Ausgabe 1/2012
Inhalt (386 Artikel)
High content live cell imaging for the discovery of new antimalarial marine natural products
Serena Cervantes, Paige E Stout, Jacques Prudhomme, Sebastian Engel, Matthew Bruton, Michael Cervantes, David Carter, Young Tae-Chang, Mark E Hay, William Aalbersberg, Julia Kubanek, Karine G Le Roch
R-848 triggers the expression of TLR7/8 and suppresses HIV replication in monocytes
Hua Nian, Wen-Qing Geng, Hua-Lu Cui, Ming-jia Bao, Zi-ning Zhang, Min Zhang, Ying Pan, Qing-Hai Hu, Hong Shang
Placental malaria is associated with attenuated CD4 T-cell responses to tuberculin PPD 12 months after BCG vaccination
Brigitte Walther, David JC Miles, Pauline Waight, Melba S Palmero, Olubukola Ojuola, Ebrima S Touray, Hilton Whittle, Marianne van der Sande, Sarah Crozier, Katie L Flanagan
Soluble RAGE as a severity marker in community acquired pneumonia associated sepsis
Rodrigo M Narvaez-Rivera, Adrian Rendon, Mario C Salinas-Carmona, Adrian G Rosas-Taraco
Definition and characterization of localised meningitis epidemics in Burkina Faso: a longitudinal retrospective study
Haoua Tall, Stéphane Hugonnet, Philippe Donnen, Michèle Dramaix-Wilmet, Ludovic Kambou, Frank Drabo, Judith E Mueller
Klebsiella pneumoniaerelated community-acquired acute lower respiratory infections in Cambodia: Clinical characteristics and treatment
Blandine Rammaert, Sophie Goyet, Julien Beauté, Sopheak Hem, Vantha Te, Patrich Lorn Try, Charles Mayaud, Laurence Borand, Philippe Buchy, Bertrand Guillard, Sirenda Vong
Potential of novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection phase-dependent antigens in the diagnosis of TB disease in a high burden setting
Novel N Chegou, Gillian F Black, Andre G Loxton, Kim Stanley, Paulin N Essone, Michel R Klein, Shreemanta K Parida, Stefan HE Kaufmann, T Mark Doherty, Annemieke H Friggen, Kees L Franken, Tom H Ottenhoff, Gerhard Walzl
Hepatitis a among men who have sex with men in Barcelona, 1989-2010: insufficient control and need for new approaches
Cecilia Tortajada, Patricia G de Olalla, Elia Diez, Rosa M Pinto, Albert Bosch, Unai Perez, Milagros Sanz, Joan A Caylà
Differing clinical characteristics between influenza strains among young healthy adults in the tropics
Jonathan Yap, Chi Hsien Tan, Alex R Cook, Jin Phang Loh, Paul A Tambyah, Boon Huan Tan, Vernon J Lee
HIV patients treated with low-dose prednisolone exhibit lower immune activation than untreated patients
Christa Kasang, Albrecht Ulmer, Norbert Donhauser, Barbara Schmidt, August Stich, Hartwig Klinker, Samuel Kalluvya, Eleni Koutsilieri, Axel Rethwilm, Carsten Scheller
Drug resistance mutations and heteroresistance detected using the GenoType MTBDRplusassay and their implication for treatment outcomes in patients from Mumbai, India
Monica Prem Tolani, Desiree Therese Blossom D'souza, Nerges Furdoon Mistry
Mass drug administration significantly reduces infection of Schistosoma mansoni and hookworm in school children in the national control program in Sierra Leone
Mary H Hodges, Nsa Dada, Anna Warmsley, Jusufu Paye, Momodu M Bangura, Emanuel Nyorkor, Mustapha Sonnie, Yaobi Zhang
Physician experience and rates of plasma HIV-1 RNA suppression among illicit drug users: an observational study
Sassan Sangsari, M-J Milloy, Amir Ibrahim, Thomas Kerr, Ruth Zhang, Julio Montaner, Evan Wood
The role of facemasks and hand hygiene in the prevention of influenza transmission in households: results from a cluster randomised trial; Berlin, Germany, 2009-2011
Thorsten Suess, Cornelius Remschmidt, Susanne B Schink, Brunhilde Schweiger, Andreas Nitsche, Kati Schroeder, Joerg Doellinger, Jeanette Milde, Walter Haas, Irina Koehler, Gérard Krause, Udo Buchholz
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome from Penicillium marneffei in an HIV-infected child: a case report and review of literature
Tavitiya Sudjaritruk, Thira Sirisanthana, Virat Sirisanthana
Granulomatous hepatitis due to Bartonella henselae infection in an immunocompetent patient
Thomas R VanderHeyden, Sherri L Yong, Edward B Breitschwerdt, Ricardo G Maggi, Amanda R Mihalik, Jorge P Parada, Claus J Fimmel
Predictors of the development of myocarditis or acute renal failure in patients with leptospirosis: An observational study
Dinesh LB Dassanayake, Harith Wimalaratna, Damith Nandadewa, Asanka Nugaliyadda, Champa N Ratnatunga, Suneth B Agampodi
A large, population-based study of age-related associations between vaginal pH and human papillomavirus infection
Megan A Clarke, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, Julia C Gage, Rolando Herrero, Allan Hildesheim, Sholom Wacholder, Robert Burk, Mark Schiffman
The community impact of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the WHO European Region: a comparison with historical seasonal data from 28 countries
Liana Martirosyan, W John Paget, Pernille Jorgensen, Caroline S Brown, Tamara J Meerhoff, Dmitriy Pereyaslov, Joshua A Mott
Infection control management of patients with suspected highly infectious diseases in emergency departments: data from a survey in 41 facilities in 14 European countries
Francesco M Fusco, Stefan Schilling, Giuseppina De Iaco, Hans-Reinhard Brodt, Philippe Brouqui, Helena C Maltezou, Barbara Bannister, René Gottschalk, Gail Thomson, Vincenzo Puro, Giuseppe Ippolito
Influenza vaccination of healthcare workers in acute-care hospitals: a case-control study of its effect on hospital-acquired influenza among patients
Thomas Bénet, Corinne Régis, Nicolas Voirin, Olivier Robert, Bruno Lina, Silene Cronenberger, Brigitte Comte, Brigitte Coppéré, Philippe Vanhems
Epidemiology of respiratory viral infections in two long-term refugee camps in Kenya, 2007-2010
Jamal A Ahmed, Mark A Katz, Eric Auko, M Kariuki Njenga, Michelle Weinberg, Bryan K Kapella, Heather Burke, Raymond Nyoka, Anthony Gichangi, Lilian W Waiboci, Abdirahman Mahamud, Mohamed Qassim, Babu Swai, Burton Wagacha, David Mutonga, Margaret Nguhi, Robert F Breiman, Rachel B Eidex
A quick and cost effective method for the diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection
Dziedzom K de Souza, Charles Quaye, Lydia Mosi, Phyllis Addo, Daniel A Boakye
Is a single dose of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine sufficient for protection? experience from the Netherlands
Patricia Kaaijk, Arie van der Ende, Guy Berbers, Germie PJM van den Dobbelsteen, Nynke Y Rots
Treatment outcomes in HIV-infected adolescents attending a community-based antiretroviral therapy clinic in South Africa
Mweete D Nglazi, Katharina Kranzer, Pearl Holele, Richard Kaplan, Daniella Mark, Heather Jaspan, Stephen D Lawn, Robin Wood, Linda-Gail Bekker
Prospective evaluation of bone markers, parathormone and 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D in HIV-positive patients after the initiation of tenofovir/emtricitabine with atazanavir/ritonavir or efavirenz
Emanuele Focà, Davide Motta, Marco Borderi, Daria Gotti, Laura Albini, Alessandra Calabresi, Ilaria Izzo, Rita Bellagamba, Pasquale Narciso, Laura Sighinolfi, Alberto Clò, Davide Gibellini, Eugenia Quiros-Roldan, Nigritella Brianese, Bruno Mario Cesana, Maria Carla Re, Carlo Torti
Deficiency of immunity to poliovirus type 3: a lurking danger?
Claudia Reinheimer, Imke Friedrichs, Holger F Rabenau, Hans W Doerr
Comparative activity of carbapenem testing (the COMPACT study) in Turkey
Hakan Leblebicioglu, Nedim Cakir, Mustafa Celen, Halil Kurt, Hakan Baris, Joerg Laeuffer
Invasive fungal infection among hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients with mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit
Chen-Yiu Hung, Kuo-Chin Kao, Po-Nan Wang, Han-Chung Hu, Meng-Jer Hsieh, Jui-Ying Fu, Chih-Hao Chang, Li-Fu Li, Chung-Chi Huang, Ying-Huang Tsai, Cheng-Ta Yang
Non-capsulated and capsulated Haemophilus influenzaein children with acute otitis media in Venezuela: a prospective epidemiological study
Laura Naranjo, Jose Antonio Suarez, Rodrigo DeAntonio, Francis Sanchez, Alberto Calvo, Enza Spadola, Nicolás Rodríguez, Omaira Andrade, Francisca Bertuglia, Nelly Márquez, Maria Mercedes Castrejon, Eduardo Ortega-Barria, Romulo E Colindres
Travel risk behaviours and uptake of pre-travel health preventions by university students in Australia
Anita E Heywood, Meng Zhang, C Raina MacIntyre, Holly Seale
Diaphragmatic paralysis: a rare consequence of dengue fever
Eranda C Ratnayake, Chrishan Shivanthan, Bandula C Wijesiriwardena
Emergence of new leptospiral serovars in American Samoa - ascertainment or ecological change?
Colleen L Lau, Chris Skelly, Lee D Smythe, Scott B Craig, Philip Weinstein
Pattern recognition and cellular immune responses to novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis-antigens in individuals from Belarus
Raija K Ahmed, Zoyia Rohava, Kithiganahalli N Balaji, Sven E Hoffner, Hans Gaines, Isabelle Magalhaes, Alimuddin Zumla, Alena Skrahina, Markus J Maeurer
Increased prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in household contacts of children with community acquired disease
Yaseen Rafee, Nahed Abdel-Haq, Basim Asmar, Tanaz Salimnia, Celine Vidaillac Pharm, Michael J Rybak Pharm, Muhammad Amjad
Renal function in HIV-infected children and adolescents treated with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and protease inhibitors
Giuseppe Pontrelli, Nicola Cotugno, Donato Amodio, Paola Zangari, Hyppolite K Tchidjou, Stefania Baldassari, Paolo Palma, Stefania Bernardi
Marked variation in MSP-119 antibody responses to malaria in western Kenyan highlands
Kingsley Badu, Yaw Asare Afrane, John Larbi, Virginia Ann Stewart, John Waitumbi, Evelina Angov, John M Ong'echa, Douglas J Perkins, Guofa Zhou, Andrew Githeko, Guiyun Yan
Clinical features and risk factors for severe and critical pregnant women with 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza infection in China
Peng-jun Zhang, Xiao-li Li, Bin Cao, Shi-gui Yang, Li-rong Liang, Li Gu, Zhen Xu, Ke Hu, Hong-yuan Zhang, Xi-xin Yan, Wen-bao Huang, Wei Chen, Jing-xiao Zhang, Lan-juan Li, Chen Wang
Inter-rater agreement in the assessment of abnormal chest X-ray findings for tuberculosis between two Asian countries
Shinsaku Sakurada, Nguyen TL Hang, Naoki Ishizuka, Emiko Toyota, Le D Hung, Pham T Chuc, Luu T Lien, Pham H Thuong, Pham TN Bich, Naoto Keicho, Nobuyuki Kobayashi
Group B streptococcal carriage, serotype distribution and antibiotic susceptibilities in pregnant women at the time of delivery in a refugee population on the Thai-Myanmar border
Claudia Turner, Paul Turner, Linda Po, Naw Maner, Aruni De Zoysa, Baharak Afshar, Androulla Efstratiou, Paul T Heath, François Nosten
Quantitative assessment of microbicide-induced injury in the ovine vaginal epithelium using confocal microendoscopy
Gracie Vargas, Igor Patrikeev, Jingna Wei, Brent Bell, Kathleen Vincent, Nigel Bourne, Massoud Motamedi
Finding and removing highly connected individuals using suboptimal vaccines
Beatriz Vidondo, Markus Schwehm, Andrea Bühlmann, Martin Eichner
Measurement of the plasma levels of antibodies against the polymorphic vaccine candidate apical membrane antigen 1 in a malaria-exposed population
Kwadwo A Kusi, Daniel Dodoo, Samuel Bosomprah, Marjolein van der Eijk, Bart W Faber, Clemens HM Kocken, Edmond J Remarque
Effects of adenosine A2A receptor activation and alanyl-glutamine in Clostridium difficile toxin-induced ileitis in rabbits and cecitis in mice
Cirle Alcantara Warren, Gina M Calabrese, Yuesheng Li, Sean W Pawlowski, Robert A Figler, Jayson Rieger, Peter B Ernst, Joel Linden, Richard L Guerrant
Nasopharyngeal flora in children with acute otitis media before and after implementation of 7 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in France
Robert Cohen, Edouard Bingen, Corinne Levy, Franck Thollot, Michel Boucherat, Véronique Derkx, Emmanuelle Varon
Epidemiology of severe pediatric adenovirus lower respiratory tract infections in Manitoba, Canada, 1991-2005
Saleh Alharbi, Paul Van Caeseele, Raquel Consunji-Araneta, Taoufik Zoubeidi, Sergio Fanella, Abdul-Kader Souid, Ahmed R Alsuwaidi
An institutional perspective on the impact of recent antibiotic exposure on length of stay and hospital costs for patients with gram-negative sepsis
Scott Micek, Michael T Johnson, Richard Reichley, Marin H Kollef
TNF-α promoter polymorphism: a factor contributing to the different immunological and clinical phenotypes in Japanese encephalitis
Sujit Kumar Pujhari, Radha Kanta Ratho, Sudesh Prabhakar, Baijayantimala Mishra, Manish Modi
Establishment of a leptospirosis model in guinea pigs using an epicutaneous inoculations route
Yan Zhang, Xiao-Li Lou, Hong-Liang Yang, Xiao-Kui Guo, Xiang-Yan Zhang, Ping He, Xu-Cheng Jiang
Proportion of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in community setting in Ngaoundere, Cameroon
Carine Magoué Lonchel, Cécile Meex, Joseph Gangoué-Piéboji, Raphaël Boreux, Marie-Claire Okomo Assoumou, Pierrette Melin, Patrick De Mol
Prediction of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2+ (CIN2+) using HPV DNA testing after a diagnosis of atypical squamous cell of undetermined significance (ASC-US) in Catalonia, Spain
Raquel Ibáñez, Judit Moreno-Crespi, Montserrat Sardà, Josefina Autonell, Montserrat Fibla, Cristina Gutiérrez, Belen Lloveras, María Alejo, Isabel Català, Francesc Alameda, Miquel Casas, F Xavier Bosch, Silvia de Sanjosé
Trends in missed presentations and late HIV diagnosis in a UK teaching hospital: a retrospective comparative cohort study
Jared Wohlgemut, Timothy Lawes, Robert BS Laing
Nosocomial acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus (MRSA) and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) Enterobacteriaceae in hospitalised patients: a prospective multicenter study
Giulia De Angelis, Giovanni Restuccia, Silvia Venturiello, Roberto Cauda, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar, Herman Goossens, Jacques Schrenzel, Evelina Tacconelli
Using sequence data to identify alternative routes and risk of infection: a case-study of campylobacter in Scotland
Paul R Bessell, Ovidiu Rotariu, Giles T Innocent, Alison Smith-Palmer, Norval JC Strachan, Ken J Forbes, John M Cowden, Stuart WJ Reid, Louise Matthews
Migrant tuberculosis: the extent of transmission in a low burden country
Zaza Kamper-Jørgensen, Aase Bengaard Andersen, Axel Kok-Jensen, Mads Kamper-Jørgensen, Ib Christian Bygbjerg, Peter Henrik Andersen, Vibeke Østergaard Thomsen, Troels Lillebaek
Candidiasis caused by Candida kefyr in a neonate: Case report
Stefan Weichert, Konrad Reinshagen, Katrin Zahn, Gernot Geginat, Annebärbel Dietz, Anna Kristina Kilian, Horst Schroten, Tobias Tenenbaum
Burden of community-acquired and nosocomial rotavirus gastroenteritis in the pediatric population of Western Europe: a scoping review
Isla Ogilvie, Hanane Khoury, Mireille M Goetghebeur, Antoine C El Khoury, Carlo Giaquinto
Bacterial infections in Lilongwe, Malawi: aetiology and antibiotic resistance
Mwai H Makoka, William C Miller, Irving F Hoffman, Rushina Cholera, Peter H Gilligan, Debbie Kamwendo, Gabriel Malunga, George Joaki, Francis Martinson, Mina C Hosseinipour
Knowledge of HIV status prior to a community HIV counseling and testing intervention in a rural district of south Africa: results of a community based survey
Hanani Tabana, Tanya Doherty, Sonja Swanevelder, Carl Lombard, Debra Jackson, Wanga Zembe, Reshma Naik
Knowledge, attitudes and practices related to avian influenza among poultry workers in Nepal: a cross sectional study
Dinesh Neupane, Vishnu Khanal, Kamal Ghimire, Arja R Aro, Anja Leppin
Frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis in Ureaplasma-positive healthy women attending their first prenatal visit in a community hospital in Sapporo, Japan
Tomohiro Yamazaki, Megumi Matsumoto, Junji Matsuo, Kiyotaka Abe, Kunihiro Minami, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi
The high comorbidity burden of the hepatitis C virus infected population in the United States
Karly S Louie, Samantha St Laurent, Ulla M Forssen, Linda M Mundy, Jeanne M Pimenta
Usefulness of health registries when estimating vaccine effectiveness during the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic in Norway
Bernardo Rafael Guzmán Herrador, Preben Aavitsland, Berit Feiring, Marianne A Riise Bergsaker, Katrine Borgen
Evaluation of microscopic observation drug susceptibility assay for diagnosis of multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in Viet Nam
Dang Thi Minh Ha, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan, Marcel Wolbers, Vo sy Kiet, Hoang Thi Thanh Hang, Nguyen Hong Duc, To My Huong, Vuong Minh Bach, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Tran Van Quyet, Nguyen Thi Bich Tuyen, Vo Thi Ha, Nguyen Thi Nho, Dai Viet Hoa, Phan Thi Hoang Anh, Nguyen Huy Dung, Jeremy Farrar, Maxine Caws
Cognitive deficits following exposure to pneumococcal meningitis: an event-related potential study
Michael Kihara, Michelle de Haan, Eugene O Were, Harrun H Garrashi, Brian GR Neville, Charles RJC Newton
Seroprevalence of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus among poultry workers in Jiangsu Province, China: an observational study
Xiang Huo, Rongqiang Zu, Xian Qi, Yuanfang Qin, Liang Li, Fenyang Tang, Zhibin Hu, Fengcai Zhu
Lipoarabinomannan in urine during tuberculosis treatment: association with host and pathogen factors and mycobacteriuria
Robin Wood, Kimberly Racow, Linda-Gail Bekker, Keren Middelkoop, Monica Vogt, Barry N Kreiswirth, Stephen D Lawn
Factors associated with delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis in hospitalized patients in a high TB and HIV burden setting: a cross-sectional study
Denise Rossato Silva, Alice Mânica Müller, Paulo de Tarso Roth Dalcin
Prevalence of syphilis infection in different tiers of female sex workers in China: implications for surveillance and interventions
Xiang-Sheng Chen, Qian-Qiu Wang, Yue-Ping Yin, Guo-Jun Liang, Ning Jiang, Li-Gang Yang, Qiao Liu, Yu-Jiao Zhou, Xi-Ping Huan, Wan-Hui Wei, Baoxi Wang
Epidemiological and clinical features of human rabies cases in Bali 2008-2010
Ni M Susilawathi, Agus E Darwinata, Ida BNP Dwija, Nyoman S Budayanti, Gusti AK Wirasandhi, Ketut Subrata, Ni K Susilarini, Raka AA Sudewi, Frank S Wignall, Gusti NK Mahardika
Serum cortisol predicts death and critical disease independently of CRB-65 score in community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective observational cohort study
Martin Kolditz, Gert Höffken, Peter Martus, Gernot Rohde, Hartwig Schütte, Robert Bals, Norbert Suttorp, Mathias W Pletz
High prevalence of antibiotic resistance in commensal Escherichia coli among children in rural Vietnam
Oliver James Dyar, Nguyen Quynh Hoa, Nguyen V Trung, Ho D Phuc, Mattias Larsson, Nguyen TK Chuc, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
Neuropsychological outcomes in adults commencing highly active anti-retroviral treatment in South Africa: a prospective study
John A Joska, Jennifer Westgarth-Taylor, Jacqueline Hoare, Kevin GF Thomas, Robert Paul, Landon Myer, Dan J Stein
Cost-effectiveness of posaconazole versusfluconazole or itraconazole in the prevention of invasive fungal infections among high-risk neutropenic patients in Spain
Santiago Grau, Rafael de la Cámara, Francisco J Sabater, Isidro Jarque, Enric Carreras, Miguel A Casado, Miguel A Sanz
Dynamic analysis of Th1/Th2 cytokine concentration during antiretroviral therapy of HIV-1/HCV co-infected Patients
Wenzhen Kang, Yuan Li, Yan Zhuang, Ke Zhao, Dedong Huang, Yongtao Sun
Prevalence, genetic diversity and antiretroviral drugs resistance-associated mutations among untreated HIV-1-infected pregnant women in Gabon, central Africa
Mélanie Caron, Sonia Etenna Lekana-Douki, Maria Makuwa, Guy-Patrick Obiang-Ndong, Olivia Biba, Dieudonné Nkoghé, Mirdad Kazanji
HIV incidence estimate combining HIV/AIDS surveillance, testing history information and HIV test to identify recent infections in Lazio, Italy
Alessia Mammone, Patrizio Pezzotti, Claudio Angeletti, Nicoletta Orchi, Angela Carboni, Assunta Navarra, Maria R Sciarrone, Catia Sias, Vincenzo Puro, Gabriella Guasticchi, Giuseppe Ippolito, Piero Borgia, Enrico Girardi
Dynamics of ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium clones colonizing hospitalized patients: data from a prospective observational study
Maja Weisser, Evelien A Oostdijk, Rob JL Willems, Marc JM Bonten, Reno Frei, Luigia Elzi, Jörg Halter, Andreas F Widmer, Janetta Top
Dose-response model of murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi): time post inoculation and host age dependency analysis
Sushil B Tamrakar, Yin Huang, Sondra S Teske, Charles N Haas
Diagnostic performance of line-immunoassay based algorithms for incident HIV-1 infection
Jörg Schüpbach, Leslie R Bisset, Martin D Gebhardt, Stephan Regenass, Philippe Bürgisser, Meri Gorgievski, Thomas Klimkait, Corinne Andreutti, Gladys Martinetti, Christoph Niederhauser, Sabine Yerly, Stefan Pfister, Detlev Schultze, Marcel Brandenberger, Franziska Schöni-Affolter, Alexandra U Scherrer, Huldrych F Günthard
Necrotizing fasciitis involving the chest and abdominal wall caused by Raoultella planticola
Si-Hyun Kim, Kyoung Ho Roh, Young Kyung Yoon, Dong Oh Kang, Dong Woo Lee, Min Ja Kim, Jang Wook Sohn
Multicentre RCT and economic evaluation of a psychological intervention together with a leaflet to reduce risk behaviour amongst men who have sex with men (MSM) prescribed post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV following sexual exposure (PEPSE): A protocol
Carrie Llewellyn, Charles Abraham, Alec Miners, Helen Smith, Alex Pollard, Paul Benn, Martin Fisher
Interspecies interactions and potential Influenza A virus risk in small swine farms in Peru
Sarah McCune, Carmen S Arriola, Robert H Gilman, Martín A Romero, Viterbo Ayvar, Vitaliano A Cama, Joel M Montgomery, Armando E Gonzales, Angela M Bayer
Characterization of a pneumococcal meningitis mouse model
Barry Mook-Kanamori, Madelijn Geldhoff, Dirk Troost, Tom van der Poll, Diederik van de Beek
The distinct category of healthcare associated bloodstream infections
Ryan Lenz, Jenine R Leal, Deirdre L Church, Daniel B Gregson, Terry Ross, Kevin B Laupland
Longitudinal seroepidemiologic study of the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) infection among health care workers in a children's hospital
Ting-Yu Yen, Chun-Yi Lu, Luan-Yin Chang, Yi-Ting Tsai, Li-Min Huang
Improving resolution of public health surveillance for human Salmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium infection: 3 years of prospective multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA)
Vitali Sintchenko, Qinning Wang, Peter Howard, Connie WY Ha, Katina Kardamanidis, Jennie Musto, Gwendolyn L Gilbert
Macrophages participate in host protection and the disease pathology associated with Leishmania braziliensisinfection
Angela Giudice, Célia Vendrame, Caroline Bezerra, Lucas P Carvalho, Thaís Delavechia, Edgar M Carvalho, Olívia Bacellar
Emergence of dengue virus 4 genotype II in Guangzhou, China, 2010: Survey and molecular epidemiology of one community outbreak
Qin-Long Jing, Zhi-Cong Yang, Lei Luo, Xin-Cai Xiao, Biao Di, Peng He, Chuan-Xi Fu, Ming Wang, Jia-Hai Lu
Analysis of gene mutations associated with isoniazid, rifampicin and ethambutol resistance among Mycobacterium tuberculosisisolates from Ethiopia
Belay Tessema, Joerg Beer, Frank Emmrich, Ulrich Sack, Arne C Rodloff
Prevalence of pulmonary TB and spoligotype pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among TB suspects in a rural community in Southwest Ethiopia
Amare Deribew, Gemeda Abebe, Ludwig Apers, Alemseged Abdissa, Fetene Deribe, Kifle Woldemichael, Chali Jira, Markos Tesfaye, Jafar Shiffa, Abraham Aseffa, Mesele Bezabih, Tadiye Abeje, Robert Colebunders
A novel single nucleotide polymorphism within the NOD2 gene is associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in the Chinese Han, Uygur and Kazak populations
Mengyuan Zhao, Feng Jiang, Wanjiang Zhang, Fujian Li, Liliang Wei, Jiyan Liu, Yun Xue, Xiling Deng, Fang Wu, Le Zhang, Xing Zhang, Yuxiang Zhang, Dapeng Fan, Xiaojun Sun, Tingting Jiang, Ji-Cheng Li
Dynamics of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage in healthy children attending a day care center in northern Spain. influence of detection techniques on the results
María Ercibengoa, Nerea Arostegi, José M Marimón, Marta Alonso, Emilio Pérez-Trallero
CD4 lymphocyte dynamics in Tanzanian pulmonary tuberculosis patients with and without hiv co-infection
Aase B Andersen, Nyagosya S Range, John Changalucha, George PrayGod, Jeremiah Kidola, Daniel Faurholt-Jepsen, Henrik Krarup, Harleen MS Grewal, Henrik Friis
Late entry into HIV care: lessons from Brazil, 2003 to 2006
Alexandre Grangeiro, Maria Mercedes Loureiro Escuder, Julio Cesar Rodrigues Pereira
The status of invasive pneumococcal disease among children younger than 5 years of age in north-west Lombardy, Italy
Enrica Riva, Filippo Salvini, Maria Laura Garlaschi, Giovanni Radaelli, Marcello Giovannini
Predictors and outcome of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by miliary tuberculosis: a retrospective study in Chongqing, China
Wang Deng, Min Yu, Hilary Ma, Liang An Hu, Gang Chen, Yong Wang, Jia Deng, ChangYi Li, Jin Tong, Dao Xin Wang
Total lymphocyte count as a surrogate marker for CD4 count in resource-limited settings
Christian Obirikorang, Lawrence Quaye, Isaac Acheampong
Determination of clinical and demographic predictors of laboratory-confirmed influenza with subtype analysis
Tabitha Woolpert, Stephanie Brodine, Hector Lemus, Jill Waalen, Patrick Blair, Dennis Faix
Population-based cohort study of outpatients with pneumonia: rationale, design and baseline characteristics
Dean T Eurich, Sumit R Majumdar, Thomas J Marrie
Treatment of Haemophilus bacteremia with benzylpenicillin is associated with increased (30-day) mortality
Sara Thønnings, Christian Østergaard
Population based study of genital Chlamydia trachomatis prevalence and associated factors in Norway: A cross sectional study
Hilde Kløvstad, Andrej Grjibovski, Preben Aavitsland
Evaluation of the clinical value of ELISA based on MPT64 antibody aptamer for serological diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis
Changtai Zhu, Jinming Liu, Yang Ling, Hua Yang, Zhonghua Liu, Ruijuan Zheng, Lianhua Qin, Zhongyi Hu
Spatiotemporal analysis of indigenous and imported dengue fever cases in Guangdong province, China
Zhongjie Li, Wenwu Yin, Archie Clements, Gail Williams, Shengjie Lai, Hang Zhou, Dan Zhao, Yansha Guo, Yonghui Zhang, Jinfeng Wang, Wenbiao Hu, Weizhong Yang
Immediate versus conditional treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infection - a randomized-controlled comparative effectiveness study in general practices
Ildikó Gágyor, Eva Hummers-Pradier, Michael M Kochen, Guido Schmiemann, Karl Wegscheider, Jutta Bleidorn
Residential crowding and severe respiratory syncytial virus disease among infants and young children: A systematic literature review
Ann D Colosia, Anthony Masaquel, Caroline Breese Hall, Amy M Barrett, Parthiv J Mahadevia, Ram Yogev
Clinical and microbiologic characteristics of tcdA-negative variant clostridium difficile infections
Jieun Kim, Hyunjoo Pai, Mi-ran Seo, Jung Oak Kang
Evaluation of a hand-held far-ultraviolet radiation device for decontamination of Clostridium difficile and other healthcare-associated pathogens
Michelle M Nerandzic, Jennifer L Cadnum, Kevin E Eckart, Curtis J Donskey
Recurrent 6th nerve palsy in a child following different live attenuated vaccines: case report
Daryl R Cheng, Nigel W Crawford, Michael Hayman, Christopher Buckley, Jim P Buttery
Characterization of Shigella sonnei in Malaysia, an increasingly prevalent etiologic agent of local shigellosis cases
Xiu Pei Koh, Chien Shun Chiou, Noni Ajam, Haruo Watanabe, Norazah Ahmad, Kwai Lin Thong
Prospective hospital-based case–control study to assess the effectiveness of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccination and risk factors for hospitalization in 2009–2010 using matched hospital and test-negative controls
Wiebke Hellenbrand, Pernille Jorgensen, Brunhilde Schweiger, Gerhard Falkenhorst, Matthias Nachtnebel, Benedikt Greutélaers, Christian Traeder, Ole Wichmann
Point-of-care detection of lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in urine for diagnosis of HIV-associated tuberculosis: a state of the art review
Stephen D Lawn
Latent and subclinical tuberculosis in HIV infected patients: a cross-sectional study
Meaghan M Kall, Katherine M Coyne, Nigel J Garrett, Aileen E Boyd, Anthony T Ashcroft, Iain Reeves, Jane Anderson, Graham H Bothamley
Epidemiological characteristics and societal burden of varicella zoster virus in the Netherlands
Jorien GJ Pierik, Pearl D Gumbs, Sander AC Fortanier, Pauline CE Van Steenwijk, Maarten J Postma
Chandipura Virus infection in mice: the role of toll like receptor 4 in pathogenesis
Balakrishnan Anukumar, Prajakta Shahir
Value of soluble TREM-1, procalcitonin, and C-reactive protein serum levels as biomarkers for detecting bacteremia among sepsis patients with new fever in intensive care units: a prospective cohort study
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David R Strutton, Raymond A Farkouh, Jaime L Rubin, Lisa J McGarry, Paul M Loiacono, Keith P Klugman, Steven I Pelton, Kristen E Gilmore, Milton C Weinstein
Prevention and treatment of surgical site infection in HIV-infected patients
Lei Zhang, Bao-Chi Liu, Xiao-Yan Zhang, Lei Li, Xian-Jun Xia, Rui-Zhang Guo
HIV and HCV prevalence among entrants to methadone maintenance treatment clinics in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Xun Zhuang, Yanxian Liang, Eric PF Chow, Yafei Wang, David P Wilson, Lei Zhang
Seroprevalence of varicella-zoster virus and predictors for seronegativity in the Amsterdam adult population
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Efficacy and safety of a dual boosted protease inhibitor-based regimen, atazanavir and fosamprenavir/ritonavir, against HIV: experience in a pediatric population
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Cervical human papillomavirus infection among young women engaged in sex work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: prevalence, genotypes, risk factors and association with HIV infection
Marie-Claude Couture, Kimberly Page, Ellen S Stein, Neth Sansothy, Keo Sichan, John Kaldor, Jennifer L Evans, Lisa Maher, Joel Palefsky
Paralytic squint due to abducens nerve palsy : a rare consequence of dengue fever
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Toll-like receptor 9polymorphisms are associated with severity variables in a cohort of meningococcal meningitis survivors
Marieke S Sanders, Gijs TJ van Well, Sander Ouburg, Servaas A Morré, A Marceline van Furth
HIV-1 low-level viraemia assessed with 3 commercial real-time PCR assays show high variability
Jean Ruelle, Laurent Debaisieux, Ellen Vancutsem, Annelies De Bel, Marie-Luce Delforge, Denis Piérard, Patrick Goubau
A multicentre randomised controlled trial evaluating lactobacilli and bifidobacteria in the prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in older people admitted to hospital: the PLACIDE study protocol
Stephen J Allen, Kathie Wareham, Caroline Bradley, Wyn Harris, Anjan Dhar, Helga Brown, Alwyn Foden, Way Yee Cheung, Michael B Gravenor, Sue Plummer, Ceri J Phillips, Dietrich Mack
Efficacy of sodium butyrate adjunct therapy in shigellosis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial
Rubhana Raqib, Protim Sarker, Akhirunnesa Mily, Nur Haque Alam, Abu Saleh Mohammed Arifuzzaman, Rokeya Sultana Rekha, Jan Andersson, Gudmundur H Gudmundsson, Alejandro Cravioto, Birgitta Agerberth
“Blind periods” in screening for toxoplasmosis in pregnancy in Austria – a debate
Ulrich Sagel, Alexander Krämer, Rafael T Mikolajczyk
The seroepidemiology of Immunoglobulin G antibodies against pertussis toxin in China: a cross sectional study
Qi Zhang, Huizhen Zheng, Meizhen Liu, Ke Han, Jun Shu, Chenggang Wu, Ning Xu, Qiushui He, Huiming Luo
Seroprevalence of anti-hepatitis E virus (HEV) in a Korean population: comparison of two commercial anti-HEV assays
Hyun Kyung Park, Sook-Hyang Jeong, Jin-Wook Kim, Byung-Hyun Woo, Dong Ho Lee, Hyun Young Kim, Soyeon Ahn
Systemic biomarkers of inflammation and haemostasis in patients with chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis
Ernst Kristian Rødland, Thor Ueland, Stine Bjørnsen, Ellen Lund Sagen, Christen Peder Dahl, Anne Naalsund, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Frank R Brosstad, Fredrik Müller, Pål Aukrust, Stig S Frøland
Predictors of human papillomavirus infection in women undergoing routine cervical cancer screening in Spain: the CLEOPATRE study
Esther Roura, Thomas Iftner, José Antonio Vidart, Susanne Krüger Kjaer, F Xavier Bosch, Nubia Muñoz, Santiago Palacios, Maria San Martin Rodriguez, Carmen Morillo, Laurence Serradell, Laurence Torcel-Pagnon, Javier Cortes, Xavier Castellsagué
Antibiotic prescribing in two private sector hospitals; one teaching and one non-teaching: A cross-sectional study in Ujjain, India
Megha Sharma, Bo Eriksson, Gaetano Marrone, Suryaprakash Dhaneria, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
Impaired distensibility of ascending aorta in patients with HIV infection
Alexandra Zormpala, Nikolaos V Sipsas, Ioannis Moyssakis, Sarah P Georgiadou, Maria N Gamaletsou, Athanasios N Kontos, Panayiotis D Ziakas, Theodore Kordossis
Utility of Procalcitonin (PCT) and Mid regional pro-Adrenomedullin (MR-proADM) in risk stratification of critically ill febrile patients in Emergency Department (ED). A comparison with APACHE II score
Francesco Travaglino, Benedetta De Berardinis, Laura Magrini, Cristina Bongiovanni, Marcello Candelli, Nicolò Gentiloni Silveri, Jacopo Legramante, Alberto Galante, Gerardo Salerno, Patrizia Cardelli, Salvatore Di Somma
Dairy calcium intake and lifestyle risk factors for bone loss in hiv-infected and uninfected mediterranean subjects
Valentina Li Vecchi, Maurizio Soresi, Lydia Giannitrapani, Giovanni Mazzola, Sara La Sala, Fabio Tramuto, Giuseppe Caruso, Claudia Colomba, Pasquale Mansueto, Simona Madonia, Giuseppe Montalto, Paola Di Carlo
Value of the tuberculin skin testing and of an interferon-gamma release assay in haemodialysis patients after exposure to M. tuberculosis
Luis Anibarro, Matilde Trigo, Diana Feijoó, Mónica Ríos, Luisa Palomares, Alberto Pena, Marta Núñez, Carlos Villaverde, África González-Fernández
Hepatitis C prevalence in Denmark -an estimate based on multiple national registers
Peer Brehm Christensen, Gordon Hay, Peter Jepsen, Lars Haukali Omland, Søren Andreas Just, Henrik Bygum Krarup, Nina Weis, Niels Obel, Susan Cowan
Prevalence and clinical features of respiratory syncytial virus in children hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia in northern Brazil
Letícia Martins Lamarão, Francisco Luzio Ramos, Wyller Alencar Mello, Mirleide Cordeiro Santos, Luana Soares Barbagelata, Maria Cleonice Aguiar Justino, Alexandre Ferreira da Silva, Ana Judith Pires Garcia Quaresma, Veronilce Borges da Silva, Rommel Rodríguez Burbano, Alexandre Costa Linhares
Evidence for an enterovirus as the cause of encephalitis lethargica
Robert R Dourmashkin, Glynis Dunn, Victor Castano, Sherman A McCall
Caspofungin as antifungal prophylaxis in pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a retrospective analysis
Michaela Döring, Ulrike Hartmann, Annika Erbacher, Peter Lang, Rupert Handgretinger, Ingo Müller
Impact of sputum gross appearance and volume on smear positivity of pulmonary tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study
Soon Ho Yoon, Nyoung Keun Lee, Jae Joon Yim
Probable late lyme disease: a variant manifestation of untreated Borrelia burgdorferi infection
John N Aucott, Ari Seifter, Alison W Rebman
Use of UV-C radiation to disinfect non-critical patient care items: a laboratory assessment of the Nanoclave Cabinet
Ginny Moore, Shanom Ali, Elaine A Cloutman-Green, Christina R Bradley, Martyn AC Wilkinson, John C Hartley, Adam P Fraise, A Peter R Wilson
Does the adoption of EUCAST susceptibility breakpoints affect the selection of antimicrobials to treat acute community-acquired respiratory tract infections?
Anna Marchese, Susanna Esposito, Ramona Barbieri, Matteo Bassetti, Eugenio Debbia
Polymorphism-specific PCR enhances the diagnostic performance of American tegumentary leishmaniasis and allows the rapid identification of Leishmania species from Argentina
Jorge D Marco, Paola A Barroso, Tatsuyuki Mimori, Fabricio M Locatelli, Ayako Tomatani, María C Mora, S Pamela Cajal, Julio R Nasser, Luis A Parada, Taketoshi Taniguchi, Masataka Korenaga, Miguel A Basombrío, Yoshihisa Hashiguchi
Influence of HTLV-1 on the clinical, microbiologic and immunologic presentation of tuberculosis
Maria de Lourdes Bastos, Silvane B Santos, Anselmo Souza, Brooke Finkmoore, Ohana Bispo, Tasso Barreto, Ingrid Cardoso, Iana Bispo, Flávia Bastos, Daniele Pereira, Lee Riley, Edgar M Carvalho
Early versus delayed initiation of antiretroviral therapy for Indian HIV-Infected individuals with tuberculosis on antituberculosis treatment
Sanjeev Sinha, Rahul C Shekhar, Gurjeet Singh, Nipam Shah, Hafiz Ahmad, Narendra Kumar, Surendra K Sharma, JC Samantaray, Sanjai Ranjan, Meera Ekka, Vishnu Sreenivas, Ronald T Mitsuyasu
Actinobaculum schaalii an emerging pediatric pathogen?
Petra Zimmermann, Livia Berlinger, Benjamin Liniger, Sebastian Grunt, Philipp Agyeman, Nicole Ritz
Impact of antiviral treatment and hospital admission delay on risk of death associated with 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic influenza in Mexico
Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Mark A Miller, Santiago Echevarría-Zuno, Margot González-León, Víctor H Borja Aburto
Clinical and temporal patterns of severe pneumonia causing critical illness during Hajj
Yasser Mandourah, Assim Al-Radi, Ali Harold Ocheltree, Sara Rashid Ocheltree, Robert A Fowler
Antiseptics and disinfectants for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis: A systematic review
Hans Verstraelen, Rita Verhelst, Kristien Roelens, Marleen Temmerman
Molecular epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in the community and hospital in Korea: emergence of ST131 producing CTX-M-15
Sun Hee Park, Ji-Hyun Byun, Su-Mi Choi, Dong-Gun Lee, Si-Hyun Kim, Jae-Cheol Kwon, Chulmin Park, Jung-Hyun Choi, Jin-Hong Yoo
Infection rate of Eperythrozoon spp. in Chinese population: a systematic review and meta-analysis since the first Chinese case reported in 1991
De-Sheng Huang, Peng Guan, Wei Wu, Tie-Feng Shen, He-Ling Liu, Shuang Cao, Hao Zhou
Emergence of serogroup C meningococcal disease associated with a high mortality rate in Hefei, China
Xi-Hai Xu, Ying Ye, Li-Fen Hu, Yu-Hui Jin, Qin-Qin Jiang, Jia-Bin Li
Surveillance on secular trends of incidence and mortality for device–associated infection in the intensive care unit setting at a tertiary medical center in Taiwan, 2000–2008: A retrospective observational study
Yin-Yin Chen, Liang-Yu Chen, Seng-Yi Lin, Pesus Chou, Shu-Yuan Liao, Fu-Der Wang
The prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Australia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Dyani Lewis, Danielle C Newton, Rebecca J Guy, Hammad Ali, Marcus Y Chen, Christopher K Fairley, Jane S Hocking
Increasing prevalence of ESBL production among Irish clinical Enterobacteriaceae from 2004 to 2008: an observational study
Jérôme Fennell, Akke Vellinga, Belinda Hanahoe, Dearbhaile Morris, Fiona Boyle, Francis Higgins, Maura Lyons, Karina O’Connell, Deirbhile Keady, Martin Cormican
Etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in a population-based study: Link between etiology and patients characteristics, process-of-care, clinical evolution and outcomes
Alberto Capelastegui, Pedro P España, Amaia Bilbao, Julio Gamazo, Federico Medel, Juan Salgado, Iñaki Gorostiaga, Maria Jose Lopez de Goicoechea, Inmaculada Gorordo, Cristobal Esteban, Lander Altube, Jose M Quintana
The role of diabetes co-morbidity for tuberculosis treatment outcomes: a prospective cohort study from Mwanza, Tanzania
Daniel Faurholt-Jepsen, Nyagosya Range, George Praygod, Jeremiah Kidola, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Martine Grosos Aabye, John Changalucha, Dirk Lund Christensen, Torben Martinussen, Henrik Krarup, Daniel Rinse Witte, Åse Bengård Andersen, Henrik Friis
Airport sentinel surveillance and entry quarantine for dengue infections following a fever screening program in Taiwan
Mei-Mei Kuan, Feng-Yee Chang
Detection of hydrogen peroxide-producing Lactobacillus species in the vagina: a comparison of culture and quantitative PCR among HIV-1 seropositive women
Jennifer E Balkus, Caroline Mitchell, Kathy Agnew, Congzhou Liu, Tina Fiedler, Susan E Cohn, Amneris Luque, Robert Coombs, David N Fredricks, Jane Hitti
The development of a GeXP-based multiplex reverse transcription-PCR assay for simultaneous detection of sixteen human respiratory virus types/subtypes
Jin Li, Nai-Ying Mao, Chen Zhang, Meng-Jie Yang, Miao Wang, Wen-Bo Xu, Xue-Jun Ma
Emergence of extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii complex over 10 years: Nationwide data from the Taiwan Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (TSAR) program
Shu-Chen Kuo, Shan-Chwen Chang, Hui-Ying Wang, Jui-Fen Lai, Pei-Chen Chen, Yih-Ru Shiau, I-Wen Huang, Tsai-Ling Yang Lauderdale
Prevention of pneumococcal diseases in the post-seven valent vaccine era: A European perspective
Catherine Weil-Olivier, Mark van der Linden, Iris de Schutter, Ron Dagan, Lorenzo Mantovani
Human rotavirus vaccine Rotarix™ provides protection against diverse circulating rotavirus strains in African infants: a randomized controlled trial
Andrew Duncan Steele, Kathleen M Neuzil, Nigel A Cunliffe, Shabir A Madhi, Pieter Bos, Bagrey Ngwira, Desiree Witte, Stacy Todd, Cheryl Louw, Mari Kirsten, Sanet Aspinall, Leen Jan Van Doorn, Alain Bouckenooghe, Pemmaraju V Suryakiran, Htay Htay Han
Alterations of leptin in the course of inflammation and severe sepsis
Michael Behnes, Martina Brueckmann, Siegfried Lang, Christian Putensen, Joachim Saur, Martin Borggrefe, Ursula Hoffmann
Gaps in the prevention of perinatal transmission of hepatitis B virus between recommendations and routine practices in a highly endemic region: a provincial population-based study in China
Yali Hu, Shu Zhang, Chao Luo, Qilan Liu, Yi-Hua Zhou
Sudden unexpected death related to enterovirus myocarditis: histopathology, immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology diagnosis at post-mortem
Imed Gaaloul, Samira Riabi, Rafik Harrath, Mark Evans, Nidhal H Salem, Souheil Mlayeh, Sally Huber, Mahjoub Aouni
Current practices of partner notification among MSM with HIV, gonorrhoea and syphilis in the Netherlands: an urgent need for improvement
Fleur van Aar, Imke Schreuder, Yolanda van Weert, Ralph Spijker, Hannelore Götz, Eline Op de Coul
Epidemiology of serogroup B invasive meningococcal disease in Ontario, Canada, 2000 to 2010
Vica Dang, Frances B Jamieson, Sarah Wilson, Prasad Rawte, Natasha S Crowcroft, Karen Johnson, Raymond S W Tsang, Shelley L Deeks
Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19A in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 1990–2010
Elizabeth Castañeda, Clara Inés Agudelo, Rodrigo De Antonio, Diego Rosselli, Claudia Calderón, Eduardo Ortega-Barria, Rómulo E Colindres
Field comparison of OraQuick® ADVANCE Rapid HIV-1/2 antibody test and two blood-based rapid HIV antibody tests in Zambia
Dalila Zachary, Lawrence Mwenge, Monde Muyoyeta, Kwame Shanaube, Albertus Schaap, Virginia Bond, Barry Kosloff, Petra de Haas, Helen Ayles
Macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae in adolescents with community-acquired pneumonia
Naoyuki Miyashita, Yasuhiro Kawai, Hiroto Akaike, Kazunobu Ouchi, Toshikiyo Hayashi, Takeyuki Kurihara, Niro Okimoto
The risk of perinatal hepatitis B virus transmission: hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) prevalence estimates for all world regions
Jördis J Ott, Gretchen A Stevens, Steven T Wiersma
Switch therapy in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: Tigecycline vs. Levofloxacin
Julio A Ramirez, Angel C Cooper, Timothy Wiemken, David Gardiner, Timothy Babinchak
Osteomyelitis of a long bone due to Fusobacterium nucleatum and Actinomyces meyeriin an immunocompetent adult: A case report and literature review
Min Ji Lee, Young Eun Ha, Hye Yon Park, Jun Hee Lee, Yoon Jung Lee, Ki Sun Sung, Cheol-In Kang, Doo Ryeon Chung, Jae-Hoon Song, Kyong Ran Peck
Factors associated with non-adherence to Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) to malaria in a rural population from holoendemic region of western Kenya
Elizabeth O Onyango, George Ayodo, Carren A Watsierah, Tom Were, Wilson Okumu, Samuel B Anyona, Evans Raballah, John M Okoth, Sussy Gumo, George O Orinda, Collins Ouma
A novel method of selective removal of human DNA improves PCR sensitivity for detection of Salmonella Typhi in blood samples
Liqing Zhou, Andrew J Pollard
Contribution of Interferon gamma release assays testing to the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in HIV-infected patients: A comparison of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In Tube, T-SPOT.TB and tuberculin skin test
José M Ramos, Catalina Robledano, Mar Masiá, Sofia Belda, Sergio Padilla, Juan C Rodríguez, Félix Gutierrez
Perceptions of healthcare professionals regarding the main challenges and barriers to effective hospital infection control in Mongolia: a qualitative study
Bat-Erdene Ider, Jon Adams, Anthony Morton, Michael Whitby, Archie Clements
Short hairpin RNA targeting 2B gene of coxsackievirus B3 exhibits potential antiviral effects both in vitro and in vivo
Hailan Yao, Yangde Zhang, Feng He, Caihong Wang, Zonghui Xiao, Jizhen Zou, Fang Wang, Zhewei Liu
Analyzing the spatial and temporal distribution of human brucellosis in Azerbaijan (1995 - 2009) using spatial and spatio-temporal statistics
Rakif Abdullayev, Ian Kracalik, Rita Ismayilova, Narmin Ustun, Ayden Talibzade, Jason K Blackburn
HIV testing, HIV status and outcomes of treatment for tuberculosis in a major diagnosis and treatment centre in Yaounde, Cameroon: a retrospective cohort study
Eric Walter Pefura Yone, Christopher Kuaban, André Pascal Kengne
Campylobacterantimicrobial resistance in Peru: a ten-year observational study
Simon Pollett, Claudio Rocha, Rito Zerpa, Lilian Patiño, Augusto Valencia, Máximo Camiña, José Guevara, Martha Lopez, Nancy Chuquiray, Eduardo Salazar-Lindo, Carlos Calampa, Martín Casapia, Rina Meza, Maruja Bernal, Drake Tilley, Michael Gregory, Ryan Maves, Eric Hall, Franca Jones, C Sofia Arriola, Marieke Rosenbaum, Juan Perez, Matthew Kasper
Cross-sectional assessment of prevalence and correlates of blood-borne and sexually-transmitted infections among Afghan National Army recruits
Catherine S Todd, Abdul Nasir, G Farooq Mansoor, Sayed M Sahibzada, Linda L Jagodzinski, Farzana Salimi, M Naim Khateri, Braden R Hale, R Vincent Barthel, Paul T Scott
Appraising the performance of genotyping tools in the prediction of coreceptor tropism in HIV-1 subtype C viruses
Saleema Crous, Ram Krishna Shrestha, Simon A Travers
Bacterial brain abscess in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma following radiotherapy: microbiology, clinical features and therapeutic outcomes
Peng-Hsiang Fang, Wei-Che Lin, Nai-Wen Tsai, Wen-Neng Chang, Chi-Ren Huang, Hsueh-Wen Chang, Tai-Lin Huang, Hsin-Ching Lin, Yu-Jun Lin, Ben-Chung Cheng, Ben Yu-Jih Su, Chia-Te Kung, Hung-Chen Wang, Cheng-Hsien Lu
Effect of Ascaris Lumbricoides specific IgE on tuberculin skin test responses in children in a high-burden setting: a cross-sectional community-based study
Nelda van Soelen, Anna M Mandalakas, H Lester Kirchner, Gerhard Walzl, Harleen M S Grewal, Marc Jacobsen, Anneke C Hesseling
Increase in susceptibility to insecticides with aging of wild Anopheles gambiaemosquitoes from Côte d’Ivoire
Mouhamadou S Chouaibou, Joseph Chabi, Georgina V Bingham, Tessa B Knox, Louis N’Dri, Nestor B Kesse, Bassirou Bonfoh, Helen V Pates Jamet
High yield of culture-based diagnosis in a TB-endemic setting
Anne-Marie Demers, Suzanne Verver, Andrew Boulle, Robin Warren, Paul van Helden, Marcel A Behr, David Coetzee
Factors associated with severe disease from malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea among children in rural Tanzania – A hospital-based cross-sectional study
Catherine Kahabuka, Gunnar Kvåle, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker
Cerebral vasculitis associated with Schistosoma mansoniinfection
Guillaume Camuset, Valérie Wolff, Christian Marescaux, Ahmed Abou-Bacar, Ermanno Candolfi, Nicolas Lefebvre, Daniel Christmann, Yves Hansmann
Expanded dengue syndrome: subacute thyroiditis and intracerebral hemorrhage
Muhammad Zaman Khan Assir, Ali Jawa, Hafiz Ijaz Ahmed
Factors associated with willingness to participate in free HIV test among general residents in Heilongjiang, Northeast China
Lili Yuan, Xin Li, Xiaoxia Li, Jingli Shi, Liying Jiang, Chundi Zhang, Xiujing Yang, Yeli Zhang, Yashuang Zhao
Seroprevalence of Human Papillomavirus Types 6, 11, 16 and 18 in Chinese Women
Jia Ji, Hai-Kui Sun, Jennifer S Smith, He Wang, Mark T Esser, Shangying Hu, Robert G Pretorius, Wen Chen, Jerome L Belinson, You-Lin Qiao
Lopinavir/Ritonavir versus Lamivudine peri-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV-1 transmission by breastfeeding: the PROMISE-PEP trial Protocol ANRS 12174
Nicolas Nagot, Chipepo Kankasa, Nicolas Meda, Justus Hofmeyr, Cheryl Nikodem, James K Tumwine, Charles Karamagi, Halvor Sommerfelt, Dorine Neveu, Thorkild Tylleskär, Philippe Van de Perre
Macrolide resistance determinants among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from carriers in Central Greece
Ioanna N Grivea, Alexia Sourla, Eleni Ntokou, Denise C Chryssanthopoulou, Alexandra G Tsantouli, George A Syrogiannopoulos
Residual risk of transfusion-transmitted infection with human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C virus, and hepatitis B virus in Korea from 2000 through 2010
Moon Jung Kim, Quehn Park, Hyuk Ki Min, Hyun Ok Kim
Associated factors for treatment delay in pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-infected individuals: a nested case-control study
Isabella Coimbra, Magda Maruza, Maria de Fátima Pessoa Militão-Albuquerque, Líbia Vilela Moura, George Tadeu Nunes Diniz, Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho, Heloísa Ramos Lacerda, Laura Cunha Rodrigues, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes
Detection of human herpesvirus 8 by quantitative polymerase chain reaction: development and standardisation of methods
David J Speicher, Newell W Johnson
The risk of AIDS-defining events is decreasing over time in the German HIV-1 Seroconverter Cohort
Mathias Altmann, Matthias an der Heiden, Ramona Scheufele, Katrin Hartmann, Claudia Houareau, Barbara Bartmeyer, Osamah Hamouda
Lipodystrophy defined by Fat Mass Ratio in HIV-infected patients is associated with a high prevalence of glucose disturbances and insulin resistance
Paula Freitas, Davide Carvalho, Ana Cristina Santos, Joana Mesquita, Maria João Matos, Antonio Jose Madureira, Esteban Martinez, António Sarmento, José Luís Medina
Procalcitonin and procalcitonin kinetics for diagnosis and prognosis of intravascular catheter-related bloodstream infections in selected critically ill patients: a prospective observational study
Vasiliki P Theodorou, Vasilios E Papaioannou, Gregory A Tripsianis, Maria K Panopoulou, Elias K Christophoridis, Georgios A Kouliatsis, Theodora M Gioka, Efstratios S Maltezos, Sophia I Ktenidou-Kartali, Ioannis A Pneumatikos
Timing of progression from Chlamydia trachomatisinfection to pelvic inflammatory disease: a mathematical modelling study
Sereina A Herzog, Christian L Althaus, Janneke CM Heijne, Pippa Oakeshott, Sally Kerry, Phillip Hay, Nicola Low
DALI: Defining Antibiotic Levels in Intensive care unit patients: a multi-centre point of prevalence study to determine whether contemporary antibiotic dosing for critically ill patients is therapeutic
Jason A Roberts, Jan J De Waele, George Dimopoulos, Despoina Koulenti, Claude Martin, Philippe Montravers, Jordi Rello, Andrew Rhodes, Therese Starr, Steven C Wallis, Jeffrey Lipman
Fiberoptic bronchoscopy for the rapid diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis
Jung Ar Shin, Yoon Soo Chang, Tae Hoon Kim, Hyung Jung Kim, Chul Min Ahn, Min Kwang Byun
Predictors of treatment failure and time to detection and switching in HIV-infected Ethiopian children receiving first line anti-retroviral therapy
Tigist Bacha, Birkneh Tilahun, Alemayehu Worku
Discrepancy between effects of carbapenems and flomoxef in treating nosocomial hemodialysis access-related bacteremia secondary to extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing klebsiella pneumoniaein patients on maintenance hemodialysis
Chih-Chao Yang, Shau-Hsuan Li, Feng-Rong Chuang, Chih-Hung Chen, Chih-Hsiung Lee, Jin-Bor Chen, Chien-Hsing Wu, Chien-Te Lee
Investigating a cluster of vulvar cancer in young women: a cross-sectional study of genital human papillomavirus prevalence
Alice R Rumbold, Sarah E Tan, John R Condon, Debbie Taylor-Thomson, Maria Nickels, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Margaret LJ Davy, Margaret M O’Brien, Christine M Connors, Ibrahim Zardawi, Jim Stankovich, Suzanne M Garland
Stable incidence and continued improvement in short term mortality of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia between 1995 and 2008
Niels Mejer, Henrik Westh, Henrik C Schønheyder, Allan G Jensen, Anders R Larsen, Robert Skov, Thomas Benfield
Hepatitis B and C infection in haemodialysis patients in Libya: prevalence, incidence and risk factors
Wiam A Alashek, Christopher W McIntyre, Maarten W Taal
Home screening for bacteriuria in children with spina bifida and clean intermittent catheterization
Bas SHJ Zegers, Cuno CSPM Uiterwaal, Carla C Verpoorten, Myleen MH Christiaens, Jan JLL Kimpen, Catharine CCE de Jong-de Vos van Steenwijk, Jan JD van Gool
Detection of P. aeruginosa harboring bla CTX-M-2, bla GES-1 and bla GES-5, bla IMP-1 and bla SPM-1causing infections in Brazilian tertiary-care hospital
Milena Polotto, Tiago Casella, Maria Gabriela de Lucca Oliveira, Fernando G Rúbio, Mauricio L Nogueira, Margarete TG de Almeida, Mara CL Nogueira
Chagasic patients are able to respond against a viral antigen from influenza virus
Paola Lasso, Diana Mesa, Natalia Bolaños, Adriana Cuéllar, Fanny Guzmán, Zulma Cucunuba, Fernando Rosas, Víctor Velasco, Maria C Thomas, Manuel Carlos López, John Mario González, Concepción Judith Puerta
Streptococcus gordonii septic arthritis : two cases and review of literature
Jean cyr Yombi, Leila Belkhir, Sylvie Jonckheere, Dunja Wilmes, Olivier Cornu, Bernard Vandercam, Hector Rodriguez-Villalobos
Transverse myelitis secondary to Melioidosis; A case report
Shanika Nandasiri, Harith Wimalaratna, Muditha Manjula, Enoka Corea
Clostridium septicum growth from a total knee arthroplasty associated with intestinal malignancy: a case report
Demetri M Economedes, Jerome Santoro, Carl A Deirmengian
Gender disparity in tuberculosis cases in eastern and western provinces of Pakistan
Omara F Dogar, Sarwat K Shah, Abrar A Chughtai, Ejaz Qadeer
Analysis of posaconazole as oral antifungal prophylaxis in pediatric patients under 12 years of age following allogeneic stem cell transplantation
Michaela Döring, Carsten Müller, Pascal-David Johann, Annika Erbacher, Astrid Kimmig, Carl-Philipp Schwarze, Peter Lang, Rupert Handgretinger, Ingo Müller
Inadequate treatment of ventilator-associated and hospital-acquired pneumonia: Risk factors and impact on outcomes
Nihal Piskin, Hande Aydemir, Nefise Oztoprak, Deniz Akduman, Fusun Comert, Furuzan Kokturk, Guven Celebi
Dengue hemorrhagic fever and severe thrombocytopenia in a patient on mandatory anticoagulation; balancing two life threatening conditions; a case report
Champika Gamakaranage, Chaturaka Rodrigo, Sincy Samarawickrama, Dilushi Wijayaratne, Malaka Jayawardane, Panduka Karunanayake, Saroj Jayasinghe
Prognostic value of semi-quantitative bacteruria counts in the diagnosis of group B streptococcus urinary tract infection: a 4-year retrospective study in adult patients
Chee K Tan, Kimberly B Ulett, Michael Steele, William H Benjamin Jr, Glen C Ulett
Does limited virucidal activity of biocides include duck hepatitis B virucidal action?
Andreas Sauerbrei, Michael Schacke, Brigitte Glück, Uwe Bust, Holger F Rabenau, Peter Wutzler
Assessing the long-term health impact of Q-fever in the Netherlands: a prospective cohort study started in 2007 on the largest documented Q-fever outbreak to date
Joris AF van Loenhout, W John Paget, Jan H Vercoulen, Clementine J Wijkmans, Jeannine LA Hautvast, Koos van der Velden
Adherence to recommendations by infectious disease consultants and its influence on outcomes of intravenous antibiotic-treated hospitalized patients
María-Carmen Fariñas, Gabriela Saravia, Jorge Calvo-Montes, Natividad Benito, Juan-José Martínez-Garde, Concepción Fariñas-Alvarez, Lorenzo Aguilar, Ramón Agüero, José-Antonio Amado, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Manuel Gómez-Fleitas
Differential outcome of neurological HCMV infection in two hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
Anna Amelia Colombo, Giovanna Giorgiani, Vanina Rognoni, Paola Villani, Milena Furione, Mario Regazzi Bonora, Emilio Paolo Alessandrino, Marco Zecca, Fausto Baldanti
Doxycycline-mediated effects on persistent symptoms and systemic cytokine responses post-neuroborreliosis: a randomized, prospective, cross-over study
Johanna Sjöwall, Anna Ledel, Jan Ernerudh, Christina Ekerfelt, Pia Forsberg
Triple valve endocarditis by mycobacterium tuberculosis. A case report
Quratulain Shaikh, Faisal Mahmood
Case control study to identify risk factors for acute hepatitis C virus infection in Egypt
Amr M Kandeel, Maha Talaat, Salma A Afifi, Nasr M El-Sayed, Moustafa A Abdel Fadeel, Rana A Hajjeh, Frank J Mahoney
Chancre of the eyelid as manifestation of primary syphilis, and precocious chorioretinitis and uveitis in an HIV-infected patient: a case report
Salvatore Cillino, Francesco Di Pace, Marcello Trizzino, Valentina Li Vecchi, Paola Di Carlo
Estimated health and economic impact of quadrivalent HPV (types 6/11/16/18) vaccination in Brazil using a transmission dynamic model
Kosuke Kawai, Gabriela Tannus Branco de Araujo, Marcelo Fonseca, Matthew Pillsbury, Puneet K Singhal
Blood leukocytes from benznidazole-treated indeterminate chagas disease patients display an overall type-1-modulated cytokine profile upon short-term in vitro stimulation with trypanosoma cruzi antigens
Renato Sathler-Avelar, Danielle Marquete Vitelli-Avelar, Silvana Maria Elói-Santos, Eliane Dias Gontijo, Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho
Development and validation of a bedside risk score for MRSA among patients hospitalized with complicated skin and skin structure infections
Marya D Zilberberg, Paresh Chaudhari, Brian H Nathanson, Rebecca S Campbell, Matthew F Emons, Suzanne Fiske, Harlen D Hays, Andrew F Shorr
The influence of climatic conditions on the transmission dynamics of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic in Chile
Gerardo Chowell, Sherry Towers, Cécile Viboud, Rodrigo Fuentes, Viviana Sotomayor, Lone Simonsen, Mark A Miller, Mauricio Lima, Claudia Villarroel, Monica Chiu, Jose E Villarroel, Andrea Olea
Comparison of three multiplex PCR assays for the detection of respiratory viral infections: evaluation of xTAG respiratory virus panel fast assay, RespiFinder 19 assay and RespiFinder SMART 22 assay
Mareike Dabisch-Ruthe, Tanja Vollmer, Ortwin Adams, Cornelius Knabbe, Jens Dreier
Excessive proinflammatory cytokine and chemokine responses of human monocyte-derived macrophages to enterovirus 71 infection
Xun Gong, Jianfang Zhou, Wenfei Zhu, Na Liu, Jinsong Li, Lili Li, Yu Jin, Zhaojun Duan
Variation in dengue virus plaque reduction neutralization testing: systematic review and pooled analysis
Kaitlin Rainwater-Lovett, Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, Derek AT Cummings, Justin Lessler
Differences in characteristics between healthcare-associated and community-acquired infection in community-onset Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection in Korea
Younghee Jung, Myung Jin Lee, Hye-Yun Sin, Nak-Hyun Kim, Jeong-Hwan Hwang, Jinyong Park, Pyoeng Gyun Choe, Wan Beom Park, Eu Suk Kim, Sang-Won Park, Kyoung Un Park, Hong Bin Kim, Nam-Joong Kim, Eui-Chong Kim, Kyoung-Ho Song, Myoung-don Oh
In-vitroanalysis of the microbicidal activity of 6 contact lens care solutions
Claudia Hildebrandt, Daniela Wagner, Thomas Kohlmann, Axel Kramer
Impact of empirical treatment in extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp. bacteremia. A multicentric cohort study
Galo Peralta, María Lamelo, Patricia Álvarez-García, María Velasco, Alberto Delgado, Juan Pablo Horcajada, María Montero, María Pía Roiz, Maria Carmen Fariñas, Juan Alonso, Luis Martínez Martínez, Alfonso Gutiérrez-Macías, Jose Angel Alava, Azucena Rodríguez, Ana Fleites, Vicente Navarro, Elia Sirvent, Jose Antonio Capdevila
Hand disinfection in a neonatal intensive care unit: continuous electronic monitoring over a one-year period
Onno K Helder, Johannes B van Goudoever, Wim C J Hop, Johannes Brug, René F Kornelisse
Respiratory viruses from hospitalized children with severe pneumonia in the Philippines
Akira Suzuki, Socorro Lupisan, Yuki Furuse, Naoko Fuji, Mariko Saito, Raita Tamaki, Hazel Galang, Lydia Sombrero, Melisa Mondoy, Rapunzel Aniceto, Remigio Olveda, Hitoshi Oshitani
Malaria and related outcomes in patients with intestinal helminths: a cross-sectional study
Abraham Degarege, Mengistu Legesse, Girmay Medhin, Abebe Animut, Berhanu Erko
Repeated Aspergillusisolation in respiratory samples from non-immunocompromised patients not selected based on clinical diagnoses: colonisation or infection?
Jose Barberan, Bernardino Alcazar, Eduardo Malmierca, Francisco Garcia de la Llana, Jordi Dorca, Daniel del Castillo, Victoria Villena, Melissa Hernandez-Febles, Francisco-Javier Garcia-Perez, Juan-Jose Granizo, Maria-Jose Gimenez, Lorenzo Aguilar
Predictors of first-line antiretroviral therapy discontinuation due to drug-related adverse events in HIV-infected patients: a retrospective cohort study
Mattia CF Prosperi, Massimiliano Fabbiani, Iuri Fanti, Mauro Zaccarelli, Manuela Colafigli, Annalisa Mondi, Alessandro D’Avino, Alberto Borghetti, Roberto Cauda, Simona Di Giambenedetto
Aedes albopictus in Lebanon, a potential risk of arboviruses outbreak
Nabil Haddad, Laurence Mousson, Marie Vazeille, Soulaima Chamat, Joelle Tayeh, Mike Abboud Osta, Anna-Bella Failloux
Infectious sacroiliitis: a retrospective, multicentre study of 39 adults
Marion Hermet, Emeline Minichiello, René Marc Flipo, Jean Jacques Dubost, Yannick Allanore, Jean Marc Ziza, Philippe Gaudin, Thierry Thomas, Emmanuelle Dernis, Baptiste Glace, Alain Regnier, Martin Soubrier
Molecular characterization of rotavirus isolates from select Canadian pediatric hospitals
Andrew McDermid, Nicole Le Saux, Elsie Grudeski, Julie A Bettinger, Kathy Manguiat, Scott A Halperin, Lily MacDonald, Pierre Déry, Joanne Embree, Wendy Vaudry, Timothy F Booth
Impact of adequate empirical combination therapy on mortality from bacteremic Pseudomonas aeruginosapneumonia
So-Youn Park, Hyun Jung Park, Song Mi Moon, Ki-Ho Park, Yong Pil Chong, Mi-Na Kim, Sung-Han Kim, Sang-Oh Lee, Yang Soo Kim, Jun Hee Woo, Sang-Ho Choi
An expanded age range for meningococcal meningitis: molecular diagnostic evidence from population-based surveillance in Asia
Soon Ae Kim, Dong Wook Kim, Bai Qing Dong, Jung Soo Kim, Dang Duc Anh, Paul E Kilgore
An exploratory GIS-based method to identify and characterise landscapes with an elevated epidemiological risk of Rhodesian human African trypanosomiasis
Nicola A Wardrop, Eric M Fèvre, Peter M Atkinson, Abbas SL Kakembo, Susan C Welburn
Escherichia coli–expressed near full length HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein is a highly sensitive and specific diagnostic antigen
Sheikh M Talha, Satish Kumar Nemani, Teppo Salminen, Sushil Kumar, Sathyamangalam Swaminathan, Tero Soukka, Kim Pettersson, Navin Khanna
Association between tumor necrosis factor alpha-238G/a polymorphism and tuberculosis susceptibility: a meta-analysis study
Zhijiao Zhang, Hang Zhu, Xudi Pu, Siying Meng, Fan Zhang, Lei Xun, Qin Liu, Yang Wang
Novel methodology to assess sputum smear microscopy quality in private laboratories
Andrew J Codlin, Mona Javaid, Fahad Qazi, Mishal S Khan
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondiiand associated risk factors among pregnant women in Jimma town, Southwestern Ethiopia
Endalew Zemene, Delenasaw Yewhalaw, Solomon Abera, Tariku Belay, Abdi Samuel, Ahmed Zeynudin
The role of TLR2 in the host response to pneumococcal pneumonia in absence of the spleen
Adriana J J Lammers, Alexander P N A de Porto, Onno J de Boer, Sandrine Florquin, Tom van der Poll
Complicated malaria and other severe febrile illness in a pediatric ward in Libreville, Gabon
Marielle Karine Bouyou-Akotet, Denise Patricia Mawili-Mboumba, Eric Kendjo, Ariane Eyang Ekouma, Omar Abdou Raouf, Edouard Engohang Allogho, Maryvonne Kombila
Antibacterial resistances in uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women: ECO·SENS II data from primary health care in Austria
Gustav Kamenski, Gernot Wagner, Sonja Zehetmayer, Waltraud Fink, Wolfgang Spiegel, Kathryn Hoffmann
Role of Helicobacter pylori cagA EPIYA motif and vacAgenotypes for the development of gastrointestinal diseases in Southeast Asian countries: a meta-analysis
Shu Sahara, Mitsushige Sugimoto, Ratha-Korn Vilaichone, Varocha Mahachai, Hiroaki Miyajima, Takahisa Furuta, Yoshio Yamaoka
Legionella pneumophila infection presenting as headache, confusion and dysarthria in a human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) positive patient: case report
Nathaniel M Robbins, Aditi Kumar, Barbra M Blair
Cefditoren: Comparative efficacy with other antimicrobials and risk factors for resistance in clinical isolates causing UTIs in outpatients
Despina Hatzaki, Garyphallia Poulakou, Ioannis Katsarolis, Niki Lambri, Maria Souli, Ioannis Deliolanis, Georgios K Nikolopoulos, Evangelia Lebessi, Helen Giamarellou
Multivitamin supplementation in HIV infected adults initiating antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: the protocol for a randomized double blinded placebo controlled efficacy trial
David Guwatudde, Amara E Ezeamama, Danstan Bagenda, Rachel Kyeyune, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Henry Wamani, Ferdinand Mugusi, Donna Spiegelman, Molin Wang, Yukari C Manabe, Wafaie W Fawzi
Daptomycin Therapy for Osteomyelitis: A Retrospective Study
Jason C Gallagher, Jennifer A Huntington, Darren Culshaw, Scott A McConnell, Minjung Yoon, Elie Berbari
A program for sustained improvement in preventing ventilator associated pneumonia in an intensive care setting
Raquel A Caserta, Alexandre R Marra, Marcelino S Durão, Cláudia Vallone Silva, Oscar Fernando Pavao dos Santos, Henrique Sutton de Sousa Neves, Michael B Edmond, Karina Tavares Timenetsky
Flexibility of interval between vaccinations with AS03A-adjuvanted influenza A (H1N1) 2009 vaccine in adults aged 18–60 and >60 years: a randomized trial
Xavier Duval, Adrian Caplanusi, Henri Laurichesse, Dominique Deplanque, Pierre Loulergue, Tejaswini Vaman, Odile Launay, Paul Gillard
Aspergillus-PCR in bronchoalveolar lavage for detection of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients
Michael Buess, Gieri Cathomas, Jörg Halter, Lilian Junker, Peter Grendelmeier, Michael Tamm, Daiana Stolz
Quantitative discrimination of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans highly leukotoxic JP2 clone from non-JP2 clones in diagnosis of aggressive periodontitis
Akihiro Yoshida, Oum-Keltoum Ennibi, Hideo Miyazaki, Tomonori Hoshino, Hideaki Hayashida, Tatsuji Nishihara, Shuji Awano, Toshihiro Ansai
Adenosine A2A receptor activation reduces recurrence and mortality from Clostridium difficileinfection in mice following vancomycin treatment
Yuesheng Li, Robert A Figler, Glynis Kolling, Tara C Bracken, Jayson Rieger, Ralph W Stevenson, Joel Linden, Richard L Guerrant, Cirle Alcantara Warren
Molecular typing and characterization of nasal carriage and community-onset infection methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureusisolates in two Taiwan medical centers
Feng-Jui Chen, Leung-Kei Kristopher Siu, Jung-Chung Lin, Chen-Her Wang, Po-Liang Lu
Clinicopathological correlates in HIV seropositive tuberculosis cases presenting with jaundice after initiating antiretroviral therapy with a structured review of the literature
David A Barr, Pravistadevi K Ramdial
Long term follow-up of drug resistant and drug susceptible tuberculosis contacts in a Low incidence setting
James Johnston, Andrew Admon, Amir Ibrahim, Kevin Elwood, Patrick Tang, Victoria Cook, Mark Fitzgerald
Acute monoarthritis in a delayed diagnosis of syphilis patient with persistent rupioid psoriasis-like lesions
Kejian Zhu, Qiang Zhou, Rui Han, Hao Cheng
Emphysematous cystitis following a transrectal needle guided biopsy of the prostate
Takeshi Hashimoto, Kazunori Namiki, Ayako Tanaka, Kenji Shimodaira, Tatsuo Gondo, Masaaki Tachibana
Hepatitis A in Puglia (South Italy) after 10 years of universal vaccination: need for strict monitoring and catch-up vaccination
Maria Chironna, Rosa Prato, Anna Sallustio, Domenico Martinelli, Silvio Tafuri, Michele Quarto, Cinzia Germinario
Hydroclimatological variability and dengue transmission in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a time-series study
Masahiro Hashizume, Ashraf M Dewan, Toshihiko Sunahara, M Ziaur Rahman, Taro Yamamoto
A prospective, multicenter, observational study of complicated skin and soft tissue infections in hospitalized patients: clinical characteristics, medical treatment, and outcomes
Benjamin A Lipsky, Gregory J Moran, Lena M Napolitano, Lien Vo, Susan Nicholson, Myoung Kim
A three-source capture-recapture estimate of the number of new HIV diagnoses in children in France from 2003–2006 with multiple imputation of a variable of heterogeneous catchability
Vanina Héraud-Bousquet, Florence Lot, Maxime Esvan, Françoise Cazein, Corinne Laurent, Josiane Warszawski, Anne Gallay
Rapid, simple, and sensitive detection of the ompB gene of spotted fever group rickettsiae by loop-mediated isothermal amplification
Lei Pan, Lijuan Zhang, Guiqiang Wang, Qinghui Liu
HIV-1 infection is associated with changes in nuclear receptor transcriptome, pro-inflammatory and lipid profile of monocytes
Barbara Renga, Daniela Francisci, Claudio D’Amore, Elisabetta Schiaroli, Adriana Carino, Franco Baldelli, Stefano Fiorucci
Decolonization of patients and health care workers to control nosocomial spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus:a simulation study
Tatiana V Gurieva, Martin CJ Bootsma, Marc JM Bonten
Rapid and accurate detection of RMP- and INH- resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosisin spinal tuberculosis specimens by CapitalBio™ DNA microarray: A prospective validation study
Zehua Zhang, Litao Li, Fei Luo, Peng Cheng, Feng Wu, Zheng Wu, Tianyong Hou, Min Zhong, Jianzhong Xu
Comparison of PCR/Electron spray Ionization-Time-of-Flight-Mass Spectrometry versus Traditional Clinical Microbiology for active surveillance of organisms contaminating high-use surfaces in a burn intensive care unit, an orthopedic ward and healthcare workers
Heather C Yun, Rachael E Kreft, Mayra A Castillo, Garth D Ehrlich, Charles H Guymon, Helen K Crouch, Kevin K Chung, Joseph C Wenke, Joseph R Hsu, Tracy L Spirk, J William Costerton, Katrin Mende, Clinton K Murray
A randomized, controlled non-inferiority trial comparing A(H1N1)pmd09 vaccine antigen, with and without AS03 adjuvant system, co-administered or sequentially administered with an inactivated trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine
Joanne M Langley, Louise Frenette, Laurence Chu, Shelly McNeil, Scott Halperin, Ping Li, David Vaughn
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage among patients receiving hemodialysis in Taiwan: prevalence rate, molecular characterization and de-colonization
Yu-Chuan Kang, Wei-Chen Tai, Chun-Chen Yu, Je-Ho Kang, Yhu-Chering Huang
Characterization of methicillin-susceptible and -resistant staphylococci in the clinical setting: a multicentre study in Nigeria
Adebayo Shittu, Omotayo Oyedara, Fadekemi Abegunrin, Kenneth Okon, Adeola Raji, Samuel Taiwo, Folasade Ogunsola, Kenneth Onyedibe, Gay Elisha
Awareness and knowledge of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection among high-risk men of Hispanic origin attending a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) clinic
Vivian Colón-López, Ana P Ortiz, Lizbeth M Del Toro-Mejías, Hermes García, Michael C Clatts, Joel Palefsky
Nursing home characteristics associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Burden and Transmission
Courtney R Murphy, Victor Quan, Diane Kim, Ellena Peterson, Matthew Whealon, Grace Tan, Kaye Evans, Hildy Meyers, Michele Cheung, Bruce Y Lee, Dana B Mukamel, Susan S Huang
Acute haematogenous community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis in an adult: Case report and review of literature
Amreeta Dhanoa, Vivek Ajit Singh, Azura Mansor, Mohd Yasim Yusof, King-Ting Lim, Kwai-Lin Thong
CXCL13 may improve diagnosis in early neuroborreliosis with atypical laboratory findings
Johannes P Borde, Simone Meier, Volker Fingerle, Christiane Klier, Johannes Hübner, Winfried V Kern
Prevalence of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis among prisoners in North Gondar Zone Prison, northwest Ethiopia
Beyene Moges, Bemnet Amare, Fanaye Asfaw, Wogahta Tesfaye, Moges Tiruneh, Yeshambel Belyhun, Andargachew Mulu, Afework Kassu
Cholera risk factors, Papua New Guinea, 2010
Alexander Rosewell, Benita Addy, Lucas Komnapi, Freda Makanda, Berry Ropa, Enoch Posanai, Samir Dutta, Glen Mola, WY Nicola Man, Anthony Zwi, C Raina MacIntyre
Vaginal microbicides for reducing the risk of sexual acquisition of HIV infection in women: systematic review and meta-analysis
Jael Obiero, Peter G Mwethera, Gregory D Hussey, Charles S Wiysonge
Empiric guideline-recommended weight-based vancomycin dosing and mortality in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a retrospective cohort study
Ronald G Hall II, Christopher A Giuliano, Krystal K Haase, Kathleen A Hazlewood, Chistopher R Frei, Nicolas A Forcade, Sara D Brouse, Todd Bell, Roger J Bedimo, Carlos A Alvarez
Benchmarking HIV health care: from individual patient care to health care evaluation. An example from the EuroSIDA study
Daria N Podlekareva, Joanne Reekie, Amanda Mocroft, Marcelo Losso, Aza G Rakhmanova, Elzbieta Bakowska, Igor A Karpov, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Jose Gatell, Jens D Lundgren, Ole Kirk
Osteomyelitis pubis caused by Kingella kingaein an adult patient: Report of the first case
Dunja Wilmes, Patrick Omoumi, Jean Squifflet, Olivier Cornu, Hector Rodriguez-Villalobos, Jean Cyr Yombi
A traveller presenting with severe melioidosis complicated by a pericardial effusion: a case report
Detlev Schultze, Brigitt Müller, Thomas Bruderer, Günter Dollenmaier, Julia M Riehm, Katia Boggian
SNP-based real-time pyrosequencing as a sensitive and specific tool for identification and differentiation of Rickettsia species in Ixodes ricinus ticks
Elisabeth Janecek, Sabine Streichan, Christina Strube
High mosquito burden and malaria transmission in a district of the city of Douala, Cameroon
Christophe Antonio-Nkondjio, Blaise Defo-Talom, Romuald Tagne-Fotso, Billy Tene-Fossog, Cyrille Ndo, Leopold Gustave Lehman, Timoléon Tchuinkam, Pierre Kengne, Parfait Awono-Ambene
Prolonged outbreak of Serratia marcescens in Tartu University Hospital: a case–control study
Vivika Adamson, Piret Mitt, Heti Pisarev, Tuuli Metsvaht, Kaidi Telling, Paul Naaber, Matti Maimets
Retrospective epidemiological study for the characterization of community- acquired pneumonia and pneumococcal pneumonia in adults in a well-defined area of Badalona (Barcelona, Spain)
Antoni Sicras-Mainar, Jordi Ibáñez-Nolla, Isabel Cifuentes, Pablo Guijarro, Ruth Navarro-Artieda, Lorenzo Aguilar
A prospective study to examine the epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile contamination in the general environment of three community hospitals in southern Ontario, Canada
Meredith C Faires, David L Pearl, William A Ciccotelli, Karen Straus, Giovanna Zinken, Olaf Berke, Richard J Reid-Smith, J Scott Weese
Enterococcus and Streptococcusspp. associated with chronic and self-medicated urinary tract infections in Vietnam
Louise Ladefoged Poulsen, Magne Bisgaard, Nguyen Thai Son, Nguyen Vu Trung, Hoang Manh An, Anders Dalsgaard
Cost-effectiveness of 2 + 1 dosing of 13-valent and 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in Canada
Stephanie R Earnshaw, Cheryl L McDade, Giovanni Zanotti, Raymond A Farkouh, David Strutton
Pandemic influenza A/H1N1 virus infection and TNF, LTA, IL1B, IL6, IL8, and CCLpolymorphisms in Mexican population: a case–control study
Guadalupe Morales-García, Ramcés Falfán-Valencia, Román Alejandro García-Ramírez, Ángel Camarena, Alejandra Ramirez-Venegas, Manuel Castillejos-López, Martha Pérez-Rodríguez, César González-Bonilla, Concepción Grajales-Muñíz, Víctor Borja-Aburto, Juan Manuel Mejía-Aranguré
Leave entitlements, time off work and the household financial impacts of quarantine compliance during an H1N1 outbreak
Anne M Kavanagh, Kate E Mason, Rebecca J Bentley, David M Studdert, Jodie McVernon, James E Fielding, Sylvia Petrony, Lyle Gurrin, Anthony D LaMontagne
Impact of gender on response to highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1 infected patients: a nationwide population-based cohort study
Kristina Thorsteinsson, Steen Ladelund, Søren Jensen-Fangel, Isik Somuncu Johansen, Terese L Katzenstein, Gitte Pedersen, Merete Storgaard, Niels Obel, Anne-Mette Lebech
In vitroantimalarial susceptibility and molecular markers of drug resistance in Franceville, Gabon
Rafika Zatra, Jean Bernard Lekana-douki, Faustin Lekoulou, Ulrick Bisvigou, Edgard Brice Ngoungou, Fousseyni S Toure Ndouo
Legionnaires’ disease from a cooling tower in a community outbreak in Lidköping, Sweden- epidemiological, environmental and microbiological investigation supported by meteorological modelling
Peter Ulleryd, Anna Hugosson, Görel Allestam, Sverker Bernander, Berndt EB Claesson, Ingrid Eilertz, Anne-Christine Hagaeus, Martin Hjorth, Agneta Johansson, Birgitta de Jong, Anna Lindqvist, Peter Nolskog, Nils Svensson
Differential apoptosis gene expressions of rhabdomyosarcoma cells in response to enterovirus 71 infection
Weifeng Shi, Xiang Li, Xueling Hou, Hongjun Peng, Qingbo Jiang, Mei Shi, Yun Ji, Xiping Liu, Jinbo Liu
Pyogenic brain abscess, a 15 year survey
Jannik Helweg-Larsen, Arnar Astradsson, Humeira Richhall, Jesper Erdal, Alex Laursen, Jannick Brennum
High viremia and low level of transmitted drug resistance in anti-retroviral therapy-naïve perinatally-infected children and adolescents with HIV-1 subtype C infection
Ujjwal Neogi, Pravat Nalini Sahoo, Ayesha De Costa, Anita Shet
High background rates of positive tuberculosis-specific interferon-γ release assays in a low prevalence region of UK: a surveillance study
Timothy SC Hinks, Nimu Varsani, David T Godsiff, Thomas C Bull, Katherine L Nash, Lisa McLuckie, Catherine Maule, Tessa Flower, Anthony Warley
The prevalence of anal human papillomavirus among young HIV negative men who have sex with men
Huachun Zou, Christopher K Fairley, Jane S Hocking, Suzanne M Garland, Andrew E Grulich, Marcus Y Chen
Prevalence of low-risk HPV types and genital warts in women born 1988/89 or 1983/84 -results of WOLVES, a population-based epidemiological study in Wolfsburg, Germany
Karl Ulrich Petry, Alexander Luyten, Annika Justus, Angelika Iftner, Sarah Strehlke, Renate Schulze-Rath, Thomas Iftner
Performance comparison of phenotypic and molecular methods for detection and differentiation of Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis
Suhail Ahmad, Ziauddin Khan, Mohammad Asadzadeh, Ajmal Theyyathel, Rachel Chandy
Treatment outcomes in palliative care: the TOPCare study. A mixed methods phase III randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a nurse-led palliative care intervention for HIV positive patients on antiretroviral therapy
Keira Lowther, Victoria Simms, Lucy Selman, Lorraine Sherr, Liz Gwyther, Hellen Kariuki, Aabid Ahmed, Zipporah Ali, Rachel Jenkins, Irene J Higginson, Richard Harding
Identification and characterization of the bacterial etiology of clinically problematic acute otitis media after tympanocentesis or spontaneous otorrhea in German children
Gerhard Grevers, Susanne Wiedemann, Jan-Christof Bohn, Rolf-Werner Blasius, Thomas Harder, Werner Kroeniger, Volker Vetter, Jean-Yves Pirçon, Cinzia Marano
Early sexual behaviour and Chlamydia trachomatisinfection – a population based cross-sectional study on gender differences among adolescents in Norway
Kirsten Gravningen, Anne-Sofie Furberg, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Tom Wilsgaard
Clinical identification of bacteria in human chronic wound infections: culturing vs. 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing
Daniel D Rhoads, Stephen B Cox, Eric J Rees, Yan Sun, Randall D Wolcott
The manual mycobacteria growth indicator tube and the nitrate reductase assay for the rapid detection of rifampicin resistance of M. Tuberculosisin low resource settings
Chamila P Adikaram, Jennifer Perera, Sandya S Wijesundera
Teacher led school-based surveillance can allow accurate tracking of emerging infectious diseases - evidence from serial cross-sectional surveys of febrile respiratory illness during the H1N1 2009 influenza pandemic in Singapore
Shu E Soh, Alex R Cook, Mark IC Chen, Vernon J Lee, Jeffery L Cutter, Vincent TK Chow, Nancy WS Tee, Raymond TP Lin, Wei-Yen Lim, Ian G Barr, Cui Lin, Meng Chee Phoon, Li Wei Ang, Sunil K Sethi, Chia Yin Chong, Lee Gan Goh, Denise LM Goh, Paul A Tambyah, Koh Cheng Thoon, Yee Sin Leo, Seang Mei Saw
Household transmission of respiratory viruses – assessment of viral, individual and household characteristics in a population study of healthy Australian adults
James M McCaw, Peter F Howard, Peter C Richmond, Michael Nissen, Theo Sloots, Stephen B Lambert, Michael Lai, Michael Greenberg, Terry Nolan, Jodie McVernon
Risk factors, microbiological findings and outcomes of necrotizing fasciitis in New Zealand: a retrospective chart review
Dilip Kumar Das, Michael G Baker, Kamalesh Venugopal
Actinomycetoma in SE Asia: the first case from Laos and a review of the literature
Sayaphet Rattanavong, Sivay Vongthongchit, Khamhou Bounphamala, Phouvong Vongphakdy, Jacques Gubler, Mayfong Mayxay, Rattanaphone Phetsouvanh, Ivo Elliott, Julie Logan, Robert Hill, Paul N Newton, David Dance
Viral etiologies of lower respiratory tract infections among Egyptian children under five years of age
Caroline F Shafik, Emad W Mohareb, Aymen S Yassin, Madgy A Amin, Amani El Kholy, Hanaa El-Karaksy, Fouad G Youssef
The influence of carbapenem resistance on mortality in solid organ transplant recipients with Acinetobacter baumanniiinfection
Erika Ferraz de Gouvêa, Ianick Souto Martins, Marcia Halpern, Adriana Lúcia Pires Ferreira, Samanta Teixeira Basto, Renato Torres Gonçalves, Beatriz Meurer Moreira, Guilherme Santoro-Lopes
A longitudinal evaluation of Treponema pallidumPCR testing in early syphilis
Matt Shields, Rebecca J Guy, Neisha J Jeoffreys, Robert J Finlayson, Basil Donovan
Risk factors and clinical phenotypes of Beijing genotype strains in tuberculosis patients in China
Yu Pang, Yuanyuan Song, Hui Xia, Yang Zhou, Bing Zhao, Yanlin Zhao
Effect of low-dose gaseous ozone on pathogenic bacteria
Belchor Fontes, Ana Maria Cattani Heimbecker, Glacus de Souza Brito, Silvia F Costa, Inneke M van der Heijden, Anna S Levin, Samir Rasslan
Maternofetal consequences of Coxiella burnetii infection in pregnancy: a case series of two outbreaks
Katharina Boden, Andreas Brueckmann, Christiane Wagner-Wiening, Beate Hermann, Klaus Henning, Thomas Junghanss, Thomas Seidel, Michael Baier, Eberhard Straube, Dirk Theegarten
Associated factors for recommending HBV vaccination to children among Georgian health care workers
Maia Butsashvili, George Kamkamidze, Marina Topuridze, Dale Morse, Wayne Triner, Jack DeHovitz, Kenrad Nelson, Louise-Anne McNutt
Comparison between the BACTEC MGIT 960 system and the agar proportion method for susceptibility testing of multidrug resistant tuberculosis strains in a high burden setting of South Africa
Halima M Said, Marleen M Kock, Nazir A Ismail, Kamaldeen Baba, Shaheed V Omar, Ayman G Osman, Anwar A Hoosen, Marthie M Ehlers
Epidemic of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 Clone Coproducing KPC-2 and 16S rRNA Methylase RmtB in a Chinese University Hospital
Jun-Jie Li, Zi-Ke Sheng, Mei Deng, Sheng Bi, Fei-Shu Hu, Hai-Feng Miao, Zhong-Kang Ji, Ji-Fang Sheng, Lan-Juan Li
Hepatitis B Infection among high risk population: a seroepidemiological survey in Southwest of Iran
Abdolmajid Khosravani, Bahador Sarkari, Halimeh Negahban, Asghar Sharifi, Mehdi Akbartabar Toori, Owrang Eilami
Correlation of anti-fungal susceptibility with clinical outcomes in patients with cryptococcal meningitis
Chen-Hsiang Lee, Tzu-Yao Chang, Jien-Wei Liu, Fang-Ju Chen, Chun-Chih Chien, Ya-Fen Tang, Cheng-Hsien Lu
Negative effect of smoking on the performance of the QuantiFERON TB gold in tube test
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