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  1. Currently, some meta-analyses on COVID-19 have suggested that glucocorticoids use can reduce the mortality rate of COVID-19 patients, utilization rate of invasive ventilation, and improve the prognosis of pati...

    Authors: Qiaolan He, Chen Wang, Yingqin Wang, Guannan Chen, Yue Zhou, Yuanyuan Wu and Ming Zhong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:896
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  3. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) can reduce viral load in individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); however, some HIV-infected individuals still cannot achieve optimal immune recovery even afte...

    Authors: Xiao-Yan Guo, Meng-Meng Qu, Xi Wang, Ze-Rui Wang, Jin-Wen Song, Bao-Peng Yang, Yun-Tian Guo, Yang Zhang, Chao Zhang, Xing Fan, Wen Xu, Ruonan Xu, Ji-Yuan Zhang, Si-Yuan Chen, Yan-Mei Jiao, Li-Jun Sun…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:893
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  4. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease discovered in China in 2009. The purpose of this study was to describe the spatiotemporal distribution of SFTS and to identi...

    Authors: Qing Duan, Xueying Tian, Bo Pang, Yuwei Zhang, Chuanhao Xiao, Mingxiao Yao, Shujun Ding, Xiaomei Zhang, Xiaolin Jiang and Zengqiang Kou
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:891
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  5. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection is a common viral disease that mainly causes oral lesions, but can also cause genital lesions in some instances. Current treatments with nucleoside analogs are lim...

    Authors: Yingxian Yin, Jiahui Li, Ling Su, Zhiying Ou, Qingqun Lv, Misi Xiao, Changbing Wang, Dan Zeng, Yiling Gu, Fengxia Yang, Minxia Chen, Shaojuan Feng, Wanming Hu, Fengling Bu, Bing Zhu and Yi Xu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:890
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  6. Periods of droughts can lead to decreased food security, and altered behaviours, potentially affecting outcomes on antiretroviral therapy (ART) among persons with HIV (PWH). We investigated whether decreased r...

    Authors: Adam Trickey, Leigh F. Johnson, Fai Fung, Rogerio Bonifacio, Collins Iwuji, Samuel Biraro, Samuel Bosomprah, Linda Chirimuta, Jonathan Euvrard, Geoffrey Fatti, Matthew P. Fox, Per Von Groote, Joe Gumulira, Guy Howard, Lauren Jennings, Agnes Kiragga…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:889
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  7. Lymphomas involving the gastrointestinal tract may be manifested as anti-inflammatory tract bleeding, abdominal lymph node enlargement, or even perforation of the gastrointestinal tract. After organ transplant...

    Authors: Sulin Luo, Xingxia Wang, Xue Ren, Yamei Cheng, Luying Guo, Pengpeng Yan, Junhao Lv, Xinhui Su, Jia Shen, Kui Zhao, Ke Sun, Jianghua Chen and Rending Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:888
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  8. Data regarding the clinical effects of bacteremia on severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are limited. Thus, we investigated clinical characteristics and outcomes of severe CAP patients with bacteremia co...

    Authors: Tae Wan Kim, Se-Uk Lee, Boram Park, Kyeongman Jeon, Sunghoon Park, Gee Young Suh, Dong Kyu Oh, Soo Yeon Lee, Mi Hyeon Park, Haein Lee, Chae-man Lim and Ryoung-Eun Ko
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:887
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  9. Post-malaria neurological syndrome (PMNS) is a rare, self-limiting condition that presents with a wide range of neurological manifestations after clearance of malarial infection, especially 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 f𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘳...

    Authors: Mouhammad J Alawad, Moustafa Almayoof, Adel Al bozom, Taha Alkhidir, Saeed S Emam and Khalifa Farfar
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:886
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  10. Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a dermatosis that occurs 2–3 years after an apparently successful treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). In rare cases, PKDL occurs concurrently with VL and is ...

    Authors: Md. Mehedi Hasan, Sanghita Banik Proma, Md. Saddam Hossain, Md. Arifuzzaman, Naylla Islam, Md. Abu Bakar Siddique and Amiruzzaman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:885
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  11. Scrub typhus is a bacterial mite-borne disease associated with poor clinical outcomes if not treated adequately. The study aimed to compare the time to defervescence, clinical failure, mortality and treatment-...

    Authors: Nitin Gupta, Carl Boodman, Christelle Genevieve Jouego and Steven Van Den Broucke
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:884
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  12. Pseudomonas otitidis belongs to the genus Pseudomonas and causes various infections, including ear, skin, and soft tissue infections. P. otitidis has a unique susceptibility profile, being susceptible to penicil...

    Authors: Takeo Mori, Sadako Yoshizawa, Kageto Yamada, Takahiro Sato, Masakazu Sasaki, Yusuke Nakamura, Ukyo Gen, Hinako Murakami, Katsuhito Kashiwagi, Tadashi Maeda, Taito Miyazaki, Tetsuo Yamaguchi, Yoshihisa Urita, Yoshikazu Ishii and Kazuhiro Tateda
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:883
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  13. To explore the effects of long-term oral ACEIs/ARBs on the incidence of exacerbation and in-hospital mortality in elderly COVID-19 Omicron BA.2 patients with hypertension, especially patients aged 80 years or ...

    Authors: Zhe Zhang, Shengyong Wu, Zhiyong Wang, Yue Wang, Hui Chen, Cheng Wu and Lize Xiong
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:882
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  14. Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide. It is still difficult to distinguish active TB from latent TB,but it i...

    Authors: Lijiao Chen, Lingke Yuan, Tingting Sun, Ruiqing Liu, Qing Huang and Shaoli Deng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:881
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  15. COVID-19 has caused millions of deaths globally, with vulnerable populations such as people experiencing homelessness (PEH) at higher risk. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to identify the prevale...

    Authors: Dung Anh Nguyen, Habib Olatunji Alagbo, Toka Adel Hassan, Leonardo D. Mera-Lojano, Esraa Osama Abdelaziz, Nguyen Pham Nguyen The, Abdelrahman M. Makram, Omar M. Makram, Randa Elsheikh and Nguyen Tien Huy
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:880
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  17. It is unclear whether Saccharomyces boulardii (S. boulardii) supplementation in standard triple therapy (STT) is effective in eradicating Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection in children. We therefore conduc...

    Authors: Lian-Hua Liu, Bin Han, Jing Tao, Kai Zhang, Xi-Ke Wang and Wen-Yu Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:878
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  18. Persistent headache is a frequent symptom after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and there is currently limited knowledge about its clinical spectrum and predisposing factors. A subset of patients may be ex...

    Authors: Fhabián S. Carrión-Nessi, Luis C. Ascanio, Andreína G. Pineda-Arapé, Óscar D. Omaña-Ávila, Daniela L. Mendoza-Millán, Sinibaldo R. Romero, Abranny B. Almao-Rivero, Natasha A. Camejo-Ávila, Karim J. Gebran-Chedid, Carlis M. Rodriguez-Saavedra, Diana C. Freitas-De Nobrega, Sergio A. Castañeda, José L. Forero-Peña, Lourdes A. Delgado-Noguera, Lucianny K. Meneses-Ramírez, Juan C. Cotuá…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:877
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  19. Symptomatic COVID-19 and Long COVID, also referred to as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) or post-COVID conditions, have been widely reported in young, healthy people, but their prevalence has not yet ...

    Authors: Daisy Massey, Sharon Saydah, Blythe Adamson, Andrew Lincoln, Douglas F. Aukerman, Ethan M. Berke, Robby Sikka and Harlan M. Krumholz
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:876
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  20. The Viral hepatitis elimination by 2030 is uncertain in resource-limited settings (RLS), due to high burdens and poor diagnostic coverage. This sounds more challenging for hepatitis C virus (HCV) given that an...

    Authors: Rodrigue Kamga Wouambo, Gaelle Panka Tchinda, Luc Aime Kagoue Simeni, Paule Dana Djouela Djoulako, Clarisse Irene Yateu Wouambo, Ghislaine Flore Tamko Mella, Eric Pascal Tchoumi Leuwat, Djoda Bello and Joseph Fokam
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:875
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  21. The sensitivity of HIV screening assays often leads to a high rate of false-positive results, requiring retests and confirmatory tests. This study aimed to analyze the capability of signal-to-cutoff (S/CO) rat...

    Authors: Yin-Feng Guo, Shui-Di Yan, Jia-Wen Xie, Mao Wang, Yi-Qiang Lin and Li-Rong Lin
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:874
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  22. Interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) is the main tool for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI). However, the indeterminate results were more frequent in children, and the underlying reas...

    Authors: Huiwen Zheng, Jing Xiao, Feina Li, Hao Chen, Deze Li, Yonghong Wang, Yajie Guo, Yuying Chen and Chen Shen
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:873
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  23. The corona virus SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of recent most global pandemic. Its genome encodes various proteins categorized as non-structural, accessory, and structural proteins. The non-structural prot...

    Authors: Rabia Nawaz, Muhammad Ali Arif, Zainab Ahmad, Ammara Ahad, Muhammad Shahid, Zohal Hassan, Ali Husnain, Ali Aslam, Muhammad Saad Raza, Uqba Mehmood and Muhammad Idrees
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:872
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  24. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surges, such as that which occurred when omicron variants emerged, may overwhelm healthcare systems. To function properly, such systems should balance detection and workload...

    Authors: Amelia Nur Vidyanti, Sekar Satiti, Atitya Fithri Khairani, Aditya Rifqi Fauzi, Muhammad Hardhantyo, Herdiantri Sufriyana and Emily Chia-Yu Su
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:871
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  25. Authors: N. Radhakrishnan, M. Liu, B. Idowu, A. Bansari, K. Rathi, S. Magar, L. Mundhra, J. Sarmiento, U. Ghaffar, J. Kattan, R. Jones, J. George, Y. Yang and F. Southwick
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:870
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    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:747

  26. Screening for Tuberculosis (TB) is a critical tactic for minimizing the prevalence of illness within schools. Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy (TPT), in turn, effectively staves off the development of TB from l...

    Authors: Xiaolong Cao, Zexuan Song, Wencong He, Zhen Yang, Qian Sun, Yiting Wang, Ping He, Bing Zhao, Zhiguo Zhang and Yanlin Zhao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:869
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  28. Roseomonas mucosa (R. mucosa) is a pink-pigmented, Gram-negative short rod bacterium. It is isolated from moist environments and skin, resistant to multiple drugs, including broad-spectrum cephalosporins, and a r...

    Authors: Yuki Matsuhisa, Tsuneaki Kenzaka, Hideo Hirose and Tadao Gotoh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:867
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  29. Refugees are at higher risk for hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV), but often face unique healthcare barriers to vaccination, testing, and treatment. This scoping review aimed to identify and characterize...

    Authors: Ankeeta Saseetharran, Lindsey Hiebert, Neil Gupta, Françoise Nyirahabihirwe, Innocent Kamali and John W. Ward
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:866
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  31. Acellular human amniotic fluid (hAF) is an antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory fluid that has been used to treat various pro-inflammatory conditions. In a feasibility study, we have previously demonstrated tha...

    Authors: Joseph E. Tonna, Jan Pierce, Benjamin J. Brintz, Tyler Bardsley, Nathan Hatton, Giavonni Lewis, John D. Phillips, Chloe R. Skidmore and Craig H. Selzman
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:864
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  32. Luteibacter jiangsuensis is a gram-negative aerobic bacillus that was first isolated from soil samples at a pesticide factory in China and reported in 2011. Here, we describe the first case of L. jiangsuensis inf...

    Authors: Takanori Horiguchi, Makoto Sumiyoshi, Eri Nagatomo, Kazuki Sakamoto, Souichiro Ogawa, Naoki Ichinari, Akiteru Yamada, Yuki Rikitake, Chihiro Iwao, Takeshi Kawaguchi, Kunihiko Umekita, Ichiro Takajo, Shojiro Yamamoto and Taiga Miyazaki
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:863
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  33. The characteristics of otological symptoms in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are lacking. Almost no research has been conducted to explore the emergence of...

    Authors: Qiang Wang, Hailing Gu, Yong Tao, Yu Zhao and Zhaoli Meng
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:862
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  34. HIV has become a manageable chronic condition due to the success and scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Globally, South Africa has the highest number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and research evide...

    Authors: Jacob M. Gizamba, Jess Davies, Chad Africa, Candice Choo-Kang, Julia H. Goedecke, Hlengiwe Madlala, Estelle V. Lambert, Dale E. Rae, Landon Myer, Amy Luke and Lara R. Dugas
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:861
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  35. Aberrant Wnt5a expression contributes to immunity, inflammation and tissue damage. However, it remains unknown whether Wnt5a is associated with liver injury in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. We aim...

    Authors: Xiang-Fen Ji, Qi Zhou, Jing-Wei Wang, Fei Sun, Shuai Gao and Kai Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:860
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  36. To examine the clinical characteristics of adult patients with community-acquired spontaneous bacterial meningitis (CASBM) with a fulminant clinical course.

    Authors: Chia-Yi Lien, Chun-Chih Chien, Cheng-Hsien Lu and Wen-Neng Chang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:859
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  37. To ensure emergency infection prevention and control (IPC) can be fully supervised and monitored in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic period, a three-level inspector mechanism called "Internal self-check...

    Authors: Yu Lv, Qian Xiang, Xiaoyan Jiang, Bo Zhang, Jiayu Wu and Hongrong Cao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:858
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  38. Every novel infection requires an assessment of the host response coupled with identification of unique biomarkers for predicting disease pathogenesis, treatment targets and diagnostic utility. Studies have ex...

    Authors: Charles Drago Kato, Julius Nsubuga, Nixon Niyonzima, Annah Kitibwa, Enock Matovu, Emmanuel Othieno, Patrick Ssebugere, Amanda Agnes Tumwine and Monica Namayanja
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:857
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  39. The neurological symptoms caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are of increasing concern. Convulsions are among the main neurological manifestations reported in children with ...

    Authors: Ting Shi, Yuanxi Bian, Jiahui Wu, Xiaohong Li, Jianping Deng, Tao Feng, Linlin Huang, Xiaoxing Kong and Jianmei Tian
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:856
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  40. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, extensive testing was undertaken by independent clinical laboratories (ICLs), yet limited research exists on this matter. Drawing from Green Cross Laboratories (GC Labs)' pandemic r...

    Authors: You La Jeon, Sang Gon Lee, Eun Hee Lee, Sungwook Song, O-Jin Lee, Un Yeong Go, Ga-Young Chun, Hyun Mi Choi and Jin Young Choi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:855
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  41. Herpes zoster (HZ) is the clinical syndrome associated with reactivation of latent varicella-zoster virus (VZV). Several factors have been implicated to promote VZV reactivation; these include immunosuppressio...

    Authors: Christine Miller, Emma Taylor-Salmon, Leonard Emuren, Marie Landry, Anne Gershon and George Miller
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:854
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  42. Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a soluble pattern recognition receptor that plays a crucial role in modulating the inflammatory response and activating the complement system. Additionally, plasma PTX3 has emerged as a p...

    Authors: Ana Clara Cadidé Gonzaga Moraes, Renata Clesia Feitosa Viana da Luz, André Luís Magalhães Fernandes, Milena Xavier Silva Barbosa, Lorena Viana de Andrade, Anderson da Costa Armstrong, Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza and Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:853
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  43. Motor neuron disease (MND) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that leads to progressive loss of motor neurons. Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) is a rare etiology of community-acquired pneumonia characterized ...

    Authors: Huade Luo, Lingling Jiang, Jie Chen, Dongying Wang, Yingying Kong and Guangli Cao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:852
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:452

  44. Opioid use disorder (OUD) has been associated with adverse health outcomes, and its potential impact on COVID-19 outcomes is of significant concern. This study aimed to assess the susceptibility and clinical o...

    Authors: Mojtaba Hedayatyaghoobi, Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha, Arman Shafiee, Kyana Jafarabady, Omid Safari, Amirhesam Alirezaei and Mahmood Bakhtiyari
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:851
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  45. Human mpox has increasingly been reported worldwide since May 2022, with higher incidence in men who have sex with men (MSM) and persons living with HIV (PLHIV) with presentation typical for generalized macule...

    Authors: Syeda Sahra, Raul Orozco Villalobos, Brian M. Scott, Deidra J. Bowman, Joseph Sassine, Michelle Salvaggio, Douglas A. Drevets and Nelson Iván Agudelo Higuita
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:850
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  46. The severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections has led to the development of several therapeutic agents, with tocilizumab becoming increasingly used to treat patients with COVID-19-related pneu...

    Authors: Yukari Uemura, Ryoto Ozaki, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Hiroshi Ohtsu, Yousuke Shimizu, Kazuo Izumi, Sho Saito, Nobuaki Matsunaga and Norio Ohmagari
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:849
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  47. Lymphopenia is defined as a decrease below normal value (often 1.0 x 109 cells/L) of blood circulating lymphocyte count. In the general population, lymphopenia is associated with an increased risk of hospitalisat...

    Authors: ZC Elçioğlu, L Errington, B Metes, W Sendama, J Powell, AJ Simpson, AJ Rostron and TP Hellyer
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:848
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  48. Research has shown that multidimensional approaches to Chagas disease (CD), integrating its biomedical and psycho-socio-cultural components, are successful in enhancing early access to diagnosis, treatment and...

    Authors: Jordi Gómez i Prat, Maria Serrano Gregori, Isabel Claveria Guiu, Estefa Choque, Maria Delmans Flores-Chavez, Israel Molina, Francesc Zarzuela, Elena Sulleiro, Aurore Dehousse, Pedro Albajar-Vinas and Hakima Ouaarab
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:847
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  49. Protection against SARS-CoV-2 is mediated by humoral and T cell responses. Pakistan faced relatively low morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 through the pandemic. To examine the role of prior immunity in the...

    Authors: Kiran Iqbal Masood, Shama Qaiser, Syed Hani Abidi, Erum Khan, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Areeba Hussain, Zara Ghous, Khekahsan Imtiaz, Natasha Ali, Muhammad Hasan, Haris Ali Memon, Maliha Yameen, Shiza Ali, Sadaf Baloch, Gulzar Lakhani, Paula M. Alves…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:846
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  50. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common pathogen associated with acute lower respiratory tract infections in infants and young children worldwide. RSV commonly presents as bronchiolitis in young c...

    Authors: Yingkang Jin, Dongwei Zhang, Kuimiao Deng, Peiqiong Wu, Diyuan Yang, Zhiwei Xie, Wenjun Qiu and Guangyuan Yu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:845
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