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  1. Point-of-care (POC) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests have the ability to improve testing efficiency in the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, real-world data on POC tests is scarce.

    Authors: Lukas Andreas Heger, Nils Elsen, Marina Rieder, Nadine Gauchel, Urte Sommerwerck, Christoph Bode, Daniel Duerschmied, Mark Oette and Ingo Ahrens
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:486
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  3. There is a limited understanding of how diarrhoeal cases across other household members influence the likelihood of diarrhoea in young children (aged 1–4 years).

    Authors: Farina L. Shaaban, Narcis B. Kabatereine and Goylette F. Chami
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:484
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  4. Contact patterns play a key role in the spread of respiratory infectious diseases in human populations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular contact patterns of the population have been disrupted due to s...

    Authors: Yining Zhao, Samantha O’Dell, Xiaohan Yang, Jingyi Liao, Kexin Yang, Laura Fumanelli, Tao Zhou, Jiancheng Lv, Marco Ajelli and Quan-Hui Liu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:483
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  6. The population-based serosurveys are essential for estimating Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) burden and monitoring the progression of this pandemic. We aimed to assess the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antib...

    Authors: Wajiha Javed, Syed Hussain Baqar Abidi and Jaffer Bin Baqar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:481
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  7. Implementing effective and efficient case-finding strategies is crucial to increasing pediatric antiretroviral therapy coverage. In Ethiopia, universal HIV testing is conducted for children presenting at high-...

    Authors: Wondimu Teferi, Steve Gutreuter, Alemayehu Bekele, Jelaludin Ahmed, Jemal Ayalew, Jessica Gross, Hanna Kumsa, Tenagnework Antefe, Semegnew Mengistu, Kelsey Mirkovic, Eric J. Dziuban, Christine Ross, Zena Belay, Tsegaye Tilahun, Desta Kassa and Susan Hrapcak
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:480
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  8. HIV testing is a primary prevention strategy against the HIV epidemic and an entry point for HIV/AIDS-related care, prevention and treatment. This study aimed to estimate the uptake of HIV testing among Sino-V...

    Authors: Bingyu Liang, Qianni Huang, Yanyun Ou, Fei Zhang, Peidong Zhang, Aidan Nong, Shide Mo, Zhenxian Wu, Hai Xie, Huayue Liang, Jie Liu, Junjun Jiang, Hao Liang, Deping Liu and Li Ye
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:479
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:551

  9. The role of oral beta-lactam antibiotics in treating febrile urinary tract infections (UTI) is not yet definite. Today, fluoroquinolones together with trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole (TMP–MTX) are considered sta...

    Authors: Bjørn Åsheim Hansen, Nils Grude, Morten Lindbæk and Tore Stenstad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:478
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  10. Efforts to protect residents in nursing homes involve non-pharmaceutical interventions, testing, and vaccine. We sought to quantify the effect of testing and vaccine strategies on the attack rate, length of th...

    Authors: José P. Gómez Vázquez, Yury E. García, Alec J. Schmidt, Beatriz Martínez-López and Miriam Nuño
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:477
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  11. Vaccination is a key intervention to prevent COVID-19. Many vaccines are administered globally, yet there is not much evidence regarding their safety and adverse effects. Iran also faces this challenge, especi...

    Authors: Ebrahim Babaee, Ali Amirkafi, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Neda SoleimanvandiAzar, Babak Eshrati, Zahra Rampisheh, Mehran Asadi-Aliabadi and Marzieh Nojomi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:476
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  12. Global mortality from AIDS-related diseases has been declining since 2005, resulting primarily from the widespread use and early initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy. Despite the significant improv...

    Authors: Pedro H. A. C. Leite, Lara E. Coelho, Sandra W. Cardoso, Ronaldo I. Moreira, Valdilea G. Veloso, Beatriz Grinsztejn and Paula M. Luz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:475
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  13. HIV-1 drug resistance genotyping is critical to the monitoring of antiretroviral treatment. Data on HIV-1 genotyping success rates of different laboratory specimen types from multiple sources is still scarce.

    Authors: Jonah Omooja, Nicholas Bbosa, Dan Bugembe Lule, Maria Nannyonjo, Sandra Lunkuse, Faridah Nassolo, Stella Esther Nabirye, Hamidah Namagembe Suubi, Pontiano Kaleebu and Deogratius Ssemwanga
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:474
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  14. Following the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of infected Brazilian people has increased dramatically since February 2020, with Brazil being amongst the countries with the highest number of case...

    Authors: Rafael da Silveira Moreira, Emilly Guaris Costa, Lucas Fernando Rodrigues dos Santos, Luiz Henrique Lélis Miranda, Raiany Rodrigues de Oliveira, Ricardo Fusano Romão, Rodolfo Ferreira Cozer and Sarah Cavalcanti Guedes
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:473
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  15. Interactions between humans and animals are the key elements of zoonotic spillover leading to zoonotic disease emergence. Research to understand the high-risk behaviors associated with disease transmission at ...

    Authors: Su Yadana, Thaniwan Cheun-Arom, Hongying Li, Emily Hagan, Emma Mendelsohn, Alice Latinne, Stephanie Martinez, Opass Putcharoen, Janthira Homvijitkul, Onarnong Sathaporntheera, Nit Rattanapreeda, Pongtorn Chartpituck, Supalak Yamsakul, Krairoek Sutham, Supharoek Komolsiri, Sonjai Pornphatthananikhom…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:472
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  16. Vaccination has been proven to be an effective approach against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study aimed to determine the acceptance rate and factors influencing acceptance of COVID-1...

    Authors: Jinming Su, Zhenwei Jia, Xinwei Wang, Fengxiang Qin, Rongfeng Chen, Yuting Wu, Beibei Lu, Chunlin Lan, Tongxue Qin, Yinlu Liao, Minjuan Shi, Yanyan Liao, Peijiang Pan, Li Ye, Junjun Jiang and Hao Liang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:471
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  17. The present study aimed to identify the clinical significance of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP)-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) titer, in addition to a diagnosis of MP infection, in children with MP pneumonia.

    Authors: Soojeong Choo, Seo-Hee Kim and Eun Lee
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:470
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  18. Symptoms of depression are prevalent in people living with human immune deficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (PLWHA), and worsened by lack of physical activity/exercises, leading to restriction...

    Authors: Sam Chidi Ibeneme, Victor Chukwuebuka Uwakwe, Hellen Myezwa, Franklin Onyedinma Irem, Fortune Elochukwu Ezenwankwo, Tunde Adedayo Ajidahun, Amarachi Destiny Ezuma, Uchenna Prosper Okonkwo and Gerhard Fortwengel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:469
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  19. Talaromyces marneffei is an opportunistic pathogen that infects immunodeficient and immunocompromised patients. We presented a pediatric patient with a diagnosis of T. marneffei infection who was followed up in t...

    Authors: Lin Lin, Huifeng Fan, Dongwei Zhang and Gen Lu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:468
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  20. Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) account for a disproportionate number of new HIV infections worldwide. HIV prevalence among young sex workers in Uganda is 22.5%. Although pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP...

    Authors: Jane Frances Lunkuse, Onesmus Kamacooko, Vincent Muturi-Kioi, Kundai Chinyenze, Monica O. Kuteesa, Matt A. Price and Yunia Mayanja
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:467
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  21. It is not known whether post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases HIV-risk behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa. We assessed associations of PTSD symptoms with sexual behaviour, HIV risk p...

    Authors: Emily L. Webb, Janan J. Dietrich, Andrew S. Ssemata, Teacler G. Nematadzira, Stefanie Hornschuh, Ayoub Kakande, Gugulethu Tshabalala, Richard Muhumuza, Gertrude Mutonyi, Millicent Atujuna, Tarisai Bere, Linda-Gail Bekker, Melanie A. Abas, Helen A. Weiss, Janet Seeley, Lynda Stranix-Chibanda…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:466
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  22. There is no consensus on the optimal secondary antifungal prophylaxis (SAP) regimen in patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). The purpose of this study was to evalua...

    Authors: Peipei Ye, Renzhi Pei, Youqian Hu, Dong Chen, Shuangyue Li, Junjie Cao, Fenglin Li, Mengjie Wu, Ying Fang and Ying Lu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:465
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  23. Since the beginning of the pandemic, hospitals have been constantly overcrowded, with several observed waves of infected cases and hospitalisations. To avoid as much as possible this situation, efficient tools...

    Authors: Nadia Dardenne, Médéa Locquet, Anh Nguyet Diep, Allison Gilbert, Sophie Delrez, Charlotte Beaudart, Christian Brabant, Alexandre Ghuysen, Anne-Françoise Donneau and Olivier Bruyère
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:464
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  24. Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) and severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) are public health burdens globally. The percentage of non-SARS CoV-2 respiratory viruses among patients having ARI and SARI who v...

    Authors: Nagarajan Muruganandam, Avijit Roy, Nimisha Sivanandan, Alwin Vins, Nisha Beniwal, Harpreet Kaur, Varsha Potdar and Rehnuma Parvez
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:463
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  25. Patients with COVID-19 infection are commonly reported to have an increased risk of venous thrombosis. The choice of anti-thrombotic agents and doses are currently being studied in randomized controlled trials...

    Authors: Yi Lee, Qasim Jehangir, Pin Li, Deepthi Gudimella, Pooja Mahale, Chun-Hui Lin, Dinesh R. Apala, Geetha Krishnamoorthy, Abdul R. Halabi, Kiritkumar Patel, Laila Poisson, Venugopal Balijepally, Anupam A. Sule and Girish B. Nair
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:462
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  26. Weather fluctuation affects the incidence of malaria through a network of causuative pathays. Globally, human activities have ultered weather conditions over time, and consequently the number of malaria cases....

    Authors: Raymond Babila Nyasa, Fuanyi Awatboh, Tebit Emmanuel Kwenti, Vincent P. K. Titanji and Ndip Lucy M. Ayamba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:461
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  27. With the decline in local malaria transmission in Vietnam as a result of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) elimination activities, a greater focus on the importation and potential reintroduction of t...

    Authors: Kimberly A. Edgel, Sara Canavati, Hoi Thi Le, Tho Huy Tran, Kinh Van Nguyen, Trung Vu Nguyen, Nga Thi Nguyen, Hoa Mai Tran, Thang Duc Ngo, Duong Thanh Tran, Binh Thi Huong Nguyen, Long Khanh Tran, Thu Minh Nguyen, Rosalie J. Whedbee, Ekaterina I. Milgotina and Nicholas J. Martin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:460
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  28. Most non-clinic based HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) programs require fingersticks to self-collect blood specimens for laboratory monitoring, a technique that often results in inadequate blood volume for ...

    Authors: Chase A. Cannon, Meena S. Ramchandani and Matthew R. Golden
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:459
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  29. Prospective observational data show that infected persons with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remain polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive for a prolonged duration, and tha...

    Authors: Monia Makhoul, Farah Abou-Hijleh, Shaheen Seedat, Ghina R. Mumtaz, Hiam Chemaitelly, Houssein Ayoub and Laith J. Abu-Raddad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:458
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  31. Studies which examine quality of life (QOL) provide important insights that are needed to understand the impacts of HIV/AIDS anti-retroviral treatment (ART), comorbid conditions and other factors on the daily ...

    Authors: Nomcebo Oratile Mokgethi, Nicola Christofides, Mercilene Machisa, Godspower Akpomiemie and Samantha Lalla-Edward
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:456
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  32. COVID-19 continues to disrupt social lives and the economy of many countries and challenges their healthcare capacities. Looking back at the situation in Germany in 2020, the number of cases increased exponent...

    Authors: Moritz Schäfer, Karunia Putra Wijaya, Robert Rockenfeller and Thomas Götz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:455
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  33. Since 2006, Nepal has experienced frequent Dengue fever (DF) outbreaks. Up to now, there have been no knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) studies carried out on DF in Nepal that have included qualitative in...

    Authors: Parbati Phuyal, Isabelle Marie Kramer, Ulrich Kuch, Axel Magdeburg, David A Groneberg, Mandira Lamichhane Dhimal, Doreen Montag, Harapan Harapan, Edwin Wouters, Anjani Kumar Jha, Meghnath Dhimal and Ruth Müller
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:454
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  34. Authors: Moira A. Mugglestone, Natasha V. Ratnaraja, Aggie Bak, Jasmin Islam, Jennie A. Wilson, Jennifer Bostock, Samuel E. Moses, James R. Price, Michael Weinbren, Heather P. Loveday, Lucy Rivett, Simon M. Stoneham and A. Peter R. Wilson
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:453
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  35. The geographic distribution of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the hepatitis D virus (HDV) genotypes is uneven. We reconstructed the temporal evolution of HBV and HDV in Yakutia, one of the regions of Russia m...

    Authors: Anastasia A. Karlsen, Karen K. Kyuregyan, Olga V. Isaeva, Vera S. Kichatova, Fedor A. Asadi Mobarkhan, Lyudmila V. Bezuglova, Irina G. Netesova, Victor A. Manuylov, Andrey A. Pochtovyi, Vladimir A. Gushchin, Snezhana S. Sleptsova, Margarita E. Ignateva and Mikhail I. Mikhailov
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:452
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  36. Monocytes play an important role in inflammation, and monocytosis and monocyte activation are features of chronic inflammation. We aimed to investigate if HIV status was associated with monocyte count and mono...

    Authors: Andreas D. Knudsen, Randa Bouazzi, Shoaib Afzal, Marco Gelpi, Thomas Benfield, Julie Høgh, Magda Teresa Thomsen, Marius Trøseid, Børge G. Nordestgaard and Susanne D. Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:451
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  37. Concerns that athletes may be at a higher risk for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission has led to reduced participation in sports during the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to...

    Authors: Raymond J. Kreienkamp, Christopher J. Kreienkamp, Cindy Terrill, Mark E. Halstead and Jason G. Newland
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:450
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  38. In sub-Saharan Africa, data on virologic outcomes of young people living with HIV (YLWH) enrolled on antiretroviral therapy (ART) remains scarce. In this study, we describe the prevalence of HIV virological no...

    Authors: Moses K. Nyongesa, Mwaganyuma H. Mwatasa, Vincent A. Kagonya, Gabriel Mwambingu, Caroline Ngetsa, Charles R. J. C. Newton and Amina Abubakar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:449
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  39. The etiopathogenesis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) stem partially from the abnormal activation of the innate and adaptive immune systems. Here in the current investigation, the mRNA expression levels ...

    Authors: Zahra Bagheri-Hosseinabadi, Ebrahim Rezazadeh Zarandi, Mohammad Mirabzadeh, Ali Amiri and Mitra Abbasifard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:448
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  40. In Mexico, HIV genotyping is performed in people living with HIV (PLWH) failing their first-line antiretroviral (ARV) regimen; it is not routinely done for all treatment-naive PLWH before ARV initiation. The f...

    Authors: Samantha Climaco-Arvizu, Víctor Flores-López, Carolina González-Torres, Francisco Javier Gaytán-Cervantes, María Concepción Hernández-García, Paola Berenice Zárate-Segura, Monserrat Chávez-Torres, Emiliano Tesoro-Cruz, Sandra María Pinto-Cardoso and Vilma Carolina Bekker-Méndez
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:447
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  41. Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a disease with increased systemic inflammation and a high fatality rate. Oxidative stress is crucial for inflammation in the pathogeneses of various diseases. We...

    Authors: Zhen Tian, Naijuan Yao, Yuchao Wu, Fei Wang and Yingren Zhao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:446
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  43. Several cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated leukoencephalopathy have been reported. Although most cases involve hypoxia, the pathophysiological mechanism and neurologic outcomes of COVID-19...

    Authors: Hiroki Kojima, Naoya Sakamoto, Atsushi Kosaka, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Mitsuo Amemiya, Takuya Washino, Yusuke Kuwahara, Takuto Ishida, Mayu Hikone, Satoshi Miike, Tatsunori Oyabu, Sentaro Iwabuchi and Fukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:444
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  44. Diagnostic testing accessibility and asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 present major challenges for curbing and preventing community prevalence of COVID-19. At-home sample collection for molecular testin...

    Authors: Devon P. Humphreys, Kathleen M. Gavin, Kaylan M. Olds, Marc P. Bonaca and Timothy A. Bauer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:443
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  45. Legionella-related community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a disease with an increasing incidence and a high mortality rate, especially if empirical antibiotic therapy is inadequate. Antibiotic treatment highly rel...

    Authors: Rosalie R. A. L. Beekman, Ruud R. Duijkers, Dominic D. Snijders, Menno M. van der Eerden, Martijn M. Kross and Wim W. G. Boersma
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:442
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  46. Serum vitamin D levels may have a protective role against severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Studies have shown that deficiency in vitamin D may be a significant risk factor for poor outcomes. This st...

    Authors: Erfan Kazemi, Ali Mansursamaei, Marzieh Rohani-Rasaf and Hossein Sheibani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:441
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  47. Prompt diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are essential to combat the STI epidemic in resource-limited settings. We characterized the burden of 5 curable STIs chlamydia, gonorrhe...

    Authors: Matthew M. Hamill, Annet Onzia, Tza-Huei Wang, Agnes N. Kiragga, Yu-Hsiang Hsieh, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi, Ethan Gough, Peter Kyambadde, Johan H. Melendez and Yukari C. Manabe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:440
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  48. The temporal evolution of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine efficacy and effectiveness (VE) against infection, symptomatic, and severe COVID-19 is incompletely defined. The temporal evolution of VE could be dependent on age,...

    Authors: Paddy Ssentongo, Anna E. Ssentongo, Navya Voleti, Destin Groff, Ashley Sun, Djibril M. Ba, Jonathan Nunez, Leslie J. Parent, Vernon M. Chinchilli and Catharine I. Paules
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:439
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  49. Monitoring of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of great importance due to the frequency of strains becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. This review, using a public health focused approach, which ai...

    Authors: Chakib Nejjari, Youness El Achhab, Amina Benaouda and Chakib Abdelfattah
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:438
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  50. Molecular mechanisms determining the transmission and prevalence of drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are poorly understood. We used genomic and drug susceptibility data to explore ...

    Authors: Arnold Bainomugisa, Evelyn Lavu, Sushil Pandey, Suman Majumdar, Jennifer Banamu, Chris Coulter, Ben Marais, Lachlan Coin, Stephen M. Graham and Philipp du Cros
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:437
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