, Francesca Morelli, Angelo Vetica, Raffaella Marocco, Tiziana Tieghi, Miriam Lichtner and Claudio M Mastroianni
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:574
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. Data exploring the potential use of effector molecules produced by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in the immunodiagnostics of tuberculosis (TB) are scarce. The present study focused a) to gain an insight into the...

    Authors: Laura E Savolainen, Pekka Koskivirta, Anu Kantele, Heikki Valleala, Liana Pusa, Riitta Tuompo, Benita Westerlund-Wikström and Tamara Tuuminen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:573
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Nasal colonization with coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) has been described as a risk factor for subsequent systemic infection. In this study, we evaluated the genetic profile of CoNS isolates colonizing ...

    Authors: Yves Mauro Ternes, Juliana Lamaro-Cardoso, Maria Cláudia Porfirio André, Vicente Porfírio Pessoa Jr., Maria Aparecida da Silva Vieira, Ruth Minamisava, Ana Lúcia Andrade and André Kipnis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:572
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. The Philippines has an extremely high rate of tuberculosis but little is known about M. tuberculosis genotypes and transmission dynamics in this country. The aim of this study was to determine the proportion of h...

    Authors: Irene G Sia, Seanne P Buckwalter, Kelly A Doerr, Sonia Lugos, Rebecca Kramer, Ruth Orillaza-Chi, Maria Imelda Quelapio, Thelma E Tupasi and Nancy L Wengenack
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:571
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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