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  1. In the 2022 mpox-outbreak most patients presented with mild symptoms. Central nervous system (CNS) involvement has previously been described as a rare and severe complication of mpox; however, diagnostic findi...

    Authors: Hansen Karin, Båtshake Ylva, Söderholm Sandra, Pettke Aleksandra, Björkman Per and Sondén Klara
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:94
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  2. Recent pandemics have had far-reaching effects on the world’s largest economies and amplified the need to estimate the full extent and range of socioeconomic impacts of infectious diseases outbreaks on multi-s...

    Authors: Ely Zarina Samsudin, Siti Munira Yasin, Nur-Hasanah Ruslan, Nik Nairan Abdullah, Ahmad Faiz Azhari Noor and Ahmad Fitri Abdullah Hair
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:93
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  3. With the development of society, pulmonary fungal diseases, represented by pulmonary aspergillosis and pulmonary cryptococcosis, have become increasingly common. However, there is a lack of clear understanding...

    Authors: Xidong Wang, Shaoqiang Li, Mangui Zhu, Ye Qiu, Yilei Hui, Yongming Li, Yangqing Zhan, Yan Wang, Feng Ye and Zhengtu Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:92
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  4. Pediatric COVID-19 cases are often mild or asymptomatic, which has complicated estimations of disease burden using existing testing practices. We aimed to determine the age-specific population seropositivity a...

    Authors: Sarah L. Silverberg, Hennady P. Shulha, Brynn McMillan, Guanyuhui He, Amy Lee, Ana Citlali Márquez, Sofia R. Bartlett, Vivek Gill, Bahaa Abu-Raya, Julie A. Bettinger, Adriana Cabrera, Daniel Coombs, Soren Gantt, David M. Goldfarb, Laura Sauvé, Mel Krajden…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:91
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  5. In recent decades, the prevalence of antibiotic resistance is increasing in Haemophilus influenzae (Haemophilus influenzae), which poses important challenges to global health. This research offers a comprehensive...

    Authors: Mohammad Abavisani, Masoud Keikha and Mohsen Karbalaei
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:90
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  6. In early symptomatic COVID-19 treatment, high dose oral favipiravir did not accelerate viral clearance.

    Authors: Viravarn Luvira, William H. K. Schilling, Podjanee Jittamala, James A. Watson, Simon Boyd, Tanaya Siripoon, Thundon Ngamprasertchai, Pedro J. Almeida, Maneerat Ekkapongpisit, Cintia Cruz, James J. Callery, Shivani Singh, Runch Tuntipaiboontana, Varaporn Kruabkontho, Thatsanun Ngernseng, Jaruwan Tubprasert…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:89
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  7. The Omicron wave of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remains the dominant strain worldwide. The studies of nutritional status in geriatric people with COVID-19 Omicron variant are limited. Thus, the aim of ...

    Authors: Xiaohan Gu, Yongchao Guo, Yongmei Shi, Yaxiong Lu, Shihan Yang, Yongmei Jiang, Qianwen Jin and Qing Yun Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:88
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  8. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted multiple health services, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, care, and treatment services, jeopardizing the achievement of the ...

    Authors: David A. Forero-Peña, Fhabián S. Carrión-Nessi, José L. Forero-Peña, Natasha A. Camejo-Ávila, Daniela L. Mendoza-Millán, Óscar D. Omaña-Ávila, Andrea L. Maricuto, Viledy L. Velásquez, Mario D. Mejía-Bernard, Carlis M. Rodriguez-Saavedra, María V. Marcano-Rojas, Yoesmir Contreras, Luis J. Guerra, María F. Alvarado, Martín Carballo, Jocays Caldera…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:87
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  9. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) adds to India’s significant economic burden, with pericardial effusion being a potentially fatal complication. This case report highlights the need for early diagnosis and th...

    Authors: Diviya Bharathi Ravikumar, Barath Prashanth Sivasubramanian, Ankur Singla, Rakshaya Venu and Saketh Palasamudram Shekar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:86
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  11. Authors: Guillermo Rodriguez-Nava, Goar Egoryan, Tianyu Dong, Qishuo Zhang, Elise Hyser, Bidhya Poudel, Maria Adriana Yanez-Bello, Daniela Patricia Trelles-Garcia, Chul Won Chung, Bimatshu Pyakuryal, Taraz Imani-Ramos, Valeria Patricia Trelles-Garcia, Daniel Sebastian Bustamante-Soliz and Jonathan J. Stake
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:84
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    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2022 22:618

  12. Authors: Xiao Tang, Na Wang, Gang Liu, Hai Tan, Ai-Min Li, Yan-Qiu Gao, Meng-Ying Yao, Na Wang, Hui-Dan Jing, Qing-Guo Di, Liang Chen, Rui Wang, Xu-Yan Li, Ying Li, Xue Yuan, Yu Zhao…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:83
    Content type: Publisher Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:532

  13. Around 10% of people infected by SARS-COV-2 report symptoms that persist longer than 3 months. Little has been reported about sex differences in symptoms and clustering over time of non-hospitalised patients i...

    Authors: Gemma Torrell, Diana Puente, Constanza Jacques-Aviñó, Lucia A. Carrasco-Ribelles, Concepció Violán, Tomás López-Jiménez, Veronica Royano, Alba Molina Cantón, Laura Medina-Perucha, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt and Anna Berenguera
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:82
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  14. The diagnostic assay leveraging multiple reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) could meet the requirements for rapid nucleic acid detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome...

    Authors: Jin Tang, Jie Zhu, Jie Wang, Haiyong Qian, Zengxin Liu, Ru Wang, Qingqing Cai, Yuan Fang and Weifeng Huang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:81
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  15. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted diseases worldwide. The present review was conducted to accumulate evidence on the relationship between cervicovaginal human papillo...

    Authors: Seyedeh Maryam Khalili, Elnaz Haji Rafiei, Marjan Havaei, Leila Alizadeh, Fereshte Ghahremani, Zohreh Keshavarz, Ali Montazeri and Hedyeh Riazi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:80
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  16. Pneumococcal disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae is an important cause of morbidity and mortality across all ages, particularly in younger children and older adults. Here, we describe pneumococcal disease ...

    Authors: Saravanan S. R. Sundaramurthy, Kristen E. Allen, Mark A. Fletcher, Kok Fui Liew, Boekhtiar Borhanuddin, Mohammad Ali, Graciela Morales, Bradford Gessner, Jerusha Naidoo and Jo Southern
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:79
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  17. Autoantibodies against interferon-γ (IFN-γ) can inhibit IFN-γ-dependent signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 phosphorylation and thus increase the risk of infection with intracellular pathogens, ...

    Authors: Yan Ning, Qingliang Yu, Hanlin Liang, Siyao Wu, Siqiao Liang, Xiaona Liang and Zhiyi He
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:78
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  19. Brucellosis poses a significant public health concern. This study explores the spatial and temporal dynamic evolution of human brucellosis in China and analyses the spatial heterogeneity of the influencing fac...

    Authors: Meng Zhang, Xinrui Chen, Qingqing Bu, Bo Tan, Tong Yang, Liyuan Qing, Yunna Wang and Dan Deng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:76
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  20. Hantaan virus (HTNV), Seoul virus (SEOV) and Puumala virus (PUUV) are major serotypes of the Hantavirus, which can cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). The pathophysiology of HFRS in humans is c...

    Authors: Wen-jing Chen, Hong Du, Hai-feng Hu, Jian-qi Lian, Hong Jiang, Jing Li, Yan-ping Chen, Ying Zhang and Ping-zhong Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:75
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  21. In the Latin America and Caribbean region, Haiti is one of the countries with the highest rates of HIV. Therefore, this study examined the factors associated with HIV testing among women in Haiti and trends in...

    Authors: Fanor Joseph, David Jean Simon, Vénunyé Claude Kondo Tokpovi, Ann Kiragu, Marie-Reine Ayawavi Sitsope Toudeka and Roodjmie Nazaire
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:74
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  22. At some point in their lives, many people will require major heart surgery (MHS). Patients are generally older adults with various risk factors for infection. However, the incidence of infection after MHS is p...

    Authors: Maria Jesús Pérez-Granda, José María Barrio, Gregorio Cuerpo, Maricela Valerio, Patricia Muñoz, Javier Hortal, Angel González Pinto and Emilio Bouza
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:73
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  23. To investigate the trends in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients and to assess the longitudinal impact of antiviral therapy on their well-being.

    Authors: Rui Huang, Jia Shang, Hong Chen, Jun Li, Qing Xie, Jiajun Feng, Lai Wei and Huiying Rao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:72
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  24. The Episodic Disability Questionnaire (EDQ) is a generic 35-item patient-reported outcome measure of presence, severity and episodic nature of disability. We assessed the measurement properties of the Episodic...

    Authors: Kelly K. O’Brien, Kristine M. Erlandson, Darren A. Brown, Soo Chan Carusone, Jaime H. Vera, Colm Bergin, Lisa Avery, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, Steven E. Hanna, Richard Harding, Patricia Solomon, Natalie St. Clair-Sullivan, Noreen O’Shea, Carolann Murray, Marta Boffito, George Da Silva…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:71
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  25. Mixed M. tuberculosis (MTB) infection occurs when one is infected with more than one clonally distinct MTB strain. This form of infection can assist MTB strains to acquire additional mutations, facilitate the spr...

    Authors: Kevin Komakech, Lydia Nakiyingi, Ashab Fred, Beatrice Achan, Moses Joloba, Bruce J. Kirenga and Willy Ssengooba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:70
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  27. Diarrhoeal diseases are common among children in low- and middle-income countries and are major causes of morbidity and mortality. Cryptosporidium and Giardia are considered to be the main parasitic causes of dia...

    Authors: Joseph E. V. Bitilinyu-Bangoh, Samra Riesebosch, Marije Rebel, Paul Chiwaya, Sjoerd P. Verschoor, Wieger P. Voskuijl and Henk D. F. H. Schallig
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:68
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  28. MicroRNAs (miR) are small sequence of nucleotides that can affect multiple genes involved in the hepatitis C virus (HCV) life cycle and disease development. The purpose of the present study was to investigate ...

    Authors: Wafaa M. Ezzat, Khalda S. Amr, Salwa Tawfeek, Hassan Elbatae, Eman A. Bayomi, Ahmed Heiba and Yasser Elhosary
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:67
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  29. The provincial-level sero-survey was launched to learn the updated seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the general population aged 1–69 years in Chongqing and to assess the risk factors for ...

    Authors: Ning Yao, Yang Liu, Jiawei Xu, Qing Wang, Quanhua Zhou, Yue Wang, Dong Yi and Yazhou Wu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:66
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  30. The mortality rate of sepsis-associated liver injury (SALI) is relatively high, but there is currently no authoritative prognostic criterion for the outcome of SALI. Meanwhile, lactate-to-albumin ratio (LAR) h...

    Authors: Xiaona Yi, Dongcai Jin, Shanshan Huang, Zhenye Xie, Meixia Zheng, Fen Zhou and Yuhong Jin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:65
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  31. Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 testing of hospitalised patients began in April-2020, with twice weekly healthcare worker (HCW) testing introduced in November-2020. Guidance recommending asymptomatic testing was withd...

    Authors: Stephanie Evans, Nichola R. Naylor, Tom Fowler, Susan Hopkins and Julie Robotham
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:64
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  32. Talaromyces marneffei is endemic to eastern India, Southeast Asia, and Guangdong and Guangxi provinces in China. It is common in immunocompromised individuals, especially in HIV-infected patients.

    Authors: Hui Yang, Ming Liu, Nannan Xu, Lulu Yang, Sai Wen, Shanshan Wang, Chunmei Qu, Ke Xu, Enhua Sun, Wen Cui, Hui Liu and Gang Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:63
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  33. Post-surgical spinal infections (pSSIs) are a serious complication of spinal surgeries, with Staphylococcus spp. being one of the most prominent bacteria identified. Optimal antimicrobial therapy for staphylococc...

    Authors: Amélie Lombès, Marie-Paule Fernandez-Gerlinger, Marc Khalifé, Najiby Kassis-Chikhani, Amira Jomli, Jean-Luc Mainardi, David Lebeaux and Marie Dubert
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:62
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  35. Predictive models for vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are instrumental to understanding the potential geographic spread of VBDs and therefore serve as useful tools for public health decision-making. However, pred...

    Authors: Mariel Flores Lima, Jacqueline Cotton, Monique Marais and Robert Faggian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:60
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  36. Yersinia enterocolitica is a gram-negative zoonotic bacterial pathogen that is typically transmitted via the fecal-oral route. The most common clinical manifestation of a Y. enterocolitica infection is self-limi...

    Authors: Takehiro Hashimoto, Takaaki Yahiro, Sonoka Takakura, Sakirul Khan, Kazunori Kimitsuki, Kazufumi Hiramatsu and Akira Nishizono
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:59
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  37. Up to 20% of COVID-19 patients can suffer COVID-19-related myocardial injury. Elevated cardiac biomarkers, such as hs-cTnT and NT-proBNP, have been related to worse short-term prognosis. However, data on NT-pr...

    Authors: Diana Mojón-Álvarez, Teresa Giralt, José Carreras-Mora, Alicia Calvo-Fernández, Andrea Izquierdo, Cristina Soler, Paula Cabero, Silvia Pérez-Fernández, Beatriz Vaquerizo and Núria Ribas Barquet
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:58
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  38. Two oral antivirals (Nirmatrelvir- ritonavir and Azvudine) are widely used in China practice during the Omicron wave of the pandemic. However, little evidence regarding the real-world effectiveness of these tw...

    Authors: Xiaobo Han, Darui Gao, Chenglong Li, Xin Yuan, Junchang Cui, Weiguo Zhao, Fei Xie, Kaifei Wang, Yuhong Liu, Guoxin Muo, Na Xi, Mengli Zheng, Rentao Wang, Kun Xiao, Dahui Zhao, Xinxin Zhang…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:57
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  39. After infection with SARS-CoV-2 a relevant proportion of patients complains about persisting symptoms, a condition termed Post-COVID-19-syndrome (PC19S). So far, possible treatments are under investigation. Am...

    Authors: Caroline Tengelmann, Stefanie Joos, Yvonne Kaußner, Uwe Malzahn, Laura Lunden, Andreas Klug, Karl Georg Häusler, Catharina Escales, Walter Maetzler, Klemens Hügen, Oliver Zolk, Peter U. Heuschmann, Christian Förster, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz and Ildikó Gágyor
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:56
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  40. The aim of the present study was to compare the epidemiological patterns of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) infections, hospitalizations, deaths, and duration of hospitalization dur...

    Authors: Farzin Sadeghi, Mehrdad Halaji, Hoda Shirafkan, Abazar Pournajaf, Hossein Ghorbani, Sara Babazadeh, Nafiseh Ezami, Kobra Fallhpour, Fatemeh Fakhraie, Shahrbano Gorjinejad, Saghar Saber Amoli, Fatemeh Hejazi Amiri, Mahnaz Baghershiroodi, Zahra Ahmadnia, Maryam Salehi, Mehdi Tourani…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:55
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  41. Misconceptions and myths are still the bottlenecks for the prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission in developing countries. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of misconception about H...

    Authors: Ali Yimer, Abdul-Aziz Kebede Kassaw, Sebwedin Surur and Endris Mussa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:54
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  42. Understanding the burden of dyslipidemia and its associated factors among adult people living with HIV on dolutegravir (DTG) based anti-retroviral therapy (ART) is critical to provide clinical guidance and ris...

    Authors: Vianney John Kigongo, Joaniter I. Nankabirwa, Freddy Eric Kitutu, Ronald Ssenyonga, Ronald Kasoma Mutebi, Andrew Kazibwe, Ronald Kiguba, Andrew D. Kambugu and Barbara Castelnuovo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:53
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  43. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains a significant global health burden, particularly affecting vulnerable populations residing in slum areas which is characterized by overcrowding, poverty, and limited ...

    Authors: Meysam Behzadifar, Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh, Banafshe Darvishi Teli, Samad Azari, Ahad Bakhtiari and Masoud Behzadifar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:52
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  44. Sarcophagidae is one of the main fly families that is attracted to open wounds, ulcers, lesions, and other injuries for depositing their larvae. The presence of larvae of flies in human tissues makes myiasis. ...

    Authors: Sahar Azarmi, Kamran Akbarzadeh, Ali Ekrami, Zahra Sheikh and Omid Dehghan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:51
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  45. Linezolid exhibits antibacterial activity against sensitive and drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Knowledge on the distribution of linezolid in different types of bones in patients with spinal...

    Authors: Yuan Li, Guohua Lei, Weijie Dong, Tinglong Lan, Jun Fan and Shibing Qin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:50
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  46. The dynamic HIV/AIDS epidemic significantly impacts China, particularly affecting injection drug users (IDUs), former plasma donors (FPDs), men who have sex with men (MSM), and those engaging in high-risk hete...

    Authors: Chang Cai, Houlin Tang, Qianqian Qin, Yichen Jin and Fan Lyu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:49
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:232

  47. Following the Beirut explosion, our university hospital received at least 350 casualties. Subsequently, infection control standard practices were compromised. Concerns for Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs...

    Authors: Zeinab Roumieh, Hanine Mansour, Rawad Abi Assaad, Hani Dimassi, Rola Husni, Sanaa Zoghby and Jacques E. Mokhbat
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:48
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  48. Azvudine has clinical benefits and acceptable safety against COVID-19, including in patients with comorbidities, but there is a lack of available data for its use in older adult patients. This study explored t...

    Authors: Zhiguo Zhou, He Zheng, Gui’e Xiao, Xiangping Xie, Jiaxi Rang and Danhong Peng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:47
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  49. Uganda has a high incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis (TB). Analysis of spatial and temporal distribution of TB is an important tool for supporting spatial decision-making, planning, and policy formulatio...

    Authors: Freda Loy Aceng, Steven Ndugwa Kabwama, Alex Riolexus Ario, Alfred Etwom, Stavia Turyahabwe and Frank Rwabinumi Mugabe
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:46
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  50. This study aimed to assess and compare procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 sepsis patients. Additionally, we evaluated the diagnostic efficiency of PCT and...

    Authors: Jing Shi, Ying Zhuo, Ting-Qiang Wang, Chun-E Lv, Ling-Hui Yao and Shi-Yan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:45
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