Ausgabe 1/2017
Inhalt (794 Artikel)
Risk factors, perceptions and practices associated with Taenia solium cysticercosis and its control in the smallholder pig production systems in Uganda: a cross-sectional survey
Joseph M. Kungu, Michel M. Dione, Francis Ejobi, Michael Ocaido, Delia Grace
Invasive pneumococcal disease among adults in Japan, April 2013 to March 2015: disease characteristics and serotype distribution
Munehisa Fukusumi, Bin Chang, Yoshinari Tanabe, Kengo Oshima, Takaya Maruyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Koji Kuronuma, Kei Kasahara, Hiroaki Takeda, Junichiro Nishi, Jiro Fujita, Tetsuya Kubota, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Tamano Matsui, Kazunori Oishi
Feasibility Study of HIV Sentinel Surveillance using PMTCT data in Cameroon: from Scientific Success to Programmatic Failure
Serge C. Billong, Jacob Dee, Joseph Fokam, Georges Nguefack-Tsague, Gabriel L. Ekali, Raoul Fodjo, Edith S. Temgoua, Edson-Joan Billong, Samuel M. Sosso, Jembia J. Mosoko, Francisca Monebenimp, Alexis Ndjolo, Anne-Cecile Z-K. Bissek, Omotayo Bolu, Jean-Bosco N. Elat
An assessment of the level of concern among hospital-based health-care workers regarding MERS outbreaks in Saudi Arabia
Mostafa A. Abolfotouh, Ali A. AlQarni, Suliman M. Al-Ghamdi, Mahmoud Salam, Mohammed H. Al-Assiri, Hanan H. Balkhy
Effectiveness of isoniazid preventative therapy in reducing incidence of active tuberculosis among people living with HIV/AIDS in public health facilities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a historical cohort study
Mahlet Semu, Teferi Gedif Fenta, Girmay Medhin, Dawit Assefa
Evaluation of the importance of fever with respect to dengue prognosis according to the 2009 WHO classification: a retrospective study
Caroline Tukasan, Nathália Barbosa Furlan, Cássia Fernanda Estofolete, Maurício Lacerda Nogueira, Natal Santos da Silva
Increased activity of the complement system in cerebrospinal fluid of the patients with Non-HIV Cryptococcal meningitis
Lei Shen, Jianming Zheng, Yan Wang, Mengqi Zhu, Haoxiang Zhu, Qi Cheng, Qian Li
First case report of myopericarditis linked to Campylobacter coli enterocolitis
Cameron R. M. Moffatt, Soniah B. Moloi, Karina J. Kennedy
Platelet counts modulate the quantitative relationship between hepatitis B viral DNA and surface antigen concentrations: a cross-sectional study of hematological, histological and viral factors
Chao-Wei Hsu, Kung-Hao Liang, Chih-Lang Lin, Tong-Hong Wang, Chau-Ting Yeh
Seroprevalence and determinants of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at the university teaching hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
Christiana Frimpong, Mpundu Makasa, Lungowe Sitali, Charles Michelo
Impact of colistin plasma levels on the clinical outcome of patients with infections caused by extremely drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Luisa Sorlí, Sonia Luque, Concepción Segura, Nuria Campillo, Milagro Montero, Erika Esteve, Sabina Herrera, Natividad Benito, Francisco Alvarez-Lerma, Santiago Grau, Juan Pablo Horcajada
Infectious tenosynovitis with bloodstream infection caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, a case report on an occupational pathogen
Kristine Hofseth, Håvard Dalen, Leif Kibsgaard, Solrun Nebb, Angela Kümmel, Arne Mehl
Rapid increase of scrub typhus incidence in Guangzhou, southern China, 2006―2014
Ye Sun, Yue-Hong Wei, Yang Yang, Yu Ma, Sake J. de Vlas, Hong-Wu Yao, Yong Huang, Mai-Juan Ma, Kun Liu, Xiao-Ning Li, Xin-Lou Li, Wen-Hui Zhang, Li-Qun Fang, Zhi-Cong Yang, Wu-Chun Cao
Molecular epidemiology of bla OXA-23 -producing carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a single institution over a 65-month period in north China
Nian-zhi Ning, Xiong Liu, Chun-mei Bao, Su-ming Chen, En-bo Cui, Ju-ling zhang, Jie Huang, Fang-hong Chen, Tao Li, Fen Qu, Hui Wang
High prevalence and low cure rate of tuberculosis among patients with HIV in Xinjiang, China
Rena Maimaiti, Yuexin Zhang, Kejun Pan, Peierdun Mijiti, Maimaitiali Wubili, Maimaitijiang Musa, Rune Andersson
The first occurrence of a CTX-M ESBL-producing Escherichia coli outbreak mediated by mother to neonate transmission in an Irish neonatal intensive care unit
Ciara O’Connor, Roy K. Philip, John Kelleher, James Powell, Alan O’Gorman, Barbara Slevin, Neil Woodford, Jane F. Turton, Elaine McGrath, Cathriona Finnegan, Lorraine Power, Nuala H. O’Connell, Colum P. Dunne
Prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms in refugee patients, medical tourists and domestic patients admitted to a German university hospital
Claudia Reinheimer, Volkhard A. J. Kempf, Katalin Jozsa, Thomas A. Wichelhaus, Michael Hogardt, Fiona O’Rourke, Christian Brandt
Thymus activity measured by T-cell receptor excision circles in patients with different severities of respiratory syncytial virus infection
Kiran Aftab Gul, Tonje Sonerud, Hans O. Fjærli, Britt Nakstad, Tore Gunnar Abrahamsen, Christopher S. Inchley
Vaccination with toxofilin DNA in combination with an alum-monophosphoryl lipid A mixed adjuvant induces significant protective immunity against Toxoplasma gondii
Pengxia Song, Shenyi He, Aihua Zhou, Gang Lv, Jingjing Guo, Jian Zhou, Yali Han, Huaiyu Zhou, Zhen Hao, Hua Cong
Sex with sweethearts: Exploring factors associated with inconsistent condom use among unmarried female entertainment workers in Cambodia
Siyan Yi, Sovannary Tuot, Pheak Chhoun, Khuondyla Pal, Chanrith Ngin, Kolab Chhim, Carinne Brody
Hepatitis E virus seroprevalence among the general population in a livestock-dense area in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional population-based serological survey
Arianne B. van Gageldonk-Lafeber, Wim van der Hoek, Floor Borlée, Dick J. J. Heederik, Sofie H. Mooi, Catharina B. M. Maassen, C. Joris Yzermans, Barry Rockx, Lidwien A. M. Smit, Johan H. J. Reimerink
Concordance of chlamydia infections of the rectum and urethra in same-sex male partnerships: a cross-sectional analysis
Vincent J. Cornelisse, Christopher J. Sherman, Jane S Hocking, Henrietta Williams, Lei Zhang, Marcus Y. Chen, Catriona S. Bradshaw, Clare Bellhouse, Christopher K Fairley, Eric P. F. Chow
Outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Saudi Arabia: a retrospective study
Fadilah Sfouq Aleanizy, Nahla Mohmed, Fulwah Y. Alqahtani, Rania Ali El Hadi Mohamed
Molecular epidemiology of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-positive community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in pastoral communities of rural south western Uganda
Benon B. Asiimwe, Rossella Baldan, Alberto Trovato, Daniela M. Cirillo
Pneumococcal carriage and antibiotic susceptibility patterns from two cross-sectional colonization surveys among children aged <5 years prior to the introduction of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine — Kenya, 2009–2010
Miwako Kobayashi, Laura M. Conklin, Godfrey Bigogo, Geofrey Jagero, Lee Hampton, Katherine E. Fleming-Dutra, Muthoni Junghae, Maria da Gloria Carvalho, Fabiana Pimenta, Bernard Beall, Thomas Taylor, Kayla F. Laserson, John Vulule, Chris Van Beneden, Lindsay Kim, Daniel R. Feikin, Cynthia G. Whitney, Robert F. Breiman
Strain-specific transmission in an outbreak of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in the hemato-oncology care unit: a cohort study
Makiko Uemura, Osamu Imataki, Shumpei Uchida, Haruyuki Nakayama-Imaohji, Yukiko Ohue, Harumi Matsuka, Hatsune Mori, Hiroaki Dobashi, Tomomi Kuwahara, Norimitsu Kadowaki
Plasma presepsin level is an early diagnostic marker of severe febrile neutropenia in hematologic malignancy patients
Yusuke Koizumi, Kaoru Shimizu, Masayo Shigeta, Takafumi Okuno, Hitoshi Minamiguchi, Katsuyuki Kito, Keiko Hodohara, Yuka Yamagishi, Akira Andoh, Yoshihide Fujiyama, Hiroshige Mikamo
Nasal carriage of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus among health care workers at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza Strip
Nabil Abdullah El Aila, Nahed Ali Al Laham, Basim Mohammad Ayesh
Comparing antibiotic treatment for leptospirosis using network meta-analysis: a tutorial
Cho Naing, Simon A. Reid, Kyan Aung
HPV Genotypes distribution in Indian women with and without cervical carcinoma: Implication for HPV vaccination program in Odisha, Eastern India
Rashmirani Senapati, Bhagyalaxmi Nayak, Shantanu Kumar Kar, Bhagirathi Dwibedi
Symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus disease following non-primary maternal infection: a retrospective cohort study
Eran Hadar, Elizabeta Dorfman, Ron Bardin, Rinat Gabbay-Benziv, Jacob Amir, Joseph Pardo
Hepatitis B virus strains from Rwandan blood donors are genetically similar and form one clade within subgenotype A1
Theogene Twagirumugabe, Gatare Swaibu, Timothy David Walker, Magnus Lindh, Jean Bosco Gahutu, Tomas Bergström, Heléne Norder
Risk factors and characteristics of blood stream infections in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma
Chun-Teng Huang, Chia-Jen Liu, Po-Shen Ko, Han-Tsung Liu, Yuan-Bin Yu, Liang-Tsai Hsiao, Jyh-Pyng Gau, Cheng-Hwai Tzeng, Tzeon-Jye Chiou, Jin-Hwang Liu, Muh-Hwa Yang, Ling-Ju Huang, Chun-Yu Liu
Development of Aspergillosis in a cohort of non-neutropenic, non-transplant patients colonised by Aspergillus spp
José Barberán, Francisco-Javier García-Pérez, Victoria Villena, Alberto Fernández-Villar, Eduardo Malmierca, Cristina Salas, María-José Giménez, Juan-José Granizo, Lorenzo Aguilar
Treatment efficacy of azithromycin 1 g single dose versus doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for 7 days for the treatment of rectal chlamydia among men who have sex with men – a double-blind randomised controlled trial protocol
Andrew Lau, Fabian Kong, Christopher K. Fairley, Basil Donovan, Marcus Chen, Catriona Bradshaw, Mark Boyd, Janaki Amin, Peter Timms, Sepehr Tabrizi, David G. Regan, David A. Lewis, Anna McNulty, Jane S. Hocking
High rates of multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis among re-treatment cases: where do they come from?
Romain Ragonnet, James M. Trauer, Justin T. Denholm, Ben J. Marais, Emma S. McBryde
Monophylogenetic HIV-1C epidemic in Ethiopia is dominated by CCR5-tropic viruses–an analysis of a prospective country-wide cohort
Amare Worku Kalu, Nigus Fikrie Telele, Solomon Gebreselasie, Daniel Fekade, Samir Abdurahman, Gaetano Marrone, Anders Sönnerborg
Bacteria endocarditis consolidation with vertebra bone tuberculosis: a case report
Yan Liu, Xiaoming Wang, Zhibin Wang, Yongsheng Zhu, Liying Zhang, Xiaoli Li, Rong Xu, Wei Ge
Systematic review and network meta-analysis of tedizolid for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections caused by MRSA
Rachael McCool, Ian M. Gould, Jacqui Eales, Teresa Barata, Mick Arber, Kelly Fleetwood, Julie Glanville, Teresa L. Kauf
Unusual manifestation of Helicobacter cinaedi infection: a case report of intracranial subdural empyema and bacteremia
Toshimasa Hayashi, Junko Tomida, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Masakazu Yoshida, Ikuyo Yokozawa, Shingaku Kaneko
Cardiovascular risk and endothelial function in people living with HIV/AIDS: design of the multi-site, longitudinal EndoAfrica study in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Hans Strijdom, Patrick De Boever, Gerhard Walzl, M. Faadiel Essop, Tim S. Nawrot, Ingrid Webster, Corli Westcott, Nyiko Mashele, Frans Everson, Stephanus T. Malherbe, Kim Stanley, Harald H. Kessler, Evelyn Stelzl, Nandu Goswami
Score risk model for predicting severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome mortality
Li Wang, Zhiqiang Zou, Chunguo Hou, Xiangzhong Liu, Fen Jiang, Hong Yu
Associations of statins and antiretroviral drugs with the onset of type 2 diabetes among HIV-1-infected patients
Vincenzo Spagnuolo, Laura Galli, Andrea Poli, Stefania Salpietro, Nicola Gianotti, Piermarco Piatti, Francesca Cossarini, Concetta Vinci, Elisabetta Carini, Adriano Lazzarin, Antonella Castagna
Clinical and microbiologic characteristics of cefotaxime-non-susceptible Enterobacteriaceae bacteremia: a case control study
Taro Noguchi, Yasufumi Matsumura, Masaki Yamamoto, Miki Nagao, Shunji Takakura, Satoshi Ichiyama
The effectiveness of daclatasvir based therapy in European patients with chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease
Jim Young, Nina Weis, Harald Hofer, William Irving, Ola Weiland, Emiliano Giostra, Juan Manuel Pascasio, Lluis Castells, Martin Prieto, Roelien Postema, Cinira Lefevre, David Evans, Heiner C. Bucher, Jose Luis Calleja
Association between a syndemic of psychosocial problems and unprotected anal intercourse among men who have sex with men in Shanghai, China
Ying Wang, Zezhou Wang, Mengmeng Jia, Ajuan Liang, Dong Yuan, Zhe Sun, Feng Gan, Yichen Wang, Yong Cai, Zhiruo Zhang
Intensified hand-hygiene campaign including soap-and-water wash may prevent acute infections in office workers, as shown by a recognized-exposure -adjusted analysis of a randomized trial
Tapani Hovi, Jukka Ollgren, Carita Savolainen-Kopra
Seasonal influenza vaccination in pregnant women: knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in Italy
Francesco Napolitano, Paola Napolitano, Italo Francesco Angelillo
Effectiveness of a serological tool to predict malaria transmission intensity in an elimination setting
Rajika Lasanthi Dewasurendra, Janaka Nandana Dias, Nuno Sepulveda, Geethika Sharmini Abayaweera Gunawardena, Naduviladath Chandrasekharan, Chris Drakeley, Nadira Dharshani Karunaweera
Hospitalized care for MDR-TB in Port Harcourt, Nigeria: a qualitative study
Kingsley Lezor Bieh, Ralf Weigel, Helen Smith
Comparison of clinical features and prognostic factors in HIV-negative adults with cryptococcal meningitis and tuberculous meningitis: a retrospective study
Junyan Qu, Taoyou Zhou, Cejun Zhong, Rong Deng, Xiaoju Lü
Cost-effectiveness of antibiotic treatment strategies for community-acquired pneumonia: results from a cluster randomized cross-over trial
Cornelis H. van Werkhoven, Douwe F. Postma, Marie-Josee J. Mangen, Jan Jelrik Oosterheert, Marc J. M. Bonten
De-implementation strategy to Reduce the Inappropriate use of urinary and intravenous CATheters: study protocol for the RICAT-study
Bart J. Laan, Ingrid J. B. Spijkerman, Mieke H. Godfried, Berend C. Pasmooij, Jolanda M. Maaskant, Marjon J. Borgert, Brent C. Opmeer, Margreet C. Vos, Suzanne E. Geerlings
Qualitative insights into implementation, processes, and outcomes of a randomized trial on peer support and HIV care engagement in Rakai, Uganda
April Monroe, Gertrude Nakigozi, William Ddaaki, Jeremiah Mulamba Bazaale, Ronald H. Gray, Maria J. Wawer, Steven J. Reynolds, Caitlin E. Kennedy, Larry W. Chang
Long-term kinetics of Zika virus RNA and antibodies in body fluids of a vasectomized traveller returning from Martinique: a case report
Guenter Froeschl, Kristina Huber, Frank von Sonnenburg, Hans-Dieter Nothdurft, Gisela Bretzel, Michael Hoelscher, Lothar Zoeller, Matthias Trottmann, Francisco Pan-Montojo, Gerhard Dobler, Silke Woelfel
Mumps transmission in social networks: a cohort study
Susan Hahné, Tessa Schurink, Jacco Wallinga, Jeroen Kerkhof, Marianne van der Sande, Rob van Binnendijk, Hester de Melker
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) disease burden in China: a systematic review and spatio-temporal analysis
Peipei Ding, Xiaowen Li, Zhongwei Jia, Zuhong Lu
Gut microbiota disturbance during helminth infection: can it affect cognition and behaviour of children?
Vanina Guernier, Bradley Brennan, Laith Yakob, Gabriel Milinovich, Archie C. A. Clements, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhaes
Protection via a ROM4 DNA vaccine and peptide against Toxoplasma gondii in BALB/c mice
Yali Han, Aihua Zhou, Gang Lu, Guanghui Zhao, Lin Wang, Jingjing Guo, Pengxia Song, Jian Zhou, Huaiyu Zhou, Hua Cong, Shenyi He
Evaluation of the point-of-care Becton Dickinson Veritor™ Rapid influenza diagnostic test in Kenya, 2013–2014
Linus K. Ndegwa, Gideon Emukule, Timothy M. Uyeki, Eunice Mailu, Sandra S. Chaves, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Bandika V. Lewa, Francis K. Muiruri, Peter Omoth, Barry Fields, Joshua A. Mott
A pilot study of brisk walking in sedentary combination antiretroviral treatment (cART)- treated patients: benefit on soluble and cell inflammatory markers
Matteo Bonato, Laura Galli, Laura Passeri, Valeria Longo, Gaspare Pavei, Simona Bossolasco, Cecilia Bertocchi, Massimo Cernuschi, Giuseppe Balconi, Giampiero Merati, Adriano Lazzarin, Antonio La Torre, Paola Cinque
Single- and multiple viral respiratory infections in children: disease and management cannot be related to a specific pathogen
Jérôme O. Wishaupt, Tjeerd van der Ploeg, Ronald de Groot, Florens G. A. Versteegh, Nico G. Hartwig
The influence of antibiotic prophylaxis on bacterial resistance in urinary tract infections in children with spina bifida
Sebastiaan Hermanus Johannes Zegers, Jeanne Dieleman, Tjomme van der Bruggen, Jan Kimpen, Catharine de Jong-de Vos van Steenwijk
Erratum to: Incidence and risk factor prevalence of community-acquired pneumonia in adults in primary care in Spain (NEUMO-ES-RISK project)
I. Rivero-Calle, J. Pardo-Seco, P. Aldaz, D. A. Vargas, E. Mascarós, E. Redondo, J. L. Díaz-Maroto, M. Linares-Rufo, M. J. Fierro-Alacio, A. Gil, J. Molina, D. Ocaña, Federico Martinón-Torres
Application of the analytic hierarchy approach to the risk assessment of Zika virus disease transmission in Guangdong Province, China
Xing Li, Tao Liu, Lifeng Lin, Tie Song, Xiaolong Du, Hualiang Lin, Jianpeng Xiao, Jianfeng He, Liping Liu, Guanghu Zhu, Weilin Zeng, Lingchuan Guo, Zheng Cao, Wenjun Ma, Yonghui Zhang
Toxoplasmosis-associated IRIS involving the CNS: a case report with longitudinal analysis of T cell subsets
Rita Rb-Silva, Claudia Nobrega, Eugénia Reiriz, Soraia Almeida, Rui Sarmento-Castro, Margarida Correia-Neves, Ana Horta
Genotypic characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi from patients in two geographical locations in Sri Lanka
Ranjan Premaratna, Lucas S. Blanton, Dilhar N. Samaraweera, G. Nalika N. de Silva, Nilmini T. G. A. Chandrasena, David H. Walker, H. J. de Silva
Intestinal helminth co-infection and associated factors among tuberculosis patients in Arba Minch, Ethiopia
Getaneh Alemu, Mohammedaman Mama
Cost of shingles: population based burden of disease analysis of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia
Kevin J. Friesen, Dan Chateau, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Shawn Bugden
Concomitant disseminated histoplasmosis and disseminated tuberculosis after tumor necrosis factor inhibitor treatment: a case report
Juan E. Muñoz-Oca, Martha L. Villarreal Morales, Aracelis Nieves-Rodriguez, Lemuel Martínez-Bonilla
Better care provided to patients with tuberculosis at county designated TB hospitals (CTD) compared to non-CTDs in rural China
Li Yuan, Hui Zhang, Changming Zhou, Weili Jiang, Qi Zhao, Xu Biao
Tenosynovitis caused by Scedosporium apiospermum infection misdiagnosed as an Alternaria species: a case report
Choon-Mee Kim, Sung-Chul Lim, Joa Kim, Hoe-Soo Jang, Jong-Hun Chung, Na-Ra Yun, Dong-Min Kim, Piyush Jha, Babita Jha, Seok Won Kim, Sook Jin Jang, Jong Hee Shin
High-risk human papillomavirus infection and abnormal cervical cytology among Nepali and Bhutanese refugee women living in eastern Nepal
Madhav P. Bhatta, Derek C. Johnson, Mingma Lama, Shilu Aryal, Pema Lhaki, Sadeep Shrestha
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to assess the safety and effectiveness of a novel dual-action oral topical formulation against upper respiratory infections
Pranab K. Mukherjee, Frank Esper, Ken Buchheit, Karen Arters, Ina Adkins, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, Robert A. Salata
Assessing the sustainability of daily chlorhexidine bathing in the intensive care unit of a Veteran’s Hospital by examining nurses’ perspectives and experiences
Jackson S. Musuuza, Tonya J. Roberts, Pascale Carayon, Nasia Safdar
Anti-hepatitis B virus (HBV) response of imiquimod based toll like receptor 7 ligand in hbv-positive human hepatocelluar carcinoma cell line
Dipanwita Das, Isha Sengupta, Neelakshi Sarkar, Ananya Pal, Debraj Saha, Manikankana Bandopadhyay, Chandrima Das, Jimmy Narayan, Shivaram Prasad Singh, Sekhar Chakrabarti, Runu Chakravarty
Concentration of fine needle aspirates similar to molecular method improves sensitivity of the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Olifan Zewdie, Tamrat Abebe, Adane Mihret, Eyob Hirpa, Gobena Ameni
Development of an algorithm for phenotypic screening of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in the routine laboratory
Jérôme Robert, Alix Pantel, Audrey Merens, Elodie Meiller, Jean-Philippe Lavigne, Marie-Hélène Nicolas-Chanoine
Comparison of loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay and smear microscopy with culture for the diagnostic accuracy of tuberculosis
Baye Gelaw, Yitayal Shiferaw, Marta Alemayehu, Abate Assefa Bashaw
Cocaine/crack use is not associated with fibrosis progression measured by AST-to-Platelet Ratio Index in HIV-HCV co-infected patients: a cohort study
Valérie Martel-Laferrière, Roy Nitulescu, Joseph Cox, Curtis Cooper, Mark Tyndall, Danielle Rouleau, Sharon Walmsley, Leo Wong, Marina B. Klein, Lisa Barrett, Jeff Cohen, Brian Conway, Curtis Cooper, Pierre Côté, Joseph Cox, John Gill, Shariq Haider, Mark Hull, Marina Klein, Julio Montaner, Erica Moodie, Neora Pick, Anita Rachlis, Danielle Rouleau, Roger Sandre, Mark Tyndall, Steve Sanche, Marie-Louise Vachon, Sharon Walmsley, Alex Wong, David Wong
A severe case of visceral leishmaniasis and liposomal amphotericin B treatment failure in an immunosuppressed patient 15 years after exposure
Anna Eichenberger, Annina E. Buechi, Andreas Neumayr, Chistroph Hatz, Andri Rauch, Marc Huguenot, Eva Diamantis-Karamitopoulou, Cornelia Staehelin
Risk factors and medical costs for healthcare-associated carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli infection among hospitalized patients in a Chinese teaching hospital
Xiujuan Meng, Sidi Liu, Juping Duan, Xun Huang, Pengcheng Zhou, Xinrui Xiong, Ruie Gong, Ying Zhang, Yao Liu, Chenchao Fu, Chunhui Li, Anhua Wu
Diagnostic dilemma of pulmonary tuberculosis among adults with severe mental illness in Beijing, China
Li Wang, Zhiguo Zhang, Qiuli Yan, Jie Lu, Baoyin Gao, Yanlin Zhao, Yu Pang
Influenza epidemic surveillance and prediction based on electronic health record data from an out-of-hours general practitioner cooperative: model development and validation on 2003–2015 data
Barbara Michiels, Van Kinh Nguyen, Samuel Coenen, Philippe Ryckebosch, Nathalie Bossuyt, Niel Hens
Exploring surface cleaning strategies in hospital to prevent contact transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Hao Lei, Rachael M. Jones, Yuguo Li
Prevalence of HIV and syphilis co-infection and associated factors among non-commercial men who have sex with men attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic in Shenzhen, China
Wenjie Dai, Zhenzhou Luo, Ruiwei Xu, Guanglu Zhao, Dan Tu, Lin Yang, Feng Wang, Yumao Cai, Lina Lan, Fuchang Hong, Tubao Yang, Tiejian Feng
Epidemiology of laboratory confirmed measles virus cases in the southern nations of Ethiopia, 2007–2014
Mekonen Getahun, Berhane Beyene, Ayesheshem Ademe, Birke Teshome, Mesfin Tefera, Aklog Afework, Yoseph HaileMariam, Esete Assefa, Yonas Hailegiorgis, Anjelo Asha
Depression, alcohol use, and intimate partner violence among outpatients in rural Uganda: vulnerabilities for HIV, STIs and high risk sexual behavior
Susan M. Kiene, Haruna Lule, Katelyn M. Sileo, Kazi Priyanka Silmi, Rhoda K. Wanyenze
Thromboelastometry analysis of thrombocytopenic dengue patients: a cross-sectional study
Felipe Maia de Toledo Piza, Thiago Domingos Corrêa, Alexandre Rodrigues Marra, João Carlos Campos Guerra, Roseny dos Reis Rodrigues, Andrea Aparecida Rocco Villarinho, Valdir Fernandes de Aranda, Sandra Christina Pereira Lima Shiramizo, Maria Roza de Jesus de Lima, Esper Georges Kallas, Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti
Common and uncommon neurological manifestations of neuroborreliosis leading to hospitalization
Philipp Schwenkenbecher, Refik Pul, Ulrich Wurster, Josef Conzen, Kaweh Pars, Hans Hartmann, Kurt-Wolfram Sühs, Ludwig Sedlacek, Martin Stangel, Corinna Trebst, Thomas Skripuletz
The effect of the Xpert MTB/RIF test on the time to MDR-TB treatment initiation in a rural setting: a cohort study in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province
Joshua Iruedo, Don O’Mahony, Sikhumbuzo Mabunda, Graham Wright, Busisiwe Cawe
Norovirus infections in young children in Lusaka Province, Zambia: clinical characteristics and molecular epidemiology
Leigh M. Howard, Innocent Mwape, Mpanji Siwingwa, Michelo Simuyandi, M. Brad Guffey, Jeffrey S. A. Stringer, Benjamin H. Chi, Kathryn M. Edwards, Roma Chilengi
Initial therapeutic strategy of invasive candidiasis for intensive care unit patients: a retrospective analysis from the China-SCAN study
Na Cui, Hao Wang, Longxiang Su, Haibo Qiu, Ruoyu Li, Dawei Liu
Transcriptome profiling of gene expression during immunisation trial against Fasciola hepatica: identification of genes and pathways involved in conferring immunoprotection in a murine model
Jose Rojas-Caraballo, Julio López-Abán, Darwin Andrés Moreno-Pérez, Belén Vicente, Pedro Fernández-Soto, Esther del Olmo, Manuel Alfonso Patarroyo, Antonio Muro
The PTAP sequence duplication in HIV-1 subtype C Gag p6 in drug-naive subjects of India and South Africa
Shilpee Sharma, Shambhu G. Aralaguppe, Melissa-Rose Abrahams, Carolyn Williamson, Clive Gray, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Shanmugam Saravanan, Kailapuri G. Murugavel, Suniti Solomon, Udaykumar Ranga
Lip leishmaniasis: a case series with molecular identification and literature review
Iraj Mohammadpour, Mohammad Hossein Motazedian, Farhad Handjani, Gholam Reza Hatam
Drug-resistance dynamics of Staphylococcus aureus between 2008 and 2014 at a tertiary teaching hospital, Jiangxi Province, China
Kaisen Chen, Yanfang Huang, Qiuyue Song, Chenhui Wu, Xiaowen Chen, Lingbing Zeng
Hyponatremia is a marker of disease severity in HIV-infected patients: a retrospective cohort study
Philippe Braconnier, Marc Delforge, Maria Garjau, Karl Martin Wissing, Stéphane De Wit
Lack of Ser267Phe variant of sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide among Moroccans regardless of hepatitis B virus infection status
Sayeh Ezzikouri, Hajar Chihab, Abdellah Elhabazi, Lahcen Wakrim, Soumaya Benjelloun
Smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis and associated risk factors among tuberculosis suspects attending spiritual holy water sites in Northwest Ethiopia
Dejene Derseh, Feleke Moges, Belay Tessema
Seroprevalence and risk factors of brucellosis in abattoir workers at Debre Zeit and Modjo export abattoir, Central Ethiopia
Amanuel Tsegay, Getachew Tuli, Tesfu Kassa, Nigatu Kebede
Case report: when two and ½ men go camping…
Matthias von Rotz, Alexa Dierig, Ulrich Heininger, Carl Chrobak, Veronika Baettig, Adrian Egli
Dysglycemia associations with adipose tissue among HIV-infected patients after 2 years of antiretroviral therapy in Mwanza: a follow-up cross-sectional study
George PrayGod, John Changalucha, Saidi Kapiga, Robert Peck, Jim Todd, Suzanne Filteau
The dubious value of cerebrospinal fluid adenosine deaminase measurement for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis
Pieter Ekermans, Adriano Dusé, Jaya George
Peritoneal and genital coccidioidomycosis in an otherwise healthy Danish female: a case report
Ole Bæk, Karen Astvad, Reza Serizawa, Lawrence J. Wheat, Pia T. Brenøe, Ann-Brit E. Hansen
Report of three imported cases of neurocysticercosis in Guadeloupe
R. Blaizot, B. Melot, K. Schepers, M. Nicolas, S. Gaumond, P. Poullain, L. Belaye, A. Lannuzel, B. Hoen
Human papillomavirus infections among women with cervical lesions and cervical cancer in Eastern China: genotype-specific prevalence and attribution
Lei Zhang, Qingqing Bi, Hua Deng, Jing Xu, Juan Chen, Meilian Zhang, Xiaofeng Mu
Emergence and spread of a new community-genotype methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone in Colombia
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The immunological response to syphilis differs by HIV status; a prospective observational cohort study
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Impact of oral hygiene involving toothbrushing versus chlorhexidine in the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia: a randomized study
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Erratum to: Hepatitis viruses in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Hepatic tuberculosis in human immunodeficiency virus co-infected adults: a case series of South African adults
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Trends in antimicrobial resistance and empiric antibiotic therapy of bloodstream infections at a general hospital in Mid-Norway: a prospective observational study
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Harriet Chiyangi, John B. Muma, Sydney Malama, Joel Manyahi, Ahmed Abade, Geoffrey Kwenda, Mecky I. Matee
Treatment outcomes of fixed-dose combination versus separate tablet regimens in pulmonary tuberculosis patients with or without diabetes in Qatar
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Incidence and predictors of surgical site infection in Ethiopia: prospective cohort
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Knowledge of HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases among men who have sex with men in Finland
Tarja Suominen, Teppo Heikkinen, Marja Pakarinen, Anne-Mari Sepponen, Jari Kylmä
Impact of appropriate empirical antibiotic treatment on recurrence and mortality in patients with bacteraemia: a population-based cohort study
Kim O. Gradel, Ulrich S. Jensen, Henrik C. Schønheyder, Christian Østergaard, Jenny D. Knudsen, Sonja Wehberg, Mette Søgaard, Christian Østergaard, Jenny Dahl Knudsen, Ulrich S. Jensen, Magnus Arpi, Mette Pinholt, Sara Thønnings, Henrik C. Schønheyder, Mette Søgaard, Kristoffer Koch, Jesper Smit, Kim O. Gradel
Why being an expert – despite xpert –remains crucial for children in high TB burden settings
Jason M. Bacha, Katherine Ngo, Petra Clowes, Heather R. Draper, Elias N. Ntinginya, Andrew DiNardo, Chacha Mangu, Issa Sabi, Bariki Mtafya, Anna M. Mandalakas
Beyond Ebola treatment units: severe infection temporary treatment units as an essential element of Ebola case management during an outbreak
Christian Janke, Katrin Moira Heim, Florian Steiner, Moses Massaquoi, Miatta Zenabu Gbanya, Claudia Frey, Guenter Froeschl
Early interventions for diabetes related tuberculosis associate with hastened sputum microbiological clearance in Virginia, USA
Yosra Alkabab, Suzanne Keller, Denise Dodge, Eric Houpt, Deborah Staley, Scott Heysell
Prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of Italian general female population
Barbara Suligoi, Giorgio Vittori, Maria Cristina Salfa, Laura Timelli, Dario Corsini, Giovanni Fattorini, Luciano Mariani, Daniele Agostinelli, Antonio Salvatore Amorosi, Luisa Barbaro, Rosetta Barretta, Fiorella Bencivenga, Maria Grazia Castiglione, Stefania Cinquerrui, Maddalena Cipolletta, Francesca Como, Concetta Corallo, Bianca Rosa Cozza, Marco Danna, Nicoletta Danuso, Barbara Del Bravo, Maddalena Di Noia, Natalino Ferrara, Grazia Fischetti, Gennaro Forcella, Patrizia Franzolini, Valentina Garozzo, Chiara Antonia Genco, Maristella Ghiazza, Rosa Guagliardo, Sonja Jazbec, Alessandra Lui, Sara Mantegazza, Annamaria Marcazzò, Oscar Martinelli, Claudia Mazzei, Raffaella Mezzopane, Daniela Minorini, Francesco Montoneri, Sabina Oldani, Maurizio Orlandella, Daniela Palano, Rosanna Palmiotto, Rosalba Percuoco, Maria Pizza, Carmela Placco, Adriana Santoro, Antonio Scanu, Maria Sprecaviscole, Marina Toschi, Annamaria Voltolini
Is it still worthwhile to perform quarterly cd4+ t lymphocyte cell counts on hiv-1 infected stable patients?
Antonio Di Biagio, Marta Ameri, Davide Sirello, Giovanni Cenderello, Enrico Di Bella, Lucia Taramasso, Barbara Giannini, Mauro Giacomini, Claudio Viscoli, Giovanni Cassola, Marcello Montefiori
Molecular point-of-care testing for respiratory viruses versus routine clinical care in adults with acute respiratory illness presenting to secondary care: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial protocol (ResPOC)
Nathan J. Brendish, Ahalya K. Malachira, Tristan W. Clark
Risk factors for poor multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Omowunmi Aibana, Mariya Bachmaha, Viatcheslav Krasiuk, Natasha Rybak, Timothy P. Flanigan, Vasyl Petrenko, Megan B. Murray
Screening for genital tuberculosis in a limited resource country: case report
Sadie Namani, Emine Qehaja-Buçaj, Diellëza Namani
Risk factors for excessively prolonged meropenem use in the intensive care setting: a case-control study
Juri Katchanov, Benno Kreuels, Florian P. Maurer, Kai Wöstmann, Johannes Jochum, Christina König, Kariem Seoudy, Holger Rohde, Ansgar W. Lohse, Dominic Wichmann, Michael Baehr, Camilla Rothe, Stefan Kluge
Successful TB treatment outcome and its associated factors among TB/HIV co-infected patients attending Gondar University Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: an institution based cross-sectional study
Yenework Sinshaw, Shitaye Alemu, Abel Fekadu, Mucheye Gizachew
Pneumococcal carriage among HIV infected children in Accra, Ghana
Eric S. Donkor, Jennifer A. Annan, Ebenezer V. Badoe, Nicholas T. K. D. Dayie, Appiah-Korang Labi, Hans-Christian Slotved
Rapid and sensitive real-time assay for the detection of respiratory syncytial virus using RT-SIBA®
Kevin E. Eboigbodin, Kirsi Moilanen, Sonja Elf, Mark Hoser
Phanerochaete sordida as a cause of pulmonary nodule in an immunocompromised patient: a case report
Naoki Watanabe, Kiyofumi Ohkusu, Masaya Okuda, Osamu Imataki, Tomoya Ishii, Kiyoshi Negayama, Akira Tadokoro, Nobuyuki Kita, Takehiro Takagi, Nobuhiro Kanaji, Norimitsu Kadowaki, Shuji Bandoh
Study on age-dependent pre-existing 2009 pandemic influenza virus T and B cell responses from Chinese population
Jin Lv, Zhen-Yong Ren, Ying-Ying Zhang, Yun-E Liu, Jun Gao, Kun Yao, Dan Feng, Zhen-Yuan Li, Xin Feng, Yun-Xi Liu, Na Jia
Survival of people living with HIV who defaulted from tuberculosis treatment in a cohort, Recife, Brazil
R Cunha, M Maruza, UR Montarroyos, I Coimbra, D de B Miranda-Filho, M de F Albuquerque, HR Lacerda, RAA Ximenes
Extended spectrum beta lactamase producing organisms causing urinary tract infections in Sri Lanka and their antibiotic susceptibility pattern –A hospital based cross sectional study
M. M. P. S. C. Fernando, W. A. N. V. Luke, J. K. N. D. Miththinda, R. D. S. S. Wickramasinghe, B. S. Sebastiampillai, M. P. M. L. Gunathilake, F. H. D. S. Silva, R. Premaratna
Viral aetiology of bronchiolitis in hospitalised children in Qatar
Ibrahim Janahi, Anas Abdulkayoum, Fawziya Almeshwesh, Mohamed Alkuwari, Ahmed Al hammadi, Marwah Alameri
A population-based study of chronic hepatitis C in immigrants and non-immigrants in Quebec, Canada
Christina Greenaway, Laurent Azoulay, Robert Allard, Joseph Cox, Viet Anh Tran, Claire Nour Abou Chakra, Russ Steele, Marina Klein
Prevalence and clinical presentation of Rickettsia, Coxiella, Leptospira, Bartonella and chikungunya virus infections among hospital-based febrile patients from December 2008 to November 2009 in Bangladesh
Labib Imran Faruque, Rashid Uz Zaman, Emily S. Gurley, Robert F. Massung, A. S. M. Alamgir, Renee L. Galloway, Ann M. Powers, Ying Bai, Michael Kosoy, William L. Nicholson, Mahmudur Rahman, Stephen P. Luby
Association of high serum vitamin D concentrations with active pulmonary TB in an HIV co-endemic setting, Harare, Zimbabwe
Cuthbert Musarurwa, Lynn Sodai Zijenah, Doreen Zvipo Duri, Kudzie Mateveke-Dangaiso, Kudakwashe Mhandire, Maria Mary Chipiti, Marshall Wesley Munjoma, Witmore Bayayi Mujaji
Proposed phase 2/ step 2 in-vitro test on basis of EN 14561 for standardised testing of the wound antiseptics PVP-iodine, chlorhexidine digluconate, polihexanide and octenidine dihydrochloride
Kathrin Schedler, Ojan Assadian, Uta Brautferger, Gerald Müller, Torsten Koburger, Simon Classen, Axel Kramer
Effective inhibition of MERS-CoV infection by resveratrol
Shih-Chao Lin, Chi-Tang Ho, Wen-Ho Chuo, Shiming Li, Tony T. Wang, Chi-Chen Lin
Factors associated with the length of delay with tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment among adult tuberculosis patients attending at public health facilities in Gondar town, Northwest, Ethiopia
Selamsew Bogale, Ermias Diro, Atsede Mazengia Shiferaw, Melaku Kindie Yenit
Treatment completion for latent tuberculosis infection: a retrospective cohort study comparing 9 months of isoniazid, 4 months of rifampin and 3 months of isoniazid and rifapentine
Adelaide H. McClintock, McKenna Eastment, Christy M. McKinney, Caroline L. Pitney, Masahiro Narita, David R. Park, Shireesha Dhanireddy, Alexandra Molnar
Zoonotic necrotizing myositis caused by Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus in a farmer
Bård Reiakvam Kittang, Veronika Kuchařová Pettersen, Oddvar Oppegaard, Dag Harald Skutlaberg, Håvard Dale, Harald G. Wiker, Steinar Skrede
Wide variation in sexually transmitted infection testing and counselling at Aboriginal primary health care centres in Australia: analysis of longitudinal continuous quality improvement data
Barbara Nattabi, Veronica Matthews, Jodie Bailie, Alice Rumbold, David Scrimgeour, Gill Schierhout, James Ward, Rebecca Guy, John Kaldor, Sandra C. Thompson, Ross Bailie
Procalcitonin for infections in the first week after pediatric liver transplantation
Vladimir L. Cousin, Kalinka Lambert, Shahar Trabelsi, Annick Galetto-Lacour, Klara M. Posfay-Barbe, Barbara E. Wildhaber, Valérie A. McLin
Urinary tract infection among fistula patients admitted at Hamlin fistula hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Matifan Dereje, Yimtubezinesh Woldeamanuel, Daneil Asrat, Fekade Ayenachew
Brain and liver pathology, amyloid deposition, and interferon responses among older HIV-positive patients in the late HAART era
Isaac H. Solomon, Umberto De Girolami, Sukrutha Chettimada, Vikas Misra, Elyse J. Singer, Dana Gabuzda
Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and associated factors among Visceral Leishmaniasis infected patients in Northwest Ethiopia: a facility based cross-sectional study
Mekuriaw Alemayehu, Mamo Wubshet, Nebiyu Mesfin, Abebaw Gebayehu
Clinical manifestations of severe enterovirus 71 infection and early assessment in a Southern China population
Si-da Yang, Pei-qing Li, Yi-min Li, Wei Li, Wen-ying Lai, Cui-ping Zhu, Jian-ping Tao, Li Deng, Hong-sheng Liu, Wen-cheng Ma, Jia-ming Lu, Yan Hong, Yu-ting Liang, Jun Shen, Dan-dan Hu, Yuan-yuan Gao, Yi Zhou, Min-xiong Situ, Yan-ling Chen
Factors associated with stigma attitude towards people living with HIV among general individuals in Heilongjiang, Northeast China
Xin Li, Lili Yuan, Xiaoxia Li, Jingli Shi, Liying Jiang, Chundi Zhang, Xiujing Yang, Yeli Zhang, Donghui Zhao, Yashuang Zhao
Cost-benefit analysis of Chlamydia trachomatis screening in pregnant women in a high burden setting in the United States
Jared Ditkowsky, Khushal H. Shah, Margaret R. Hammerschlag, Stephan Kohlhoff, Tamar A. Smith-Norowitz
A screening program to test and treat for Helicobacter pylori infection: Cost-utility analysis by age, sex and ethnicity
Andrea M. Teng, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Nisha Nair, Melissa McLeod, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely
Genetic Characterization of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates from outbreaks between 2011 and 2015 in Tanzania
Yazid Kachwamba, A. A. Mohammed, H. Lukupulo, L. Urio, M. Majigo, F. Mosha, M. Matonya, R. Kishimba, J. Mghamba, J. Lusekelo, S. Nyanga, M. Almeida, S. Li, D. Domman, S.Y. Massele, O. C. Stine
UK national clinical audit: management of pregnancies in women with HIV
S. Raffe, H. Curtis, P. Tookey, H. Peters, A. Freedman, Y. Gilleece, Ann Sullivan, Brian Angus, David Asboe, Garry Brough, Fiona Burns, David Chadwick, Duncan Churchill, Valerie Delpech, Katja Doerholt, P. Gupta, Aoife Molloy, Julie Musonda, Chinyere Okoli, Ed Ong, Alison Rodger, Michael Rayment, Caroline Sabin
Empiric treatment against invasive fungal diseases in febrile neutropenic patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Ken Chen, Qi Wang, Roy A. Pleasants, Long Ge, Wei Liu, Kangning Peng, Suodi Zhai
The virological durability of first-line ART among HIV-positive adult patients in resource limited settings without virological monitoring: a retrospective analysis of DART trial data
David I. Dolling, Ruth L. Goodall, Michael Chirara, James Hakim, Peter Nkurunziza, Paula Munderi, David Eram, Dinah Tumukunde, Moira J. Spyer, Charles F. Gilks, Pontiano Kaleebu, David T. Dunn, Deenan Pillay, P. Kaleebu, D. Pillay, P. Awio, M. Chirara, D. Dunn, D.M. Gibb, C. Gilks, R. Goodall, A. Kapaata, M. Katuramur, F. Lyagoba, B. Magambo, K. Mataruka, L. Mugarura, T. Musunga, M. Nabankkema, J. Nkalubo, P. Nkurunziza, C. Parry, V. Robertson, M. Spyer, D. Mulima, D.E. Williams, I. Nankya, S. Nassimbwa, E. Ndashimye, E. Nabulime, M. Phiri, K. Mutasa, S. Mukasa
A controlled survey of less typical long-term consequences after an extensive waterborne epidemic
Janne Laine, Outi Laine, Jukka Lumio, Jaakko Antonen, Salla Toikkanen, Mikko J. Virtanen, Markku Kuusi, Pekka Collin, Jaakko Herrala, Tina Katto, Markku Korpela, Eila Kujansuu, Anna-Leena Kuusela, Sami Mustajoki, Jukka Mustonen, Heikki Oksa, Petri Ruutu, Sirpa Räsänen, Terhi Uotila
The need for treatment scale-up to impact HCV transmission in people who inject drugs in Montréal, Canada: a modelling study
Anthony Cousien, Pascale Leclerc, Carole Morissette, Julie Bruneau, Élise Roy, Viet Chi Tran, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Joseph Cox
Suspicion of respiratory tract infection with multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: epidemiology and risk factors from a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Hanna Renk, Lenja Stoll, Felix Neunhoeffer, Florian Hölzl, Matthias Kumpf, Michael Hofbeck, Dominik Hartl
Field evaluation of a recombinase polymerase amplification assay for the diagnosis of Schistosoma japonicum infection in Hunan province of China
Weiwei Xing, Xinling Yu, Jingtao Feng, Kui Sun, Wenliang Fu, Yuanyuan Wang, Minji Zou, Wenrong Xia, Zhihong Luo, Hongbin He, Yuesheng Li, Donggang Xu
Comparison of methods for identifying causative bacterial microorganisms in presumed acute endophthalmitis: conventional culture, blood culture, and PCR
Pear Pongsachareonnont, Worawalun Honglertnapakul, Tanittha Chatsuwan
Meta-analysis of the utility of culture, biopsy, and direct KOH examination for the diagnosis of onychomycosis
Verónica Velasquez-Agudelo, Jaiberth Antonio Cardona-Arias
Hepatitis C virus and HIV co-infection among pregnant women in Rwanda
Mwumvaneza Mutagoma, Helene Balisanga, Dieudonné Sebuhoro, Aimable Mbituyumuremyi, Eric Remera, Samuel S. Malamba, David J. Riedel, Sabin Nsanzimana
Hyponatremia and risk factors for death in human visceral leishmaniasis: new insights from a cross-sectional study in Brazil
Elizabeth De Francesco Daher, Douglas de Sousa Soares, Sérgio Luiz Arruda Parente Filho, Gdayllon Cavalcante Meneses, Tainá Veras de Sandes Freitas, Tacyano Tavares Leite, Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior
Decline in the proportion of methicillin resistance among Staphylococcus aureus isolates from non-invasive samples and in outpatient settings, and changes in the co-resistance profiles: an analysis of data collected within the Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network, Germany 2010 to 2015
Jan Walter, Ines Noll, Marcel Feig, Bettina Weiss, Hermann Claus, Guido Werner, Tim Eckmanns, Julia Hermes, Muna Abu Sin
High mortality among tuberculosis patients on treatment in Nigeria: a retrospective cohort study
Aishatu L. Adamu, Muktar A. Gadanya, Isa S. Abubakar, Abubakar M. Jibo, Musa M. Bello, Auwalu U. Gajida, Musa M. Babashani, Ibrahim Abubakar
Factors influencing mortality in abdominal solid organ transplant recipients with multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteremia
Bingbing Qiao, Jianzhen Wu, Qiquan Wan, Sheng zhang, Qifa Ye
Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of parents towards varicella and its vaccination
Luigi Vezzosi, Gabriella Santagati, Italo F. Angelillo
Erratum to: Impact of oral hygiene involving toothbrushing versus chlorhexidine in the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia: a randomized study
Claudia Fernanda de Lacerda Vidal, Aurora Karla de Lacerda Vidal, José Gildo de Moura Monteiro Jr., Aracele Cavalcanti, Ana Paula da Costa Henriques, Márcia Oliveira, Michele Godoy, Mirella Coutinho, Pollyanna Dutra Sobral, Claudia Ângela Vilela, Bárbara Gomes, Marta Amorim Leandro, Ulisses Montarroyos, Ricardo de Alencar Ximenes, Heloísa Ramos Lacerda
Changes in mortality rates and causes of death in a population-based cohort of persons living with and without HIV from 1996 to 2012
Oghenowede Eyawo, Conrado Franco-Villalobos, Mark W. Hull, Adriana Nohpal, Hasina Samji, Paul Sereda, Viviane D. Lima, Jeannie Shoveller, David Moore, Julio S. G. Montaner, Robert S. Hogg, Julio Montaner, Robert Hogg, Oghenowede Eyawo, Mark Hull, Jeannie Shoveller, David Moore, Paul Sereda, Viviane Lima
Erratum to: The influence of antibiotic prophylaxis on bacterial resistance in urinary tract infections in children with spina bifida
Sebastiaan Hermanus Johannes Zegers, Jeanne Dieleman, Tjomme van der Bruggen, Jan Kimpen, Catharine de Jong-de Vos van Steenwijk
Effect of prior receipt of antibiotics on the pathogen distribution and antibiotic resistance profile of key Gram-negative pathogens among patients with hospital-onset urinary tract infections
Monique R. Bidell, Melissa Palchak Opraseuth, Min Yoon, John Mohr, Thomas P. Lodise
Screening of TNFα, IL-10 and TLR4 single nucleotide polymorphisms in individuals with asymptomatic and chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Colombia: a pilot study
Angélica Mera-Ramírez, Andrés Castillo, Yenifer Orobio, María Adelaida Gómez, Carolina Gallego-Marin
The importance of registration of sexual orientation and recognition of indicator conditions for an adequate HIV risk-assessment
Ivo K. Joore, Suzanne E. Geerlings, Kees Brinkman, Jan E. A. M. van Bergen, Jan M. Prins
A Chinese patient with peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis caused by Gordonia terrae: a case report
Chenrui Hou, Yun Yang, Ziyang Li
First report on bla NDM-1-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in three clinical isolates from Ethiopia
Michael Pritsch, Ahmed Zeynudin, Maxim Messerer, Simon Baumer, Gabriele Liegl, Soeren Schubert, Thomas Löscher, Michael Hoelscher, Tefara Belachew, Andrea Rachow, Andreas Wieser
Dangerous practices in a hemodialysis unit in Vietnam identify from mixed methods
Minh Cuong Duong, Mary-Louise McLaws
Reactivation of occult HBV infection in an HIV/HCV Co-infected patient successfully treated with sofosbuvir/ledipasvir: a case report and review of the literature
Gabriele Fabbri, Ilaria Mastrorosa, Alessandra Vergori, Valentina Mazzotta, Carmela Pinnetti, Susanna Grisetti, Mauro Zaccarelli, Adriana Ammassari, Andrea Antinori
Efficacy and safety of de-escalation therapy to ertapenem for treatment of infections caused by extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae: an open-label randomized controlled trial
Pinyo Rattanaumpawan, Peerawong Werarak, Anupop Jitmuang, Pattarachai Kiratisin, Visanu Thamlikitkul
Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolated from pulmonary tuberculosis patients in central Ethiopia
Zufan Bedewi, Adane Worku, Yalemtsehay Mekonnen, Getnet Yimer, Girmay Medhin, Gezahegne Mamo, Rembert Pieper, Gobena Ameni
Predictors and incidence of sexually transmitted Hepatitis C virus infection in HIV positive men who have sex with men
Nicholas A. Medland, Eric P. F. Chow, Catriona S. Bradshaw, Timothy H. R. Read, Joseph J. Sasadeusz, Christopher K. Fairley
Evaluation of an ultraviolet room disinfection protocol to decrease nursing home microbial burden, infection and hospitalization rates
Christine R. Kovach, Yavuz Taneli, Tammy Neiman, Elaine M. Dyer, Alvin Jason A. Arzaga, Sheryl T Kelber
Erratum to: A systematic review of the epidemiology of hepatitis E virus in Africa
Jong-Hoon Kim, Kenrad E. Nelson, Ursula Panzner, Yogita Kasture, Alain B. Labrique, Thomas F. Wierzba
Case report: two human Streptococcus suis infections in Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia
Giri Shan Rajahram, Ahneez Abdul Hameed, Jayaram Menon, Timothy William, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah, Tsin Wen Yeo
Implementing and sustaining a mobile medical clinic for prenatal care and sexually transmitted infection prevention in rural Mysore, India
Noah Kojima, Karl Krupp, Kavitha Ravi, Savitha Gowda, Poornima Jaykrishna, Caitlyn Leonardson-Placek, Anand Siddhaiah, Claire C. Bristow, Anjali Arun, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Purnima Madhivanan
Lack of association between Toxoplasma gondii exposure and depression in pregnant women: a case-control study
Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel, Ana Liliana Martínez-Martínez, Luis Francisco Sánchez-Anguiano, Jesús Hernández-Tinoco, Juan Manuel Castillo-Orona, Carlos Salas-Martínez, Antonio Sifuentes-Álvarez, Ada Agustina Sandoval-Carrillo, José M. Salas-Pacheco, Oliver Liesenfeld, Elizabeth Irasema Antuna-Salcido
Screening in Maternity to Ascertain Tuberculosis Status (SMATS) study
Edward Broughton, Samson Haumba, Marianne Calnan, Sandile Ginindsa, Rosanna Jeffries, Gugu Maphalala, Sikhathele Mazibuko, Munamato Mirara, Surbhi Modi, Pasipamire Munyaradzi, Peter Preko, Batsabile Simelane
Antimicrobial susceptibilities of aerobic and facultative gram-negative bacilli isolated from Chinese patients with urinary tract infections between 2010 and 2014
Qiwen Yang, Hui Zhang, Yao Wang, Zhipeng Xu, Ge Zhang, Xinxin Chen, Yingchun Xu, Bin Cao, Haishen Kong, Yuxing Ni, Yunsong Yu, Ziyong Sun, Bijie Hu, Wenxiang Huang, Yong Wang, Anhua Wu, Xianju Feng, Kang Liao, Yanping Luo, Zhidong Hu, Yunzhuo Chu, Juan Lu, Jianrong Su, Bingdong Gui, Qiong Duan, Shufang Zhang, Haifeng Shao, Robert E. Badal
Systemic inflammation-based scores and mortality for all causes in HIV-infected patients: a MASTER cohort study
Elena Raffetti, Francesco Donato, Salvatore Casari, Filippo Castelnuovo, Laura Sighinolfi, Alessandra Bandera, Franco Maggiolo, Nicoletta Ladisa, Massimo di Pietro, Chiara Fornabaio, Simona Digiambenedetto, Eugenia Quiros-Roldan
Motives and barriers to safer sex and regular STI testing among MSM soon after HIV diagnosis
Titia Heijman, Freke Zuure, Ineke Stolte, Udi Davidovich
Which recommendations are considered essential for outbreak preparedness by first responders?
Evelien Belfroid, Aura Timen, Jim E. van Steenbergen, Anita Huis, Marlies E. J. L. Hulscher
Clinical features of community acquired adenovirus pneumonia during the 2011 community outbreak in Southern Taiwan: role of host immune response
Ching-Fen Shen, Shih-Min Wang, Tzong-Shiann Ho, Ching-Chuan Liu
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of rapidly growing mycobacteria isolated in Japan
Shuji Hatakeyama, Yuki Ohama, Mitsuhiro Okazaki, Yoko Nukui, Kyoji Moriya
A meta-analysis of stroke risk following herpes zoster infection
Fawziah Marra, Jeremy Ruckenstein, Kathryn Richardson
Lack of immunity against rubella among Italian young adults
Gallone Maria Serena, Gallone Maria Filomena, Larocca Angela Maria Vittoria, Germinario Cinzia, Tafuri Silvio
Comparing interferon-gamma release assays with tuberculin skin test for identifying latent tuberculosis infection that progresses to active tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis
Peter Auguste, Alexander Tsertsvadze, Joshua Pink, Rachel Court, Noel McCarthy, Paul Sutcliffe, Aileen Clarke
ICARES: a real-time automated detection tool for clusters of infectious diseases in the Netherlands
Geert H. Groeneveld, Anton Dalhuijsen, Chakib Kara-Zaïtri, Bob Hamilton, Margot W. de Waal, Jaap T. van Dissel, Jim E. van Steenbergen
Acute dental infections managed in an outpatient parenteral antibiotic program setting: prospective analysis and public health implications
William J. Connors, Heidi H. Rabie, Rafael L. Figueiredo, Donna L. Holton, Michael D. Parkins
Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in high-risk haematological patients: factors favouring spread, risk factors and outcome of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremias
Alessandra Micozzi, Giuseppe Gentile, Clara Minotti, Claudio Cartoni, Saveria Capria, Daniele Ballarò, Stefania Santilli, Emanuele Pacetti, Sara Grammatico, Giampaolo Bucaneve, Robin Foà
Increased sensitivity of NS1 ELISA by heat dissociation in acute dengue 4 cases
Sibelle Nogueira Buonora, Flavia Barreto dos Santos, Regina Paiva Daumas, Sonia Regina Lambert Passos, Manoela Heringer da Silva, Monique Rocha de Lima, Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira
Burden of bloodstream infection in an area of Mid-Norway 2002-2013: a prospective population-based observational study
Arne Mehl, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Stian Lydersen, Julie Paulsen, Erik Solligård, Jan Kristian Damås, Stig Harthug, Tom-Harald Edna
Elevated prevalence of multidrug-resistant gram-negative organisms in HIV positive men
Claudia Reinheimer, Oliver T. Keppler, Christoph Stephan, Thomas A. Wichelhaus, Imke Friedrichs, Volkhard A. J. Kempf
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Association of mannose-binding lectin gene polymorphisms with the development of pulmonary tuberculosis in China
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Burden and spectrum of bacterial infections among sickle cell disease children living in Cameroon
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Lamivudine/dolutegravir dual therapy in HIV-infected, virologically suppressed patients
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Imported arboviral infections in Italy, July 2014-October 2015: a National Reference Laboratory report
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Seasonal patterns of dengue fever and associated climate factors in 4 provinces in Vietnam from 1994 to 2013
Hu Suk Lee, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Vu Sinh Nam, Mihye Lee, Sungho Won, Phuc Pham Duc, Delia Grace
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopian settings and its association with previous history of anti-tuberculosis treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus and varicella zoster virus infection in the first two years of life: a cohort study in Bradford, UK
Lucy Pembrey, Dagmar Waiblinger, Paul Griffiths, Mauli Patel, Rafaq Azad, John Wright
Differential cytokine profiling in Chagasic patients according to their arrhythmogenic-status
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Influenza and respiratory syncytial virus in infants study (IRIS) of hospitalized and non-ill infants aged <1 year in four countries: study design and methods
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Cytomegalovirus infection in HIV-infected versus non-infected infants and HIV disease progression in Cytomegalovirus infected versus non infected infants early treated with cART in the ANRS 12140—Pediacam study in Cameroon
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Cost-effectiveness of CRAG-LFA screening for cryptococcal meningitis among people living with HIV in Uganda
Anu Ramachandran, Yukari Manabe, Radha Rajasingham, Maunank Shah
Genotype distribution characteristics of multiple human papillomavirus in women from the Taihu River Basin, on the coast of eastern China
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A novel real-time PCR assay for specific detection of Brucella melitensis
Rene Kaden, Sevinc Ferrari, Erik Alm, Tara Wahab
Drug-induced liver injury from antituberculous treatment: a retrospective study from a large TB centre in the UK
Aula Abbara, Sarah Chitty, Jennifer K. Roe, Rohma Ghani, Simon M. Collin, Andrew Ritchie, Onn Min Kon, John Dzvova, Harriet Davidson, Thomas E. Edwards, Charlotte Hateley, Matthew Routledge, Jim Buckley, Robert N. Davidson, Laurence John
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Comparison of two commercial broad-range PCR and sequencing assays for identification of bacteria in culture-negative clinical samples
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HIV-infected persons with type 2 diabetes show evidence of endothelial dysfunction and increased inflammation
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The prevalence of HIV among adults with pulmonary TB at a population level in Zambia
Pascalina Chanda-Kapata, Nathan Kapata, Eveline Klinkenberg, Martin P. Grobusch, Frank Cobelens
Enterobacteriaceae producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) colonization as a risk factor for developing ESBL infections in pediatric cardiac surgery patients: “retrospective cohort study”
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Disease severity determines health-seeking behaviour amongst individuals with influenza-like illness in an internet-based cohort
Maria Peppa, W. John Edmunds, Sebastian Funk
Determination of the Cell Permissiveness Spectrum, Mode of RNA Replication, and RNA-Protein Interaction of Zika Virus
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Evaluation of the immunogenicity and safety of different doses and formulations of a broad spectrum influenza vaccine (FLU-v) developed by SEEK: study protocol for a single-center, randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled clinical phase IIb trial
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Seroprevalence of Bordetella pertussis antibodies in adults in Hungary: results of an epidemiological cross-sectional study
Péter Torzsa, Raghavendra Devadiga, Monica Tafalla
Spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal clusters of measles incidence at the county level in Guangxi, China during 2004–2014: flexibly shaped scan statistics
Xianyan Tang, Alan Geater, Edward McNeil, Qiuyun Deng, Aihu Dong, Ge Zhong
Clinical diagnostic value of viable Schistosoma japonicum eggs detected in host tissues
Kongzhen Gu, Yuesheng Li, Patrick Driguez, Qingren Zeng, Xinlin Yu, Hui Sun, Liting Cai, Yongkang He, Wenyang Wang, Donald P. McManus
Upper airway viruses and bacteria in urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Brisbane, Australia: a cross-sectional study
Kerry-Ann F. O’Grady, Kerry K. Hall, Theo P. Sloots, Jennie Anderson, Anne B. Chang
Hepatitis C co-infection is associated with an increased risk of incident chronic kidney disease in HIV-infected patients initiating combination antiretroviral therapy
Carmine Rossi, Janet Raboud, Sharon Walmsley, Curtis Cooper, Tony Antoniou, Ann N. Burchell, Mark Hull, Jason Chia, Robert S. Hogg, Erica E.M. Moodie, Marina B. Klein, Robert Hogg, Ann N. Burchell, Curtis Cooper, Deborah Kelly, Marina Klein, Mona Loutfy, Nima Machouf, Julio Montaner, Janet Raboud, Chris Tsoukas, Stephen Sanche, Alexander Wong, Tony Antoniou, Ahmed Bayoumi, Mark Hull, Bohdan Nosyk, Angela Cescon, Michelle Cotterchio, Charlie Goldsmith, Silvia Guillemi, P. Richard Harrigan, Marianne Harris, Sean Hosein, Sharon Johnston, Claire Kendall, Clare Liddy, Viviane Lima, David Marsh, David Moore, Alexis Palmer, Sophie Patterson, Peter Phillips, Anita Rachlis, Sean B. Rourke, Hasina Samji, Marek Smieja, Benoit Trottier, Mark Wainberg, Sharon Walmsley, Chris Archibald, Ken Clement, Fred Crouzat, Monique Doolittle-Romas, Laurie Edmiston, Sandra Gardner, Brian Huskins, Jerry Lawless, Douglas Lee, Renee Masching, Stephen Tattle, Alireza Zahirieh, Claire Allen, Stryker Calvez, Jason Chia, Daniel Corsi, Louise Gilbert, Nada Gataric, Alia Leslie, Lucia Light, Costas Pexos, Susan Shurgold, Leah Szadkowski, Chrissi Galanakis, Ina Sandler, Benita Yip, Jaime Younger, Julia Zhu
Assessment of safety and efficacy against Bordetella pertussis of a new tetanus-reduced dose diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine in a murine model
Hyo Jin Kwon, Seung Beom Han, Bo Ram Kim, Kyu Ri Kang, Dong Ho Huh, Gi Sub Choi, Dong Ho Ahn, Jin Han Kang
Prevalence of group a streptococcus pharyngeal carriage and clinical manifestations in school children aged 5–15 yrs in Wakiso District, Uganda
Irene Nayiga, Emmy Okello, Peter Lwabi, Grace Ndeezi
Decline in hospitalization for genital warts in the Veneto region after an HPV vaccination program: an observational study
Silvia Cocchio, Tatjana Baldovin, Chiara Bertoncello, Alessandra Buja, Patrizia Furlan, Mario Saia, Vincenzo Baldo
Rubella Seroprevalence and real-time PCR detection of RUBV among Congolese pregnant women
Josue Zanga, Makola Kennedy Mbanzulu, Arnold-Freddy Kabasele, Nlandu Roger Ngatu, Dimosi Roger Wumba
Development and validation of a prognostic score during tuberculosis treatment
Eric Walter Pefura-Yone, Adamou Dodo Balkissou, Virginie Poka-Mayap, Hadja Koté Fatime-Abaicho, Patrick Thierry Enono-Edende, André Pascal Kengne
Measuring (1,3)-β-D-glucan in tracheal aspirate, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, and serum for detection of suspected Candida pneumonia in immunocompromised and critically ill patients: a prospective observational study
Kang-Cheng Su, Kun-Ta Chou, Yi-Han Hsiao, Ching-Min Tseng, Vincent Yi-Fong Su, Yu-Chin Lee, Diahn-Warng Perng, Yu Ru Kou
Regulatory monocytes in helminth infections: insights from the modulation during human hookworm infection
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Modelling the therapeutic dose range of single low dose primaquine to reduce malaria transmission through age-based dosing
Daniel Joseph Hayes, Clifford George Banda, Alexandra Chipasula-Teleka, Dianne Janette Terlouw
The PICASSO Cohort: baseline characteristics of a cohort of men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women at high risk for syphilis infection in Lima, Peru
Noah Kojima, Hayoung Park, Kelika A. Konda, Dvora L. Joseph Davey, Claire C. Bristow, Brandon Brown, Segundo R. Leon, Silver K. Vargas, Gino M. Calvo, Carlos F. Caceres, Jeffrey D. Klausner
HLA-B*57:01 allele prevalence in HIV-infected North American subjects and the impact of allele testing on the incidence of abacavir-associated hypersensitivity reaction in HLA-B*57:01-negative subjects
Catherine Butkus Small, David A. Margolis, Mark S. Shaefer, Lisa L. Ross
Assessments of serum copper and zinc concentration, and the Cu/Zn ratio determination in patients with multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Côte d’Ivoire
Gnogbo Alexis Bahi, Lydie Boyvin, Souleymane Méité, Gervais Melaine M’Boh, Kadjowely Yeo, Kouassi Raymond N’Guessan, Alain Dit Philippe Bidié, Allico Joseph Djaman
Is the impact of childhood influenza vaccination less than expected: a transmission modelling study
Felix Weidemann, Cornelius Remschmidt, Silke Buda, Udo Buchholz, Bernhard Ultsch, Ole Wichmann
TST positivity in household contacts of tuberculosis patients: a case-contact study in Malawi
Jonas Hector, Suzanne T. Anderson, Gertrude Banda, Mercy Kamdolozi, Laura F. Jefferys, Doris Shani, Natalie J. Garton, Agnes Mwale, Annie Jobe, Geraint R. Davies, Derek J Sloan
Current challenges and possible solutions to improve access to care and treatment for hepatitis C infection in Vietnam: a systematic review
Alessandra Berto, Jeremy Day, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Guy E. Thwaites, Ngoc Nghiem My, Stephen Baker, Thomas C. Darton
Efficacy and safety of switching from nevirapine immediate-release twice daily to nevirapine extended-release once daily in virologically suppressed HIV-infected patients: a retrospective cohort study in Taiwan
Chun-Yuan Lee, Hui-Min Chang, Calvin M Kunin, Susan Shin-Jung Lee, Yao-Shen Chen, Hung-Chin Tsai
Changes in RANKL during the first two years after cART initiation in HIV-infected cART naïve adults
Inger Hee Mathiesen, Mohammad Salem, Jan Gerstoft, Julie Christine Gaardbo, Niels Obel, Court Pedersen, Henrik Ullum, Susanne Dam Nielsen, Ann-Brit Eg Hansen
Alcohol use disorders among people living with HIV/AIDS in Southern Brazil: prevalence, risk factors and biological markers outcomes
Cláudio Moss da Silva, Raúl Andrés Mendoza-Sassi, Luisa Dias da Mota, Maíba Mikhael Nader, Ana Maria Barral de Martinez
The Netherlands Chlamydia cohort study (NECCST) protocol to assess the risk of late complications following Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women
B. M. Hoenderboom, A. A. M. van Oeffelen, B. H. B. van Benthem, J. E. A. M. van Bergen, N. H. T. M. Dukers-Muijrers, H. M. Götz, C. J. P. A. Hoebe, A. A. Hogewoning, F. R. M. van der Klis, D. van Baarle, J. A. Land, M. A. B. van der Sande, M. G. van Veen, F. de Vries, S. A. Morré, I. V. F. van den Broek
Efficacy and completion rates of rifapentine and isoniazid (3HP) compared to other treatment regimens for latent tuberculosis infection: a systematic review with network meta-analyses
Christopher Pease, Brian Hutton, Fatemeh Yazdi, Dianna Wolfe, Candyce Hamel, Pauline Quach, Becky Skidmore, David Moher, Gonzalo G. Alvarez
Comparison of atazanavir/ritonavir and darunavir/ritonavir based antiretroviral therapy for antiretroviral naïve patients
Tony Antoniou, Leah Szadkowski, Sharon Walmsley, Curtis Cooper, Ann N. Burchell, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, Julio S. G. Montaner, Mona Loutfy, Marina B. Klein, Nima Machouf, Christos Tsoukas, Alexander Wong, Robert S. Hogg, Janet Raboud, Robert Hogg, Simon Fraser, Ann N. Burchell, Curtis Cooper, Deborah Kelly, Marina Klein, Mona Loutfy, Nima Machouf, Julio Montaner, Janet Raboud, Chris Tsoukas, Stephen Sanche, Alexander Wong, Tony Antoniou, Ahmed Bayoumi, Mark Hull, Bohdan Nosyk, Angela Cescon, Michelle Cotterchio, Charlie Goldsmith, Silvia Guillemi, P. Richard Harrigan, Marianne Harris, Sean Hosein, Sharon JohnstonClaire Kendall, Clare Liddy, Viviane Lima, David Marsh, David Moore, Alexis Palmer, Sophie Patterson, Peter Phillips, Anita Rachlis, Sean B. Rourke, Hasina Samji, Marek Smieja, Benoit Trottier, Mark Wainberg, Sharon Walmsley, Chris Archibald, Ken Clement, Monique Doolittle-Romas, Laurie Edmiston, Sandra Gardner, Brian Huskins, Jerry Lawless, Douglas Lee, Renee Masching, Stephen Tattle, Alireza Zahirieh, Claire Allen, Stryker Calvez, Guillaume Colley, Jason Chia, Daniel Corsi, Louise Gilbert, Nada Gataric, Katelyn Merritt, Lucia Light, David Mackie, Costa Pexos, Susan Shurgold, Leah Szadkowski, Chrissi Galanakis, Benita Yipv, Jaime Younger, Julia Zhu
Long-term impact of self-financed rotavirus vaccines on rotavirus-associated hospitalizations and costs in the Valencia Region, Spain
Alejandro Orrico-Sanchez, Mónica López-Lacort, Silvia Pérez-Vilar, Javier Díez-Domingo
Effectiveness of Progressive Resistive Exercise (PRE) in the context of HIV: systematic review and meta-analysis using the Cochrane Collaboration protocol
Kelly K. O’Brien, Anne-Marie Tynan, Stephanie A. Nixon, Richard H. Glazier
Disparities in HIV and syphilis prevalence and risk factors between older male clients with and without steady sex partners in southwestern rural China
Li Chen, Jenny H. His, Xinghua Wu, Zhiyong Shen, Huaxiang Lu, Huanhuan Chen, Hui Huang, Heng Zhang, Yuhua Ruan, Yiming Shao, Zhenzhu Tang
Lower genetic variability of HIV-1 and antiretroviral drug resistance in pregnant women from the state of Pará, Brazil
Luiz Fernando Almeida Machado, Iran Barros Costa, Maria Nazaré Folha, Anderson Levy Bessa da Luz, Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto, Ricardo Ishak, Marluisa Oliveira Guimarães Ishak
Bacteremia caused by Bergeyella zoohelcum in an infective endocarditis patient: case report and review of literature
Yili Chen, Kang Liao, Lu Ai, Penghao Guo, Han Huang, Zhongwen Wu, Min Liu
Detection of high serum levels of β-D-Glucan in disseminated nocardial infection: a case report
Toyomitsu Sawai, Takumi Nakao, Shota Yamaguchi, Sumako Yoshioka, Nobuko Matsuo, Naofumi Suyama, Katsunori Yanagihara, Hiroshi Mukae
Acute-phase diagnosis of murine and scrub typhus in Belgian travelers by polymerase chain reaction: a case report
Caroline Theunissen, Lieselotte Cnops, Marjan Van Esbroeck, Ralph Huits, Emmanuel Bottieau
Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection and the molecular characteristics of MRSA bacteraemia over a two-year period in a tertiary teaching hospital in Malaysia
Pik San Sit, Cindy Shuan Ju Teh, Nuryana Idris, I-Ching Sam, Sharifah Faridah Syed Omar, Helmi Sulaiman, Kwai Lin Thong, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Sasheela Ponnampalavanar
1H-NMR analysis of feces: new possibilities in the helminthes infections research
Sarantos Kostidis, Daria Kokova, Natalia Dementeva, Irina V. Saltykova, Hye Kyong Kim, Young Hae Choi, Oleg A. Mayboroda
Isolation of enterococci, their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and associated factors among patients attending at the University of Gondar Teaching Hospital
Amelework Yilema, Feleke Moges, Sisay Tadele, Mengistu Endris, Afework Kassu, Wondwossen Abebe, Getnet Ayalew
Prevalence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in beef cattle at slaughter and beef carcasses at retail shops in Ethiopia
Rosa Abdissa, Woynshet Haile, Akafete Teklu Fite, Ashenafi Feyisa Beyi, Getahun E. Agga, Bedaso Mammo Edao, Fanos Tadesse, Mesula Geloye Korsa, Takele Beyene, Tariku Jibat Beyene, Lieven De Zutter, Eric Cox, Bruno Maria Goddeeris
Widespread subcutaneous necrosis in spotted fever group Rickettsioses from the coastal belt of Sri Lanka- a case report
Nathasha Luke, Hasini Munasinghe, Lakshmi Balasooriya, Ranjan Premaratna
Carbapenem resistance, inappropriate empiric treatment and outcomes among patients hospitalized with Enterobacteriaceae urinary tract infection, pneumonia and sepsis
Marya D. Zilberberg, Brian H. Nathanson, Kate Sulham, Weihong Fan, Andrew F. Shorr
Evaluation of genotype MTBDRplus VER 2.0 line probe assay for the detection of MDR-TB in smear positive and negative sputum samples
Abyot Meaza, Abebaw Kebede, Zelalem Yaregal, Zekarias Dagne, Shewki Moga, Bazezew Yenew, Getu Diriba, Helina Molalign, Mengistu Tadesse, Desalegn Adisse, Muluwork Getahun, Kassu Desta
Community-based survey during rabies outbreaks in Rangjung town, Trashigang, eastern Bhutan, 2016
Tenzin Tenzin, Jamyang Namgyal, Sangay Letho
Detection of CTX-M-15 beta-lactamases in Enterobacteriaceae causing hospital- and community-acquired urinary tract infections as early as 2004, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Joel Manyahi, Sabrina J. Moyo, Marit Gjerde Tellevik, Faustine Ndugulile, Willy Urassa, Bjørn Blomberg, Nina Langeland
Mucormycosis in renal transplant recipients: review of 174 reported cases
Yan Song, Jianjun Qiao, Gaffi Giovanni, Guangjun Liu, Hao Yang, Jianyong Wu, Jianghua Chen
Assessing real-time Zika risk in the United States
Lauren A. Castro, Spencer J. Fox, Xi Chen, Kai Liu, Steven E. Bellan, Nedialko B. Dimitrov, Alison P. Galvani, Lauren Ancel Meyers
Trends in baseline CD4 cell counts and risk factors for late antiretroviral therapy initiation among HIV-positive patients in Shanghai, a retrospective cross-sectional study
Jianjun Sun, Li Liu, Jiayin Shen, Panpan Chen, Hongzhou Lu
Erratum to: Population seroprevalence of antibody to influenza A(H7N9) virus, Guangzhou, China
Yong Ping Lin, Zi Feng Yang, Ying Liang, Zheng Tu Li, Helen S. Bond, Huiying Chua, Ya Sha Luo, Yuan Chen, Ting Ting Chen, Wen Da Guan, Jimmy Chun Cheong Lai, Yu Lam Siu, Si Hua Pan, J. S. Malik Peiris, Benjamin J. Cowling, Chris Ka Pun Mok
Cardiovascular disease risk among Chinese antiretroviral-naïve adults with advanced HIV disease
Fuping Guo, Evelyn Hsieh, Wei Lv, Yang Han, Jing Xie, Yanling Li, Xiaojing Song, Taisheng Li
Unique case report of a chromomycosis and Listeria in soft tissue and cerebellar abscesses after kidney transplantation
J. Tourret, N. Benabdellah, S. Drouin, F. Charlotte, J. Rottembourg, N. Arzouk, A. Fekkar, B. Barrou
Association between Fcγ receptor IIA, IIIA and IIIB genetic polymorphisms and susceptibility to severe malaria anemia in children in western Kenya
Elly O. Munde, Winnie A. Okeyo, Evans Raballah, Samuel B. Anyona, Tom Were, John M. Ong’echa, Douglas J. Perkins, Collins Ouma
A comprehensive overview of urogenital, anorectal and oropharyngeal Neisseria gonorrhoeae testing and diagnoses among different STI care providers: a cross-sectional study
Casper D. J. den Heijer, Christian J. P. A. Hoebe, Geneviève A. F. S. van Liere, Jan E. A. M. van Bergen, Jochen W. L. Cals, Frans S. Stals, Nicole H. T. M. Dukers-Muijrers
Haplotype of non-synonymous mutations within IL-23R is associated with susceptibility to severe malaria anemia in a P. falciparum holoendemic transmission area of Kenya
Elly O. Munde, Evans Raballah, Winnie A. Okeyo, John M. Ong’echa, Douglas J. Perkins, Collins Ouma
Determinants of delayed care seeking for TB suggestive symptoms in Seru district, Oromiya region, Ethiopia: a community based unmatched case-control study
Robel Yirgu, Firaol Lemessa, Selamawit Hirpa, Abraham Alemayehu, Eveline Klinkenberg
Point of sampling detection of Zika virus within a multiplexed kit capable of detecting dengue and chikungunya
Ozlem Yaren, Barry W. Alto, Priyanka V. Gangodkar, Shatakshi R. Ranade, Kunal N. Patil, Kevin M. Bradley, Zunyi Yang, Nikhil Phadke, Steven A. Benner
Identifying and characterizing hepatitis C virus hotspots in Massachusetts: a spatial epidemiological approach
Thomas J. Stopka, Michael A. Goulart, David J. Meyers, Marga Hutcheson, Kerri Barton, Shauna Onofrey, Daniel Church, Ashley Donahue, Kenneth K. H. Chui
Complications of miliary tuberculosis: low mortality and predictive biomarkers from a UK cohort
Jonathan Underwood, Fiona Cresswell, Alex P Salam, Alex J Keeley, Charles Cleland, Laurence John, Robert N Davidson
Antimicrobial prophylaxis outside the operating theatre, an audit in a university hospital
Jan W. T. Deelen, Caroline E. Visser, Jan M. Prins, Reinier M. van Hest
Infectious agents is a risk factor for myxomatous mitral valve degeneration: A case control study
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Reproducibility of African giant pouched rats detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Haylee Ellis, Christiaan Mulder, Emilio Valverde, Alan Poling, Timothy Edwards
Predictors of delayed culture conversion among Ugandan patients
Daniel Atwine, Patrick Orikiriza, Ivan Taremwa, Arnold Ayebare, Suzan Logoose, Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire, Amina Jindani, Maryline Bonnet
Early detection of multidrug- and pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis from smear-positive sputum by direct sequencing
Jun Chen, Peng Peng, Yixiang Du, Yi Ren, Lifeng Chen, Youyi Rao, Weihua Wang
Digital CXR with computer aided diagnosis versus symptom screen to define presumptive tuberculosis among household contacts and impact on tuberculosis diagnosis
Monde Muyoyeta, Nkatya Chanda Kasese, Deborah Milimo, Isaac Mushanga, Mapopa Ndhlovu, Nathan Kapata, Maureen Moyo-Chilufya, Helen Ayles
Accuracy of serum procalcitonin for the diagnosis of sepsis in neonates and children with systemic inflammatory syndrome: a meta-analysis
Giuseppe Pontrelli, Franco De Crescenzo, Roberto Buzzetti, Alessandro Jenkner, Sara Balduzzi, Francesca Calò Carducci, Donato Amodio, Maia De Luca, Sara Chiurchiù, Elin Haf Davies, Giorgia Copponi, Alessandra Simonetti, Elena Ferretti, Valeria Di Franco, Virginia Rasi, Martina Della Corte, Luca Gramatica, Marco Ciabattini, Susanna Livadiotti, Paolo Rossi
Viral aetiologies of acute encephalitis in a hospital-based South Asian population
Janarthani Lohitharajah, Neelika Malavige, Carukshi Arambepola, Jithangi Wanigasinghe, Ranjanie Gamage, Padma Gunaratne, Pyara Ratnayake, Thashi Chang
Lessons learned by surveillance during the tail-end of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, June-October 2015: a case series
Mory Keïta, Fatoumata Conté, Boubacar Diallo, Dieudonné Lufwa, Jacques Katomba, René Snacken, Raymond Pallawo, Aminata Tolno, Amadou Bailo Diallo, Mamadou Harouna Djingarey, Lorenzo Subissi
Severe type 1 upgrading leprosy reaction in a renal transplant recipient: a paradoxical manifestation associated with deficiency of antigen-specific regulatory T-cells?
Ana Paula Vieira, Maria Angela Bianconcini Trindade, Flávio Jota de Paula, Neusa Yurico Sakai-Valente, Alberto José da Silva Duarte, Francine Brambate Carvalhinho Lemos, Gil Benard
Evaluation of the enhanced meningitis surveillance system, Yendi municipality, northern Ghana, 2010–2015
Basil Benduri Kaburi, Chrysantus Kubio, Ernest Kenu, Kofi Mensah Nyarko, Jacob Yakubu Mahama, Samuel Oko Sackey, Edwin Andrew Afari
Case report of Plasmodium ovale curtisi malaria in Sri Lanka: relevance for the maintenance of elimination status
Sharmini Gunawardena, Rachel F. Daniels, Thishan C. Yahathugoda, Mirani V. Weerasooriya, Katelyn Durfee, Sarah K. Volkman, Dyann F. Wirth, Nadira D. Karunaweera
Direct and indirect effects of influenza vaccination
Martin Eichner, Markus Schwehm, Linda Eichner, Laetitia Gerlier
Differential host gene responses from infection with neurovirulent and partially-neurovirulent strains of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
Paridhi Gupta, Anuj Sharma, Jing Han, Amy Yang, Manish Bhomia, Barbara Knollmann-Ritschel, Raj K Puri, Radha K Maheshwari
Novel predictors of neurosyphilis among HIV-negative syphilis patients with neurological symptoms: an observational study
Yao Xiao, Man-Li Tong, Li-Li Liu, Li-Rong Lin, Mei-Jun Chen, Hui-Lin Zhang, Wei-Hong Zheng, Shu-Lian Li, Hui-Ling Lin, Zhi-Feng Lin, Hui-Qin Xing, Jian-Jun Niu, Tian-Ci Yang
Progressive cutaneous Cryptococcosis complicated with meningitis in a myasthenia gravis patient on long-term immunosuppressive therapy – a case report
Nguyen Thi Cam Huong, Ahmed M. A. Altibi, Nguyen My Hoa, Le Anh Tuan, Samar Salman, Sara Morsy, Nguyen Thi Bich Lien, Nguyen Thanh Truong, Nguyen Thi Hoang Mai, Pham Thi Le Hoa, Nguyen Ba Thang, Van The Trung
Vitamin D and activated vitamin D in tuberculosis in equatorial Malaysia: a prospective clinical study
Anna P. Ralph, Muhammad Redzwan S. Rashid Ali, Timothy William, Kim Piera, Uma Parameswaran, Elspeth Bird, Christopher S. Wilkes, Wai Khew Lee, Tsin Wen Yeo, Nicholas M. Anstey
Cell-free hemoglobin mediated oxidative stress is associated with acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy in severe falciparum malaria: an observational study
Katherine Plewes, Hugh W.F. Kingston, Aniruddha Ghose, Richard J. Maude, M. Trent Herdman, Stije J. Leopold, Haruhiko Ishioka, Md. Mahtab Uddin Hasan, Md. Shafiul Haider, Shamsul Alam, Kim A. Piera, Prakaykaew Charunwatthana, Kamolrat Silamut, Tsin W. Yeo, Md. Abul Faiz, Sue J Lee, Mavuto Mukaka, Gareth D.H. Turner, Nicholas M. Anstey, L. Jackson Roberts II, Nicholas J. White, Nicholas P.J. Day, Md. Amir Hossain, Arjen M. Dondorp
Cost-effectiveness of ceftolozane/tazobactam compared with piperacillin/tazobactam as empiric therapy based on the in-vitro surveillance of bacterial isolates in the United States for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections
Teresa L Kauf, Vimalanand S. Prabhu, Goran Medic, Rebekah H. Borse, Benjamin Miller, Jennifer Gaultney, Shuvayu S. Sen, Anirban Basu
Prevalence of hepatitis B and C infection in persons living with HIV enrolled in care in Rwanda
Justine Umutesi, Bryony Simmons, Jean D. Makuza, Donatha Dushimiyimana, Aimable Mbituyumuremyi, Jean Marie Uwimana, Nathan Ford, Edward J. Mills, Sabin Nsanzimana
Analysis of patients with diabetes and complicated intra-abdominal infection or complicated urinary tract infection in phase 3 trials of ceftolozane/tazobactam
Myra W. Popejoy, Jianmin Long, Jennifer A. Huntington
The correlation between malaria RDT (Paracheck pf.®) faint test bands and microscopy in the diagnosis of malaria in Malawi
Ryoko Makuuchi, Sandy Jere, Nobuchika Hasejima, Thoms Chigeda, January Gausi
Modeling the patient and health system impacts of alternative xpert® MTB/RIF algorithms for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Abraham Tesfaye, Daniel Fiseha, Dawit Assefa, Eveline Klinkenberg, Silvia Balanco, Ivor Langley
Glycosaminoglycans are involved in bacterial adherence to lung cells
Olga Rajas, Luis M. Quirós, Mara Ortega, Emma Vazquez-Espinosa, Jesús Merayo-Lloves, Fernando Vazquez, Beatriz García
Pulmonary strongyloidiasis: assessment between manifestation and radiological findings in 16 severe strongyloidiasis cases
Daijiro Nabeya, Shusaku Haranaga, Gretchen Lynn Parrott, Takeshi Kinjo, Saifun Nahar, Teruhisa Tanaka, Tetsuo Hirata, Akira Hokama, Masao Tateyama, Jiro Fujita
Clindamycin-rifampin combination therapy for staphylococcal periprosthetic joint infections: a retrospective observational study
Borg Leijtens, Joris B. W. Elbers, Patrick D. Sturm, Bart Jan Kullberg, Berend W. Schreurs
Universal test, treat, and keep: improving ART retention is key in cost-effective HIV control in Uganda
Nicky McCreesh, Ioannis Andrianakis, Rebecca N. Nsubuga, Mark Strong, Ian Vernon, Trevelyan J. McKinley, Jeremy E. Oakley, Michael Goldstein, Richard Hayes, Richard G. White
Fluorescence in situ hybridization is superior for monitoring Epstein Barr viral load in infectious mononucleosis patients
Pengfei Cao, Meili Zhang, Wei Wang, Yafei Dai, Buqing Sai, Jun Sun, Lujuan Wang, Fan Wang, Guiyuan Li, Juanjuan Xiang
Comparing tuberculosis management under public and private healthcare providers: Victoria, Australia, 2002–2015
Katie D. Dale, Ee Laine Tay, James M. Trauer, Peter G. Trevan, Justin T. Denholm
An easy tool to assess ventilation in health facilities as part of air-borne transmission prevention: a cross-sectional survey from Uganda
Miranda Brouwer, Achilles Katamba, Elly Tebasoboke Katabira, Frank van Leth
Factors Associated with Virological Non-suppression among HIV-Positive Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda, August 2014–July 2015
Lilian Bulage, Isaac Ssewanyana, Victoria Nankabirwa, Fred Nsubuga, Christine Kihembo, Gerald Pande, Alex R. Ario, Joseph KB Matovu, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Charles Kiyaga
The impact of production of extended-spectrum β-lactamases on the 28-day mortality rate of patients with Proteus mirabilis bacteremia in Korea
Jin Young Ahn, Hea Won Ann, Yongduk Jeon, Mi Young Ahn, Dong Hyun Oh, Yong Chan Kim, Eun Jin Kim, Je Eun Song, In Young Jung, Moo Hyun Kim, Wooyoung Jeong, Nam Su Ku, Su Jin Jeong, Jun Yong Choi, Dongeun Yong, Young Goo Song, June Myung Kim
Case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a HIV-infected patient revealed by nasal involvement with maxillary osteolysis
A. C. Lehur, M. Zielinski, J. Pluvy, V. Grégoire, S. Diamantis, A. Bleibtreu, C. Rioux, A. Picard, D. Vallois
Epidemiology of Candida albicans and non-C.albicans of neonatal candidemia at a tertiary care hospital in western China
Jinjian Fu, Yanling Ding, Ba Wei, Lin Wang, Shaolin Xu, Peixu Qin, Liuhua Wei, Lijun Jiang
Promoting notification and linkage of HBs antigen and anti-HCV antibody-positive patients through hospital alert system
Naoki Yoshioka, Akihiko Okumura, Yukie Yamamoto, Katsura Yamaguchi, Atsuro Kaga, Kentaro Yamada, Takuya Hirosaki, Daisuke Ishikawa, Shin Kunii, Kazumasa Watanabe, Setsuo Utsunomiya, Kazuhiko Hayashi, Masatoshi Ishigami, Hidemi Goto, Yoshiki Hirooka
Epidemiological and molecular characteristics of emergent dengue virus in Yunnan Province near the China-Myanmar-Laos border, 2013–2015
Ting-Song Hu, Hai-Lin Zhang, Yun Feng, Jian-Hua Fan, Tian Tang, Yong-Hua Liu, Liu Zhang, Xiao-Xiong Yin, Gang Chen, Hua-Chang Li, Jin Zu, Hong-Bin Li, Yuan-Yuan Li, Jing Yu, Fu-Qiang Zhang, Quan-Shui Fan
Using electronic health records and Internet search information for accurate influenza forecasting
Shihao Yang, Mauricio Santillana, John S. Brownstein, Josh Gray, Stewart Richardson, S. C. Kou
Valine/isoleucine variants drive selective pressure in the VP1 sequence of EV-A71 enteroviruses
Nghia Ngu Duy, Le Thi Thanh Huong, Patrice Ravel, Le Thi Song Huong, Ankit Dwivedi, October Michael Sessions, Yan’An Hou, Robert Chua, Guilhem Kister, Aneta Afelt, Catherine Moulia, Duane J. Gubler, Vu Dinh Thiem, Nguyen Thi Hien Thanh, Christian Devaux, Tran Nhu Duong, Nguyen Tran Hien, Emmanuel Cornillot, Laurent Gavotte, Roger Frutos
A case control study on family history as a risk factor for herpes zoster and associated outcomes, Beijing, China
Luodan Suo, Li Lu, Juan Li, Mu Sun, Haihong Wang, Xinhui Peng, Fan Yang, Xinghuo Pang, Mona Marin, Chengbin Wang
Erratum to: Imported arboviral infections in Italy, July 2014–October 2015: a National Reference Laboratory report
Claudia Fortuna, Maria Elena Remoli, Caterina Rizzo, Eleonora Benedetti, Cristiano Fiorentini, Antonino Bella, Claudio Argentini, Francesca Farchi, Concetta Castilletti, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Lorenzo Zammarchi, Alessandro Bartoloni, Nadia Zanchetta, Maria Rita Gismondo, Luca Ceccherini Nelli, Giustina Vitale, Franco Baldelli, Pierlanfranco D’Agaro, Giuseppe Sodano, Giovanni Rezza, Giulietta Venturi
Incidence and comparison of retrospective and prospective data on respiratory and gastrointestinal infections in German households
Kristin Maria Schlinkmann, Abhishek Bakuli, Rafael Mikolajczyk
Relative incidence and individual-level severity of seasonal influenza A H3N2 compared with 2009 pandemic H1N1
Kin On Kwok, Steven Riley, Ranawaka A. P. M. Perera, Vivian W. I. Wei, Peng Wu, Lan Wei, Daniel K. W. Chu, Ian G. Barr, J. S. Malik Peiris, Benjamin J. Cowling
A bio-behavioral intervention to decrease intravaginal practices and bacterial vaginosis among HIV infected Zambian women, a randomized pilot study
Maria L. Alcaide, Maureen Chisembele, Emeria Malupande, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Margaret A. Fischl, Kristopher Arheart, Deborah L. Jones
Early morning urine collection to improve urinary lateral flow LAM assay sensitivity in hospitalised patients with HIV-TB co-infection
Phindile Gina, Philippa J. Randall, Tapuwa E. Muchinga, Anil Pooran, Richard Meldau, Jonny G. Peter, Keertan Dheda
Cystic fibrosis carriership and tuberculosis: hints toward an evolutionary selective advantage based on data from the Brazilian territory
Lander Bosch, Barbara Bosch, Kris De Boeck, Tim Nawrot, Isabelle Meyts, Dominique Vanneste, Cleonice Alexandre Le Bourlegat, Julio Croda, Luiz Vicente Ribeiro Ferreira da Silva Filho
Total delay in treatment among tuberculous meningitis patients in China: a retrospective cohort study
Yu He, Chao Han, Kai-Feng Chang, Mao-Shui Wang, Tian-Ren Huang
Identification of a major Listeria monocytogenes outbreak clone linked to soft cheese in Northern Italy – 2009-2011
Ettore Amato, Virginia Filipello, Maria Gori, Sara Lomonaco, Marina Nadia Losio, Antonio Parisi, Pol Huedo, Stephen John Knabel, Mirella Pontello
Reemergence of yellow fever in Ethiopia after 50 years, 2013: epidemiological and entomological investigations
Abrham Lilay, Negga Asamene, Abyot Bekele, Mesfin Mengesha, Milliyon Wendabeku, Israel Tareke, Abiy Girmay, Yonas Wuletaw, Abate Adossa, Yamar Ba, Amadou Sall, Daddi Jima, Debritu Mengesha
Comparison of antibody responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen Rv0679c in tuberculosis patients from the endemic and non-endemic regions of the Beijing genotype: a case control study
Jingge Zhao, Takashi Matsuba, Xiaoyan Zhang, Susan Leano, Chie Nakajima, Haorile Chagan-Yasutan, Elizabeth Freda Telan, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Toshio Hattori
A framework for evaluating epidemic forecasts
Farzaneh Sadat Tabataba, Prithwish Chakraborty, Naren Ramakrishnan, Srinivasan Venkatramanan, Jiangzhuo Chen, Bryan Lewis, Madhav Marathe
HPV prevalence and type distribution in Cypriot women with cervical cytological abnormalities
George Krashias, Dana Koptides, Christina Christodoulou
Screening for tuberculosis in an urban shelter for homeless in Switzerland: a prospective study
Jean-Paul Janssens, Timothee Wuillemin, Dan Adler, Yves Jackson
Epidemiology of pertussis in Casablanca (Morocco): contribution of conventional and molecular diagnosis tools
Khalid Katfy, Nicole Guiso, Idrissa Diawara, Khalid Zerouali, Bouchra Slaoui, Zineb Jouhadi, Abdelhadi Zineddine, Houria Belabbes, Naima Elmdaghri
Tryptophan catabolism and immune activation in primary and chronic HIV infection
Marco Gelpi, Hans J. Hartling, Per M. Ueland, Henrik Ullum, Marius Trøseid, Susanne D. Nielsen
Enhanced chlorhexidine skin penetration with 1,8-cineole
A. L. Casey, T. J. Karpanen, B. R. Conway, T. Worthington, P. Nightingale, R. Waters, T. S. J. Elliott
Role of routine abdominal ultrasonography in intensified tuberculosis case finding algorithms at HIV clinics in high TB burden settings
Sonam Spalgais, Upasna Agarwal, Rohit Sarin, Devesh Chauhan, Anita Yadav, Anand Jaiswal
Determination of the sources and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Salmonella isolated from the poultry industry in Southern Ethiopia
Reta Duguma Abdi, Fisseha Mengstie, Ashenafi Feyisa Beyi, Takele Beyene, Hika Waktole, Bedasso Mammo, Dinka Ayana, Fufa Abunna
Estimation of the burden of varicella in Europe before the introduction of universal childhood immunization
Margarita Riera-Montes, Kaatje Bollaerts, Ulrich Heininger, Niel Hens, Giovanni Gabutti, Angel Gil, Bayad Nozad, Grazina Mirinaviciute, Elmira Flem, Audrey Souverain, Thomas Verstraeten, Susanne Hartwig
HIV infection, hypercoagulability and ischaemic stroke in adults at the University Teaching Hospital in Zambia: a case control study
Stanley Zimba, Patrice Mukomena Ntanda, Shabir Lakhi, Masharip Atadzhanov
Erratum to: 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, Barry Kosloff, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Mubiana Inambao, Bellington Vwalika, Thomas C. Quinn, Oliver Laeyendecker
Varicella-zoster virus seroprevalence in children and adolescents in the pre-varicella vaccine era, Germany
Miriam Wiese-Posselt, Anette Siedler, Annette Mankertz, Andreas Sauerbrei, Hartmut Hengel, Ole Wichmann, Christina Poethko-Müller
Erratum to: Novel predictors of neurosyphilis among HIV-negative syphilis patients with neurological symptoms: an observational study
Yao Xiao, Man-Li Tong, Li-Li Liu, Li-Rong Lin, Mei-Jun Chen, Hui-Lin Zhang, Wei-Hong Zheng, Shu-Lian Li, Hui-Ling Lin, Zhi-Feng Lin, Hui-Qin Xing, Jian-Jun Niu, Tian-Ci Yang
Antimicrobial consumption, costs and resistance patterns: a two year prospective study in a Romanian intensive care unit
Carmen Axente, Monica Licker, Roxana Moldovan, Elena Hogea, Delia Muntean, Florin Horhat, Ovidiu Bedreag, Dorel Sandesc, Marius Papurica, Dorina Dugaesescu, Mirela Voicu, Luminita Baditoiu
Clinical characteristics of disseminated cryptococcosis in previously healthy children in China
Li-Wei Gao, An-Xia Jiao, Xi-Rong Wu, Shun-Ying Zhao, Yun Ma, Gang Liu, Ju Yin, Bao-Ping Xu, Kun-Ling Shen
Results of an early intervention programme for patients with bacteraemia: analysis of prognostic factors and mortality
A. del Arco, J. Olalla, J. de la Torre, A. Blázquez, N. Montiel-Quezel, J. L. Prada, F. Rivas, J. García-Alegría, F. Fernández-Sánchez
Novel serum biomarkers modified by the body mass index z-score for the detection of liver fibrosis and steatosis in children with chronic hepatitis C
Maria Pokorska-Śpiewak, Barbara Kowalik-Mikołajewska, Małgorzata Aniszewska, Magdalena Pluta, Magdalena Marczyńska
Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and associated risk factors among students at Dona Berber primary school, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Tamirat Hailegebriel
Clonal replacement of epidemic KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a hospital in China
Yuying Liang, Xiuyun Yin, Lijun Zeng, Shuiping Chen
Prenatal diagnosis and prevention of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in Northern Vietnam: study protocol
G. Suzanne A. Smit, Thi Lam Binh Vu, Trung Dung Do, Niko Speybroeck, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Elizaveta Padalko, Ellen Roets, Pierre Dorny
Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Tochigi prefecture, a local region of Japan
Fuminori Mizukoshi, Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama, Hiroki Iwai, Takako Suzuki, Reiko Kiritani, Teruo Kirikae, Keiji Funatogawa
Antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from Hefei (2014–2015): genetic characteristics of antimicrobial resistance
Fa-Xing Jiang, Qian Lan, Wen-Jing Le, Xiao-Hong Su
An assessment of the geographical risks of wild and vaccine-derived poliomyelitis outbreaks in Africa and Asia
Kathleen M. O’Reilly, Christine Lamoureux, Natalie A. Molodecky, Hil Lyons, Nicholas C. Grassly, Graham Tallis
The left atrial bacterial vegetative mass due to Corynebacterium striatum as a presentation of myxoma: a case report
Jun Xu, Qing Yang, Jun Li, Xia Zheng
Disseminated cryptococcosis with recurrent multiple abscesses in an immunocompetent patient: a case report and literature review
Qiaoling Ruan, Yimin Zhu, Shu Chen, Liping Zhu, Shu Zhang, Wenhong Zhang
Salivary epidermal growth factor correlates with hospitalization length in rotavirus infection
J. Gómez-Rial, M. J. Curras-Tuala, C. Talavero-González, C. Rodríguez-Tenreiro, L. Vilanova-Trillo, A. Gómez-Carballa, I. Rivero-Calle, A. Justicia-Grande, J. Pardo-Seco, L. Redondo-Collazo, A. Salas, F. Martinón-Torres
Pneumonia caused by extensive drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii among hospitalized patients: genetic relationships, risk factors and mortality
Yu jun Li, Chu zhi Pan, Chang quan Fang, Zhu xiang Zhao, Hui ling Chen, Peng hao Guo, Zi wen Zhao
Incidence of and factors associated with catheter-related bloodstream infection in patients with advanced solid tumors on home parenteral nutrition managed using a standardized catheter care protocol
Pankaj G. Vashi, Natasha Virginkar, Brenten Popiel, Persis Edwin, Digant Gupta
Mortality in patients with HIV-1 and tuberculosis co-infection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - associated factors and causes of death
Rodrigo Otavio da Silva Escada, Luciane Velasque, Sayonara Rocha Ribeiro, Sandra Wagner Cardoso, Luana Monteiro Spindola Marins, Eduarda Grinsztejn, Maria Cristina da Silva Lourenço, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Valdiléa Gonçalves Veloso
A user-friendly mathematical modelling web interface to assist local decision making in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis
Romain Ragonnet, James M. Trauer, Justin T. Denholm, Ben J. Marais, Emma S. McBryde
Use of ranitidine is associated with infections in newborns hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit: a cohort study
Ruth N. S. Santana, Victor S. Santos, Ruy F. Ribeiro-Júnior, Marina S. Freire, Maria A. S. Menezes, Rosana Cipolotti, Ricardo Q. Gurgel
Bacterial vaginosis, human papilloma virus and herpes viridae do not predict vaginal HIV RNA shedding in women living with HIV in Denmark
Maria Wessman, Kristina Thorsteinsson, Jørgen S. Jensen, Merete Storgaard, Frederikke F. Rönsholt, Isik S. Johansen, Gitte Pedersen, Lars Nørregård Nielsen, Jesper Bonde, Terese L. Katzenstein, Nina Weis, Anne-Mette Lebech
Disease burden and antimicrobial resistance of invasive group B streptococcus among infants in China: a protocol for a national prospective observational study
Wenjing Ji, Haiying Liu, Zhengjiang Jin, Aimin Wang, Xiaoping Mu, Xiaosong Qin, Weidong Wang, Chunyan Gao, Yuning Zhu, Xiaodan Feng, Jine Lei, Shangyang She, Lan Jiang, Jing Liu, Shuhua Yang, Zeshi Liu, Gang Li, Qiuhong Li, Dawen Guo, Muhammad Majid Aziz, Ali Hassan Gillani, Yu Fang
Spatial-temporal distribution of genotyped tuberculosis cases in a county with active transmission
Saroochi Agarwal, Duc T. Nguyen, Larry D. Teeter, Edward A. Graviss
Diagnostic accuracy and usefulness of the Genotype MTBDRplus assay in diagnosing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
Ngu Njei Abanda, Josiane Yvonne Djieugoué, Eunjung Lim, Eric Walter Pefura-Yone, Wilfred Fon Mbacham, Guy Vernet, Veronique Mbeng Penlap, Sara Irene Eyangoh, Diane Wallace Taylor, Rose Gana Fomban Leke
Spondylodiscitis in a healthy 12-year-old girl with Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) bacteraemia
J. Gaschignard, G. Geslain, C. Mallet, M. Lorrot, N. Blot, M. Alison, S. Bonacorsi
Immunological and virological characterization of HIV-1 viremia controllers in the North Region of Brazil
Samara Tatielle M. Gomes, Érica R. Gomes, Mike B. dos Santos, Sandra S. Lima, Maria Alice F. Queiroz, Luiz Fernando A. Machado, Izaura M. V. Cayres-Vallinoto, Antonio Carlos R. Vallinoto, Marluísa de O. Guimarães Ishak, Ricardo Ishak
An agent-based model simulation of influenza interactions at the host level: insight into the influenza-related burden of pneumococcal infections
Hélène Arduin, Matthieu Domenech de Cellès, Didier Guillemot, Laurence Watier, Lulla Opatowski
Misdiagnosis of HIV treatment failure based on clinical and immunological criteria in Eastern and Central Kenya
Sunguti Luke Joram, Gathii Paul, Kitheka Moses, Bii Stanley, Malonza Isaac, Gohole Allan, Marwa Tom, Karimi Lilian, Mudany Mildred
Assessing the effect of patient screening and isolation on curtailing Clostridium difficile infection in hospital settings
Sara Maghdoori, Seyed M. Moghadas
Clinical failure with and without empiric atypical bacteria coverage in hospitalized adults with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Khalid Eljaaly, Samah Alshehri, Ahmed Aljabri, Ivo Abraham, Mayar Al Mohajer, Andre C. Kalil, David E. Nix
Inguinal and anorectal Lymphogranuloma Venereum: a case series from a sexually transmitted disease center in Rome, Italy
Alessandra Latini, Mauro Zaccarelli, Maria Grazia Paglia, Maria Gabriella Donà, Amalia Giglio, Domenico Moretto, Antonella Vulcano, Massimo Giuliani, Manuela Colafigli, Marina Ambrifi, Fulvia Pimpinelli, Antonio Cristaudo
Endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic pseudoaneurysm due to brucellosis: a rare case report
Shuai Wang, Qi Wang, Han Liu, Siqiao Sun, Xiwei Sun, Yang Zhang, Zhongying Wang, Zhihua Cheng
Tuberculosis screening among persons with diabetes mellitus in Pune, India
Vidya Mave, Smita Nimkar, Haridas Prasad, Dileep Kadam, Sushant Meshram, Rahul Lokhande, Nikhil Gupte, Divyashri Jain, Amita Gupta, Jonathan E. Golub
Simeprevir with peginterferon α-2a/ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection in treatment-experienced patients: an open-label, rollover study
Edward J. Gane, Edwin DeJesus, Ewa Janczewska, Jacob George, Moises Diago, Mariliza Hendrique Da Silva, Henk Reesink, Igor Nikitin, Holger Hinrichsen, Stefan Bourgeois, Peter Ferenci, Umesh Shukla, Ronald Kalmeijer, Oliver Lenz, Bart Fevery, Chris Corbett, Maria Beumont, Wolfgang Jessner
Diagnostic accuracy of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) in urine for genitourinary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Carlos Altez-Fernandez, Victor Ortiz, Majid Mirzazadeh, Luis Zegarra, Carlos Seas, Cesar Ugarte-Gil
Independent prognostic role of human papillomavirus genotype in cervical cancer
Dong Hang, Meiqun Jia, Hongxia Ma, Jing Zhou, Xiaoshuang Feng, Zhangyan Lyu, Jian Yin, Hong Cui, Yin Yin, Guangfu Jin, Zhibin Hu, Hongbing Shen, Kai Zhang, Ni Li, Min Dai
Outcomes and prognostic factors of non-HIV patients with pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia and pulmonary CMV co-infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Qing Yu, Peng Jia, Li Su, Hong Zhao, Chengli Que
Analysis of epidemiological trends in human papillomavirus infection among gynaecological outpatients in Hangzhou, China, 2011–2015
Lili Qian, Yu Zhang, Dawei Cui, Bin Lou, Yimin Chen, Ying Yu, Yonglin Liu, Yu Chen
Prevalence and distribution of Gardnerella vaginalis subgroups in women with and without bacterial vaginosis
Migle Janulaitiene, Virginija Paliulyte, Svitrigaile Grinceviciene, Jolita Zakareviciene, Alma Vladisauskiene, Agne Marcinkute, Milda Pleckaityte
In vitro antibacterial activity of poly (amidoamine)-G7 dendrimer
Mitra Gholami, Rashin Mohammadi, Mohsen Arzanlou, Fakhraddin Akbari Dourbash, Ebrahim Kouhsari, Gharib Majidi, Seyed Mohsen Mohseni, Shahram Nazari
Clinical and genetic factors associated with kidney tubular dysfunction in a real-life single centre cohort of HIV-positive patients
S. E. Salvaggio, A. Giacomelli, F. S. Falvella, M. L. Oreni, P. Meraviglia, C. Atzori, E. G. I. Clementi, M. Galli, S. Rusconi
Molecular diagnosis of Pseudoterranova decipiens s.s in human, France
Julie Brunet, Bernard Pesson, Maude Royant, Jean-Philippe Lemoine, Alexander W. Pfaff, Ahmed Abou-Bacar, Hélène Yera, Emilie Fréalle, Jean Dupouy-Camet, Gema Merino-Espinosa, Magdalena Gómez-Mateos, Joaquina Martin-Sanchez, Ermanno Candolfi
Design of a syndemic based intervention to facilitate care for men who have sex with men with high risk behaviour: the syn.bas.in randomized controlled trial
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Performance comparison of CareStart™ HRP2/pLDH combo rapid malaria test with light microscopy in north-western Tigray, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
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Hospitalization for community-acquired febrile urinary tract infection: validation and impact assessment of a clinical prediction rule
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Radiologic findings as a determinant and no effect of macrolide resistance on clinical course of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia
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Randomized controlled trial of piperacillin-tazobactam, cefepime and ertapenem for the treatment of urinary tract infection caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli
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The influence of climatic factors on the development of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and leptospirosis during the peak season in Korea: an ecologic study
Yadav Prasad Joshi, Eun-Hye Kim, Hae-Kwan Cheong
Isolation, biochemical and molecular identification of Nocardia species among TB suspects in northeastern, Tanzania; a forgotten or neglected threat?
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Prevalence and risk factors for latent tuberculosis infection among healthcare workers in Nampula Central Hospital, Mozambique
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Multiplex detection in tonsillar tissue of all known human polyomaviruses
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Dengue type 4 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: case characterization following its introduction in an endemic region
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Seasonality of acquisition of respiratory bacterial pathogens in young children with cystic fibrosis
Kevin J. Psoter, Anneclaire J. De Roos, Jon Wakefield, Jonathan D. Mayer, Margaret Rosenfeld
Genetic variants of MICB and PLCE1 and associations with the laboratory features of dengue
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An ELISA assay using a combination of recombinant proteins from multiple strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi offers an accurate diagnosis for scrub typhus
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Observed versus predicted cardiovascular events and all-cause death in HIV infection: a longitudinal cohort study
Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Giacomo Pucci, Franco Baldelli, Giuseppe Schillaci
Joint Bayesian modeling of time to malaria and mosquito abundance in Ethiopia
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Assessing the knowledge of expectant mothers on mother–to-child transmission of viral hepatitis B in Upper West region of Ghana
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Peripheral neuropathy in a diabetic child treated with linezolid for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a case report and review of the literature
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Risk factors of lower limb cellulitis in a level-two healthcare facility in Cameroon: a case-control study
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Bacteremia due to Gordonia polyisoprenivorans: case report and review of literature
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Adherence to response-guided pegylated interferon and ribavirin for people who inject drugs with hepatitis C virus genotype 2/3 infection: the ACTIVATE study
Evan B. Cunningham, Behzad Hajarizadeh, Olav Dalgard, Janaki Amin, Margaret Hellard, Graham R Foster, Philip Bruggmann, Brian Conway, Markus Backmund, Geert Robaeys, Tracy Swan, Philippa S. Marks, Sophie Quiene, Tanya L Applegate, Martin Weltman, David Shaw, Adrian Dunlop, Julie Bruneau, Håvard Midgard, Stefan Bourgeois, Maria Christine Thurnheer, Gregory J Dore, Jason Grebely
Using genotyping to delineate tuberculosis transmission in long-term care facilities: single facility 4-year experience
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Prevalence and molecular characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus, including methicillin resistant strains, isolated from bulk can milk and raw milk products in pastoral communities of South-West Uganda
Benon B. Asiimwe, Rossella Baldan, Alberto Trovato, Daniela M. Cirillo
Case report: microcephaly associated with Zika virus infection, Colombia
Salim Mattar, Carolina Ojeda, Janna Arboleda, German Arrieta, Irene Bosch, Ingrid Botia, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Carlos Perez-Yepes, Lee Gerhke, German Montero
End-stage renal disease: a risk factor of deep neck infection – a nationwide follow-up study in Taiwan
Geng-He Chang, Ming-Shao Tsai, Chia-Yen Liu, Meng-Hung Lin, Yao-Te Tsai, Cheng-Ming Hsu, Yao-Hsu Yang
Development and validation of a risk score to assist screening for acute HIV-1 infection among men who have sex with men
Maartje Dijkstra, Godelieve J. de Bree, Ineke G. Stolte, Udi Davidovich, Eduard J. Sanders, Maria Prins, Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff
Spatial patterns of childhood diarrhea in Ethiopia: data from Ethiopian demographic and health surveys (2000, 2005, and 2011)
Getahun Gebre Bogale, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye, Degefie Tibebe Degefie, Yalemzewod Assefa Gelaw
Genetic analysis of varicella-zoster virus in the aqueous humor in uveitis with severe hyphema
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Assessing changes in knowledge, attitude and practices on dengue diagnosis and management among primary care physicians after the largest dengue epidemic in Singapore
Junxiong Pang, Zoe Jane-Lara Hildon, Tun Linn Thein, Jing Jin, Yee Sin Leo
Patterns of antimicrobial resistance in intensive care unit patients: a study in Vietnam
Giang M. Tran, Thao P. Ho-Le, Duc T. Ha, Chau H. Tran-Nguyen, Tuyet S. M. Nguyen, Thao T. N. Pham, Tuyet A. Nguyen, Dung A. Nguyen, Hoa Q. Hoang, Ngoc V. Tran, Tuan V. Nguyen
MLST genotypes of Campylobacter jejuni isolated from broiler products, dairy cattle and human campylobacteriosis cases in Lithuania
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Measuring influenza laboratory capacity: use of a tool to measure improvements
Pam Kennedy, Tricia Aden, Po Yung Cheng, Ann Moen
Nontuberculosis mycobacterial infections at a specialized tuberculosis treatment centre in the Republic of Korea
Hee Jung Yoon, Hwa Young Choi, Moran Ki
Treatment decisions and mortality in HIV-positive presumptive smear-negative TB in the Xpert® MTB/RIF era: a cohort study
Sabine M. Hermans, Juliet A. Babirye, Olive Mbabazi, Francis Kakooza, Robert Colebunders, Barbara Castelnuovo, Christine Sekaggya-Wiltshire, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi, Yukari C. Manabe
Peripheral venous catheter-related bloodstream infection is associated with severe complications and potential death: a retrospective observational study
Akihiro Sato, Itaru Nakamura, Hiroaki Fujita, Ayaka Tsukimori, Takehito Kobayashi, Shinji Fukushima, Takeshi Fujii, Tetsuya Matsumoto
Efficacy of ultra-short course chemotherapy for new smear positive drug susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis: study protocol of a multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial
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Development and validation of a prognostic scoring model for Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease: an observational cohort study
Shogo Kumagai, Akihiro Ito, Toru Hashimoto, Satoshi Marumo, Hironobu Tokumasu, Aya Kotani, Haruka Yamaki, Masahiro Shirata, Koji Furuuchi, Motonari Fukui, Tadashi Ishida
MSM HIV testing following an online testing intervention in China
Ngai Sze Wong, Weiming Tang, Larry Han, John Best, Ye Zhang, Shujie Huang, Heping Zheng, Bin Yang, Chongyi Wei, Stephen W. Pan, Joseph D. Tucker
Early experiences from one of the first treatment programs for chronic hepatitis B in sub-Saharan Africa
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Antiretroviral therapy initiation within seven days of enrolment: outcomes and time to undetectable viral load among children at an urban HIV clinic in Uganda
Rogers Ssebunya, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Heather Lukolyo, Milton Mutto, Grace Kisitu, Pauline Amuge, Albert Maganda, Adeodata Kekitiinwa
Fusobacterial liver abscess: a case report and review of the literature
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Clinical characteristics of acute hepatitis A outbreak in Taiwan, 2015–2016: observations from a tertiary medical center
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A case report of septic shock syndrome caused by S. pneumoniae in an immunocompromised patient despite of vaccination
Josef Singer, Christoph Testori, Peter Schellongowski, Ammon Handisurya, Catharina Müller, Eva-Maria Reitter, Wolfgang Graninger, Paul Knöbl, Thomas Staudinger, Stefan Winkler, Florian Thalhammer
Haemoglobin changes and risk of anaemia following treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
Julien Zwang, Umberto D’Alessandro, Jean-Louis Ndiaye, Abdoulaye A Djimdé, Grant Dorsey, Andreas A Mårtensson, Corine Karema, Piero L. Olliaro
Comparing self- and provider-collected swabbing for HPV DNA testing in female-to-male transgender adult patients: a mixed-methods biobehavioral study protocol
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Microbiota-dependent metabolite and cardiovascular disease marker trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is associated with monocyte activation but not platelet function in untreated HIV infection
Judith M. Haissman, Anna K. Haugaard, Sisse R. Ostrowski, Rolf K. Berge, Johannes R. Hov, Marius Trøseid, Susanne D. Nielsen
Erratum to: Trends in antimicrobial resistance and empiric antibiotic therapy of bloodstream infections at a general hospital in mid-Norway: a prospective observational study
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Socioeconomic status is associated with symptom severity and sickness absence in people with infectious intestinal disease in the UK
Tanith C. Rose, Natalie L. Adams, Benjamin Barr, Jeremy Hawker, Sarah J. O’Brien, Mara Violato, Margaret Whitehead, David C. Taylor-Robinson
Poorer outcomes among cancer patients diagnosed with Clostridium difficile infections in United States community hospitals
Andrew Delgado, Ivan A. Reveles, Felicia T. Cabello, Kelly R. Reveles
Treatment delay and fatal outcomes of pulmonary tuberculosis in advanced age: a retrospective nationwide cohort study
Chih-Hsin Lee, Jann-Yuan Wang, Hsien-Chun Lin, Pai-Yang Lin, Jer-Hwa Chang, Chi-Won Suk, Li-Na Lee, Chou-Chin Lan, Kuan-Jen Bai
The role of Enterococcus spp. and multidrug-resistant bacteria causing pyogenic liver abscesses
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Risk factors, person, place and time characteristics associated with Hepatitis E Virus outbreak in Napak District, Uganda
Geofrey Amanya, Samuel Kizito, Immaculate Nabukenya, Joan Kalyango, Collins Atuheire, Hellen Nansumba, Stephen Akena Abwoye, Denis Nixon Opio, Edrisa Kibuuka, Charles Karamagi
SOFIA®RSV: prospective laboratory evaluation and implementation of a rapid diagnostic test in a pediatric emergency ward
Léa C. Tran, Céline Tournus, Julia Dina, Rémy Morello, Jacques Brouard, Astrid Vabret
Multi-state models for the analysis of time-to-treatment modification among HIV patients under highly active antiretroviral therapy in Southwest Ethiopia
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Comparison of apoptosis in human primary pulmonary endothelial cells and a brain microvascular endothelial cell line co-cultured with Plasmodium falciparum field isolates
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Recurrence of cystic echinococcosis in an endemic area: a retrospective study
Virginia Velasco-Tirado, Ángela Romero-Alegría, Moncef Belhassen-García, Montserrat Alonso-Sardón, Carmen Esteban-Velasco, Amparo López-Bernús, Adela Carpio-Perez, Marcelo Fernando Jimenez López, Juan Luis Muñoz Bellido, Antonio Muro, Miguel Cordero-Sanchez, Javier Pardo-Lledias, Luis Muñoz-Bellvis
A multicentre double-blind randomised controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of daily use of antibacterial mouthwash against oropharyngeal gonorrhoea among men who have sex with men: the OMEGA (Oral Mouthwash use to Eradicate GonorrhoeA) study protocol
Eric P. F. Chow, Sandra Walker, Jane S. Hocking, Catriona S. Bradshaw, Marcus Y. Chen, Sepehr N. Tabrizi, Benjamin P. Howden, Matthew G. Law, Kate Maddaford, Tim R. H. Read, David A. Lewis, David M. Whiley, Lei Zhang, Andrew E. Grulich, John M. Kaldor, Vincent J. Cornelisse, Samuel Phillips, Basil Donovan, Anna M. McNulty, David J. Templeton, Norman Roth, Richard Moore, Christopher K. Fairley
An integrated study of human and animal infectious disease in the Lake Victoria crescent small-holder crop-livestock production system, Kenya
Eric M. Fèvre, William A. de Glanville, Lian F. Thomas, Elizabeth A. J. Cook, Samuel Kariuki, Claire N. Wamae
Effectiveness of ATP bioluminescence assay for presumptive identification of microorganisms in hospital water sources
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Report of an unsual case of anophthalmia and craniofacial cleft in a newborn with Toxoplasma gondii congenital infection
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Efficacy of an enhanced linkage to HIV care intervention at improving linkage to HIV care and achieving viral suppression following home-based HIV testing in rural Uganda: study protocol for the Ekkubo/PATH cluster randomized controlled trial
Susan M. Kiene, Seth C. Kalichman, Katelyn M. Sileo, Nicolas A. Menzies, Rose Naigino, Chii-Dean Lin, Moses H. Bateganya, Haruna Lule, Rhoda K. Wanyenze
A cross-sectional study to evaluate second line virological failure and elevated bilirubin as a surrogate for adherence to atazanavir/ritonavir in two urban HIV clinics in Lilongwe, Malawi
Dennis Miyoge Ongubo, Robertino Lim, Hannock Tweya, Christopher Chikhosi Stanley, Petros Tembo, Richard Broadhurst, Salem Gugsa, McNeil Ngongondo, Colin Speight, Tom Heller, Sam Phiri, Mina C. Hosseinipour
Risk factors for measles death: Kyegegwa District, western Uganda, February–September, 2015
Richardson Mafigiri, Fred Nsubuga, Alex Riolexus Ario
Cryptococcosis in patients with hematological diseases: a 14-year retrospective clinical analysis in a Chinese tertiary hospital
Rui-ying Wang, Yan-qiong Chen, Ji-qin Wu, Xuan Wang, Ya-hui Cao, Hua-zhen Zhao, Li-ping Zhu
Cost-effectiveness analysis of N95 respirators and medical masks to protect healthcare workers in China from respiratory infections
Shohini Mukerji, C. Raina MacIntyre, Holly Seale, Quanyi Wang, Peng Yang, Xiaoli Wang, Anthony T. Newall
Incidence, clinical features, and implications on outcomes of neonatal late-onset sepsis with concurrent infectious focus
I-Hsyuan Wu, Ming-Horng Tsai, Mei-Yin Lai, Lee-Fen Hsu, Ming-Chou Chiang, Reyin Lien, Ren-Huei Fu, Hsuan-Rong Huang, Shih-Ming Chu, Jen-Fu Hsu
Prevalence of hepatitis B and delta according to HIV-type: a multi-country cross-sectional survey in West Africa
Patrick A. Coffie, Boris K. Tchounga, Guillaume Bado, Mathieu Kabran, Daouda K. Minta, Gilles Wandeler, Geoffrey S. Gottlieb, François Dabis, Serge P. Eholie, Didier K. Ekouevi
Dissemination of Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates with various combinations of Carbapenemases (KPC-2, NDM-1, NDM-4, and OXA-48) and 16S rRNA Methylases (RmtB and RmtC) in Vietnam
Tatsuya Tada, Mitsuhiro Tsuchiya, Kayo Shimada, Tran Thi Thanh Nga, Le Thi Anh Thu, Truong Thien Phu, Norio Ohmagari, Teruo Kirikae
Incidence, temporal trend and factors associated with ventilator-associated pneumonia in mainland China: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Chengyi Ding, Yuelun Zhang, Zhirong Yang, Jing Wang, Aoming Jin, Weiwei Wang, Ru Chen, Siyan Zhan
Transitioning from antenatal surveillance surveys to routine HIV testing: a turning point in the mother-to-child transmission prevention programme for HIV surveillance in Brazil
Gerson Fernando Mendes Pereira, Meritxell Sabidó, Alessandro Caruso, Adele Schwartz Benzaken
Clinical features and molecular characteristics of childhood community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in a medical center in northern Taiwan, 2012
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Decreasing seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 in Germany leaves many people susceptible to genital infection: time to raise awareness and enhance control
Gerit Korr, Michael Thamm, Irina Czogiel, Christina Poethko-Mueller, Viviane Bremer, Klaus Jansen
Pseudonocardia carboxydivorans in human cerebrospinal fluid: a case report in a patient with traumatic brain injury
Amalia Navarro-Martínez, Noelia Corominas, Caridad Sainz de Baranda, Ángel Escudero-Jiménez, Jorge Galán- Ros, Juan Antonio Sáez- Nieto, Javier Solera
Epidemiology of pharyngitis as reported by Zambian school children and their families: implications for demand-side interventions to prevent rheumatic heart disease
John Musuku, Joyce C. Lungu, Elizabeth Machila, Catherine Jones, Laurence Colin, Sherri Schwaninger, Patrick Musonda, Brigitta Tadmor, Jonathan M. Spector, Mark E. Engel, Liesl J. Zühlke
Role of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy in the treatment of community acquired skin and soft tissue infections in Singapore
Monica Chan, Chee Kheong Ooi, Joshua Wong, Lihua Zhong, David Lye
Rate of HIV transmission and associated factors among HIV-exposed infants in selected health facilities of East and West Gojjam Zones, Northwest Ethiopia; retrospective cohort study
Nurilign Abebe Moges, Getachew Mullu Kassa, Dube Jara Boneya
Rilpivirine use in the Swiss HIV cohort study: a prospective cohort study
Delphine Sculier, Angèle Gayet-Ageron, Manuel Battegay, Matthias Cavassini, Jan Fehr, Cedric Hirzel, Patrick Schmid, Enos Bernasconi, Alexandra Calmy
First report of cavitary pneumonia due to community-acquired Acinetobacter pittii, study of virulence and overview of pathogenesis and treatment
Romaric Larcher, Alix Pantel, Erik Arnaud, Albert Sotto, Jean-Philippe Lavigne
Recurrence of visceral and muco-cutaneous leishmaniasis in a patient under immunosuppressive therapy
Gilles Darcis, Gert Van der Auwera, Jean-Baptiste Giot, Marie-Pierre Hayette, Françoise Tassin, Jorge Arrese Estrada, Lieselotte Cnops, Michel Moutschen, Laurence de Leval, Philippe Leonard
Genomic characterization of a large plasmid containing a bla NDM-1 gene carried on Salmonella enterica serovar Indiana C629 isolate from China
Wei Wang, Zulqarnain Baloch, Zixin Peng, Yujie Hu, Jin Xu, Séamus Fanning, Fengqin Li
Early warning signal for dengue outbreaks and identification of high risk areas for dengue fever in Colombia using climate and non-climate datasets
Jung-Seok Lee, Mabel Carabali, Jacqueline K. Lim, Victor M. Herrera, Il-Yeon Park, Luis Villar, Andrew Farlow
Pharmacoeconomic analysis of antifungal therapy for primary treatment of invasive candidiasis caused by Candida albicans and non-albicans Candida species
Huang-Tz Ou, Tsung-Ying Lee, Yee-Chun Chen, Claudie Charbonneau
Seroprevalence and risk factors of Toxoplasma gondii infection in pregnant women from Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Sanata Bamba, Mamoudou Cissé, Ibrahim Sangaré, Adama Zida, Souleymane Ouattara, Robert T. Guiguemdé
Inducible clindamycin and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary care hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
R. P. Adhikari, S. Shrestha, A. Barakoti, R. Amatya
Surveillance of recent HIV infections among newly diagnosed HIV cases in Germany between 2008 and 2014
Alexandra Hofmann, Andrea Hauser, Ruth Zimmermann, Claudia Santos-Hövener, Jörg Bätzing-Feigenbaum, Stephan Wildner, Claudia Kücherer, Norbert Bannert, Osamah Hamouda, Viviane Bremer, Barbara Bartmeyer
Evaluation of recombinant porin (rOmp2a) protein as a potential antigen candidate for serodiagnosis of Human Brucellosis
Prachi Pathak, Ashu Kumar, Duraipandian Thavaselvam
Prevalence of Giardia infection in households of Giardia cases and risk factors for household transmission
Alison Waldram, Roberto Vivancos, Catherine Hartley, Kenneth Lamden
Urinary schistosomiasis among vulnerable children in a rehabilitation home in Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria
Obioma Uchendu, Victoria Oladoyin, Michael Idowu, Oluwapelumi Adeyera, Oluwatosin Olabisi, Oluwafisayomi Oluwatosin, Gbemisola Leigh
Evaluation of the relationship between MARCO and CD36 single-nucleotide polymorphisms and susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in a Chinese Han population
Wenting Lao, Hui Kang, Guojiang Jin, Li Chen, Yang Chu, Jiao Sun, Bingqi Sun
The association between HIV (treatment), pregnancy serum lipid concentrations and pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review
Marissa J. Harmsen, Joyce L. Browne, Francois Venter, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Marcus J. Rijken
Spread of resistant gram negatives in a Sri Lankan intensive care unit
Kavinda Tissera, Veranja Liyanapathirana, Nilanthi Dissanayake, Vasanthi Pinto, Asela Ekanayake, Manjula Tennakoon, Dinuka Adasooriya, Dulmini Nanayakkara
Pyrazinamide resistance-conferring mutations in pncA and the transmission of multidrug resistant TB in Georgia
Sarah Sengstake, Indra L Bergval, Anja R Schuitema, Jessica L de Beer, Jody Phelan, Rina de Zwaan, Taane G Clark, Dick van Soolingen, Richard M Anthony
Infants hospitalized for Bordetella pertussis infection commonly have respiratory viral coinfections
A. Frassanito, R. Nenna, A. Nicolai, A. Pierangeli, A. E. Tozzi, P. Stefanelli, R. Carsetti, C. Concato, I. Schiavoni, F. Midulla, G. Di Mattia, E. Pandolfi, F. Gesualdo, E. Agricola, L. Russo, B. Ferretti, I. Campagna, A. Villani, M. V. Gonfiantini, V. Marcellini, V. Spuri Vennarucci, G. Buttinelli, G. Fedele
Bacterial bloodstream infections in a tertiary infectious diseases hospital in Northern Vietnam: aetiology, drug resistance, and treatment outcome
Vu Quoc Dat, Hieu Ngoc Vu, Hung Nguyen The, Hoa Thi Nguyen, Long Bao Hoang, Dung Vu Tien Viet, Chi Linh Bui, Kinh Van Nguyen, Trung Vu Nguyen, Dao Tuyet Trinh, Alessandro Torre, H. Rogier van Doorn, Behzad Nadjm, Heiman F.L. Wertheim
Etiology and prognosis of acute viral encephalitis and meningitis in Chinese children: a multicentre prospective study
Junhong Ai, Zhengde Xie, Gang Liu, Zongbo Chen, Yong Yang, Yuning Li, Jing Chen, Guo Zheng, Kunling Shen
Economic burden of varicella in children 1–12 Years of age in Hungary, 2011–2015
Z. Meszner, Z. Molnar, E. Rampakakis, H. K. Yang, B. J. Kuter, Lara J. Wolfson
A randomized clinical pharmacokinetic trial of Tenofovir in blood, plasma and urine in adults with perfect, moderate and low PrEP adherence: the TARGET study
Tim R. Cressey, Oraphan Siriprakaisil, Virat Klinbuayaem, Justice Quame-Amaglo, Rachel W. Kubiak, Pra-ornsuda Sukrakanchana, Kanchana Than-in-at, Jared Baeten, Wasna Sirirungsi, Ratchada Cressey, Paul K. Drain
Hepatitis a virus genotypes and strains from an endemic area of Europe, Bulgaria 2012–2014
Roberto Bruni, Stefania Taffon, Michele Equestre, Eleonora Cella, Alessandra Lo Presti, Angela Costantino, Paola Chionne, Elisabetta Madonna, Elitsa Golkocheva-Markova, Diljana Bankova, Massimo Ciccozzi, Pavel Teoharov, Anna Rita Ciccaglione
The clinical and virological features of the first imported case causing MERS-CoV outbreak in South Korea, 2015
Ji Yeon Lee, You-Jin Kim, Eun Hee Chung, Dae-Won Kim, Ina Jeong, Yeonjae Kim, Mi-ran Yun, Sung Soon Kim, Gayeon Kim, Joon-Sung Joh
Epidemiological and clinical profile of paediatric malaria: a cross sectional study performed on febrile children in five epidemiological strata of malaria in Cameroon
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The invasome of Salmonella Dublin as revealed by whole genome sequencing
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Modular programming for tuberculosis control, the “AuTuMN” platform
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The neglected burden of tuberculosis disease among health workers: a decade-long cohort study in South Africa
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Plasmid-based high-resolution melting analysis for accurate detection of rpoB mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Moroccan patients
El Mehdi Bentaleb, My Driss El Messaoudi, Mohammed Abid, Malika Messaoudi, Ali K. Yetisen, Hassan Sefrioui, Saaïd Amzazi, Hassan Ait Benhassou
An extensible framework and database of infectious disease for biosurveillance
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Moderate endurance training (marathon-training) – effects on immunologic and metabolic parameters in HIV-infected patients: the 42 KM cologne project
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Strategies for the prevention of perinatal hepatitis B transmission in a marginalized population on the Thailand-Myanmar border: a cost-effectiveness analysis
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Epidemiological trends and outcomes of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Shandong, China
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The efficacy, safety, and feasibility of inhaled amikacin for the treatment of difficult-to-treat non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung diseases
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Clinical and laboratory profiles of patients with early spontaneous healing in cutaneous localized leishmaniasis: a historical cohort study
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Polymorphisms of Plasmodium falciparum k13-propeller gene among migrant workers returning to Henan Province, China from Africa
Chengyun Yang, Hongwei Zhang, Ruimin Zhou, Dan Qian, Ying Liu, Yuling Zhao, Suhua Li, Bianli Xu
Genotypes of hepatitis a virus in Turkey: first report and clinical profile of children infected with sub-genotypes IA and IIIA
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Assessment of tuberculosis spatial hotspot areas in Antananarivo, Madagascar, by combining spatial analysis and genotyping
Noël Harijaona Ratovonirina, Niaina Rakotosamimanana, Solohery Lalaina Razafimahatratra, Mamy Serge Raherison, Guislaine Refrégier, Christophe Sola, Fanjasoa Rakotomanana, Voahangy Rasolofo Razanamparany
First report of Sneathia sanguinegens together with Mycoplasma hominis in postpartum prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: a case report
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Evaluation of vaccination herd immunity effects for anogenital warts in a low coverage setting with human papillomavirus vaccine—an interrupted time series analysis from 2005 to 2010 using health insurance data
Kathrin Thöne, Johannes Horn, Rafael Mikolajczyk
Hepatitis B reactivation characterized by HBsAg negativity and anti-HbsAg antibodies persistence in haematopoietic stem cell transplanted patient after lamivudine withdrawal
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Monitoring, documenting and reporting the quality of antibiotic use in the Netherlands: a pilot study to establish a national antimicrobial stewardship registry
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Predictors of delayed care seeking for tuberculosis in southern India: an observational study
Sarah E. Van Ness, Ankit Chandra, Sonali Sarkar, Jane Pleskunas, Jerrold J. Ellner, Gautam Roy, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Swaroop Sahu, C. Robert Horsburgh Jr, Helen E. Jenkins, Natasha S. Hochberg
Relationships between sickle cell trait, malaria, and educational outcomes in Tanzania
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Population effectiveness of the pentavalent and monovalent rotavirus vaccines: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
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The association between tuberculosis and the development of insulin resistance in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis in the Western sub-district of the Cape Metropole region, South Africa: a combined cross-sectional, cohort study
Lauren Philips, Janicke Visser, Daan Nel, Renée Blaauw
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Treatment outcomes of patients with multidrug-resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Hunan Province, China
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Post-treatment haemolysis in African children with hyperparasitaemic falciparum malaria; a randomized comparison of artesunate and quinine
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Incident Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in household contacts of infectious tuberculosis patients in Brazil
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Seroprevalence of Herpes Simplex Virus type-2 (HSV-2) among pregnant women who participated in a national HIV surveillance activity in Haiti
Jean Wysler Domercant, Frantz Jean Louis, Erin Hulland, Mark Griswold, Jocelyne Andre-Alboth, Tun Ye, Barbara J. Marston
Using the Kulldorff’s scan statistical analysis to detect spatio-temporal clusters of tuberculosis in Qinghai Province, China, 2009–2016
Huaxiang Rao, Xinyu Shi, Xi Zhang
Emergence and clonal transmission of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis among patients in Chad
Awa Ba Diallo, Gedeon W. Ossoga, Geraldine Daneau, Seynabou Lo, Richard Ngandolo, Colette Diguimbaye Djaibé, Barou Djouater, Souleymane Mboup, Bouke C. de Jong, Aissatou G. Diallo, Florian Gehre
Tuberculosis active case finding in Cambodia: a pragmatic, cost-effectiveness comparison of three implementation models
Richard James, Keovathanak Khim, Lydia Boudarene, Joanne Yoong, Chea Phalla, Saly Saint, Pichenda Koeut, Tan Eang Mao, Richard Coker, Mishal Sameer Khan
Evaluation of HIV-DNA and inflammatory markers in HIV-infected individuals with different viral load patterns
Francesca Falasca, Daniele Di Carlo, Corrado De Vito, Isabella Bon, Gabriella d’Ettorre, Alessandra Fantauzzi, Ivano Mezzaroma, Caterina Fimiani, Maria Carla Re, Vincenzo Vullo, Guido Antonelli, Ombretta Turriziani
Rates of switching to second-line antiretroviral therapy and impact of delayed switching on immunologic, virologic, and mortality outcomes among HIV-infected adults with virologic failure in Rakai, Uganda
Victor Ssempijja, Gertrude Nakigozi, Larry Chang, Ron Gray, Maria Wawer, Anthony Ndyanabo, Jingo Kasule, David Serwadda, Barbara Castelnuovo, Anja van’t Hoog, Steven James Reynolds
Phylogenetic characterisation of circulating, clinical influenza isolates from Bali, Indonesia: preliminary report from the BaliMEI project
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Spondylodiscitis due to Parvimonas micra diagnosed by the melting temperature mapping method: a case report
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Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite var gene expression is modified by host antibodies: longitudinal evidence from controlled infections of Kenyan adults with varying natural exposure
Abdirahman I. Abdi, Susanne H. Hodgson, Michelle K. Muthui, Cheryl A. Kivisi, Gathoni Kamuyu, Domtila Kimani, Stephen L. Hoffman, Elizabeth Juma, Bernhards Ogutu, Simon J. Draper, Faith Osier, Philip Bejon, Kevin Marsh, Peter C. Bull
Hospitalizations realted to herpes zoster infection in the Canary Islands, Spain (2005-2014)
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Prevalence of hepatitis B in people living with HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Fatima Mitiko Tengan, Edson Abdala, Marisa Nascimento, Wanderley Marques Bernardo, Antonio Alci Barone
Prevalence and risk factors for Staphylococcus aureus nasopharyngeal carriage during a PCV trial
Abdoulie Bojang, Lindsay Kendall, Effua Usuf, Uzochukwu Egere, Sarah Mulwa, Martin Antonio, Brian Greenwood, Philip C. Hill, Anna Roca
The associations between socioeconomic status and risk of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and subsequent endocarditis – a Danish nationwide cohort study
Louise Bruun Oestergaard, Michelle D. Schmiegelow, Niels Eske Bruun, Robert L. Skov, Andreas Petersen, Paal Skytt Andersen, Christian Torp-Pedersen
Distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes in the northeast macro-region of São Paulo state/Brazil after the introduction of conjugate vaccine
Marta Inês Cazentini Medeiros, Samanta Cristine Grassi Almeida, Maria Luiza Leopoldo Silva Guerra, Paulo da Silva, Ana Maria Machado Carneiro, Denise de Andrade
The contribution of respiratory pathogens to fatal and non-fatal respiratory hospitalizations: a pilot study of Taqman Array Cards (TAC) in Kenya
Henry N. Njuguna, Sandra S. Chaves, Gideon O. Emukule, Bryan Nyawanda, Victor Omballa, Bonventure Juma, Clayton O. Onyango, Joshua A. Mott, Barry Fields
Accuracy of different diagnostic tests for early, delayed and late prosthetic joint infection
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The impact of drug resistance on the risk of tuberculosis infection and disease in child household contacts: a cross sectional study
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An eleven-year retrospective hospital-based study of epidemiological data regarding human strongyloidiasis in northeast Thailand
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Shifting trends in bacteriology and antimicrobial resistance among gastrointestinal fistula patients in China: an eight-year review in a tertiary-care hospital
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Spatio-temporal clustering analysis and its determinants of hand, foot and mouth disease in Hunan, China, 2009–2015
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Long-term outcome in survivors of neonatal tetanus following specialist intensive care in Vietnam
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Cervical precancerous changes and selected cervical microbial infections, Kiambu County, Kenya, 2014: a cross sectional study
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Predictive accuracy of particle filtering in dynamic models supporting outbreak projections
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Orbital apex syndrome secondary to a fungal nasal septal abscess caused by Scedosporium apiospermum in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes: a case report
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Angiopoietin-like protein as a novel marker for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B patients with normal to minimally raised ALT
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B-type brain natriuretic peptide as a measure of the severity of hand-foot-mouth disease: a case-control study
AYuan Zhang, Lin Yang, Pengfei Guo, Shaojun Li, Xiaoxiao Ao, Feng Xu, Liping Tan
Protocol and baseline data for a multi-year cohort study of the effects of different mass drug treatment approaches on functional morbidities from schistosomiasis in four African countries
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A comparison of self-report and antiretroviral detection to inform estimates of antiretroviral therapy coverage, viral load suppression and HIV incidence in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Helena Huerga, Fisseha Shiferie, Eduard Grebe, Ruggero Giuliani, Jihane Ben Farhat, Gilles Van-Cutsem, Karen Cohen
Species distribution and antibiotic susceptibility profile of bacterial uropathogens among patients complaining urinary tract infections
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Predictors of unsuccessful interim treatment outcomes of multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients
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Laboratory-acquired infections of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi in South Africa: phenotypic and genotypic analysis of isolates
Anthony Marius Smith, Shannon Lucrecia Smouse, Nomsa Pauline Tau, Colleen Bamford, Vineshree Mischka Moodley, Charlene Jacobs, Kerrigan Mary McCarthy, Adré Lourens, Karen Helena Keddy, Vanessa Quan, Ananta Nanoo, Anne von Gottberg, Andries Dreyer, Anthony Smith, Arvinda Sooka, Cecilia Miller, Charlotte Sriruttan, Cheryl Cohen, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Claire von Mollendorf, Frans Radebe, Genevie Ntshoe, Gillian Hunt, Karen Keddy, Linda de Gouveia, Linda Erasmus, Marshagne Smith, Martha Bodiba, Mbhekiseni Khumalo, Motshabi Modise, Nazir Ismail, Nelesh Govender, Nicola Page, Olga Perovic, Oliver Murangandi, Penny Crowther-Gibson, Portia Mutevedzi, Riyadh Manesen, Ruth Mpembe, Samantha Iyaloo, Sarona Lengana, Shabir Madhi, Sibongile Walaza, Sonwabo Lindani, Susan Meiring, Thejane Motladiile, Verushka Chetty Carel Haumann, Patricia Hanise, Sandeep Vasaikar, John Black, Vanessa Pearce, Anwar Hoosen, Vicky Kleinhans, Alan Karstaedt, Caroline Maluleka, Charl Verwey, Charles Feldman, David Moore, David Spencer, Gary Reubenson, Khine Swe Swe Han, Jeannette Wadula, Jeremy Nel, Kathy Lindeque, Maphoshane Nchabeleng, Nicolette du Plessis, Norma Bosman, Ranmini Kularatne, Ruth Lekalakala, Sharona Seetharam, Theunis Avenant, Trusha Nana, Vindana Chibabhai, Adhil Maharj, Asmeeta Burra, Fathima Naby, Halima Dawood, Koleka Mlisana, Lisha Sookan, Praksha Ramjathan, Prasha Mahabeer, Romola Naidoo, Sumayya Haffejee, Yacoob Coovadia, Ken Hamese, Ngoaka Sibiya, Greta Hoyland, Jacob Lebudi, Eunice Weenink, Riezaah Abrahams, Sindiswa Makate, Ebrahim Variava, Erna du Plessis, Andrew Whitelaw, Catherine Samuel, Mark Nicol, Preneshni Naicker, Shareef Abrahams, Adrian Brink, Elizabeth Prentice, Inge Zietsman, Maria Botha, Peter Smith, Xoliswa Poswa, Chetna Govind, Keshree Pillay, Suzy Budavari, Catherine Samuel, Marthinus Senekal, Cynthia Whitney, Keith Klugman
Community-based surveillance of norovirus disease: a systematic review
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A dual regimen of ritonavir/darunavir plus dolutegravir for rescue or simplification of rescue therapy: 48 weeks’ observational data
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Risk factors for multidrug-resistant pathogens in bronchiectasis exacerbations
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Group B streptococcus (GBS) is an important pathogen in human disease- but what about in cystic fibrosis?
Kate Skolnik, Austin Nguyen, Christina S. Thornton, Barbara Waddell, Tyler Williamson, Harvey R. Rabin, Michael D. Parkins
Investigation of Salmonella Enteritidis outbreaks in South Africa using multi-locus variable-number tandem-repeats analysis, 2013-2015
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A novel Bayesian geospatial method for estimating tuberculosis incidence reveals many missed TB cases in Ethiopia
Debebe Shaweno, James M. Trauer, Justin T. Denholm, Emma S. McBryde
Evaluation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis viability in OMNIgene-SPUTUM reagent upon multi-day transport at ambient temperature
Elisa Tagliani, Riccardo Alagna, Silva Tafaj, Hasan Hafizi, Daniela Maria Cirillo
Five-year trends in treatment changes in an adult cohort of HIV/AIDS patients in Ghana: a retrospective cohort study
Daniel N. A. Ankrah, Margaret Lartey, Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse, Hubert G. M. Leufkens
Acute undifferentiated fever in India: a multicentre study of aetiology and diagnostic accuracy
Kristine Mørch, Anand Manoharan, Sara Chandy, Novin Chacko, Gerardo Alvarez-Uria, Suvarna Patil, Anil Henry, Joel Nesaraj, Cijoy Kuriakose, Ashita Singh, Siby Kurian, Christel Gill Haanshuus, Nina Langeland, Bjørn Blomberg, George Vasanthan Antony, Dilip Mathai
Whole genome sequencing for the molecular characterization of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated at the Italian ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco Hospital, 2012–2014
Sara Giordana Rimoldi, Bernardina Gentile, Cristina Pagani, Annamaria Di Gregorio, Anna Anselmo, Anna Maria Palozzi, Antonella Fortunato, Valentina Pittiglio, Anna Lisa Ridolfo, Maria Rita Gismondo, Giuliano Rizzardini, Florigio Lista
Prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis B infection among mothers and children with hepatitis B infected mother in upper Dolpa, Nepal
Purusotam Raj Shedain, Madhu Dixit Devkota, Megha Raj Banjara, Huang Ling, Subash Dhital
Co-infection of Schistosoma mansoni/hepatitis C virus and their associated factors among adult individuals living in fishing villages, north-western Tanzania
Humphrey D. Mazigo, Stella Kepha, Godfrey M. Kaatano, Safari M. Kinung’hi
Case report: the first case of human infection by adult of SPIROMETRA ERINACEIEUROPAEI in VIETNAM
Anh Tran Le, Le-Quyen Thi Do, Huong-Binh Thi Nguyen, Hong-Ngoc Thi Nguyen, Anh Ngoc Do
Prevalence of antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli from patients with suspected urinary tract infection in primary care, Denmark
Gloria Córdoba, Anne Holm, Frank Hansen, Anette M. Hammerum, Lars Bjerrum
Multiplex PCR point of care testing versus routine, laboratory-based testing in the treatment of adults with respiratory tract infections: a quasi-randomised study assessing impact on length of stay and antimicrobial use
Denise Andrews, Yumela Chetty, Ben S. Cooper, Manjinder Virk, Stephen K Glass, Andrew Letters, Philip A. Kelly, Malur Sudhanva, Dakshika Jeyaratnam
Evaluation of a pulsed xenon ultraviolet disinfection system to decrease bacterial contamination in operating rooms
Lynn El Haddad, Shashank S. Ghantoji, Mark Stibich, Jason B. Fleming, Cindy Segal, Kathy M. Ware, Roy F. Chemaly
G allele at −924 A > G position of FoxP3 gene promoter as a risk factor for tuberculosis
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Rational use of Xpert testing in patients with presumptive TB: clinicians should be encouraged to use the test-treat threshold
Tom Decroo, Aquiles R. Henríquez-Trujillo, Anja De Weggheleire, Lutgarde Lynen
A scoping review of prevalence, incidence and risk factors for HIV infection amongst young people in Brazil
Igor Pedrosa Saffier, Hélia Kawa, Guy Harling
A retrospective cohort study to predict severe dengue in Honduran patients
Eduardo Fernández, Marek Smieja, Stephen D. Walter, Mark Loeb
Peripherally inserted central catheter-related bloodstream infection due to Tsukamurella pulmonis: a case report and literature review
Jun Suzuki, Teppei Sasahara, Masaki Toshima, Yuji Morisawa
The epidemiology and transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the community in Singapore: study protocol for a longitudinal household study
Nivedita Shankar, Angela Li Ping Chow, Jolene Oon, Li Yang Hsu, Brenda Ang, Junxiong Pang, Paola Florez De Sessions, Balamurugan Periaswamy, Paul A. Tambyah, Desmond B. Teo, Clarence C. Tam
HIV infected men who have sex with men in Israel: knowledge, attitudes and sexual behavior
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Rates of, and risk factors for, septic arthritis in patients with invasive pneumococcal disease: prospective cohort study
Thomas J. Marrie, Gregory J. Tyrrell, Sumit R. Majumdar, Dean T. Eurich
Proposed risk factors for infection with multidrug-resistant pathogens in hemodialysis patients hospitalized with pneumonia
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Strong associations between national prevalence of various STIs suggests sexual network connectivity is a common underpinning risk factor
Chris Kenyon
Characteristics of spontaneous coagulase-negative staphylococcal spondylodiscitis: a retrospective comparative study versus Staphylococcus aureus spondylodiscitis
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Infection by and genotype characteristics of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in HIV/AIDS patients from Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, China
Hua Liu, Zhihua Jiang, Zhongying Yuan, Jianhai Yin, Zunfu Wang, Bingxue Yu, Dongsheng Zhou, Yujuan Shen, Jianping Cao
Local epidemiology and resistance profiles in acute uncomplicated cystitis (AUC) in women: a prospective cohort study in an urban urological ambulatory setting
Michael Seitz, Christian Stief, Raphaela Waidelich
The impact of influenza on the health related quality of life in China: an EQ-5D survey
Juan Yang, Mark Jit, Yaming Zheng, Luzhao Feng, Xinxin Liu, Joseph T. Wu, Hongjie Yu
Cost-utility analysis of Palivizumab for Respiratory Syncytial Virus infection prophylaxis in preterm infants: update based on the clinical evidence in Spain
M. Sanchez-Luna, R. Burgos-Pol, I. Oyagüez, J. Figueras-Aloy, M. Sánchez-Solís, F. Martinón-Torres, X. Carbonell-Estrany
Prevalence of congenital cytomegalovirus infection in symptomatic newborns under 3 weeks in Tehran, Iran
Mina Ebrahimi-Rad, Talayeh Seyed Shakeri, Fariba Shirvani, Kiana Shahrokhi, Nader Shahrokhi
Using risk-tracing snowball approach to increase HIV case detection among high-risk populations in Cambodia: an intervention study
Srean Chhim, John Macom, Chettana Pav, Nirada Nim, Phearun Yun, Sopheap Seng, Kolab Chhim, Sovannary Tuot, Siyan Yi
Longitudinal study of Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection in a cohort of swine veterinarians in the United States
Jisun Sun, My Yang, Srinand Sreevatsan, Jeffrey B. Bender, Randall S. Singer, Todd P. Knutson, Douglas G. Marthaler, Peter R. Davies
Correction to: Development and validation of a risk score to assist screening for acute HIV-1 infection among men who have sex with men
Maartje Dijkstra, Godelieve J. de Bree, Ineke G. Stolte, Udi Davidovich, Eduard J. Sanders, Maria Prins, Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff
Spatio-temporal pattern analysis for evaluation of the spread of human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in China, 2013–2014
Wen Dong, Kun Yang, Quanli Xu, Lin Liu, Juan Chen
Risk of cardiovascular events from current, recent, and cumulative exposure to abacavir among persons living with HIV who were receiving antiretroviral therapy in the United States: a cohort study
Kunchok Dorjee, Sanjiv M. Baxi, Arthur L. Reingold, Alan Hubbard
First case report of endocarditis caused by haematobacter massiliensis in China
Jing-wei Cheng, Peng Wang, Meng Xiao, Ying Yuan, Timothy Kudinha, Ying Zhao, Fanrong Kong, Ying-chun Xu
Correction to: Accuracy and reliability of an NS1 rapid immunochromatographic test for DENV-1 diagnosis at point of care and in the laboratory
Verónica Elizabeth Mata, Sonia Regina Lambert Passos, Yara Hahr Marques Hökerberg, Guilherme Miguéis Berardinelli, Maria Angelica Borges dos Santos, Levy Vilas Boas Fukuoka, Anna Carolina Fontoura Seixas Rangel Maciel, Cintia Damasceno dos Santos Rodrigues, Aline da Silva Santos, Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira
Prevalence and molecular characterization of pyrazinamide resistance among multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Southern China
Yu Pang, Damian Zhu, Huiwen Zheng, Jing Shen, Yan Hu, Jie Liu, Yanlin Zhao
New variant identified in major susceptibility locus to tuberculosis on chromosomal region 8q12-q13 in Moroccan population: a case control study
Mounia Qrafli, Imane Asekkaj, Jamal Eddine Bourkadi, Rajae El Aouad, Khalid Sadki
Correction to: The impact of drug resistance on the risk of tuberculosis infection and disease in child household contacts: a cross sectional study
Vera Golla, Kathryn Snow, Anna M. Mandalakas, H. Simon Schaaf, Karen Du Preez, Anneke C. Hesseling, James A. Seddon
Human papillomavirus in semen and the risk for male infertility: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Zhangyan Lyu, Xiaoshuang Feng, Ni Li, Wei Zhao, Luopei Wei, Yuheng Chen, Wenjing Yang, Hongxia Ma, Bing Yao, Kai Zhang, Zhibin Hu, Hongbing Shen, Dong Hang, Min Dai
No MERS-CoV but positive influenza viruses in returning Hajj pilgrims, China, 2013–2015
Xuezheng Ma, Fang Liu, Lijuan Liu, Liping Zhang, Mingzhu Lu, Abuduzhayier Abudukadeer, Lingbing Wang, Feng Tian, Wei Zhen, Pengfei Yang, Kongxin Hu
Prevalence of naturally occurring NS5A resistance-associated substitutions in patients infected with hepatitis C virus subtype 1a, 1b, and 3a, co-infected or not with HIV in Brazil
Fernanda Malta, Karine Vieira Gaspareto, Gaspar Lisboa-Neto, Flair José Carrilho, Maria Cássia Mendes-Correa, João Renato Rebello Pinho
Varicella zoster virus-associated morbidity and mortality in Africa – a systematic review
Hannah Hussey, Leila Abdullahi, Jamie Collins, Rudzani Muloiwa, Gregory Hussey, Benjamin Kagina
Treatment outcomes of MDR-tuberculosis patients in Brazil: a retrospective cohort analysis
Mayara Lisboa Bastos, Lorrayne Beliqui Cosme, Geisa Fregona, Thiago Nascimento do Prado, Adelmo Inácio Bertolde, Eliana Zandonade, Mauro N. Sanchez, Margareth Pretti Dalcolmo, Afrânio Kritski, Anete Trajman, Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel
Outbreak of caliciviruses in the Singapore military, 2015
Freddy Jun Xian Neo, Jimmy Jin Phang Loh, Peijun Ting, Wei Xin Yeo, Christine Qiu Han Gao, Vernon Jian Ming Lee, Boon Huan Tan, Ching Ging Ng
Trends in bednet ownership and usage, and the effect of bednets on malaria hospitalization in the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS): 2008–2015
Alice Kamau, Victoria Nyaga, Evasius Bauni, Benjamin Tsofa, Abdisalan M. Noor, Philip Bejon, J. Anthony G. Scott, Laura L. Hammitt
Recurrent tuberculosis in Finland 1995–2013: a clinical and epidemiological cohort study
Virve Korhonen, Hanna Soini, Tuula Vasankari, Jukka Ollgren, Pieter W. Smit, Petri Ruutu
Effectiveness of current and future regimens for treating genotype 3 hepatitis C virus infection: a large-scale systematic review
Hosnieh Fathi, Andrew Clark, Nathan R. Hill, Geoffrey Dusheiko
Durability of switch regimens based on rilpivirine or on integrase inhibitors, both in association with tenofovir and emtricitabine, in HIV-infected, virologically suppressed patients
Nicola Gianotti, Andrea Poli, Silvia Nozza, Laura Galli, Nadia Galizzi, Marco Ripa, Marco Merli, Alessia Carbone, Vincenzo Spagnuolo, Adriano Lazzarin, Antonella Castagna
Health care workers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices on tuberculosis infection control, Nepal
Anita Shrestha, Dipesh Bhattarai, Barsha Thapa, Prem Basel, Rajendra Raj Wagle
Remarkable spatial variation in the seroprevalence of Coxiella burnetii after a large Q fever epidemic
Roan Pijnacker, Johan Reimerink, Lidwien A. M. Smit, Arianne B. van Gageldonk-Lafeber, Jan-Paul Zock, Floor Borlée, Joris Yzermans, Dick J. J. Heederik, Catharina B. M. Maassen, Wim van der Hoek
Alkaline peptone water enrichment with a dipstick test to quickly detect and monitor cholera outbreaks
Godfrey Bwire, Christopher Garimoi Orach, Dauda Abdallah, Amanda Kay Debes, Atek Kagirita, Malathi Ram, David A. Sack
Antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida species isolated from the immunocompromised patients admitted to ten university hospitals in Iran: comparison of colonizing and infecting isolates
Parisa Badiee, Hamid Badali, Teun Boekhout, Kambiz Diba, Abdolkarim Ghadimi Moghadam, Ali Hossaini Nasab, Hadis Jafarian, Rasoul Mohammadi, Hossein Mirhendi, Mohammad Javad Najafzadeh, Ahmad Shamsizadeh, Jafar Soltani
ICU-treated influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 infections more severe post pandemic than during 2009 pandemic: a retrospective analysis
Pekka Ylipalosaari, Tero I. Ala-Kokko, Jouko Laurila, Lauri Ahvenjärvi, Hannu Syrjälä
Clinical and virological factors associated with gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with acute respiratory infection: a two-year prospective study in general practice medicine
Laetitia Minodier, Shirley Masse, Lisandru Capai, Thierry Blanchon, Pierre-Emmanuel Ceccaldi, Sylvie van der Werf, Thomas Hanslik, Remi Charrel, Alessandra Falchi
HIV serostatus knowledge and serostatus disclosure with the most recent anal intercourse partner in a European MSM sample recruited in 13 cities: results from the Sialon-II study
Ulrich Marcus, Susanne Barbara Schink, Nigel Sherriff, Anna-Marie Jones, Lorenzo Gios, Cinta Folch, Torsten Berglund, Christiana Nöstlinger, Marta Niedźwiedzka-Stadnik, Sonia F. Dias, Ana F. Gama, Emilia Naseva, Ivailo Alexiev, Danica Staneková, Igor Toskin, Daniela Pitigoi, Alexandru Rafila, Irena Klavs, Massimo Mirandola, Massimo Mirandola, Lorenzo Gios, Stefano Benvenuti, Ruth Joanna Davis, Massimo Lunardi, Silvana Menichelli, Michele Breveglieri, Martina Furegato, Wim Vanden Berghe, Peter de Groot, Christiana Nöstlinger, Veronica van Wijk, Katrien Fransen, Tine Vermoesen, Michiel Vanackere, Fourat Benchikha, Sandra Van den Eynde, Boris Cruyssaert, Mark Sergeant, Karel Blondeel, Pieter Damen, François Massoz, Erwin Carlier, Michael François, Stephen Karon, Safia Soltani, Thierry Martin, Alan De Bruyne, Françoise Bocken, Myriam Dieleman, Ivailo Alexiev, Reneta Dimitrova, Anna Gancheva, Dobromira Bogeva, Maria Nikolova, Mariya Muhtarova, Todor Kantarjiev, Viara Georgieva, Emilia Naseva, Petar Tsintsarski, Hristo Taskov, Tonka Varleva, Elena Birindjieva, Aneliya Angelova, Manol Antonov, Ulrich Marcus, Susanne Barbara Schink, Sandra Dudareva-Vizule, Matthias an der Heiden, Sami Marzougui, Viviane Bremer, Andrea Kühne, Kerstin Schönerstedt-Zastrau, Ruth Zimmermann, Andreas Wille, Kai Eckstein, Norman Buch, Philipp Moskophidis, Marc Grenz, Danilo Schmogro, Giuseppe Cornaglia, Antonella Zorzi, Elisabetta Tonolli, Giuliana Lo Cascio, Teresa Todeschini, Manuela Recchia, Lorella Pattini, Maria Rocca, Alessandra Bighignoli, Anita Galardi, Loredana Martini, Sandro Caffi, Pier Paolo Benetollo, Francesco Cobello, Chiara Bovom, Umberta Benvenuti, Giulia Bisoffi, Oscar Bortolami, Laura Crestani, Fabiano Comperini, Ercole Concia, Emanuela Lattuada, Massimiliano Lanzafame, Stefania Leonardi, Paola Del Bravo, Maddalena Cordioli, Fabio Rigo, Emanuele Guardalben, Ivan Marchesoni, Barbara Suligoi, Vincenza Regine, Lucia Pugliese, Saulius Caplinskas, Irma Caplinskiene, Rima Krupenkaite, Gediminas Sargelis, Arturas Rudomanskis, Sónia Dias, Ana Gama, Oriana Brás, João Piedade, Ricardo Fuertes, Nuno Pinto, João Brito, Júlio Esteves, Jesus Rojas, Fernando Ferreira, Miguel Rocha, Hugo Machado, Maria José Campos, Luís Mendão, Magdalena Rosińska, Bożena Kucharczyk, Marta Niedźwiedzka-Stadnik, Łukasz Henszel, Andrzej Zieliński, Michał Czerwiński, Michał Pawlęga, Ewelina Burdon, Małgorzata Gajdemska, Agnieszka Guściora, Nikodem Klasik, Katarzyna Rżanek, Michał Sawicki, Michał Tęcza, Mateusz Dębski, Anna Maciejewska, Izabela Pazdan, Alexandru Rafila, Daniela Pitigoi, Adrian Abagiu, Carolina Marin, Ioana Panzariu, Alexandru Miroiu, Madalina Popa, Monica Likker, Maria Georgescu, Galina Musat, Dan Cojocaru, Mihai Lixandru, Raluca Teodorescu, Danica Staneková, Monika Hábeková, Tatiana Drobková, Zuzana Chabadová, Soňa Wimmerova, Maria Mojzesová, Filip Kunč, Michal Skurák, Peter Bodnar, Katarína Horniaková, Mária Krahulcová, Jarmila Präsensová, Martin Smoleň, Peter Záhradník, Pavol Tibaj, Irena Klavs, Tanja Kustec, Claudia Adamič, Mario Poljak, Robert Krošelj, Jana Mlakar, Miran Šolinc, Cinta Folch, Laia Ferrer, Alexandra Montoliu, Jordi Casabona, Anna Esteve, Montserrat Galdon, Victoria Gonzalez, Rafael Muñoz, Maria Axelsson, Torsten Berglund, Sharon Kuhlmann-Berenzon, Achilleas Tsoumanis, Inga Velicko, Christer Janson, Bartek Lindh, Kajsa Aperia, Buddha Babulanam, Hans Carlberg, Malte Davidsson, Nedo Entenza Gutierrez, Viktor Hildingsson, Henrik Klasson, Moises Peña Ramos, Cristian Quintero Rojas, Sven-Olof Sandberg, Andreas Samuelson, Eric Sjöberg, Tommy Sjölund, Simon Svensson, Iván Valencia, Filip Garcia, Olov Lindblad, Jon Voss, Ronnie Ask, Anders Blaxhult, Maarit Maliniemi, Monica Ideström, Nils Blom, Nigel Sherriff, Christina Panton, Glynis Flood, Katrien Fransen, Tine Vermoesen, Ross Boseley, Marc Tweed, Jonathon Roberts, Cinthia Menel Lemos, Paolo Guglielmetti, Wolfgang Philipp, Matthias Schuppe, Andrew Amato, Irina Dinca, Karin Haar, Anastasia Pharris, Teymur Noori, Igor Toskin, Armando Seuc, Natalie Maurer, Lev Zohrabyan, Alexandrina Iovita, Maddalena Campioni, Patrick Noack, Rosanna Peeling, Lisa Johnston
Prevalence of oncogenic human papillomavirus genotypes in patients diagnosed with anogenital malignancies in Botswana
Patricia S. Rantshabeng, Sikhulile Moyo, Natasha O. Moraka, Andrew Ndlovu, Iain J. MacLeod, Simani Gaseitsiwe, Ishmael Kasvosve
Effects of IFN-γ coding plasmid supplementation in the immune response and protection elicited by Trypanosoma cruzi attenuated parasites
Cecilia Pérez Brandán, Andrea C. Mesías, Cecilia Parodi, Rubén O. Cimino, Carolina Pérez Brandán, Patricio Diosque, Miguel Ángel Basombrío
Multiresistant ST59-SCCmec IV-t437 clone with strong biofilm-forming capacity was identified predominantly in MRSA isolated from Chinese children
Xin Yang, Suyun Qian, Kaihu Yao, Lijuan Wang, Yingchao Liu, Fang Dong, Wenqi Song, Jinghui Zhen, Wei Zhou, Hong Xu, Hongyan Zheng, Wenting Li
Awareness, discussion and non-prescribed use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among persons living with HIV/AIDS in Italy: a Nationwide, cross-sectional study among patients on antiretrovirals and their treating HIV physicians
Antonio Palummieri, Gabriella De Carli, Éric Rosenthal, Patrice Cacoub, Cristina Mussini, Vincenzo Puro, Nicoletta Ladisa, Franco Maggiolo, Marco Rizzi, Leonardo Calza, Vincenzo Colangeli, Nicolò Girometti, Alice Ferraresi, Emanuele Focà, Pier Francesco Giorgetti, Maria Chiara Pezzoli, Benedetto Maurizio Celesia, Marilia Rita Pinzone, Tiziana Bruno, Alberto Viada, Davide Vitullo, Viola Guardigni, Laura Sighinolfi, Silvia Ambu, Dario Bartolozzi, Irene Campolmi, Massimo Meli, Marco Pozzi, Gaetana Sterrantino, Filippo Matarazzo, Francesco Purificato, Enza Anzalone, Luciano Sarracino, Miriam Lichtner, Raffaella Marocco, Vito Sante Mercurio, Paula Castelli, Lorena Paoli Martorelli, Angela Linzalone, Franklyn Esoka Eseme, Enzo Raise, Simona Bossolasco, Antonella Castagna, Massimo Cernuschi, Paola Cinque, Luca Fumagalli, Giovanni Gaiera, Nicola Gianotti, Monica Guffanti, Miriam Maillard, Silvia Nozza, Vincenzo Spagnuolo, Caterina Uberti-Foppa, Vanni Borghi, Cristina Mussini, Luchino Chessa, Laura Matta, Maria Cristina Pasetto, Giuseppe D’Esposito, Alfredo Franco, Crescenzo Maria Izzo, Elio Manzillo, Alessandro Marocco, Raffaele Micillo, Teresa Pizzella, Salvatore Martini, Maria Vittoria Moretti, Elisabetta Schiaroli, Corrado Catalani, Marina Giorgi, Beatrice Menichini, Michele Trezzi, Simona Migliore, Giuseppe Ballardini, Enrico Barchi, Elisa Garlassi, Giacomo Magnani, Francesca Prati, Lucia Testa, Maria Alessandra Ursitti, Giuliana Zoboli, Elisabetta Teti, Anna Rita Buonomini, Carlotta Cerva, Giovanni D’Anna, Barbara Ilari, Vincenzo Malagnino, Loredana Sarmati, Adriana Ammassari, Rita Bellagamba, Evangelo Boumis, Stefania Cicalini, Giuseppina Liuzzi, Laura Loiacono, Paolo Migliorisi, Emanuele Nicastri, Carmela Pinnetti, Alessandro Sampaolesi, Chiara Tommasi, Mauro Zaccarelli, Rosalia Angileri, Maria Coscia, Gabriella d’Ettorre, Alessandra Fantauzzi, Giancarlo Iaiani, Ivano Mezzaroma, Francesca Paoletti, Maria Zaccaria, Andrea De Luca, Barbara Rossetti, Manola Pomi, Nicoletta Carnicelli, Angela Gonnelli, Daniele Marri, Lucia Toscano, Orlando Armignacco, Anna Rita Capino, Antonio Luciano Caterini, Barbara Di Filippo, Anna Maria Ialungo, Elena Rastrelli, Rita Sabatini, Gabriella De Carli, Antonio Palummieri, Vincenzo Puro
Identification of pathogens for differential diagnosis of fever with jaundice in the Central African Republic: a retrospective assessment, 2008–2010
Christelle Luce Bobossi Gadia, Alexandre Manirakiza, Gaspard Tekpa, Xavier Konamna, Ulrich Vickos, Emmanuel Nakoune
Daptomycin treatment in patients with resistant staphylococcal periprosthetic joint infection
Yu-Jui Chang, Mel S. Lee, Chen-Hsiang Lee, Po-Chun Lin, Feng-Chih Kuo
Determination of antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in Staphylococcus aureus strains recovered from patients at two main health facilities in Kabul, Afghanistan
Haji Mohammad Naimi, Hamidullah Rasekh, Ahmad Zia Noori, Mohammad Aman Bahaduri
Decision tree for accurate infection timing in individuals newly diagnosed with HIV-1 infection
Chris Verhofstede, Katrien Fransen, Annelies Van Den Heuvel, Kristel Van Laethem, Jean Ruelle, Ellen Vancutsem, Karolien Stoffels, Sigi Van den Wijngaert, Marie-Luce Delforge, Dolores Vaira, Laura Hebberecht, Marlies Schauvliege, Virginie Mortier, Kenny Dauwe, Steven Callens
Provider initiated tuberculosis case finding in outpatient departments of health care facilities in Ghana: yield by screening strategy and target group
Sally-Ann Ohene, Frank Bonsu, Nii Nortey Hanson-Nortey, Ardon Toonstra, Adelaide Sackey, Knut Lonnroth, Mukund Uplekar, Samuel Danso, George Mensah, Felix Afutu, Paul Klatser, Mirjam Bakker
Hepatitis C testing and re-testing among people attending sexual health services in Australia, and hepatitis C incidence among people with human immunodeficiency virus: analysis of national sentinel surveillance data
David C. Boettiger, Matthew G. Law, Gregory J. Dore, Rebecca Guy, Denton Callander, Basil Donovan, Catherine C. O’Connor, Christopher K. Fairley, Margaret Hellard, Gail Matthews
“Does the Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1) confer invasiveness properties to human isolates?”
Claire de Curraize, Lucie Amoureux, Julien Bador, Angélique Chapuis, Eliane Siebor, Claire Clément, Juliette Sauge, Ludwig-Serge Aho-Glélé, Catherine Neuwirth
Vaccine-derived poliovirus surveillance in China during 2001–2013: the potential challenge for maintaining polio free status
Hai-Bo Wang, Hui-Ming Luo, Li Li, Chun-Xiang Fan, Li-Xin Hao, Chao Ma, Qi-Ru Su, Hong Yang, Kathleen H. Reilly, Hua-Qing Wang, Ning Wen
Genotyping and drug susceptibility testing of mycobacterial isolates from population-based tuberculosis prevalence survey in Ghana
Kennedy Kwasi Addo, Samuel Ofori Addo, Gloria Ivy Mensah, Lydia Mosi, Frank Adae Bonsu
Prevention of tick bites: an evaluation of a smartphone app
L. Antonise-Kamp, D. J. M. A. Beaujean, R. Crutzen, J. E. van Steenbergen, D. Ruwaard
Epidemiology of influenza in West Africa after the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, 2010–2012
Ndahwouh Talla Nzussouo, Jazmin Duque, Adebayo Abel Adedeji, Daouda Coulibaly, Samba Sow, Zekiba Tarnagda, Issaka Maman, Adamou Lagare, Sonia Makaya, Mohamed Brahim Elkory, Herve Kadjo Adje, Paul Alhassan Shilo, Boubou Tamboura, Assana Cisse, Kossi Badziklou, Halima Boubacar Maïnassara, Ahmed Ould Bara, Adama Mamby Keita, Thelma Williams, Ann Moen, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Meredith McMorrow
Eradication of P. aeruginosa biofilm in endotracheal tubes based on lock therapy: results from an in vitro study
María Jesús Pérez-Granda, María Consuelo Latorre, Beatriz Alonso, Javier Hortal, Rafael Samaniego, Emilio Bouza, María Guembe
Economic burden of preemptive treatment of CMV infection after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: a retrospective study of 208 consecutive patients
Christine Robin, François Hémery, Christel Dindorf, Julien Thillard, Ludovic Cabanne, Rabah Redjoul, Florence Beckerich, Christophe Rodriguez, Cécile Pautas, Andrea Toma, Sébastien Maury, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Catherine Cordonnier
Time trend of clinical cases of Lyme disease in two hospitals in Belgium, 2000–2013
Mathilde De Keukeleire, Sophie O. Vanwambeke, Benoît Kabamba, Leila Belkhir, Philippe Pierre, Victor Luyasu, Annie Robert
Identification by mass spectrometry and automated susceptibility testing from positive bottles: a simple, rapid, and standardized approach to reduce the turnaround time in the management of blood cultures
Carola Mauri, Luigi Principe, Silvia Bracco, Elisa Meroni, Nicoletta Corbo, Beatrice Pini, Francesco Luzzaro
Bloodstream infections at a tertiary level paediatric hospital in South Africa
Harsha Lochan, Vashini Pillay, Colleen Bamford, James Nuttall, Brian Eley
Meningococcal arthritis and myopericarditis: a case report
Lloyd Steele, Katie Bechman, Eoghan De Barra, Charles Mackworth-Young
Acquisition and persistence of strain-specific methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and their determinants in community nursing homes
Nataliya G. Batina, Christopher J. Crnich, Dörte Döpfer
Impact of inappropriate antifungal therapy according to current susceptibility breakpoints on Candida bloodstream infection mortality, a retrospective analysis
María Fernanda González-Lara, Pedro Torres-González, Patricia Cornejo-Juárez, Consuelo Velázquez-Acosta, Areli Martinez-Gamboa, Andrea Rangel-Cordero, Miriam Bobadilla-del-Valle, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Alfredo Ponce-de-León, José Sifuentes-Osornio
The current incidence, prevalence, and residual risk of hepatitis B viral infections among voluntary blood donors in China
Ling Li, Tingting Han, Liang Zang, Libin Niu, Weifang Cheng, Hongkeng Lin, Ka Yi Li, Ruan Cao, Binghai Zhao, Yuqiang Liu, Guojin Ou, Xiao Liu, Yingjie Qi, Yanhua Li, Zhong Liu
The impact of virus infections on pneumonia mortality is complex in adults: a prospective multicentre observational study
Naoko Katsurada, Motoi Suzuki, Masahiro Aoshima, Makito Yaegashi, Tomoko Ishifuji, Norichika Asoh, Naohisa Hamashige, Masahiko Abe, Koya Ariyoshi, Konosuke Morimoto, Takao Wakabayashi, Naoto Hosokawa, Norihiro Kaneko, Kei Nakashima, Yoshihito Otsuka, Eiichiro Sando, Kaori Shibui, Daisuke Suzuki, Kenzo Tanaka, Kentaro Tochitani, Masayuki Chikamori, Masayuki Ishida, Hiroshi Nakaoka, Hiroyuki Ito, Kei Matsuki, Yoshiko Tsuchihashi, Bhim G. Dhoubhadel, Akitsugu Furumoto, Sugihiro Hamaguchi, Shungo Katoh, Satoshi Kakiuchi, Emi Kitashoji, Takaharu Shimazaki, Masahiro Takaki, Kiwao Watanabe, Lay-Myint Yoshida
Excess pneumonia and influenza mortality attributable to seasonal influenza in subtropical Shanghai, China
Xinchun Yu, Chunfang Wang, Tao Chen, Wenyi Zhang, Huiting Yu, Yuelong Shu, Wenbiao Hu, Xiling Wang
A comparison of the test-negative and the traditional case-control study designs for estimation of influenza vaccine effectiveness under nonrandom vaccination
Meng Shi, Qian An, Kylie E. C. Ainslie, Michael Haber, Walter A. Orenstein
Human T-lymphotropic virus 1aA circulation and risk factors for sexually transmitted infections in an Amazon geographic area with lowest human development index (Marajó Island, Northern Brazil)
Samantha Assis de Aguiar, Samires Avelino de Souza França, Barbara Brasil Santana, Mike Barbosa Santos, Felipe Bonfim Freitas, Glenda Ferreira, Izaura Cayres-Vallinoto, Marluísa O. G. Ishak, Ricardo Ishak, Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto
A clinical tool to predict Plasmodium vivax recurrence in Malaysia
Norliza Mat Ariffin, Farida Islahudin, Endang Kumolosasi, Mohd Makmor-Bakry
Evaluation of the economic burden of leprosy among migrant and resident patients in Guangdong Province, China
Mingzhou Xiong, Ming Li, Daocheng Zheng, Xiaohua Wang, Ting Su, Yongfeng Chen, Bin Yang
Nevirapine- versus Efavirenz-based antiretroviral therapy regimens in antiretroviral-naive patients with HIV and Tuberculosis infections in India: a multi-centre study
Sanjeev Sinha, Kartik Gupta, Srikanth Tripathy, Sahajal Dhooria, Sanjay Ranjan, R. M. Pandey
Do retreatment tuberculosis patients need special treatment response follow-up beyond the standard regimen? Finding of five-year retrospective study in pastoralist setting
Fentabil Getnet, Henok Sileshi, Wubareg Seifu, Selam Yirga, Abere Shiferaw Alemu
Elizabethkingia miricola as an opportunistic oral pathogen associated with superinfectious complications in humoral immunodeficiency: a case report
Przemysław Zdziarski, Mariola Paściak, Klaudia Rogala, Agnieszka Korzeniowska-Kowal, Andrzej Gamian
Genetic diversity and distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in Limpopo, South Africa
N. T. C. Maguga-Phasha, N. S. Munyai, F. Mashinya, M. E. Makgatho, E. F. Mbajiorgu
Prevalence and serotype distribution of nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in China: a meta-analysis
Lin Wang, Jinjian Fu, Zhuoxin Liang, Jichang Chen
Six-monthly appointment spacing for clinical visits as a model for retention in HIV Care in Conakry-Guinea: a cohort study
Cavin Epie Bekolo, Abdourahimi Diallo, Mit Philips, Joseph-Desire Yuma, Letizia Di Stefano, Stéphanie Drèze, Jerome Mouton, Youssouf Koita, Ousseni W. Tiomtore
Performance of the Alere i RSV assay for point-of-care detection of respiratory syncytial virus in children
Sarah Valerie Schnee, Johannes Pfeil, Clara Marlene Ihling, Julia Tabatabai, Paul Schnitzler
Clinical features of pulmonary cryptococcosis among patients with different levels of peripheral blood CD4+ T lymphocyte counts
Qian He, Yuan Ding, Wei Zhou, Hongxing Li, Ming Zhang, Yi Shi, Xin Su
Co-infection of sexually transmitted pathogens and Human Papillomavirus in cervical samples of women of Brazil
Aline Teixeira Amorim, Lucas Miranda Marques, Guilherme Barreto Campos, Tássia Neves Lobão, Vanesca de Souza Lino, Ricardo Cesar Cintra, Maria Antonieta Andreoli, Luisa Lina Villa, Enrique Boccardo, Antonio Carlos Ricardo Braga Junior, Rossana Verónica Mendoza López, Djanilson Barbosa dos Santos, Gerson Maciel de Souza, Carla Cristina Romano, Jorge Timenetsky
A two-month follow-up evaluation testing interventions to limit the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistant bacteria among Maasai of northern Tanzania
Casey J. Roulette, Mark A. Caudell, Jennifer W. Roulette, Robert J. Quinlan, Marsha B. Quinlan, Murugan Subbiah, Douglas R. Call
A higher CD4/CD8 ratio correlates with an ultralow cell-associated HIV-1 DNA level in chronically infected patients on antiretroviral therapy: a case control study
Yongsong Yue, Nidan Wang, Yang Han, Ting Zhu, Jing Xie, Zhifeng Qiu, Xiaojing Song, Yanling Li, Jean-Pierre Routy, Jianhua Wang, Taisheng Li
Possible interference between seasonal epidemics of influenza and other respiratory viruses in Hong Kong, 2014–2017
Xueying Zheng, Zhengyu Song, Yapeng Li, Juanjuan Zhang, Xi-Ling Wang
High prevalence of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli carrying toxin-encoding genes isolated from children and adults in southeastern Brazil
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