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  1. The effectiveness of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets and Indoor Residual Spraying in malaria vector control is threatened by vector resistance to insecticides. Knowledge of mosquito habitats and patterns of ins...

    Authors: Josiane Etang, Arthur Mbida Mbida, Patrick Ntonga Akono, Jerome Binyang, Carole Else Eboumbou Moukoko, Leopold Gustave Lehman, Parfait Awono-Ambene, Abdou Talipouo, Wolfgang Ekoko Eyisab, Darus Tagne, Romeo Tchoffo, Lucien Manga and Remy Mimpfoundi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:217
  2. Increasing pneumococcal resistance to commonly used antibiotics and multidrug resistance is a serious public health concern. Data on distribution of resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPn) strains among children...

    Authors: Indrė Stacevičienė, Sigita Petraitienė, Daiva Vaičiūnienė, Tomas Alasevičius, Jūratė Kirslienė and Vytautas Usonis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:216
  3. Modelling studies suggest that workplaces may be important sites of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in high burden countries today. Contemporary data on tuberculosis by occupation from these settings are ...

    Authors: Charlotte Jackson, Joanna H. Mostowy, Helen R. Stagg, Ibrahim Abubakar, Nick Andrews and Tom A. Yates
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:215
  4. In Mozambique, there is limited data regarding the monitoring of Tuberculosis (TB) treatment results and determinants of adverse outcomes under routine surveillance conditions. The objectives of this study wer...

    Authors: Alberto L. García-Basteiro, Durval Respeito, Orvalho J. Augusto, Elisa López-Varela, Charfudin Sacoor, Victor G. Sequera, Aina Casellas, Quique Bassat, Ivan Manhiça, Eusebio Macete, Frank Cobelens and Pedro L. Alonso
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:214

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  5. Migrant travellers who return to their country of origin to visit family and friends (VFR) are less likely to seek travel-related medical care and are less likely to adhere to recommended medications and trave...

    Authors: Holly Seale, Rajneesh Kaur, Abela Mahimbo, C. Raina MacIntyre, Nicholas Zwar, Mitchell Smith, Heather Worth and Anita E Heywood
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:213
  6. The purpose of this study is to explore the correlations of interleukin 36 (IL-36) and Soluble B7-H3 (sB7-H3) levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) with clinical characteristics and laboratory findings.

    Authors: Zhengrong Chen, Xin Zhao, Xinxing Zhang, Guangbo Zhang, Huiming Sun, Wujun Jiang, Yuqing Wang, Canhong Zhu, Wei Ji and Yongdong Yan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:212
  7. Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a widespread infectious disease in humans. Urine culture, a huge workload in the microbiology laboratory, is still the standard diagnostic test for UTI, but most of the culture...

    Authors: Bijan Moshaver, Foppie de Boer, Heidi van Egmond-Kreileman, Ellen Kramer, Coen Stegeman and Paul Groeneveld
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:211
  8. Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) is a neglected disease that has been restricted to East Africa for many decades. Several cases in refugees from the Horn of Africa have been recently diagnosed in four Europe...

    Authors: Michael Osthoff, Adrian Schibli, Davide Fadini, Pietro Lardelli and Daniel Goldenberger
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:210
  9. Paracoccidioidomycosis, a chronic granulomatous fungal disease caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis yeast cells affects mainly rural workers, albeit recently cases in immunosuppressed individuals has been repo...

    Authors: Rosaria Di Gangi, Thiago Alves da Costa, Rodolfo Thomé, Gabriela Peron, Eva Burger and Liana Verinaud
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:209
  10. Antibiotic overuse is driving the emergence of antibiotic resistance worldwide. Good data on prescribing behaviours of healthcare providers are needed to support antimicrobial stewardship initiatives. This stu...

    Authors: Norazida Ab Rahman, Cheong Lieng Teng and Sheamini Sivasampu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:208
  11. Mycobacterium abscessus complex (MABC) is the most drug resistant of the mycobacterial pathogens. M. abscessus subsp. abscessus encodes a functional erythromycin ribosomal methylase ge...

    Authors: Su-Young Kim, Sung Jae Shin, Byeong-Ho Jeong and Won-Jung Koh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:207
  12. The incidence of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is extremely high, and has constituted a huge disease burden throughout Beijing in recent years. This study aimed to determine the spatiotemporal distribut...

    Authors: Haikun Qian, Da Huo, Xiaoli Wang, Lei Jia, Xitai Li, Jie Li, Zhiyong Gao, Baiwei Liu, Yi Tian, Xiaona Wu and Quanyi Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:206
  13. Pyrazinamide (PZA) plays an essential part in the shortened six-month tuberculosis (TB) treatment course due to its activity against slow-growing and non-replicating organisms. We tested whether PZA preferenti...

    Authors: Steven T. Pullan, Jon C. Allnutt, Rebecca Devine, Kim A. Hatch, Rose E. Jeeves, Charlotte L. Hendon-Dunn, Philip D. Marsh and Joanna Bacon
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:205
  14. Control of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is an important step towards tuberculosis elimination. Preventive treatment will prevent the development of disease in most cases diagnosed with LTBI. However, l...

    Authors: Andreas Sandgren, Marije Vonk Noordegraaf-Schouten, Femke van Kessel, Anke Stuurman, Anouk Oordt-Speets and Marieke J. van der Werf
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:204
  15. The impact of sink location on hand washing compliance after contact with patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is poorly understood. The aim of this study is to determine the location of hand wash ...

    Authors: Alexander Deyneko, Fernanda Cordeiro, Laurie Berlin, Debby Ben-David, Silvana Perna and Yves Longtin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:203
  16. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment uptake globally is low. A barrier to treatment is the necessity to attend specialists, usually in a tertiary hospital. We investigate the literature to assess the effect of pr...

    Authors: Amanda J. Wade, Vanessa Veronese, Margaret E. Hellard and Joseph S. Doyle
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:202
  17. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have been commercialized in order to help physicians in dengue diagnosis. Until recently, only blood samples were used for those tests but it has been shown in several studies tha...

    Authors: Anne-Claire Andries, Veasna Duong, Sivuth Ong, Sopheaktra Ros, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Paul Horwood, Philippe Dussart and Philippe Buchy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:201
  18. Interleukin-33 (IL-33) and ST2 have been demonstrated to be associated with liver damage. However, their potential value in hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains unknown. This study was designed to investi...

    Authors: Shu-Ling Huan, Ji-Guang Zhao, Zhen-Li Wang, Shuai Gao and Kai Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:200
  19. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major human pathogen associated with nosocomial and community infections. Panton Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is considered one of the important virulence fac...

    Authors: Dharm R. Bhatta, Lina M. Cavaco, Gopal Nath, Kush Kumar, Abhishek Gaur, Shishir Gokhale and Dwij R. Bhatta
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:199
  20. Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus (CFF) is an important pathogen for both cattle and humans. We performed a systematic epidemiological and clinical study of patients and evaluated the genetic relatedness of 17...

    Authors: Robert Escher, Colette Brunner, Niklaus von Steiger, Isabelle Brodard, Sara Droz, Carlos Abril and Peter Kuhnert
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:198
  21. In our study, we have hypothesized that proviral DNA may show the history of mutations that emerged at previous failures to a Raltegravir containing regimen, in patients who are currently undetectable and cand...

    Authors: Jose Ángel Fernández-Caballero, Natalia Chueca, Marta Álvarez, María Dolores Mérida, Josefa López, José Antonio Sánchez, David Vinuesa, María Ángeles Martínez, José Hernández and Federico García
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:197
  22. Campylobacter is a leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis, but sensitive diagnostic methods such as culture are expensive and often not available in resource limited settings. Ther...

    Authors: Lorena Porte, Carmen Varela, Thomas Haecker, Sara Morales and Thomas Weitzel
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:196
  23. The incidence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolation from humans is increasing worldwide. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EW&NI) the reported rate of NTM more than doubled between 1996 and 200...

    Authors: Neeraj M. Shah, Jennifer A. Davidson, Laura F. Anderson, Maeve K. Lalor, Jusang Kim, H. Lucy Thomas, Marc Lipman and Ibrahim Abubakar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:195
  24. Antibiotic resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii have been responsible for an increasing number of nosocomial infections including bacteremia and ventilator-associated pneumonia. In this study, we analyzed...

    Authors: Wayne A. Warner, Shan N. Kuang, Rina Hernandez, Melissa C. Chong, Peter J. Ewing, Jen Fleischer, Jia Meng, Sheena Chu, Dawn Terashita, L’Tanya English, Wangxue Chen and H. Howard Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:194
  25. Globally it is estimated that 480 000 people developed multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2014 and 190 000 people died from the disease. Successful treatment outcomes are achieved in only 50 % of pat...

    Authors: Rebecca C. Harris, Louis Grandjean, Laura J. Martin, Alexander J. P. Miller, Joseph-Egre N. Nkang, Victoria Allen, Mishal S. Khan, Katherine Fielding and David A. J. Moore
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:193
  26. The present study aimed to identify factors affecting vaccination against influenza among health professionals.

    Authors: Süheyl Asma, Hülya Akan, Yücel Uysal, A. Gürhan Poçan, Mustafa Haki Sucaklı, Erhan Yengil, Çiğdem Gereklioğlu, Aslı Korur, İbrahim Başhan, A. Ferit Erdogan, A. Kürşat Özşahin and Altuğ Kut
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:192
  27. Chronic Chagas disease presents different clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic (namely indeterminate) to severe cardiac and/or digestive. Previous results have shown that the immune response plays...

    Authors: Ana Thereza Chaves, Juliana de Assis Silva Gomes Estanislau, Jacqueline Araújo Fiuza, Andréa Teixeira Carvalho, Karine Silvestre Ferreira, Rafaelle Christine Gomes Fares, Pedro Henrique Gazzinelli Guimarães, Elaine Maria de Souza Fagundes, Maria José Morato, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara, Manoel Otávio da Costa Rocha and Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:191
  28. After the global implementation of national immunization programs for prevention of measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), the prevalences of protective antibodies to these viruses are high in general population. ...

    Authors: Romanee Chaiwarith, Jutarat Praparattanapan, Khanuengnit Nuket, Wilai Kotarathitithum and Khuanchai Supparatpinyo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:190
  29. Multiple prevention interventions, including early antiretroviral therapy initiation, may reduce HIV incidence in hyperendemic settings. Our aim was to predict the short-term impact of various single and combi...

    Authors: Stéphanie Blaizot, David Maman, Benjamin Riche, Irene Mukui, Beatrice Kirubi, René Ecochard and Jean-François Etard
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:189
  30. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae commonly cause infections worldwide. BlaCTX-M-15 has been commonly detected in hospital isolates in Mwanza, Tanzania. Little is known regarding...

    Authors: Stephen E. Mshana, Linda Falgenhauer, Mariam M. Mirambo, Martha F. Mushi, Nyambura Moremi, Rechel Julius, Jeremiah Seni, Can Imirzalioglu, Mecky Matee and Trinad Chakraborty
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:187
  31. Rio de Janeiro in Brazil will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. About 400,000 non-immune foreign tourists are expected to attend the games. As Brazil is the country with the highest number of dengue cases...

    Authors: Raphael Ximenes, Marcos Amaku, Luis Fernandez Lopez, Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho, Marcelo Nascimento Burattini, David Greenhalgh, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Claudio José Struchiner and Eduardo Massad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:186
  32. The isolation of Propionibacterium acnes in blood cultures is often considered a contaminant. On rare occasions, P. acnes can cause severe infections, including endocarditis and intravascular prosthesis-associate...

    Authors: T. Herren, M. A. Middendorp and R. Zbinden
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:185
  33. Little is known about the management of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers in the German outpatient sector and about the impact of MRSA on their daily life. Reimbursement for MRSA related...

    Authors: Heike Raupach-Rosin, Nicole Rübsamen, Sebastian Szkopek, Oliver Schmalz, André Karch, Rafael Mikolajczyk and Stefanie Castell
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:184
  34. In spite of increasing reports of dengue and chikungunya activity in Tanzania, limited research has been done to document the general epidemiology of dengue and chikungunya in the country. This study aimed at ...

    Authors: Debora C. Kajeguka, Robert D. Kaaya, Steven Mwakalinga, Rogathe Ndossi, Arnold Ndaro, Jaffu O. Chilongola, Franklin W. Mosha, Karin L. Schiøler, Reginald A. Kavishe and Michael Alifrangis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:183
  35. People with HIV are living longer with the health-related consequences of HIV, multi-morbidity, and aging. Exercise is a key strategy that may improve or sustain health for people living with HIV. Our aim was ...

    Authors: Kelly K. O’Brien, Anne-Marie Tynan, Stephanie A. Nixon and Richard H. Glazier
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:182
  36. To date, women are most often diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis (BV) using microscopy based Nugent scoring or Amsel criteria. However, the accuracy is less than optimal. The aim of the present study was to co...

    Authors: Joke A. M. Dols, Douwe Molenaar, Jannie J. van der Helm, Martien P. M. Caspers, Alie de Kat Angelino-Bart, Frank H. J. Schuren, Adrianus G. C. L. Speksnijder, Hans V. Westerhoff, Jan Hendrik Richardus, Mathilde E. Boon, Gregor Reid, Henry J. C. de Vries and Remco Kort
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:180
  37. Varicella remains an important public health issue in China. In this study we explored the effect of weather conditions on the incidence of varicella in the temperate city of Jinan, Eastern China during 2012–2...

    Authors: Yunqing Yang, Xingyi Geng, Xiaoxue Liu, Weiru Wang and Ji Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:179
  38. In 2012, the United Kingdom (UK) Government announced that the new entrant screening for active tuberculosis (TB) in Heathrow and Gatwick airports would end. Our study objective was to estimate screening yield...

    Authors: Ettore Severi, Helen Maguire, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Graham Bickler and Ibrahim Abubakar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:178
  39. Many administrative data sources are available to study the epidemiology of infectious diseases, including Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), but few publications have compared CDI event rates across database...

    Authors: Margaret A. Olsen, Yinong Young-Xu, Dustin Stwalley, Ciarán P. Kelly, Dale N. Gerding, Mohammed J. Saeed, Cedric Mahé and Erik R. Dubberke
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:177
  40. HIV-associated cognitive impairment has declined since the introduction of combination antiretroviral treatment (cART). However, milder forms of cognitive impairment persist. Inflammation in the cerebrospinal ...

    Authors: Sofie Jespersen, Karin Kæreby Pedersen, Birgitta Anesten, Henrik Zetterberg, Dietmar Fuchs, Magnus Gisslén, Lars Hagberg, Marius Trøseid and Susanne Dam Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:176
  41. In our recent village-based cross-sectional study, the prevalence of nucleic acid amplification technique (NAAT) diagnosed Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) in sexually active Samoan women was very high (36 %), and test...

    Authors: S. Menon, S. H. Stansfield, M. Walsh, E. Hope, L. Isaia, A. A. Righarts, T. Niupulusu, S. V. A. Temese, L. Iosefa-Siitia, L. Auvaa, S. A. Tapelu, M. F. Motu, T. Suaalii-Sauni, P. Timms, P. C. Hill and W. M. Huston
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:175
  42. Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a poorly understood disease with no known treatments. We describe the clinical features and treatment outcomes of patients with laboratory confirme...

    Authors: Mohammed Al Ghamdi, Khalid M. Alghamdi, Yasmeen Ghandoora, Ameera Alzahrani, Fatmah Salah, Abdulmoatani Alsulami, Mayada F. Bawayan, Dhananjay Vaidya, Trish M. Perl and Geeta Sood
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:174
  43. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Uganda family is the predominant cause of tuberculosis in Uganda. Reasons for this are not clear but are likely to be due to the rampant person-to-person tra...

    Authors: George W. Kasule, David P. Kateete and Moses L. Joloba
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:173
  44. Dengue infection has various clinical manifestations, often with unpredictable clinical evolutions and outcomes. Several factors including nutritional status have been studied to find the relationship with den...

    Authors: Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang, Nguyen Phuoc Long, Tran Thi Minh Hue, Le Phi Hung, Tran Dinh Trung, Doan Ngoc Dinh, Nguyen Thien Luan, Nguyen Tien Huy and Kenji Hirayama
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:172
  45. Human dirofilariasis is a zoonotic infection that continues to spread to previously unaffected areas of Europe. In the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic (CR), imported as well as autochthonous canine...

    Authors: Jana Matějů, Marta Chanová, David Modrý, Barbora Mitková, Kristýna Hrazdilová, Víta Žampachová and Libuše Kolářová
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:171
  46. The increase in antimicrobial-resistant infections has led to significant morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. The impact of antimicrobial resistance is greatest on low-income countries, which face the ...

    Authors: Suparna Sharma, Clive Bowman, Bibi Alladin-Karan and Narendra Singh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:170
  47. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, a tertiary level hospital in Beijing, China.

    Authors: Yaowen Zhang, Jing Zhang, Dong Wei, Zhirong Yang, Yanyan Wang and Zhiyuan Yao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:161
  48. Clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) is a mild encephalopathy caused by various pathological processes, but encephalopathy due to bacteria is rare.

    Authors: Koki Kosami, Tsuneaki Kenzaka, Yuka Sagara, Kensuke Minami and Masami Matsumura
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:160

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