Ausgabe 1/2014
Inhalt (727 Artikel)
Clinical and microbiological characteristics of tigecycline non-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniaebacteremia in Taiwan
Yi-Tsung Lin, Fu-Der Wang, Yu-Jiun Chan, Yung-Chieh Fu, Chang-Phone Fung
Screening of post-mortem tissue donors for Coxiella burnetii infection after large outbreaks of Q fever in The Netherlands
Marja J van Wijk, D Willemijn Maas, Nicole HM Renders, Mirjam HA Hermans, Hans L Zaaijer, Boris M Hogema
Early responses to H7N9 in southern Mainland China
Robin Goodwin, Shaojing Sun
Tuberculosis mortality: patient characteristics and causes
Chou-Han Lin, Chou-Jui Lin, Yao-Wen Kuo, Jann-Yuan Wang, Chia-Lin Hsu, Jong-Min Chen, Wern-Cherng Cheng, Li-Na Lee
Intensified specimen collection to improve tuberculosis diagnosis in children from Rural South Africa, an observational study
Tania A Thomas, Scott K Heysell, Prashini Moodley, Romualde Montreuil, Xia Ha, Gerald Friedland, Sheila A Bamber, Anthony P Moll, Neel Gandhi, William E Brant, Willem Sturm, Sarita Shah
Serovar D and E of serogroup B induce highest serological responses in urogenital Chlamydia trachomatisinfections
Stephan P Verweij, Esmée Lanjouw, Caroline J Bax, Koen D Quint, Paul M Oostvogel, P Joep Dörr, Jolein Pleijster, Henry JC de Vries, Remco PH Peters, Sander Ouburg, Servaas A Morré
Epidemiology of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Brazil: a hierarchical model
Teresa Gomes, Bárbara Reis-Santos, Adelmo Bertolde, John L Johnson, Lee W Riley, Ethel Leonor Maciel
Prevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection in Libya: results from a national population based survey
Mohamed A Daw, Abdallah El-Bouzedi
Changes in pulmonary tuberculosis prevalence: evidence from the 2010 population survey in a populous province of China
Xiaolin Wei, Xiulei Zhang, Jia Yin, John Walley, Rachel Beanland, Guanyang Zou, Hongmei Zhang, Fang Li, Zhimin Liu, Benny CY Zee, Sian M Griffiths
Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors in patients with pulmonary actinomycosis
Ji Young Park, Taehoon Lee, Hongyeul Lee, Hyo-Jeong Lim, Jinwoo Lee, Jong Sun Park, Young-Jae Cho, Young Sik Park, Chang-Hoon Lee, Sang-Min Lee, Ho Il Yoon, Jae-Joon Yim, Chul-Gyu Yoo, Young Whan Kim, Sung Koo Han, Choon-Taek Lee, Jae Ho Lee
Time to first consultation, diagnosis and treatment of TB among patients attending a referral hospital in Northwest, Ethiopia
Solomon A Yimer, Gunnar A Bjune, Carol Holm-Hansen
Epidemiology of campylobacteriosis in Germany – insights from 10 years of surveillance
Anika Schielke, Bettina M Rosner, Klaus Stark
Prevention of Clostridium difficilespore formation by sub-inhibitory concentrations of tigecycline and piperacillin/tazobactam
Julian R Garneau, Louis Valiquette, Louis-Charles Fortier
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of antibiotic consumption on antibiotic resistance
Brian G Bell, Francois Schellevis, Ellen Stobberingh, Herman Goossens, Mike Pringle
Nasal swab samples and real-time polymerase chain reaction assays in community-based, longitudinal studies of respiratory viruses: the importance of sample integrity and quality control
Asma N Alsaleh, David M Whiley, Seweryn Bialasiewicz, Stephen B Lambert, Robert S Ware, Michael D Nissen, Theo P Sloots, Keith Grimwood
Rifampicin mono-resistant tuberculosis in France: a 2005–2010 retrospective cohort analysis
Vanina Meyssonnier, Thuy Van Bui, Nicolas Veziris, Vincent Jarlier, Jérôme Robert
Acute kidney injury due to anti-tuberculosis drugs: a five-year experience in an aging population
Chia-Hao Chang, Yen-Fu Chen, Vin-Cent Wu, Chin-Chung Shu, Chih-Hsin Lee, Jann-Yuan Wang, Li-Na Lee, Chong-Jen Yu
Single tablet regimens are associated with reduced Efavirenz withdrawal in antiretroviral therapy naïve or switching for simplification HIV-infected patients
Massimiliano Fabbiani, Mauro Zaccarelli, Pierfrancesco Grima, Mattia Prosperi, Iuri Fanti, Manuela Colafigli, Alessandro D’Avino, Annalisa Mondi, Alberto Borghetti, Massimo Fantoni, Roberto Cauda, Simona Di Giambenedetto
Multi-centre evaluation of real-time multiplex PCR for detection of carbapenemase genes OXA-48, VIM, IMP, NDM and KPC
Anneke van der Zee, Lieuwe Roorda, Gerda Bosman, Ad C Fluit, Mirjam Hermans, Paul HM Smits, Adri GM van der Zanden, René te Witt, Lesla ES Bruijnesteijn van Coppenraet, James Cohen Stuart, Jacobus M Ossewaarde
Quantifying the clinical virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing carbapenemase Klebsiella pneumoniae with a Galleria mellonellamodel and a pilot study to translate to patient outcomes
Milena M McLaughlin, M Renee Advincula, Michael Malczynski, Grace Barajas, Chao Qi, Marc H Scheetz
Results from early programmatic implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF testing in nine countries
Jacob Creswell, Andrew J Codlin, Emmanuel Andre, Mark A Micek, Ahmed Bedru, E Jane Carter, Rajendra-Prasad Yadav, Andrei Mosneaga, Bishwa Rai, Sayera Banu, Miranda Brouwer, Lucie Blok, Suvanand Sahu, Lucica Ditiu
Efficacy and effectiveness of infant vaccination against chronic hepatitis B in the Gambia Hepatitis Intervention Study (1986–90) and in the nationwide immunisation program
Thomas J Peto, Maimuma E Mendy, Yamundow Lowe, Emily L Webb, Hilton C Whittle, Andrew J Hall
Cost-effectiveness of tenofovir gel in urban South Africa: model projections of HIV impact and threshold product prices
Fern Terris-Prestholt, Anna M Foss, Andrew P Cox, Lori Heise, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Thomas Mertenskoetter, Helen Rees, Peter Vickerman, Charlotte H Watts
Hospitalization risk of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic cases in Hong Kong
Xi-Ling Wang, Chit-Ming Wong, Kwok-Hung Chan, King-Pan Chan, Pei-Hua Cao, JS Malik Peiris, Lin Yang
Attitudes, practices and information needs regarding novel influenza A (H7N9) among employees of food production and operation in Guangzhou, Southern China: a cross-sectional study
Tiegang Li, Jing Feng, Pengzhe Qing, Xiaomei Fan, Weisi Liu, MeiXia Li, Ming Wang
Virological efficacy and immunological recovery among Ethiopian HIV-1 infected adults and children
Andargachew Mulu, Uwe Gerd Liebert, Melanie Maier
Poorly processed reusable surface disinfection tissue dispensers may be a source of infection
Günter Kampf, Stina Degenhardt, Sibylle Lackner, Katrin Jesse, Heike von Baum, Christiane Ostermeyer
A Dirichlet process model for classifying and forecasting epidemic curves
Elaine O Nsoesie, Scotland C Leman, Madhav V Marathe
External validation of the CURSI criteria (confusion, urea, respiratory rate and shock index) in adults hospitalised for community-acquired pneumonia
Harald Nüllmann, Marc Andre Pflug, Thomas Wesemann, Hans-Jürgen Heppner, Ludger Pientka, Ulrich Thiem
Ecological, biological and social dimensions of dengue vector breeding in five urban settings of Latin America: a multi-country study
Juliana Quintero, Helena Brochero, Pablo Manrique-Saide, Mario Barrera-Pérez, César Basso, Sonnia Romero, Andrea Caprara, Jane Cris De Lima Cunha, Efraín Beltrán - Ayala, Kendra Mitchell-Foster, Axel Kroeger, Johannnes Sommerfeld, Max Petzold
The epidemiological impact of childhood influenza vaccination using live-attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) in Germany: predictions of a simulation study
Markus A Rose, Oliver Damm, Wolfgang Greiner, Markus Knuf, Peter Wutzler, Johannes G Liese, Hagen Krüger, Ulrich Wahn, Tom Schaberg, Markus Schwehm, Thomas F Kochmann, Martin Eichner
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis enterocolitis mimicking enteropathic γδ T-cell lymphoma with abnormal clonality
Osamu Imataki, Makiko Uemura, Kensuke Matsumoto, Naoko Ishibashi
Prevalence of human papillomavirus infection in the oropharynx and urine among sexually active men: a comparative study of infection by papillomavirus and other organisms, including Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma spp., and Ureaplasma spp
Kazufumi Nakashima, Kazuyoshi Shigehara, Shohei Kawaguchi, Akira Wakatsuki, Yoshitomo Kobori, Kazuyoshi Nakashima, Yasunori Ishii, Masayoshi Shimamura, Toshiyuki Sasagawa, Yasuhide Kitagawa, Atsushi Mizokami, Mikio Namiki
Host biomarkers distinguish dengue from leptospirosis in Colombia: a case–control study
Andrea L Conroy, Margarita Gélvez, Michael Hawkes, Nimerta Rajwans, W Conrad Liles, Luis Angel Villar-Centeno, Kevin C Kain
A novel polyclonal antibody-based sandwich ELISA for detection of Plasmodium vivaxdeveloped from two lactate dehydrogenase protein segments
Luciana Pereira Sousa, Luis André Morais Mariuba, Rudson Jesus Holanda, João Paulo Pimentel, Maria Edilene Martins Almeida, Yury Oliveira Chaves, Davi Borges, Emerson Lima, James Lee Crainey, Patricia Puccinelli Orlandi, Marcus Vinicius Lacerda, Paulo Afonso Nogueira
Serum complement C4b, fibronectin, and prolidase are associated with the pathological changes of pulmonary tuberculosis
Chong Wang, Yan-Yuan Li, Xiang Li, Li-Liang Wei, Xiu-Yun Yang, Dan-Dan Xu, Ting-Ting Jiang, Zhong-Jie Li, Zhong-Liang Chen, Xing Zhang, Ji-Yan Liu, Ze-Peng Ping, Ji-Cheng Li
Aspirin enhances opsonophagocytosis and is associated to a lower risk for Klebsiella pneumoniaeinvasive syndrome
Chen-Hsiang Lee, Lin-Hui Su, Jien-Wei Liu, Chia-Chi Chang, Rong-Fu Chen, Kuender-D Yang
Comparative evaluation of three immunochromatographic identification tests for culture confirmation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Kinuyo Chikamatsu, Akio Aono, Hiroyuki Yamada, Tetsuhiro Sugamoto, Tomoko Kato, Yuko Kazumi, Kiyoko Tamai, Hideji Yanagisawa, Satoshi Mitarai
Independent influence of negative blood cultures and bloodstream infections on in-hospital mortality
Carl van Walraven, Jenna Wong
The potential impact of expanding target age groups for polio immunization campaigns
Radboud J Duintjer Tebbens, Dominika A Kalkowska, Steven GF Wassilak, Mark A Pallansch, Stephen L Cochi, Kimberly M Thompson
A metabolic biosignature of early response to anti-tuberculosis treatment
Sebabrata Mahapatra, Ann M Hess, John L Johnson, Kathleen D Eisenach, Mary A DeGroote, Phineas Gitta, Moses L Joloba, Gilla Kaplan, Gerhard Walzl, W Henry Boom, John T Belisle
Clinical implications for patients treated inappropriately for community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency department
Scott T Micek, Adam Lang, Brian M Fuller, Nicholas B Hampton, Marin H Kollef
Tuberculosis burden in China: a high prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in household contacts with and without symptoms
Zhongwei Jia, Shiming Cheng, Yan Ma, Tianhao Zhang, Liqiong Bai, Weiguo Xu, Xiaoxin He, Peiru Zhang, Jinkou Zhao, David C Christiani
Evaluation of chromID strepto B as a screening media for Streptococcus agalactiae
Toyohisa Morita, Dongyun Feng, Yoko Kamio, Isao Kanno, Teruo Somaya, Kazuhito Imai, Misaki Inoue, Mutsunori Fujiwara, Akihito Miyauchi
Increased alpha-9 human papillomavirus species viral load in human immunodeficiency virus positive women
Zizipho ZA Mbulawa, Leigh F Johnson, Dianne J Marais, Inger Gustavsson, Jennifer R Moodley, David Coetzee, Ulf Gyllensten, Anna-Lise Williamson
IFN- alpha blocks IL-17 production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with chronic active hepatitis B Infection
Fang Cui, Jiangping Meng, Peng Luo, Pu Chen
NDM-1 Metallo-β-Lactamase and ArmA 16S rRNA methylase producing Providencia rettgeri clinical isolates in Nepal
Tatsuya Tada, Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama, Rajan K Dahal, Manoj K Sah, Hiroshi Ohara, Kayo Shimada, Teruo Kirikae, Bharat M Pokhrel
Evaluation of Fluorotype MTB for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in clinical specimens from a low-incidence country
Sabine Hofmann-Thiel, Harald Hoffmann
Human and entomological surveillance of West Nile fever, dengue and chikungunya in Veneto Region, Italy, 2010-2012
Federico Gobbi, Gioia Capelli, Andrea Angheben, Mario Giobbia, Mario Conforto, Marzia Franzetti, Anna Maria Cattelan, Enzo Raise, Pierangelo Rovere, Paolo Mulatti, Fabrizio Montarsi, Andrea Drago, Luisa Barzon, Giuseppina Napoletano, Francesca Zanella, Francesca Pozza, Francesca Russo, Paolo Rosi, Giorgio Palù, Zeno Bisoffi
Inventory study of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in the European Union
Marieke J van der Werf, Csaba Ködmön, Vera Katalinić-Janković, Tiina Kummik, Hanna Soini, Elvira Richter, Dimitrios Papaventsis, Enrico Tortoli, Monique Perrin, Dick van Soolingen, Manca Žolnir-Dovč, Vibeke Østergaard Thomsen
Antimicrobial susceptibility/resistance and genetic characteristics of Neisseria gonorrhoeaeisolates from Poland, 2010-2012
Beata Mlynarczyk-Bonikowska, Agnieszka Beata Serwin, Daniel Golparian, Szymon Walter de Walthoffen, Slawomir Majewski, Marta Koper, Magdalena Malejczyk, Marius Domeika, Magnus Unemo
In vitro susceptibility of Escherichia colistrains isolated from urine samples obtained in mainland China to fosfomycin trometamol and other antibiotics: a 9-year surveillance study (2004–2012)
Bei Lai, Bo Zheng, Yun Li, Sainan Zhu, Zhaohui Tong
Seroreactivity to Dirofilariaantigens in people from different areas of Serbia
Suzana A Tasić-Otašević, Simona V Gabrielli, Aleksandar V Tasić, Nataša L MiladinovićTasić, Jovana T Kostić, Aleksandra M Ignjatović, Lidija D Popović Dragonjić, Zoran G Milošević, Valentina S Arsić-Arsenijević, Gabriella A Cancrini
Stability of glycoprotein gene sequences of herpes simplex virus type 2 from primary to recurrent human infection, and diversity of the sequences among patients attending an STD clinic
Lars Haarr, Arvid Nilsen, Per M Knappskog, Nina Langeland
Durability assessment results suggest a serviceable life of two, rather than three, years for the current long-lasting insecticidal (mosquito) net (LLIN) intervention in Benin
Virgile Gnanguenon, Roseric Azondekon, Frederic Oke-Agbo, Raymond Beach, Martin Akogbeto
Detection of hepatitis C virus RNA in saliva of patients with active infection not associated with periodontal or liver disease severity
Francisca Sosa-Jurado, Verónica L Hernández-Galindo, Daniel Meléndez-Mena, Miguel A Mendoza-Torres, Fernando J Martínez-Arroniz, Verónica Vallejo-Ruiz, Julio Reyes-Leyva, Gerardo Santos-López
Risk factors for the development of severe typhoid fever in Vietnam
Christopher M Parry, Corinne Thompson, Ha Vinh, Nguyen Tran Chinh, Le Thi Phuong, Vo Anh Ho, Tran Tinh Hien, John Wain, Jeremy J Farrar, Stephen Baker
Male circumcision and the incidence and clearance of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in men: the HPV Infection in men (HIM) cohort study
Ginesa Albero, Xavier Castellsagué, Hui-Yi Lin, William Fulp, Luisa L Villa, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, Mary Papenfuss, Martha Abrahamsen, Jorge Salmerón, Manuel Quiterio, Alan G Nyitray, Beibei Lu, F Xavier Bosch, Anna R Giuliano
Immune activation and microbial translocation in liver disease progression in HIV/hepatitis co-infected patients: results from the Icona Foundation study
Giulia Marchetti, Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Camilla Tincati, Andrea Calcagno, Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein, Andrea De Luca, Andrea Antinori, Antonella Castagna, Massimo Puoti, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte
What are the most important infectious diseases among those ≥65 years: a comprehensive analysis on notifiable diseases, Norway, 1993–2011
Anneke Steens, Hanne-Merete Eriksen, Hans Blystad
Virulence difference between the prototypic Schu S4 strain (A1a) and Francisella tularensisA1a, A1b, A2 and type B strains in a murine model of infection
Claudia R Molins, Mark J Delorey, Brook M Yockey, John W Young, John T Belisle, Martin E Schriefer, Jeannine M Petersen
Increased expression of the homeostatic chemokines CCL19 and CCL21 in clinical and experimental Rickettsia conoriiinfection
Elisabeth Astrup, Trine Ranheim, Jan K Damås, Giovanni Davì, Francesca Santilli, Mogens Jensenius, Giustina Vitale, Pål Aukrust, Juan P Olano, Kari Otterdal
Molecular identification of adenoviruses associated with respiratory infection in Egypt from 2003 to 2010
Pola N Demian, Katherine C Horton, Adriana Kajon, Rania Siam, Amel Mohamed Nageib Hasanin, Amany Elgohary Sheta, Claire Cornelius, Anne M Gaynor
A sham case-control study of effectiveness of DTP-Hib-hepatitis B vaccine against rotavirus acute gastroenteritis in Kenya
Sammy Khagayi, Jacqueline E Tate, Reuben Onkoba, Umesh Parashar, Frank Odhiambo, Deron Burton, Kayla Laserson, Daniel R Feikin
Kaposi`s sarcoma associated herpesvirus infection among female sex workers and general population women in Shanghai, China: a cross-sectional study
Tiejun Zhang, Ying Yang, Feng Yu, Yanping Zhao, Feifei Lin, Veenu Minhas, Charles Wood, Na He
Decline in the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease at a medical center in Taiwan, 2000–2012
Chih-Cheng Lai, Sheng-Hsiang Lin, Chun-Hsing Liao, Wang-Huei Sheng, Po-Ren Hsueh
Caregiver burden and its determinants among family members of patients with chronic viral hepatitis in Shanghai, China: a community-based survey
Hong Ren, Yan Yu, Jia-Yu Hu, Yang Shi, Yi-Han Lu, Wei Meng
Plasma cytokine profiles in HIV-1 infected patients developing neuropathic symptoms shortly after commencing antiretroviral therapy: a case-control study
Johan J Van der Watt, Katalin A Wilkinson, Robert J Wilkinson, Jeannine M Heckmann
High number of diarrhoeal co-infections in travellers to Benin, West Africa
Tinja Lääveri, Sari H Pakkanen, Jenni Antikainen, Jukka Riutta, Sointu Mero, Juha Kirveskari, Anu Kantele
A genome-wide association study of variants associated with acquisition of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in a healthcare setting
Charlotte L Nelson, Kimberly Pelak, Mihai V Podgoreanu, Sun Hee Ahn, William K Scott, Andrew S Allen, Lindsay G Cowell, Thomas H Rude, Yurong Zhang, Amy Tong, Felicia Ruffin, Batu K Sharma-Kuinkel, Vance G Fowler, Jr
Dynamic comparison between Daan real-time PCR and Cobas TaqMan for quantification of HBV DNA levels in patients with CHB
Shao-hang Cai, Fang-fang Lv, Yong-hong Zhang, Ye-gui Jiang, Jie Peng
Risk of infection due to medical interventions via central venous catheters or implantable venous access port systems at the middle port of a three-way cock: luer lock cap vs. luer access split septum system (Q-Syte)
Fabian Pohl, Werner Hartmann, Thomas Holzmann, Sandra Gensicke, Oliver Kölbl, Matthias G Hautmann
Bordetella pertussisin sporadic and outbreak settings in Alberta, Canada, July 2004 – December 2012
Sumana Fathima, Christina Ferrato, Bonita E Lee, Kimberley Simmonds, Lin Yan, Shamir N Mukhi, Vincent Li, Linda Chui, Steven J Drews
Two severe cases of H7N9 pneumonia patients with immunoneuroendocrine axis dysfunction and vitamin D insufficiency
Jin Yao, Linhua Liu, Gang Chen, Leng Lin
Molecular epidemiology of giardiasis among Orang Asli in Malaysia: application of the triosephosphate isomerase gene
Tengku Shahrul Anuar, Siti Nor Azreen, Fatmah Md Salleh, Norhayati Moktar
Human Papillomavirus prevalence and probable first effects of vaccination in 20 to 25 year-old women in Germany: a population-based cross-sectional study via home-based self-sampling
Yvonne Deleré, Cornelius Remschmidt, Josefine Leuschner, Melanie Schuster, Michaela Fesenfeld, Achim Schneider, Ole Wichmann, Andreas M Kaufmann
Prevalence of human Salmonellosis in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Getachew Tadesse
cART prescription trends in a prospective HIV cohort in rural Tanzania from 2007 to 2011
Fabian Christoph Franzeck, Emilio Letang, Geoffrey Mwaigomole, Boniphace Jullu, Tracy R Glass, Daniel Nyogea, Christoph Hatz, Marcel Tanner, Manuel Battegay
Efficacy of isoniazid prophylactic therapy in prevention of tuberculosis in children: a meta–analysis
James Ayieko, Lisa Abuogi, Brett Simchowitz, Elizabeth A Bukusi, Allan H Smith, Arthur Reingold
TB incidence and characteristics in the remote gulf province of Papua New Guinea: a prospective study
Gail B Cross, Katie Coles, Mandana Nikpour, Owen A Moore, Justin Denholm, Emma S McBryde, Damon P Eisen, Beverlyn Warigi, Robyn Carter, Sushil Pandey, Paul Harino, Peter Siba, Christopher Coulter, Ivo Mueller, Suparat Phuanukoonnon, Marc Pellegrini
Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis B and hepatitis delta viruses circulating in the Western Amazon region, North Brazil
Myuki Alfaia Esashika Crispim, Nelson Abrahim Fraiji, Sonia Cordeiro Campello, Nicolaus Albert Schriefer, Mariane Martins Araújo Stefani, Dagmar Kiesslich
A prospective study of age trends of high-risk human papillomavirus infection in rural China
Le-Ni Kang, Philip E Castle, Fang-Hui Zhao, Jose Jeronimo, Feng Chen, Pooja Bansil, Jing Li, Wen Chen, Xun Zhang, You-Lin Qiao
Cryptosporidiosis and Isosporiasis among HIV-positive individuals in south Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Mekonnen Girma, Wondu Teshome, Beyene Petros, Tekola Endeshaw
Effectiveness of tigecycline-based versus colistin- based therapy for treatment of pneumonia caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanniiin a critical setting: a matched cohort analysis
Yu-Chung Chuang, Chien-Yu Cheng, Wang-Huei Sheng, Hsin-Yun Sun, Jann-Tay Wang, Yee-Chun Chen, Shan-Chwen Chang
Asymptomatic ratio for seasonal H1N1 influenza infection among schoolchildren in Taiwan
Ying-Hen Hsieh, Chen-An Tsai, Chien-Yu Lin, Jin-Hua Chen, Chwan-Chuen King, Day-Yu Chao, Kuang-Fu Cheng
Case report: passive transfer of hepatitis B antibodies from intravenous immunoglobulin
Simon Parker, Eliza Gil, Patricia Hewitt, Katherine Ward, Yasmin Reyal, Sasha Wilson, Jessica Manson
Antimicrobial resistance of bacterial enteropathogens isolated from stools in Madagascar
Frederique Randrianirina, Elisoa Hariniana Ratsima, Lova Ramparany, Rindra Randremanana, Hanitra Clara Rakotonirina, Tahiry Andriamanantena, Fanjasoa Rakotomanana, Soatiana Rajatonirina, Vincent Richard, Antoine Talarmin
CD4 T cell activation by B cells in human Leishmania (Viannia)infection
Daniel Rodriguez-Pinto, Nancy Gore Saravia, Diane McMahon-Pratt
Risk analysis for occurrences of schistosomiasis in the coastal area of Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil
Elainne Christine de Souza Gomes, Onicio Batista Leal-Neto, Fernando José Moreira de Oliveira Jr, Julyana Viegas Campos, Reinaldo Souza-Santos, Constança Simões Barbosa
Performance of Paracheck™-Pf, SD Bioline malaria Ag-Pf and SD Bioline malaria Ag-Pf/pan for diagnosis of falciparum malaria in the Central African Republic
Djibrine Djallé, Jean Chrysostome Gody, Jean Methode Moyen, Gaspard Tekpa, Julienne Ipero, Nestor Madji, Sébastien Breurec, Alexandre Manirakiza
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of parents in rural China on the use of antibiotics in children: a cross-sectional study
Miao Yu, Genming Zhao, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Yipin Zhu, Qi Zhao, Biao Xu
Characterization of Neisseria gonorrhoeaeisolates detected in Switzerland (1998–2012): emergence of multidrug-resistant clones less susceptible to cephalosporins
Andrea Endimiani, Yuvia N Guilarte, Regula Tinguely, Lea Hirzberger, Sylvia Selvini, Agnese Lupo, Christoph Hauser, Hansjakob Furrer
Microdistribution of the resistance of malaria vectors to deltamethrin in the region of Plateau (southeastern Benin) in preparation for an assessment of the impact of resistance on the effectiveness of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs)
Arthur Sovi, Innocent Djègbè, Lawal Soumanou, Filémon Tokponnon, Virgile Gnanguenon, Roseric Azondékon, Frédéric Oké-Agbo, Mariam Okè, Alioun Adéchoubou, Achille Massougbodji, Vincent Corbel, Martin Akogbéto
The effect of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis in northern Malawi: a cross-sectional study
Lumbani Munthali, Palwasha Y Khan, Nimrod J Mwaungulu, Femia Chilongo, Sian Floyd, Michael Kayange, Judith R Glynn, Neil French, Amelia C Crampin
Outcome of acute East African trypanosomiasis in a Polish traveller treated with pentamidine
Małgorzata Paul, Jerzy Stefaniak, Piotr Smuszkiewicz, Marjan Van Esbroeck, Dirk Geysen, Jan Clerinx
Enhanced surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis following importation of wild poliovirus in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
Ning Wen, Chun-Xiang Fan, Jian-Ping Fu, Jing Ning, Yi-Xin Ji, Hui-Ming Luo, Hua-Qing Wang, Shuang-Li Zhu, Wen-Zhou Yu, Hai-Bo Wang, Hui Zhu, Fu-Qiang Cui, De-Xin Li, Shi-Wen Wang, Wen-Bo Xu, Li-Xin Hao, Ling-Sheng Cao, Li Luo, Lu Han, Lei Cao, Wei Xia, Xin-Qi Wang, Kathleen H Reilly, Fuerhati Wushouer, Sha-Sha Mi, Wei-Zhong Yang, Li Li
Paradoxical response to disseminated non-tuberculosis mycobacteriosis treatment in a patient receiving tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor: a case report
Takahiro Takazono, Shigeki Nakamura, Yoshifumi Imamura, Taiga Miyazaki, Koichi Izumikawa, Hiroshi Kakeya, Katsunori Yanagihara, Shigeru Kohno
Estimating the under-reporting of norovirus illness in Germany utilizing enhanced awareness of diarrhoea during a large outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O104:H4 in 2011 – a time series analysis
Helen Bernard, Dirk Werber, Michael Höhle
Sero-prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis B virus and human immunodeficiency virus infection among pregnant women in Bahir Dar city, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Yohannes Zenebe, Wondemagegn Mulu, Mulat Yimer, Bayeh Abera
Therapy duration and long-term outcomes in extra-pulmonary tuberculosis
Tobias Pusch, Jotam G Pasipanodya, Ronald G Hall II, Tawanda Gumbo
Association of Trypanosoma cruzi infection with risk factors and electrocardiographic abnormalities in northeast Mexico
Zinnia Judith Molina-Garza, José Luis Rosales-Encina, Roberto Mercado-Hernández, Daniel P Molina-Garza, Ricardo Gomez-Flores, Lucio Galaviz-Silva
Incidence, pathogens and resistance patterns of nosocomial infections at a rural hospital in Gabon
Micha Scherbaum, Katrin Kösters, Raymund Egid Mürbeth, Ulysse Ateba Ngoa, Peter Gottfried Kremsner, Bertrand Lell, Abraham Alabi
Evaluation of an early step-down strategy from intravenous anidulafungin to oral azole therapy for the treatment of candidemia and other forms of invasive candidiasis: results from an open-label trial
Jose Vazquez, Annette C Reboli, Peter G Pappas, Thomas F Patterson, John Reinhardt, Peter Chin-Hong, Ellis Tobin, Daniel H Kett, Pinaki Biswas, Robert Swanson
Diagnostic accuracy of a point-of-care urine test for tuberculosis screening among newly-diagnosed hiv-infected adults: a prospective, clinic-based study
Paul K Drain, Elena Losina, Sharon M Coleman, Janet Giddy, Douglas Ross, Jeffrey N Katz, Rochelle P Walensky, Kenneth A Freedberg, Ingrid V Bassett
Community-based HCV screening: knowledge and attitudes in a high risk urban population
Brianna L Norton, Corrine I Voils, Sarah H Timberlake, Emily J Hecker, Neela D Goswami, Kim M Huffman, Anneka Landgraf, Susanna Naggie, Jason E Stout
Comparative impact of antiretroviral drugs on markers of inflammation and immune activation during the first two years of effective therapy for HIV-1 infection: an observational study
Suhaib Hattab, Amelie Guihot, Marguerite Guiguet, Slim Fourati, Guislaine Carcelain, Fabienne Caby, Anne-Geneviève Marcelin, Brigitte Autran, Dominique Costagliola, Christine Katlama
Comparative evaluation of TK SLC-L, a rapid liquid mycobacterial culture medium, with the MGIT system
İhsan Hakkı Çiftci, Engin Karakeçe
A randomized controlled trial of standard versus intensified tuberculosis diagnostics on treatment decisions by physicians in Northern Tanzania
Elizabeth A Reddy, Boniface N Njau, Susan C Morpeth, Kathryn E Lancaster, Alison C Tribble, Venance P Maro, Levina J Msuya, Anne B Morrissey, Gibson S Kibiki, Nathan M Thielman, Coleen K Cunningham, Werner Schimana, John F Shao, Shein-Chung Chow, Jason E Stout, John A Crump, John A Bartlett, Carol D Hamilton
One family cluster of avian influenza A(H7N9) virus infection in Shandong, China
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Glutathione S-transferase L1 multiplex serology as a measure of cumulative infection with human papillomavirus
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Plasmodium falciparumantigenic variation: relationships between widespread endothelial activation, parasite PfEMP1 expression and severe malaria
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Community-onset bloodstream infection with multidrug-resistant organisms: a matched case-control study
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Patient and health system delays in the diagnosis and treatment of new and retreatment pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Malawi
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The geographic distribution patterns of HIV-, HCV- and co-infections among drug users in a national methadone maintenance treatment program in Southwest China
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Clade homogeneity and Pol gene polymorphisms in chronically HIV-1 infected antiretroviral treatment naive patients after the roll out of ART in Ethiopia
Andargachew Mulu, Thomas Lange, Uwe Gerd Liebert, Melanie Maier
Increased incidence of invasive bacterial disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease compared to the general population-a population based cohort study
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Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Ureaplasma species and Mycoplasma hominis in pregnant women
Mathys J Redelinghuys, Marthie M Ehlers, Andries W Dreyer, Hennie A Lombaard, Marleen M Kock
Two cases of cardiac device-related endocarditis due to Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (group C or G streptococci)
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Plasmid transferability of KPC into a virulent K2 serotype Klebsiella pneumoniae
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Cross-sectional study of the relationship of peripheral blood cell profiles with severity of infection by adenovirus type 55
Wei-Wei Chen, Wei-Min Nie, Wen Xu, Yang-Xin Xie, Bo Tu, Peng Zhao, En-Qiang Qin, Yun-Hui Zhang, Xiu Zhang, Wen-Gang Li, Zhi-Ping Zhou, Ji-Yun Lv, Min Zhao
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The clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus infections in Fiji
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Effect of vancomycin serum trough levels on outcomes in patients with nosocomial pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus: a retrospective, post hoc, subgroup analysis of the Phase 3 ATTAIN studies
Steven L Barriere, Martin E Stryjewski, G Ralph Corey, Fredric C Genter, Ethan Rubinstein
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Do children’s upper respiratory tract infections benefit from probiotics?
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Drug resistance in HIV patients with virological failure or slow virological response to antiretroviral therapy in Ethiopia
Alemseged Abdissa, Daniel Yilma, Jannik Fonager, Anne M Audelin, Lone H Christensen, Mette F Olsen, Markos Tesfaye, Pernille Kaestel, Tsinuel Girma, Abraham Aseffa, Henrik Friis, Court Pedersen, Aase B Andersen
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Human leptospirosis in The Federated States of Micronesia: a hospital-based febrile illness survey
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Evaluation of a pulsed-xenon ultraviolet room disinfection device for impact on contamination levels of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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Biofilms and persistent wound infections in United States military trauma patients: a case–control analysis
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus (H5N1) can be transmitted in ferrets by transfusion
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Non-healing old world cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by L. infantumin a patient from Spain
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Quantitative data from the SeptiFast real-time PCR is associated with disease severity in patients with sepsis
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Immune response to live-attenuated Japanese encephalitis vaccine (JE-CV) neutralizes Japanese encephalitis virus isolates from South-East Asia and India
Matthew Bonaparte, Bashir Dweik, Emmanuel Feroldi, Claude Meric, Alain Bouckenooghe, Stephen Hildreth, Branda Hu, Sutee Yoksan, Mark Boaz
Threat of drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus to health in Nepal
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The impact of voluntary counselling and testing services on sexual behaviour change and HIV incidence: observations from a cohort study in rural Tanzania
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Risk factors for mortality in patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia; retrospective study of impact of combination antimicrobial therapy
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Children of Senegal River Basin show the highest prevalence of Blastocystissp. ever observed worldwide
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Field evaluation of a new antibody-based diagnostic for Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoniat the point-of-care in northeast Zimbabwe
Norman Nausch, Emily M Dawson, Nicholas Midzi, Takafira Mduluza, Francisca Mutapi, Michael J Doenhoff
Malaria prevalence, anemia and baseline intervention coverage prior to mass net distributions in Abia and Plateau States, Nigeria
Gregory S Noland, Patricia M Graves, Adamu Sallau, Abel Eigege, Emmanuel Emukah, Amy E Patterson, Joseph Ajiji, Iheanyichi Okorofor, Oji Uka Oji, Mary Umar, Kal Alphonsus, James Damen, Jeremiah Ngondi, Masayo Ozaki, Elizabeth Cromwell, Josephine Obiezu, Solomon Eneiramo, Chinyere Okoro, Renn McClintic-Doyle, Olusola Oresanya, Emmanuel Miri, Paul M Emerson, Frank O Richards Jr
Anxiety, worry and cognitive risk estimate in relation to protective behaviors during the 2009 influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in Hong Kong: ten cross-sectional surveys
Qiuyan Liao, Benjamin J Cowling, Wendy WT Lam, Diane MW Ng, Richard Fielding
Cost-effectiveness analysis of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 13-valent in older adults in Colombia
Jaime E Ordóñez, John J Orozco
Higher risk of renal impairment associated with tenofovir use amongst people living with HIV in India: A comparative cohort analysis between Western India and United Kingdom
Sanjay N Pujari, Colette Smith, Abhimanyu Makane, Mike Youle, Margaret Johnson, Vivek Bele, Kedar Joshi, Digamber Dabhade, Sanjay Bhagani
Natural history of colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus(VRE): a systematic review
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Necrotizing fasciitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b in a patient with rectal cancer treated with combined bevacizumab and chemotherapy: a case report
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Multi-dimensional factors associated with unprotected anal intercourse with regular partners among Chinese men who have sex with men in Hong Kong: a respondent-driven sampling survey
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Evidence of MRSE on a gentamicin and vancomycin impregnated polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) bone cement spacer after two-stage exchange arthroplasty due to periprosthetic joint infection of the knee
Jan Schmolders, Gunnar TR Hischebeth, Max J Friedrich, Thomas M Randau, Matthias D Wimmer, Hendrik Kohlhof, Ernst Molitor, Sascha Gravius
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Tuberculosis among people living with HIV/AIDS in the German ClinSurv HIV Cohort: long-term incidence and risk factors
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Transverse myelitis and acute HIV infection: a case report
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Lower ribavirin biodisponibility in patients with HIV-HCV coinfection in comparison with HCV monoinfected patients
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The epidemiology of infectious mononucleosis in Northern Scotland: a decreasing incidence and winter peak
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School closures during the 2009 influenza pandemic: national and local experiences
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Monitoring prevention or emergence of HIV drug resistance: results of a population-based foundational survey of early warning indicators in mainland Tanzania
James M Juma, Jenny K Tiberio, Mathias I Abuya, Bonita K Kilama, Geoffrey R Somi, Veryeh Sambu, Richard Banda, Boniphace S Jullu, Angela A Ramadhani
Feasibility and impact of an intensified antibiotic stewardship programme targeting cephalosporin and fluoroquinolone use in a tertiary care university medical center
Johannes P Borde, Klaus Kaier, Michaela Steib-Bauert, Werner Vach, Annette Geibel-Zehender, Hansjörg Busch, Hartmut Bertz, Martin Hug, Katja de With, Winfried V Kern
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of hospital health-care workers regarding influenza A/H1N1: a cross sectional survey
Luciana Albano, Anna Matuozzo, Paolo Marinelli, Gabriella Di Giuseppe
Outbreak of Clostridium difficilePCR ribotype 027 - the recent experience of a regional hospital
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Differences in outpatient care and treatment utilization for patients with HIV/HCV coinfection, HIV, and HCV monoinfection, a cross-sectional study
Terence L Johnson, Joshua C Toliver, Lu Mao, Christine U Oramasionwu
Pulmonary immune responses to 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus in mice
Jin Lv, Dan Wang, Yan-Hong Hua, Shi-Jia Pei, Jin Wang, Wen-Wei Hu, Xi-Liang Wang, Na Jia, Qi-Sheng Jiang
Rationale and design of REACT: a randomised controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of home-collection to increase chlamydia retesting and detect repeat positive tests
Kirsty S Smith, Jane S Hocking, Marcus Chen, Christopher K Fairley, Anna McNulty, Phillip Read, Catriona S Bradshaw, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Handan Wand, Marion Saville, William Rawlinson, Suzanne M Garland, Basil Donovan, John M Kaldor, Rebecca Guy
Human rabies surveillance and control in China, 2005–2012
Miao Song, Qing Tang, Simon Rayner, Xiao-Yan Tao, Hao Li, Zhen-Yang Guo, Xin-Xin Shen, Wen-Tao Jiao, Wei Fang, Jun Wang, Guo-Dong Liang
Genetic diversity and antifungal susceptibility profiles in causative agents of sporotrichosis
Anderson Messias Rodrigues, G Sybren de Hoog, Débora de Cássia Pires, Raimunda Sâmia Nogueira Brihante, José Júlio da Costa Sidrim, Marcos Fabio Gadelha, Arnaldo Lopes Colombo, Zoilo Pires de Camargo
An adjuvanted inactivated murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) vaccine induces potent and long-term protective immunity against a lethal challenge with virulent MCMV
Huadong Wang, Yanfeng Yao, Chaoyang Huang, Xingxing Fu, Quanjiao Chen, Hongbo Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Fang Fang, Zhenyuan Xie, Ze Chen
Diagnostic and prognostic utilities of multimarkers approach using procalcitonin, B-type natriuretic peptide, and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in critically ill patients with suspected sepsis
Mina Hur, Hanah Kim, Seungho Lee, Flavia Cristofano, Laura Magrini, Rossella Marino, Chiara Serena Gori, Cristina Bongiovanni, Benedetta Zancla, Patrizia Cardelli, Salvatore Di Somma
Is switching to an oral antibiotic regimen safe after 2 weeks of intravenous treatment for primary bacterial vertebral osteomyelitis?
Baharak Babouee Flury, Luigia Elzi, Marko Kolbe, Reno Frei, Maja Weisser, Stefan Schären, Andreas F Widmer, Manuel Battegay
Neighborhood socioeconomic position and tuberculosis transmission: a retrospective cohort study
Eyal Oren, Masahiro Narita, Charles Nolan, Jonathan Mayer
A cross-sectional analysis of symptom severity in adults with influenza and other acute respiratory illness in the outpatient setting
Jeffrey J VanWormer, Maria E Sundaram, Jennifer K Meece, Edward A Belongia
Performance of seven serological assays for diagnosing tularemia
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Increase in hippocampal water diffusion and volume during experimental pneumococcal meningitis is aggravated by bacteremia
Jon G Holler, Christian T Brandt, Stephen L Leib, Ian J Rowland, Christian Østergaard
Impact of availability of guidelines and active surveillance in reducing the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in Europe and worldwide
Klaus Kaier, Marie-Laurence Lambert, Uwe K Frank, Werner Vach, Martin Wolkewitz, Evelina Tacconelli, Jordi Rello, Ursula Theuretzbacher, Maria Martin
Respiratory viral pathogens among Singapore military servicemen 2009 – 2012: epidemiology and clinical characteristics
Xin Quan Tan, Xiahong Zhao, Vernon J Lee, Jin Phang Loh, Boon Huan Tan, Wee Hong Victor Koh, Sock Hoon Ng, Mark I-Cheng Chen, Alex Richard Cook
Parasitic polymorphism of Coccidioidesspp
Bertha Muñoz-Hernández, Gabriel Palma-Cortés, Carlos Cabello-Gutiérrez, María Angeles Martínez-Rivera
Intra-abdominal aortic graft infection: prognostic factors associated with in-hospital mortality
Matthias Garot, Pierre-Yves Delannoy, Agnès Meybeck, Béatrice Sarraz-Bournet, PierVito d’Elia, Thibaud d’Escrivan, Patrick Devos, Olivier Leroy
Longitudinal analysis of antibody responses to trachoma antigens before and after mass drug administration
Erica Brook Goodhew, Sheri Maria G Morgan, Andrew J Switzer, Beatriz Munoz, Laura Dize, Charlotte Gaydos, Harran Mkocha, Sheila K West, Ryan E Wiegand, Patrick J Lammie, Diana L Martin
Postoperative meningitis after spinal surgery: a review of 21 cases from 20,178 patients
Tung-Yi Lin, Wen-Jer Chen, Ming-Kai Hsieh, Meng-Ling Lu, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Po-Liang Lai, Tsai-Sheng Fu, Chi-Chien Niu, Lih-Huei Chen
Decreasing household contribution to TB transmission with age: a retrospective geographic analysis of young people in a South African township
Keren Middelkoop, Linda-Gail Bekker, Carl Morrow, Namee Lee, Robin Wood
Comparing short to standard duration of antibiotic therapy for patients hospitalized with cellulitis (DANCE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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Norovirus-related chronic diarrhea in a patient treated with alemtuzumab for chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Anne-Marie Ronchetti, Benoit Henry, Katia Ambert-Balay, Pierre Pothier, Justine Decroocq, Véronique Leblond, Damien Roos-Weil
Polyclonal activation of naïve T cells by urease deficient-recombinant BCG that produced protein complex composed of heat shock protein 70, CysO and major membrane protein-II
Yumiko Tsukamoto, Yumi Maeda, Toshiki Tamura, Tetsu Mukai, Masahiko Makino
The prevalence of opportunistic infections and malignancies in autopsied patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection in Japan
Harutaka Katano, Tsunekazu Hishima, Makoto Mochizuki, Yoshinori Kodama, Naoki Oyaizu, Yasunori Ota, Sohtaro Mine, Toru Igari, Atsushi Ajisawa, Katsuji Teruya, Junko Tanuma, Yoshimi Kikuchi, Tomoko Uehira, Takuma Shirasaka, Tomohiko Koibuchi, Aikichi Iwamoto, Shinichi Oka, Hideki Hasegawa, Seiji Okada, Akira Yasuoka
Day-to-day fluctuation of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen test scores and faecal egg counts in children infected with Schistosoma mansoniin Ethiopia
Abraham Degarege, Mengistu Legesse, Girmay Medhin, Tilahun Teklehaymanot, Berhanu Erko
Mycobacterial infection of breast prosthesis – a conservative treatment: a case report
David Atallah, Nadine El Kassis, George Araj, Marwan Nasr, Roy Nasnas, Nicolas Veziris, Dolla Sarkis
Prevalence and trends of markers of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and human Immunodeficiency virus in Argentine blood donors
Diego M Flichman, Jorgelina L Blejer, Beatriz I Livellara, Viviana E Re, Sonia Bartoli, Juan A Bustos, Claudia P Ansola, Susana Hidalgo, Martin E Cerda, Alicia E Levin, Adriana Huenul, Victoria Riboldi, Elena MC Treviño, Horacio J Salamone, Felix A Nuñez, Robert J Fernández, Juan F Reybaud, Rodolfo H Campos
Use of an automated blood culture system (BD BACTEC™) for diagnosis of prosthetic joint infections: easy and fast
Angela M Minassian, Robert Newnham, Elizabeth Kalimeris, Philip Bejon, Bridget L Atkins, Ian CJW Bowler
Patients presenting to the hospital with MRSA pneumonia: differentiating characteristics and outcomes with empiric treatment
Emi Minejima, Mimi Lou, Paul Nieberg, Annie Wong-Beringer
Respiratory viruses associated with patients older than 50 years presenting with ILI in Senegal, 2009 to 2011
Ndongo Dia, Vincent Richard, Davy Kiori, El Hadj Abdoul Khadir Cisse, Fatoumata Diène Sarr, Abdourahmane Faye, Déborah G Goudiaby, Ousmane M Diop, Mbayame N Niang
Clinical characteristics and outcomes in critical patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Hong Du, Ping-Zhong Wang, Jing Li, Lu Bai, Huan Li, Hai-Tao Yu, Wei Jiang, Ye Zhang, Jun-Ning Wang, Xue-Fan Bai
A portrait of single and multiple HPV type infections in Brazilian women of different age strata with squamous or glandular cervical lesions
Leandro Santos de Araújo Resende, Sílvia Helena Rabelo-Santos, Luís Otávio Sarian, Rosane Ribeiro Figueiredo Alves, Andréa Alves Ribeiro, Luiz Carlos Zeferino, Sophie Derchain
Predicting the occurrence of embolic events: an analysis of 1456 episodes of infective endocarditis from the Italian Study on Endocarditis (SEI)
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West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease: neurological manifestations and prospective longitudinal outcomes
John Hart Jr, Gail Tillman, Michael A Kraut, Hsueh-Sheng Chiang, Jeremy F Strain, Yufeng Li, Amy G Agrawal, Penny Jester, John W Gnann Jr, Richard J Whitley
The variations of VP1 protein might be associated with nervous system symptoms caused by enterovirus 71 infection
Bao Zhang, Xianbo Wu, Keyong Huang, Ling Li, Li Zheng, Chengsong Wan, Ming-Liang He, Wei Zhao
Fungemia due to Lachancea fermentati: a case report
Anne-Marie Leuck, Meghan K Rothenberger, Jaime S Green
Serum activin A and B, and follistatin in critically ill patients with influenza A(H1N1) infection
Rita Linko, Mark P Hedger, Ville Pettilä, Esko Ruokonen, Tero Ala-Kokko, Helen Ludlow, David M de Kretser
Absence of antibodies to Rickettsia spp., Bartonella spp., Ehrlichia spp. and Coxiella burnetii in Tahiti, French Polynesia
Didier Musso, Julien Broult, Philippe Parola, Didier Raoult, Pierre-Edouard Fournier
Impact of maternal HIV-1 viremia on lymphocyte subsets among HIV-exposed uninfected infants: protective mechanism or immunodeficiency
Fatima Kakkar, Valerie Lamarre, Thierry Ducruet, Marc Boucher, Silvie Valois, Hugo Soudeyns, Normand Lapointe
High prevalence of HIV and syphilis and associated factors among low-fee female sex workers in mainland China: a cross-sectional study
Chu Zhou, Keming Rou, Willa M Dong, Yu Wang, Wei Dong, Yuejiao Zhou, Xi Chen, Manhong Jia, Wei Liu, Jun Zheng, Yanling Ma, Youfang Li, Zunyou Wu
Incidence and risk factors for influenza-like-illness in the UK: online surveillance using Flusurvey
Alma J Adler, Ken TD Eames, Sebastian Funk, W John Edmunds
Impact of Y181C and/or H221Y mutation patterns of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase on phenotypic resistance to available non-nucleoside and nucleoside inhibitors in China
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Urine real-time polymerase chain reaction detection for children virus pneumonia with acute human cytomegalovirus infection
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A systematic review for pursuing the presence of antibiotic associated enterocolitis caused by methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Kentaro Iwata, Asako Doi, Takahiko Fukuchi, Goh Ohji, Yuko Shirota, Tetsuya Sakai, Hiroki Kagawa
Adherence to the cervical cancer screening program in women living with HIV in Denmark: comparison with the general population
Kristina Thorsteinsson, Steen Ladelund, Søren Jensen-Fangel, Terese L Katzenstein, Isik Somuncu Johansen, Gitte Pedersen, Jette Junge, Marie Helleberg, Merete Storgaard, Anne-Mette Lebech
Seroepidemiology of Toxocara Canis infection among primary schoolchildren in the capital area of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Chung-Jung Fu, Ting-Wu Chuang, Huei-Shan Lin, Chih-Hsiung Wu, Yung-Ching Liu, Mailynn K Langinlur, Min-Yun Lu, Wesley Wei-Wen Hsiao, Chia-Kwung Fan
Epidemiology of the avian influenza A (H7N9) outbreak in Zhejiang Province, China
Zhenyu Gong, Huakun Lv, Hua Ding, Jiankang Han, Jimin Sun, Chengliang Chai, Jian Cai, Zhao Yu, Enfu Chen
Distinguishing West Nile virus infection using a recombinant envelope protein with mutations in the conserved fusion-loop
Stefan Chabierski, Luisa Barzon, Anna Papa, Matthias Niedrig, Jonathan L Bramson, Justin M Richner, Giorgio Palù, Michael S Diamond, Sebastian Ulbert
Interleukin 32γ (IL-32γ) is highly expressed in cutaneous and mucosal lesions of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis patients: association with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and IL-10
Hélio Galdino Jr, Anetícia Eduarda Maldaner, Lívia Lara Pessoni, Frederico M Soriani, Ledice Inácia de Araújo Pereira, Sebastião Alves Pinto, Fernanda Bugalho Duarte, Clayson Moura Gomes, Anna Karoline Aguiar Fleuri, Miriam Leandro Dorta, Milton Adriano Pelli de Oliveira, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Aline Carvalho Batista, Leo A B Joosten, Leda Quercia Vieira, Fátima Ribeiro-Dias
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of adult hand, foot, and mouth disease in northern Zhejiang, China, May 2008 – November 2013
Xin-guang Yin, Hui-xing Yi, Jin Shu, Xing-ju Wang, Xiao-jun Wu, Ling-hua Yu
HCV core antigen and HCV-RNA in HIV/HCV co-infected patients with different HCV genotypes
Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Alessia Monachetti, Claudio Galli, Rosella Sabatini, Monica Lucia Ferreri, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Patrizia Bagnarelli
Detection of Clostridium difficile infection clusters, using the temporal scan statistic, in a community hospital in southern Ontario, Canada, 2006–2011
Meredith C Faires, David L Pearl, William A Ciccotelli, Olaf Berke, Richard J Reid-Smith, J Scott Weese
Intestinal parasitoses in a tertiary-care hospital located in a non-endemic setting during 2006–2010
Adriana Calderaro, Sara Montecchini, Sabina Rossi, Chiara Gorrini, Flora De Conto, Maria Cristina Medici, Carlo Chezzi, Maria Cristina Arcangeletti
Framework of behavioral indicators for outcome evaluation of TB health promotion: a Delphi study of TB suspects and Tb patients
Ying Li, John Ehiri, Daiyu Hu, Yanqi Zhang, Qingya Wang, Shun Zhang, Jia Cao
A case of penicillium marneffei infection involving the main tracheal structure
Ye Qiu, Jianquan Zhang, Guangnan Liu, Xiaoning Zhong, Jingmin Deng, Zhiyi He, Bai Jing
Correlation between tuberculin skin test and IGRAs with risk factors for the spread of infection in close contacts with sputum smear positive in pulmonary tuberculosis
Maria Luiza de Souza-Galvão, Irene Latorre, Neus Altet-Gómez, María Ángeles Jiménez-Fuentes, Celia Milà, Jordi Solsona, Maria Asunción Seminario, Adela Cantos, Juan Ruiz-Manzano, José Domínguez
A rare case of cytomegalovirus, scedosporium apiospermum and mycobacterium tuberculosis in a renal transplant recipient
Manish Rathi, Srikant Gundlapalli, Raja Ramachandran, Sandeep Mohindra, Harsimran Kaur, Vivek Kumar, Harbir Singh Kohli, Krishan Lal Gupta, Vinay Sakhuja
Combined immunization using DNA-Sm14 and DNA-Hsp65 increases CD8+ memory T cells, reduces chronic pathology and decreases egg viability during Schistosoma mansoniinfection
Milena Sobral Espíndola, Fabiani Gai Frantz, Luana Silva Soares, Ana Paula Masson, Cristiane Tefé-Silva, Claudia Silva Bitencourt, Sérgio Costa Oliveira, Vanderlei Rodrigues, Simone Gusmão Ramos, Célio Lopes Silva, Lúcia Helena Faccioli
High co-occurrence of anorectal chlamydia with urogenital chlamydia in women visiting an STI clinic revealed by routine universal testing in an observational study; a recommendation towards a better anorectal chlamydia control in women
Geneviève AFS van Liere, Christian JPA Hoebe, Petra FG Wolffs, Nicole HTM Dukers-Muijrers
AIDS and non-AIDS severe morbidity associated with hospitalizations among HIV-infected patients in two regions with universal access to care and antiretroviral therapy, France and Brazil, 2000–2008: hospital-based cohort studies
Paula Mendes Luz, Mathias Bruyand, Sayonara Ribeiro, Fabrice Bonnet, Ronaldo Ismério Moreira, Mojgan Hessamfar, Dayse Perreira Campos, Carine Greib, Charles Cazanave, Valdilea Gonçalves Veloso, François Dabis, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Geneviève Chêne
Epidemiology, species distribution and outcome of nosocomial Candida spp.bloodstream infection in Shanghai
Zhi-Tao Yang, Lin Wu, Xiao-Ying Liu, Min Zhou, Jie Li, Jia-Yin Wu, Yong Cai, En-Qiang Mao, Er-Zhen Chen, Olivier Lortholary
Recurrent erysipelas - risk factors and clinical presentation
Malin Inghammar, Magnus Rasmussen, Adam Linder
Bloodstream infections and sepsis in Greece: over-time change of epidemiology and impact of de-escalation on final outcome
Marina Koupetori, Theodoros Retsas, Nikolaos Antonakos, Glykeria Vlachogiannis, Ioannis Perdios, Christos Nathanail, Konstantinos Makaritsis, Antonios Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Sinapidis, Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Ioannis Pneumatikos, Charalambos Gogos, Apostolos Armaganidis, Elisabeth Paramythiotou
Lipocalin 2 in cerebrospinal fluid as a marker of acute bacterial meningitis
Tamazoust Guiddir, Ala-Eddine Deghmane, Dario Giorgini, Muhamed-Kheir Taha
Lower than expected hepatitis B virus infection prevalence among first generation Koreans in the U.S.: results of HBV screening in the Southern California Inland Empire
Natali Navarro, Nelson Lim, Jiah Kim, Elliot Joo, Kendrick Che, Bruce Allen Runyon, Michel Henry Mendler
The second generation of HIV-1 vertically exposed infants: a case series from the Italian Register for paediatric HIV infection
Carmelina Calitri, Clara Gabiano, Luisa Galli, Elena Chiappini, Carlo Giaquinto, Wilma Buffolano, Orazio Genovese, Susanna Esposito, Stefania Bernardi, Maurizio De Martino, Pier-Angelo Tovo
The general status of patients and limited physical activity as risk factors of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus occurrence in long-term care facilities residents in Krakow, Poland
Dorota Romaniszyn, Monika Pobiega, Jadwiga Wójkowska-Mach, Agnieszka Chmielarczyk, Barbara Gryglewska, Pawel Adamski, Piotr B Heczko, Dorota Ochońska, Malgorzata Bulanda
Detection of a divergent Parainfluenza 4 virus in an adult patient with influenza like illness using next-generation sequencing
Seweryn Bialasiewicz, Jodie McVernon, Terry Nolan, Stephen B Lambert, Guoyan Zhao, David Wang, Michael D Nissen, Theo P Sloots
Interventions to improve delivery of isoniazid preventive therapy: an overview of systematic reviews
Lisa V Adams, Elizabeth A Talbot, Karen Odato, Heather Blunt, Karen R Steingart
Association between adherence to an antimicrobial stewardship program and mortality among hospitalised cancer patients with febrile neutropaenia: a prospective cohort study
Regis G Rosa, Luciano Z Goldani, Rodrigo P dos Santos
Combination of gene expression patterns in whole blood discriminate between tuberculosis infection states
Adane Mihret, Andre G Loxton, Yonas Bekele, Stefan HE Kaufmann, Martin Kidd, Mariëlle C Haks, Tom HM Ottenhoff, Abraham Aseffa, Rawleigh Howe, Gerhard Walzl
Incidence and etiology of hemolytic-uremic syndrome in children in Norway, 1999–2008 – a retrospective study of hospital records to assess the sensitivity of surveillance
Gaute Reier Jenssen, Eirik Hovland, Anna Bjerre, Hans-Jacob Bangstad, Karin Nygard, Line Vold
Vitamin D3and gargling for the prevention of upper respiratory tract infections: a randomized controlled trial
Emma C Goodall, Andrea C Granados, Kathy Luinstra, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Brenda L Coleman, Mark Loeb, Marek Smieja
Blood pressure level impacts risk of death among HIV seropositive adults in Kenya: a retrospective analysis of electronic health records
Gerald S Bloomfield, Joseph W Hogan, Alfred Keter, Thomas L Holland, Edwin Sang, Sylvester Kimaiyo, Eric J Velazquez
A model-based economic analysis of pre-pandemic influenza vaccination cost-effectiveness
Nilimesh Halder, Joel K Kelso, George J Milne
TGF beta and IL13 in schistosomiasis mansoni associated pulmonary arterial hypertension; a descriptive study with comparative groups
Rita de Cassia dos Santos Ferreira, Silvia Maria Lucena Montenegro, Ana Lucia Coutinho Domingues, Angela Pontes Bandeira, Carlos Antonio da Mota Silveira, Luiz Arthur Calheiros Leite, Clara de Almeida Pereira, Izolda Moura Fernandes, Alessandra Brainer Mertens, Milena Oliveira Almeida
Recurrent wheezing is associated with intestinal protozoan infections in Warao Amerindian children in Venezuela: a cross-sectional survey
Marcella MA Overeem, Lilly M Verhagen, Peter WM Hermans, Berenice del Nogal, Adriana Márquez Sánchez, Natacha Martinez Acevedo, Rosalicia Ramirez Murga, Jeroen Roelfsema, Elena Pinelli, Jacobus H de Waard
Distribution of superantigens in group A streptococcal isolates from Salvador, Brazil
Hillary F Berman, Sara Yee Tartof, Joice N Reis, Mitermayer G Reis, Lee W Riley
A model-based analysis: what potential could there be for a S. aureus vaccine in a hospital setting on top of other preventative measures?
Cosmina Hogea, Thierry Van Effelterre, Adrian Cassidy
Ameboma: an unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleeding during severe leptospirosis
Tristan Legris, Marie-Christine Jaffar-Bandjee, Olivier Favre, Nicole Lefrançois, Robert Genin, Claire Ragot, Carla Fernandez, Anne-Hélène Reboux
A randomized Phase 2 trial of telavancin versus standard therapy in patients with uncomplicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: the ASSURE study
Martin E Stryjewski, Arnold Lentnek, William O’Riordan, John Pullman, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah, Jose M Miró, Vance G Fowler Jr, Steven L Barriere, Michael M Kitt, G Ralph Corey
Sexual behavior and knowledge of human immunodeficiency virus/aids and sexually transmitted infections among women inmates of Briman Prison, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Wafa MK Fageeh
Outbreaks of Mycobacterium tuberculosis MDR strains differentially induce neutrophil respiratory burst involving lipid rafts, p38 MAPK and Syk
María Mercedes Romero, Juan Ignacio Basile, Beatriz López, Viviana Ritacco, Lucía Barrera, María del Carmen Sasiain, Mercedes Alemán
A spatial epidemiological analysis of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in Queensland, Australia
Michael P Chou, Archie CA Clements, Rachel M Thomson
Increasing incidence of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome could be associated with livestock husbandry in Changchun, Northeastern China
Jing Wu, Dan-Dan Wang, Xin-Lou Li, Sake J de Vlas, Ya-Qin Yu, Jian Zhu, Ying Zhang, Bo Wang, Li Yan, Li-Qun Fang, Ya-Wen Liu, Wu-Chun Cao
Diagnostic accuracy of semi-quantitative and quantitative culture techniques for the diagnosis of catheter-related infections in newborns and molecular typing of isolated microorganisms
Danilo Flávio Moraes Riboli, João César Lyra, Eliane Pessoa Silva, Luisa Leite Valadão, Maria Regina Bentlin, José Eduardo Corrente, Ligia Maria Suppo de Souza Rugolo, Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha
Do the omeprazole family compounds exert a protective effect against influenza-like illness?
Roberto Gasparini, Piero Luigi Lai, Francesca Casabona, Cecilia Trucchi, Sara Boccalini, Maria Luisa Cristina, Stefania Rossi, Daniela Amicizia, Donatella Panatto
Risk factors for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) hospitalization among hospitalized patients with an initial CDI episode: a retrospective cohort study
Marya D Zilberberg, Kimberly Reske, Margaret Olsen, Yan Yan, Erik R Dubberke
A comparison of two informative SNP-based strategies for typing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from patients with cystic fibrosis
Melanie W Syrmis, Timothy J Kidd, Ralf J Moser, Kay A Ramsay, Kristen M Gibson, Snehal Anuj, Scott C Bell, Claire E Wainwright, Keith Grimwood, Michael Nissen, Theo P Sloots, David M Whiley
A systematic review of the epidemiology of hepatitis E virus in Africa
Jong-Hoon Kim, Kenrad E Nelson, Ursula Panzner, Yogita Kasture, Alain B Labrique, Thomas F Wierzba
A retrospective study on the aetiology, management, and outcome of brain abscess in an 11-year, single-centre study from China
Chenran Zhang, Liuhua Hu, Xiaojun Wu, Guohan Hu, Xuehua Ding, Yicheng Lu
Analyzing spatial clustering and the spatiotemporal nature and trends of HIV/AIDS prevalence using GIS: the case of Malawi, 1994-2010
Leo C Zulu, Ezekiel Kalipeni, Eliza Johannes
Evolving epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: a two-year observational study
Lionel Piroth, André Pechinot, Vincent Di Martino, Yves Hansmann, Alain Putot, Isabelle Patry, Tahar Hadou, Benoit Jaulhac, Catherine Chirouze, Christian Rabaud, Alain Lozniewski, Catherine Neuwirth, Pascal Chavanet, Anne Minello
A prospective observational study of the prevalence and risk factors for colonization by antibiotic resistant bacteria in patients at admission to hospital in Singapore
Barnaby E Young, David C Lye, Prabha Krishnan, Siew Pang Chan, Yee Sin Leo
Cytomegalovirus immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome manifesting as acute appendicitis in an HIV-infected patient
Kimberly F Faldetta, Sarah Kattakuzhy, Hao-Wei Wang, Irini Sereti, Virginia Sheikh
Rotavirus and Norovirus infections among acute gastroenteritis children in Morocco
Maria El Qazoui, Hicham Oumzil, Larbi Baassi, Nezha El Omari, Khalid Sadki, Saaid Amzazi, Mohamed Benhafid, Rajae El Aouad
Increased level of acute phase reactants in patients infected with modern Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in Mwanza, Tanzania
Ruth Stavrum, George PrayGod, Nyagosya Range, Daniel Faurholt-Jepsen, Kidola Jeremiah, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Henrik Krarup, Martine G Aabye, John Changalucha, Henrik Friis, Aase B Andersen, Harleen MS Grewal
A non-synonymous polymorphism in IL-23R Gene (rs1884444) is associated with reduced risk to schistosomiasis-associated Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome in a Kenyan population
George O Ogola, Collins Ouma, Walter GZO Jura, Erick O Muok, Robert Colebunders, Pauline N Mwinzi
Serum biomarkers predictive of cure in Chagas disease patients after nifurtimox treatment
Cynthia Santamaria, Eric Chatelain, Yves Jackson, Qianqian Miao, Brian J Ward, François Chappuis, Momar Ndao
The impact of HAART initiation timing on HIV-TB co-infected patients, a retrospective cohort study
Chin-Hui Yang, Kuan-Jung Chen, Jih-Jin Tsai, Yu-Hui Lin, Shu-Hsing Cheng, Kwei-Feng Wang, Hung-Yi Chiou
Identification of congenital rubella syndrome in Sudan
Omer Adam, Ahmed KM Ali, Judith M Hübschen, Claude P Muller
Incidence and cost of hospitalizations associated with Staphylococcus aureusskin and soft tissue infections in the United States from 2001 through 2009
Jose A Suaya, Robertino M Mera, Adrian Cassidy, Patrick O’Hara, Heather Amrine-Madsen, Stuart Burstin, Loren G Miller
The potential impact of HPV-16 reactivation on prevalence in older Australians
Igor A Korostil, David G Regan
Surgical site infections following coronary artery bypass graft procedures: 10 years of surveillance data
Damin Si, Mohana Rajmokan, Prabha Lakhan, John Marquess, Christopher Coulter, David Paterson
Humoral immune response to Shiga Toxin 2 (Stx2) among Brazilian urban children with hemolytic uremic syndrome and healthy controls
Mirian Guirro, Roxane Maria Fontes Piazza, Renato Lopes de Souza, Beatriz Ernestina Cabilio Guth
Hospital days, hospitalization costs, and inpatient mortality among patients with mucormycosis: a retrospective analysis of US hospital discharge data
Marya D Zilberberg, Andrew F Shorr, Huan Huang, Paresh Chaudhari, Victoria Federico Paly, Joseph Menzin
Inflammatory and myeloid-associated gene expression before and one day after infant vaccination with MVA85A correlates with induction of a T cell response
Magali Matsumiya, Stephanie A Harris, Iman Satti, Lisa Stockdale, Rachel Tanner, Matthew K O’Shea, Michelle Tameris, Hassan Mahomed, Mark Hatherill, Thomas J Scriba, Willem A Hanekom, Helen McShane, Helen A Fletcher
Streptococcus agalactiae in Brazil: serotype distribution, virulence determinants and antimicrobial susceptibility
Vanusa G Dutra, Valéria MN Alves, André N Olendzki, Cicero AG Dias, Alessandra FA de Bastos, Gianni O Santos, Efigênia LT de Amorin, Meireille ÂB Sousa, Rosemary Santos, Patricia CS Ribeiro, Cleuber F Fontes, Marco Andrey, Kedma Magalhães, Ana A Araujo, Lilian F Paffadore, Camila Marconi, Eddie FC Murta, Paulo C Fernandes Jr, Maria SG Raddi, Penélope S Marinho, Rita BG Bornia, Jussara K Palmeiro, Libera M Dalla-Costa, Tatiana CA Pinto, Ana Caroline N Botelho, Lúcia M Teixeira, Sérgio Eduardo L Fracalanzza
Analysis of laboratory testing results collected in an enhanced chlamydia surveillance system in Australia, 2008–2010
Wayne Dimech, Megan SC Lim, Caroline Van Gemert, Rebecca Guy, Douglas Boyle, Basil Donovan, Margaret Hellard
Efficacy of surface disinfectant cleaners against emerging highly resistant gram-negative bacteria
Mirja Reichel, Anastasija Schlicht, Christiane Ostermeyer, Günter Kampf
Invasive candidiasis in low birth weight preterm infants: risk factors, clinical course and outcome in a prospective multicenter study of cases and their matched controls
Michelle Barton, Karel O’Brien, Joan L Robinson, Dele H Davies, Kim Simpson, Elizabeth Asztalos, Joanne M Langley, Nicole Le Saux, Reg Sauve, Anne Synnes, Ben Tan, Louis de Repentigny, Earl Rubin, Chuck Hui, Lajos Kovacs, Susan E Richardson
Prevalence and factors associated with wound colonization by Staphylococcus spp. and Staphylococcus aureusin hospitalized patients in inland northeastern Brazil: a cross-sectional study
Gilmara Celli Maia Almeida, Marquiony Marques dos Santos, Nara Grazieli Martins Lima, Thiago André Cidral, Maria Celeste Nunes Melo, Kenio Costa Lima
Oesophageal varices, schistosomiasis, and mortality among patients admitted with haematemesis in Mwanza, Tanzania: a prospective cohort study
Awilly A Chofle, Hyasinta Jaka, Mheta Koy, Luke R Smart, Rodrick Kabangila, Fiona M Ewings, Humphrey D Mazigo, Warren D Johnson Jr, Daniel W Fitzgerald, Robert N Peck, Jennifer A Downs
Difference in immune response in vaccinated and unvaccinated Swedish individuals after the 2009 influenza pandemic
Isabelle Magalhaes, Mikael Eriksson, Charlotte Linde, Rashid Muhammad, Lalit Rane, Aditya Ambati, Rebecca Axelsson-Robertson, Bahareh Khalaj, Nancy Alvarez-Corrales, Giulia Lapini, Emanuele Montomoli, Annika Linde, Nancy L Pedersen, Markus Maeurer
Improved virologic outcomes over time for HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy in a cohort from Rio de Janeiro, 1997–2011
David A Martin, Paula M Luz, Jordan E Lake, Jesse L Clark, Valdilea G Veloso, Ronaldo I Moreira, Sandra W Cardoso, Jeffrey D Klausner, Beatriz Grinsztejn
Post-exposure rate of tuberculosis infection among health care workers measured with tuberculin skin test conversion after unprotected exposure to patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: 6-year experience in an Italian teaching hospital
Alba Muzzi, Elena Seminari, Tiziana Feletti, Luigia Scudeller, Piero Marone, Carmine Tinelli, Lorenzo Minoli, Carlo Marena, Patrizia Mangiarotti, Maurizio Strosselli
Acute and probable chronic Q fever during anti-TNFα and anti B-cell immunotherapy: a case report
Teske Schoffelen, Alfons A den Broeder, Marrigje Nabuurs-Franssen, Marcel van Deuren, Tom Sprong
Optimizing strategies for meningococcal C disease vaccination in Valencia (Spain)
Lina Pérez-Breva, Rafael J Villanueva, Javier Villanueva-Oller, Luis Acedo, Francisco Santonja, José A Moraño, Raquel Abad, Julio A Vázquez, Javier Díez-Domingo
The epidemiology of childhood tuberculosis in the Netherlands: still room for prevention
Connie GM Erkens, Gerard de Vries, Sytze T Keizer, Erika Slump, Susan van den Hof
Interpreting measures of tuberculosis transmission: a case study on the Portuguese population
Joao Sollari Lopes, Paula Rodrigues, Suani TR Pinho, Roberto FS Andrade, Raquel Duarte, M Gabriela M Gomes
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of children who died from hand, foot and mouth disease in Vietnam, 2011
Ngoc TB Nguyen, Hau V Pham, Cuong Q Hoang, Tien M Nguyen, Long T Nguyen, Hung C Phan, Lan T Phan, Long N Vu, Nguyen N Tran Minh
Microarray of surface-exposed proteins of rickettsia heilongjiangensisfor serodiagnosis of Far-eastern spotted fever
Yong Qi, Wenping Gong, Xiaolu Xiong, Jiafu Jiang, Yawei Wang, Jun Jiao, Changsong Duan, Bohai Wen
Treatment outcomes from community-based drug resistant tuberculosis treatment programs: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Pamela Weiss, Wenjia Chen, Victoria J Cook, James C Johnston
IgG, IgM and IgA antibodies against the novel polyprotein in active tuberculosis
Xiaoyan Feng, Xiqin Yang, Bingshui Xiu, Shuang Qie, Zhenhua Dai, Kun Chen, Ping Zhao, Li Zhang, Russell A Nicholson, Guohua Wang, Xiaoguo Song, Heqiu Zhang
Serovar distribution, antimicrobial resistance profiles, and PFGE typing of Salmonella enterica strains isolated from 2007–2012 in Guangdong, China
Bixia Ke, Jiufeng Sun, Dongmei He, Xiaocui Li, Zhaoming Liang, Chang-wen Ke
The significance of Notch ligand expression in the peripheral blood of children with hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)
Zhen Jiang Bai, Yi Ping Li, Jie Huang, Yong Jun Xiang, Chun Yu Lu, Xiao Xing Kong, Jian Mei Tian, Jiang Huai Wang, Jian Wang
Late-onset bloodstream infections of Very-Low-Birth-Weight infants: data from the Polish Neonatology Surveillance Network in 2009–2011
Jadwiga Wójkowska-Mach, Ewa Gulczyńska, Marek Nowiczewski, Maria Borszewska-Kornacka, Joanna Domańska, T Allen Merritt, Ewa Helwich, Agnieszka Kordek, Dorota Pawlik, Janusz Gadzinowski, Jerzy Szczapa, Paweł Adamski, Małgorzata Sulik, Jerzy Klamka, Monika Brzychczy-Włoch, Piotr B Heczko
Russian gonococcal antimicrobial susceptibility programme (RU-GASP) – resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae during 2009–2012 and NG-MAST genotypes in 2011 and 2012
Anna Kubanova, Alexey Kubanov, Nataliya Frigo, Viktoria Solomka, Vera Semina, Denis Vorobyev, Rafil Khairullin, Magnus Unemo
Microbial aetiology, outcomes, and costs of hospitalisation for community-acquired pneumonia; an observational analysis
Simone MC Spoorenberg, Willem Jan W Bos, Rik Heijligenberg, Paul GP Voorn, Jan C Grutters, Ger T Rijkers, Ewoudt MW van de Garde
Development of quality indicators for antimicrobial treatment in adults with sepsis
Caroline MA van den Bosch, Marlies EJL Hulscher, Stephanie Natsch, Inge C Gyssens, Jan M Prins, Suzanne E Geerlings
Cost effectiveness of a pentavalent rotavirus vaccine in Oman
Salah Thabit Al Awaidy, Berhanu G Gebremeskel, Idris Al Obeidani, Said Al Baqlani, Wisam Haddadin, Megan A O’Brien
Adipokines, hormones related to body composition, and insulin resistance in HIV fat redistribution syndrome
Paula Freitas, Davide Carvalho, Ana Cristina Santos, António José Madureira, Esteban Martinez, Jorge Pereira, António Sarmento, José Luís Medina
Predictors of fatality in pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection among adults
Önder Ergönül, Servet Alan, Öznur Ak, Fatman Sargın, Arzu Kantürk, Alper Gündüz, Derya Engin, Oral Öncül, Ilker Inanc Balkan, Bahadir Ceylan, Nur Benzonana, Saadet Yazıcı, Funda Şimşek, Nuray Uzun, Asuman İnan, Eren Gulhan, Meral Ciblak, Kenan Midilli, Mustafa Ozyurt, Selim Badur, Serap Gencer, Ozcan Nazlıcan, Serdar Özer, Nail Özgüneş, Taner Yıldırmak, Turan Aslan, Pasa Göktaş, Nese Saltoğlu, Muzaffer Fincancı, Ali Ihsan Dokucu, Haluk Eraksoy
Is expanding HPV vaccination programs to include school-aged boys likely to be value-for-money: a cost-utility analysis in a country with an existing school-girl program
Amber L Pearson, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Nick Wilson, Megan Smith, Karen Canfell, Tony Blakely
Induction of vitiligo after imiquimod treatment of condylomata acuminata
Wenfei Li, Hongyan Xin, Lingzhi Ge, Haiyan Song, Wang Cao
Predictors of suboptimal CD4 response among women achieving virologic suppression in a randomized antiretroviral treatment trial, Africa
Aida Asmelash, Yu Zheng, Kara Wools Kaloustian, Douglas Shaffer, Fred Sawe, Anthony Ogwu, Robert Salata, Judith Currier, Michael D Hughes, Shahin Lockman
Carotid intima media thickness is associated with body fat abnormalities in HIV-infected patients
Paula Freitas, Davide Carvalho, Ana Cristina Santos, António José Madureira, Esteban Martinez, Jorge Pereira, António Sarmento, José Luís Medina
The impact of central line insertion bundle on central line-associated bloodstream infection
Hung-Jen Tang, Hsin-Lan Lin, Yu-Hsiu Lin, Pak-On Leung, Yin-Ching Chuang, Chih-Cheng Lai
Characterisation of inflammatory response, coagulation, and radiological findings in Katayama fever: a report of three cases at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Heimo Lagler, Cihan Ay, Fredrik Waneck, Rainer Gattringer, Wolfgang Graninger, Michael Ramharter
CKR-L3, a deletion version CCR6-isoform shows coreceptor-activity for limited human and simian immunodeficiency viruses
Salequl Islam, Katsuaki Kanbe, Nobuaki Shimizu, Takahiro Ohtsuki, Atsushi Jinno-Oue, Atsushi Tanaka, Hiroo Hoshino
A peptide fragment from the human COX3 protein disrupts association of Mycobacterium tuberculosisvirulence proteins ESAT-6 and CFP10, inhibits mycobacterial growth and mounts protective immune response
Sachin Kumar Samuchiwal, Sultan Tousif, Dhiraj Kumar Singh, Arun Kumar, Anamika Ghosh, Kuhulika Bhalla, Prem Prakash, Sushil Kumar, Maitree Bhattacharyya, Prashini Moodley, Gobardhan Das, Anand Ranganathan
Characterisation of acute respiratory infections at a United Kingdom paediatric teaching hospital: observational study assessing the impact of influenza A (2009 pdmH1N1) on predominant viral pathogens
Emily A Lees, Enitan D Carrol, Christine Gerrard, Fiona Hardiman, Gareth Howel, Alison Timmis, Kent Thorburn, Malcolm Guiver, Paul S McNamara
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of individuals resistant to M. tuberculosis infection in a longitudinal TB household contact study in Kampala, Uganda
Ningning Ma, Sarah Zalwango, LaShaunda L Malone, Mary Nsereko, Eddie M Wampande, Bonnie A Thiel, Brenda Okware, Robert P Igo Jr., Moses L Joloba, Ezekiel Mupere, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, W Henry Boom, Catherine M Stein
Case-case-control study on factors associated with vanB vancomycin-resistant and vancomycin-susceptible enterococcal bacteraemia
Agnes Loo Yee Cheah, Trisha Peel, Benjamin P Howden, Denis Spelman, M Lindsay Grayson, Roger L Nation, David CM Kong
Serological prevalence and persistence of high-risk human papillomavirus infection among women in Santiago, Chile
Felipe A Castro, Angelica Dominguez, Klaus Puschel, Vanessa Van De Wyngard, Peter JF Snijders, Silvia Franceschi, Michael Pawlita, Catterina Ferreccio
HIV and syphilis prevalence trends among men who have sex with men in Guangxi, China: yearly cross-sectional surveys, 2008–2012
Xiaofang Wang, Guanghua Lan, Zhiyong Shen, Sten H Vermund, Qiuying Zhu, Yi Chen, Kaveh Khoshnood, Zunyou Wu, Zhenzhu Tang
Predictors of pulmonary tuberculosis treatment outcomes in South Korea: a prospective cohort study, 2005-2012
Hongjo Choi, Myungsun Lee, Ray Y Chen, Youngran Kim, Soyoung Yoon, Joon Sung Joh, Seung Kyu Park, Lori E Dodd, Jongseok Lee, Taeksun Song, Ying Cai, Lisa C Goldfeder, Laura E Via, Matthew W Carroll, Clifton E Barry 3rd, Sang-Nae Cho
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in children: a case report
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Migration intensity has no effect on peak HIV prevalence: an ecological study
Chris Kenyon, Robert Colebunders, Helene Voeten, Mark Lurie
MRSA carriage among healthcare workers in non-outbreak settings in Europe and the United States: a systematic review
Madeleine Dulon, Claudia Peters, Anja Schablon, Albert Nienhaus
Spatial-temporal excess mortality patterns of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic in Spain
Gerardo Chowell, Anton Erkoreka, Cécile Viboud, Beatriz Echeverri-Dávila
Campylobacter infection in a cohort of rural children in Moramanga, Madagascar
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False positive malaria rapid diagnostic test in returning traveler with typhoid fever
Bonnie Meatherall, Keith Preston, Dylan R Pillai
Clinical features and outcome of acute hepatitis B in pregnancy
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Geographical heterogeneity and influenza infection within households
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Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis of clinical isolates of Aspergillus flavus from Iran reveals the first cases of Aspergillus minisclerotigenesassociated with human infection
Parvin Dehghan, Tien Bui, Leona T Campbell, Yu-Wen Lai, Nai Tran-Dinh, Farideh Zaini, Dee A Carter
4Flu - an individual based simulation tool to study the effects of quadrivalent vaccination on seasonal influenza in Germany
Martin Eichner, Markus Schwehm, Johannes Hain, Helmut Uphoff, Bernd Salzberger, Markus Knuf, Ruprecht Schmidt-Ott
Common subclinical hypothyroidism during Whipple’s disease
Jean-Christophe Lagier, Florence Fenollar, Jacques Chiaroni, Christophe Picard, Christiane Oddoze, Laurent Abi-Rached, Didier Raoult
Type distribution of human papillomavirus among adult women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer (stage 1b or higher) in New Zealand
Peter Sykes, Kusuma Gopala, Ai Ling Tan, Diane Kenwright, Simone Petrich, Anco Molijn, Jing Chen
The use of the temporal scan statistic to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clusters in a community hospital
Meredith C Faires, David L Pearl, William A Ciccotelli, Olaf Berke, Richard J Reid-Smith, J Scott Weese
Inflammatory, procoagulant markers and HIV residual viremia in patients receiving protease inhibitor monotherapy or triple drug therapy: a cross-sectional study
Miriam Estébanez, Natalia Stella-Ascariz, Jesús Mingorance, Ignacio Pérez-Valero, Jose Ignacio Bernardino, Francisco Xavier Zamora, Maria Luisa Montes, Juan Julián González-García, José Ramón Arribas
Epidemic characteristics of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in China, 2006–2012
Shuo Zhang, Shiwen Wang, Wenwu Yin, Mifang Liang, Jiandong Li, Quanfu Zhang, Zijian Feng, Dexin Li
Significant cross reactive antibodies to influenza virus in adults and children during a period of marked antigenic drift
Michal Mandelboim, Michal Bromberg, Hilda Sherbany, Inbar Zucker, Karnit Yaary, Ravit Bassal, Rita Dichtiar, Danny Cohen, Tamar Shohat, Ella Mendelson, Manfred S Green
An analysis of microbiota-targeted therapies in patients with avian influenza virus subtype H7N9 infection
Haifeng Lu, Chunxia Zhang, Guirong Qian, Xinjun Hu, Hua Zhang, Chunlei Chen, Weifeng Liang, Hainv Gao, Yunmei Yang, Lanjuan Li
Viral etiology and seasonality of influenza-like illness in Gabon, March 2010 to June 2011
Sonia Etenna Lekana-Douki, Dieudonné Nkoghe, Christian Drosten, Edgar Brice Ngoungou, Jan Felix Drexler, Eric M Leroy
The impact of home-based HIV counseling and testing on care-seeking and incidence of common infectious disease syndromes in rural western Kenya
Godfrey Bigogo, Manase Amolloh, Kayla F Laserson, Allan Audi, Barrack Aura, Warren Dalal, Marta Ackers, Deron Burton, Robert F Breiman, Daniel R Feikin
Spatiotemporal characteristics of pandemic influenza
Lars Skog, Annika Linde, Helena Palmgren, Hans Hauska, Fredrik Elgh
Can epidemic detection systems at the hospital level complement regional surveillance networks: Case study with the influenza epidemic?
Solweig Gerbier-Colomban, Véronique Potinet-Pagliaroli, Marie-Hélène Metzger
Empirical antifungal therapy with an echinocandin in critically-ill patients: prospective evaluation of a pragmatic Candida score-based strategy in one medical ICU
Rémi Bruyère, Jean-Pierre Quenot, Sébastien Prin, Frédéric Dalle, Clara Vigneron, Serge Aho, Cristobal Leon, Pierre-Emmanuel Charles
Cytokine secretion from brain macrophages infected with human immunodeficiency virus in vitro and treated with raltegravir
Erick T Tatro, Benchawanna Soontornniyomkij, Scott L Letendre, Cristian L Achim
The risk factors for tuberculosis in liver or kidney transplant recipients
Jia Liu, Jin Yan, Qiquan Wan, Qifa Ye, Yisheng Huang
Deep sequencing of hepatitis C virus hypervariable region 1 reveals no correlation between genetic heterogeneity and antiviral treatment outcome
Kamila Caraballo Cortés, Osvaldo Zagordi, Karol Perlejewski, Tomasz Laskus, Krzysztof Maroszek, Iwona Bukowska-Ośko, Agnieszka Pawełczyk, Rafał Płoski, Hanna Berak, Andrzej Horban, Marek Radkowski
Development of a sensitive novel diagnostic kit for the highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus
Yasuko Tsunetsugu-Yokota, Kengo Nishimura, Shuhei Misawa, Mie Kobayashi-Ishihara, Hitoshi Takahashi, Ikuyo Takayama, Kazuo Ohnishi, Shigeyuki Itamura, Hang LK Nguyen, Mai TQ Le, Giang T Dang, Long T Nguyen, Masato Tashiro, Tsutomu Kageyama
Agreement between QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube and the tuberculin skin test and predictors of positive test results in Warao Amerindian pediatric tuberculosis contacts
Lilly M Verhagen, Mailis Maes, Julian A Villalba, Adriana d’Alessandro, Lazaro Perez Rodriguez, Mercedes F España, Peter WM Hermans, Jacobus H de Waard
Persistence, clearance and reinfection regarding six high risk human papillomavirus types in Colombian women: a follow-up study
Sara C Soto-De León, Luisa Del Río-Ospina, Milena Camargo, Ricardo Sánchez, Darwin A Moreno-Pérez, Antonio Pérez-Prados, Manuel E Patarroyo, Manuel A Patarroyo
Trends and correlates of HIV-1 resistance among subjects failing an antiretroviral treatment over the 2003–2012 decade in Italy
Marco Franzetti, Michela Violin, Andrea Antinori, Andrea De Luca, Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein, Nicola Gianotti, Carlo Torti, Stefano Bonora, Maurizio Zazzi, Claudia Balotta
Treatment outcome of new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Penang, Malaysia
Muhammad Atif, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Asrul Akmal Shafie, Irfhan Ali, Muhammad Asif, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
Assessment of laboratory methods used in the diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis after maternal treatment with spiramycin in pregnancy
Isolina MX Rodrigues, Tatiane L Costa, Juliana B Avelar, Waldemar N Amaral, Ana M Castro, Mariza M Avelino
HPV genotypes and associated cervical cytological abnormalities in women from the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong province, China: a cross-sectional study
Lipeng Jing, Xingming Zhong, Weihuang Huang, Yang Liu, Man Wang, Zhulin Miao, Xiaoping Zhang, Jing Zou, Baowen Zheng, Congde Chen, Xiaoman Liang, Guang Yang, Chunxia Jing, Xiangcai Wei
Cholera outbreaks (2012) in three districts of Nepal reveal clonal transmission of multi-drug resistant Vibrio choleraeO1
Sameer M Dixit, Fatema-Tuz Johura, Sulochana Manandhar, Abdus Sadique, Rajesh M Rajbhandari, Shahnewaj B Mannan, Mahamud-ur Rashid, Saiful Islam, Dibesh Karmacharya, Haruo Watanabe, R Bradley Sack, Alejandro Cravioto, Munirul Alam
Preliminary evaluation of near infrared spectroscopy as a method to detect plasma leakage in children with dengue hemorrhagic fever
Babs Soller, Anon Srikiatkachorn, Fengmei Zou, Alan L Rothman, In-Kyu Yoon, Robert V Gibbons, Siripen Kalayanarooj, Stephen J Thomas, Sharone Green
Decreases in self-reported alcohol consumption following HIV counseling and testing at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
Judith A Hahn, Robin Fatch, Rhoda K Wanyenze, Steven Baveewo, Moses R Kamya, David R Bangsberg, Thomas J Coates
Diagnostic proficiency and reporting of Lassa fever by physicians in Osun State of Nigeria
Samuel Anu Olowookere, Akinola Ayoola Fatiregun, Olalere Omoyosola Gbolahan, Ebenezer Gbenga Adepoju
The risk of infections in hematologic patients treated with rituximab is not influenced by cumulative rituximab dosage - a single center experience
Johanna C Nissen, Margit Hummel, Joachim Brade, Jens Kruth, Wolf-Karsten Hofmann, Dieter Buchheidt, Mark Reinwald
Polymicrobial bloodstream infections in the neonatal intensive care unit are associated with increased mortality: a case-control study
Mohan Pammi, Danni Zhong, Yvette Johnson, Paula Revell, James Versalovic
Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) and Transient Elastography (TE) for evaluation of liver fibrosis in HIV-HCV co-infected patients
Nora Frulio, Hervé Trillaud, Paul Perez, Julien Asselineau, Marianne Vandenhende, Mojgan Hessamfar, Fabrice Bonnet, Florent Maire, Jean Delaune, Victor De Ledinghen, Philippe Morlat
A multiplex nested PCR for the detection and identification of Candida species in blood samples of critically ill paediatric patients
Cleison Ledesma Taira, Thelma Suely Okay, Artur Figueiredo Delgado, Maria Esther Jurfest Rivero Ceccon, Margarete Teresa Gottardo de Almeida, Gilda Maria Barbaro Del Negro
Antimicrobial stewardship in residential aged care facilities: need and readiness assessment
Ching Jou Lim, Megan Kwong, Rhonda L Stuart, Kirsty L Buising, N Deborah Friedman, Noleen Bennett, Allen C Cheng, Anton Y Peleg, Caroline Marshall, David CM Kong
Human papillomavirus infection in Bhutan at the moment of implementation of a national HPV vaccination programme
Ugyen Tshomo, Silvia Franceschi, Dorji Dorji, Iacopo Baussano, Vanessa Tenet, Peter JF Snijders, Chris JLM Meijer, Maaike CG Bleeker, Tarik Gheit, Massimo Tommasino, Gary M Clifford
Evaluation of a microcolony growth monitoring method for the rapid determination of ethambutol resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Alice L den Hertog, Sandra Menting, Ernst T Smienk, Jim Werngren, Sven Hoffner, Richard M Anthony
Subdoses of 17DD yellow fever vaccine elicit equivalent virological/immunological kinetics timeline
Ana Carolina Campi-Azevedo, Paula de Almeida Estevam, Jordana Grazziela Coelho-dos-Reis, Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães, Gabriela Villela-Rezende, Patrícia Flávia Quaresma, Maria de Lourdes Sousa Maia, Roberto Henrique Guedes Farias, Luiz Antonio Bastos Camacho, Marcos da Silva Freire, Ricardo Galler, Anna Maya Yoshida Yamamura, Luiz Fernando Carvalho Almeida, Sheila Maria Barbosa Lima, Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira, Gloria Regina Silva Sá, Darcy Akemi Hokama, Ricardo de Carvalho, Ricardo Aguiar Villanova Freire, Edson Pereira Filho, Maria da Luz Fernandes Leal, Akira Homma, Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho, Reinaldo Menezes Martins, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho
Legionella control in the water system of antiquated hospital buildings by shock and continuous hyperchlorination: 5 years experience
Giovanni Battista Orsi, Matteo Vitali, Lucia Marinelli, Veronica Ciorba, Daniela Tufi, Angela Del Cimmuto, Paolo Ursillo, Massimo Fabiani, Susi De Santis, Carmela Protano, Carolina Marzuillo, Maria De Giusti
Protecting newborns from pertussis – the challenge of complete cocooning
Pascal Urwyler, Ulrich Heininger
Pulmonary Tuberculous: Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. 19-year experience in a third level pediatric hospital
Napoleón González Saldaña, Mercedes Macías Parra, Marte Hernández Porras, Pedro Gutiérrez Castrellón, Valeria Gómez Toscano, Hugo Juárez Olguin
Burden of herpes zoster in the UK: findings from the zoster quality of life (ZQOL) study
Adam Gater, Linda Abetz-Webb, Stuart Carroll, Azharul Mannan, Mick Serpell, Robert Johnson
Case report: failure under azithromycin treatment in a case of bacteremia due to Salmonella enterica Paratyphi A
Tetsuro Kobayashi, Kayoko Hayakawa, Momoko Mawatari, Kazuhisa Mezaki, Nozomi Takeshita, Satoshi Kutsuna, Yoshihiro Fujiya, Shuzo Kanagawa, Norio Ohmagari, Yasuyuki Kato, Masatomo Morita
Increase in transmitted resistance to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors among newly diagnosed HIV-1 infections in Europe
Dineke Frentz, David AMC Van de Vijver, Ana B Abecasis, Jan Albert, Osamah Hamouda, Louise B Jørgensen, Claudia Kücherer, Daniel Struck, Jean-Claude Schmit, Jurgen Vercauteren, Birgitta Åsjö, Claudia Balotta, Danail Beshkov, Ricardo J Camacho, Bonaventura Clotet, Suzie Coughlan, Algirdas Griskevicius, Zehava Grossman, Andrzej Horban, Tatjana Kolupajeva, Klaus Korn, Leondios G Kostrikis, Kirsi Liitsola, Marek Linka, Claus Nielsen, Dan Otelea, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Roger Paredes, Mario Poljak, Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl, Anders Sönnerborg, Danica Stanekova, Maja Stanojevic, Eric Van Wijngaerden, Annemarie MJ Wensing, Charles AB Boucher
The changing incidence of Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever in Indonesia: a 45-year registry-based analysis
Mulya Rahma Karyanti, Cuno S P M Uiterwaal, Rita Kusriastuti, Sri Rezeki Hadinegoro, Maroeska M Rovers, Hans Heesterbeek, Arno W Hoes, Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen
HPV prevalence and genotype distribution in a population-based split-sample study of well-screened women using CLART HPV2 Human Papillomavirus genotype microarray system
Jesper Bonde, Matejka Rebolj, Ditte Møller Ejegod, Sarah Preisler, Elsebeth Lynge, Carsten Rygaard
Factors associated with tuberculosis by HIV status in the Brazilian national surveillance system: a cross sectional study
Thiago Nascimento do Prado, Angélica Espinosa Miranda, Fernanda Mattos de Souza, Elias dos Santos Dias, Lorena Kellen Fernandes Sousa, Denise Arakaki-Sanchez, Mauro N Sanchez, Jonathan E Golub, Ethel Leonor Maciel
Surveillance of hepatitis A virus in urban sewages and comparison with cases notified in the course of an outbreak, Italy 2013
Giuseppina La Rosa, Simonetta Della Libera, Marcello Iaconelli, Anna Rita Ciccaglione, Roberto Bruni, Stefania Taffon, Michele Equestre, Valeria Alfonsi, Caterina Rizzo, Maria Elena Tosti, Maria Chironna, Luisa Romanò, Alessandro Remo Zanetti, Michele Muscillo
Abdominal infections in the intensive care unit: characteristics, treatment and determinants of outcome
Jan De Waele, Jeffrey Lipman, Yasser Sakr, John C Marshall, Philippe Vanhems, Casiano Barrera Groba, Marc Leone, Jean-Louis Vincent
Serological survey of Leishmaniainfection in blood donors in Salvador, Northeastern Brazil
Kiyoshi F Fukutani, Virgínia Figueiredo, Fabiana S Celes, Juqueline R Cristal, Aldina Barral, Manoel Barral-Netto, Camila I de Oliveira
Clinical features and management of a severe paradoxical reaction associated with combined treatment of Buruli ulcer and HIV co-infection
Franck Wanda, Patrick Nkemenang, Genevieve Ehounou, Marie Tchaton, Eric Comte, Laurence Toutous Trellu, Isabelle Masouyé, Vanessa Christinet, Daniel P O’Brien
Mapping risk of plague in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China
Quan Qian, Jian Zhao, Liqun Fang, Hang Zhou, Wenyi Zhang, Lan Wei, Hong Yang, Wenwu Yin, Wuchun Cao, Qun Li
Longer hospital stay is associated with higher rates of tuberculosis-related morbidity and mortality within 12 months after discharge in a referral hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nicola M Zetola, Nenad Macesic, Chawangwa Modongo, Sanghuk Shin, Ronald Ncube, Ronald G Collman
Predictors of failure of conservative treatment among patients with emphysematous pyelonephritis
Yu-Chuan Lu, Bing-Juin Chiang, Yuan-Hung Pong, Kuo-How Huang, Po-Ren Hsueh, Chao-Yuan Huang, Yeong-Shiau Pu
Single detection of human bocavirus 1 with a high viral load in severe respiratory tract infections in previously healthy children
Lili Zhou, Shouyan Zheng, Qiuyan Xiao, Luo Ren, Xiaohong Xie, Jian Luo, Lijia Wang, Ailong Huang, Wei Liu, Enmei Liu
Assessing the impact of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children: an exploratory qualitative study
Caroline Franck, James A Seddon, Anneke C Hesseling, H Simon Schaaf, Donald Skinner, Lucy Reynolds
Surveillance of low pathogenic novel H7N9 avian influenza in commercial poultry barns: detection of outbreaks and estimation of virus introduction time
Amy Pinsent, Isobel M Blake, Michael T White, Steven Riley
Effect of deworming on school-aged children’s physical fitness, cognition and clinical parameters in a malaria-helminth co-endemic area of Côte d’Ivoire
Eveline Hürlimann, Clarisse A Houngbedji, Prisca B N’Dri, Dominique Bänninger, Jean T Coulibaly, Peiling Yap, Kigbafori D Silué, Eliézer K N’Goran, Giovanna Raso, Jürg Utzinger
Water sources as reservoirs of Vibrio choleraeO1 and non-O1 strains in Bepanda, Douala (Cameroon): relationship between isolation and physico-chemical factors
Jane-Francis Tatah Kihla Akoachere, Christelle Kwedjeu Pulcherie Mbuntcha
Emerging trends in invasive and noninvasive isolates of Streptococcus agalactiaein a Latin American hospital: a 17-year study
Maria del Pilar Crespo-Ortiz, Claudia Rocio Castañeda-Ramirez, Monica Recalde-Bolaños, Juan Diego Vélez-Londoño
The extracellular matrix protein mindin as a novel adjuvant elicits stronger immune responses for rBAG1, rSRS4 and rSRS9 antigens of Toxoplasma gondiiin BALB/c mice
Xiaojing Sun, Mei Mei, Xu Zhang, Fusong Han, Boyin Jia, Xiaoyan Wei, Zhiguang Chang, Huijun Lu, Jigang Yin, Qijun Chen, Ning Jiang
HIV prevalence, sexual and HIV testing behaviors among men who have sex with men in the Republic of Cyprus: 2011-2012 data from a cross-sectional study
Magdalini Pylli, Nicos Middleton, Andreas Charalambous, Vasilios Raftopoulos
Sexual mixing and the risk environment of sexually active transgender women: data from a respondent-driven sampling study of HIV risk among transwomen in San Francisco, 2010
Erin C Wilson, Glen-Milo Santos, H Fisher Raymond
Decline in severe diarrhea hospitalizations after the introduction of rotavirus vaccination in Ghana: a prevalence study
Christabel C Enweronu-Laryea, Isaac Boamah, Eric Sifah, Stanley K Diamenu, George Armah
Gastroenteritis due to typhoidal Salmonella: a decade of observation at an urban and a rural diarrheal disease hospital in Bangladesh
Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mokibul Hassan Afrad, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Farzana Ferdous, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Jui Das, KM Shahunja, Farzana Afroze, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Tahmeed Ahmed, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Peter John Baker, Abdullah Al Mamun
Rate of decline of antibody titers to pandemic influenza A (H1N1-2009) by hemagglutination inhibition and virus microneutralization assays in a cohort of seroconverting adults in Singapore
Jung Pu Hsu, Xiahong Zhao, Mark I-Cheng Chen, Alex R Cook, Vernon Lee, Wei Yen Lim, Linda Tan, Ian G Barr, Lili Jiang, Chyi Lin Tan, Meng Chee Phoon, Lin Cui, Raymond Lin, Yee Sin Leo, Vincent T Chow
The correlation between the presence of viremia and clinical severity in patients with enterovirus 71 infection: a multi-center cohort study
Hao-Yuan Cheng, Yi-Chuan Huang, Ting-Yu Yen, Shao-Hsuan Hsia, Yu-Chia Hsieh, Chung-Chen Li, Luan-Yin Chang, Li-Min Huang
Effect of human movement on airborne disease transmission in an airplane cabin: study using numerical modeling and quantitative risk analysis
Zhuyang Han, Gin Nam Sze To, Sau Chung Fu, Christopher Yu-Hang Chao, Wenguo Weng, Quanyi Huang
Sequential determination of serum viral titers, virus-specific IgG antibodies, and TNF-α, IL-6, IL-10, and IFN-γ levels in patients with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
Safak Kaya, Nazif Elaldi, Ayhan Kubar, Nevcihan Gursoy, Meral Yilmaz, Gulderen Karakus, Turabi Gunes, Zubeyde Polat, Mustafa Gokhan Gozel, Aynur Engin, Ilyas Dokmetas, Mehmet Bakir, Neziha Yilmaz, Mehmet Sencan
Superior antigen-specific CD4+T-cell response with AS03-adjuvantation of a trivalent influenza vaccine in a randomised trial of adults aged 65 and older
Robert B Couch, José M Bayas, Covadonga Caso, Innocent Nnadi Mbawuike, Concepción Núñez López, Carine Claeys, Mohamed El Idrissi, Caroline Hervé, Béatrice Laupèze, Lidia Oostvogels, Philippe Moris
Influence of KIR genes and their HLA ligands in the pathogenesis of leprosy in a hyperendemic population of Rondonópolis, Southern Brazil
Luciana Ribeiro Jarduli, Hugo Vicentin Alves, Fabiana Covolo de Souza-Santana, Elaine Valim Camarinha Marcos, Ana Carla Pereira, Ida Maria Foschiani Dias-Baptista, Vinícius Medeiros Fava, Marcelo Távora Mira, Milton Ozório Moraes, Marcos da Cunha Lopes Virmond, Jeane Eliete Laguila Visentainer
Risk factors for diarrhea hospitalization in Bangladesh, 2000–2008: a case-case study of cholera and shigellosis
Danny V Colombara, Abu SG Faruque, Karen D Cowgill, Jonathan D Mayer
Effects of introducing Xpert MTB/RIF test on multi-drug resistant tuberculosis diagnosis in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa
Nomonde R Dlamini-Mvelase, Lise Werner, Rogerio Phili, Lindiwe P Cele, Koleka P Mlisana
Diagnostic accuracy of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin in the early detection of infection after elective colorectal surgery – a pilot study
Joana Silvestre, Jorge Rebanda, Carlos Lourenço, Pedro Póvoa
Burden of carbapenem-resistant organisms in the Frankfurt/Main Metropolitan Area in Germany 2012/2013 – first results and experiences after the introduction of legally mandated reporting
Niels Kleinkauf, Angelika Hausemann, Volkhard AJ Kempf, René Gottschalk, Ursel Heudorf
Leishmania amazonensis infection impairs dendritic cell migration from the inflammatory site to the draining lymph node
Micely DR Hermida, Priscila G Doria, Angela MP Taguchi, José O Mengel, Washington LC dos-Santos
High frequency of kdr L1014F is associated with pyrethroid resistance in Anopheles coluzzii in Sudan savannah of northern Nigeria
Sulaiman S Ibrahim, Yayo A Manu, Zainab Tukur, Helen Irving, Charles S Wondji
Determinants of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureusnative bone and joint infection treatment failure: a retrospective cohort study
Florent Valour, Anissa Bouaziz, Judith Karsenty, Florence Ader, Sébastien Lustig, Frédéric Laurent, Christian Chidiac, Tristan Ferry
Human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) proviral load induces activation of T-lymphocytes in asymptomatic carriers
Raimundo Coutinho Jr, Maria Fernanda Rios Grassi, Ana Beatriz Korngold, Viviana Nilla Olavarria, Bernardo Galvão-Castro, Rita Elizabeth Mascarenhas
Estimating the number of hand, foot and mouth disease amongst children aged under-five in Beijing during 2012, based on a telephone survey of healthcare seeking behavior
Xiaoli Wang, Xiaona Wu, Lei Jia, Xitai Li, Jie Li, Shuang Li, Haikun Qian, Quanyi Wang
Off-treatment virologic relapse and outcomes of re-treatment in chronic hepatitis B patients who achieved complete viral suppression with oral nucleos(t)ide analogs
Hyung Rae Sohn, Bo Young Min, Joon Chang Song, Mun Hyuk Seong, Sang Soo Lee, Eun Sun Jang, Cheol Min Shin, Young Soo Park, Jin-Hyeok Hwang, Sook-Hyang Jeong, Nayoung Kim, Dong Ho Lee, Jin-Wook Kim
Depolymerase improves gentamicin efficacy during Klebsiella pneumoniae induced murine infection
Shruti Bansal, Kusum Harjai, Sanjay Chhibber
First case report of vancomycin-intermediate sequence type 72 Staphylococcus aureuswith nonsusceptibility to daptomycin
Ayaka Tsukimori, Itaru Nakamura, Sakiko Okamura, Akihiro Sato, Shinji Fukushima, Yasutaka Mizuno, Tetsuo Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Matsumoto
A spatial simulation model for dengue virus infection in urban areas
Stephan Karl, Nilimesh Halder, Joel K Kelso, Scott A Ritchie, George J Milne
Characterisation of bla TEM genes and types of β-lactamase plasmids in Neisseria gonorrhoeae – the prevalent and conserved bla TEM-135 has not recently evolved and existed in the Toronto plasmid from the origin
Ibrahim Muhammad, Daniel Golparian, Jo-Anne R Dillon, Åsa Johansson, Makoto Ohnishi, Sunil Sethi, Shao-chun Chen, Shu-ichi Nakayama, Martin Sundqvist, Manju Bala, Magnus Unemo
Hepatitis A and E seroprevalence and associated risk factors: a community-based cross-sectional survey in rural Amazonia
Claudia Lamarca Vitral, Mônica da Silva-Nunes, Marcelo Alves Pinto, Jaqueline Mendes de Oliveira, Ana Maria Coimbra Gaspar, Rebeca Cristina Costa Pereira, Marcelo Urbano Ferreira
Diverse forms of HIV-1 among Burmese long-distance truck drivers imply their contribution to HIV-1 cross-border transmission
Yan-Heng Zhou, Yue-Bo Liang, Wei Pang, Wei-Hong Qin, Zhi-Hong Yao, Xin Chen, Chiyu Zhang, Yong-Tang Zheng
Population biology of 225 serogroup 6 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates collected in China
Wei Shi, Kaihu Yao, Mingming He, Sangjie Yu, Yonghong Yang
Incidence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from patients attending the national Neisseria gonorrhoeaereference laboratory of Hungary
Alexandra Brunner, Eva Nemes-Nikodem, Noemi Mihalik, Marta Marschalko, Sarolta Karpati, Eszter Ostorhazi
Significance of serum procalcitonin as biomarker for detection of bacterial peritonitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Shi-kun Yang, Li Xiao, Hao Zhang, Xiao-xuan Xu, Pan-ai Song, Fu-you Liu, Lin Sun
No indication for tissue tropism in urogenital and anorectal Chlamydia trachomatis infections using high-resolution multilocus sequence typing
Bart Versteeg, Martijn S van Rooijen, Maarten F Schim van der Loeff, Henry JC de Vries, Sylvia M Bruisten
Genetic diversity of Schistosoma haematobium parasite IS NOT associated with severity of disease in an endemic area in Sudan
Nagla Gasmelseed, Nhashal E Karamino, Mohammed O Abdelwahed, Anas O Hamdoun, Ahmed E Elmadani
Spatio-temporal epidemiology of the cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea, 2009–2011
Paul F Horwood, Stephan Karl, Ivo Mueller, Marinjho H Jonduo, Boris I Pavlin, Rosheila Dagina, Berry Ropa, Sibauk Bieb, Alexander Rosewell, Masahiro Umezaki, Peter M Siba, Andrew R Greenhill
Hepatitis B virus in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: a cross sectional serosurvey in different cohorts
Antony P Black, Phonethipsavanh Nouanthong, Naphavan Nanthavong, Chanthasone Souvannaso, Keooudomphone Vilivong, Prapan Jutavijittum, Bounthome Samountry, Nina Lütteke, Judith M Hübschen, Sylvie Goossens, Fabrice Quet, Yves Buisson, Claude P Muller
The frequency of tetracycline resistance genes co-detected with respiratory pathogens: a database mining study uncovering descriptive trends throughout the United States
Matthew D Huff, David Weisman, John Adams, Song Li, Jessica Green, Leslie L Malone, Scott Clemmons
Antiretroviral therapy response among HIV-2 infected patients: a systematic review
Didier K Ekouevi, Boris K Tchounga, Patrick A Coffie, Joseph Tegbe, Alexandra M Anderson, Geoffrey S Gottlieb, Marco Vitoria, François Dabis, Serge P Eholie
Dissemination of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a patient with acute HIV infection
Kyung Mo Yoo, Eun-Jeong Joo, Joon-Sup Yeom, Seoung-Wan Chae, Shin Yeoung Lee, Ki Joong Han
Prostatic abscesses and severe sepsis due to methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureusproducing Panton-Valentine leukocidin
Maria Dubos, Olivier Barraud, Anne-Laure Fedou, Fabien Fredon, Frédéric Laurent, Yannis Brakbi, Anne Cypierre, Bruno François
The effect of incident tuberculosis on immunological response of HIV patients on highly active anti-retroviral therapy at the university of Gondar hospital, northwest Ethiopia: a retrospective follow-up study
Abate Assefa, Baye Gelaw, Gebeyaw Getnet, Gashaw Yitayew
An epidemiological analysis of acute flaccid paralysis and its surveillance system in Iraq, 1997-2011
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Urinary monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) in leprosy patients: increased risk for kidney damage
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Fatal anti-aquaporin-4 seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in tuberculosis
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Therapeutic drug monitoring of nevirapine in saliva in Uganda using high performance liquid chromatography and a low cost thin-layer chromatography technique
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Safety of poly-L-lactic acid (New-Fill®) in the treatment of facial lipoatrophy: a large observational study among HIV-positive patients
Martin Duracinsky, Pascale Leclercq, Susan Herrmann, Marie-Odile Christen, Marc Dolivo, Cécile Goujard, Olivier Chassany
Association between cigarette smoking and the vaginal microbiota: a pilot study
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Severe community onset healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection complicated by carbapenemase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection
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Characterization of extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates circulating in Siberia
Maya A Dymova, Andrey G Cherednichenko, Olga I Alkhovik, Eugeny A Khrapov, Tatjana I Petrenko, Maxim L Filipenko
Molecular detection and characterization of resistant genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from DNA isolated from tuberculosis patients in the Eastern Cape province South Africa
Nolwazi L Bhembe, Uchechukwu U Nwodo, Sharlene Govender, Cindy Hayes, Roland N Ndip, Anthony I Okoh, Ezekiel Green
Seroepidemiology of cytomegalovirus infection in pregnant women in Durango City, Mexico
Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel, Jesús Hernández-Tinoco, Luis Francisco Sánchez-Anguiano, Agar Ramos-Nevárez, Sandra Margarita Cerrillo-Soto, Sergio Estrada-Martínez, Lucio Martínez-Ramírez, Alma Rosa Pérez-Álamos, Carlos Alberto Guido-Arreola
Fatigue during treatment for hepatitis C virus: results of self-reported fatigue severity in two Phase IIb studies of simeprevir treatment in patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection
Jane Scott, Kathleen Rosa, Min Fu, Karin Cerri, Monika Peeters, Maria Beumont, Stefan Zeuzem, Donna M Evon, Leen Gilles
Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Proteus mirabilis: a longitudinal nationwide study from the Taiwan surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (TSAR) program
Jann-Tay Wang, Pei-Chen Chen, Shan-Chwen Chang, Yih-Ru Shiau, Hui-Ying Wang, Jui-Fen Lai, I-Wen Huang, Mei-Chen Tan, Tsai-Ling Yang Lauderdale
Influence of real-world characteristics on outcomes for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal skin and soft tissue infections: a multi-country medical chart review in Europe
Dilip Nathwani, Christian Eckmann, Wendy Lawson, Caitlyn T Solem, Shelby Corman, Jennifer M Stephens, Cynthia Macahilig, Damien Simoneau, Richard Chambers, Jim Z Li, Seema Haider
Rifampicin resistance mutations in the 81 bp RRDR of rpoB gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates using Xpert®MTB/RIF in Kampala, Uganda: a retrospective study
Gerald Mboowa, Carolyn Namaganda, Willy Ssengooba
A population-based study on the impact of hospitalization for pneumonia in different age groups
Vincenzo Baldo, Silvia Cocchio, Tatjana Baldovin, Alessandra Buja, Patrizia Furlan, Chiara Bertoncello, Francesca Russo, Mario Saia
Clinical challenge: fatal mucormycotic osteomyelitis caused by Rhizopus microsporus despite aggressive multimodal treatment
Norbert Harrasser, Ingo J Banke, Matthias Hauschild, Ulrich Lenze, Peter M Prodinger, Andreas Toepfer, Christian Peschel, Rüdiger von Eisenhart-Rothe, Ingo Ringshausen, Mareike Verbeek
Medical treatment versus “Watch and Wait” in the clinical management of CE3b echinococcal cysts of the liver
Francesca Rinaldi, Annalisa De Silvestri, Francesca Tamarozzi, Federico Cattaneo, Raffaella Lissandrin, Enrico Brunetti
Protective efficacy of Toxoplasma gondiicalcium-dependent protein kinase 1 (TgCDPK1) adjuvated with recombinant IL-15 and IL-21 against experimental toxoplasmosis in mice
Jia Chen, Zhong-Yuan Li, Si-Yang Huang, Eskild Petersen, Hui-Qun Song, Dong-Hui Zhou, Xing-Quan Zhu
Experimental infection of healthy volunteers with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coliwild-type strain TW10598 in a hospital ward
Steinar Skrede, Hans Steinsland, Halvor Sommerfelt, Audun Aase, Per Brandtzaeg, Nina Langeland, Rebecca J Cox, Marianne Sævik, Marita Wallevik, Dag Harald Skutlaberg, Marit Gjerde Tellevik, David A Sack, James P Nataro, Anne Berit Guttormsen
Prevalence and correlates of cytopenias in HIV-infected adults initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy in Uganda
Rachel Kyeyune, Elmar Saathoff, Amara E Ezeamama, Thomas Löscher, Wafaie Fawzi, David Guwatudde
An outbreak of extremely drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosain a tertiary care pediatric hospital in Italy
Marta Ciofi degli Atti, Paola Bernaschi, Michaela Carletti, Ida Luzzi, Aurora García-Fernández, Alice Bertaina, Annamaria Sisto, Franco Locatelli, Massimiliano Raponi
Modeling the impact of novel diagnostic tests on pediatric and extrapulmonary tuberculosis
Claudia M Denkinger, Beate Kampmann, Syed Ahmed, David W Dowdy
Virulence of Legionella pneumophila strains isolated from hospital water system and healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease in Northern Italy between 2004 and 2009
Savina Ditommaso, Monica Giacomuzzi, Susan R Arauco Rivera, Roberto Raso, Pierangela Ferrero, Carla M Zotti
Estimates of the reproduction number for seasonal, pandemic, and zoonotic influenza: a systematic review of the literature
Matthew Biggerstaff, Simon Cauchemez, Carrie Reed, Manoj Gambhir, Lyn Finelli
Rural-to-urban migrants are at high risk of sexually transmitted and viral hepatitis infections in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Xia Zou, Eric PF Chow, Peizhen Zhao, Yong Xu, Li Ling, Lei Zhang
High prevalence of previous dengue virus infection among first-generation Surinamese immigrants in the Netherlands
Femke W Overbosch, Anneke van den Hoek, Janke Schinkel, Gerard JB Sonder
Effects of ezetimibe on cholesterol metabolism in HIV-infected patients with protease inhibitor-associated dyslipidemia: a single-arm intervention trial
Pere Leyes, Esteban Martínez, María Larrousse, Montserrat Cofán, Joan Trabal, Ana María Pérez-Heras, María T Forga, Emilio Ros
Host cytokine responses distinguish invasive from airway isolates of the Streptococcusmilleri/anginosis group
Julienne C Kaiser, Chris P Verschoor, Michael G Surette, Dawn ME Bowdish
Efficacy of an alcohol-focused intervention for improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and HIV treatment outcomes – a randomised controlled trial protocol
Charles DH Parry, Neo K Morojele, Bronwyn J Myers, Connie T Kekwaletswe, Samuel OM Manda, Katherine Sorsdahl, Gita Ramjee, Judith A Hahn, Jürgen Rehm, Paul A Shuper
Erythropoietin rs1617640 G allele associates with an attenuated rise of serum erythropoietin and a marked decline of hemoglobin in hepatitis C patients undergoing antiviral therapy
Ahmad Amanzada, Armin D Goralczyk, Lars Reinhardt, Federico Moriconi, Silke Cameron, Sabine Mihm
A case of conventional treatment failure in visceral leishmaniasis: leukocyte distribution and cytokine expression in splenic compartments
Washington LC dos-Santos, Carla Pagliari, Lina G Santos, Valter A Almeida, Thiago LV e Silva, João de J Coutinho Jr., Tulio Souza, Maria IS Duarte, Luiz AR de Freitas, Carlos HN Costa
Current drug use and lack of HIV virologic suppression: point-of-care urine drug screen versus self-report
Han-Zhu Qian, Valerie J Mitchell, Sally Bebawy, Holly Cassell, Gina Perez, Catherine C McGowan, Timothy R Sterling, Sten H Vermund, Richard D’Aquila, Todd Hulgan
“Fighting an uphill battle”: experience with the HCV triple therapy: a qualitative thematic analysis
Manuela Rasi, Patrizia Künzler-Heule, Patrick Schmid, David Semela, Philip Bruggmann, Jan Fehr, Susi Saxer, Dunja Nicca
Associations of hand-washing frequency with incidence of acute respiratory tract infection and influenza-like illness in adults: a population-based study in Sweden
Hanna Merk, Sharon Kühlmann-Berenzon, Annika Linde, Olof Nyrén
Cytokine response to selected MTB antigens in Ghanaian TB patients, before and at 2 weeks of anti-TB therapy is characterized by high expression of IFN-γ and Granzyme B and inter- individual variation
Gloria Ivy Mensah, Kennedy Kwasi Addo, John Amissah Tetteh, Sandra Sowah, Thomas Loescher, Christof Geldmacher, Dolly Jackson-Sillah
Urinary cytokines in Schistosoma haematobium-infected schoolchildren from Tana Delta District of Kenya
Kariuki H Njaanake, Paul E Simonsen, Birgitte J Vennervald, Dunstan A Mukoko, Claus M Reimert, Kimani Gachuhi, Walter G Jaoko, Benson B Estambale
The relative influences of product volume, delivery format and alcohol concentration on dry-time and efficacy of alcohol-based hand rubs
David R Macinga, David J Shumaker, Heinz-Peter Werner, Sarah L Edmonds, Rachel A Leslie, Albert E Parker, James W Arbogast
Screening travellers to high-endemic countries for infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis using interferon gamma release assay; a prospective study
Floor Elfrink, Anneke van den Hoek, Marlies E Mensen, Gerard JB Sonder
Infections, antibiotic treatment and mortality in patients admitted to ICUs in countries considered to have high levels of antibiotic resistance compared to those with low levels
Håkan Hanberger, Massimo Antonelli, Martin Holmbom, Jeffrey Lipman, Peter Pickkers, Marc Leone, Jordi Rello, Yasser Sakr, Sten M Walther, Philippe Vanhems, Jean-Louis Vincent
Decolonization of gastrointestinal carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium: case series and review of literature
Vincent CC Cheng, Jonathan HK Chen, Josepha WM Tai, Sally CY Wong, Rosana WS Poon, Ivan FN Hung, Kelvin KW To, Jasper FW Chan, Pak-Leung Ho, Chung-Mau Lo, Kwok-Yung Yuen
Quantiferon Gold-in-tube assay for TB screening in HIV infected children: influence of quantitative values
Winsley Rose, Ian Kitai, Fatima Kakkar, Stanley E Read, Marcel A Behr, Ari Bitnun
Evolution of meningococcal carriage in serogroups X and Y before introduction of MenAfriVac in the health district of Kaya, Burkina Faso
Absatou Ky Ba, Idrissa Sanou, Paul A Kristiansen, Lassana Sangaré, Rasmata Ouédraogo, Kalifa Ouattara, Maxime Kienou, Simon Tiendrebeogo, Juliette Tranchot
A retrospective review of a tertiary Hospital’s isolation and de-isolation policy for suspected pulmonary tuberculosis
Shirin Kalimuddin, Jeanne MM Tan, Ban Hock Tan, Jenny GH Low
A combination strategy for enhancing linkage to and retention in HIV care among adults newly diagnosed with HIV in Mozambique: study protocol for a site-randomized implementation science study
Batya Elul, Maria Lahuerta, Fatima Abacassamo, Matthew R Lamb, Laurence Ahoua, Margaret L McNairy, Maria Tomo, Deborah Horowitz, Roberta Sutton, Antonio Mussa, Danielle Gurr, Ilesh Jani
Phenotypic and functional evaluations of peripheral blood monocytes from chronic-form paracoccidioidomycosis patients before and after treatment
James Venturini, Ricardo Souza Cavalcante, Márjorie de Assis Golim, Camila Martins Marchetti, Priscila Zacarias de Azevedo, Bárbara Casella Amorim, Maria Sueli Parreira de Arruda, Rinaldo Poncio Mendes
Persistent Lyme Empiric Antibiotic Study Europe (PLEASE) - design of a randomized controlled trial of prolonged antibiotic treatment in patients with persistent symptoms attributed to Lyme borreliosis
Anneleen Berende, Hadewych JM ter Hofstede, A Rogier T Donders, Henriët van Middendorp, Roy PC Kessels, Eddy MM Adang, Fidel J Vos, Andrea WM Evers, Bart Jan Kullberg
Knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to influenza A(H7N9) risk among live poultry traders in Guangzhou City, China
Xiaowei Ma, Qiuyan Liao, Jun Yuan, Yufei Liu, Yanhui Liu, Jiandong Chen, Jianping Liu, Wenfeng Cai, Benjamin J Cowling, Biao Di, Richard Fielding, Ming Wang, Zhicong Yang, Gabriel M Leung, Eric HY Lau
Opportunities to improve storage and transportation of blood specimens for CD4 testing in a rural district in Zimbabwe using BD vacutainer CD4 stabilization tubes: a stability and diagnostic accuracy study
Emmanuel Fajardo, Carol Metcalf, Elton Mbofana, Charlotte van Vyve, Dhodho Munyaradzi, Sandra Simons, Misheck Kuhudzayi, Helen Bygrave
In-house ELISA screening using a locally-isolated Leptospirain Malaysia: determination of its cut-off points
Xue Ting Tan, Fairuz Amran, Kee Chee Cheong, Norazah Ahmad
Risk factors and outcome in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis with persistent biliary candidiasis
Christian Rupp, Konrad Alexander Bode, Fadi Chahoud, Andreas Wannhoff, Kilian Friedrich, Karl-Heinz Weiss, Peter Sauer, Wolfgang Stremmel, Daniel Nils Gotthardt
Evaluation of real-time PCR assay to detect Schistosoma mansoni infections in a low endemic setting
Maria Cristina Carvalho Espírito-Santo, Mónica Viviana Alvarado-Mora, Emmanuel Dias-Neto, Lívia Souza Botelho-Lima, João Paulo Moreira, Maria Amorim, Pedro Luiz Silva Pinto, Ashley R Heath, Vera Lúcia Pagliusi Castilho, Elenice Messias do Nascimento Gonçalves, Expedito José de Albuquerque Luna, Flair José Carrilho, João Renato Rebello Pinho, Ronaldo Cesar Borges Gryschek
Tuberculosis recurrence in a high incidence setting for HIV and tuberculosis in Brazil
Gisela Unis, Andrezza Wolowski Ribeiro, Leonardo Souza Esteves, Fernanda Sá Spies, Pedro Dornelles Picon, Elis Regina Dalla Costa, Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti
Cryptosporidium andersoni as a novel predominant Cryptosporidium species in outpatients with diarrhea in Jiangsu Province, China
Yanyan Jiang, Jinhua Ren, Zhongying Yuan, Aiqin Liu, Hong Zhao, Hua Liu, Lei Chu, Wei Pan, Jianping Cao, Yijin Lin, Yujuan Shen
Safety and efficacy of amphotericin-B deoxycholate inhalation in critically ill patients with respiratory Candida spp. colonization: a retrospective analysis
Patrick J van der Geest, Erik I Dieters, Bart Rijnders, Johan AB Groeneveld
Social, economic, and health impact of the respiratory syncytial virus: a systematic search
Javier Díez-Domingo, Eduardo G Pérez-Yarza, José A Melero, Manuel Sánchez-Luna, María Dolores Aguilar, Antonio Javier Blasco, Noelia Alfaro, Pablo Lázaro
Isolated pulmonary valve infective endocarditis in a middle aged man caused by Candida albicans: a case report
Sudhakar Devathi, Bryan Curry, Saumil Doshi
Evaluation of the presence and zoonotic transmission of Chlamydia suis in a pig slaughterhouse
Kristien De Puysseleyr, Leentje De Puysseleyr, Hendrik Dhondt, Tom Geens, Lutgart Braeckman, Servaas A Morré, Eric Cox, Daisy Vanrompay
Visceral leishmaniasis due to Leishmania infantumwith renal involvement in HIV-infected patients
Matteo Vassallo, Olivier Moranne, Damien Ambrosetti, Pierre-Yves Jeandel, Christelle Pomares, Elisabeth Cassuto, Annick Boscagli, Guillaume Giraud, Nathalie Montagne, Chiara Dentone, Ilaria Demacina, Barbara Villaggio, Giovanni Secondo, Giuseppe Ferrea, Corinne Passeron, Laurence Saudes, Regis Kaphan, Pierre Marty, Eric Rosenthal
Incidence and predictors of regimen-modification from first-line antiretroviral therapy in Thailand: a cohort study
Naho Tsuchiya, Panita Pathipvanich, Nuanjun Wichukchinda, Archawin Rojanawiwat, Wattana Auwanit, Koya Ariyoshi, Pathom Sawanpanyalert
Predictors of hospital mortality among septic ICU patients with Acinetobacter spp.bacteremia: a cohort study
Andrew F Shorr, Marya D Zilberberg, Scott T Micek, Marin H Kollef
Acute diarrhea in adults consulting a general practitioner in France during winter: incidence, clinical characteristics, management and risk factors
Christophe Arena, Jean Pierre Amoros, Véronique Vaillant, Katia Ambert-Balay, Roxane Chikhi-Brachet, Nathalie Jourdan-Da Silva, Laurent Varesi, Jean Arrighi, Cécile Souty, Thierry Blanchon, Alessandra Falchi, Thomas Hanslik
Risk of first cervical HPV infection and pre-cancerous lesions after onset of sexual activity: analysis of women in the control arm of the randomized, controlled PATRICIA trial
Xavier Castellsagué, Jorma Paavonen, Unnop Jaisamrarn, Cosette M Wheeler, S Rachel Skinner, Matti Lehtinen, Paulo Naud, Song-Nan Chow, Maria Rowena Del Rosario-Raymundo, Julio C Teixeira, Johanna Palmroth, Newton S de Carvalho, Maria Julieta V Germar, Klaus Peters, Suzanne M Garland, Anne Szarewski, Willy AJ Poppe, Barbara Romanowski, Tino F Schwarz, Wiebren AA Tjalma, F Xavier Bosch, Marie-Cecile Bozonnat, Frank Struyf, Gary Dubin, Dominique Rosillon, Laurence Baril
Dengue NS1 antigen as a marker of severe clinical disease
Shiran Ajith Paranavitane, Laksiri Gomes, Achala Kamaladasa, Thiruni N Adikari, Nilanka Wickramasinghe, Chandima Jeewandara, Narangoda Liyanage Ajantha Shyamali, Graham Stuart Ogg, Gathsaurie Neelika Malavige
One-year follow-up of patients with long-lasting post-herpetic neuralgia
Francesca Pica, Antonio Gatti, Marco Divizia, Marzia Lazzari, Marco Ciotti, Alessandro Fabrizio Sabato, Antonio Volpi
Overexpression of activated protein C hampers bacterial dissemination during pneumococcal pneumonia
Johannes Daan de Boer, Liesbeth M Kager, Joris JTH Roelofs, Joost CM Meijers, Onno J de Boer, Hartmut Weiler, Berend Isermann, Cornelis van ’t Veer, Tom van der Poll
Effectiveness of HCV core antigen and RNA quantification in HCV-infected and HCV/HIV-1-coinfected patients
Lu Long, Tao Shen, Jian Gao, Zhaojun Duan, Hua Liang, Fengmin Lu
Durability of antiretroviral therapy and predictors of virologic failure among perinatally HIV-infected children in Tanzania: a four-year follow-up
Dorothy E Dow, Aisa M Shayo, Coleen K Cunningham, Elizabeth A Reddy
Bridging the data gaps in the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection in Malaysia using multi-parameter evidence synthesis
Scott A McDonald, Rosmawati Mohamed, Maznah Dahlui, Herlianna Naning, Adeeba Kamarulzaman
The role of Sequence Type (ST) 131 in adult community-onset non-ESBL-producing Escherichia colibacteraemia
Yi-Hui Wu, Ming-Fang Cheng, Chung-Hsu Lai, Hsi-Hsun Lin, Chih-Hsin Hung, Jiun-Ling Wang
Rapid detection of dermatophytes and Candida albicansin onychomycosis specimens by an oligonucleotide array
Huan Wen Han, Mark Ming-Long Hsu, Jong Soo Choi, Chao-Kai Hsu, Hsin Yi Hsieh, Hsin Chieh Li, Hsien Chang Chang, Tsung Chain Chang
Clinical and molecular characteristics of invasive community-acquired Staphylococcus aureusinfections in Chinese children
Yanhong Qiao, Xue Ning, Qiang Chen, Ruizhen Zhao, Wenqi Song, Yuejie Zheng, Fang Dong, Shipeng Li, Juan Li, Lijuan Wang, Ting Zeng, Yanhong Dong, Kaihu Yao, Sangjie Yu, Yonghong Yang, Xuzhuang Shen
Improving chlamydia knowledge should lead to increased chlamydia testing among Australian general practitioners: a cross-sectional study of chlamydia testing uptake in general practice
Anna Yeung, Meredith Temple-Smith, Simone Spark, Rebecca Guy, Christopher K Fairley, Matthew Law, Anna Wood, Kirsty Smith, Basil Donovan, John Kaldor, Jane Gunn, Marie Pirotta, Rob Carter, Jane Hocking
Obesity-associated gene FTO rs9939609 polymorphism in relation to the risk of tuberculosis
Yan Feng, Fengliang Wang, Hongqiu Pan, Sangsang Qiu, Jieqiong Lü, Liang Wu, Jianming Wang, Cheng Lu
Exploring reasons for non-vaccination against human papillomavirus in Italy
Cristina Giambi, Fortunato D'Ancona, Martina Del Manso, Barbara De Mei, Ilaria Giovannelli, Chiara Cattaneo, Valentina Possenti, Silvia Declich
Mycobacterium fortuitum skin infections after subcutaneous injections with Vietnamese traditional medicine: a case report
Nguyen Phu Huong Lan, Marion-Eliëtte Kolader, Nguyen Van Dung, James I Campbell, Nguyen thi Tham, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, H Rogier van Doorn, Dien Hoa Le
Weekly use of fluconazole as prophylaxis in haematological patients at risk for invasive candidiasis
Danielle Vuichard, Maja Weisser, Christina Orasch, Reno Frei, Dominik Heim, Jakob R Passweg, Andreas F Widmer
Cross-sectional study of cytomegalovirus shedding and immunological markers among seropositive children and their mothers
Jennifer D Stowell, Karen Mask, Minal Amin, Rebekah Clark, Denise Levis, Will Hendley, Tatiana M Lanzieri, Sheila C Dollard, Michael J Cannon
Keratitis by Fusarium temperatum, a novel opportunist
Abdullah M S Al-Hatmi, Alexandro Bonifaz, G Sybren de Hoog, Leticia Vazquez-Maya, Karla Garcia-Carmona, Jacques F Meis, Anne D van Diepeningen
Whole-genome enrichment and sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatisdirectly from clinical samples
Mette T Christiansen, Amanda C Brown, Samit Kundu, Helena J Tutill, Rachel Williams, Julianne R Brown, Jolyon Holdstock, Martin J Holland, Simon Stevenson, Jayshree Dave, CY William Tong, Katja Einer-Jensen, Daniel P Depledge, Judith Breuer
Repeated measures study of weekly and daily cytomegalovirus shedding patterns in saliva and urine of healthy cytomegalovirus-seropositive children
Michael J Cannon, Jennifer D Stowell, Rebekah Clark, Philip R Dollard, Delaney Johnson, Karen Mask, Cynthia Stover, Karen Wu, Minal Amin, Will Hendley, Jing Guo, D Scott Schmid, Sheila C Dollard
Profiling bacterial community in upper respiratory tracts
Hana Yi, Dongeun Yong, Kyungwon Lee, Yong-Joon Cho, Jongsik Chun
Catheter-related Candidabloodstream infection in intensive care unit patients: a subgroup analysis of the China-SCAN study
Bo Hu, Zhaohui Du, Yan Kang, Bin Zang, Wei Cui, Bingyu Qin, Qiang Fang, Haibo Qiu, Jianguo Li
The safety and immunogenicity of a MF59-adjuvanted H5N1 prepandemic influenza vaccine in healthy adults primed with homologous or heterologous H5N1 vaccines: an observational study
Sung-Hsi Wei, Ming-Tsan Liu, Yao-Chou Tsai, Chung-Hsin Liao, Chih-Ming Chen, Wei-Yao Wang, Yi-Lung Huang, Feng-Yee Chang, Pesus Chou
Performance evaluation of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay according to its clinical application
Hee Jae Huh, Byeong-Ho Jeong, Kyeongman Jeon, Won-Jung Koh, Chang-Seok Ki, Nam Yong Lee
The burden of nosocomial staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection in South Korea: a prospective hospital-based nationwide study
Chung-Jong Kim, Hong-Bin Kim, Myoung-don Oh, Yunhee Kim, Arim Kim, Sung-Hee Oh, Kyoung-Ho Song, Eu Suk Kim, Yong Kyun Cho, Young Hwa Choi, Jinyong Park, Baek-Nam Kim, Nam-Joong Kim, Kye-Hyung Kim, Eun Jung Lee, Jae-Bum Jun, Young Keun Kim, Sung min Kiem, Hee Jung Choi, Eun Ju Choo, Kyung-mok Sohn, Shinwon Lee, Hyun Ha Chang, Ji Hwan Bang, Su Jin Lee, Jae Hoon Lee, Seong Yeon Park, Min Hyok Jeon, Na Ra Yun
The effect of adherence to guidelines for initial antiretroviral therapy on 1-year outcomes: a French cohort study
Laurent Cotte, Thomas Bénet, Philippe Vanhems, Corinne Brochier, Thomas Perpoint, Tristan Ferry, Christian Chidiac
Cytokine responses to Staphylococcus aureusbloodstream infection differ between patient cohorts that have different clinical courses of infection
Sinead McNicholas, Alida Fe Talento, Joanne O’Gorman, Margaret M Hannan, Maureen Lynch, Catherine M Greene, Hilary Humphreys, Deirdre Fitzgerald-Hughes
Mold contamination in a controlled hospital environment: a 3-year surveillance in southern Italy
Giuseppina Caggiano, Christian Napoli, Caterina Coretti, Grazia Lovero, Giancarlo Scarafile, Osvalda De Giglio, Maria Teresa Montagna
Serological and molecular detection of Toscana and other Phleboviruses in patients and sandflies in Tunisia
Ons Fezaa, Youmna M’ghirbi, Gianni Gori Savellini, Lamia Ammari, Nahed Hogga, Henda Triki, Maria Grazia Cusi, Ali Bouattour
Survival of AIDS patients in Sao Paulo-Brazil in the pre- and post-HAART eras: a cohort study
Mariza Vono Tancredi, Eliseu Alves Waldman
Use of rapid diagnostic techniques in ICU patients with infections
Almudena Burillo, Emilio Bouza
Risk factors for latent tuberculosis infection in close contacts of active tuberculosis patients in South Korea: a prospective cohort study
Seung Jun Lee, Seung Hun Lee, You Eun Kim, Yu Ji Cho, Yi Yeong Jeong, Ho Cheol Kim, Jong Deog Lee, Jang Rak Kim, Young Sil Hwang, Hee Jin Kim, Dick Menzies
The tuberculin skin test in school going adolescents in South India: associations of socio-demographic and clinical characteristics with TST positivity and non-response
Dharma Rao Uppada, Sumithra Selvam, Nelson Jesuraj, Sean Bennett, Suzanne Verver, Harleen MS Grewal, Mario Vaz
Determinants of baseline seroreactivity to human papillomavirus type 16 in the Ludwig-McGill cohort study
Patrícia S de Araujo-Souza, Agnihotram V Ramanakumar, João M G Candeias, Patrícia Thomann, Andrea Trevisan, Eduardo L Franco, Luisa L Villa
First case of infective endocarditis caused by Helicobacter cinaedi
Hanni Bartels, Daniel Goldenberger, Oliver Reuthebuch, Juerg Vosbeck, Maja Weisser, Reno Frei, Veronika Bättig
Drug sales data analysis for outbreak detection of infectious diseases: a systematic literature review
Mathilde Pivette, Judith E Mueller, Pascal Crépey, Avner Bar-Hen
A qualitative study of senior hospital managers’ views on current and innovative strategies to improve hand hygiene
Elizabeth McInnes, Rosemary Phillips, Sandy Middleton, Dinah Gould
The added value of chlamydia screening between 2008-2010 in reaching young people in addition to chlamydia testing in regular care; an observational study
Geneviève AFS van Liere, Nicole HTM Dukers-Muijrers, Jan EAM van Bergen, Hannelore M Götz, Frans Stals, Christian JPA Hoebe
Quality of life and wellbeing among HIV outpatients in East Africa: a multicentre observational study
Richard Harding, Victoria Simms, Suzanne Penfold, Julia Downing, Eve Namisango, Richard A Powell, Faith Mwangi-Powell, Scott Moreland, Nancy Gikaara, Mackuline Atieno, Irene J Higginson
Tick borne encephalitis without cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis
Daša Stupica, Franc Strle, Tatjana Avšič-Županc, Mateja Logar, Blaž Pečavar, Fajko F Bajrović
Species diversity of non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from humans, livestock and wildlife in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania
Bugwesa Z Katale, Erasto V Mbugi, Louise Botha, Julius D Keyyu, Sharon Kendall, Hazel M Dockrell, Anita L Michel, Rudovick R Kazwala, Mark M Rweyemamu, Paul van Helden, Mecky I Matee
Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Sicily, Italy: what has changed after a decade?
Celestino Bonura, Michel K Gomgnimbou, Guislaine Refrégier, Aurora Aleo, Teresa Fasciana, Anna Giammanco, Christophe Sola, Caterina Mammina
Effectiveness and cost of quick diagnostic tests to determine tetanus immunity in patients with a wound in french emergency departments
Dieynaba S N'Diaye, Michaël Schwarzinger, Dorothée Obach, Julien Poissy, Sophie Matheron, Enrique Casalino, Yazdan Yazdanpanah
Tuberculosis care for pregnant women: a systematic review
Hang Thanh Nguyen, Chiara Pandolfini, Peter Chiodini, Maurizio Bonati
Dynamics of Plasmodium falciparium and Plasmodium vivaxin a micro-ecological setting, Southwest Ethiopia: effects of altitude and proximity to a dam
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A family cluster of three confirmed cases infected with avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in Zhejiang Province of China
Hua Ding, Yin Chen, Zhao Yu, Peter W Horby, Fenjuan Wang, Jingfeng Hu, Xuhui Yang, Haiyan Mao, Shuwen Qin, Chengliang Chai, Shelan Liu, Enfu Chen, Hongjie Yu
Diagnostic accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for extrapulmonary and pulmonary tuberculosis when testing non-respiratory samples: a systematic review
Laura Maynard-Smith, Natasha Larke, Jurgens A Peters, Stephen D Lawn
Return of pandemic H1N1 influenza virus
Hilda Sherbany, John McCauley, Tal Meningher, Musa Hindiyeh, Rita Dichtiar, Michal Perry Markovich, Ella Mendelson, Michal Mandelboim
A text messaging intervention to improve retention in care and virologic suppression in a U.S. urban safety-net HIV clinic: study protocol for the Connect4Care (C4C) randomized controlled trial
Katerina A Christopoulos, Elise D Riley, Jacqueline Tulsky, Adam W Carrico, Judith T Moskowitz, Leslie Wilson, Lara S Coffin, Veesta Falahati, Jordan Akerley, Joan F Hilton
Bacteriological methods as add on tests to fine-needle aspiration cytology in diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis: can they reduce the diagnostic dilemma?
Ketema Abdissa, Mulualem Tadesse, Mesele Bezabih, Alemayehu Bekele, Ludwig Apers, Leen Rigouts, Gemeda Abebe
Advancing research and practice in HIV and rehabilitation: a framework of research priorities in HIV, disability and rehabilitation
Kelly K O’Brien, Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco, Patricia Solomon, Richard Harding, Jessica Cattaneo, William Chegwidden, Jacqueline Gahagan, Larry Baxter, Catherine Worthington, Patriic Gayle, Brenda Merritt, Rosalind Baltzer-Turje, Nkem Iku, Elisse Zack
Micafungin for the treatment of proven and suspected invasive candidiasis in children and adults: findings from a multicenter prospective observational study
Claudio Viscoli, Matteo Bassetti, Elio Castagnola, Simone Cesaro, Francesco Menichetti, Sandra Ratto, Carlo Tascini, Daniele Roberto Giacobbe
Inhibition of matrix metalloproteinases attenuates brain damage in experimental meningococcal meningitis
Susanna Ricci, Denis Grandgirard, Michael Wenzel, Tiziana Braccini, Paola Salvatore, Marco R Oggioni, Stephen L Leib, Uwe Koedel
The microbiology of impetigo in Indigenous children: associations between Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus,scabies, and nasal carriage
Asha C Bowen, Steven YC Tong, Mark D Chatfield, Jonathan R Carapetis
Biopsy-proven autoimmune myocarditis in HIV-associated dilated cardiomyopathy
Andrea Frustaci, Nicola Petrosillo, Marco Francone, Romina Verardo, Giuseppe Ippolito, Cristina Chimenti
Efficacy of antibiotic therapy for peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis: a proportional meta-analysis
Pasqual Barretti, João Vitor Pereira Doles, Douglas Gonçalves Pinotti, Regina El Dib
Proliferative capacity and cytokine production by cells of HIV-infected and uninfected adults with different helminth infection phenotypes in South Africa
Zilungile L Mkhize-Kwitshana, Musawenkosi LH Mabaso, Gerhard Walzl
Sex-specific disease outcomes of HIV-positive and HIV-negative drug users admitted to an opioid substitution therapy program in Spain: a cohort study
Roberto Muga, Inmaculada Rivas, Eva Faure, Daniel Fuster, Paola Zuluaga, Manuela Rubio, Trinidad Muñoz, Marta Torrens, Jordi Tor, Arantza Sanvisens
Simulation-guided design of serological surveys of the cumulative incidence of influenza infection
Kendra M Wu, Steven Riley
The evolution of pandemic influenza: evidence from India, 1918–19
Siddharth Chandra, Eva Kassens-Noor
MicroRNA expression profile in exosome discriminates extremely severe infections from mild infections for hand, foot and mouth disease
Hong-Ling Jia, Chun-Hui He, Zhuo-Ya Wang, Yu-Fen Xu, Gen-Quan Yin, Li-Jia Mao, Chao-Wu Liu, Li Deng
The use of minocycline-rifampin coated central venous catheters for exchange of catheters in the setting of staphylococcus aureus central line associated bloodstream infections
Anne-Marie Chaftari, Aline El Zakhem, Mohamed A Jamal, Ying Jiang, Ray Hachem, Issam Raad
Evaluating the utility of early laboratory monitoring of antiretroviral-induced haematological and hepatic toxicity in HIV-infected persons in Cameroon
Cavin Epie Bekolo, Cecile Sonkoue, Hortense Djidjou, Patrick Sylvestre Bekoule, Basile Kollo
An antagonist of the retinoid X receptor reduces the viability of Trichuris muris in vitro
Rebecca JM Hurst, Thomas Hopwood, Amanda L Gallagher, Frederick A Partridge, Timothy Burgis, David B Sattelle, Kathryn J Else
A 12 week longitudinal study of microbial translocation and systemic inflammation in undernourished HIV-infected Zambians initiating antiretroviral therapy
Ashley Canipe, Takondwa Chidumayo, Meridith Blevins, Michael Bestawros, Jay Bala, Paul Kelly, Suzanne Filteau, Bryan E Shepherd, Douglas C Heimburger, John R Koethe
Clostridium difficile carriage in hospitalized cancer patients: a prospective investigation in eastern China
Wei-Jia Fang, Da-Zhi Jing, Yun Luo, Cai-Yun Fu, Peng Zhao, Jiong Qian, Bing-Ru Tian, Xiao-Gang Chen, Yu-Long Zheng, Yi Zheng, Jing Deng, Wei-Hua Zou, Xue-Ren Feng, Fan-Long Liu, Xiao-Zhou Mou, Shu-Sen Zheng
An assessment of the impact of host polymorphisms on Plasmodium falciparum vargene expression patterns among Kenyan children
George M Warimwe, Gregory Fegan, Esther W Kiragu, Jennifer N Musyoki, Alexander W Macharia, Kevin Marsh, Thomas N Williams, Peter C Bull
Evaluation of immuno-efficacy of a novel DNA vaccine encoding Toxoplasma gondiirhoptry protein 38 (TgROP38) against chronic toxoplasmosis in a murine model
Ying Xu, Nian-Zhang Zhang, Qi-Dong Tan, Jia Chen, Jing Lu, Qian-Ming Xu, Xing-Quan Zhu
Retinal changes in visceral leishmaniasis by retinal photography
Richard James Maude, BUM Wahid Ahmed, Abu Hayat Md Waliur Rahman, Ridwanur Rahman, Mohammed Ishaque Majumder, Darryl Braganza Menezes, Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Laura Hughes, Thomas J MacGillivray, Shyamanga Borooah, Baljean Dhillon, Arjen M Dondorp, Mohammad Abul Faiz
Bordetella pertussis: an underreported pathogen in pediatric respiratory infections, a prospective cohort study
Gertrude van den Brink, Jérôme O Wishaupt, Jacob C Douma, Nico G Hartwig, Florens GA Versteegh
ARIZONA study: is the risk of post-herpetic neuralgia and its burden increased in the most elderly patients?
Martin Duracinsky, Marc Paccalin, Gaëtan Gavazzi, Sohéla El Kebir, Jacques Gaillat, Christophe Strady, Didier Bouhassira, Olivier Chassany
High colonization rates of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coliin Swiss Travellers to South Asia– a prospective observational multicentre cohort study looking at epidemiology, microbiology and risk factors
Esther Kuenzli, Veronika K Jaeger, Reno Frei, Andreas Neumayr, Susan DeCrom, Sabine Haller, Johannes Blum, Andreas F Widmer, Hansjakob Furrer, Manuel Battegay, Andrea Endimiani, Christoph Hatz
Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) Seroprevalence in the general population of the Republic of Korea in 2007–2009: a nationwide cross-sectional study
Youngsil Yoon, Hye Sook Jeong, Haesun Yun, Hyeokjin Lee, Yoo-Sung Hwang, Bohyun Park, Chae Jin Lee, Sangwon Lee, Ji-Yeon Hyeon
The influence of environmental exposure on the response to antimicrobial treatment in pulmonary Mycobacterial avium complex disease
Yutaka Ito, Toyohiro Hirai, Kohei Fujita, Takeshi Kubo, Koichi Maekawa, Satoshi Ichiyama, Kaori Togashi, Michiaki Mishima
Temporal dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in New South Wales, Australia
Ulziijargal Gurjav, Peter Jelfs, Nadine McCallum, Ben J Marais, Vitali Sintchenko
Automated image-based assay for evaluation of HIV neutralization and cell-to-cell fusion inhibition
Enas Sheik-Khalil, Mark-Anthony Bray, Gülsen Özkaya Şahin, Gabriella Scarlatti, Marianne Jansson, Anne E Carpenter, Eva Maria Fenyö
Polymerase chain reaction ribotyping of Clostridium difficileisolates in Qatar: a hospital-based study
Asma A Al-Thani, Wedad S Hamdi, Naser A Al-Ansari, Sanjay H Doiphode
Antimicrobial co-resistance patterns of gram-negative bacilli isolated from bloodstream infections: a longitudinal epidemiological study from 2002–2011
Patrick HP Wong, Marcus von Krosigk, Diane L Roscoe, Tim TY Lau, Masoud Yousefi, William R Bowie
A randomised trial to evaluate the immunogenicity, reactogenicity, and safety of the 10-valent pneumococcal non-typeable Haemophilus influenzaeprotein D conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV) co-administered with routine childhood vaccines in Singapore and Malaysia
Fong Seng Lim, Mia Tuang Koh, Kah Kee Tan, Poh Chong Chan, Chia Yin Chong, Yeo Wee Shung Yehudi, Yee Leong Teoh, Fakrudeen Shafi, Marjan Hezareh, Kristien Swinnen, Dorota Borys
Detection of a novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in humans by multiplex one-step real-time RT-PCR assay
Jian Fan, David Cui, Siuying Lau, Guoliang Xie, Xichao Guo, Shufa Zheng, Xiaofeng Huang, Shigui Yang, Xianzhi Yang, Zhaoxia Huo, Fei Yu, Jianzhou Lou, Li Tian, Xuefen Li, Yuejiao Dong, Qiaoyun Zhu, Yu Chen
High prevalence of HIV infection and unprotected anal intercourse among older men who have sex with men in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Yong-ze Li, Jun-jie Xu, Han-zhu Qian, Bing-xin You, Jing Zhang, Jian-ming Zhang, Qing-hai Hu, Zhen-xing Chu, Shu-yang Liu, Yong-jun Jiang, Wen-qing Geng, Hong Shang
National trends in hospitalization and mortality rates for patients with HIV, HCV, or HIV/HCV coinfection from 1996–2010 in the United States: a cross-sectional study
Christine U Oramasionwu, Joshua C Toliver, Terence L Johnson, Heather N Moore, Christopher R Frei
High prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureuscolonization among healthy children attending public daycare centers in informal settlements in a large urban center in Brazil
Eneida Dias Vianna Braga, Fábio Aguiar-Alves, Maria de Fátima Nogueira de Freitas, Monique Oliveira de e Silva, Thami Valadares Correa, Robert E Snyder, Verônica Afonso de Araújo, Mariel Asbury Marlow, Lee W Riley, Sérgio Setúbal, Licínio Esmeraldo Silva, Claudete Aparecida Araújo Cardoso
The distribution of incubation and relapse times in experimental human infections with the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax
Andrew A Lover, Xiahong Zhao, Zheng Gao, Richard J Coker, Alex R Cook
Validation of sputum Gram stain for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and healthcare-associated pneumonia: a prospective observational study
Hajime Fukuyama, Shin Yamashiro, Kiyoshi Kinjo, Hitoshi Tamaki, Tomoo Kishaba
Health literacy in patients with chronic hepatitis B attending a tertiary hospital in Melbourne: a questionnaire based survey
Tanya FM Dahl, Benjamin C Cowie, Beverley-Ann Biggs, Karin Leder, Jennifer H MacLachlan, Caroline Marshall
Choosing algorithms for TB screening: a modelling study to compare yield, predictive value and diagnostic burden
Anna H van’t Hoog, Ikushi Onozaki, Knut Lonnroth
Risk of using logistic regression to illustrate exposure-response relationship of infectious diseases
Jinma Ren, Zhen Ning, Carmen S Kirkness, Carl V Asche, Huaping Wang
Successful MDR-TB treatment regimens including Amikacin are associated with high rates of hearing loss
Chawangwa Modongo, Rafal S Sobota, Boikobo Kesenogile, Ronald Ncube, Giorgio Sirugo, Scott M Williams, Nicola M Zetola
Differential in vivo expression of mycobacterial antigens in Mycobacterium tuberculosisinfected lungs and lymph node tissues
Tehmina Mustafa, Nils Anders Leversen, Lisbet Sviland, Harald Gotten Wiker
Treatment of gram - positive infections in critically ill patients
Cristina Vazquez-Guillamet, Marin H Kollef
How to avoid microaspiration? A key element for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intubated ICU patients
Stijn I Blot, Jan Poelaert, Marin Kollef
How to treat VAP due to MDR pathogens in ICU patients
José Garnacho-Montero, Yael Corcia-Palomo, Rosario Amaya-Villar, Luis Martin-Villen
How to treat infections in a surgical intensive care unit
Jan De Waele, Liesbet De Bus
How do we use therapeutic drug monitoring to improve outcomes from severe infections in critically ill patients?
Gloria Wong, Fekade Bruck Sime, Jeffrey Lipman, Jason A Roberts
How to approach and treat viral infections in ICU patients
Theodoros Kelesidis, Ioannis Mastoris, Aliki Metsini, Sotirios Tsiodras
Treatment of bloodstream infections in ICUs
Jean-François Timsit, Jean-François Soubirou, Guillaume Voiriot, Sarah Chemam, Mathilde Neuville, Bruno Mourvillier, Romain Sonneville, Eric Mariotte, Lila Bouadma, Michel Wolff
How to treat severe infections in critically ill neutropenic patients?
Lara Zafrani, Elie Azoulay
Rapid PCR/ESI-MS-based molecular genotyping of Staphylococcus aureusfrom nasal swabs of emergency department patients
Aleksandar Kecojevic, Ray Ranken, David J Ecker, Christian Massire, Rangarajan Sampath, Lawrence B Blyn, Yu-Hsiang Hsieh, Richard E Rothman, Charlotte A Gaydos
Unexplained diarrhoea in HIV-1 infected individuals
Bas B Oude Munnink, Marta Canuti, Martin Deijs, Michel de Vries, Maarten F Jebbink, Sjoerd Rebers, Richard Molenkamp, Formijn J van Hemert, Kevin Chung, Matthew Cotten, Fransje Snijders, Cees JA Sol, Lia van der Hoek
Wasting among Uganda men with pulmonary tuberculosis is associated with linear regain in lean tissue mass during and after treatment in contrast to women with wasting who regain fat tissue mass: prospective cohort study
Ezekiel Mupere, LaShaunda Malone, Sarah Zalwango, Alphonse Okwera, Mary Nsereko, Daniel J Tisch, Isabel M Parraga, Catherine M Stein, Roy Mugerwa, W Henry Boom, Harriet K Mayanja, Christopher C Whalen
Prevalence and genetic characterization of Cryptosporidium, Enterocytozoon, Giardia and Cyclospora in diarrheal outpatients in china
Hua Liu, Yujuan Shen, Jianhai Yin, Zhongying Yuan, Yanyan Jiang, Yuxin Xu, Wei Pan, Yuan Hu, Jianping Cao
Congenital toxoplasmosis and prenatal care state programs
Mariza M Avelino, Waldemar N Amaral, Isolina MX Rodrigues, Alan R Rassi, Maria BF Gomes, Tatiane L Costa, Ana M Castro
Hospital-based HIV/HSV-2 seroprevalence among male patients with anal disease in Korea: cross sectional study
Jin-Sook Wang, Do Yeon Hwang, Hye-Kyung Yu, Sung Soon Kim, Jong Kyun Lee, Mee-Kyung Kee
Use of reverse-transcriptase-based HIV-1 viral load assessment to confirm low viral loads in newly diagnosed patients in Switzerland
Beatrice N Vetter, Cyril Shah, Jon B Huder, Jürg Böni, Jörg Schüpbach
Prevalence and types of rectal douches used for anal intercourse: results from an international survey
Marjan Javanbakht, Shauna Stahlman, Jim Pickett, Marc-André LeBlanc, Pamina M Gorbach
Response to antiretroviral therapy (ART): comparing women with previous use of zidovudine monotherapy (ZDVm) in pregnancy with ART naïve women
Susie Huntington, Claire Thorne, Jane Anderson, Marie-Louise Newell, Graham P Taylor, Deenan Pillay, Teresa Hill, Pat Tookey, Caroline Sabin
Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in Ukraine: antibacterial resistance and virulence factor encoding genes
Irina Netsvyetayeva, Mariusz Fraczek, Katarzyna Piskorska, Marlena Golas, Magdalena Sikora, Andrzej Mlynarczyk, Ewa Swoboda-Kopec, Wojciech Marusza, Beniamino Palmieri, Tommaso Iannitti
A historically-controlled Phase III study in adults to characterize the acceptability of a process change for manufacturing inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine
Varsha K Jain, Vijayalakshmi Chandrasekaran, Long Wang, Ping Li, Aixue Liu, Bruce L Innis
How should social mixing be measured: comparing web-based survey and sensor-based methods
Timo Smieszek, Victoria C Barclay, Indulaxmi Seeni, Jeanette J Rainey, Hongjiang Gao, Amra Uzicanin, Marcel Salathé
Non-conversion of sputum culture among patients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Cameroon: a prospective cohort study
Eric Walter Pefura-Yone, André Pascal Kengne, Christopher Kuaban
Meteorological factors and risk of scrub typhus in Guangzhou, southern China, 2006–2012
Tiegang Li, Zhicong Yang, Zhiqiang Dong, Ming Wang
Oral antibiotic therapy for the treatment of infective endocarditis: a systematic review
Awad Al-Omari, D William Cameron, Craig Lee, Vicente F Corrales-Medina
Extensive haemorrhagic necrosis of liver is an unpredictable fatal complication in dengue infection: a postmortem study
SAM Kularatne, IVB Imbulpitiya, RA Abeysekera, RN Waduge, RPVJ Rajapakse, KGAD Weerakoon
Long-term booster schedules with AS03A-adjuvanted heterologous H5N1 vaccines induces rapid and broad immune responses in Asian adults
Paul Gillard, Daniel Wai Sing Chu, Shinn-Jang Hwang, Pan-Chyr Yang, Prasert Thongcharoen, Fong Seng Lim, Mamadou Dramé, Karl Walravens, François Roman
Reduced IgM levels and elevated IgG levels against oxidized low-density lipoproteins in HIV-1 infection
Aylin Yilmaz, Karin Jennbacken, Linda Fogelstrand
Emergence of sporadic non-clustered cases of hospital-associated listeriosis among immunocompromised adults in southern Taiwan from 1992 to 2013: effect of precipitating immunosuppressive agents
Chun-Yuan Lee, Hung-Chin Tsai, Calvin M Kunin, Susan Shin-Jung Lee, Kuan-Sheng Wu, Yao-Shen Chen
Bacteremic skin and soft tissue infection caused by Prevotella loescheii
Mansoor Mehmood, Nabil A Jaffar, Muhammad Nazim, Faisal A Khasawneh
Climate change and dengue: a critical and systematic review of quantitative modelling approaches
Suchithra Naish, Pat Dale, John S Mackenzie, John McBride, Kerrie Mengersen, Shilu Tong
Factors predictive of treatment failure in staphylococcal prosthetic vascular graft infections: a prospective observational cohort study: impact of rifampin
Laurence Legout, Piervito Delia, Béatrice Sarraz-Bournet, Cécile Rouyer, Massongo Massongo, Michel Valette, Olivier Leroy, Stephan Haulon, Eric Senneville
Epidemic and virulence characteristic of Shigella spp. with extended-spectrum cephalosporin resistance in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, China
Chuan-Ling Zhang, Qing-Zhong Liu, Juan Wang, Xu Chu, Li-Meng Shen, Yuan-Yu Guo
Practice of skin protection and skin care among German surgeons and influence on the efficacy of surgical hand disinfection and surgical glove perforation
Julian C Harnoss, Laura Brune, Jörg Ansorg, Claus-Dieter Heidecke, Ojan Assadian, Axel Kramer
Non typable-Haemophilus influenzae biofilm formation and acute otitis media
Assaf Mizrahi, Robert Cohen, Emmanuelle Varon, Stephane Bonacorsi, Stephane Bechet, Claire Poyart, Corinne Levy, Josette Raymond
Erratum To: Human leptospirosis in The Federated States of Micronesia: a hospital-based febrile illness survey
Susannah Colt, Boris I Pavlin, Jacob L Kool, Eliaser Johnson, Judith P McCool, Alistair J Woodward
Erratum To: Respiratory viral pathogens among Singapore military servicemen 2009 – 2012: epidemiology and clinical characteristics
Xin Quan Tan, Xiahong Zhao, Vernon J Lee, Jin Phang Loh, Boon Huan Tan, Wee Hong Victor Koh, Sock Hoon Ng, Mark I-Cheng Chen, Alex Richard Cook
Erratum To: Production of recombinant Entamoeba histolyticapyruvate phosphate dikinase and its application in a lateral flow dipstick test for amoebic liver abscess
Syazwan Saidin, Muhammad Hafiznur Yunus, Nor Dyana Zakaria, Khairunisak Abdul Razak, Lim Boon Huat, Nurulhasanah Othman, Rahmah Noordin
Erratum to: Population movement can sustain STI prevalence in remote Australian indigenous communities
Ben B Hui, Richard T Gray, David P Wilson, James Ward, Anthony M A Smith, David J Philp, Matthew G Law, Jane S Hocking, David G Regan
Save Antibiotics: a call for action of the World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance (WAAAR)
Jean Carlet, Claude Rambaud, Céline Pulcini