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  1. This real-world study assessed the epidemiology and clinical complications of Clostridioides difficile infections (CDIs) and recurrences (rCDIs) in hospital and community settings in Germany from 2015 − 2019.

    Authors: Aurore Tricotel, Ana Antunes, Adrian Wilk, Silvia Dombrowski, Hanna Rinta-Kokko, Fredrik L. Andersson and Subrata Ghosh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:357
  2. The burden of cervical cancer in Ghana is high due to a lack of a national screening and vaccination program. Geographical variations in high-risk Human Papilloma Virus incidence and type should be considered ...

    Authors: Patrick Kafui Akakpo, Emmanuel Gustav Imbeah, Kofi Ulzen-Appiah, Afua Darkwa-Abrahams, Ernest Adjei, Kwabena Amo-Antwi, Ernest Obeng Amo, Edmund Mounir Der and Edwin Kwame Wiredu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:356
  3. There are abundant studies on COVID-19 but few on its impact on hepatitis E. We aimed to assess the effect of the COVID-19 countermeasures on the pattern of hepatitis E incidence and explore the application of...

    Authors: Yajun Qin, Haiyang Peng, Jinhao Li and Jianping Gong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:355
  4. The prevalence and distinction between first Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and reinfection with the Omicron variant among healthcare workers (HCWs) remain unclear.

    Authors: Xiaoju Ma, Zheng Wang, Youpeng Chen and Zhanjie Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:354
  5. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation strategies and analyze the impact of human behavior on the transmission of Mpox. The results can provide guidance to public health authorities on com...

    Authors: Qiaojuan Jia, Ling Xue, Ran Sui and Junqi Huo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:351
  6. Timely and accurate identification of pathogens is crucial for appropriate treatment and prognosis of infectious diseases. As an increasingly popular pathogen detection method, the performance of metagenomic n...

    Authors: Hui Yang, Nannan Xu, Meichen Yan, Lulu Yang, Sai Wen, Shanshan Wang, Chunmei Qu, Ke Xu, Xuying Yang and Gang Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:350
  7. Skin diseases such as impetigo pose a significant public health challenge in low resource settings. Despite this, there is a dearth of epidemiological data on the prevalence of this condition in Ghana.

    Authors: Yaw Ampem Amoako, Dennis Odai Laryea, Abigail Agbanyo, Bernadette Agbavor, Michael Ntiamoah Oppong, Gloria Kyem, Kabiru Mohammed Abass, Renee van Bentum, Richard Odame Phillips and Ymkje Stienstra
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:349
  8. Pakistan witnessed five waves of COVID-19 infections during the pandemic. Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan, remained the epicentre due to a high infection rate. Administrative data for five waves of th...

    Authors: Hasnain Javed, Aasia Khaliq, Shaper Mirza, Rimsha Khan and Warda Fatima
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:348
  9. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are a key population group disproportionately affected by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) worldwide. In Rwanda, the HIV epidemic remains a significant publi...

    Authors: Eric Remera, Elysee Tuyishime, Catherine Kayitesi, Samuel S. Malamba, Beata Sangwayire, Justine Umutesi, Horacio Ruisenor-Escudero and Tom Oluoch
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:347
  10. This study explores regional variations in COVID-19 hospitalization rates, in-hospital mortality, and acute kidney injury (AKI) in England. We investigated the influence of population demographic characteristi...

    Authors: Nitin V Kolhe, Richard J Fluck and Maarten W Taal
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:346
  11. Aspergillus spp liver abscess is a relatively rare entity and thus far no systematic review has been performed examining patients’ demographics, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, management, and outcome.

    Authors: Igor Dumic, Enzo Marasco Caetano, Sidney Marcel Domingues, Ivana Pantic, Milan Radovanovic, Libardo Rueda Prada, Charles W Nordstrom, Marina Antic, Tamara Milovanovic, Magdalena Kotseva, Amteshwar Singh and Shweta FNU
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:345
  12. To answer to patients’ medical wandering, often due to “unexplained symptoms” of “unexplained diseases” and to misinformation, multidisciplinary care centers for suspected Lyme borreliosis (LB), such as the 5 ...

    Authors: Alice Raffetin, Costanza Puppo, Amal Chahour, Assia Belkasmi, Elisabeth Baux, Solène Patrat-Delon, Pauline Caraux-Paz, Julie Rivière and Sébastien Gallien
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:344
  13. Scedosporium apiospermum species complex are widely distributed fungi that can be found in a variety of polluted environments, including soil, sewage, and decaying vegetation. Those opportunistic pathogens with s...

    Authors: Peng Yan, Junfeng Chen, Haodi Wang, Qi Jia, Jungang Xie and Guoxin Mo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:342
  14. Vagococcal infections are extremely rare in humans. There are limited studies on the optimal methods for identification, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and clinical manifestations of vagococcal infectio...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Kitano, Hiroki Kitagawa, Kayoko Tadera, Kohei Saito, Yuki Kohada, Kenshiro Takemoto, Kohei Kobatake, Yohei Sekino, Keisuke Hieda, Hiroki Ohge and Nobuyuki Hinata
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:341
  15. Tuberculous sepsis is uncommon in individuals without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and some patients may not exhibit clinical signs and symptoms of suspected sepsis upon admission, leading to ...

    Authors: Yingzi Tang, Ying Zhu and Zhonglan You
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:340
  16. There is a significant increase in the number of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection reports in various countries. However, the trend of reinfection rate over time is not clear.

    Authors: Ying Chen, Wenhui Zhu, Xinyue Han, Miaoshuang Chen, Xin Li, Haiping Huang, Mengyuan Zhang, Rongjie Wei, Huadong Zhang, Changhong Yang and Tao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:339
  17. A dearth of studies showed that infectious diseases cause the majority of deaths among under-five children. Worldwide, Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) continues to be the second most frequent cause of illnes...

    Authors: Mulugeta Hayelom Kalayou, Abdul-Aziz Kebede Kassaw and Kirubel Biruk Shiferaw
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:338
  18. Genetic variation underly inter-individual variation in host immune responses to infectious diseases, and may affect susceptibility or the course of signs and symptoms.

    Authors: Hedwig D. Vrijmoeth, Jeanine Ursinus, Javier Botey-Bataller, Yunus Kuijpers, Xiaojing Chu, Freek R. van de Schoor, Brendon P. Scicluna, Cheng-Jian Xu, Mihai G. Netea, Bart Jan Kullberg, Cees C. van den Wijngaard, Yang Li, Joppe W. Hovius and Leo A. B. Joosten
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:337
  19. Data on the characteristics of individuals with mild and asymptomatic infections with different SARS-CoV-2 variants are limited. We therefore compared the characteristics of individuals infected with ancestral...

    Authors: Cheryl Cohen, Jackie Kleynhans, Anne von Gottberg, Meredith L. McMorrow, Nicole Wolter, Jinal N. Bhiman, Jocelyn Moyes, Mignon du Plessis, Maimuna Carrim, Amelia Buys, Neil A. Martinson, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Limakatso Lebina, Floidy Wafawanaka, Jacques du Toit…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:336
  20. Lung endothelial barrier injury plays an important role in the pathophysiology of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS). Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) therapy has shown promise in AR...

    Authors: Manliang Guo, Shiqi Li, Chuan Li, Xueyan Mao, Liru Tian, Xintong Yang, Caixia Xu and Mian Zeng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:335
  21. Dengue fever is a well-studied vector-borne disease in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Several methods for predicting the occurrence of dengue fever in Taiwan have been proposed. However, to the b...

    Authors: Chao-Yang Kuo, Wei-Wen Yang and Emily Chia-Yu Su
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24(Suppl 2):334

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 24 Supplement 2

  22. Anopheles stephensi is native to Southeast Asia and the Arabian Peninsula and has emerged as an effective and invasive malaria vector. Since invasion was reported in Djibouti in 2012, the global invasion range of...

    Authors: Qing Liu, Ming Wang, Yu-Tong Du, Jing-Wen Xie, Zi-Ge Yin, Jing-Hong Cai, Tong-Yan Zhao and Heng-Duan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:333
  23. Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is one of the highly prevalent endemic diseases in the Middle East. The disease is a complex skin infection imposing a heavy burden on many developing countries. This study aimed t...

    Authors: Ahmad Reza Parhizkar, Mehdi Sharafi, Susan Mansuri, Maryam Hadibarhaghtalab, Sima Afrashteh, Hossein Fatemian and Mahsa Rostami Chijan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:332
  24. Viruses are the leading etiology of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in children. However, there is limited knowledge on drivers of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) cases involving viruses. We aimed...

    Authors: Abdoul Kader Ilboudo, Assana Cissé, Jennifer Milucky, Dieudonné Tialla, Sara A. Mirza, Alpha Oumar Diallo, Brice W. Bicaba, Kondombo Jean Charlemagne, Potiandi Serge Diagbouga, Daniel Owusu, Jessica L. Waller, Ndahwouh Talla-Nzussouo, Myrna D. Charles, Cynthia G. Whitney and Zekiba Tarnagda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:331
  25. Vancomycin-associated acute kidney injury (VA-AKI) is the most clinically relevant side effect of vancomycin. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between VTC and VA-AKI as well as 30...

    Authors: Jialong Chen, Jing Lin, Jianzhen Weng, Yang Ju and Yanming Li
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:330
  26. The burden of herpes zoster (shingles) virus and associated complications, such as post-herpetic neuralgia, is higher in older adults and has a significant impact on quality of life. The incidence of herpes zo...

    Authors: Maxime Hentzien, Fabrice Bonnet, Enos Bernasconi, Emmanuel Biver, Dominique L. Braun, Aline Munting, Karoline Leuzinger, Olivier Leleux, Stefano Musardo, Virginie Prendki, Patrick Schmid, Cornelia Staehelin, Marcel Stoeckle, Carla S. Walti, Linda Wittkop, Victor Appay…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:329
  27. Over one-third of people living with HIV (PLH) in Ukraine are not on treatment. Index testing services, which link potentially exposed partners (named partners) of known PLH (index patients) with testing and t...

    Authors: Andrew M. Secor, Alyona Ihnatiuk, Anna Shapoval, Misti McDowell, Larisa Hetman, Anjuli D. Wagner, Jillian Pintye, Kristin Beima-Sofie, Matthew R. Golden and Nancy Puttkammer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:328
  28. Currently, culture methods are commonly used in clinical tests to detect pathogenic fungi including Candida spp. Nonetheless, these methods are cumbersome and time-consuming, thereby leading to considerable diffi...

    Authors: Qingmei Yao, Yuan He, Liehua Deng, Dafeng Chen, Yuanli Zhang, Hui Luo and Wei Lei
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:326
  29. Our aim was to examine the prevalence and characteristics of difficult-to-treat HIV in the current Swedish HIV cohort and to compare treatment outcomes between people with difficult and non-difficult-to-treat ...

    Authors: Olof Elvstam, Viktor Dahl, Anna Weibull Wärnberg, Susanne von Stockenström and Aylin Yilmaz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:325
  30. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is frequntly accompanied by venous thromboembolism (VTE), and its mechanism may be related to the abnormal inflammation and immune status of COVID-19 patients. It has been p...

    Authors: Haiyu Liu, Ningjing Guo, Qixian Zheng, Qianyuan Zhang, Jinghan Chen, Yuanyuan Cai, Qiong Luo, Qian Xu, Xiangqi Chen, Sheng Yang and Suyun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:324
  31. Pasteurella multocida is a zoonotic pathogen that mainly causes local skin and soft tissue infections in the human body through cat and dog bites. It rarely causes bacteraemia (or sepsis) and meningitis. We repor...

    Authors: Yijun Zhu, Fang Zhu, Xiaoyun Shan and Jingchao Shi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:323
  32. Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19 is a rare and serious medical condition. This study aims to review the clinical presentation, laboratory parameters, outcomes, and...

    Authors: Eman Shhada, Hussein Hamdar, Ali Alakbar Nahle, Diana Mourad, Basheer Khalil and Sawssan Ali
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:322
  33. Multidrug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus continues to influence treatment complications in clinical settings globally. Multidrug-resistant-S. aureus (MDR-SA) is often genetically driven by resistance markers...

    Authors: Martina C. Agbo, Ifeoma M. Ezeonu, Beatrice O. Onodagu, Chukwuemeka C. Ezeh, Chizoba A. Ozioko and Stephen C. Emencheta
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:320
  34. Dengue is an important public health problem, which caused by the dengue virus (DENV), a single-stranded RNA virus consisted of four serotypes. Central nervus system (CNS) impairment in dengue usually results ...

    Authors: Xingyu Leng, Huiqin Yang, Lingzhai Zhao, Jiamin Feng, Kanghong Jin, Lu Liao and Fuchun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:319
  35. Childhood vaccination against hepatitis B has been recommended in Germany since 1995. WHO defines a primary vaccination series as successful if the initial hepatitis B surface antibody (anti-HBs) level is ≥ 10...

    Authors: Ida Sperle, Sofie Gillesberg Lassen, Martin Schlaud, Achim Dörre, Sandra Dudareva, Christina Poethko-Müller and Thomas Harder
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:318
  36. Cases of mpox have been reported worldwide since May 2022. Limited knowledge exists regarding the long-term course of this disease. To assess sequelae in terms of scarring and quality of life (QoL) in mpox pat...

    Authors: Christoph Zeyen, Maria Kinberger, Helene Kriedemann, Frieder Pfäfflin, Pinkus Tober-Lau, Leu Huang, Victor Max Corman, Alexander Nast, Leif Erik Sander, Florian Kurth and Ricardo Niklas Werner
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:317
  37. In 2022, the WHO reported that 29.8 million people around the world were living with HIV (PLHIV) and receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART), including 25‌ 375 people in Gabon (54% of all those living with HI...

    Authors: Guy Francis Nzengui-Nzengui, Gaël Mourembou, Hervé M’boyis-Kamdem, Ayawa Claudine Kombila-Koumavor and Angélique Ndjoyi-Mbiguino
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:316
  38. This study aims to explore the infection and age distribution of Ureaplasma urealyticum (UU), Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) and Herpes simplex virus type II (HSV II) among the outpatients...

    Authors: Jiancheng Zeng, Tingli Wu, Laiping Wang, Liumin Yu, Hua Lin and Zhanfei Chen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:315
  39. Lassa fever is a hemorrhagic disease caused by Lassa virus (LASV), which has been classified by the World Health Organization as one of the top infectious diseases requiring prioritized research. Previous stud...

    Authors: Xia Wang, Xianwei Ye, Ruihua Li, Xiaodong Zai, Mingda Hu, Shaoyan Wang, Hongguang Ren, Yuan Jin, Junjie Xu and Junjie Yue
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:314
  40. International guidelines recommend routine screening for syphilis (aetiological agent: Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum) amongst key populations and vulnerable populations using tests detecting treponemal a...

    Authors: Lorenzo Gios, Massimo Mirandola, Maddalena Cordioli, Antonella Zorzi, Nigel Sherriff, Jaime Vera, Dominika Wlazly, Mohammed Osman Hassan-Ibrahim, Valeska Padovese, Anabel Darmanin, Rosanna W. Peeling, Magnus Unemo, Karel Blondeel and Igor Toskin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24(Suppl 1):313

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 24 Supplement 1

  41. Availability and accessibility of Antiretroviral drugs (ARV’s) improve the lives of People living with HIV (PLHIV) by improving client’s immune system to overcome infections and prevent the development of AIDS...

    Authors: Eric Mboggo, Expeditho Mtisi, Stella E. Mushy, Simon Mkawe, Frida Ngalesoni, Aisa Muya, Edwin Kilimba, Denice Kamugumya and Boniface Silvan Mlay
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:312
  42. Bats are a reservoir for many viruses causing haemorrhagic fevers. Proximity to bats is a risk factor for virus spillover to animals and humans. We conducted this study to assess knowledge, perceptions, and ex...

    Authors: Lesley Rose Ninsiima, Luke Nyakarahuka, Steven Kisaka, Collins GK. Atuheire, Lawrence Mugisha, Terence Odoch, Javier Sánchez Romano, Jörn Klein, Siobhan M. Mor and Clovice Kankya
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:311
  43. Escherichia coli is a common fecal coliform, facultative aerobic, gram-negative bacterium. Pathogenic strains of such microbes have evolved to cause diarrhea, urinary tract infections, and septicemias. The emerg...

    Authors: Tamirat Salile Sada and Tesfaye Sisay Tessema
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:310
  44. Scedosporium apiospermum (S. apiospermum) belongs to the asexual form of Pseudallescheria boydii and is widely distributed in various environments. S. apiospermum is the most common cause of pulmonary infection; ...

    Authors: Jingru Han, Lifang Liang, Qingshu Li, Ruihang Deng, Chenyang Liu, Xuekai Wu, Yuxin Zhang, Ruowen Zhang and Haiyun Dai
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:308
  45. Infections are one of the most common causes of death after lung transplant (LT). However, the benefit of ‘targeted’ prophylaxis in LT recipients pre-colonized by Gram-negative (GN) bacteria is still unclear.

    Authors: Sabrina Congedi, Arianna Peralta, Luisa Muraro, Martina Biscaro, Tommaso Pettenuzzo, Nicolò Sella, Silvia Crociani, Arméla Anne-Sabine Tagne, Ida Caregnato, Francesco Monteleone, Elisa Rossi, Gabriella Roca, Silvia Manfrin, Serena Marinello, Maria Mazzitelli, Andrea Dell’Amore…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:307
  46. Bloodstream infections (BSI) are highly prevalent in hospitalized patients requiring intensive care. They are among the most serious infections and are highly associated with sepsis or septic shock, which can ...

    Authors: Lei Wang, Li Zhang, Xiaolong Huang, Hao Xu and Wei Huang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:306

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