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  1. Enterovirus 71 (EV-A71) shows a potential of rapid death, but the natural history of the infection is poorly known. This study aimed to examine the natural history of EV-A71 infection.

    Authors: Si-da Yang, Pei-qing Li, Yi-min Li, Wei Li, Wen-ying Lai, Cui-ping Zhu, Jian-ping Tao, Li Deng, Hong-sheng Liu, Wen-cheng Ma, Jia-ming Lu, Yan Hong, Yu-ting Liang, Jun Shen, Dan-dan Hu, Yuan-yuan Gao…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:153
  2. HIV+ patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) with suppressed viral loads have a low incidence of HIV-associated dementia, but increased prevalence of milder forms of HIV-associated neurocognit...

    Authors: Isaac H. Solomon, Umberto De Girolami, Sukrutha Chettimada, Vikas Misra, Elyse J. Singer and Dana Gabuzda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:151
  3. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) causes a serious health problem and affects millions of people worldwide. Patients with obstetric fistula usually suffer from incontinence of urine and stool, which can predispose...

    Authors: Matifan Dereje, Yimtubezinesh Woldeamanuel, Daneil Asrat and Fekade Ayenachew
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:150
  4. Procalcitonin (PCT) has become a commonly used serum inflammatory marker. Our aim was to describe the kinetics and usefulness of serial post-operative PCT measurements to detect bacterial infection in a cohort...

    Authors: Vladimir L. Cousin, Kalinka Lambert, Shahar Trabelsi, Annick Galetto-Lacour, Klara M. Posfay-Barbe, Barbara E. Wildhaber and Valérie A. McLin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:149
  5. Chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis are readily treatable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) which continue to occur at high rates in Australia, particularly among Aboriginal Australians. This study aimed t...

    Authors: Barbara Nattabi, Veronica Matthews, Jodie Bailie, Alice Rumbold, David Scrimgeour, Gill Schierhout, James Ward, Rebecca Guy, John Kaldor, Sandra C. Thompson and Ross Bailie
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:148
  6. Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus is a beta-hemolytic group C streptococcus mainly causing infections in domesticated animals. Here we describe the first case of zoonotic necroti...

    Authors: Bård Reiakvam Kittang, Veronika Kuchařová Pettersen, Oddvar Oppegaard, Dag Harald Skutlaberg, Håvard Dale, Harald G. Wiker and Steinar Skrede
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:147
  7. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended a new regimen for treatment of latent tuberculosis (three months of weekly isoniazid and rifapentine) in late 2011. While completion rates ...

    Authors: Adelaide H. McClintock, McKenna Eastment, Christy M. McKinney, Caroline L. Pitney, Masahiro Narita, David R. Park, Shireesha Dhanireddy and Alexandra Molnar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:146
  8. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment is essential for an effective tuberculosis (TB) control program. However, significant proportion of cases remains undiagnosed and untreated. Delay in diagnosis and treatmen...

    Authors: Selamsew Bogale, Ermias Diro, Atsede Mazengia Shiferaw and Melaku Kindie Yenit
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:145
  9. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is an emerging viral pathogen that causes severe morbidity and mortality. Up to date, there is no approved or licensed vaccine or antiviral medicines can...

    Authors: Shih-Chao Lin, Chi-Tang Ho, Wen-Ho Chuo, Shiming Li, Tony T. Wang and Chi-Chen Lin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:144
  10. Currently, there is no agreed standard for exploring the antimicrobial activity of wound antiseptics in a phase 2/ step 2 test protocol. In the present study, a standardised in-vitro test is proposed, which al...

    Authors: Kathrin Schedler, Ojan Assadian, Uta Brautferger, Gerald Müller, Torsten Koburger, Simon Classen and Axel Kramer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:143
  11. There is paucity data on the association of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) and active tuberculosis (TB) in southern Africa where the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is co-endemic. We examined the association of...

    Authors: Cuthbert Musarurwa, Lynn Sodai Zijenah, Doreen Zvipo Duri, Kudzie Mateveke-Dangaiso, Kudakwashe Mhandire, Maria Mary Chipiti, Marshall Wesley Munjoma and Witmore Bayayi Mujaji
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:142
  12. We conducted a study to identify Rickettsia, Coxiella, Leptospira, Bartonella, and Chikungunya virus infections among febrile patients presenting at hospitals in Bangladesh.

    Authors: Labib Imran Faruque, Rashid Uz Zaman, Emily S. Gurley, Robert F. Massung, A. S. M. Alamgir, Renee L. Galloway, Ann M. Powers, Ying Bai, Michael Kosoy, William L. Nicholson, Mahmudur Rahman and Stephen P. Luby
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:141
  13. Immigrants originating from intermediate and high HCV prevalence countries may be at increased risk of exposure to hepatitis C infection (HCV) in their countries of origin, however they are not routinely scree...

    Authors: Christina Greenaway, Laurent Azoulay, Robert Allard, Joseph Cox, Viet Anh Tran, Claire Nour Abou Chakra, Russ Steele and Marina Klein
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:140
  14. Bronchiolitis is considered one of the earliest and most common causes of hospitalisation in young children. Development of molecular technologies allowed a better understanding of bronchiolitis aetiology. Res...

    Authors: Ibrahim Janahi, Anas Abdulkayoum, Fawziya Almeshwesh, Mohamed Alkuwari, Ahmed Al hammadi and Marwah Alameri
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:139
  15. Extended Spectrum Beta- Lactamase producing organisms causing urinary tract infections (ESBL-UTI) are increasing in incidence and pose a major burden to health care. While ESBL producing Klebsiella species see...

    Authors: M. M. P. S. C. Fernando, W. A. N. V. Luke, J. K. N. D. Miththinda, R. D. S. S. Wickramasinghe, B. S. Sebastiampillai, M. P. M. L. Gunathilake, F. H. D. S. Silva and R. Premaratna
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:138
  16. Tuberculosis is a serious public health problem worldwide. It is the leading cause of death amongst people living with HIV, and default from tuberculosis (TB) treatment in people living with HIV increases the ...

    Authors: R Cunha, M Maruza, UR Montarroyos, I Coimbra, D de B Miranda-Filho, M de F Albuquerque, HR Lacerda and RAA Ximenes
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:137
  17. The outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic (H1N1pdm) affected thousands of people in Mexico and the United States, and spread rapidly throughout the world from April 2009 to July 2010. To explore the age...

    Authors: Jin Lv, Zhen-Yong Ren, Ying-Ying Zhang, Yun-E Liu, Jun Gao, Kun Yao, Dan Feng, Zhen-Yuan Li, Xin Feng, Yun-Xi Liu and Na Jia
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:136
  18. Phanerochaete sordida is a species of wood rotting fungus, which can degrade lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose contained in wood and other hard-to-biodegrade organic substances. Howe...

    Authors: Naoki Watanabe, Kiyofumi Ohkusu, Masaya Okuda, Osamu Imataki, Tomoya Ishii, Kiyoshi Negayama, Akira Tadokoro, Nobuyuki Kita, Takehiro Takagi, Nobuhiro Kanaji, Norimitsu Kadowaki and Shuji Bandoh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:135
  19. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the most common causes of respiratory tract infections among young children and the elderly. Timely and accurate diagnosis of respiratory tract infections improves p...

    Authors: Kevin E. Eboigbodin, Kirsi Moilanen, Sonja Elf and Mark Hoser
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:134
  20. Pneumococcal carriage is the precursor for development of pneumococcal disease, and is also responsible for transmission of the organism from person-to-person. In Africa, little is known about the pneumococcus...

    Authors: Eric S. Donkor, Jennifer A. Annan, Ebenezer V. Badoe, Nicholas T. K. D. Dayie, Appiah-Korang Labi and Hans-Christian Slotved
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:133
  21. Tuberculosis/Human immunodeficiency virus (TB/HIV) co-infection is bidirectional and synergistic which mainly affects interventions that have been taken on the area. Tb patients co-infected with HIV have poore...

    Authors: Yenework Sinshaw, Shitaye Alemu, Abel Fekadu and Mucheye Gizachew
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:132
  22. Inappropriate use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials affects adversely both the individual patient and the general public. The aim of the study was to identify patients at risk for excessively prolonged carbapen...

    Authors: Juri Katchanov, Benno Kreuels, Florian P. Maurer, Kai Wöstmann, Johannes Jochum, Christina König, Kariem Seoudy, Holger Rohde, Ansgar W. Lohse, Dominic Wichmann, Michael Baehr, Camilla Rothe and Stefan Kluge
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:131
  23. Ukraine is among ten countries with the highest burden of multidrug- resistant TB (MDR-TB) worldwide. Treatment success rates for MDR-TB in Ukraine remain below global success rates as reported by the World He...

    Authors: Omowunmi Aibana, Mariya Bachmaha, Viatcheslav Krasiuk, Natasha Rybak, Timothy P. Flanigan, Vasyl Petrenko and Megan B. Murray
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:129
  24. Respiratory viruses are associated with a huge socio-economic burden and are responsible for a large proportion of acute respiratory illness in hospitalised adults. Laboratory PCR is accurate but takes at leas...

    Authors: Nathan J. Brendish, Ahalya K. Malachira and Tristan W. Clark
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:128
  25. In the last 20 years routine T CD4+ lymphocyte (CD4+) cell count has proved to be a key factor to determine the stage of HIV infection and start or discontinue of prophylaxis for opportunistic infections. Howe...

    Authors: Antonio Di Biagio, Marta Ameri, Davide Sirello, Giovanni Cenderello, Enrico Di Bella, Lucia Taramasso, Barbara Giannini, Mauro Giacomini, Claudio Viscoli, Giovanni Cassola and Marcello Montefiori
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:127
  26. The Human papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted virus worldwide. The objective of this study was to estimate: 1) the prevalence and the incidence of external genital warts (eGW) in a sample of...

    Authors: Barbara Suligoi, Giorgio Vittori, Maria Cristina Salfa, Laura Timelli, Dario Corsini, Giovanni Fattorini and Luciano Mariani
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:126
  27. Diabetes complicates tuberculosis (TB) treatment including a prolonged time of sputum culture conversion to negative growth. Since 2013 in Virginia, interventions early in the treatment course have used therap...

    Authors: Yosra Alkabab, Suzanne Keller, Denise Dodge, Eric Houpt, Deborah Staley and Scott Heysell
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:125
  28. In the course of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that was witnessed since early 2014, the response mechanisms showed deficits in terms of timeliness, volume and adequacy. The authors were deployed in the Ebo...

    Authors: Christian Janke, Katrin Moira Heim, Florian Steiner, Moses Massaquoi, Miatta Zenabu Gbanya, Claudia Frey and Guenter Froeschl
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:124
  29. As access to Xpert expands in high TB-burden settings, its performance against clinically diagnosed TB as a reference standard provides important insight as the majority of childhood TB is bacteriologically un...

    Authors: Jason M. Bacha, Katherine Ngo, Petra Clowes, Heather R. Draper, Elias N. Ntinginya, Andrew DiNardo, Chacha Mangu, Issa Sabi, Bariki Mtafya and Anna M. Mandalakas
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:123
  30. Data on the impact of empirical antibiotic treatment (EAT) on patient outcome in a population-based setting are sparse. We assessed the association between EAT and the risk of recurrence within one year, short...

    Authors: Kim O. Gradel, Ulrich S. Jensen, Henrik C. Schønheyder, Christian Østergaard, Jenny D. Knudsen, Sonja Wehberg and Mette Søgaard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:122
  31. The purpose of this study was to describe what is known about HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases, infection transmission routes, care, and sources of information, from the viewpoint of men h...

    Authors: Tarja Suominen, Teppo Heikkinen, Marja Pakarinen, Anne-Mari Sepponen and Jari Kylmä
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:121
  32. Due to a lack of survey of health care seeking behavior for influenza, the actual magnitude of influenza in Beijing of China has not been well described.

    Authors: Xiaoli Wang, Shuangsheng Wu, Peng Yang, Hongjun Li, Yanhui Chu, Yaqing Tang, Weiyu Hua, Haiyan Zhang, Chao Li and Quanyi Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:120
  33. Surgical site infections are commonest nosocomial infections and responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality as well as increased hospitalizations and treatment cost related to surgical operations. Th...

    Authors: Tamrat Legesse Laloto, Desta Hiko Gemeda and Sadikalmahdi Hussen Abdella
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:119
  34. Tuberculosis is considered the second most common cause of death due to infectious agent. The currently preferred regimen for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and...

    Authors: Mohammad H. Al-Shaer, Hanine Mansour, Hazem Elewa, Pascale Salameh and Fatima Iqbal
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:118
  35. Bacterial diarrhoeal disease is among the most common causes of mortality and morbidity in children 0–59 months at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. However, most cases are treated empiricall...

    Authors: Harriet Chiyangi, John B. Muma, Sydney Malama, Joel Manyahi, Ahmed Abade, Geoffrey Kwenda and Mecky I. Matee
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:117
  36. The occurrence of bloodstream infection (BSI) and antimicrobial resistance have been increasing in many countries. We studied trends in antimicrobial resistance and empiric antibiotic therapy at a medium-sized...

    Authors: Arne Mehl, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Angela Kümmel, Stian Lydersen, Julie Paulsen, Ingvild Haugan, Erik Solligård, Jan Kristian Damås, Stig Harthug and Tom-Harald Edna
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:116

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:446

  37. Although Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infection may cause extrapulmonary disease in HIV-infected adults, HIV-associated hepatic TB has been poorly characterized. Our objective was to describe hepatic TB in HIV...

    Authors: Lilishia Gounder, Pravikrishnen Moodley, Paul K. Drain, Andrew J. Hickey and Mahomed-Yunus S. Moosa
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:115
  38. Reactivated cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection has been known to cause significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. However, CMV disease rarely develops in immunocompetent patients, and repo...

    Authors: Chun-Yuan Lee, Yen-Hsu Chen and Po-Liang Lu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:113
  39. Nosocomial pneumonia has correlated to dental plaque and to oropharynx colonization in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. The interruption of this process, by preventing colonization of pathogenic bact...

    Authors: Claudia Fernanda de Lacerda Vidal, Aurora Karla de Lacerda Vidal, José Gildo de Moura Monteiro Jr., Aracele Cavalcanti, Ana Paula da Costa Henriques, Márcia Oliveira, Michele Godoy, Mirella Coutinho, Pollyanna Dutra Sobral, Claudia Ângela Vilela, Bárbara Gomes, Marta Amorim Leandro, Ulisses Montarroyos, Ricardo de Alencar Ximenes and Heloísa Ramos Lacerda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:112

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:173

  40. Early rising asexual parasitaemia (ERAP), initially defined as ‘an increase in the parasite count over the baseline pre-treatment level during the first 24 h of treatment’ of falciparum malaria with artemisini...

    Authors: Akintunde Sowunmi, Kazeem Akano, Adejumoke I. Ayede, Elsie O. Adewoye, Godwin Ntadom, Bayo Fatunmbi, Grace O. Gbotosho, Onikepe A. Folarin and Christian T. Happi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:110
  41. Community-genotype methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CG-MRSA) clones are a global concern due to their resistance and increased virulence and their ability to cause infections both hospitalized patient...

    Authors: Javier Escobar-Perez, Niradiz Reyes, Ricaurte Alejandro Marquez-Ortiz, Juan Rebollo, Hernando Pinzón, Catalina Tovar, Jaime Moreno-Castañeda, Zayda Lorena Corredor, Betsy Esperanza Castro, Maria Victoria Moncada and Natasha Vanegas
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:108
  42. Cervical cancer and its precursor, high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN2/3), are associated with persistent high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. HPV genotype prevalence varies with sev...

    Authors: Lei Zhang, Qingqing Bi, Hua Deng, Jing Xu, Juan Chen, Meilian Zhang and Xiaofeng Mu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:107
  43. Neurocysticercosis is endemic in most countries of Central and South America but has rarely been described in the French West Indies. We aimed to better understand the clinical and radiological presentation of...

    Authors: R. Blaizot, B. Melot, K. Schepers, M. Nicolas, S. Gaumond, P. Poullain, L. Belaye, A. Lannuzel and B. Hoen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:106
  44. Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection that usually presents as a primary lung infection. The fungus is endemic to the Southwest United States of America, northern Mexico and parts of Central and South Ameri...

    Authors: Ole Bæk, Karen Astvad, Reza Serizawa, Lawrence J. Wheat, Pia T. Brenøe and Ann-Brit E. Hansen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:105
  45. The diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) can be extremely difficult in the absence of culture confirmation. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) adenosine deaminase (ADA) can potentially assist in this regard, altho...

    Authors: Pieter Ekermans, Adriano Dusé and Jaya George
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:104
  46. In patients, rapid identification of bacterial species may help to guide treatment at early stages. New protocols for the identification directly from positive blood culture flasks significantly helped in the ...

    Authors: Matthias von Rotz, Alexa Dierig, Ulrich Heininger, Carl Chrobak, Veronika Baettig and Adrian Egli
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:102

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