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  1. The purpose of this study is to analyze the influencing factors associated with Long-COVID in patients infected with Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Changchun City, Jilin Province, China three months after disc...

    Authors: Hang Shang, Tianying Chang, Wei Yang, Li Shi, Shaodan Hu, Lin Tian, Jixiang Ren, Tan Wang, Jian Wang, Jiajuan Guo and Yingzi Cui
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:36
  2. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by an excessive inflammatory response to an infection, associated with high mortality. However, the regulatory mechanism of sepsis remains unclear.

    Authors: Pingping Liang, Yongjian Wu, Siying Qu, Muhammad Younis, Wei Wang, Zhilong Wu and Xi Huang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:32
  3. It is estimated that more than 4% of the causes of inpatient deaths in 2017 were due to diarrheal diseases. The current study is aimed to provide pooled prevalence of microorganisms causing diarrhea among Suda...

    Authors: MM Badawi, MA SalahEldin, AB Idris, EB Idris and SG Mohamed
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:30
  4. There is no systematic review on the prevalence of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in Iran. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of HIVDR among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Iran. We assessed HIVDR prevalence i...

    Authors: Hossein Mirzaei, Sana Eybpoosh, Fatemeh Mehrabi, Mohammad Reza Shojaei, Ali Mirzazadeh, Mehrdad Khezri, Naser Nasiri and Hamid Sharifi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:29
  5. Dengue fever (DF) is a significant public health concern in Burkina Faso, particularly in the Central Region, previously endemic for malaria. However, limited research has focused on dengue prevalence and asso...

    Authors: Jean Claude Romaric Pingdwindé Ouédraogo, Sylvain Ilboudo, Tegwindé Rebeca Compaoré, Prosper Bado, Mathieu Nitiéma, Wendlasida Thomas Ouédraogo, Salfo Ouédraogo, Mohamadi Zeba, Alix Tougma, Geoffroy Gueswindé Ouédraogo, Noufou Ouédraogo, Sylvin Ouédraogo and Léon Gueswendé Blaise Savadogo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:22
  6. An assessment of the factors that interfere with serum levels and the persistence of anti-SARs-CoV-2 IgG antibodies is essential in order to estimate the risk of reinfection and to plan vaccination. We analyze...

    Authors: Marta Iglis de Oliveira, Melayne Rocha Aciole, Patrícia Areias Feitosa Neves, Vitor Palmares Oliveira e Silva, Marcelo Palmares Oliveira e Silva, Virginia Maria Barros de Lorena and Paulo Sérgio Ramos de Araújo
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:17
  7. Considering the rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak, WHO has declared a global health emergency. Still in the category of being endemic, the monkeypox disease shares numerous clinical characters with smallpox...

    Authors: Tahir Munir, Maaz Khan, Salman Arif Cheema, Fiza Khan, Ayesha Usmani and Mohsin Nazir
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:16
  8. Viral hepatitis is a significant health concern among indigenous population in the Americas. In Brazil, reports find high endemicity of HBV and HDV infections has been reported in several indigenous groups. Ho...

    Authors: Mariana Pinheiro Alves Vasconcelos, Juan Camilo Sánchez-Arcila, Luciana Peres, Paulo Sérgio Fonseca de Sousa, Júlio Castro-Alves, Hermano Gomes Albuquerque, Maria Cássia Mendes-Correa, Marilza Maia-Herzog, Lia Laura Lewis-Ximenez, Lívia Melo Villar and Joseli Oliveira-Ferreira
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:15
  9. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of vancomycin is widely recommended for clinical treatment. Due to the complexity of 24-h area under the curve (AUC) guided vancomycin monitoring in clinical practice, the van...

    Authors: Xiaowu Zhang, Yulin Wu and Donghao Wang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:10
  10. Low-level viremia (LLV) has been identified as a potential precursor to virologic failure (VF), yet its clinical implications, particularly within the context of Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors (INSTIs)-b...

    Authors: Xiaojie Lao, Hanxi Zhang, Meiju Deng, Qun Li, Qing Xiao, Lin He, Liying Ma, Aqian Song, Xuelei Liang, Fengting Yu, Hongxin Zhao and Fujie Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:8
  11. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) drug prophylaxis, including post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), has not yet been generally recognized and accepted by the whole society in Ch...

    Authors: Jingkun Hu, Wenting Kang, Jiahuan Guo, Jie Xu, Fan Lyu and Guang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:4
  12. Remdesivir (RDV) is an antiviral agent approved for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, is not recommended for patients with renal impairment. Due to limitations associated with pros...

    Authors: Eunmi Yang, Han Zo Choi, Subin Kim, Dong Hyun Oh, Mi Young Ahn, Sinyoung Ham, Eunyoung Lee, Jaehyun Jeon, Min-Kyung Kim, Hee-Chang Jang, Sang-Won Park and Jae-Phil Choi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:3
  13. As the population acquires immunity through vaccination and natural infection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), understanding the intrinsic severity of coronavirus disease (COVID...

    Authors: Boyeong Ryu, Eunjeong Shin, Dong Hwi Kim, HyunJu Lee, So Young Choi, Seong-Sun Kim, Il-Hwan Kim, Eun-Jin Kim, Sangwon Lee, Jaehyun Jeon, Donghyok Kwon and Sungil Cho
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2024 24:1
  14. Coxiella burnetii, an intracellular pathogen, serves as the causative agent of zoonotic Q fever. This pathogen presents a significant threat due to its potential for airborne transmission, environmental persisten...

    Authors: Mansoor Kodori, Jafar Amani and Ali Ahmadi
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:902
  15. The differential diagnosis between tuberculous meningitis (TBM) and viral meningitis (VM) or bacterial meningitis (BM) remains challenging in clinical practice, particularly in resource-limited settings. This ...

    Authors: Qiang Liu, Meiling Cao, Na Shao, Yixin Qin, Lu Liu, Qing Zhang and Xiao Yang
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:901
  16. There is evidence that during the COVID pandemic, a number of patient and HCW infections were nosocomial. Various measures were put in place to try to reduce these infections including developing asymptomatic ...

    Authors: Bethany Heath, Stephanie Evans, David S. Robertson, Julie V. Robotham, Sofía S. Villar and Anne M. Presanis
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:900
  17. Klebsiella pneumoniae is a pathogen that often infects patients in clinical practice. Due to its high virulent and drug resistance, infected patients are difficult to treat. In clinical practice, Klebsiella pn...

    Authors: Xu Wang, Ting Li, Lu Zhou, Fan Tu, Xiaohong Rui, Ze Xu, Jun Liu and Futao Cao
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:899
  18. Authors: Anna S. Gladkikh, Thang M. Cao, Ekaterina O. Klyuchnikova, Manh H. Dao, Alena A. Sharova, Vasilina D. Melnichenko, Margarita R. Popova, Tatiana V. Arbuzova, Valeriya A. Sbarzaglia, Nadezhda A. Tsyganova, Edward Ramsay and Vladimir G. Dedkov
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:898

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:806

  19. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that can spread very rapidly with important public health impacts. The prediction of the important factors related to the patient's infectious diseases i...

    Authors: Amin Mansoori, Nafiseh Hosseini, Hamideh Ghazizadeh, Malihe Aghasizadeh, Susan Drroudi, Toktam Sahranavard, Hanie Salmani Izadi, Amirhossein Amiriani, Ehsan Mosa Farkhani, Gordon A. Ferns, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan, Mohsen Moohebati and Habibollah Esmaily
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:897
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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

    The original article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases 2023 23:747

  43. 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
  44. 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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