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  1. The economical impact of absenteeism and reduced productivity due to acute infectious respiratory and gastrointestinal disease is normally not in the focus of surveillance systems and may therefore be underest...

    Authors: Nils-Olaf Hübner, Claudia Hübner, Michael Wodny, Günter Kampf and Axel Kramer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:250
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  2. Menstrual Toxic Shock Syndrome (mTSS) is thought to be associated with the vaginal colonization with specific strains of Staphylococcus aureus TSST-1 in women who lack sufficient antibody titers to this toxin. Th...

    Authors: Jeffrey Parsonnet, Melanie A Hansmann, Jon L Seymour, Mary L Delaney, Andrea M DuBois, Paul A Modern, Michaelle B Jones, John E Wild and Andrew B Onderdonk
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:249
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  4. Although many infections that are transmissible from person to person are acquired through direct contact between individuals, a minority, notably pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), measles and influenza are known t...

    Authors: Clive B Beggs, Simon J Shepherd and Kevin G Kerr
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:247
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  5. Human infection with parvovirus B19 may lead to a diverse spectrum of clinical manifestations, including benign erythema infectiosum in children, transient aplastic crisis in patients with haemolytic anaemia, ...

    Authors: Trine H Mogensen, Jens Magnus B Jensen, Stephen Hamilton-Dutoit and Carsten S Larsen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:246
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  6. Urinary tract infection (UTI) remains one of the main complications after kidney transplantation and it has serious consequences.

    Authors: Roberto Rivera-Sanchez, Dolores Delgado-Ochoa, Rocio R Flores-Paz, Elvia E García-Jiménez, Ramon Espinosa-Hernández, Andres A Bazan-Borges and Myriam Arriaga-Alba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:245
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  7. Hyaluronic acid (HA) serum levels correlate with the histological stages of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C virus (HCV) monoinfected patients, and HA alone has shown very good diagnostic accuracy as a non-invasi...

    Authors: Salvador Resino, José M Bellón, Cristina Asensio, Dariela Micheloud, Pilar Miralles, Ana Vargas, Pilar Catalán, Juan C López, Emilio Álvarez, Jaime Cosin, Raquel Lorente, María A Muñoz-Fernández and Juan Berenguer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:244
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  8. Toll-like receptors (TLRs), Coronin-1 and Sp110 are essential factors for the containment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The purpose of this study was to investigate the in vivo expression of these mole...

    Authors: Pantelis Constantoulakis, Eftihia Filiou, Nikoletta Rovina, George Chras, Aggeliki Hamhougia, Simona Karabela, Adamandia Sotiriou, Charis Roussos and Nikolaos Poulakis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:243
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  9. The association between HIV infection and invasive cervical cancer that has been reported may reflect differential prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection or uncontrolled confounding. We conducted a...

    Authors: Georgette Adjorlolo-Johnson, Elizabeth R Unger, Edith Boni-Ouattara, Kadidiata Touré-Coulibaly, Chantal Maurice, Suzanne D Vernon, Marcel Sissoko, Alan E Greenberg, Stefan Z Wiktor and Terence L Chorba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:242
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  10. Secondary caries is responsible for 60 percent of all replacement restorations in the typical dental practice. The diversity of the bacterial sources and the different types of filling materials could play a r...

    Authors: Si-su Mo, Wei Bao, Guang-yun Lai, Jun Wang and Ming-yu Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:241
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  11. The study of the endotoxin tolerance phenomenon in light of the recently defined roles of mast cells and toll-like receptors as essential components of the innate immune response and as orchestrators of acquir...

    Authors: Saulo F Saturnino, Roberta O Prado, José R Cunha-Melo and Marcus V Andrade
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:240
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  12. Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast and the most frequent cryptococcal species found in humans. Cryptococcosis is considered an opportunistic infection as it affects mainly immunosuppressed individu...

    Authors: Corina Probst, Georg Pongratz, Silvia Capellino, Rolf M Szeimies, Jürgen Schölmerich, Martin Fleck, Bernd Salzberger and Boris Ehrenstein
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:239
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  13. Not all women infected with HPV-16/18 have detectable levels of HPV-16/18 antibodies, those who seroconvert develop low antibody levels, and seroconversion occurs typically several months post-infection. We ev...

    Authors: Carolina Porras, Christina Bennett, Mahboobeh Safaeian, Sarah Coseo, Ana Cecilia Rodríguez, Paula González, Martha Hutchinson, Silvia Jiménez, Mark E Sherman, Sholom Wacholder, Diane Solomon, Leen-Jan van Doorn, Catherine Bougelet, Wim Quint, Mark Schiffman, Rolando Herrero…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:238
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  14. Mycobacterium leprae is the only pathogenic bacteria able to infect peripheral nerves. Neural impairment results in a set of sensitive, motor and autonomic disturbances, with ulcers originating primarily on the ...

    Authors: Josafá G Barreto and Claudio G Salgado
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:237
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  15. Several highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) outbreaks have been reported over the past decade. South Korea recently faced AI outbreaks whose economic impact was estimated to be 6.3 billion dollars, equivale...

    Authors: Taehyong Kim, Woochang Hwang, Aidong Zhang, Surajit Sen and Murali Ramanathan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:236
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  16. Few data are available on the incidence of nosocomial Rotavirus infections (NRVI) in pediatric hospitals and on their economic impact. The goals of this study were: to evaluate the incidence of NRVI in various...

    Authors: Filippo Festini, Priscilla Cocchi, Daniela Mambretti, Bruna Tagliabue, Milena Carotti, Daniele Ciofi, Klaus P Biermann, Roberto Schiatti, Franco M Ruggeri, Fernando Maria De Benedictis, Alessandro Plebani, Alfredo Guarino and Maurizio de Martino
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:235
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  17. The frequent occurrence of ferret badger-associated human rabies cases in southeast China highlights the lack of laboratory-based surveillance and urges revisiting the potential importance of this animal in ra...

    Authors: Ye Liu, Shoufeng Zhang, Xianfu Wu, Jinghui Zhao, Yanli Hou, Fei Zhang, Andres Velasco-Villa, Charles E Rupprecht and Rongliang Hu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:234
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  18. Hyaluronic acid capsule plays a key role in Streptococcus pyogenes virulence. Circulation of mucoid or highly encapsulated strains has been related to rheumatic fever epidemics and invasive disease in several cou...

    Authors: Esther Tamayo, Milagrosa Montes, Guadalupe García-Medina, José M García-Arenzana and Emilio Pérez-Trallero
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:233
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  19. Bacterial meningitis (BM) is a severe infection responsible for high mortality and disabling sequelae. Early identification of patients at high risk of these outcomes is necessary to prevent their occurrence b...

    Authors: Rogier CJ de Jonge, A Marceline van Furth, Merel Wassenaar, Reinoud JBJ Gemke and Caroline B Terwee
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:232
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  21. Data on the epidemiology and cost of herpes zoster (HZ) and post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) in Italy are limited. This retrospective, population-based study was designed to determine the incidence of HZ and the ...

    Authors: Leonardo Emberti Gialloreti, Monica Merito, Patrizio Pezzotti, Luigi Naldi, Antonio Gatti, Maud Beillat, Laurence Serradell, Rafaelle di Marzo and Antonio Volpi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:230
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  22. Bartonella tamiae, a newly described bacterial species, was isolated from the blood of three hospitalized patients in Thailand. These patients presented with headache, myalgia, anemia, and mild liver function ab...

    Authors: Leah Colton, Nordin Zeidner, Tarah Lynch and Michael Y Kosoy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:229
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  23. Epidemic outbreaks of multi-drug resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii (AB) in intensive care units (ICUs) are increasing. The incidence of MDR AB bacteremia, which develops as a result of colonization, is incr...

    Authors: Ji Ye Jung, Moo Suk Park, Song Ee Kim, Byung Hoon Park, Ji Young Son, Eun Young Kim, Joo Eun Lim, Sang Kook Lee, Sang Hoon Lee, Kyung Jong Lee, Young Ae Kang, Se Kyu Kim, Joon Chang and Young Sam Kim
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:228
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  24. In the developing world co-infections and polyparasitism within humans appear to be the rule rather than the exception, be it any combination of inter-specific and/or inter- and intra-Genera mixed infections. ...

    Authors: Artemis Koukounari, Christl A Donnelly, Moussa Sacko, Adama D Keita, Aly Landouré, Robert Dembelé, Elisa Bosqué-Oliva, Albis F Gabrielli, Anouk Gouvras, Mamadou Traoré, Alan Fenwick and Joanne P Webster
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:227
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  25. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the major cause of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. The global epidemiological scenario of HBV infection has been changing rapidly over the last two decade...

    Authors: Narcisse P Komas, Souleyman Baï-Sepou, Alexandre Manirakiza, Josiane Léal, Aubin Béré and Alain Le Faou
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:226
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  26. When Staphylococcus aureus is isolated in urine, it is thought to usually represent hematogenous spread. Because such spread might have special clinical significance, we evaluated predictors and outcomes of S. au...

    Authors: Shingo Chihara, Kyle J Popovich, Robert A Weinstein and Bala Hota
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:225
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  27. BED-EIA HIV-1 Incidence Test (BED-CEIA) has been described as a tool to discriminate recent (RS) from long-term (LTS) seroconversion of HIV-1 infection, contributing to a better understanding of the dynamics o...

    Authors: Carlos A Velasco de Castro, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Valdiléa G Veloso, Francisco I Bastos, José H Pilotto and Mariza G Morgado
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:224
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  28. Although human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in heterosexual couples has been sparsely studied, it is relevant to understand disease burden and transmission mechanisms. The present study determined the preval...

    Authors: Rocio Parada, Rosalba Morales, Anna R Giuliano, Aurelio Cruz, Xavier Castellsagué and Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:223
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2011 11:25

  29. This study was performed to better assess the perceptions, motivating factors, and behaviors associated with the use of hand washing to prevent H1N1 influenza transmission during the peak pandemic period in Ko...

    Authors: Jae-Hyun Park, Hae-Kwan Cheong, Dae-Yong Son, Seon-Ung Kim and Chang-Min Ha
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:222
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  30. The A/H1N1 2009 influenza pandemic revealed that operational issues of school closure interventions, such as when school closure should be initiated (activation trigger), how long schools should be closed (durati...

    Authors: Nilimesh Halder, Joel K Kelso and George J Milne
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:221
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  31. Data on the performance of Mycobacterium-tuberculosis-specific interferon-(IFN)-γ release assays (IGRAs) in the serial testing of health care workers (HCWs) is limited. The objective of the present study was t...

    Authors: Felix C Ringshausen, Albert Nienhaus, Anja Schablon, Stephan Schlösser, Gerhard Schultze-Werninghaus and Gernot Rohde
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:220
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  32. Splenectomy is associated with increased risk for bacteremia, due to impaired clearance of bloodborne agents and to altered phagocytosis and humoral immunity. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patie...

    Authors: Joanne M Langley, Linda Dodds, Deshayne Fell and G Ross Langley
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:219
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  33. Rotavirus is the major cause of acute gastroenteritis and severe dehydrating diarrhea in young children.

    Authors: Gianvincenzo Zuccotti, Fabio Meneghin, Dario Dilillo, Luisa Romanò, Roberta Bottone, Cecilia Mantegazza, Roberto Giacchino, Roberto Besana, Giuseppe Ricciardi, Andrea Sterpa, Nicola Altamura, Massimo Andreotti, Giovanni Montrasio, Luigi Macchi, Anna Pavan, Sara Paladini…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:218
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  34. Tigecycline, a first-in-class broad-spectrum glycylcycline antibiotic, has broad-spectrum in vitro activity against bacteria commonly encountered in complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAIs), including ae...

    Authors: Zhangjing Chen, Jufang Wu, Yingyuan Zhang, Junming Wei, Xisheng Leng, Jianwei Bi, Rong Li, Lunan Yan, Zhiwei Quan, Xiaoping Chen, Yunsong Yu, Zhiyong Wu, Dawei Liu, Xiaochun Ma, Robert Maroko and Angel Cooper
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:217
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  36. DNA of the polyomaviruses WU (WUPyV) and KI (KIPyV) and of human bocavirus (HBoV) has been detected with varying frequency in respiratory tract samples of children. However, only little is known about the humo...

    Authors: Florian Neske, Christiane Prifert, Barbara Scheiner, Moritz Ewald, Jörg Schubert, Andreas Opitz and Benedikt Weissbrich
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:215
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  37. This multicenter study describes the type-specific prevalence of HPV infection in the general population from central and southern Italy, comparing the data with previously published Italian studies.

    Authors: Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Simonetta Bisanzi, Irene Paganini, Angela Di Iasi, Claudio Angeloni, Aurora Scalisi, Rosalba Macis, Maria Teresa Pini, Francesco Chini and Francesca Maria Carozzi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:214
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  38. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) serological markers and the prevalence of VDRL positive subjects in...

    Authors: Silvio Tafuri, Rosa Prato, Domenico Martinelli, Livio Melpignano, Maria De Palma, Michele Quarto and Cinzia Germinario
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:213
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  39. More than 50% of hepatitis C viruses (HCV)-infected patients do not respond to the classical Interferon (IFN)/Ribavirin (RBV) combination therapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of retreatm...

    Authors: Fernando L Gonçales Jr, Camila A Moma, Aline G Vigani, Adriana FCF Angerami, Eduardo SL Gonçales, Raquel Tozzo, Maria HP Pavan and Neiva SL Gonçales
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:212
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  40. During an influenza pandemic, a substantial proportion of transmission is thought to occur in households. We used data on influenza progression in individuals and their contacts collected by the City of Milwau...

    Authors: Edward Goldstein, Benjamin J Cowling, Justin J O'Hagan, Leon Danon, Vicky J Fang, Angela Hagy, Joel C Miller, David Reshef, James Robins, Paul Biedrzycki and Marc Lipsitch
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:211
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  41. Tanzania ranks 15th among the world's 22 countries with the largest tuberculosis burden and tuberculosis has continued to be among the major public health problems in the country. Limited data, especially in pati...

    Authors: Mbazi Senkoro, Sayoki G Mfinanga and Odd Mørkve
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:210
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  42. Nitric oxide (NO) produced in macrophages plays a pivotal role as a leishmanicidal agent. A previous study has demonstrated that 20% of the L. (V.) braziliensis isolated from initial cutaneous lesions of patients...

    Authors: Anselmo S Souza, Angela Giudice, Júlia MB Pereira, Luís H Guimarães, Amelia R de Jesus, Tatiana R de Moura, Mary E Wilson, Edgar M Carvalho and Roque P Almeida
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:209
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  43. Viral hepatitis is a serious global public health problem affecting billions of people globally, and both hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are rapidly spreading in the developing ...

    Authors: Hasan Ashraf, Nur H Alam, Christian Rothermundt, Abdullah Brooks, Pradip Bardhan, Lokman Hossain, Mohammed A Salam, Mohammed S Hassan, Christoph Beglinger and Niklaus Gyr
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:208
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  44. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever epidemics often occur in areas where health services are limited, and result in high case fatality rates. Besides intensive care, ribavirin is often recommended. A solid evidenc...

    Authors: Karla Soares-Weiser, Sherine Thomas, Gail Thomson G and Paul Garner
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:207
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  46. Patients with uncharacteristic inflammatory symptoms such as long-standing fatigue or pain, or a prolonged fever, constitute a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. The aim of the present study was to determin...

    Authors: Helena Janols, Anders Bredberg, Irene Thuvesson, Sabina Janciauskiene, Olof Grip and Marlene Wullt
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:205
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  47. Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae have spread worldwide but there are few reports on carriage in hospitals in low-income countries. ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE) have...

    Authors: Todisoa Andriatahina, Frédérique Randrianirina, Eliosa Ratsima Hariniana, Antoine Talarmin, Honoré Raobijaona, Yves Buisson and Vincent Richard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:204
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  48. Prognosis assessment of patients with infectious and neoplastic disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) may still pose a challenge. In this retrospective cross-sectional study the prognostic value of bas...

    Authors: Peter Lackner, Elif Guengoer, Ronny Beer, Gregor Broessner, Raimund Helbok, Florian Deisenhammer, Erich Schmutzhard and Bettina Pfausler
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:202
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  49. The relationship between TB/HIV co-infection and common mental disorders (CMD) has been scarcely investigated. In this study, we compared the occurrence of CMD in TB/HIV co-infected and non-co-infected HIV pat...

    Authors: Amare Deribew, Markos Tesfaye, Yohannes Hailmichael, Ludwig Apers, Gemeda Abebe, Luc Duchateau and Robert Colebunders
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:201
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  50. The objective of this study was to perform simulated-use testing as well as a clinical study to assess the efficacy of the EVOTECH® Endoscope Cleaner and Reprocessor (ECR) cleaning for flexible colonoscopes, duod...

    Authors: Michelle J Alfa, Pat DeGagne, Nancy Olson and Iram Fatima
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:200
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:291

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