BMC Infectious Diseases

Impact of Clostridium difficile infection among pneumonia and urinary tract infection hospitalizations: an analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample

Monideepa B. Becerra, Benjamin J. Becerra, Jim E. Banta, Nasia Safdar

Surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in hospitals in the WHO European region - an exploratory analysis of risk factors for a severe outcome in influenza-positive SARI cases

Tamara J Meerhoff, Artan Simaku, Dritan Ulqinaku, Liana Torosyan, Natalia Gribkova, Veronica Shimanovich, Giorgi Chakhunashvili, Irakli Karseladze, Aizhan Yesmagambetova, Ainagul Kuatbayeva, Zuridin Nurmatov, Dinagul Otorbaeva, Emilia Lupulescu, Odette Popovici, Elizaveta Smorodintseva, Anna Sominina, Olga Holubka, Olga Onyshchenko, Caroline S Brown, Diane Gross

Pneumonia severity, comorbidity and 1-year mortality in predominantly older adults with community-acquired pneumonia: a cohort study

Thomas Wesemann, Harald Nüllmann, Marc Andre Pflug, Hans Jürgen Heppner, Ludger Pientka, Ulrich Thiem

A meta-analysis of ventriculostomy-associated cerebrospinal fluid infections

Mahesh Ramanan, Jeffrey Lipman, Andrew Shorr, Aparna Shankar

Surveillance of catheter-related infections: the supplementary role of the microbiology laboratory

Wilhelmina Strasheim, Martha M Kock, Veronica Ueckermann, Ebrahim Hoosien, Andries W Dreyer, Marthie M Ehlers

Autochthonous transmission of Chagas disease in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil: a clinical and eco-epidemiological study

Luiz Henrique Conde Sangenis, Roberto Magalhães Saraiva, Ingebourg Georg, Liane de Castro, Valdirene dos Santos Lima, André Luiz R Roque, Samanta Cristina das Chagas Xavier, Laura Cristina Santos, Fabiano A Fernandes, Otília Sarquis, Marli Maria Lima, Filipe Aníbal Carvalho-Costa, Márcio Neves Bóia

Risk and prognosis of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among individuals with and without end-stage renal disease: a Danish, population-based cohort study

Lise H Nielsen, Søren Jensen-Fangel, Thomas Benfield, Robert Skov, Bente Jespersen, Anders R Larsen, Lars Østergaard, Henrik Støvring, Henrik C Schønheyder, Ole S Søgaard

Safety and immunogenicity of a freeze-dried, Vero cell culture-derived, inactivated Japanese encephalitis vaccine (KD-287, ENCEVAC®) versus a mouse brain-derived inactivated Japanese encephalitis vaccine in children: a phase III, multicenter, double-blinded, randomized trial

Ki Wook Yun, Hoan Jong Lee, Jin Han Kang, Byung Wook Eun, Yae-Jean Kim, Kyung-Hyo Kim, Nam Hee Kim, Young Jin Hong, Dong Ho Kim, Hwang Min Kim, Sung-Ho Cha

Human papillomavirus serology and tobacco smoking in a community control group

Karl T Kelsey, Heather H Nelson, Stephanie Kim, Michael Pawlita, Scott M Langevin, Melissa Eliot, Dominique S Michaud, Michael McClean

Frequency and clinical implications of the isolation of rare nontuberculous mycobacteria

Junghyun Kim, Moon-Woo Seong, Eui-Chong Kim, Sung Koo Han, Jae-Joon Yim

Epidemiological, clinical, outcome and antibiotic susceptibility differences between PVL positive and PVL negative Staphylococcus aureus infections in Western Australia: a case control study

Peter Boan, Hui-Leen Tan, Julie Pearson, Geoffrey Coombs, Christopher H Heath, James Owen Robinson

Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit: crucial role of implementing hand hygiene among external consultants

Carlotta Montagnani, Priscilla Cocchi, Laura Lega, Silvia Campana, Klaus Peter Biermann, Cesare Braggion, Patrizia Pecile, Elena Chiappini, Maurizio de Martino, Luisa Galli

Predictors and outcomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia among patients with HIV and tuberculosis co-infection enrolled in the ACTG A5221 STRIDE study

John A Crump, Xingye Wu, Michelle A Kendall, Prudence D Ive, Johnstone J Kumwenda, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Ute Jentsch, Susan Swindells

Clinicopathologic study of intestinal spirochetosis in Japan with special reference to human immunodeficiency virus infection status and species types: analysis of 5265 consecutive colorectal biopsies

Yoko Tateishi, Masae Takahashi, Shin-ichiro Horiguchi, Nobuaki Funata, Koichi Koizumi, Koji Okudela, Tsunekazu Hishima, Kenichi Ohashi

Risk factors for HIV and STI diagnosis in a community-based HIV/STI testing and counselling site for men having sex with men (MSM) in a large German city in 2011–2012

Ulrich Marcus, Jasmin Ort, Marc Grenz, Kai Eckstein, Karin Wirtz, Andreas Wille

Integration of antenatal syphilis screening in an urban HIV clinic: a feasibility study

Yukari C Manabe, Gertrude Namale, Elizabeth Nalintya, Joseph Sempa, Rosalind Parkes Ratanshi, Nadine Pakker, Elly Katabira

Deconstructing the differences: a comparison of GBD 2010 and CHERG’s approach to estimating the mortality burden of diarrhea, pneumonia, and their etiologies

Stephanie D Kovacs, Kim Mullholland, Julia Bosch, Harry Campbell, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Ibrahim Khalil, Stephen Lim, Li Liu, Stephen N Maley, Colin D Mathers, Alastair Matheson, Ali H Mokdad, Kate O’Brien, Umesh Parashar, Torin T Schaafsma, Duncan Steele, Stephen E Hawes, John T Grove

A nationwide population-based cohort study to identify the correlation between heart failure and the subsequent risk of herpes zoster

Ping-Hsun Wu, Yi-Ting Lin, Chun-Yi Lin, Ming-Yii Huang, Wei-Chiao Chang, Wei-Pin Chang

Cross-border collaboration between China and Myanmar for emergency response to imported vaccine derived poliovirus case

Hai-Bo Wang, Li-Fen Zhang, Wen-Zhou Yu, Ning Wen, Dong-Mei Yan, Jing-Jing Tang, Yong Zhang, Chun-Xiang Fan, Kathleen H Reilly, Wen-Bo Xu, Li Li, Zheng-Rong Ding, Hui-Ming Luo

Achieving sustained virologic response in hepatitis C: a systematic review of the clinical, economic and quality of life benefits

Jayne Smith-Palmer, Karin Cerri, William Valentine

Patterns of HIV, TB, and non-communicable disease multi-morbidity in peri-urban South Africa- a cross sectional study

Tolu Oni, Elizabeth Youngblood, Andrew Boulle, Nuala McGrath, Robert J Wilkinson, Naomi S Levitt

Accounting for behavioral responses during a flu epidemic using home television viewing

Michael Springborn, Gerardo Chowell, Matthew MacLachlan, Eli P Fenichel

Human leukocyte antigen class I and class II alleles are associated with susceptibility and resistance in borderline leprosy patients from Southeast Brazil

Fabiana Covolo de Souza-Santana, Elaine Valim Camarinha Marcos, Maria Esther Salles Nogueira, Somei Ura, Jane Tomimori

Measles vaccine coverage estimates in an outbreak three years after the nation-wide campaign in China: implications for measles elimination, 2013

Chao Ma, Fangjun Li, Xiang Zheng, Hong Zhang, Mengjuan Duan, Yanhua Yang, Lixin Hao, Qiru Su, Lance Rodewald, Bosong Guo, Shanliang Xiao, Huaqing Wang, Li Li, Junhua Li, Huiming Luo, Lidong Gao

Active and latent tuberculosis in Brazilian correctional facilities: a cross-sectional study

Andrea da Silva Santos Carbone, Dayse Sanchez Guimarães Paião, Renata Viebrantz Enne Sgarbi, Everton Ferreira Lemos, Renato Fernando Cazanti, Marcos Massaki Ota, Alexandre Laranjeira Junior, José Victor Bortolotto Bampi, Vanessa Perreira Fayad Elias, Simone Simionatto, Ana Rita Coimbra Motta-Castro, Maurício Antonio Pompílio, Sandra Maria do Valle de Oliveira, Albert I Ko, Jason R Andrews, Julio Croda

Soluble MICB protein levels and platelet counts during hepatitis B virus infection and response to hepatocellular carcinoma treatment

Hoang Van Tong, Le Huu Song, Nghiem Xuan Hoan, Bui Khac Cuong, Bui Tien Sy, Ho Anh Son, Do Quyet, Vu Quoc Binh, Peter G Kremsner, Claus Thomas Bock, Thirumalaisamy P Velavan, Nguyen Linh Toan

Influenza virus infection is associated with increased risk of death amongst patients hospitalized with confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in South Africa, 2010–2011

Sibongile Walaza, Stefano Tempia, Halima Dawood, Ebrahim Variava, Jocelyn Moyes, Adam L Cohen, Nicole Wolter, Michelle Groome, Claire von Mollendorf, Kathleen Kahn, Marthi Pretorius, Marietjie Venter, Shabir A Madhi, Cheryl Cohen

Reviewer acknowledgement 2014

Philippa K Harris

Determinants of antiretroviral adherence among HIV positive children and teenagers in rural Tanzania: a mixed methods study

Daniel Nyogea, Sally Mtenga, Lars Henning, Fabian C Franzeck, Tracy R Glass, Emilio Letang, Marcel Tanner, Eveline Geubbels

Antimicrobial susceptibility/resistance and NG-MAST characterisation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Belarus, Eastern Europe, 2010–2013

Fiodar Lebedzeu, Daniel Golparian, Leonid Titov, Nataliya Pankratava, Slavyana Glazkova, Irina Shimanskaya, Natallia Charniakova, Aliaksandr Lukyanau, Marius Domeika, Magnus Unemo

Hepatitis B vaccine knowledge and vaccination status among health care workers of Bahir Dar City Administration, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

Gedefaw Abeje, Muluken Azage

Do Australian general practitioners believe practice nurses can take a role in chlamydia testing? A qualitative study of attitudes and opinions

Rebecca Lorch, Jane Hocking, Rebecca Guy, Alaina Vaisey, Anna Wood, Basil Donovan, Christopher Fairley, Jane Gunn, John Kaldor, Meredith Temple-Smith

Pulmonary tuberculosis in outpatients in Sabah, Malaysia: advanced disease but low incidence of HIV co-infection

Timothy William, Uma Parameswaran, Wai Khew Lee, Tsin Wen Yeo, Nicholas M Anstey, Anna P Ralph

Orbital apex syndrome: an unusual complication of herpes zoster ophthalmicus

Chun-Yuan Lee, Hung-Chin Tsai, Susan Shin-Jung Lee, Yao-Shen Chen

An outbreak following importation of wild poliovirus in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, 2011

Hai-Bo Wang, Wen-Zhou Yu, Xin-Qi Wang, Fuerhati Wushouer, Jian-Ping Wang, Dong-Yan Wang, Fu-Qiang Cui, Jing-Shan Zheng, Ning Wen, Yi-Xin Ji, Chun-Xiang Fan, Hui-Ling Wang, Gui-Jun Ning, Guo-Hong Huang, Dong-Mei Yan, Qi-Ru Su, Da-Wei Liu, Guo-Min Zhang, Kathleen H Reilly, Jing Ning, Jian-Ping Fu, Sha-Sha Mi, Hui-Ming Luo, Wei-Zhong Yang

Phenotypic profiling of CD8+ T cells during Plasmodium vivax blood-stage infection

Natália Satchiko Hojo-Souza, Dhelio Batista Pereira, Lívia Silva Araújo Passos, Pedro Henrique Gazzinelli-Guimarães, Mariana Santos Cardoso, Mauro Shugiro Tada, Graziela Maria Zanini, Daniella Castanheira Bartholomeu, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara, Lilian Lacerda Bueno

Human brucellosis occurrences in inner mongolia, China: a spatio-temporal distribution and ecological niche modeling approach

Peng Jia, Andrew Joyner

Impact of elevated maternal HIV viral load at delivery on T-cell populations in HIV exposed uninfected infants in Mozambique

Nilsa de Deus, Cinta Moraleda, Celia Serna-Bolea, Montse Renom, Clara Menendez, Denise Naniche

Immune response to Leishmania antigens in an AIDS patient with mucocutaneous leishmaniasis as a manifestation of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS): a case report

Luana Gois, Roberto Badaró, Robert Schooley, Maria Fernanda Rios Grassi

Evaluation of HIV testing algorithms in Ethiopia: the role of the tie-breaker algorithm and weakly reacting test lines in contributing to a high rate of false positive HIV diagnoses

Leslie Shanks, M Ruby Siddiqui, Jarmila Kliescikova, Neil Pearce, Cono Ariti, Libsework Muluneh, Erwan Pirou, Koert Ritmeijer, Johnson Masiga, Almaz Abebe

Treatment efficacy, treatment failures and selection of macrolide resistance in patients with high load of Mycoplasma genitalium during treatment of male urethritis with josamycin

Alexander Guschin, Pavel Ryzhikh, Tatiana Rumyantseva, Mikhail Gomberg, Magnus Unemo

Association of the miR-146a, miR-149, miR-196a2 and miR-499 polymorphisms with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in the Chinese Uygur, Kazak and Southern Han populations

Xing Zhang, Yanyuan Li, Xiang Li, Wanjiang Zhang, Zhifen Pan, Fang Wu, Chong Wang, Zhongliang Chen, Tingting Jiang, Dandan Xu, Zepeng Ping, Jiyan Liu, Changming Liu, Zhongjie Li, Ji-Cheng Li

An effective strategy for influenza vaccination of healthcare workers in Australia: experience at a large health service without a mandatory policy

Kristina Heinrich-Morrison, Sue McLellan, Ursula McGinnes, Brendan Carroll, Kerrie Watson, Pauline Bass, Leon J Worth, Allen C Cheng

Visceral leishmaniasis diagnosis and reporting delays as an obstacle to timely response actions in Nepal and India

Jan P Boettcher, Yubaraj Siwakoti, Ana Milojkovic, Niyamat A Siddiqui, Chitra K Gurung, Suman Rijal, Pradeep Das, Axel Kroeger, Megha R Banjara

Evaluation of a new, rapid, simple test for the detection of influenza virus

Juan Carlos Hurtado, Maria Mar Mosquera, Elisa de Lazzari, Esteban Martínez, Nuria Torner, Ricard Isanta, Patricia de Molina, Tomás Pumarola, Maria Angeles Marcos, Jordi Vila Estape

Pertussis outbreak in university students and evaluation of acellular pertussis vaccine effectiveness in Japan

Megumi Hara, Mami Fukuoka, Katsuya Tashiro, Iwata Ozaki, Satoko Ohfuji, Kenji Okada, Takashi Nakano, Wakaba Fukushima, Yoshio Hirota

Delays, interruptions, and losses from prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services during antenatal care in Johannesburg, South Africa: a cohort analysis

Kathryn Schnippel, Constance Mongwenyana, Lawrence C Long, Bruce A Larson

Retrospective analysis of 14 cases of disseminated Penicillium marneffei infection with osteolytic lesions

Ye Qiu, Jianquan Zhang, Guangnan Liu, Xiaoning Zhong, Jingmin Deng, Zhiyi He, Bai Jing

Higher blood volumes improve the sensitivity of direct PCR diagnosis of blood stream tuberculosis among HIV-positive patients: an observation study

Freddie Bwanga, Claudia Disqué, Michael G Lorenz, Vera Allerheiligen, William Worodria, Allan Luyombya, Irene Najjingo, Michael Weizenegger

Identification of circulating biomarkers in sera of Plasmodium knowlesi-infected malaria patients – comparison against Plasmodium vivax infection

Yeng Chen, Choon K Chan, Jesinda P Kerishnan, Yee L Lau, Yin-Ling Wong, Subash CB Gopinath

Concurrent peritonsillar abscess and poststreptococcal reactive arthritis complicating acute streptococcal tonsillitis in a young healthy adult: a case report

Elżbieta Mazur, Ewa Czerwińska, Aneta Grochowalska, Maria Kozioł-Montewka

MicroRNA-29 family expression and its relation to antiviral immune response and viro-immunological markers in HIV-1-infected patients

Katia Monteleone, Carla Selvaggi, Giulia Cacciotti, Francesca Falasca, Ivano Mezzaroma, Gabriella D’Ettorre, Ombretta Turriziani, Vincenzo Vullo, Guido Antonelli, Carolina Scagnolari

Identification of viral and bacterial pathogens from hospitalized children with severe acute respiratory illness in Lusaka, Zambia, 2011–2012: a cross-sectional study

Paul Simusika, Allen C Bateman, Andros Theo, Geoffrey Kwenda, Christine Mfula, Edward Chentulo, Mwaka Monze

Serotypes, seasonal trends, and antibiotic resistance of non-typhoidal Salmonella from human patients in Guangdong Province, China, 2009–2012

Zhaoming Liang, Bixia Ke, Xiaoling Deng, Junhua Liang, Lu Ran, Lingling Lu, Dongmei He, Qiong Huang, Changwen Ke, Zhongjie Li, Hongjie Yu, John D Klena, Shuyu Wu

Spatial, temporal and genetic dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in China

Huaiyu Tian, Yujun Cui, Lu Dong, Sen Zhou, Xiaowen Li, Shanqian Huang, Ruifu Yang, Bing Xu

Measurement of serum procalcitonin levels for the early diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis

Zhao-Hua Cai, Chun-Lei Fan, Jun-Fu Zheng, Xin Zhang, Wen-Min Zhao, Bing Li, Lei Li, Pei-Ling Dong, Hui-Guo Ding

Detection and serotyping of pneumococci in community acquired pneumonia patients without culture using blood and urine samples

Karin Elberse, Suzan van Mens, Amelieke J Cremers, Sabine CA Meijvis, Bart Vlaminckx, Marien I de Jonge, Jacques F Meis, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Ingrid van de Pol, Leo M Schouls

Genetic diversity of medically important and emerging Candida species causing invasive infection

Karina Bellinghausen Merseguel, Angela Satie Nishikaku, Anderson Messias Rodrigues, Ana Carolina Padovan, Renata Carmona e Ferreira, Analy Salles de Azevedo Melo, Marcelo Ribeiro da Silva Briones, Arnaldo Lopes Colombo

Microbiological characteristics of sepsis in a University hospital

Adriana Valderez Reis Vendemiato, Angela von Nowakonski, Fernando Augusto de Lima Marson, Carlos Emilio Levy

Contribution of a heparin-binding haemagglutinin interferon-gamma release assay to the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in HIV-infected patients: comparison with the tuberculin skin test and the QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-tube

Chloé Wyndham-Thomas, Violette Dirix, Kinda Schepers, Charlotte Martin, Marc Hildebrand, Jean-Christophe Goffard, Fanny Domont, Myriam Libin, Marc Loyens, Camille Locht, Jean-Paul Van Vooren, Françoise Mascart

Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium and Mycoplasma hominis in urogenital tract of Brazilian women

Guilherme Barreto Campos, Tássia Neves Lobão, Nathan Neves Selis, Aline Teixeira Amorim, Hellen Braga Martins, Maysa Santos Barbosa, Thiago Henrique Caldeira Oliveira, Djanilson Barbosa dos Santos, Tiana Baqueiro Figueiredo, Lucas Miranda Marques, Jorge Timenetsky

Pneumococcal meningitis and vaccine effects in the era of conjugate vaccination: results of 20 years of nationwide surveillance in Germany

Matthias Imöhl, Jens Möller, Ralf René Reinert, Stephanie Perniciaro, Mark van der Linden, Orhan Aktas

Predictors and outcomes of mycobacteremia among HIV-infected smear- negative presumptive tuberculosis patients in Uganda

Lydia Nakiyingi, Willy Ssengooba, Damalie Nakanjako, Derek Armstrong, Molly Holshouser, Bruce J Kirenga, Maunank Shah, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Moses L Joloba, Jerrold J Ellner, Susan E Dorman, Yukari C Manabe

Demographic determinants of syphilis seroprevalence among U.S. blood donors, 2011–2012

Mark Andrew Kane, Evan Martin Bloch, Roberta Bruhn, Zhanna Kaidarova, Edward Laurence Murphy

Etiology of community-acquired pneumonia and diagnostic yields of microbiological methods: a 3-year prospective study in Norway

Jan C Holter, Fredrik Müller, Ola Bjørang, Helvi H Samdal, Jon B Marthinsen, Pål A Jenum, Thor Ueland, Stig S Frøland, Pål Aukrust, Einar Husebye, Lars Heggelund

Bridging epidemiology with population genetics in a low incidence MSM-driven HIV-1 subtype B epidemic in Central Europe

Maja M Lunar, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Janez Tomažič, Primož Karner, Tomaž D Vovko, Blaž Pečavar, Gabriele Volčanšek, Mario Poljak, Ana B Abecasis

Modeling undetected live poliovirus circulation after apparent interruption of transmission: implications for surveillance and vaccination

Dominika A Kalkowska, Radboud J Duintjer Tebbens, Mark A Pallansch, Stephen L Cochi, Steven G F Wassilak, Kimberly M Thompson

Outcome correlation of smear-positivity but culture-negativity during standard anti-tuberculosis treatment in Taiwan

Wen-Cheng Chao, Yi-Wen Huang, Ming-Chih Yu, Wen-Ta Yang, Chou-Jui Lin, Jen-Jyh Lee, Ruay-Ming Huang, Chi-Chang Shieh, Shun-Tien Chien, Jung-Yien Chien

Stability of the pneumococcal population structure in Massachusetts as PCV13 was introduced

Qiuzhi Chang, Abbie E Stevenson, Nicholas J Croucher, Grace M Lee, Stephen I Pelton, Marc Lipsitch, Jonathan A Finkelstein, William P Hanage

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bloodstream infection in patients with hematologic malignancies: a retrospective study and in vitro activities of antimicrobial combinations

Sung-Yeon Cho, Dong-Gun Lee, Su-Mi Choi, Chulmin Park, Hye-Sun Chun, Yeon-Joon Park, Jae-Ki Choi, Hyo-Jin Lee, Sun Hee Park, Jung-Hyun Choi, Jin-Hong Yoo

Prospective evaluation of GeneXpert for the diagnosis of HIV- negative pediatric TB cases

Do Chau Giang, Tran Ngoc Duong, Dang Thi Minh Ha, Ho Thi Nhan, Marcel Wolbers, Nguyen Thi Quynh Nhu, Dorothee Heemskerk, Nguyen Dang Quang, Doan Thanh Phuong, Pham Thu Hang, Tran Huu Loc, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan, Nguyen Huy Dung, Jeremy Farrar, Maxine Caws

Molecular characterization of influenza viruses collected from young children in Uberlandia, Brazil - from 2001 to 2010

Thelma Fátima de Mattos Silva Oliveira, Jonny Yokosawa, Fernando Couto Motta, Marilda Mendonça Siqueira, Hélio Lopes da Silveira, Divina Aparecida Oliveira Queiróz

Factors associated with seasonal influenza vaccine uptake among children in Japan

Aiko Shono, Masahide Kondo

Expression of concern: Prevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection in Libya: results from a national population based survey

Philippa K Harris

Apoptosis and frequency of total and effector CD8+ T lymphocytes from cutaneous leishmaniasis patients during antimonial therapy

Raquel Ferraz, Clarissa F Cunha, Adriano Gomes-Silva, Armando O Schubach, Maria Inês F Pimentel, Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Sergio CF Mendonça, Cláudia M Valete-Rosalino, Alda Maria Da-Cruz, Álvaro Luiz Bertho

Modelling the return on investment of preventively vaccinating healthcare workers against pertussis

Luqman Tariq, Marie-Josée J Mangen, Anke Hövels, Gerard Frijstein, Hero de Boer

Treatment outcomes of adjuvant resectional surgery for nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease

Hyung Koo Kang, Hye Yun Park, Dohun Kim, Byeong-Ho Jeong, Kyeongman Jeon, Jong Ho Cho, Hong Kwan Kim, Yong Soo Choi, Jhingook Kim, Won-Jung Koh

A retrospective study of contributing factors for prognosis and survival length of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis in Southern part of China (1998–2013)

Hui Zheng, Mingyue Li, Yingting Luo, Dongmei Wang, Jialing Yang, Qiong Chen, Junying Lao, Ningfen Chen, Man Yang, Qun Wang

Early response to antibiotic treatment in European patients hospitalized with complicated skin and soft tissue infections: analysis of the REACH study

Javier Garau, Francesco Blasi, Jesús Medina, Kyle McBride, Helmut Ostermann

Involvement of main diarrheagenic Escherichia coli, with emphasis on enteroaggregative E. coli, in severe non-epidemic pediatric diarrhea in a high-income country

Joshua Tobias, Eias Kassem, Uri Rubinstein, Anya Bialik, Sreekanth-Reddy Vutukuru, Armando Navaro, Assaf Rokney, Lea Valinsky, Moshe Ephros, Dani Cohen, Khitam Muhsen

How much European prescribing physicians know about invasive fungal infections management?

Maricela Valerio, Antonio Vena, Emilio Bouza, Nanna Reiter, Pierluigi Viale, Marcel Hochreiter, Maddalena Giannella, Patricia Muñoz

Effectiveness of RHZE-FDC (fixed-dose combination) compared to RH-FDC + Z for tuberculosis treatment in Brazil: a cohort study

José Ueleres Braga, Anete Trajman

Effectiveness of topical corticosteroids in addition to antiviral therapy in the management of recurrent herpes labialis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nasira Arain, Sharath CV Paravastu, Mubashir A Arain

High regional variability of HIV, HCV and injecting risks among people who inject drugs in Poland: comparing a cross-sectional bio-behavioural study with case-based surveillance

Magdalena Rosińska, Janusz Sierosławski, Lucas Wiessing

A meta-analysis of the proportion of animal Salmonella isolates resistant to drugs used against human salmonellosis in Ethiopia

Getachew Tadesse

Distinct gender differences in anthropometric profiles of a peri-urban South African HIV population: a cross sectional study

Theodore A Nell, Maritza J Kruger, Dillan C Beukes, Esme Calitz, Rehana Essop, M Faadiel Essop

Correlates of the molecular vaginal microbiota composition of African women

Raju Gautam, Hanneke Borgdorff, Vicky Jespers, Suzanna C Francis, Rita Verhelst, Mary Mwaura, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Gilles Ndayisaba, Jordan K Kyongo, Liselotte Hardy, Joris Menten, Tania Crucitti, Evgeni Tsivtsivadze, Frank Schuren, Janneke HHM van de Wijgert

Viral infections in outpatients with medically attended acute respiratory illness during the 2012–2013 influenza season

Richard K Zimmerman, Charles R Rinaldo, Mary Patricia Nowalk, GK Balasubramani, Krissy K Moehling, Arlene Bullotta, Heather F Eng, Jonathan M Raviotta, Theresa M Sax, Stephen Wisniewski

Outbreak of cryptosporidium hominis following river flooding in the city of Halle (Saale), Germany, August 2013

Maximilian Gertler, Matthias Dürr, Peter Renner, Sven Poppert, Mona Askar, Janina Breidenbach, Christina Frank, Karina Preußel, Anika Schielke, Dirk Werber, Rachel Chalmers, Guy Robinson, Irmgard Feuerpfeil, Egbert Tannich, Christine Gröger, Klaus Stark, Hendrik Wilking

Viral etiology of community-acquired pneumonia among adolescents and adults with mild or moderate severity and its relation to age and severity

Jiu-Xin Qu, Li Gu, Zeng-Hui Pu, Xiao-Min Yu, Ying-Mei Liu, Ran Li, Yi-Min Wang, Bin Cao, Chen Wang

Dose-response models for selected respiratory infectious agents: Bordetella pertussis, group a Streptococcus, rhinovirus and respiratory syncytial virus

Rachael M Jones, Yu-Min Su

A randomised phase 1 study to investigate safety, pharmacokinetics and impact on gut microbiota following single and multiple oral doses in healthy male subjects of SMT19969, a novel agent for Clostridium difficile infections

Richard Vickers, Neil Robinson, Emma Best, Roger Echols, Glenn Tillotson, Mark Wilcox

Effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines, licensed but not funded, against rotavirus hospitalizations in the Valencia Region, Spain

Silvia Pérez-Vilar, Javier Díez-Domingo, Mónica López-Lacort, Sergio Martínez-Úbeda, Miguel A Martinez-Beneito

A multiplex PCR assay for the detection of five influenza viruses using a dual priming oligonucleotide system

Xuezheng Ma, Huanzhou Xu, Lei Shi, Pengfei Yang, Liping Zhang, Xiaohong Sun, Wei Zhen, Kongxin Hu

Molecular epidemiology of human sporotrichosis in Venezuela reveals high frequency of Sporothrix globosa

Emma Camacho, Isabel León-Navarro, Sabrina Rodríguez-Brito, Mireya Mendoza, Gustavo A Niño-Vega

Severe acute respiratory infection in children in a densely populated urban slum in Kenya, 2007–2011

Robert F Breiman, Leonard Cosmas, M Kariuki Njenga, John Williamson, Joshua A Mott, Mark A Katz, Dean D Erdman, Eileen Schneider, M Steven Oberste, John C Neatherlin, Henry Njuguna, Daniel M Ondari, Kennedy Odero, George O Okoth, Beatrice Olack, Newton Wamola, Joel M Montgomery, Barry S Fields, Daniel R Feikin

Epidemiologic, clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of visceral leishmaniasis in renal transplant recipients: experience from thirty cases

Avelar Alves de Silva, Álvaro Pacheco E Silva Filho, Ricardio de Castro Cinta Sesso, Ronaldo de Matos Esmeraldo, Cláudia Maria Costa de Oliveira, Paula Frassinetti Castelo Branco Camurca Fernandes, Rodrigo Alves de Oliveira, Leila Silveira Veira de Silva, Valencio Pereira de Carvalho, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa, Jesusmar Ximenes Andrade, Diana Marisa Barros da Silva, Roosevelt Valente Chaves

Clonal dissemination of linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus capitis with G2603T mutation in domain V of the 23S rRNA and the cfr gene at a tertiary care hospital in China

Wanqing Zhou, Dongmei Niu, Xiaoli Cao, Mingzhe Ning, Zhifeng Zhang, Han Shen, Kui Zhang

Expression of inhibitory regulators of innate immunity in patients with active tuberculosis

Dana C Blok, Liesbeth M Kager, Arie J Hoogendijk, Ivar O Lede, Wahid Rahman, Rumana Afroz, Paul Bresser, Jaring S van der Zee, Aniruddha Ghose, Caroline E Visser, Menno D de Jong, Abu Shahed Md Zahed, Md Anwar Husain, Khan Mashrequl Alam, Pravat Chandra Barua, Mahtabuddin Hassan, Ahmed Hossain, Md Abu Tayab, Rene Lutter, Nick Day, Arjen M Dondorp, Alex F de Vos, Cornelis van ’t Veer, Tom van der Poll

Sero-prevalence of Leishmania donovani infection in labour migrants and entomological risk factors in extra-domestic habitats of Kafta-Humera lowlands - kala-azar endemic areas in the northwest Ethiopia

Wossenseged Lemma, Habte Tekie, Solomon Yared, Meshesha Balkew, Teshome Gebre-Michael, Alon Warburg, Asrat Hailu

Prenatal testing and prevalence of HIV infection during pregnancy: data from the “Birth in Brazil” study, a national hospital-based study

Rosa Maria Soares Madeira Domingues, Celia Landmann Szwarcwald, Paulo Roberto Borges Souza Jr, Maria do Carmo Leal

Mannan adjuvants intranasally administered inactivated influenza virus in mice rendering low doses inductive of strong serum IgG and IgA in the lung

Owen Proudfoot, Sandra Esparon, Choon-Kit Tang, Karen Laurie, Ian Barr, Geoffrey Pietersz

Clinical characteristics of hospital-onset Pneumocystis pneumonia and genotypes of Pneumocystis jirovecii in a single tertiary centre in Korea

Tark Kim, Sang-Oh Lee, Hyo-Lim Hong, Ju Young Lee, Sung-Han Kim, Sang-Ho Choi, Mi-Na Kim, Yang Soo Kim, Jun Hee Woo, Heungsup Sung

Barriers to adherence with tuberculosis contact investigation in six provinces of Vietnam: a nested case–control study

Gregory James Fox, Le Phuong Loan, Nguyen Viet Nhung, Nguyen Thi Loi, Dinh Ngoc Sy, Warwick John Britton, Guy Barrington Marks

Multidrug resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 from clinical and environmental samples in Kathmandu city

Upendra Thapa Shrestha, Nabaraj Adhikari, Rojina Maharjan, Megha R Banjara, Komal R Rijal, Shital R Basnyat, Vishwanath P Agrawal

Variable performance of models for predicting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in European surgical wards

Andie S Lee, Angelo Pan, Stephan Harbarth, Andrea Patroni, Annie Chalfine, George L Daikos, Silvia Garilli, José Antonio Martínez, Ben S Cooper

The epidemiology of herpes zoster and its complications in Medicare cancer patients

Mihran A Yenikomshian, Adrienne P Guignard, François Haguinet, Ann S LaCasce, Arthur T Skarin, Alex Trahey, Paul Karner, Mei Sheng Duh

Genetic relatedness and risk factor analysis of ampicillin-resistant and high-level gentamicin-resistant enterococci causing bloodstream infections in Tanzanian children

Håvard Aamodt, Stein Christian Mohn, Samuel Maselle, Karim P Manji, Rob Willems, Roland Jureen, Nina Langeland, Bjørn Blomberg

New echinocandin susceptibility patterns for nosocomial Candida albicans in Bogotá, Colombia, in ten tertiary care centres: an observational study

Giovanni Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Alessandro Fiori, Katrien Lagrou, María Antonia Gaona, Milciades Ibáñez, Manuel Alfonso Patarroyo, Patrick Van Dijck, Arley Gómez-López

Genetic diversity of the 2013–14 human isolates of influenza H7N9 in China

Amber Farooqui, Alberto J Leon, Linxi Huang, Suwu Wu, Yingmu Cai, Pengzhou Lin, Weihong Chen, Xibin Fang, Tiansheng Zeng, Yisu Liu, Li Zhang, Ting Su, Weibin Chen, Elodie Ghedin, Huachen Zhu, Yi Guan, David J Kelvin

Assessing the use of hospital staff influenza-like absence (ILA) for enhancing hospital preparedness and national surveillance

Lydia N Drumright, Simon DW Frost, Alex J Elliot, Mike Catchpole, Richard G Pebody, Mark Atkins, John Harrison, Penny Parker, Alison H Holmes

Seroprevalence of syphilis and human immunodeficiency virus infections among pregnant women who attend the University of Gondar teaching hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

Mengistu Endris, Tekalign Deressa, Yeshambel Belyhun, Feleke Moges

Investigation of the high rates of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopia reveals no single driving factor and minimal evidence for zoonotic transmission of Mycobacterium bovis infection

Stefan Berg, Esther Schelling, Elena Hailu, Rebuma Firdessa, Balako Gumi, Girume Erenso, Endalamaw Gadisa, Araya Mengistu, Meseret Habtamu, Jemal Hussein, Teklu Kiros, Shiferaw Bekele, Wondale Mekonnen, Yohannes Derese, Jakob Zinsstag, Gobena Ameni, Sebastien Gagneux, Brian D Robertson, Rea Tschopp, Glyn Hewinson, Lawrence Yamuah, Stephen V Gordon, Abraham Aseffa

Antibodies to group A streptococcal virulence factors, SIC and DRS, increase predilection to GAS pyoderma

Mohan G Karmarkar, Gouri P Hule, Ainslie Cameron, Preeti R Mehta, Uday Khopkar, Niwrutti K Hase, Kadaba S Sriprakash

Protective efficacy of recombinant canine adenovirus type-2 expressing TgROP18 (CAV-2-ROP18) against acute and chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection in mice

Xiu-Zhen Li, Xiao-Hu Wang, Li-Jun Xia, Ya-Biao Weng, Jorge A Hernandez, Li-Qing Tu, Lu-Tao Li, Shou-Jun Li, Zi-Guo Yuan

The significance of Lactobacillus crispatus and L. vaginalis for vaginal health and the negative effect of recent sex: a cross-sectional descriptive study across groups of African women

Vicky Jespers, Janneke van de Wijgert, Piet Cools, Rita Verhelst, Hans Verstraelen, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Mary Mwaura, Gilles F Ndayisaba, Kishor Mandaliya, Joris Menten, Liselotte Hardy, Tania Crucitti

Epidemiology and outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection and sepsis in a Norwegian county 1996–2011: an observational study

Julie Paulsen, Arne Mehl, Åsa Askim, Erik Solligård, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Jan Kristian Damås

Evaluation of tuberculosis infection control measures implemented at primary health care facilities in Kwazulu-Natal province of South Africa

Ntambwe Malangu, Michah Mngomezulu

Prevalence of early-onset neonatal infection among newborns of mothers with bacterial infection or colonization: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Grace J Chan, Anne CC Lee, Abdullah H Baqui, Jingwen Tan, Robert E Black

Lipid and glucose alterations in perinatally-acquired HIV-infected adolescents and young adults

Daniel Blázquez, José Tomás Ramos-Amador, Talía Saínz, María José Mellado, Marta García-Ascaso, María Isabel De José, Pablo Rojo, María Luisa Navarro, María Ángeles Muñoz-Fernández, Jesús Saavedra, Miguel Angel Roa, Santiago Jiménez, José Beceiro, Luis Prieto, Milagros García Hortelano, María Isabel González-Tomé

Hepatitis B screening among Chinese Americans: a structural equation modeling analysis

Grace X Ma, Guo Yolanda Zhang, Shumenghui Zhai, Xiang Ma, Yin Tan, Steven E Shive, Min Qi Wang

Spatial clustering of measles cases during endemic (1998–2002) and epidemic (2010) periods in Lusaka, Zambia

Jessie Pinchoff, James Chipeta, Gibson Chitundu Banda, Samuel Miti, Timothy Shields, Frank Curriero, William John Moss

Dissemination of VIM-2 producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST233 at tertiary care hospitals in Egypt

Mai Mahmoud Zafer, Mohamed Hamed Al-Agamy, Hadir Ahmed El-Mahallawy, Magdy Aly Amin, Seif El Din Ashour

Evaluation of using composite HPV genotyping assay results to monitor human papillomavirus infection burden through simulation

Carol Y Lin

Viral aetiology of acute respiratory infections among children and associated meteorological factors in southern China

Binglin Cui, Dangui Zhang, Hui Pan, Fan Zhang, Jeremy Farrar, Frieda Law, H Rogier van Doorn, Beiyan Wu, William Ba-Thein

Factors associated with failure to screen for syphilis during antenatal care in Ghana: a case control study

Edward Tieru Dassah, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Philippe Mayaud

Pharmacokinetics of isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol in Indian children

Aparna Mukherjee, Thirumurthy Velpandian, Mohit Singla, Kunwar Kanhiya, Sushil K Kabra, Rakesh Lodha

Burden of bacterial resistance among neonatal infections in low income countries: how convincing is the epidemiological evidence?

Bich-Tram Huynh, Michael Padget, Benoit Garin, Perlinot Herindrainy, Elsa Kermorvant-Duchemin, Laurence Watier, Didier Guillemot, Elisabeth Delarocque-Astagneau

Systematic review and mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials of primary oral antifungal prophylaxis in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant recipients

Eric J Bow, David J Vanness, Monica Slavin, Catherine Cordonnier, Oliver A Cornely, David I Marks, Antonio Pagliuca, Carlos Solano, Lael Cragin, Alissa J Shaul, Sonja Sorensen, Richard Chambers, Michal Kantecki, David Weinstein, Haran Schlamm

Prevalence and management of antibiotic associated diarrhea in general hospitals

Monique M Elseviers, Yoleen Van Camp, Sander Nayaert, Khyra Duré, Lieven Annemans, Ann Tanghe, Sebastian Vermeersch

Cost effectiveness of option B plus for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in resource-limited countries: evidence from Kumasi, Ghana

Adam VanDeusen, Elijah Paintsil, Thomas Agyarko-Poku, Elisa F Long

Acinetobacter calcoaceticus from a fatal case of pneumonia harboring blaNDM-1 on a widely distributed plasmid

Peng Li, Chaojie Yang, Jing Xie, Nan Liu, Houzhao Wang, Ling Zhang, Xu Wang, Yong Wang, Shaofu Qiu, Hongbin Song

HIV-free survival according to the early infant-feeding practices; a retrospective study in an anti-retroviral therapy programme in Makurdi, Nigeria

Emmanuel A Anígilájé, Othniel J Dabit, Ayodotun Olutola, Bem Ageda, Sunday A Aderibigbe

Helminth infections and type 2 diabetes: a cluster-randomized placebo controlled SUGARSPIN trial in Nangapanda, Flores, Indonesia

Dicky L Tahapary, Karin de Ruiter, Ivonne Martin, Lisette van Lieshout, Bruno Guigas, Pradana Soewondo, Yenny Djuardi, Aprilianto E Wiria, Oleg A Mayboroda, Jeanine J Houwing-Duistermaat, Hengki Tasman, Erliyani Sartono, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Johannes W A Smit, Taniawati Supali

A cluster randomized trial for the implementation of an antibiotic checklist based on validated quality indicators: the AB-checklist

Frederike V van Daalen, Jan M Prins, Brent C Opmeer, Marja A Boermeester, Caroline E Visser, Reinier M van Hest, Marlies E J L Hulscher, Suzanne E Geerlings

Comparing timeliness, content, and disease severity of formal and informal source outbreak reporting

Chi Y Bahk, David A Scales, Sumiko R Mekaru, John S Brownstein, Clark C Freifeld

The impact of anthelmintic treatment intervention on malaria infection and anaemia in school and preschool children in Magu district, Tanzania: an open label randomised intervention trial

Safari M Kinung’hi, Pascal Magnussen, Coleman Kishamawe, Jim Todd, Birgitte J Vennervald

Application of the screening method to monitor influenza vaccine effectiveness among the elderly in Germany

Cornelius Remschmidt, Thorsten Rieck, Birte Bödeker, Ole Wichmann

Systemic inflammation and residual viraemia in HIV-positive adults on protease inhibitor monotherapy: a cross-sectional study

Alejandro Arenas-Pinto, Ana Milinkovic, Dimitra Peppa, Anna McKendry, Mala Maini, Richard Gilson

Delay in sputum smear conversion and outcomes of smear-positive tuberculosis patients: a retrospective cohort study in Bafoussam, Cameroon

Fabrice Nembot Djouma, Michel Noubom, Jérôme Ateudjieu, Hubert Donfack

Th17 cytokine deficiency in patients with Aspergillus skull base osteomyelitis

Corine E Delsing, Katharina L Becker, Anna Simon, Bart Jan Kullberg, Chantal P Bleeker-Rovers, Frank L van de Veerdonk, Mihai G Netea

Clostridium difficile in western Romania: unfavourable outcome predictors in a hospital for infectious diseases

Ruxandra Laza, Ruxandra Jurac, Alexandru Crişan, Voichiţa Lăzureanu, Monica Licker, Emilian Damian Popovici, Luminiţa Mirela Bădiţoiu

Phylogenetic analysis of dengue virus reveals the high relatedness between imported and local strains during the 2013 dengue outbreak in Yunnan, China: a retrospective analysis

Binghui Wang, Yaping Li, Yue Feng, Hongning Zhou, Yaobo Liang, Jiejie Dai, Weihong Qin, Yunzhang Hu, Yajuan Wang, Li Zhang, Zulqarnain Baloch, Henglin Yang, Xueshan Xia

Characterizing the epidemiology, virology, and clinical features of influenza in China’s first severe acute respiratory infection sentinel surveillance system, February 2011 – October 2013

Zhibin Peng, Luzhao Feng, Greene M Carolyn, Kaili Wang, Guozhong Zhu, Yequn Zhang, Jumei Hu, Yiwei Huang, Huiqiong Pan, Nongjian Guo, Chunyan Xing, Yanhui Chu, Zhaolong Cao, Deshan Yu, Linling Liu, Zeling Chen, Fang Zeng, Wen Xu, Xin Xiong, Xiuwei Cheng, Hua Guo, Wu Chen, Ling Li, Hui Jiang, Jiandong Zheng, Zhen Xu, Hongjie Yu

Mass campaigns with antimalarial drugs: a modelling comparison of artemether-lumefantrine and DHA-piperaquine with and without primaquine as tools for malaria control and elimination

Jaline Gerardin, Philip Eckhoff, Edward A Wenger

Reduction in Pseudomonas aeruginosa sputum density during a cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbation does not predict clinical response

John C Lam, Ranjani Somayaji, Michael G Surette, Harvey R Rabin, Michael D Parkins

Spatio-temporal analysis of the relationship between climate and hand, foot, and mouth disease in Shandong province, China, 2008–2012

Yunxia Liu, Xianjun Wang, Chunkun Pang, Zhongshang Yuan, Hongkai Li, Fuzhong Xue

Fusion protein comprised of the two schistosomal antigens, Sm14 and Sm29, provides significant protection against Schistosoma mansoni in murine infection model

Shereen F Mossallam, Eglal I Amer, Radwa E Ewaisha, Amal M Khalil, Hamida M Aboushleib, Mohammed Bahey-El-Din

Gender-specific mortality in DTP-IPV- and MMR ± MenC-eligible age groups to determine possible sex-differential effects of vaccination: an observational study

Tessa M Schurink-van’t Klooster, Mirjam J Knol, Hester E de Melker, Marianne AB van der Sande

The long-term immunogenicity of recombinant hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine: contribution of universal HBV vaccination in Italy

Nicola Coppola, Anna Rita Corvino, Stefania De Pascalis, Giuseppe Signoriello, Eliana Di Fiore, Albert Nienhaus, Evangelista Sagnelli, Monica Lamberti

Nasal mucosal microRNA expression in children with respiratory syncytial virus infection

Christopher S Inchley, Tonje Sonerud, Hans O Fjærli, Britt Nakstad

Impact of MBL and MASP-2 gene polymorphism and its interaction on susceptibility to tuberculosis

Mengshi Chen, Ying Liang, Wufei Li, Mian Wang, Li Hu, Benjamin Kwaku Abuaku, Xin Huang, Hongzhuan Tan, Shi Wu Wen

Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in a neonatal intensive care unit in Italy during 2006–2010

Valeria Crivaro, Lidija Bogdanović, Maria Bagattini, Vita Dora Iula, Mariarosaria Catania, Francesco Raimondi, Maria Triassi, Raffaele Zarrilli

Tetrandrine reverses drug resistance in isoniazid and ethambutol dual drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates

Zhe Zhang, Jie Yan, Kaijin Xu, Zhongkang Ji, Lanjuan Li

Short-term spontaneous fluctuations of HBV DNA levels in a Senegalese population with chronic hepatitis B

Sarah Maylin, Jean-Marie Sire, Papa Saliou Mbaye, François Simon, Anna Sarr, Marie-Louise Evra, Fatou Fall, Jean Daveiga, Aboubakry Diallo, Jean-Marc Debonne, Loic Chartier, Muriel Vray

Mortality in children and adolescents vertically infected by HIV receiving care at a referral hospital in Vitoria, Brazil

Sandra Fagundes Moreira-Silva, Eliana Zandonade, Angélica Espinosa Miranda

Interleukin-28B gene non-TT allele strongly predicts treatment failure for genotype 1 infected chronic hepatitis C patients with advanced fibrosis: a case control study

Ching-Chih Hu, Chih-Lang Lin, Liang-Che Chang, Cheng-Hung Chien, Li-Wei Chen, Ching-Jung Liu, Rong-Nan Chien

Time trends of baseline demographics and clinical characteristics of HIV infected children enrolled in care and treatment service in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

David Sando, Donna Spiegelman, Lameck Machumi, Mary Mwanyika-Sando, Eric Aris, Aisa Muya, Elizabeth Jackson, Till Baernighausen, Ellen Hertzmark, Guerino Chalamilla, Wafaie Fawzi

Risk factors for bloodstream infection in patients at a Brazilian hemodialysis center: a case–control study

Dayana Fram, Meiry Fernanda Pinto Okuno, Mônica Taminato, Vinicius Ponzio, Silvia Regina Manfredi, Cibele Grothe, Angélica Belasco, Ricardo Sesso, Dulce Barbosa

Prevalence and correlates of HPV among women attending family-planning clinics in Thailand

Morgan A Marks, Swati Gupta, Kai-Li Liaw, Amha Tadesse, Esther Kim, Chailert Phongnarisorn, Virach Wootipoom, Pissamai Yuenyao, Charoen Vipupinyo, Sungwal Rugpao, Somchai Sriplienchan, Patti E Gravitt, David D Celentano

Effects of long-term use of macrolides in patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Li-Chao Fan, Hai-Wen Lu, Ping Wei, Xiao-Bin Ji, Shuo Liang, Jin-Fu Xu

Clinical and microbiological characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess in East China

Ting-ting Qu, Jian-cang Zhou, Yan Jiang, Ke-ren Shi, Bin Li, Ping Shen, Ze-qing Wei, Yun-song Yu

Published sequences do not support transfer of oseltamivir resistance mutations from avian to human influenza A virus strains

Peter Norberg, Magnus Lindh, Sigvard Olofsson

Characterization of the extent of a large outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease by serological assays

Øystein Simonsen, Elisabeth Wedege, Anita Kanestrøm, Karin Bolstad, Ingeborg S Aaberge, Eivind Ragnhildstveit, Jetmund Ringstad

A national cross-sectional study for poliovirus seroprevalence in the Republic of Korea in 2012: implication for deficiency in immunity to polio among middle-aged people

Hye-Jin Kim, Seoyeon Hwang, Somin Lee, Yunhyung Kwon, Kwangsook Park, Young Joon Park, Geun-Ryang Bae, Sang Won Lee, Yong-Seok Jeong, Ji-Yeon Hyeon

Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection and associated risk factors in an urban African setting

Florence N Kizza, Justin List, Allan K Nkwata, Alphonse Okwera, Amara E Ezeamama, Christopher C Whalen, Juliet N Sekandi

Selection of key recommendations for quality indicators describing good quality outbreak response

Evelien Belfroid, Jeannine LA Hautvast, Mirrian Hilbink, Aura Timen, Marlies EJL Hulscher

International external quality control assessment for the serological diagnosis of dengue infections

Cristina Domingo, María Joao Alves, Fernando de Ory, Anette Teichmann, Herbert Schmitz, Rolf Müller, Matthias Niedrig

Colonisation with ESBL-producing and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a long-term care facility over one year

Catherine Ludden, Martin Cormican, Akke Vellinga, James R Johnson, Bernie Austin, Dearbháile Morris

Epidemiology, antibiotic consumption and molecular characterisation of Staphylococcus aureus infections – data from the Polish Neonatology Surveillance Network, 2009–2012

Dorota Romaniszyn, Anna Różańska, Jadwiga Wójkowska-Mach, Agnieszka Chmielarczyk, Monika Pobiega, Paweł Adamski, Ewa Helwich, Ryszard Lauterbach, Maria Borszewska-Kornacka, Ewa Gulczyńska, Agnieszka Kordek, Małgorzata Bulanda

Effect of chronic khat (Catha edulis, Forsk) use on outcome of Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection in Swiss albino mice

Tsige Ketema, Moti Yohannes, Esayas Alemayehu, Argaw Ambelu

Recurrent severe invasive pneumococcal disease in an adult with previously unknown hyposplenia

Vibe C Ballegaard, Lone Schejbel, Steen Hoffmann, Bjørn Kantsø, Christian P Fischer

Toxoplasma gondii exposure in patients suffering from mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use

Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel, David Carrillo-Oropeza, Sandy Janet Pacheco-Vega, Jesús Hernández-Tinoco, Misael Salcedo-Jaquez, Luis Francisco Sánchez-Anguiano, María Nalleli Ortiz-Jurado, Yesenia Alarcón-Alvarado, Oliver Liesenfeld, Isabel Beristain-García

Erratum: Polymerase chain reaction ribotyping of Clostridium difficile isolates in Qatar: a hospital-based study

Asma A Al-Thani, Wedad S Hamdi, Naser A Al-Ansari, Sanjay H Doiphode, Godwin Justus Wilson

Proficiency testing for bacterial whole genome sequencing: an end-user survey of current capabilities, requirements and priorities

Jacob Moran-Gilad, Vitali Sintchenko, Susanne Karlsmose Pedersen, William J Wolfgang, James Pettengill, Errol Strain, Rene S Hendriksen

Virologic and immunologic failure, drug resistance and mortality during the first 24 months postpartum among HIV-infected women initiated on antiretroviral therapy for life in the Mitra plus Study, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Matilda Ngarina, Charles Kilewo, Katarina Karlsson, Said Aboud, Annika Karlsson, Gaetano Marrone, Germana Leyna, Anna Mia Ekström, Gunnel Biberfeld

Severe morbidity after antiretroviral (ART) initiation: active surveillance in HIV care programs, the IeDEA West Africa collaboration

Yao Abo, Marcel Zannou Djimon, Eugène Messou, Eric Balestre, Martial Kouakou, Jocelyn Akakpo, Carin Ahouada, Nathalie de Rekeneire, François Dabis, Charlotte Lewden, Albert Minga

Clinical features of infectious endophthalmitis in South Korea: a five-year multicenter study

Ki Yup Nam, Joo Eun Lee, Ji Eun Lee, Woo Jin Jeung, Jung Min Park, Jong Moon Park, In Young Chung, Yong Seop Han, Il Han Yun, Hyun Wong Kim, Ik Soo Byon, Boo Sup Oum, Hee Sung Yoon, Dong Park, Byeng Chul Yu, Eun-Kee Park, Hu-Jang Lee, Sang Joon Lee

Does transient cART started during primary HIV infection undermine the long-term immunologic and virologic response on cART resumption?

Evguenia Krastinova, Remonie Seng, Jerome Lechenadec, Henri Panjo, Asma Essat, Djamila Makhloufi, Martine Obadia, Louis Bernard, Cecile Goujard, Laurence Meyer

A gloves-associated outbreak of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit in Guangdong, China

Dan Ye, Jinglan Shan, Yongbo Huang, Jianchun Li, Changan Li, Xiaoqing Liu, Weiqun He, Yimin Li, Pu Mao

Molecular characteristics of Hepatitis B and chronic liver disease in a cohort of HB carriers from Bamako, Mali

Fatou Traoré, Emmanuelle Gormally, Stéphanie Villar, Marlin D Friesen, John D Groopman, Guy Vernet, Souleymane Diallo, Pierre Hainaut, Moussa Y Maiga

Use of real time polymerase chain reaction for detection of M. tuberculosis, M. avium and M. kansasii from clinical specimens

Arnold Bainomugisa, Eddie Wampande, Chris Muchwa, Joseph Akol, Paul Mubiri, Henry Ssenyungule, Enock Matovu, Sam Ogwang, Moses Joloba

Extensive infectious myelitis post bariatric surgery

Elie Haddad, Carmen Joukhadar, Nabil Chehata, Roy Nasnas, Jacques Choucair

Epidemiology of norovirus infections among diarrhea outpatients in a diarrhea surveillance system in Shanghai, China: a cross-sectional study

Ying Xue, Hao Pan, Jiayu Hu, Huanyu Wu, Jian Li, Wenjia Xiao, Xi Zhang, Zheng’an Yuan, Fan Wu

Antifungal wound penetration of amphotericin and voriconazole in combat-related injuries: case report

Kevin S Akers, Matthew P Rowan, Krista L Niece, John C Graybill, Katrin Mende, Kevin K Chung, Clinton K Murray

Medical students’ attitude towards influenza vaccination

Birthe A Lehmann, Robert AC Ruiter, Sabine Wicker, Gretchen Chapman, Gerjo Kok

Trends in prevalence of selected opportunistic infections associated with HIV/AIDS in Uganda

John Rubaihayo, Nazarius M Tumwesigye, Joseph Konde-Lule

Therapeutic and immunomodulatory activities of short-course treatment of murine visceral leishmaniasis with KALSOME™10, a new liposomal amphotericin B

Mohammad Asad, Pradyot Bhattacharya, Antara Banerjee, Nahid Ali

Syphilis among people with HIV infection in southern Ethiopia: sero-prevalence and risk factors

Techalew Shimelis, Kinfe Lemma, Henock Ambachew, Endale Tadesse

A matched cross-sectional study of the association between circulating tissue factor activity, immune activation and advanced liver fibrosis in hepatitis C infection

Aimee C Hodowanec, Rebecca D Lee, Kirsten E Brady, Weihua Gao, Stacey Kincaid, Jill Plants, Mieoak Bahk, Nigel Mackman, Alan L Landay, Gregory D Huhn

Effectiveness of fecal-derived microbiota transfer using orally administered capsules for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection

Bruce E Hirsch, Nimit Saraiya, Kaitlin Poeth, Rebecca M Schwartz, Marcia E Epstein, Gerard Honig

Unusual rotavirus genotypes among children with acute diarrhea in Saudi Arabia

Mahmoud Aly, Aisha Al Khairy, Sameera Al Johani, Hanan Balkhy

Drug use patterns associated with risk of non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive illicit drug users in a Canadian setting: a longitudinal analysis

Pouya Azar, Evan Wood, Paul Nguyen, Maxo Luma, Julio Montaner, Thomas Kerr, M-J Milloy

Clostridium difficile infection among hospitalized HIV-infected individuals: epidemiology and risk factors: results from a case-control study (2002-2013)

Stefano Di Bella, Alexander W Friedrich, Esther García-Almodóvar, Maria Serena Gallone, Fabrizio Taglietti, Simone Topino, Vincenzo Galati, Emma Johnson, Silvia D’Arezzo, Nicola Petrosillo

Factors associated with maintenance of antibody responses to influenza vaccine in older, community-dwelling adults

H Keipp Talbot, Laura A Coleman, Yuwei Zhu, Sarah Spencer, Mark Thompson, Po-Yung Cheng, Maria E Sundaram, Edward A Belongia, Marie R Griffin

Geographical heterogeneity in the analysis of factors associated with leprosy in an endemic area of Brazil: are we eliminating the disease?

Mônica Duarte-Cunha, Geraldo Marcelo da Cunha, Reinaldo Souza-Santos

Description and validation of a spectrum score method to measure antimicrobial de-escalation in healthcare associated pneumonia from electronic medical records data

Karl Madaras-Kelly, Makoto Jones, Richard Remington, Christina Caplinger, Benedikt Huttner, Matthew Samore

Immunolocalization of the 29 kDa Schistosoma haematobium species-specific antigen: a potential diagnostic marker for urinary schistosomiasis

Uri S Markakpo, George E Armah, Julius N Fobil, Richard H Asmah, Isaac Anim-Baidoo, Alfred K Dodoo, Parnor Madjitey, Edward E Essuman, Somei Kojima, Kwabena M Bosompem

Clinical evaluation of commercial nucleic acid amplification tests in patients with suspected sepsis

Lars Ljungström, Helena Enroth, Berndt EB Claesson, Ida Ovemyr, Jesper Karlsson, Berit Fröberg, Anna-Karin Brodin, Anna-Karin Pernestig, Gunnar Jacobsson, Rune Andersson, Diana Karlsson

Is it time to switch to doxycycline from azithromycin for treating genital chlamydial infections in women? Modelling the impact of autoinoculation from the gastrointestinal tract to the genital tract

Andrew P Craig, Fabian YS Kong, Laxmi Yeruva, Jane S Hocking, Roger G Rank, David P Wilson, Basil Donovan

Increasing prevalence of HIV infection among first time clients in Italian drug treatment services – is it sexual transmission?

Mario Cruciani, Lucas Wiessing, Giovanni Serpelloni, Bruno Genetti, Alessandra Andreotti, Carpignano Iulia, Monica Zermiani, Barbara Suligoi

Erratum: Enhanced surveillance of invasive listeriosis in the Lombardy region, Italy, in the years 2006–2010 reveals major clones and an increase in serotype 1/2a

Caterina Mammina, Antonio Parisi, Anna Guaita, Aurora Aleo, Celestino Bonura, Antonino Nastasi, Mirella Pontello

Association between hepatitis B vaccine antibody response and CD4 reconstitution after initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected persons

Kahtonna Allen, Octavio Mesner, Anuradha Ganesan, Thomas A O’Bryan, Robert G Deiss, Brian K Agan, Jason F Okulicz

Patterns of mixed Plasmodium species infections among children six years and under in selected malaria hyper-endemic communities of Zambia: population-based survey observations

Lungowe Sitali, James Chipeta, John M Miller, Hawela B Moonga, Nirbhay Kumar, William J Moss, Charles Michelo

How to treat fungal infections in ICU patients

Dimitrios K Matthaiou, Theodora Christodoulopoulou, George Dimopoulos

Fibrosing mediastinitis complicating prior histoplasmosis is associated with human leukocyte antigen DQB1*04:02 − a case control study

Stephen B Strock, Silvana Gaudieri, Simon Mallal, Chang Yu, Daphne Mitchell, Joy Cogan, Wendi Mason, Deborah Crowe, James E Loyd

Increase of serotypes 15A and 23B in IPD in Germany in the PCV13 vaccination era

Mark van der Linden, Stephanie Perniciaro, Matthias Imöhl

Scaling up combined community-based HIV prevention interventions targeting truck drivers in Morocco: effectiveness on HIV testing and counseling

Hakima Himmich, Lahoucine Ouarsas, Fatima Zahra Hajouji, Caroline Lions, Perrine Roux, Patrizia Carrieri

A systematic review of hepatic tuberculosis with considerations in human immunodeficiency virus co-infection

Andrew J Hickey, Lilishia Gounder, Mahomed-Yunus S Moosa, Paul K Drain

Community-based directly observed therapy (DOT) versus clinic DOT for tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative effectiveness

Cameron M Wright, Lenna Westerkamp, Sarah Korver, Claudia C Dobler

Erratum: Longer hospital stay is associated with high 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, Sanghyuk S Shin, Alexandra Peloso, Ronald Ncube, Jeffrey D Klausner, Chawangwa Modongo, Ronald G Collman

Antimicrobial susceptibility of travel-related Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates detected in Switzerland (2002–2013) and molecular characterization of quinolone resistant isolates

Magdalena Nüesch-Inderbinen, Helga Abgottspon, Grethe Sägesser, Nicole Cernela, Roger Stephan

Prevalence and resistance patterns of commensal S. aureus in community-dwelling GP patients and socio-demographic associations. A cross-sectional study in the framework of the APRES-project in Austria

Kathryn Hoffmann, Casper D. J. den Heijer, Aaron George, Petra Apfalter, Manfred Maier

Developing a community-led SMS reporting tool for the rapid assessment of lymphatic filariasis morbidity burden: case studies from Malawi and Ghana

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A case of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia in an HIV-infected Korean patient successfully treated with clarithromycin

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Analysis of influenza transmission in the households of primary and junior high school students during the 2012–13 influenza season in Odate, Japan

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The health and economic impact of vaccination with 7-valent pneumococcal vaccine (PCV7) during an annual influenza epidemic and influenza pandemic in China

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Incidence and risk factors of herpes zoster among adult renal transplant recipients receiving universal antiviral prophylaxis

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Evaluation of lipase levels in patients with nephropathia epidemica - no evidence for acute pancreatitis

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Molecular epidemiology and phylogenetic analysis of Hepatitis B virus in a group of migrants in Italy

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Risk factors for febrile respiratory illness and mono-viral infections in a semi-closed military environment: a case-control study

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Why is asymptomatic bacteriuria overtreated?: A tertiary care institutional survey of resident physicians

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Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in patients with cystic fibrosis

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High burden of STI and HIV in male sex workers working as internet escorts for men in an observational study: a hidden key population compared with female sex workers and other men who have sex with men

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Making inroads into improving treatment of bacterial vaginosis – striving for long-term cure

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Treatment challenges for urogenital and anorectal Chlamydia trachomatis

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Management of non-gonococcal urethritis

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Factors associated with unreported tuberculosis cases in Spanish hospitals

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Cost-effectiveness of Interferon-free therapy for Hepatitis C in Germany - an application of the efficiency frontier approach

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Home-based HIV testing for men preferred over clinic-based testing by pregnant women and their male partners, a nested cross-sectional study

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Hepatitis B virus sero-profiles and genotypes in HIV-1 infected and uninfected injection and Non-injection drug users from coastal Kenya

Mark K. Webale, Valentine Budambula, Raphael Lihana, Francis O. Musumba, Anthony K. Nyamache, Nancy L. M. Budambula, Aabid A. Ahmed, Collins Ouma, Tom Were

The impact of aggregating serogroups in dynamic models of Neisseria meningitidis transmission

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Why are people with dengue dying? A scoping review of determinants for dengue mortality

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Temporal trends and clonal diversity of penicillin non-susceptible pneumococci from meningitis cases from 1996 to 2012, in Salvador, Brazil

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Differences in Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage and molecular characteristics among community residents and healthcare workers at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Southern China

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Surgical site infection in critically ill patients with secondary and tertiary peritonitis: epidemiology, microbiology and influence in outcomes

Josep Ballus, Juan C. Lopez-Delgado, Joan Sabater-Riera, Xose L. Perez-Fernandez, A. J. Betbese, J. A. Roncal

Emergence of human West Nile Virus infection in Sri Lanka

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Genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Minas Gerais State, Brazil

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Trichomonas vaginalis: a review of epidemiologic, clinical and treatment issues

Patricia Kissinger

Streptococcus pyogenes strains in Sao Paulo, Brazil: molecular characterization as a basis for StreptInCor coverage capacity analysis

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Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 1 block 2 gene polymorphism in field isolates along the slope of mount Cameroon: a cross – sectional study

Tobias O. Apinjoh, Rolland B. Tata, Judith K. Anchang-Kimbi, Hanesh F. Chi, Eleanor M. Fon, Regina N. Mugri, Delphine A. Tangoh, Robert V. Nyingchu, Stephen M. Ghogomu, Theresa Nkuo-Akenji, Eric A. Achidi

Microscopic and molecular evidence of the presence of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections in an area with low, seasonal and unstable malaria transmission in Ethiopia

Lemu Golassa, Frederick N. Baliraine, Nizar Enweji, Berhanu Erko, Göte Swedberg, Abraham Aseffa

Clinical and microbiological characteristics of purulent and non-purulent cellulitis in hospitalized Taiwanese adults in the era of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Chun-Yuan Lee, Hung-Chin Tsai, Calvin M. Kunin, Susan Shin-Jung Lee, Yao-Shen Chen

Serotype distribution and antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates collected at a Chinese hospital from 2011 to 2013

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Empiric therapy for hospital-acquired, Gram-negative complicated intra-abdominal infection and complicated urinary tract infections: a systematic literature review of current and emerging treatment options

Yoav Golan

Reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia in neonatal intensive care unit using “VAP prevention Bundle”: a cohort study

Seham F. A. Azab, Hanan S. Sherbiny, Safaa H. Saleh, Wafaa F. Elsaeed, Mona M. Elshafiey, Ahmed G. Siam, Mohamed A. Arafa, Ashgan A. Alghobashy, Eman A. Bendary, Maha A. A. Basset, Sanaa M. Ismail, Nagwa E. Akeel, Nahla A. Elsamad, Wesam A. mokhtar, Tarek Gheith

People with diagnosed HIV infection not attending for specialist clinical care: UK national review

Hilary Curtis, Z. Yin, K. Clay, A. E. Brown, V. C. Delpech, E. Ong

Eighteen-year follow-up report of the surveillance and prevention of an HIV/AIDS outbreak amongst plasma donors in Hebei Province, China

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Effect of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis on the incidence of malaria in HIV-infected children in 2012, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire: a prospective cohort study

Aïda Mounkaila Harouna, Madeleine Amorissani-Folquet, François Tanoh Eboua, Sophie Desmonde, Sylvie N’Gbeche, Edmond Addi Aka, Kouakou Kouadio, Brou Kouacou, Karen Malateste, Clarisse Bosse-Amani, Patrick Ahuatchi Coffie, Valeriane Leroy

Syphilis in the economic center of South China: results from a real-time, web-based surveillance program

Wangjian Zhang, Zhicheng Du, Shaokai Tang, Pi Guo, Xingdong Ye, Yuantao Hao

Evaluation of two immunodiagnostic tests for early rapid diagnosis of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka: a preliminary study

Egwin J. Eugene, Shiroma M. Handunnetti, Shalini A. Wickramasinghe, Thilini L. Kalugalage, Chathuraka Rodrigo, Hasith Wickremesinghe, Nandana Dikmadugoda, Pranitha Somaratne, H Janaka De Silva, Senaka Rajapakse

Characteristics of neonates with culture-proven bloodstream infection who have low levels of C-reactive protein (≦10 mg/L)

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Is the tide turning again for cephalosporin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Europe? Results from the 2013 European surveillance

Michelle J. Cole, Gianfranco Spiteri, Susanne Jacobsson, Rachel Pitt, Vlad Grigorjev, Magnus Unemo

‘Multiple-test’ approach to the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis -perception of medical doctors from Ujjain, India

Manju Raj Purohit, Megha Sharma, Senia Rosales-Klintz, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg

New Highly Active Antiretroviral drugs and generic drugs for the treatment of HIV infection: a budget impact analysis on the Italian National Health Service (Lombardy Region, Northern Italy)

Umberto Restelli, Francesca Scolari, Paolo Bonfanti, Davide Croce, Giuliano Rizzardini

Shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli infections in Norway, 1992–2012: characterization of isolates and identification of risk factors for haemolytic uremic syndrome

Lin T. Brandal, Astrid L. Wester, Heidi Lange, Inger Løbersli, Bjørn-Arne Lindstedt, Line Vold, Georg Kapperud

Separation of Mycobacterium abscessus into subspecies or genotype level by direct application of peptide nucleic acid multi-probe- real-time PCR method into sputa samples

Kijeong Kim, Seok-Hyun Hong, Byoung-Jun Kim, Bo-Ram Kim, So-Young Lee, Ga-Na Kim, Tae Sun Shim, Yoon-Hoh Kook, Bum-Joon Kim

Antiretroviral treatment use, co-morbidities and clinical outcomes among Aboriginal participants in the Australian HIV Observational Database (AHOD)

David J. Templeton, Stephen T. Wright, Hamish McManus, Chris Lawrence, Darren B. Russell, Matthew G. Law, Kathy Petoumenos

Therapeutic drug monitoring and the conservative management of chronic tuberculous empyema: case report and review of the literature

Richard Long, James Barrie, Charles A. Peloquin

Supporting Option B+ scale up and strengthening the prevention of mother-to-child transmission cascade in central Malawi: results from a serial cross-sectional study

Michael E. Herce, Tiwonge Mtande, Frank Chimbwandira, Innocent Mofolo, Christine K. Chingondole, Nora E. Rosenberg, Kathy E. Lancaster, Esmie Kamanga, Jacqueline Chinkonde, Wiza Kumwenda, Gerald Tegha, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Irving F. Hoffman, Francis E. Martinson, Eva Stein, Charles M. van der Horst

Sustained low influenza vaccination in health care workers after H1N1 pandemic: a cross sectional study in an Italian health care setting for at-risk patients

Antonietta Giannattasio, Miriam Mariano, Roberto Romano, Fabrizia Chiatto, Ilaria Liguoro, Guglielmo Borgia, Alfredo Guarino, Andrea Lo Vecchio

Derivation and validation of an accurate estimation of CD4 counts from the absolute lymphocyte count in virologically suppressed and immunologically reconstituted HIV infected adults

Barnaby Young, Oon Tek Ng, David Chien Lye, Yee Sin Leo

Treating latent TB in primary care: a survey of enablers and barriers among UK General Practitioners

Christina Atchison, Dominik Zenner, Lily Barnett, Manish Pareek

Serum inorganic phosphorus levels predict 30-day mortality in patients with community acquired pneumonia

Mohammad E. Naffaa, Mona Mustafa, Mohje Azzam, Roni Nasser, Nizar Andria, Zaher S. Azzam, Eyal Braun

Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid protein concentrations of patients with cryptococcal meningitis treated with antifungal agents

Liang Huang, Hui Ye, Junyan Qu, Yanbin Liu, Cejun Zhong, Guangmin Tang, Ying Liu, Yao Huang, Xiaoju Lv

Effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on tuberculosis or death in persons with HIV: a retrospective cohort study

Henok Tadesse Ayele, Maaike SM van Mourik, Marc JM Bonten

Molecular characterisation of hepatitis B virus in HIV-1 subtype C infected patients in Botswana

Motswedi Anderson, Simani Gaseitsiwe, Sikhulile Moyo, Matthijs J. C. Wessels, Terence Mohammed, Theresa K. Sebunya, Eleanor A. Powell, Joseph Makhema, Jason T. Blackard, Richard Marlink, Max Essex, Rosemary M. Musonda

Changes in microbiota during experimental human Rhinovirus infection

J. J. Hofstra, S. Matamoros, M. A. van de Pol, B. de Wever, M. W. Tanck, H. Wendt-Knol, M. Deijs, L. van der Hoek, K. C. Wolthers, R. Molenkamp, C. E. Visser, P. J. Sterk, R. Lutter, M. D. de Jong

Challenges to the management of curable sexually transmitted infections

Marcus Y Chen, Sepehr N Tabrizi

Diagnosis of neglected tropical diseases among patients with persistent digestive disorders (diarrhoea and/or abdominal pain ≥14 days): a multi-country, prospective, non-experimental case–control study

Katja Polman, Sören L. Becker, Emilie Alirol, Nisha K. Bhatta, Narayan R. Bhattarai, Emmanuel Bottieau, Martin W. Bratschi, Sakib Burza, Jean T. Coulibaly, Mama N. Doumbia, Ninon S. Horié, Jan Jacobs, Basudha Khanal, Aly Landouré, Yodi Mahendradhata, Filip Meheus, Pascal Mertens, Fransiska Meyanti, Elsa H. Murhandarwati, Eliézer K. N’Goran, Rosanna W. Peeling, Raffaella Ravinetto, Suman Rijal, Moussa Sacko, Rénion Saye, Pierre H. H. Schneeberger, Céline Schurmans, Kigbafori D. Silué, Jarir A. Thobari, Mamadou S. Traoré, Lisette van Lieshout, Harry van Loen, Kristien Verdonck, Lutz von Müller, Cédric P. Yansouni, Joel A. Yao, Patrick K. Yao, Peiling Yap, Marleen Boelaert, François Chappuis, Jürg Utzinger

Arthralgia and blood culture-negative endocarditis in middle Age Men suggest tropheryma whipplei infection: report of two cases and review of the literature

Anthony Alozie, Annette Zimpfer, Kerstin Köller, Bernd Westphal, Annette Obliers, Andreas Erbersdobler, Gustav Steinhoff, Andreas Podbielski

Development of fluconazole resistance in a series of Candida parapsilosis isolates from a persistent candidemia patient with prolonged antifungal therapy

Li Zhang, Meng Xiao, Matthew R. Watts, He Wang, Xin Fan, Fanrong Kong, Ying-Chun Xu

Global travel patterns and risk of measles in Ontario and Quebec, Canada: 2007–2011

Sarah E. Wilson, Kamran Khan, Vladimir Gilca, Jennifer Miniota, Shelley L. Deeks, Gillian Lim, Rose Eckhardt, Shelly Bolotin, Natasha S. Crowcroft

Low CD1c + myeloid dendritic cell counts correlated with a high risk of rapid disease progression during early HIV-1 infection

Yingying Diao, Wenqing Geng, Xuejie Fan, Hualu Cui, Hong Sun, Yongjun Jiang, Yanan Wang, Amy Sun, Hong Shang

Management of Mycoplasma genitalium infections – can we hit a moving target?

Jørgen Skov Jensen, Catriona Bradshaw

Influencing factors on serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels in Japanese chronic hepatitis C patients

Masanori Atsukawa, Akihito Tsubota, Noritomo Shimada, Kai Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Abe, Toru Asano, Yusuke Ohkubo, Masahiro Araki, Tadashi Ikegami, Chisa Kondo, Norio Itokawa, Ai Nakagawa, Taeang Arai, Yoko Matsushita, Katsuhisa Nakatsuka, Tomomi Furihata, Yoshimichi Chuganji, Yasushi Matsuzaki, Yoshio Aizawa, Katsuhiko Iwakiri

Divergent cerebrospinal fluid cytokine network induced by non-viral and different viral infections on the central nervous system

Michele Souza Bastos, Jordana Grazziela Coelho-dos-Reis, Danielle Alves Gomes Zauli, Felipe Gomes Naveca, Rossicleia Lins Monte, João Paulo Pimentel, Valéria Munique Kramer Macário, Natália Lessa da Silva, Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães, Marcelo Antônio Pascoal-Xavier, Allyson Guimaraes, Andréa Teixeira Carvalho, Adriana Malheiro, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho, Maria Paula Gomes Mourão

The kynurenine pathway activities in a sub-Saharan HIV/AIDS population

Priyesh Bipath, Peter F. Levay, Margaretha Viljoen

Proadrenomedullin and copeptin in pediatric pneumonia: a prospective diagnostic accuracy study

Gabriel Alcoba, Sergio Manzano, Laurence Lacroix, Annick Galetto-Lacour, Alain Gervaix

The effect of standard dose multivitamin supplementation on disease progression in HIV-infected adults initiating HAART: a randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial in Uganda

David Guwatudde, Molin Wang, Amara E. Ezeamama, Danstan Bagenda, Rachel Kyeyune, Henry Wamani, Yukari C. Manabe, Wafaie W. Fawzi

“From me to HIV”: a case study of the community experience of donor transition of health programs

Daniela C. Rodríguez, Vandana Tripathi, Meghan Bohren, Amy Paul, Kriti Singh, Vibha Chhabra, Suneeta Singh, Sara Bennett

Burden of herpes zoster: the direct and comorbidity costs of herpes zoster events in hospitalized patients over 50 years in France

Cecile Blein, Gaetan Gavazzi, Marc Paccalin, Charles Baptiste, Gilles Berrut, Alexandre Vainchtock

Emerging trends and persistent challenges in the management of adult syphilis

Susan Tuddenham, Khalil G. Ghanem

Alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor is required for blood-brain barrier injury-related CNS disorders caused by Cryptococcus neoformans and HIV-1 associated comorbidity factors

Bao Zhang, Jing-Yi Yu, Li-Qun Liu, Liang Peng, Feng Chi, Chun-Hua Wu, Ambrose Jong, Shi-Fu Wang, Hong Cao, Sheng-He Huang

Identification of hepatitis B and C screening and patient management guidelines and availability of training for chronic viral hepatitis among health professionals in six European countries: results of a semi-quantitative survey

Angela Bechini, Abby Falla, Amena Ahmad, Irene Veldhuijzen, Sara Boccalini, Barbara Porchia, Miriam Levi

Acute necrotizing pneumonia combined with parapneumonic effusion caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum: a case report

Yong Chul Lee, Seung Bum Kim, Su Jin Gang, Seung Yong Park, So Ri Kim

Personality disorders do not affect treatment outcomes for chronic HCV infection in Spanish prisoners: the Perseo study

Andrés Marco, José J. Antón, Joan Trujols, Pablo Saíz de la Hoya, José de Juan, Inmaculada Faraco, Joan A Caylà

High incidence of diagnosis with syphilis co-infection among men who have sex with men in an HIV cohort in Ontario, Canada

Ann N. Burchell, Vanessa G. Allen, Sandra L. Gardner, Veronika Moravan, Darrell H. S. Tan, Ramandip Grewal, Janet Raboud, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, Rupert Kaul, Tony Mazzulli, Frank McGee, Sean B. Rourke

Ten influenza seasons in France: distribution and timing of influenza A and B circulation, 2003–2013

Anne Mosnier, Saverio Caini, Isabelle Daviaud, Jean-Louis Bensoussan, Françoise Stoll-Keller, Tan Tai Bui, Bruno Lina, Sylvie Van der Werf, Jean Marie Cohen

First multicenter study on multidrug resistant bacteria carriage in Chinese ICUs

Xiaojun Ma, Yinghong Wu, Liuyi Li, Qian Xu, Bijie Hu, Yuxing Ni, Anhua Wu, Shumei Sun, Vincent Jarlier, Jérôme Robert

Area-level global and local clustering of human Salmonella Enteritidis infection rates in the city of Toronto, Canada, 2007–2009

Csaba Varga, David L. Pearl, Scott A. McEwen, Jan M. Sargeant, Frank Pollari, Michele T. Guerin

Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of nonstructural protein 1 Ag-based tests for dengue virus in Asian population: a meta-analysis

Xiaoyun Shan, Xiangmei Wang, Qing Yuan, Yaping Zheng, Honghe Zhang, Yihua Wu, Jun Yang

Four Degrees of Separation: Social Contacts and Health Providers Influence the Steps to Final Diagnosis of Active Tuberculosis Patients in Urban Uganda

Juliet N. Sekandi, Sarah Zalwango, Leonardo Martinez, Andreas Handel, Robert Kakaire, Allan K. Nkwata, Amara E. Ezeamama, Noah Kiwanuka, Christopher C. Whalen

Incidence of skin and soft tissue infections in ambulatory and inpatient settings, 2005–2010

Loren G. Miller, Debra F. Eisenberg, Honghu Liu, Chun-Lan Chang, Yan Wang, Rakesh Luthra, Anna Wallace, Christy Fang, Joseph Singer, Jose A. Suaya

Knowledge, attitudes and practices on Rift Valley fever among agro pastoral communities in Kongwa and Kilombero districts, Tanzania

Sasita S. Shabani, Mangi J. Ezekiel, Mohamed Mohamed, Candida S. Moshiro

Current and future antimicrobial treatment of gonorrhoea – the rapidly evolving Neisseria gonorrhoeae continues to challenge

Magnus Unemo

Pre-vaccination type-specific HPV prevalence in confirmed cervical high grade lesions in the Māori and non-Māori populations in New Zealand

Yoon-Jung Kang, Hazel Lewis, Megan A. Smith, Leonardo Simonella, Harold Neal, Collette Bromhead, Karen Canfell

Molecular epidemiology study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its susceptibility to anti-tuberculosis drugs in Indonesia

Vivi Lisdawati, Nelly Puspandari, Lutfah Rif’ati, Triyani Soekarno, Melatiwati M, Syamsidar K, Lies Ratnasari, Nur Izzatun, Ida Parwati

Brain ventricular dimensions and relationship to outcome in adult patients with bacterial meningitis

Janni L. Sporrborn, Gertrud B. Knudsen, Mette Sølling, Karina Seierøe, Annette Farre, Bjarne Ø. Lindhardt, Thomas Benfield, Christian T. Brandt

Acceptability and adherence to Isoniazid preventive therapy in HIV-infected patients clinically screened for latent tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Grace A. Shayo, Candida Moshiro, Said Aboud, Muhammad Bakari, Ferdinand M. Mugusi

Pneumonia among adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza virus infection—United States, 2005–2008

Shikha Garg, Seema Jain, Fatimah S. Dawood, Michael Jhung, Alejandro Pérez, Tiffany D’Mello, Arthur Reingold, Ken Gershman, James Meek, Kathryn E. Arnold, Monica M. Farley, Patricia Ryan, Ruth Lynfield, Craig Morin, Joan Baumbach, Emily B. Hancock, Shelley Zansky, Nancy Bennett, Ann Thomas, William Schaffner, Lyn Finelli

A sexual health quality improvement program (SHIMMER) triples chlamydia and gonorrhoea testing rates among young people attending Aboriginal primary health care services in Australia

Simon Graham, Rebecca J. Guy, Handan C. Wand, John M. Kaldor, Basil Donovan, Janet Knox, Debbie McCowen, Patricia Bullen, Julie Booker, Chris O’Brien, Kristine Garrett, James S. Ward

Prevalence and clinical consequences of Hepatitis E in patients who underwent liver transplantation for chronic Hepatitis C in the United States

Ludi Koning, Michael R. Charlton, Suzan D. Pas, Julie K. Heimbach, Albert DME Osterhaus, Kymberly D. Watt, Harry LA Janssen, Robert J. de Knegt, Annemiek A. van der Eijk

Integrating interdisciplinary methodologies for One Health: goat farm re-implicated as the probable source of an urban Q fever outbreak, the Netherlands, 2009

Georgia A. F. Ladbury, Jeroen P.G. Van Leuken, Arno Swart, Piet Vellema, Barbara Schimmer, Ronald Ter Schegget, Wim Van der Hoek

Erratum to: Hepatitis B virus sero-profiles and genotypes in HIV-1 infected and uninfected injection and Non-injection drug users from coastal Kenya

Mark K. Webale, Valentine Budambula, Raphael Lihana, Francis O. Musumba, Anthony K. Nyamache, Nancy L. M. Budambula, Aabid A. Ahmed, Collins Ouma, Tom Were

Health and economic consequences of different options for timing the coordinated global cessation of the three oral poliovirus vaccine serotypes

Kimberly M. Thompson, Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens

Povidone-iodine hand wash and hand rub products demonstrated excellent in vitro virucidal efficacy against Ebola virus and modified vaccinia virus Ankara, the new European test virus for enveloped viruses

Maren Eggers, Markus Eickmann, Katharina Kowalski, Juergen Zorn, Karen Reimer

The differential impact of oral poliovirus vaccine formulation choices on serotype-specific population immunity to poliovirus transmission

Kimberly M. Thompson, Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens

Vaccination of boys or catch-up of girls above 11 years of age with the HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine: where is the greatest benefit for cervical cancer prevention in Italy?

Paolo Bonanni, Giovanni Gabutti, Nadia Demarteau, Sara Boccalini, Giuseppe La Torre

Emergence and evolution of internationally disseminated cephalosporin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae clones from 1995 to 2005 in Japan

Ken Shimuta, Yuko Watanabe, Shu-ichi Nakayama, Tomoko Morita-Ishihara, Toshiro Kuroki, Magnus Unemo, Makoto Ohnishi

Modeling the prevalence of immunodeficiency-associated long-term vaccine-derived poliovirus excretors and the potential benefits of antiviral drugs

Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Mark A. Pallansch, Kimberly M. Thompson

Application of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus risk score for community-onset pneumonia patients and outcomes with initial treatment

Besu F. Teshome, Grace C. Lee, Kelly R. Reveles, Russell T. Attridge, Jim Koeller, Chen-pin Wang, Eric M. Mortensen, Christopher R. Frei

Serial interferon-gamma release assays for latent tuberculosis in dialysis patients with end stage renal disease in a Korean population

Seung Heon Lee, Hee Jin Kim, Seok Ju Park, Tae Hee Kim, So Jeong Park, Sun Woo Kang, Yeong Hoon Kim, Dick Menzies

Transient detectable viremia and the risk of viral rebound in patients from the Swiss HIV Cohort Study

Jim Young, Martin Rickenbach, Alexandra Calmy, Enos Bernasconi, Cornelia Staehelin, Patrick Schmid, Matthias Cavassini, Manuel Battegay, Huldrych F. Günthard, Heiner C. Bucher

Erratum: Evaluation of a new, rapid, simple test for the detection of influenza virus

Juan Carlos Hurtado, Mar Mosquera, Elisa de Lazzari, Esteban Martínez, Nuria Torner, Ricard Isanta, Patricia de Molina, Tomás Pumarola, Jordi Vila, Maria Angeles Marcos

Development and comparative evaluation of two antigen detection tests for Visceral Leishmaniasis

Aarthy C. Vallur, Yeung L. Tutterrow, Raodoh Mohamath, Sowmya Pattabhi, Asrat Hailu, Asim O. Abdoun, Abdalla E. Ahmed, Maowia Mukhtar, Md Abdus Salam, Meirielly Lima Almeida, Roque P. Almeida, Dinesh Mondal, Audrey Albertini, Hashim Ghalib, Malcolm S. Duthie, Steven G. Reed

Pleural effusion as the initial clinical presentation in disseminated cryptococcosis and fungaemia: an unusual manifestation and a literature review

Mayun Chen, Xiaomi Wang, Xianjuan Yu, Caijun Dai, Dunshun Chen, Chang Yu, Xiaomei Xu, Dan Yao, Li Yang, Yuping Li, Liangxing Wang, Xiaoying Huang

Prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection among health care workers in a tertiary hospital in Tanzania

A. Mueller, L. Stoetter, S. Kalluvya, A. Stich, C. Majinge, B. Weissbrich, C. Kasang

An integrated model of care for neurological infections: the first six years of referrals to a specialist service at a university teaching hospital in Northwest England

Lance Turtle, Agam Jung, Nick J Beeching, Derek Cocker, Gerry R Davies, Andy Nicolson, Michael BJ Beadsworth, Alastair RO Miller, Tom Solomon

Thromboelastography on plasma reveals delayed clot formation and accelerated clot lyses in HIV-1 infected persons compared with healthy controls

Frederikke Falkencrone Rönsholt, Jan Gerstoft, Henrik Ullum, Pär Ingemar Johansson, Terese Lea Katzenstein, Sisse Rye Ostrowski

An economic analysis of poliovirus risk management policy options for 2013–2052

Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Mark A. Pallansch, Stephen L. Cochi, Steven G.F. Wassilak, Kimberly M. Thompson

Managing the risk of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus during the endgame: oral poliovirus vaccine needs

Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Kimberly M. Thompson

Review of a two-year methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening program and cost-effectiveness analysis in Singapore

Mar-Kyaw Win, Tarek Abdellatif Aly Soliman, Linda Kay Lee, Chia Siong Wong, Angela Chow, Brenda Ang, Carrasco L. Roman, Yee-Sin Leo

First human case report of sepsis due to infection with Streptococcus suis serotype 31 in Thailand

Rujirat Hatrongjit, Anusak Kerdsin, Marcelo Gottschalk, Dan Takeuchi, Shigeyuki Hamada, Kazunori Oishi, Yukihiro Akeda

The role of vancomycin in addition with colistin and meropenem against colistin-sensitive multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii causing severe infections in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit

Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Alessandra Oliva, Gabriella d’Ettorre, Alessandra D’Abramo, Elena Caresta, Caterina Silvia Barbara, Maria Teresa Mascellino, Paola Papoff, Corrado Moretti, Vincenzo Vullo, Paolo Visca, Mario Venditti

Peritoneal tuberculosis presenting with portal vein thrombosis and transudative Ascites - a diagnostic dilemma: case report

Ushani Mayurika Wariyapperuma, Champa Indrani Welikala Jayasundera

Appropriate initial antibiotic therapy in hospitalized patients with gram-negative infections: systematic review and meta-analysis

Gowri Raman, Esther Avendano, Samantha Berger, Vandana Menon

A single-nucleotide-polymorphism real-time PCR assay for genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in peri-urban Kampala

Eddie M. Wampande, Stavroula K. Hatzios, Beatrice Achan, Ezekiel Mupere, Mary Nsereko, Harriet K. Mayanja, Kathleen Eisenach, W Henry Boom, Sebastien Gagneux, Moses L. Joloba

High rates of unplanned interruptions from HIV care early after antiretroviral therapy initiation in Nigeria

Aimalohi A. Ahonkhai, Bolanle Banigbe, Juliet Adeola, Ifeyinwa Onwuatuelo, Ingrid V. Bassett, Elena Losina, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Prosper Okonkwo, Susan Regan

Precision of the Kalon Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 IgG ELISA: an international inter-laboratory assessment

Eshan U. Patel, Jordyn Manucci, Erin M. Kahle, Jairam R. Lingappa, Rhoda Ashley Morrow, Estelle Piwowar-Manning, Anelet James, Kwitaka F. Maluzi, Maina M. Cheeba, Glenda Gray, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Mubiana Inambao, Bellington Vwalika, Thomas C. Quinn, Oliver Laeyendecker

Clinico-laboratory spectrum of dengue viral infection and risk factors associated with dengue hemorrhagic fever: a retrospective study

Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi, Amer Hayat Khan, Azreen Syazril Adnan, Azmi Sarriff, Yusra Habib Khan, Fauziah Jummaat

A retrospective study of the incidence, clinical characteristics, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteremic isolates of Acinetobacter ursingii

Chun-Hsiang Chiu, Yi-Tzu Lee, Yung-Chih Wang, Ti Yin, Shu-Chen Kuo, Ya-Sung Yang, Te-Li Chen, Jung-Chung Lin, Fu-Der Wang, Chang-Phone Fung

Genotypic distribution and hepatic fibrosis among HIV/HCV co-infected individuals in Southern China: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Kali Zhou, Fengyu Hu, Charles Wang, Min Xu, Yun Lan, Jamie P. Morano, Stanley M. Lemon, Joseph D. Tucker, Weiping Cai

Erysipelas, a large retrospective study of aetiology and clinical presentation

Anna Bläckberg, Kristina Trell, Magnus Rasmussen

The influence of Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal colonization on the clinical outcome of the respiratory tract infections in preschool children

Sigita Petraitiene, Tomas Alasevicius, Indre Staceviciene, Daiva Vaiciuniene, Tomas Kacergius, Vytautas Usonis

A good patient? How notions of ‘a good patient’ affect patient-nurse relationships and ART adherence in Zimbabwe

Catherine Campbell, Kerry Scott, Morten Skovdal, Claudius Madanhire, Constance Nyamukapa, Simon Gregson

Assessment of Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) following tuberculosis regimen change in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a qualitative study

Daniel Fiseha, Meaza Demissie

Molecular analysis of clinical isolates previously diagnosed as Mycobacterium intracellulare reveals incidental findings of “Mycobacterium indicus pranii” genotypes in human lung infection

Su-Young Kim, Hye Yun Park, Byeong-Ho Jeong, Kyeongman Jeon, Hee Jae Huh, Chang-Seok Ki, Nam Yong Lee, Seung-Jung Han, Sung Jae Shin, Won-Jung Koh

Diagnostic accuracy of the rapid urine lipoarabinomannan test for pulmonary tuberculosis among HIV-infected adults in Ghana–findings from the DETECT HIV-TB study

Stephanie Bjerrum, Ernest Kenu, Margaret Lartey, Mercy Jemina Newman, Kennedy Kwasi Addo, Aase Bengaard Andersen, Isik Somuncu Johansen

Adenovirus infection in children with acute lower respiratory tract infections in Beijing, China, 2007 to 2012

Chunyan Liu, Yan Xiao, Jing Zhang, Lili Ren, Jianguo Li, Zhengde Xie, Baoping Xu, Yan Yang, Suyun Qian, Jianwei Wang, Kunling Shen

Long-term immunogenicity and safety after a single dose of the quadrivalent meningococcal serogroups A, C, W, and Y tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine in adolescents and adults: 5-year follow-up of an open, randomized trial

Charissa Fay Corazon Borja-Tabora, Cecilia Montalban, Ziad A. Memish, Dominique Boutriau, Devayani Kolhe, Jacqueline M. Miller, Marie Van der Wielen

Blood cultures taken from patients attending emergency departments in South Africa are an important antibiotic stewardship tool, which directly influences patient management

Tom H. Boyles, Kelly Davis, Thomas Crede, Jacques Malan, Marc Mendelson, Maia Lesosky

Reported co-infection deaths are more common in early adulthood and among similar infections

E. C. Griffiths, A. B. Pedersen, A. Fenton, O. L. Petchey

The prevalence and epidemiology of plasmid-mediated penicillin and tetracycline resistance among Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in Guangzhou, China, 2002–2012

Heping Zheng, Xingzhong Wu, Jinmei Huang, Xiaolin Qin, Yaohua Xue, Weiying Zeng, Yinyuan Lan, Jiangli Ou, Sanmei Tang, Mingheng Fang

Review of economic evaluations of mask and respirator use for protection against respiratory infection transmission

Shohini Mukerji, C. Raina MacIntyre, Anthony T. Newall

Aminoglycoside therapy for childhood urinary tract infection due to extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae

Seung Beom Han, Sung Chul Lee, Soo Young Lee, Dae Chul Jeong, Jin Han Kang

Trends in the annual incidence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections: a 8-year retrospective study in a large teaching hospital in northern Italy

Cristiano Alicino, Daniele Roberto Giacobbe, Andrea Orsi, Federico Tassinari, Cecilia Trucchi, Giovanni Sarteschi, Francesco Copello, Valerio Del Bono, Claudio Viscoli, Giancarlo Icardi

Epidemiology of Ebola virus disease transmission among health care workers in Sierra Leone, May to December 2014: a retrospective descriptive study

Olushayo Olu, Brima Kargbo, Sarian Kamara, Alie H. Wurie, Jackson Amone, Louisa Ganda, Bernard Ntsama, Alain Poy, Fredson Kuti-George, Etsub Engedashet, Negusu Worku, Martin Cormican, Charles Okot, Zabulon Yoti, Kande-Bure Kamara, Kennedy Chitala, Alex Chimbaru, Francis Kasolo

Necrotizing fasciitis in patients with diabetes mellitus: clinical characteristics and risk factors for mortality

Nai-Chen Cheng, Hao-Chih Tai, Shan-Chwen Chang, Chin-Hao Chang, Hong-Shiee Lai

The epidemiology of all-cause and rotavirus acute gastroenteritis and the characteristics of rotavirus circulating strains before and after rotavirus vaccine introduction in Yemen: analysis of hospital-based surveillance data

Salem M. Banajeh, Basheer A. Abu-Asba

Pneumococcal serotype evolution in Western Europe

Myint Tin Tin Htar, Dina Christopoulou, Heinz-Josef Schmitt

Identification of clinical factors associated with severe dengue among Thai adults: a prospective study

Vipa Thanachartwet, Nittha Oer-areemitr, Supat Chamnanchanunt, Duangjai Sahassananda, Akanitt Jittmittraphap, Plengsakoon Suwannakudt, Varunee Desakorn, Anan Wattanathum

Cardiovascular health knowledge and preventive practices in people living with HIV in Kenya

Tecla M. Temu, Nicholas Kirui, Celestine Wanjalla, Alfred M. Ndungu, Jemima H. Kamano, Thomas S. Inui, Gerald S. Bloomfield

Severe septicemia, necrotizing fasciitis, and peritonitis due to Vibrio vulnificus in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: a case report

Chang Seong Kim, Eun Hui Bae, Seong Kwon Ma, Soo Wan Kim

Reduced uptake of mass treatment for schistosomiasis control in absence of food: beyond a randomized trial

Simon Muhumuza, Annette Olsen, Anne Katahoire, Fred Nuwaha

Typhoid fever cases in the U.S. military

Tia Sorrell, Daniel J. Selig, Mark S. Riddle, Chad K. Porter

A decade of norovirus disease risk among older adults in upper-middle and high income countries: a systematic review

Lisa Lindsay, Joanne Wolter, Ilse De Coster, Pierre Van Damme, Thomas Verstraeten

Clinical characteristics and risk factors of enterococcal infections in Nagasaki, Japan: a retrospective study

Toshiki Kajihara, Shigeki Nakamura, Naoki Iwanaga, Kazuhiro Oshima, Takahiro Takazono, Taiga Miyazaki, Koichi Izumikawa, Katsunori Yanagihara, Nobuoki Kohno, Shigeru Kohno

Immunogenicity and safety of intradermal influenza vaccine in immunocompromized patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Claudia Pileggi, Francesca Lotito, Aida Bianco, Carmelo G. A. Nobile, Maria Pavia

Socioeconomic inequities and hepatitis A virus infection in Western Brazilian Amazonian children: spatial distribution and associated factors

Saulo A. S. Mantovani, Breno Matos Delfino, Antonio C. Martins, Humberto Oliart-Guzmán, Thasciany M. Pereira, Fernando L. C. C. Branco, Athos Muniz Braña, José A. Filgueira-Júnior, Ana P. Santos, Rayanne A. Arruda, Andréia S. Guimarães, Alanderson A. Ramalho, Cristieli Sergio de Menezes Oliveira, Thiago S. Araújo, Nancy Arróspide, Carlos H. M. L. Estrada, Cláudia T. Codeço, Mônica da Silva-Nunes

Frequency and impact of confounding by indication and healthy vaccinee bias in observational studies assessing influenza vaccine effectiveness: a systematic review

Cornelius Remschmidt, Ole Wichmann, Thomas Harder

CD14+ macrophages that accumulate in the colon of African AIDS patients express pro-inflammatory cytokines and are responsive to lipopolysaccharide

Edana Cassol, Theresa Rossouw, Susan Malfeld, Phetole Mahasha, Tomas Slavik, Chris Seebregts, Robert Bond, Johannie du Plessis, Carl Janssen, Tania Roskams, Frederik Nevens, Massimo Alfano, Guido Poli, Schalk W. van der Merwe

Epidemiological and clinical profiles of respiratory syncytial virus infection in hospitalized neonates in Suzhou, China

Lianghua Lu, Yongdong Yan, Bin Yang, Zhihui Xiao, Xing Feng, Yuqing Wang, Wei Ji, Maximillion Mize, Chuangli Hao, Zhengrong Chen

Ebola virus disease complicated with viral interstitial pneumonia: a case report

Nicola Petrosillo, Emanuele Nicastri, Simone Lanini, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Antonino Di Caro, Mario Antonini, Vincenzo Puro, Francesco Nicola Lauria, Nakono Shindo, Nicola Magrini, Gary P. Kobinger, Giuseppe Ippolito

Dissemination of clonal complex 2 Acinetobacter baumannii strains co-producing carbapenemases and 16S rRNA methylase ArmA in Vietnam

Tatsuya Tada, Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama, Kayo Shimada, Tran Thi Thanh Nga, Le Thi Anh Thu, Nguyen Truong Son, Norio Ohmagari, Teruo Kirikae

Microbiological contamination of mobile phones of clinicians in intensive care units and neonatal care units in public hospitals in Kuwait

Mohammed Heyba, Mohammad Ismaiel, Abdulrahman Alotaibi, Mohamed Mahmoud, Hussain Baqer, Ali Safar, Noura Al-Sweih, Abdullah Al-Taiar

Development of quality indicators and data assessment strategies for the prevention of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI)

Anke Bramesfeld, Stephanie Wrede, Klaus Richter, Mareike Steen, Björn Broge, Jürgen Pauletzki, Joachim Szecsenyi

Feasibility of a birth cohort study dedicated to assessing acute infections using symptom diaries and parental collection of biomaterials

Beate Zoch, André Karch, Johannes Dreesman, Masyar Monazahian, Armin Baillot, Rafael T. Mikolajczyk

Effect of isoniazid preventive therapy on immune responses to mycobacterium tuberculosis: an open label randomised, controlled, exploratory study

Irene Andia Biraro, Moses Egesa, Simon Kimuda, Steven G. Smith, Frederic Toulza, Jonathan Levin, Moses Joloba, Achilles Katamba, Stephen Cose, Hazel M. Dockrell, Alison M Elliott

A qualitative study on health workers’ and community members’ perceived sources, role of information and communication on malaria treatment, prevention and control in southeast Nigeria

Jane C Umeano-Enemuoh, Benjamim Uzochukwu, Nkoli Ezumah, Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Virginia Wiseman, Obinna Onwujekwe

Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia and malaria among pregnant women at first clinic visit in the mount Cameroon Area

Judith K. Anchang-Kimbi, Vera Ngenwie Nkweti, Helen Ngum Ntonifor, Tobias O. Apinjoh, Rolland Bantar Tata, Hanesh Fru Chi, Eric Akum Achidi

Hepatitis E virus antibody prevalence in hunters from a district in Central Germany, 2013: a cross-sectional study providing evidence for the benefit of protective gloves during disembowelling of wild boars

A. Schielke, V. Ibrahim, I. Czogiel, M. Faber, C. Schrader, P. Dremsek, R. G. Ulrich, R. Johne

Improving hospital hygiene to reduce the impact of multidrug-resistant organisms in health care–a prospective controlled multicenter study

Miriam G. Gerlich, Jens Piegsa, Christian Schäfer, Nils-Olaf Hübner, Florian Wilke, Susanne Reuter, Georg Engel, Ralf Ewert, Franziska Claus, Claudia Hübner, Walter Ried, Steffen Flessa, Axel Kramer, Wolfgang Hoffmann

Increasing incidence of pertussis in Brazil: a retrospective study using surveillance data

Lucas Melo Guimarães, Eduilson Lívio Neves da Costa Carneiro, Filipe Anibal Carvalho-Costa

Modelling estimates of the burden of Respiratory Syncytial virus infection in adults and the elderly in the United Kingdom

Douglas M. Fleming, Robert J. Taylor, Roger L. Lustig, Cynthia Schuck-Paim, François Haguinet, David J Webb, John Logie, Gonçalo Matias, Sylvia Taylor

Clinical outcomes and molecular typing of heterogenous vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in patients in intensive care units

Han-Chung Hu, Kuo-Chin Kao, Li-Chung Chiu, Chih-Hao Chang, Chen-Yiu Hung, Li-Fu Li, Tsui-Ping Liu, Lee-Chung Lin, Ning-Hung Chen, Chung-Chi Huang, Cheng-Ta Yang, Jang-Jih Lu

Spontaneous remission of fully symptomatic visceral leishmaniasis

Oussama Mouri, Mathilde Benhamou, Gaëlle Leroux, Nathalie Chartrel, Alain Devidas, Marc Thellier, Zahir Amoura, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau, Pierre Buffet

Rotavirus-associated mild encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS)—case report and review of the literature

Konstantinos Karampatsas, Christina Spyridou, Ian R. Morrison, Cheuk Y. W. Tong, Andrew J. Prendergast

Incidence of viral respiratory infections in a prospective cohort of outpatient and hospitalized children aged ≤5 years and its associated cost in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Débora Natalia Marcone, Lizette O. Durand, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Santiago Vidaurreta, Jorge Ekstrom, Guadalupe Carballal, Marcela Echavarria

Protective immunity against acute toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice induced by a DNA vaccine encoding Toxoplasma gondii elongation factor 1-alpha

Shuai Wang, YuJian Wang, XiaoNi Sun, ZhenChao Zhang, TingQi Liu, Javaid Ali Gadahi, Ibrahim Adam Hassan, LiXin Xu, RuoFeng Yan, XiaoKai Song, XiangRui Li

The molecular characterisation of Escherichia coli K1 isolated from neonatal nasogastric feeding tubes

Aldukali Alkeskas, Pauline Ogrodzki, Mohamed Saad, Naqash Masood, Nasreddin R. Rhoma, Karen Moore, Audrey Farbos, Konrad Paszkiewicz, Stephen Forsythe

Assessing the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on invasive pneumococcal disease using polymerase chain reaction-based surveillance: an experience from South Africa

Stefano Tempia, Nicole Wolter, Cheryl Cohen, Sibongile Walaza, Claire von Mollendorf, Adam L. Cohen, Jocelyn Moyes, Linda de Gouveia, Susan Nzenze, Florette Treurnicht, Marietjie Venter, Michelle J. Groome, Shabir A. Madhi, Anne von Gottberg

Rifampin resistance and diabetes mellitus in a cross-sectional study of adult patients in rural South India

Saurabh Mehta, Elaine Ann Yu, Syed Fazil Ahamed, Wesley Bonam, John Kenneth

Change of treatment guidelines and evolution of ART initiation in rural South Africa: data of a large HIV care and treatment programme

Mélanie PLAZY, François DABIS, Kevindra NAIDU, Joanna ORNE-GLIEMANN, Till BARNIGHAUSEN, Rosemary DRAY-SPIRA

Factors associated with the frequency of monitoring of liver enzymes, renal function and lipid laboratory markers among individuals initiating combination antiretroviral therapy: a cohort study

Jennifer Gillis, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Ann N Burchell, Curtis Cooper, Marina B Klein, Mona Loutfy, Nima Machouf, Julio SG Montaner, Chris Tsoukas, Robert S Hogg, Janet Raboud

Temporal changes in haematocrit following artemisinin-based combination treatments of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in children

Akintunde Sowunmi, Kazeem Akano, Adejumoke I. Ayede, Godwin Ntadom, Bayo Fatunmbi, Temitope Aderoyeje, Elsie O. Adewoye

Recurrent skin and soft tissue infections in HIV-infected patients during a 5-year period: incidence and risk factors in a retrospective cohort study

Vagish Hemmige, Moira McNulty, Ethan Silverman, Michael Z. David

Clinical, molecular and drug sensitivity pattern of mycobacterial isolates from extra-pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Workneh Korma, Adane Mihret, Jemal Hussien, Richard Anthony, Mekuria Lakew, Abraham Aseffa

CCR7loPD-1hi CXCR5+ CD4+ T cells are positively correlated with levels of IL-21 in active and transitional cystic echinococcosis patients

Fengbo Zhang, Nannan Pang, Yuejie Zhu, Dexian Zhou, Hui Zhao, Jinwei Hu, Xiumin Ma, Jun Li, Hao Wen, Buka Samten, Haining Fan, Jianbing Ding

Gram-stain-based antimicrobial selection reduces cost and overuse compared with Japanese guidelines

Tomohiro Taniguchi, Sanefumi Tsuha, Soichi Shiiki, Masashi Narita

Human papillomavirus prevalence in South African women and men according to age and human immunodeficiency virus status

Zizipho Z A Mbulawa, David Coetzee, Anna-Lise Williamson

Do citation trends reflect epidemiologic patterns? Assessing MRSA, emerging and re-emerging pathogens, 1963–2014

Ethan Morgan, Michael Z. David

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis: prevalence and risk factors in districts of metema and west armachiho, Northwest Ethiopia

Feleke Mekonnen, Belay Tessema, Feleke Moges, Aschalew Gelaw, Setegn Eshetie, Gemechu Kumera

Epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in children - preliminary results of a cohort in a rural north Indian community

Anand Krishnan, Ritvik Amarchand, Vivek Gupta, Kathryn E. Lafond, Rizwan Abdulkader Suliankatchi, Siddhartha Saha, Sanjay Rai, Puneet Misra, Debjani Ram Purakayastha, Abhishek Wahi, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Arti Kapil, Fatimah Dawood, Chandrakant S. Pandav, Shobha Broor, Suresh K. Kapoor, Renu Lal, Marc-Alain Widdowson

Cost-effectiveness analysis of anidulafungin for the treatment of candidaemia and other forms of invasive candidiasis

Georg Auzinger, E. Geoffrey Playford, Christopher N. Graham, Hediyyih N. Knox, David Weinstein, Michal Kantecki, Haran Schlamm, Claudie Charbonneau

Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) and proteinuria predict severity of acute kidney injury in Puumala virus infection

Hanno Bunz, Peter Weyrich, Andreas Peter, Dorothea Baumann, Otto Tschritter, Martina Guthoff, Robert Beck, Gerhard Jahn, Ferruh Artunc, Hans-Ulrich Häring, Nils Heyne, Robert Wagner

Cost-effectiveness evaluation of quadrivalent influenza vaccines for seasonal influenza prevention: a dynamic modeling study of Canada and the United Kingdom

Edward W. Thommes, Afisi Ismaila, Ayman Chit, Genevieve Meier, Christopher T. Bauch

Influx of multidrug-resistant organisms by country-to-country transfer of patients

Nico T. Mutters, Frank Günther, Anja Sander, Alexander Mischnik, Uwe Frank

Determining intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) in inmates from Kajang Prison, Selangor, Malaysia for improved prison management

Lorainne Angal, Rohela Mahmud, Sajideh Samin, Nan-Jiun Yap, Romano Ngui, Amirah Amir, Init Ithoi, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Yvonne AL Lim

Impact of naturally occurring amino acid variations on the detection of HIV-1 p24 in diagnostic antigen tests

Beatrice N. Vetter, Vanessa Orlowski, Christoph Niederhauser, Louise Walter, Jörg Schüpbach

Efficacy and safety of abacavir-containing combination antiretroviral therapy as first-line treatment of HIV infected children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Olatunji O. Adetokunboh, Anel Schoonees, Tolulope A. Balogun, Charles S. Wiysonge

Rates of pneumonia among children and adults with chronic medical conditions in Germany

Stephen I. Pelton, Kimberly M. Shea, Raymond A. Farkouh, David R. Strutton, Sebastian Braun, Christian Jacob, Rogier Klok, Elana S. Gruen, Derek Weycker

Hepatitis C in the era of direct-acting antivirals: real-world costs of untreated chronic hepatitis C; a cross-sectional study

Jennifer Ann Kieran, Suzanne Norris, Aisling O’Leary, Cathal Walsh, Raphael Merriman, D. Houlihan, P. Aiden McCormick, Susan McKiernan, Colm Bergin, Michael Barry

Public health impact of strain specific immunity to Borrelia burgdorferi

Camilo E. Khatchikian, Robert B. Nadelman, John Nowakowski, Ira Schwartz, Michael Z. Levy, Dustin Brisson, Gary P. Wormser

The potential of a multiplex high-throughput molecular assay for early detection of first and second line tuberculosis drug resistance mutations to improve infection control and reduce costs: a decision analytical modeling study

AH van’t Hoog, I. Bergval, N. Tukvadze, S. Sengstake, R. Aspindzelashvili, RM Anthony, F. Cobelens

Acute Hepatitis E Virus infection with coincident reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient with rheumatoid arthritis: a case report

Detlev Schultze, Bernhard Mani, Günter Dollenmaier, Roland Sahli, Andrea Zbinden, Pierre Alexandre Krayenbühl

Intestinal decolonization of Enterobacteriaceae producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL): a retrospective observational study in patients at risk for infection and a brief review of the literature

Siegbert Rieg, M. Fabian Küpper, Katja de With, Annerose Serr, Jürgen A. Bohnert, Winfried V. Kern

Case report: atypical presentation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis uveitis preceding nodular scleritis

Sunee Chansangpetch, Anita Manassakorn, Prasart Laksanaphuk, Usanee Reinprayoon

Longitudinal immune profiles in type 1 leprosy reactions in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia and Nepal

Saraswoti Khadge, Sayera Banu, Kidist Bobosha, Jolien J. van der Ploeg-van Schip, Isabela M. Goulart, Pratibha Thapa, Chhatra B. Kunwar, Krista E. van Meijgaarden, Susan J.F. van den Eeden, Louis Wilson, Senjuti Kabir, Hymonti Dey, Luiz R. Goulart, Janaina Lobato, Washington Carvalho, Yonas Bekele, Kees L.M.C. Franken, Abraham Aseffa, John S. Spencer, Linda Oskam, Tom H.M. Otttenhoff, Deanna A. Hagge, Annemieke Geluk

Treatment outcomes in multidrug resistant tuberculosis-human immunodeficiency virus Co-infected patients on anti-retroviral therapy at Sizwe Tropical Disease Hospital Johannesburg, South Africa

Teye Umanah, Jabulani Ncayiyana, Xavier Padanilam, Peter S. Nyasulu

A systematic review of syphilis serological treatment outcomes in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected persons: rethinking the significance of serological non-responsiveness and the serofast state after therapy

Arlene C. Seña, Xiao-Hui Zhang, Trudy Li, He-Ping Zheng, Bin Yang, Li-Gang Yang, Juan C. Salazar, Myron S. Cohen, M. Anthony Moody, Justin D. Radolf, Joseph D. Tucker

Differential outcome of an antimicrobial stewardship audit and feedback program in two intensive care units: a controlled interrupted time series study

Linda R. Taggart, Elizabeth Leung, Matthew P. Muller, Larissa M. Matukas, Nick Daneman

Development of a rapid recombinase polymerase amplification assay for the detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in whole blood

Eoin Clancy, Owen Higgins, Matthew S. Forrest, Teck Wee Boo, Martin Cormican, Thomas Barry, Olaf Piepenburg, Terry J. Smith

Clinical and radiographic differentiation of lung nodules caused by mycobacteria and lung cancer: a case–control study

Cesar J. Figueroa, Elyn Riedel, Michael S. Glickman

Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infection in Switzerland: a retrospective cohort study

Cédric Hirzel, Gilles Wandeler, Marta Owczarek, Meri Gorgievski-Hrisoho, Jean-Francois Dufour, Nasser Semmo, Samuel Zürcher

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) catheter-related bacteraemia in haemodialysis patients

Guillermo Cuervo, Mariana Camoez, Evelyn Shaw, María Ángeles Dominguez, Oriol Gasch, Belén Padilla, Vicente Pintado, Benito Almirante, José Molina, Francisco López-Medrano, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui, José A. Martinez, Elena Bereciartua, Fernando Rodriguez-Lopez, Carlos Fernandez-Mazarrasa, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Natividad Benito, Jesús Rodriguez-Baño, Elena Espejo, Miquel Pujol

Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae in paediatric meningitis patients at Goroka General Hospital, Papua New Guinea: serotype distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility in the pre-vaccine era

Andrew R. Greenhill, Suparat Phuanukoonnon, Audrey Michael, Mition Yoannes, Tilda Orami, Helen Smith, Denise Murphy, Christopher Blyth, John Reeder, Peter Siba, William Pomat, Deborah Lehmann

Risk factors for severe hand foot mouth disease in Singapore: a case control study

So-Phia Chew, Shu-Ling Chong, Sylvaine Barbier, Aji Matthew, Jan Hau Lee, Yoke Hwee Chan

Vitamin D and respiratory tract infections in childhood

Susanna Esposito, Mara Lelii

Incidence of herpes zoster and associated events including stroke—a population-based cohort study

Karin Sundström, Caroline E. Weibull, Karin Söderberg-Löfdal, Tomas Bergström, Pär Sparén, Lisen Arnheim-Dahlström

Human herpesvirus type 8 in tuberculosis patients with effusion

Shih-Ming Tsao, Chun-Liang Lai, Ming-Nan Lin, Jen-Pi Tsai, Cheng-Chuan Su

Rationale and design of a randomized study of short-term food and cash assistance to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy among food insecure HIV-infected adults in Tanzania

Sandra I. McCoy, Prosper F. Njau, Nancy L. Czaicki, Suneetha Kadiyala, Nicholas P. Jewell, William H. Dow, Nancy S. Padian

Health system delay among patients with tuberculosis in Taiwan: 2003–2010

Chien-Chou Chen, Chen-Yuan Chiang, Sung-Ching Pan, Jann-Yuan Wang, Hsien-Ho Lin

Potential of selected Senegalese Aedes spp. mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) to transmit Zika virus

Cheikh Tidiane Diagne, Diawo Diallo, Oumar Faye, Yamar Ba, Ousmane Faye, Alioune Gaye, Ibrahima Dia, Ousmane Faye, Scott C. Weaver, Amadou Alpha Sall, Mawlouth Diallo

One-step real-time RT-PCR assays for serotyping dengue virus in clinical samples

Erik Alm, Gunnel Lindegren, Kerstin Ingrid Falk, Nina Lagerqvist

Social encounter profiles of greater Melbourne residents, by location – a telephone survey

David A. Rolls, Nicholas L. Geard, Deborah J. Warr, Paula M. Nathan, Garry L. Robins, Philippa E. Pattison, James M. McCaw, Jodie McVernon

Time series analysis of reported cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease from 2010 to 2013 in Wuhan, China

Banghua Chen, Ayako Sumi, Shin’ichi Toyoda, Quan Hu, Dunjin Zhou, Keiji Mise, Junchan Zhao, Nobumichi Kobayashi

Good continuum of HIV care in Belgium despite weaknesses in retention and linkage to care among migrants

D. Van Beckhoven, E. Florence, J. Ruelle, J. Deblonde, C. Verhofstede, S. Callens, E. Vancutsem, P. Lacor, R. Demeester, J.-C. Goffard, A. Sasse

Non-typhoidal Salmonella serotypes, antimicrobial resistance and co-infection with parasites among patients with diarrhea and other gastrointestinal complaints in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tadesse Eguale, Wondwossen A. Gebreyes, Daniel Asrat, Haile Alemayehu, John S. Gunn, Ephrem Engidawork

Effect of abacavir on sustained virologic response to HCV treatment in HIV/HCV co-infected patients, Cohere in Eurocoord

Colette Smit, Joop Arends, Lars Peters, Antonella d’Arminio Montforte, Francois Dabis, Robert Zangerle, George Daikos, Christina Mussini, Josep Mallolas, Stephane de Wit, Annelies Zinkernagel, Jaime Cosin, Genevieve Chene, Dorthe Raben, Jürgen Rockstroh

Erratum to: Diagnosis of neglected tropical diseases among patients with persistent digestive disorders (diarrhoea and/or abdominal pain ≥14 days): a multi-country, prospective, non-experimental case–control study

Katja Polman, Sören L. Becker, Emilie Alirol, Nisha K. Bhatta, Narayan R. Bhattarai, Emmanuel Bottieau, Martin W. Bratschi, Sakib Burza, Jean T. Coulibaly, Mama N. Doumbia, Ninon S. Horié, Jan Jacobs, Basudha Khanal, Aly Landouré, Yodi Mahendradhata, Filip Meheus, Pascal Mertens, Fransiska Meyanti, Elsa H. Murhandarwati, Eliézer K. N’Goran, Rosanna W. Peeling, Raffaella Ravinetto, Suman Rijal, Moussa Sacko, Rénion Saye, Pierre H. H. Schneeberger, Céline Schurmans, Kigbafori D. Silué, Jarir A. Thobari, Mamadou S. Traoré, Lisette van Lieshout, Harry van Loen, Kristien Verdonck, Lutz von Müller, Cédric P. Yansouni, Joel A. Yao, Patrick K. Yao, Peiling Yap, Marleen Boelaert, François Chappuis, Jürg Utzinger

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in Zambia: prevalence, clinical, radiological and microbiological characteristics

Pascalina Chanda-Kapata, Nathan Kapata, Eveline Klinkenberg, Lutinala Mulenga, Mathias Tembo, Patrick Katemangwe, Veronica Sunkutu, Peter Mwaba, Martin P. Grobusch

Capacity building in national influenza laboratories – use of laboratory assessments to drive progress

Lucinda E. A. Johnson, Sarah A. Muir-Paulik, Pam Kennedy, Steven Lindstrom, Amanda Balish, Tricia Aden, Ann C. Moen

Annual incidence rates of herpes zoster among an immunocompetent population in the United States

Barbara H. Johnson, Liisa Palmer, Justin Gatwood, Gregory Lenhart, Kosuke Kawai, Camilo J. Acosta

An open-label, pragmatic, randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of daptomycin versus vancomycin for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infection

Teresa L. Kauf, Peggy McKinnon, G. Ralph Corey, John Bedolla, Paul F. Riska, Matthew Sims, Luis Jauregui-Peredo, Bruce Friedman, James D. Hoehns, Renée-Claude Mercier, Julia Garcia-Diaz, Susan K. Brenneman, David Ng, Thomas Lodise

The Nicaraguan pediatric influenza cohort study: design, methods, use of technology, and compliance

Aubree Gordon, Guillermina Kuan, William Aviles, Nery Sanchez, Sergio Ojeda, Brenda Lopez, Lionel Gresh, Angel Balmaseda, Eva Harris

Appropriate antibiotic use for patients with complicated urinary tract infections in 38 Dutch Hospital Departments: a retrospective study of variation and determinants

V. Spoorenberg, S. E. Geerlings, R. B. Geskus, T. M. de Reijke, J. M. Prins, M. E. J. L. Hulscher

Febrile seizures after 2009 influenza A (H1N1) vaccination and infection: a nationwide registry-based study

Inger Johanne Bakken, Kari Modalsli Aaberg, Sara Ghaderi, Nina Gunnes, Lill Trogstad, Per Magnus, Siri Eldevik Håberg

Serotypes of group B streptococci in western Sweden and comparison with serotypes in two previous studies starting from 1988

Margrét Johansson Gudjónsdóttir, Elisabet Hentz, Stefan Berg, Erik Backhaus, Anders Elfvin, Samir Kawash, Birger Trollfors

Performance evaluation of three commercial molecular assays for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from clinical specimens in a high TB-HIV-burden setting

M. M. Z. Matabane, F. Ismail, K. A. Strydom, O. Onwuegbuna, S. V. Omar, N. Ismail

Antibody induced by one-dose varicella vaccine soon became weak in children: evidence from a cross-sectional seroepidemiological survey in Beijing, PRC

Luodan Suo, Li Lu, Meng Chen, Xinghuo Pang

Changes in circulating lipids level over time after acquiring HCV infection: results from ERCHIVES

Adeel A. Butt, Peng Yan, Tracey G. Simon, Raymond T. Chung, Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra

Performance of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin to distinguish viral from bacterial and malarial causes of fever in Southeast Asia

Yoel Lubell, Stuart D. Blacksell, Susanna Dunachie, Ampai Tanganuchitcharnchai, Thomas Althaus, Wanitda Watthanaworawit, Daniel H. Paris, Mayfong Mayxay, Thomas J. Peto, Arjen M. Dondorp, Nicholas J. White, Nicholas P.J. Day, François Nosten, Paul N. Newton, Paul Turner

About the usefulness of contact precautions for carriers of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli

Jean-Ralph Zahar, Laurent Poirel, Claire Dupont, Nicolas Fortineau, Xavier Nassif, Patrice Nordmann

Monocyte unresponsiveness and impaired IL1β, TNFα and IL7 production are associated with a poor outcome in Malawian adults with pulmonary tuberculosis

Catriona John Waitt, Peter Banda, Sarah Glennie, Beate Kampmann, S. Bertel Squire, Munir Pirmohamed, Robert Simon Heyderman

No development of ciprofloxacin resistance in the Haemophilus species associated with pneumonia over a 10-year study

Josef Yayan, Beniam Ghebremedhin, Kurt Rasche

Viral and bacterial etiology of severe acute respiratory illness among children < 5 years of age without influenza in Niger

Adamou Lagare, Halima Boubacar Maïnassara, Bassira Issaka, Ali Sidiki, Stefano Tempia

Asymptomatic Clostridium difficile colonization: epidemiology and clinical implications

Luis Furuya-Kanamori, John Marquess, Laith Yakob, Thomas V. Riley, David L. Paterson, Niki F. Foster, Charlotte A. Huber, Archie C. A. Clements

Outcome of patients on second line antiretroviral therapy under programmatic condition in India

Jaya Chakravarty, Shyam Sundar, Ankita Chourasia, Pallav Narayan Singh, Swarali Kurle, Srikanth P. Tripathy, Devidas N Chaturbhuj, Madhukar Rai, Amit Kumar Agarwal, Rabindra Nath Mishra, Ramesh S. Paranjape

Evaluation of colostrum as an alternative biological sample for the diagnosis of human congenital toxoplasmosis

Ana Carolina de Morais Oliveira, Hellen Dayane Silva Borges, Fernando Reis Carvalho, Arlindo Gomes de Macêdo Jr., Caroline Martins Mota, Angela Maria de Morais Oliveira, Fernanda Maria Santiago, Cristina Guimarães Arantes Araújo, Deise Aparecida de Oliveira Silva, Tiago Wilson Patriarca Mineo, Vânia Olivetti Steffen Abdallah, José Roberto Mineo

Differential proteomic analysis of virus-enriched fractions obtained from plasma pools of patients with dengue fever or severe dengue

Romain Fragnoud, Marie Flamand, Frederic Reynier, Philippe Buchy, Vasna Duong, Alexandre Pachot, Glaucia Paranhos-Baccala, Frederic Bedin

Adherence to antiretroviral therapy and retention in care for adolescents living with HIV from 10 districts in Uganda

Nicolette Nabukeera-Barungi, Peter Elyanu, Barbara Asire, Cordelia Katureebe, Ivan Lukabwe, Eleanor Namusoke, Joshua Musinguzi, Lynn Atuyambe, Nathan Tumwesigye

High prevalence of oxacillinases in clinical multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from the Tshwane region, South Africa – an update

Michelle Lowings, Marthie Magdaleen Ehlers, Andries William Dreyer, Marleen Magdalena Kock

Tracking social contact networks with online respondent-driven detection: who recruits whom?

Mart L. Stein, Peter G. M. van der Heijden, Vincent Buskens, Jim E. van Steenbergen, Linus Bengtsson, Carl E. Koppeschaar, Anna Thorson, Mirjam E. E. Kretzschmar

Evaluation of sensitivity and specificity of ELISA against Widal test for typhoid diagnosis in endemic population of Kathmandu

Anurag Adhikari, Ramanuj Rauniyar, Pramod Prasad Raut, Krishna Das Manandhar, Birendra Prasad Gupta

Characteristics and spread to the native population of HIV-1 non-B subtypes in two European countries with high migration rate

Kenny Dauwe, Virginie Mortier, Marlies Schauvliege, Annelies Van Den Heuvel, Katrien Fransen, Jean-Yves Servais, Danielle Perez Bercoff, Carole Seguin-Devaux, Chris Verhofstede

Differences in clinical characteristics and prognosis of Penicilliosis among HIV-negative patients with or without underlying disease in Southern China: a retrospective study

Ye Qiu, Haifei Liao, Jianquan Zhang, Xiaoning Zhong, Caimei Tan, Decheng Lu

Health system delay in treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh

Mahfuza Rifat, John Hall, Christopher Oldmeadow, Ashaque Husain, Abul Hasnat Milton

Spatial epidemiology and serologic cohorts increase the early detection of leprosy

Josafá Gonçalves Barreto, Donal Bisanzio, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade, Tania Mara Pires Moraes, Angélica Rita Gobbo, Layana de Souza Guimarães, Moisés Batista da Silva, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, John Stewart Spencer, Uriel Kitron, Claudio Guedes Salgado

A considerable proportion of CRF01_AE strains in China originated from circulating intrasubtype recombinant forms (CIRF)

Lei Jia, Tao Gui, Lin Li, Siyang Liu, Hanping Li, Zuoyi Bao, Xiaolin Wang, Daomin Zhuang, Tianyi Li, Jingwan Han, Yongjian Liu, Jingyun Li

Merozoite surface protein-1 genetic diversity in Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium brasilianum from Brazil

Lilian O. Guimarães, Gerhard Wunderlich, João M. P. Alves, Marina G. Bueno, Fabio Röhe, José L. Catão-Dias, Amanda Neves, Rosely S. Malafronte, Izilda Curado, Wilson Domingues, Karin Kirchgatter

Characterization of the inflammatory cell infiltrate and expression of costimulatory molecules in chronic echinococcus granulosus infection of the human liver

A. Vatankhah, J. Halász, V. Piurkó, T. Barbai, E. Rásó, J. Tímár

Erratum to: Molecular epidemiology and phylogenetic analysis of Hepatitis B virus in a group of migrants in Italy

Umbertina Villano, Alessandra Lo Presti, Michele Equestre, Eleonora Cella, Giulio Pisani, Marta Giovanetti, Roberto Bruni, Elena Tritarelli, Massimo Amicosante, Alba Grifoni, Carmelo Scarcella, Issa El-Hamad, Maria Chiara Pezzoli, Silvia Angeletti, Anna Rita Ciccaglione, Massimo Ciccozzi

An ultrastructural study of Trichophyton rubrum induced onychomycosis

Xueping Yue, Qing Li, Hongwei Wang, Yilin Sun, Aiping Wang, Qi Zhang, Cuiping Zhang

What is needed to guide testing for anorectal and pharyngeal Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in women and men? Evidence and opinion

Nicole H. T. M. Dukers-Muijrers, Julius Schachter, Genevieve A. F. S. van Liere, Petra F. G. Wolffs, Christian J. P. A. Hoebe

The estimated incidence of pertussis in people aged 50 years old in the United States, 2006–2010

Cristina Masseria, Girishanthy Krishnarajah

Invasive cutaneous Neoscytalidium infections in renal transplant recipients: a series of five cases

Simon Garinet, Jérôme Tourret, Stéphane Barete, Nadia Arzouk, Isabelle Meyer, Camille Frances, Annick Datry, Dominique Mazier, Benoit Barrou, Arnaud Fekkar

The impact of HIV status and antiretroviral treatment on TB treatment outcomes of new tuberculosis patients attending co-located TB and ART services in South Africa: a retrospective cohort study

Mweete D. Nglazi, Linda-Gail Bekker, Robin Wood, Richard Kaplan

Association of patterns of methadone use with antiretroviral therapy discontinuation: a prospective cohort study

Paxton Bach, Evan Wood, Huiru Dong, Silvia Guillemi, Thomas Kerr, Julio Montaner, M-J Milloy

Low prevalence of hepatitis C co-infection in recently HIV-infected minority men who have sex with men in Los Angeles: a cross-sectional study

Kara W. Chew, Martha L. Blum, Marjan Javanbakht, Laurel E. Clare, Lorelei D. Bornfleth, Robert Bolan, Debika Bhattacharya, Pamina M. Gorbach

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli outbreaks related to childcare facilities in Japan, 2010–2013

Atsuhiro Kanayama, Yuichiro Yahata, Yuzo Arima, Takuri Takahashi, Takehito Saitoh, Kazuhiko Kanou, Kunio Kawabata, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Tamano Matsui, Kazunori Oishi

Surgical treatment of syphilitic superficial femoral artery aneurysm: a rare case report

Zhihua Cheng, Sean X. Luo, Xiwei Sun, Siqiao Sun, Zhongying Wang, Yuzhu Jiang, Zhiyuan An, Qi Wang

CIN III lesions and regression: retrospective analysis of 635 cases

Melodi Motamedi, Gerd Böhmer, Heinrich H. Neumann, Reinhard von Wasielewski

Health care workers in Pearl River Delta Area of China are not vaccinated adequately against hepatitis B: a retrospective cohort study

Yu-Bao Zheng, Yu-Rong Gu, Min Zhang, Ke Wang, Zhan-lian Huang, Chao-Shuang Lin, Zhi-Liang Gao

Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis and leprosy: case report and literature review

Maria Angela Bianconcini Trindade, Lana Luiza da Cruz Silva, Lucia Maria Almeida Braz, Valdir Sabbaga Amato, Bernard Naafs, Mirian Nacagami Sotto

Detection of HPV DNA in paraffin-embedded cervical samples: a comparison of four genotyping methods

Felipe A. Castro, Jill Koshiol, Wim Quint, Cosette M. Wheeler, Maura L. Gillison, Laurence M. Vaughan, Bernhard Kleter, Leen-Jan van Doorn, Anil K. Chaturvedi, Allan Hildesheim, Mark Schiffman, Sophia S. Wang, Rosemary E. Zuna, Joan L. Walker, S. Terence Dunn, Nicolas Wentzensen

Ciprofloxacin resistance in community- and hospital-acquired Escherichia coli urinary tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

Oyebola Fasugba, Anne Gardner, Brett G. Mitchell, George Mnatzaganian

Hemoptysis due to fungus ball after tuberculosis: A series of 21 cases treated with hemostatic radiotherapy

Lucas G Sapienza, Maria José L Gomes, Carmelindo Maliska, Antonio N Norberg

Influence of Plasmodium gametocyte carriage on the prevalence of fever, splenomegaly and cardiovascular parameters in children less than 15 years in the Mount Cameroon area: cross sectional study

Irene Ule Ngole Sumbele, Orelien S. Mtopi Bopda, Helen Kuokuo Kimbi, Teh Rene Ning, Theresa Nkuo-Akenji

Evaluating HBsAg rapid test performance for different biological samples from low and high infection rate settings & populations

Helena Medina Cruz, Leticia de Paula Scalioni, Vanessa Salete de Paula, Elisangela Ferreira da Silva, Kycia Maria Rodrigues do Ó, Flavio Augusto Pádua Milagres, Marcelo Santos Cruz, Francisco Inácio Bastos, Priscila Pollo-Flores, Erotildes Leal, Ana Rita Coimbra Motta-Castro, José Henrique Pilotto, Lia Laura Lewis-Ximenez, Elisabeth Lampe, Livia Melo Villar

The quality of denominator data in surgical site infection surveillance versus administrative data in Norway 2005–2010

Hege Line Løwer, Hanne-Merete Eriksen, Preben Aavitsland, Finn Egil Skjeldestad

The variations of IL-23R are associated with susceptibility and severe clinical forms of pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese Uygurs

Daobin Jiang, Atikaimu Wubuli, Xin Hu, Syed Ikramullah, Abudoujilili Maimaiti, Wenbao Zhang, Qimanguli Wushouer

Invasive meningococcal disease in England: assessing disease burden through linkage of multiple national data sources

Shamez N Ladhani, Pauline A Waight, Sonia Ribeiro, Mary E Ramsay

Periodontitis-associated septic pulmonary embolism caused by Actinomyces species identified by anaerobic culture of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid: a case report

Shun Endo, Eikan Mishima, Yoichi Takeuchi, Takashi Ohi, Masatsugu Ishida, Masaru Yanai, Hideyasu Kiyomoto, Tasuku Nagasawa, Sadayoshi Ito

A Birth-cohort testing intervention identified hepatitis c virus infection among patients with few identified risks: a cross-sectional study

William N. Southern, Brianna Norton, Meredith Steinman, Joseph DeLuca, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Bryce D. Smith, Alain H. Litwin

High prevalence of Bordetella pertussis in children under 5 years old hospitalized with acute respiratory infections in Lima, Peru

Ivana Pavic-Espinoza, Sandy Bendezú-Medina, Angella Herrera-Alzamora, Pablo Weilg, María J. Pons, Miguel Angel Aguilar-Luis, Verónica Petrozzi-Helasvuo, Juana del Valle Mendoza

Severe falciparum malaria complicated by prolonged haemolysis and rhinomaxillary mucormycosis after parasite clearance: a case report

Katherine Plewes, Richard J. Maude, Aniruddha Ghose, Arjen M. Dondorp

The correlation between pretreatment cytokine expression patterns in peripheral blood mononuclear cells with chronic hepatitis c outcome

Joanna Jabłońska, Tomasz Pawłowski, Tomasz Laskus, Małgorzata Zalewska, Małgorzata Inglot, Sylwia Osowska, Karol Perlejewski, Iwona Bukowska-Ośko, Kamila Caraballo Cortes, Agnieszka Pawełczyk, Piotr Ząbek, Marek Radkowski

Progression of liver stiffness predicts clinical events in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with compensated cirrhosis

Nicolás Merchante, Francisco Téllez, Antonio Rivero-Juárez, Maria José Ríos-Villegas, Dolores Merino, Manuel Márquez-Solero, Mohamed Omar, Eva Recio, Montserrat Pérez-Pérez, Ángela Camacho, Sara Macías-Dorado, Juan Macías, Sandra Lorenzo-Moncada, Antonio Rivero, Juan A. Pineda

Improving the radical cure of vivax malaria (IMPROV): a study protocol for a multicentre randomised, placebo-controlled comparison of short and long course primaquine regimens

Rapid dissemination of colistin and carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Central Greece: mechanisms of resistance, molecular identification and epidemiological data

O. Oikonomou, S. Sarrou, C. C. Papagiannitsis, S. Georgiadou, K. Mantzarlis, E. Zakynthinos, G. N. Dalekos, E. Petinaki

Hepatitis E virus seroprevalence in pregnant women in Jiangsu, China, and postpartum evolution during six years

Guangyu Gu, Hongyu Huang, Le Zhang, Yongchun Bi, Yali Hu, Yi-Hua Zhou

Rationale and design of FORTH: a randomised controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of HIV self-testing in increasing HIV testing frequency among gay and bisexual men

Muhammad S. Jamil, Garrett Prestage, Christopher K. Fairley, Kirsty S. Smith, John M. Kaldor, Andrew E. Grulich, Anna M. McNulty, Marcus Chen, Martin Holt, Damian P. Conway, Handan Wand, Phillip Keen, Colin Batrouney, Jack Bradley, Benjamin R. Bavinton, Dermot Ryan, Darren Russell, Rebecca J. Guy

HIV treatment and care among Italian inmates: a one-month point survey

R. Monarca, G. Madeddu, R. Ranieri, S. Carbonara, G. Leo, M. Sardo, F. Choroma, S. Casari, D. Marri, A. A. Muredda, F. A. Nava, S. Babudieri

Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection among people receiving opioid substitution therapy (ECHO): study protocol

Lisa Strada, Bernd Schulte, Christiane Sybille Schmidt, Uwe Verthein, Peter Cremer-Schaeffer, Sabine Krückeberg, Jens Reimer

The face of Ebola: changing frequency of haemorrhage in the West African compared with Eastern-Central African outbreaks

Stefano Petti, Giuseppe Alessio Messano, Enzo Maria Vingolo, Luigi Tonino Marsella, Crispian Scully

Microbiology of healthcare-associated infections and the definition accuracy to predict infection by potentially drug resistant pathogens: a systematic review

Teresa Cardoso, Mónica Almeida, Jordi Carratalà, Irene Aragão, Altamiro Costa-Pereira, António E. Sarmento, Luís Azevedo

Cost-effectiveness analysis of human papillomavirus vaccination in South Africa accounting for human immunodeficiency virus prevalence

Xiao Li, Martinus P. Stander, Georges Van Kriekinge, Nadia Demarteau

Community-acquired adult Escherichia coli meningitis leading to diagnosis of unrecognized retropharyngeal abscess and cervical spondylodiscitis: a case report

Rebekka Kohlmann, Andrey Nefedev, Martin Kaase, Sören G. Gatermann

Management and outcomes in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia after implementation of mandatory infectious diseases consult: a before/after study

Leslie Martin, Miriam Tova Harris, Annie Brooks, Cheryl Main, Dominik Mertz

Prevalence of 7 sexually transmitted organisms by multiplex real-time PCR in Fallopian tube specimens collected from Saudi women with and without ectopic pregnancy

Ahmed Mohamed Ashshi, Sarah Abdullah Batwa, Seham Yahia Kutbi, Faizah Ahmed Malibary, Mohamed Batwa, Bassem Refaat

Predictors of antiretroviral therapy initiation: a cross-sectional study among Chinese HIV-infected men who have sex with men

Yu Liu, Yuhua Ruan, Sten H. Vermund, Chandra Y. Osborn, Pingsheng Wu, Yujiang Jia, Yiming Shao, Han-Zhu Qian

Prevalence of bla TEM-220 gene in Penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains carrying Toronto/Rio plasmid in Argentina, 2002 – 2011

Ricardo Gianecini, Claudia Oviedo, Cristina Guantay, Laura Piccoli, Graciela Stafforini, Patricia Galarza

The prevalence and impact of antimicrobial allergies and adverse drug reactions at an Australian tertiary centre

Jason A. Trubiano, Kelly A. Cairns, Jacqui A. Evans, Amally Ding, Tuan Nguyen, Michael J. Dooley, Allen C. Cheng

Continued high incidence of children with severe influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 admitted to paediatric intensive care units in Germany during the first three post-pandemic influenza seasons, 2010/11–2012/13

Andrea Streng, Christiane Prifert, Benedikt Weissbrich, Johannes G. Liese

Increased norovirus activity was associated with a novel norovirus GII.17 variant in Beijing, China during winter 2014–2015

Zhiyong Gao, Baiwei Liu, Da Huo, Hanqiu Yan, Lei Jia, Yiwei Du, Haikun Qian, Yang Yang, Xiaoli Wang, Jie Li, Quanyi Wang

Trends in HPV cervical and seroprevalence and associations between oral and genital infection and serum antibodies in NHANES 2003–2012

Andrew F. Brouwer, Marisa C. Eisenberg, Thomas E. Carey, Rafael Meza

Antibiotic use in rural China: a cross-sectional survey of knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices among caregivers in Shandong province

Lilu Ding, Qiang Sun, Weishuai Sun, Yihui Du, Yue Li, Xuefeng Bian, Guiqin He, Huidong Bai, Oliver J. Dyar

Evaluation of intestinal tuberculosis by multi-slice computed tomography enterography

Jing Zhao, Min-Yi Cui, Tao Chan, Ren Mao, Yanji Luo, Indira Barua, Minhu Chen, Zi-Ping Li, Shi-Ting Feng

Diagnosis of human fascioliasis in Arusha region, northern Tanzania by microscopy and clinical manifestations in patients

Abdul-Hamid Settenda Lukambagire, Deborah N. Mchaile, Mramba Nyindo

Loss of sensitivity of immunochromatographic test (ICT) for lymphatic filariasis diagnosis in low prevalence settings: consequence in the monitoring and evaluation procedures

Raceline Gounoue-Kamkumo, Hugues C. Nana-Djeunga, Jean Bopda, Julie Akame, Ann Tarini, Joseph Kamgno

Risk factors for infection following prostate biopsy - a case control study

Elliot Anderson, Olivia Leahy, Allen C. Cheng, Jeremy Grummet

Outbreak of a beta-lactam resistant non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae sequence type 14 associated with severe clinical outcomes

Madelen Andersson, Fredrik Resman, Rickard Eitrem, Peter Drobni, Kristian Riesbeck, Gunnar Kahlmeter, Martin Sundqvist

Cytomegalovirus infection and disease reduce 10-year cardiac allograft vasculopathy-free survival in heart transplant recipients

Inger Johansson, Rune Andersson, Vanda Friman, Nedim Selimovic, Lars Hanzen, Salmir Nasic, Ulla Nyström, Vilborg Sigurdardottir

Epidemic spread of Pandoraea pulmonicola in a cystic fibrosis center

Nicolas Degand, Romain Lotte, Célia Decondé Le Butor, Christine Segonds, Michelle Thouverez, Agnès Ferroni, Christine Vallier, Laurent Mély, Jacqueline Carrère

Incidence and characteristics of invasive fungal diseases in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: a retrospective cohort study

Nicole Harrison, Margit Mitterbauer, Selma Tobudic, Peter Kalhs, Werner Rabitsch, Hildegard Greinix, Heinz Burgmann, Birgit Willinger, Elisabeth Presterl, Christina Forstner

A novel approach to evaluating the UK childhood immunisation schedule: estimating the effective coverage vector across the entire vaccine programme

Sonya Crowe, Martin Utley, Guy Walker, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, Peter Grove, Christina Pagel

Increases in absenteeism among health care workers in Hong Kong during influenza epidemics, 2004–2009

Dennis K. M. Ip, Eric H. Y. Lau, Yat Hung Tam, Hau Chi So, Benjamin J. Cowling, Henry K. H. Kwok

Detecting signals of seasonal influenza severity through age dynamics

Elizabeth C. Lee, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Farid Khan, Shweta Bansal

An evidence synthesis approach to estimating the incidence of symptomatic pertussis infection in the Netherlands, 2005–2011

Scott A. McDonald, Peter Teunis, Nicoline van der Maas, Sabine de Greeff, Hester de Melker, Mirjam E. Kretzschmar

Vaccinate-assess-move method of mass canine rabies vaccination utilising mobile technology data collection in Ranchi, India

Andrew D. Gibson, Praveen Ohal, Kate Shervell, Ian G. Handel, Barend M. Bronsvoort, Richard J. Mellanby, Luke Gamble

Whooping cough dynamics in Chile (1932–2010): disease temporal fluctuations across a north-south gradient

Mauricio Lima, Sergio A. Estay, Rodrigo Fuentes, Paola Rubilar, Hélène Broutin, Gerardo Chowell-Puente