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  1. During October 2011 several residents and staff members at a long-term care facility (LTCF) for elderly fell ill with respiratory symptoms. Several of the residents required hospitalization and one died. Non-t...

    Authors: Madelen Andersson, Fredrik Resman, Rickard Eitrem, Peter Drobni, Kristian Riesbeck, Gunnar Kahlmeter and Martin Sundqvist
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:581
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  3. Human fascioliasis (HF) is a zoonotic disease that has been identified in many countries worldwide. This report concerns the identification and clinical management of cases of human fascioliasis in the suburbs...

    Authors: Abdul-Hamid Settenda Lukambagire, Deborah N. Mchaile and Mramba Nyindo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:578
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  4. Multi-slice computed tomography enterography (MSCTE) is now widely used to diagnose and monitor intestinal disease. Preliminary studies suggest that MSCTE may be useful in detecting intestinal tuberculosis (IT...

    Authors: Jing Zhao, Min-Yi Cui, Tao Chan, Ren Mao, Yanji Luo, Indira Barua, Minhu Chen, Zi-Ping Li and Shi-Ting Feng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:577
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  5. To improve antibiotic use globally, we must deepen our understanding of the public’s knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) concerning antibiotics. Children are frequent users of antibiotics, and their careg...

    Authors: Lilu Ding, Qiang Sun, Weishuai Sun, Yihui Du, Yue Li, Xuefeng Bian, Guiqin He, Huidong Bai and Oliver J. Dyar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:576
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. HPV infects multiple sites in the epithelium, including the genitals and oral cavity. The relation between genital and oral infections and serum antibodies can help explain the natural history and epidemiology...

    Authors: Andrew F. Brouwer, Marisa C. Eisenberg, Thomas E. Carey and Rafael Meza
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:575
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  7. Norovirus (NoV) is a leading cause of sporadic cases and outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Increased NoV activity was observed in Beijing, China during winter 2014–2015; therefore, we examined the epid...

    Authors: Zhiyong Gao, Baiwei Liu, Da Huo, Hanqiu Yan, Lei Jia, Yiwei Du, Haikun Qian, Yang Yang, Xiaoli Wang, Jie Li and Quanyi Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:574
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Previous influenza surveillance at paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in Germany indicated increased incidence of PICU admissions for the pandemic influenza subtype A(H1N1)pdm09. We investigated incidence...

    Authors: Andrea Streng, Christiane Prifert, Benedikt Weissbrich and Johannes G. Liese
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:573
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  9. The prevalence and impact of antimicrobial “allergy” labels and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) on antibiotic usage and antimicrobial stewardship initiatives is ill defined. We sought to examine the rate of anti...

    Authors: Jason A. Trubiano, Kelly A. Cairns, Jacqui A. Evans, Amally Ding, Tuan Nguyen, Michael J. Dooley and Allen C. Cheng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:572
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorroheae (PPNG) was first isolated in 1976. PPNG strains carrying bla TEM-1 and bla TEM-135 gene have been described in d...

    Authors: Ricardo Gianecini, Claudia Oviedo, Cristina Guantay, Laura Piccoli, Graciela Stafforini and Patricia Galarza
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:571
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  11. Early antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation is crucial to achieve HIV viral suppression and reduce transmission. HIV-infected Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) were less likely to initiate ART than oth...

    Authors: Yu Liu, Yuhua Ruan, Sten H. Vermund, Chandra Y. Osborn, Pingsheng Wu, Yujiang Jia, Yiming Shao and Han-Zhu Qian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:570
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  12. Ectopic pregnancy (EP) is associated with maternal morbidity and occasionally mortality during the first trimester. A history of sexually transmitted infection (STI) and pelvic inflammatory disease have been i...

    Authors: Ahmed Mohamed Ashshi, Sarah Abdullah Batwa, Seham Yahia Kutbi, Faizah Ahmed Malibary, Mohamed Batwa and Bassem Refaat
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:569
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  13. Infectious disease (ID) consultations have been shown to increase adherence to guidelines and decrease mortality for patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). Here, we assessed the impact of a mandato...

    Authors: Leslie Martin, Miriam Tova Harris, Annie Brooks, Cheryl Main and Dominik Mertz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:568
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  14. Escherichia coli is a rare cause of community-acquired meningitis in adults unless predisposing factors are present (e.g., previous penetrating cranio-cerebral injury or neurosurgery, ...

    Authors: Rebekka Kohlmann, Andrey Nefedev, Martin Kaase and Sören G. Gatermann
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:567
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  15. This study aims at evaluating the cost-effectiveness of a 2-dose schedule human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme of HPV and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) naïve 12-year-old girls, in addition to ...

    Authors: Xiao Li, Martinus P. Stander, Georges Van Kriekinge and Nadia Demarteau
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:566
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  16. Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) represent up to 50 % of all infections among patients admitted from the community. The current review intends to provide a systematic review on the microbiological profi...

    Authors: Teresa Cardoso, Mónica Almeida, Jordi Carratalà, Irene Aragão, Altamiro Costa-Pereira, António E. Sarmento and Luís Azevedo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:565
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  17. The West-African (WA) Zaire Ebolavirus disease (EVD) outbreak was characterized by an exceptionally high number of cases and deaths as compared with the Eastern-Central African (ECA) outbreaks. Despite the Zai...

    Authors: Stefano Petti, Giuseppe Alessio Messano, Enzo Maria Vingolo, Luigi Tonino Marsella and Crispian Scully
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:564
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  18. Hepatitis C virus infection is highly prevalent among people who inject drugs. Opioid substitution therapy, the standard treatment for opioid dependence, provides an excellent opportunity for the treatment of ...

    Authors: Lisa Strada, Bernd Schulte, Christiane Sybille Schmidt, Uwe Verthein, Peter Cremer-Schaeffer, Sabine Krückeberg and Jens Reimer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:563
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. HIV infection, with an estimated prevalence be between 2 and 50 times those of the general adult population is a major health challenge for prison authorities worldwide. Since no nationwide surveillance system...

    Authors: R. Monarca, G. Madeddu, R. Ranieri, S. Carbonara, G. Leo, M. Sardo, F. Choroma, S. Casari, D. Marri, A. A. Muredda, F. A. Nava and S. Babudieri
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:562
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Gay and bisexual men (GBM) are a major risk group for HIV acquisition, yet the majority of higher-risk GBM test for HIV less often than recommended (3–6 monthly). HIV self-testing has the potential to increase...

    Authors: Muhammad S. Jamil, Garrett Prestage, Christopher K. Fairley, Kirsty S. Smith, John M. Kaldor, Andrew E. Grulich, Anna M. McNulty, Marcus Chen, Martin Holt, Damian P. Conway, Handan Wand, Phillip Keen, Colin Batrouney, Jack Bradley, Benjamin R. Bavinton, Dermot Ryan…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:561
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  21. China is an endemic area for hepatitis E virus (HEV). The previous surveys of anti-HEV seroprevalence are cross-sectional. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of infection among pregnant women and t...

    Authors: Guangyu Gu, Hongyu Huang, Le Zhang, Yongchun Bi, Yali Hu and Yi-Hua Zhou
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:560
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Colistin-resistant/carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is a significant challenge for antibiotic treatment and infection control policies. Since 2012, in Central Greece an increase of colistin/pan- resis...

    Authors: O. Oikonomou, S. Sarrou, C. C. Papagiannitsis, S. Georgiadou, K. Mantzarlis, E. Zakynthinos, G. N. Dalekos and E. Petinaki
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:559
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  23. Plasmodium vivax malaria is a major cause of morbidity and recognised as an important contributor to mortality in some endemic areas. The current recommended treatment regimen for the ...

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    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:558
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  24. Our objective was to assess the predictive value of the changes of liver stiffness (LS) for clinical outcome in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with compensated liver cirrhosis and a LS value < 40 kPa.

    Authors: Nicolás Merchante, Francisco Téllez, Antonio Rivero-Juárez, Maria José Ríos-Villegas, Dolores Merino, Manuel Márquez-Solero, Mohamed Omar, Eva Recio, Montserrat Pérez-Pérez, Ángela Camacho, Sara Macías-Dorado, Juan Macías, Sandra Lorenzo-Moncada, Antonio Rivero and Juan A. Pineda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:557
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  25. Cytokine response against hepatitis C virus (HCV) is likely to determine the natural course of infection as well as the outcome of antiviral treatment. However, the role of particular cytokines remains unclear...

    Authors: Joanna Jabłońska, Tomasz Pawłowski, Tomasz Laskus, Małgorzata Zalewska, Małgorzata Inglot, Sylwia Osowska, Karol Perlejewski, Iwona Bukowska-Ośko, Kamila Caraballo Cortes, Agnieszka Pawełczyk, Piotr Ząbek and Marek Radkowski
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:556
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:104

  26. Severe falciparum malaria may be complicated by prolonged haemolysis and recurrent fever after parasite clearance. However, their respective etiologies are unclear and challenging to diagnose. We report the fi...

    Authors: Katherine Plewes, Richard J. Maude, Aniruddha Ghose and Arjen M. Dondorp
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:555
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  27. Pertussis diagnosis may go unrecognized when other pathogens, such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) circulate.

    Authors: Ivana Pavic-Espinoza, Sandy Bendezú-Medina, Angella Herrera-Alzamora, Pablo Weilg, María J. Pons, Miguel Angel Aguilar-Luis, Verónica Petrozzi-Helasvuo and Juana del Valle Mendoza
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:554
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. International guidelines and U.S. guidelines prior to 2012 only recommended testing for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among patients at risk, but adherence to guidelines is poor, and the majority of those ...

    Authors: William N. Southern, Brianna Norton, Meredith Steinman, Joseph DeLuca, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Bryce D. Smith and Alain H. Litwin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:553
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Periodontal disease is a less common but important cause of septic pulmonary embolism (SPE). However, the pathogens causing periodontal disease-associated SPE (PD-SPE) have been poorly understood. Actinomyces spe...

    Authors: Shun Endo, Eikan Mishima, Yoichi Takeuchi, Takashi Ohi, Masatsugu Ishida, Masaru Yanai, Hideyasu Kiyomoto, Tasuku Nagasawa and Sadayoshi Ito
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:552
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  30. In England, Public Health England conducts enhanced surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). The continuing decline in reported IMD cases has raised concerns that the MRU may be underestimating tr...

    Authors: Shamez N Ladhani, Pauline A Waight, Sonia Ribeiro and Mary E Ramsay
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:551
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) remains high among Chinese Uygurs (a long-dwelling ethnic minority in Xinjiang) in China and the variants in IL-23R likely contribute to individual’s diversity in host response ...

    Authors: Daobin Jiang, Atikaimu Wubuli, Xin Hu, Syed Ikramullah, Abudoujilili Maimaiti, Wenbao Zhang and Qimanguli Wushouer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:550
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. High quality of surveillance systems for surgical site infections (SSIs) is the key to their usefulness. The Norwegian Surveillance System for Antibiotic Consumption and Healthcare-Associated Infections (NOIS)...

    Authors: Hege Line Løwer, Hanne-Merete Eriksen, Preben Aavitsland and Finn Egil Skjeldestad
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:549
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  34. Rapid tests (RTs) might have several advantages over standard laboratory procedures, increasing access to diagnosis, especially among vulnerable populations and/or those living in remote areas. The aim of this...

    Authors: Helena Medina Cruz, Leticia de Paula Scalioni, Vanessa Salete de Paula, Elisangela Ferreira da Silva, Kycia Maria Rodrigues do Ó, Flavio Augusto Pádua Milagres, Marcelo Santos Cruz, Francisco Inácio Bastos, Priscila Pollo-Flores, Erotildes Leal, Ana Rita Coimbra Motta-Castro, José Henrique Pilotto, Lia Laura Lewis-Ximenez, Elisabeth Lampe and Livia Melo Villar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:548
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  35. Cardiovascular parameters can be impaired by repeated infections with P. falciparum. This study aimed at investigating the influence of gametocyte carriage on; the prevalence of fever and splenomegaly, blood pres...

    Authors: Irene Ule Ngole Sumbele, Orelien S. Mtopi Bopda, Helen Kuokuo Kimbi, Teh Rene Ning and Theresa Nkuo-Akenji
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:547
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  36. In patients who are not amenable to surgical resection (cavernostomy), it is difficult to achieve palliation of hemoptysis from pulmonary aspergilloma. There are only 9 cases with a short follow-up that have r...

    Authors: Lucas G Sapienza, Maria José L Gomes, Carmelindo Maliska and Antonio N Norberg
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:546
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. During the last decade the resistance rate of urinary Escherichia coli (E. coli) to fluoroquinolones such as ciprofloxacin has increased. Systematic reviews of studies investigating ciprofloxacin resistance in co...

    Authors: Oyebola Fasugba, Anne Gardner, Brett G. Mitchell and George Mnatzaganian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:545
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Identification of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in cervical tissue is important for understanding cervical carcinogenesis and for evaluating cervical cancer prevention approaches. However, HPV genotyping usin...

    Authors: Felipe A. Castro, Jill Koshiol, Wim Quint, Cosette M. Wheeler, Maura L. Gillison, Laurence M. Vaughan, Bernhard Kleter, Leen-Jan van Doorn, Anil K. Chaturvedi, Allan Hildesheim, Mark Schiffman, Sophia S. Wang, Rosemary E. Zuna, Joan L. Walker, S. Terence Dunn and Nicolas Wentzensen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:544
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a dermal complication of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), which may occur after or during treatment. It has been frequently reported from India and the Sudan, but its ...

    Authors: Maria Angela Bianconcini Trindade, Lana Luiza da Cruz Silva, Lucia Maria Almeida Braz, Valdir Sabbaga Amato, Bernard Naafs and Mirian Nacagami Sotto
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:543
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  40. Health-care workers’ (HCWs) exposure to bodily fluids puts them at risk of hepatitis B virus HBV infection. This study investigated HBV vaccination practices and outcomes in HCWs and assessed postvaccination s...

    Authors: Yu-Bao Zheng, Yu-Rong Gu, Min Zhang, Ke Wang, Zhan-lian Huang, Chao-Shuang Lin and Zhi-Liang Gao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:542
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. The rate of spontaneous regression in CIN III lesions is controversial. Whereas some studies have reported high regression rates of up to 38 % after prolonged biopsy-conus intervals, others have shown rates be...

    Authors: Melodi Motamedi, Gerd Böhmer, Heinrich H. Neumann and Reinhard von Wasielewski
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:541
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is an important cause of gastroenteritis in Japan. Although non-O157 EHEC infections have been increasingly reported worldwide, their impact on children has not been well...

    Authors: Atsuhiro Kanayama, Yuichiro Yahata, Yuzo Arima, Takuri Takahashi, Takehito Saitoh, Kazuhiko Kanou, Kunio Kawabata, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Tamano Matsui and Kazunori Oishi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:539
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Geographic and sociodemographic characterization of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission amongst men who have sex with men (MSM) has been limited. Our aim was to characterize HCV prevalence, risk factors for H...

    Authors: Kara W. Chew, Martha L. Blum, Marjan Javanbakht, Laurel E. Clare, Lorelei D. Bornfleth, Robert Bolan, Debika Bhattacharya and Pamina M. Gorbach
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:538
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  45. Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is a proven treatment strategy for opioid dependent patients. Although studies have demonstrated that MMT increases contact with the medical system and improves adherence to...

    Authors: Paxton Bach, Evan Wood, Huiru Dong, Silvia Guillemi, Thomas Kerr, Julio Montaner and M-J Milloy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:537
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. The implementation of collaborative TB-HIV services is challenging. We, therefore, assessed TB treatment outcomes in relation to HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART) among TB patients attending a pri...

    Authors: Mweete D. Nglazi, Linda-Gail Bekker, Robin Wood and Richard Kaplan
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:536
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  47. Neoscytalidium species (formerly Scytalidium species) are black fungi that usually cause cutaneous infections mimicking dermatophytes lesions. Very few publications have reported invas...

    Authors: Simon Garinet, Jérôme Tourret, Stéphane Barete, Nadia Arzouk, Isabelle Meyer, Camille Frances, Annick Datry, Dominique Mazier, Benoit Barrou and Arnaud Fekkar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:535
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. Pertussis is believed to be widely underreported and under-recognized, particularly among adults. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of private practitioner-attended cough illness that could b...

    Authors: Cristina Masseria and Girishanthy Krishnarajah
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:534
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:181

  49. Trichophyton rubrum (T.rubrum) caused onychomycosis is the most common nail fungal disease. The common diagnostic methods are direct microscopic examination and fungal culture. In this...

    Authors: Xueping Yue, Qing Li, Hongwei Wang, Yilin Sun, Aiping Wang, Qi Zhang and Cuiping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:532
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Authors: Umbertina Villano, Alessandra Lo Presti, Michele Equestre, Eleonora Cella, Giulio Pisani, Marta Giovanetti, Roberto Bruni, Elena Tritarelli, Massimo Amicosante, Alba Grifoni, Carmelo Scarcella, Issa El-Hamad, Maria Chiara Pezzoli, Silvia Angeletti, Anna Rita Ciccaglione and Massimo Ciccozzi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:531
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2015 15:287

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