Ausgabe 1/2007
Inhalt (148 Artikel)
Erratum To: The burden of diarrhoea, shigellosis, and cholera in North Jakarta, Indonesia: findings from 24 months surveillance
Magdarina D Agtini, Rooswanti Soeharno, Murad Lesmana, Narain H Punjabi, Cyrus Simanjuntak, Ferry Wangsasaputra, Dazwir Nurdin, Sri Pandam Pulungsih, Ainur Rofiq, Hari Santoso, H Pujarwoto, Agus Sjahrurachman, Pratiwi Sudarmono, Lorenz von Seidlein, Jacqueline L Deen, Mohammad Ali, Hyejon Lee, Deok Ryun Kim, Oakpil Han, Jin Kyung Park, Agus Suwandono, Ingerani, Buhari A Oyofo, James R Campbell, H James Beecham, Andrew L Corwin, John D Clemens
Bacteraemia in patients admitted to an urban hospital in West Africa
Philip C Hill, Charles O Onyeama, Usman NA Ikumapayi, Ousman Secka, Samuel Ameyaw, Naomi Simmonds, Simon A Donkor, Stephen R Howie, Mary Tapgun, Tumani Corrah, Richard A Adegbola
Treating cutaneous leishmaniasis patients in Kabul, Afghanistan: cost-effectiveness of an operational program in a complex emergency setting
Richard Reithinger, Paul G Coleman
Corynebacteriumendocarditis species-specific risk factors and outcomes
Jaime Belmares, Stephanie Detterline, Janet B Pak, Jorge P Parada
Suitability of vaccinia virus and bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) for determining activities of three commonly-used alcohol-based hand rubs against enveloped viruses
Günter Kampf, Jochen Steinmann, Holger Rabenau
Epidemiology and clinical findings associated with enteroviral acute flaccid paralysis in Pakistan
Mohsan Saeed, Sohail Z Zaidi, Asif Naeem, Muhammad Masroor, Salmaan Sharif, Shahzad Shaukat, Mehar Angez, Anis Khan
Resistance of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis and Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensisto nitric oxide correlates with disease severity in Tegumentary Leishmaniasis
Angela Giudice, Ilza Camada, Paulo TG Leopoldo, Júlia MB Pereira, Lee W Riley, Mary E Wilson, John L Ho, Amelia Ribeiro de Jesus, Edgar M Carvalho, Roque P Almeida
Adult systemic cat scratch disease associated with therapy for hepatitis C
Zahida Bhatti, Charles S Berenson
Mycobacterium avium-intracellularecellulitis occurring with septic arthritis after joint injection: a case report
David M Murdoch, Jay R McDonald
Diagnostic and prognostic accuracy of clinical and laboratory parameters in community-acquired pneumonia
Beat Müller, Stephan Harbarth, Daiana Stolz, Roland Bingisser, Christian Mueller, Jörg Leuppi, Charly Nusbaumer, Michael Tamm, Mirjam Christ-Crain
Erratum To: Use of "biokitHSV-2 Rapid Assay" to improve the positive predictive value of Focus HerpeSelect HSV-2 ELISA
Rhoda Ashley Morrow, David Friedrich, Amalia Meier, Lawrence Corey
Purulent pericarditis due to co-infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae and Mycobacterium tuberculosisin a patient with features of advanced HIV infection
Andrew Louw, Mohammed Tikly
Obesity and smoking are factors associated with poor prognosis in patients with bacteraemia
Reetta Huttunen, Janne Laine, Jukka Lumio, Risto Vuento, Jaana Syrjänen
Plasma nevirapine levels, adverse events and efficacy of antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected patients concurrently receiving nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy and fluconazole
Weerawat Manosuthi, Chatiya Athichathanabadi, Sumonmal Uttayamakul, Thanongsri Phoorisri, Somnuek Sungkanuparph
The cause of urinary symptoms among Human T Lymphotropic Virus Type I (HLTV-I) infected patients: a cross sectional study
Paulo N Rocha, Ana Paula Rehem, Juliana F Santana, Neviton Castro, Andre L Muniz, Katia Salgado, Heonir Rocha, Edgar M Carvalho
Modelling the public health impact of male circumcision for HIV prevention in high prevalence areas in Africa
Nico JD Nagelkerke, Stephen Moses, Sake J de Vlas, Robert C Bailey
The influenza pandemic preparedness planning tool InfluSim
Martin Eichner, Markus Schwehm, Hans-Peter Duerr, Stefan O Brockmann
Anticipated and current preventive behaviors in response to an anticipated human-to-human H5N1 epidemic in the Hong Kong Chinese general population
Joseph TF Lau, Jean H Kim, Hi Yi Tsui, Sian Griffiths
Sex- and age-dependent association of SLC11A1polymorphisms with tuberculosis in Chinese: a case control study
Kim Hung Leung, Shea Ping Yip, Wa Sang Wong, Lap San Yiu, Kam Keung Chan, Wai Man Lai, Eudora YD Chow, Che Kit Lin, Wing Cheong Yam, Kin Sang Chan
Regional-scale climate-variability synchrony of cholera epidemics in West Africa
Guillaume Constantin de Magny, Jean-François Guégan, Michel Petit, Bernard Cazelles
Empirical use of antibiotics and adjustment of empirical antibiotic therapies in a university hospital: a prospective observational study
Julian Mettler, Mathew Simcock, Pedram Sendi, Andreas F Widmer, Roland Bingisser, Manuel Battegay, Ursula Fluckiger, Stefano Bassetti
Dengue disease severity in Indonesian children: an evaluation of the World Health Organization classification system
Tatty E Setiati, Albert TA Mairuhu, Penelopie Koraka, Mohamed Supriatna, Melvin R Mac Gillavry, Dees PM Brandjes, Albert DME Osterhaus, Jos WM van der Meer, Eric CM van Gorp, Augustinus Soemantri
Muscular cystic hydatidosis: case report
Sonia Vicidomini, Gabriella Cancrini, Simona Gabrielli, Riccardo Naspetti, Alessandro Bartoloni
Does vancomycin prescribing intervention affect vancomycin-resistant enterococcus infection and colonization in hospitals? A systematic review
Monique A de Bruin, Lee W Riley
Adjuvant TACE inhibitor treatment improves the outcome of TLR2-/-mice with experimental pneumococcal meningitis
Hakim Echchannaoui, Stephen L Leib, Ulf Neumann, Regine MA Landmann
Geographic prediction of tuberculosis clusters in Fukuoka, Japan, using the space-time scan statistic
Daisuke Onozuka, Akihito Hagihara
Chlamydia and gonorrhoea in pregnant Batswana women: time to discard the syndromic approach?
Maria Romoren, Johanne Sundby, Manonmany Velauthapillai, Mafizur Rahman, Elise Klouman, Per Hjortdahl
Safety and efficacy of a caspofungin-based combination therapy for treatment of proven or probable aspergillosis in pediatric hematological patients
Simone Cesaro, Mareva Giacchino, Franco Locatelli, Monica Spiller, Barbara Buldini, Claudia Castellini, Desireè Caselli, Eugenia Giraldi, Fabio Tucci, Gloria Tridello, Mario Renato Rossi, Elio Castagnola
Daptomycin antimicrobial activity tested against methicillin-resistant staphylococci and vancomycin-resistant enterococci isolated in European medical centers (2005)
Helio S Sader, Amy A Watters, Thomas R Fritsche, Ronald N Jones
From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselaeinfection
Frédérique Gouriet, Hubert Lepidi, Gilbert Habib, Frédéric Collart, Didier Raoult
Trends of Hepatitis A hospitalization and risk factors in Quebec, Canada, between 1990 and 2003
Magalie Canuel, Gaston De Serres, Bernard Duval, Rodica Gilca, Philippe De Wals, Vladimir Gilca
epiPATH: an information system for the storage and management of molecular epidemiology data from infectious pathogens
Alicia Amadoz, Fernando González-Candelas
IFNG +874T/A polymorphism is not associated with American tegumentary leishmaniasis susceptibility but can influence Leishmaniainduced IFN-γ production
Guilherme Inocêncio Matos, Claudia de J Fernandes Covas, Rita de Cássia Bittar, Adriano Gomes-Silva, Fabiana Marques, Viviane C Maniero, Valdir S Amato, Manoel P Oliveira-Neto, Marise da Silva Mattos, Claude Pirmez, Elizabeth P Sampaio, Milton O Moraes, Alda Maria Da-Cruz
Failure of recombinant factor VIIa in a patient with severe polymicrobial sepsis and postoperative uncontrolled intraabdominal bleeding
Anna Conen, Maja Weisser, Dimitrios A Tsakiris, Martin Siegemund
Risk factors for acute respiratory tract infections in general practitioner patients in The Netherlands: a case-control study
Arianne B van Gageldonk-Lafeber, Marianne AB van der Sande, Marie-Louise A Heijnen, Marcel F Peeters, Aad IM Bartelds, Berry Wilbrink
Role of previous hospitalization in clinically-significant MRSA infection among HIV-infected inpatients: results of a case-control study
Cecilia MJ Drapeau, Claudio Angeletti, Anna Festa, Nicola Petrosillo
Interpreting cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis in HIV in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy
Christina M Marra, Clare L Maxwell, Ann C Collier, Kevin R Robertson, Allison Imrie
Do antibiotic-impregnated shunts in hydrocephalus therapy reduce the risk of infection? An observational study in 258 patients
Rainer Ritz, Florian Roser, Matthias Morgalla, Klaus Dietz, Marcos Tatagiba, Bernd E Will
Low CD4 count plus coma predicts cryptococcal meningitis in Tanzania
Peter R Kisenge, Alexander T Hawkins, Venance P Maro, John PD Mchele, Ndealilia S Swai, Andreas Mueller, Eric R Houpt
Resolution of disseminated fusariosis in a child with acute leukemia treated with combined antifungal therapy: a case report
José-Manuel Vagace, Cesar Sanz-Rodriguez, Maria-Soledad Casado, Nieves Alonso, Manuel Garcia-Dominguez, Francisco Garcia de la Llana, Luis Zarallo, Miguel Fajardo, Roberto Bajo
Plasma levels of soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) and early mortality risk among patients enrolling for antiretroviral treatment in South Africa
Stephen D Lawn, Landon Myer, Nonzwakazi Bangani, Monica Vogt, Robin Wood
Hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile-associateddisease in the intensive care unit setting: epidemiology, clinical course and outcome
Alexandre R Marra, Michael B Edmond, Richard P Wenzel, Gonzalo ML Bearman
Antimicrobial resistance predicts death in Tanzanian children with bloodstream infections: a prospective cohort study
Bjørn Blomberg, Karim P Manji, Willy K Urassa, Bushir S Tamim, Davis SM Mwakagile, Roland Jureen, Viola Msangi, Marit G Tellevik, Mona Holberg-Petersen, Stig Harthug, Samwel Y Maselle, Nina Langeland
Pediatric malignancies presenting as a possible infectious disease
Sarah E Forgie, Joan L Robinson
Hygienic safety of reusable tap water filters (Germlyser®) with an operating time of 4 or 8 weeks in a haematological oncology transplantation unit
Georg Daeschlein, William H Krüger, Christian Selepko, Markus Rochow, Gottfried Dölken, Axel Kramer
Absidia Corymbiferain an immune competent accident victim with multiple abdominal injuries: case report
Rita Belfiori, Adelmo Terenzi, Laura Marchesini, Antonella Repetto
Concurrent acute illness and comorbid conditions poorly predict antibiotic use in upper respiratory tract infections: a cross-sectional analysis
Ilene H Zuckerman, Eli N Perencevich, Anthony D Harris
Higher incidence of persistent chronic infection of Chlamydia pneumoniae among coronary artery disease patients in India is a cause of concern
Hem C Jha, Harsh Vardhan, Rishein Gupta, Rakesh Varma, Jagdish Prasad, Aruna Mittal
Sensitivity and specificity of monoclonal and polyclonal immunohistochemical staining for West Nile virus in various organs from American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
Rebecca C Smedley, Jon S Patterson, RoseAnn Miller, Jeffrey P Massey, Annabel G Wise, Roger K Maes, Ping Wu, John B Kaneene, Matti Kiupel
The association of RANTES polymorphism with severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong and Beijing Chinese
Man Wai Ng, Gangqiao Zhou, Wai Po Chong, Loretta Wing Yan Lee, Helen Ka Wai Law, Hongxing Zhang, Wilfred Hing Sang Wong, Susanna Fung Shan Fok, Yun Zhai, Raymond WH Yung, Eudora Y Chow, Ka Leung Au, Eric YT Chan, Wilina Lim, JS Malik Peiris, Fuchu He, Yu Lung Lau
Nasal carriage of a single clone of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among kindergarten attendees in northern Taiwan
Wen-Tsung Lo, Wei-Jen Lin, Min-Hua Tseng, Jang-Jih Lu, Shih-Yi Lee, Mong-Ling Chu, Chih-Chien Wang
Prevalence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci colonization and its risk factors in chronic hemodialysis patients in Shiraz, Iran
Ojan Assadian, Mehrdad Askarian, Maria Stadler, Soheila Shaghaghian
Sensitivity and specificity of single IgA and IgG antibody concentrations for early diagnosis of pertussis in adults: an evaluation for outbreak management in public health practice
Paul LJM Mertens, Frans S Stals, Ewout W Steyerberg, Jan H Richardus
Imported Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever cases in Istanbul
Kenan Midilli, Ayşen Gargılı, Onder Ergonul, Gönül Şengöz, Recep Ozturk, Mehmet Bakar, Frans Jongejan
Predictive factors of virological success to salvage regimens containing protease inhibitors in HIV-1 infected children
Beatriz Larru, Carmen de Mendoza, José Ma Bellón, Ma Isabel de José, Ma José Mellado, Vincent Soriano, Ma Angeles Muñoz-Fernandez, José T Ramos
Streptobacillus moniliformis septic arthritis: a clinical entity distinct from rat-bite fever?
Teresa KF Wang, Samson SY Wong
Innate immunity glycoprotein gp-340 variants may modulate human susceptibility to dental caries
Anette Jonasson, Christer Eriksson, Howard F Jenkinson, Carina Källestål, Ingegerd Johansson, Nicklas Strömberg
Localized primary renal aspergillosis in a diabetic patient following lithotripsy – a case report
Jalaluddin A Haq, Mohammad AM Khan, Nazma Afroze, Tahniyah Haq
Varicella and Herpes Zoster in Madrid, based on the Sentinel General Practitioner Network: 1997–2004
Napoleón Pérez-Farinós, María Ordobás, Cristina García-Fernández, Luis García-Comas, Soledad Cañellas, Inmaculada Rodero, Ángeles Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Juan García-Gutiérrez, Rosa Ramírez
Characteristics and management of HIV-1-infected pregnant women enrolled in a randomised trial: differences between Europe and the USA
Marie-Louise Newell, Sharon Huang, Simona Fiore, Claire Thorne, Laurent Mandelbrot, John L Sullivan, Robert Maupin, Isaac Delke, D Heather Watts, Richard D Gelber, Coleen K Cunningham
Reduction of Clostridium Difficile and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus contamination of environmental surfaces after an intervention to improve cleaning methods
Brittany C Eckstein, Daniel A Adams, Elizabeth C Eckstein, Agam Rao, Ajay K Sethi, Gopala K Yadavalli, Curtis J Donskey
Genetic relatedness among isolates of Shigella sonnei carrying class 2 integrons in Tehran, Iran, 2002–2003
Reza Ranjbar, Aurora Aleo, Giovanni M Giammanco, Anna Maria Dionisi, Nourkhoda Sadeghifard, Caterina Mammina
Higher pre-infection vitamin E levels are associated with higher mortality in HIV-1-infected Kenyan women: a prospective study
Susan M Graham, Jared M Baeten, Barbra A Richardson, Daniel D Bankson, Ludo Lavreys, Jeckoniah O Ndinya-Achola, Kishorchandra Mandaliya, Julie Overbaugh, R Scott McClelland
Serology based disease status of Pakistani population infected with Hepatitis B virus
Muhammad Masroor Alam, Soahil Zahoor Zaidi, Salman Akbar Malik, Asif Naeem, Shahzad Shaukat, Salmaan Sharif, Mehar Angez, Anis Khan, Javed Aslam Butt
Oral infection of mice with Salmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium causes meningitis and infection of the brain
Mark E Wickham, Nat F Brown, John Provias, B Brett Finlay, Brian K Coombes
PCR reveals significantly higher rates of Trypanosoma cruzi infection than microscopy in the Chagas vector, Triatoma infestans: High rates found in Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Juan Carlos Pizarro, David E Lucero, Lori Stevens
Age-adjusted Plasmodium falciparum antibody levels in school-aged children are a stable marker of microgeographical variations in exposure to Plasmodiuminfection
Shona Wilson, Mark Booth, Frances M Jones, Joseph K Mwatha, Gachuhi Kimani, H Curtis Kariuki, Birgitte J Vennervald, John H Ouma, Eric Muchiri, David W Dunne
Using BOX-PCR to exclude a clonal outbreak of melioidosis
Bart J Currie, Daniel Gal, Mark Mayo, Linda Ward, Daniel Godoy, Brian G Spratt, John J LiPuma
Accuracies of Leuconostocphenotypic identification: a comparison of API systems and conventional phenotypic assays
Wanla Kulwichit, Sumanee Nilgate, Tanittha Chatsuwan, Sunisa Krajiw, Chudaachhara Unhasuta, Anan Chongthaleong
Antifungal prophylaxis in chemotherapy-associated neutropenia: a retrospective, observational study
Amy Riedel, Lan Choe, John Inciardi, Courtney Yuen, Thomas Martin, B Joseph Guglielmo
Incidence of cytomegalovirus infection among the general population and pregnant women in the United States
Fernando AB Colugnati, Stephanie AS Staras, Sheila C Dollard, Michael J Cannon
First international diagnostic accuracy study for the serological detection of West Nile virus infection
Matthias Niedrig, Oliver Donoso Mantke, Doris Altmann, Hervé Zeller
Declining hepatitis A seroprevalence in adults in Catalonia (Spain): a population-based study
Àngela Domínguez, Miquel Bruguera, Pere Plans, Jordi Espuñes, Josep Costa, Antoni Plasencia, Lluis Salleras
Diagnosis of tuberculosis in an Indian population by an indirect ELISA protocol based on detection of Antigen 85 complex: a prospective cohort study
Rajpal S Kashyap, Anju N Rajan, Sonali S Ramteke, Vijay S Agrawal, Sanjivani S Kelkar, Hemant J Purohit, Girdhar M Taori, Hatim F Daginawala
Seroepidemiology of infection with Toxoplasma gondii in healthy blood donors of Durango, Mexico
Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel, Miguel Francisco Mercado-Suarez, Alfredo Rodríguez-Briones, Laura Fallad-Torres, Julio Octavio Ayala-Ayala, Luis Jorge Nevarez-Piedra, Ehecatl Duran-Morales, Sergio Estrada-Martínez, Oliver Liesenfeld, José Ángel Márquez-Conde, Sergio Arturo Martínez-García
Influenza pandemic intervention planning using InfluSim: pharmaceutical and non- pharmaceutical interventions
Hans P Duerr, Stefan O Brockmann, Isolde Piechotowski, Markus Schwehm, Martin Eichner
The distribution of sexually-transmitted Human Papillomaviruses in HIV positive and negative patients in Zambia, Africa
Christopher Ng'andwe, John J Lowe, Paula J Richards, Lara Hause, Charles Wood, Peter C Angeletti
Short-term and one-year outcome of infective endocarditis in adult patients treated in a Finnish teaching hospital during 1980–2004
Maija Heiro, Hans Helenius, Saija Hurme, Timo Savunen, Erik Engblom, Jukka Nikoskelainen, Pirkko Kotilainen
Comparative antimicrobial susceptibility of aerobic and facultative bacteria from community-acquired bacteremia to ertapenem in Taiwan
Sai-Cheong Lee, Shie-Shian Huang, Chao-Wei Lee, Chang-Phone Fung, Ning Lee, Wen-Bin Shieh, LK Siu
Meningococcal, influenza virus, and hepatitis B virus vaccination coverage level among health care workers in Hajj
Tariq A Madani, Tawfik M Ghabrah
Poor knowledge – predictor of nonadherence to universal precautions for blood borne pathogens at first level care facilities in Pakistan
Naveed Z Janjua, Mahreen Razaq, Subhash Chandir, Shafquat Rozi, Bushra Mahmood
Knowledge and attitudes of parents and professionals to neonatal BCG vaccination in light of recent UK policy changes: A questionnaire study
Morris Gordon, Hannah Roberts, Egware Odeka
T-cell and serological responses to Erp, an exported Mycobacterium tuberculosisprotein, in tuberculosis patients and healthy individuals
Valérie Martinez, Guislaine Carcelain, Edgar Badell, Marc Jouan, Isabelle Mauger, Pierre Sellier, Chantal Truffot, François Bricaire, Sandra M Arend, Tom Ottenhoff, Brigitte Autran, Brigitte Gicquel
Identification of gene targets against dormant phase Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections
Dennis J Murphy, James R Brown
Longitudinal monitoring of Ehrlichia ruminantium infection in Gambian lambs and kids by pCS20 PCR and MAP1-B ELISA
Bonto Faburay, Dirk Geysen, Susanne Munstermann, Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Frans Jongejan
Combined use of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism and IS6110 -RFLP in fingerprinting clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Kerala, South India
Manju Y Krishnan, Indulakshmi Radhakrishnan, Biljo V Joseph, Madhavi Latha GK, Ajay Kumar R, Sathish Mundayoor
Treatment of two postoperative endophthalmitis cases due to Aspergillus flavus and Scopulariopsis spp. with local and systemic antifungal therapy
Sayime Aydin, Bulent Ertugrul, Berna Gultekin, Guliz Uyar, Erkin Kir
Analysis of vancomycin use and associated risk factors in a university teaching hospital: a prospective cohort study
Moacyr S Junior, Luci Correa, Alexandre R Marra, Luis FA Camargo, Carlos AP Pereira
U.S. medical resident familiarity with national tuberculosis guidelines
Petros C Karakousis, Frangiscos G Sifakis, Ruben Montes de Oca, Valerianna C Amorosa, Kathleen R Page, Yukari C Manabe, James D Campbell
Analysis of multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms closely positioned in the ovine PRNPgene using linear fluorescent probes and melting curve analysis
David J French, Dominic Jones, David G McDowell, Jim A Thomson, Paul G Debenham
A rationale for continuing mass antibiotic distributions for trachoma
Kathryn J Ray, Travis C Porco, Kevin C Hong, David C Lee, Wondu Alemayehu, Muluken Melese, Takele Lakew, Elizabeth Yi, Jenafir House, Jaya D Chidambaram, John P Whitcher, Bruce D Gaynor, Thomas M Lietman
Identification of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli isolated from infants and children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Sabrina J Moyo, Samwel Y Maselle, Mecky I Matee, Nina Langeland, Haima Mylvaganam
Restaurant outbreak of Legionnaires' disease associated with a decorative fountain: an environmental and case-control study
Rosalyn E O'Loughlin, Lon Kightlinger, Matthew C Werpy, Ellen Brown, Valerie Stevens, Clark Hepper, Tim Keane, Robert F Benson, Barry S Fields, Matthew R Moore
Nationwide trends in molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Finland, 1997–2004
Anne-Marie Kerttula, Outi Lyytikäinen, Minna Kardén-Lilja, Salha Ibrahem, Saara Salmenlinna, Anni Virolainen, Jaana Vuopio-Varkila
Multi-drug resistant A cinetobacterinfections in critically injured Canadian forces soldiers
Homer C Tien, Anthony Battad, Elizabeth A Bryce, Jeffrey Fuller, Michael Mulvey, Kathy Bernard, Ronald Brisebois, Jay J Doucet, Sandro B Rizoli, Robert Fowler, Andrew Simor
The pathogen recognition sensor, NOD2, is variably expressed in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis
Sanjay Lala, Keertan Dheda, Jung-Su Chang, Jim F Huggett, Louise U Kim, Margaret A Johnson, Graham AW Rook, Satish Keshav, Alimuddin Zumla
A cluster of Candida kruseiinfections in a haematological unit
Timo Hautala, Irma Ikäheimo, Heidi Husu, Marjaana Säily, Timo Siitonen, Pirjo Koistinen, Jaana Vuopio-Varkila, Markku Koskela, Pekka Kujala
Association of Escherichia coli O157:H7 tirpolymorphisms with human infection
James L Bono, James E Keen, Michael L Clawson, Lisa M Durso, Michael P Heaton, William W Laegreid
Utility of interferon-γ ELISPOT assay responses in highly tuberculosis-exposed patients with advanced HIV infection in South Africa
Stephen D Lawn, Nonzwakazi Bangani, Monica Vogt, Linda-Gail Bekker, Motasim Badri, Marjorie Ntobongwana, Hazel M Dockrell, Robert J Wilkinson, Robin Wood
Socio-demographic determinants of coinfections by HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses in central Italian prisoners
Giuseppe La Torre, Luca Miele, Giacomina Chiaradia, Alice Mannocci, Manuela Reali, Giovanni Gasbarrini, Elisabetta De Vito, Antonio Grieco, Walter Ricciardi
Meningitis registry of hospitalized cases in children: epidemiological patterns of acute bacterial meningitis throughout a 32-year period
Maria N Theodoridou, Vasiliki A Vasilopoulou, Erato E Atsali, Anastasia M Pangalis, Glyceria J Mostrou, Vassiliki P Syriopoulou, Christos S Hadjichristodoulou
The prevalance, epidemiology and risk factors for onychomycosis in hemodialysis patients
Güven Kuvandik, Meryem Çetin, Gultekin Genctoy, Mehmet Horoz, Mehmet Duru, Cenk Akcali, Salim Satar, Ahmet A Kiykim, Hasan Kaya
Comparative evaluation of (1, 3)-β-D-glucan, mannan and anti-mannan antibodies, and Candidaspecies-specific snPCR in patients with candidemia
Fasahat F Alam, Abu S Mustafa, Zia U Khan
Acute childhood diarrhoea in northern Ghana: epidemiological, clinical and microbiological characteristics
Klaus Reither, Ralf Ignatius, Thomas Weitzel, Andrew Seidu-Korkor, Louis Anyidoho, Eiman Saad, Andrea Djie-Maletz, Peter Ziniel, Felicia Amoo-Sakyi, Francis Danikuu, Stephen Danour, Rowland N Otchwemah, Eckart Schreier, Ulrich Bienzle, Klaus Stark, Frank P Mockenhaupt
Staphylococcus aureus intestinal colonization is associated with increased frequency of S. aureuson skin of hospitalized patients
Anita Bhalla, David C Aron, Curtis J Donskey
Dynamics of C-reactive protein and white blood cell count in critically ill patients with nosocomial Gram positive vs. Gram negative bacteremia: a historical cohort study
Dominique M Vandijck, Eric A Hoste, Stijn I Blot, Pieter O Depuydt, Renaat A Peleman, Johan M Decruyenaere
Enterococcal colonization of infants in a neonatal intensive care unit: associated predictors, risk factors and seasonal patterns
Markus Hufnagel, Cathrin Liese, Claudia Loescher, Mirjam Kunze, Heinrich Proempeler, Reinhard Berner, Marcus Krueger
Common TNF-α, IL-1β, PAI-1, uPA, CD14 and TLR4 polymorphisms are not associated with disease severity or outcome from Gram negative sepsis
Kristine Marie Jessen, Sarah Bjerre Lindboe, Anncatrine Luisa Petersen, Jesper Eugen-Olsen, Thomas Benfield
Low tuberculosis notification in mountainous Vietnam is not due to low case detection: a cross-sectional survey
M Vree, NB Hoa, DN Sy, NV Co, FGJ Cobelens, MW Borgdorff
Sp110 transcription is induced and required by Anaplasma phagocytophilumfor infection of human promyelocytic cells
José de la Fuente, Raúl Manzano-Roman, Edmour F Blouin, Victoria Naranjo, Katherine M Kocan
In vitro evaluation of antibiotics' combinations for empirical therapy of suspected methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureussevere respiratory infections
Lorenzo Drago, Elena De Vecchi, Lucia Nicola, Maria Rita Gismondo
Superficial and deep sternal wound infection after more than 9000 coronary artery bypass graft (CABG): incidence, risk factors and mortality
Abbas Salehi Omran, Abbasali Karimi, S Hossein Ahmadi, Setareh Davoodi, Mehrab Marzban, Namvar Movahedi, Kyomars Abbasi, Mohammad Ali Boroumand, Saeed Davoodi, Naghmeh Moshtaghi
Predictors of incident herpes simplex virus type 2 infections in young women at risk for unintended pregnancy in San Francisco
Nicholas J Moss, Cynthia C Harper, Katherine Ahrens, Katherine Scott, Susan Kao, Nancy Padian, Tina Raine, Jeffrey D Klausner
Longer pregnancy and slower fetal development in women with latent "asymptomatic" toxoplasmosis
Šárka Kaňková, Jaroslav Flegr
Molecular epidemiology of Hepatitis B virus genotypes in Pakistan
Muhammad Masroor Alam, Sohail Zahoor Zaidi, Salman Akbar Malik, Shahzad Shaukat, Asif Naeem, Salmaan Sharif, Mehar Angez, Javed Aslam Butt
Rapid diagnosis of experimental meningitis by bacterial heat production in cerebrospinal fluid
Andrej Trampuz, Andrea Steinhuber, Matthias Wittwer, Stephen L Leib
Quantity of ethanol absorption after excessive hand disinfection using three commercially available hand rubs is minimal and below toxic levels for humans
Axel Kramer, Harald Below, Nora Bieber, Guenter Kampf, Cyril D Toma, Nils-Olaf Huebner, Ojan Assadian
Vaccination with hemagglutinin or neuraminidase DNA protects BALB/c mice against influenza virus infection in presence of maternal antibody
Jianjun Chen, Fenghua Zhang, Fang Fang, Haiyan Chang, Ze Chen
Effectiveness of the polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine among HIV-infected persons in Brazil: a case control study
Maria Amelia SM Veras, Wayne TA Enanoria, Euclides A Castilho, Arthur L Reingold
Evaluation of immune response to Hepatitis B vaccine in health care workers at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan: an observational prospective study
Mohammad Zeeshan, Kauser Jabeen, Anita Nausheen Akbar Ali, Ailia Wilayat Ali, Saadia Z Farooqui, Vikram Mehraj, Afia Zafar
Cost-sharing strategies combining targeted public subsidies with private-sector delivery achieve high bednet coverage and reduced malaria transmission in Kilombero Valley, southern Tanzania
GF Killeen, A Tami, J Kihonda, FO Okumu, ME Kotas, H Grundmann, N Kasigudi, H Ngonyani, V Mayagaya, R Nathan, S Abdulla, JD Charlwood, TA Smith, C Lengeler
Comparison of two interferon gamma release assays in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease in The Gambia
Ifedayo MO Adetifa, Moses D Lugos, Abdulrahman Hammond, David Jeffries, Simon Donkor, Richard A Adegbola, Philip C Hill
Parvovirus B19 infection in Tunisian patients with sickle-cell anemia and acute erythroblastopenia
Faouzi Regaya, Lassad Oussaief, Mohamed Bejaoui, Mongi Karoui, Mohamed Zili, Ridha Khelifa
Effectiveness of DNA-recombinant anti-hepatitis B vaccines in blood donors: a cohort study
Emil Kupek, Denise ER de Souza, Andrea Petry
Cyclical changes in seroprevalence of leptospirosis in California sea lions: endemic and epidemic disease in one host species?
James O Lloyd-Smith, Denise J Greig, Sharon Hietala, George S Ghneim, Lauren Palmer, Judy St Leger, Bryan T Grenfell, Frances MD Gulland
Sentinel surveillance for travellers' diarrhoea in primary care
Gemma Northey, Meirion R Evans, Tinnu S Sarvotham, Daniel R Thomas, Tony J Howard
CMV quantitative PCR in the diagnosis of CMV disease in patients with HIV-infection – a retrospective autopsy based study
Arne B Brantsaeter, Mona Holberg-Petersen, Stig Jeansson, Anne K Goplen, Johan N Bruun
Association between Lactobacillus species and bacterial vaginosis-related bacteria, and bacterial vaginosis scores in pregnant Japanese women
Renuka Tamrakar, Takashi Yamada, Itsuko Furuta, Kazutoshi Cho, Mamoru Morikawa, Hideto Yamada, Noriaki Sakuragi, Hisanori Minakami
Ureaplasma urealyticum, Ureaplasma parvum, Mycoplasma hominis and Mycoplasma genitalium infections and semen quality of infertile men
Radhouane Gdoura, Wiem Kchaou, Chiraz Chaari, Abir Znazen, Leila Keskes, Tarek Rebai, Adnane Hammami
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Cuba: description and tentative explanation of its low HIV prevalence
Héctor de Arazoza, Jose Joanes, Rachid Lounes, Camille Legeai, Stéphan Clémençon, Jorge Pérez, Bertran Auvert
Expression of a Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase typical for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis increases the vulnerability of neuroblastoma cells to infectious injury
Miriam Goos, Wolf-Dieter Zech, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, Saju Balakrishnan, Sandra Ebert, Timothy Mitchell, Maria Teresa Carrì, Bernhard U Keller, Roland Nau
A model to control the epidemic of H5N1 influenza at the source
Y Guan, H Chen, KS Li, S Riley, GM Leung, R Webster, JSM Peiris, KY Yuen
Seroprevalence of HIV in pregnant women in North India: a tertiary care hospital based study
Swati Gupta, Richa Gupta, Sarman Singh
The prognostic value of the suPARnostic®ELISA in HIV-1 infected individuals is not affected by uPAR promoter polymorphisms
Uffe V Schneider, Rikke L Nielsen, Court Pedersen, Jesper Eugen-Olsen
Epidemiological and virological investigation of a Norovirus outbreak in a resort in Puglia, Italy
Caterina Rizzo, Ilaria Di Bartolo, Marilina Santantonio, Maria Francesca Coscia, Rosa Monno, Danila De Vito, Franco Maria Ruggeri, Giovanni Rizzo
Differential expression of viral PAMP receptors mRNA in peripheral blood of patients with chronic hepatitis C infection
Rafael Atencia, Francisco J Bustamante, Andrés Valdivieso, Arantza Arrieta, Marta Riñón, Alvaro Prada, Natalia Maruri
Procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive Protein (CRP) as severe systemic infection markers in febrile neutropenic adults
Karin SR Massaro, Silvia F Costa, Claudio Leone, Dalton AF Chamone
Relationship between pp65 antigenemia levels and real-time quantitative DNA PCR for Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) management in immunocompromised patients
Elisabetta Cariani, Caterina P Pollara, Barbara Valloncini, Francesca Perandin, Carlo Bonfanti, Nino Manca
Cytokine responses to Schistosoma haematobium in a Zimbabwean population: contrasting profiles for IFN-γ, IL-4, IL-5 and IL-10 with age
Francisca Mutapi, Georgina Winborn, Nicholas Midzi, Matthew Taylor, Takafira Mduluza, Rick M Maizels
Culture-confirmed childhood tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa: a review of 596 cases
H Simon Schaaf, Ben J Marais, Andrew Whitelaw, Anneke C Hesseling, Brian Eley, Gregory D Hussey, Peter R Donald
Influenza activity in Europe during eight seasons (1999–2007): an evaluation of the indicators used to measure activity and an assessment of the timing, length and course of peak activity (spread) across Europe
John Paget, Richard Marquet, Adam Meijer, Koos van der Velden
Genetic variability of the P120' surface protein gene of Mycoplasma hominis isolates recovered from Tunisian patients with uro-genital and infertility disorders
Boutheina Ben Abdelmoumen Mardassi, Hajer Ayari, Awatef Béjaoui-Khiari, Béhija Mlik, Imed Moalla, Faten Amouna
Incidence of Human Herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection among HIV-uninfected individuals at high risk for sexually transmitted infections
Massimo Giuliani, Paola Cordiali-Fei, Concetta Castilletti, Aldo Di Carlo, Guido Palamara, Stefano Boros, Giovanni Rezza
Trends in influenza vaccination coverage rates in Germany over five seasons from 2001 to 2006
Majbrit V Holm, Patricia R Blank, Thomas D Szucs
Estimating past hepatitis C infection risk from reported risk factor histories: implications for imputing age of infection and modeling fibrosis progression
Peter Bacchetti, Phyllis C Tien, Eric C Seaberg, Thomas R O'Brien, Michael H Augenbraun, Alex H Kral, Michael P Busch, Brian R Edlin
The role of resuscitation promoting factors in pathogenesis and reactivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during intra-peritoneal infection in mice
Sergey Biketov, Vasilii Potapov, Elena Ganina, Katrina Downing, Bavesh D Kana, Arseny Kaprelyants
Factors influencing cerebrospinal fluid and plasma HIV-1 RNA detection rate in patients with and without opportunistic neurological disease during the HAART era
Paulo P Christo, Dirceu B Greco, Agdemir W Aleixo, Jose A Livramento
Humoral response to HspX and GlcB to previous and recent infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Marcelo Fouad Rabahi, Ana Paula Junqueira-Kipnis, Michelle Cristina Guerreiro dos Reis, Walter Oelemann, Marcus Barreto Conde