Validation of the GenoType MTBDRplus assay for detection of MDR-TB in a public health laboratory in Thailand.

abstract：BACKGROUND:More detailed understanding of herpes zoster (HZ) is called for in the context of an increasing observed frequency of disease, and ongoing discussions regarding potential consequences of the disease. Thus, population-based data on incidence and complications of HZ are needed. METHODS:We conducted a register...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Sundström K,Weibull CE,Söderberg-Löfdal K,Bergström T,Sparén P,Arnheim-Dahlström L

更新日期：2015-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Granulysin (GNLY) is produced by human lymphocyte subpopulations and exhibits antimicrobial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We examined the association between GNLY levels in blood and latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. METHODS:Latency of TB infection among Vietnamese healthcare workers was es...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Thuong PH,Tam DB,Sakurada S,Hang NT,Hijikata M,Hong LT,Ngoc PT,Anh PT,Cuong VC,Matsushita I,Lien LT,Keicho N

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mucormycosis is a rare but devastating fungal infection primarily affecting immunocompromised patients such as those with hematological malignancy, bone marrow and solid organ transplantation, and patients with diabetes, and, even more rarely, immunocompetent patients. The objective of this study was to asse...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kontoyiannis DP,Yang H,Song J,Kelkar SS,Yang X,Azie N,Harrington R,Fan A,Lee E,Spalding JR

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) is divided in two distinct groups, ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and non-ventilator-associated HAP (nvHAP). Although nvHAP occurs more frequently than VAP and results in similar mortality and costs, prevention guidelines and prevention focus almost exclusively on VAP...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Wolfensberger A,Clack L,von Felten S,Kusejko K,Faes Hesse M,Jakob W,Saleschus D,Meier MT,Kouyos R,Held L,Sax H

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The C - reactive protein (CRP) response is often measured in patients with active tuberculosis (TB) yet little is known about its relationship to clinical features in TB, or whether responses differ between ethnic groups or with different Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) strain types. We report the relation...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Brown J,Clark K,Smith C,Hopwood J,Lynard O,Toolan M,Creer D,Barker J,Breen R,Brown T,Cropley I,Lipman M

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) control is a primary global health priority but the goal to eliminate TB is being threatened by the increase in incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). With this series of seven MDR-TB cases in migrant patients with identical Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains we aim to illu...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Joean O,Thiele T,Schütz K,Schwerk N,Sedlacek L,Kalsdorf B,Baumann U,Stoll M

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although several researches have reported the connection between the transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) gene polymorphisms and chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, the conclusions of these studies were not always consistent. Here, this paper proposed a meta-analysis to evaluate whether the TGF-...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Guo P,Liu S,Sun X,Xu L

更新日期：2019-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-touch fittings have been reported to be susceptible for Pseudomonas aeruginosa accumulation. A number of factors may contribute to this, including the frequency of usage, duration of water stagnation, or presence of plastic materials. Programmable non-touch fittings are appearing which allow regular auto...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Suchomel M,Diab-Elschahawi M,Kundi M,Assadian O

更新日期：2013-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data regarding HIV-seronegative pediatric patients with cryptococcal meningitis (CM) have been very limited. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed non-HIV-infected in patients with CM from January 2002 through December 2013 in Beijing Children's Hospital. Records of the all patients were obtained and compared...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Guo LY,Liu LL,Liu Y,Chen TM,Li SY,Yang YH,Liu G

更新日期：2016-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue cases have been classified according to disease severity into dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). Although DF is considered a non-severe manifestation of dengue, it has been recently demonstrated that DF represents a heterogeneous group of patients with varied clinical complications ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Orsi FA,Angerami RN,Mazetto BM,Quaino SK,Santiago-Bassora F,Castro V,de Paula EV,Annichino-Bizzacchi JM

更新日期：2013-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Colombia, the dengue virus (DENV) has been endemic for decades, and with the recent entry of the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) (2014) and the Zika virus (ZIKV) (2015), health systems are overloaded because the diagnosis of these three diseases is based on clinical symptoms, and the three diseases share a symp...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Carrillo-Hernández MY,Ruiz-Saenz J,Villamizar LJ,Gómez-Rangel SY,Martínez-Gutierrez M

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends viral load (VL) measurement as the preferred monitoring strategy for HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-limited settings. The new WHO guidelines 2016 continue to define virologic failure as two consecutive VL ≥1000 copies/mL (at...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Amstutz A,Nsakala BL,Vanobberghen F,Muhairwe J,Glass TR,Achieng B,Sepeka M,Tlali K,Sao L,Thin K,Klimkait T,Battegay M,Labhardt ND

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Active tuberculosis (TB) is common among HIV-infected persons living in tuberculosis endemic countries, and screening for tuberculosis (TB) is recommended routinely. We sought to determine the role of chest x-ray and sputum culture in the decision to treat for presumptive TB using active case finding in a la...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Bakari M,Arbeit RD,Mtei L,Lyimo J,Waddell R,Matee M,Cole BF,Tvaroha S,Horsburgh CR,Soini H,Pallangyo K,von Reyn CF

更新日期：2008-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that CD103 is an important marker for tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM) which plays an important role in anti-infection. However, the role of CD103+ TRM was not elucidated in the progress of S. japonicum infection induced disease. METHODS:6-8 weeks old C57BL/6 mice were infected...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Zhao Y,Yang Q,Jin C,Feng Y,Xie S,Xie H,Qi Y,Qiu H,Chen H,Tao A,Mu J,Qin W,Huang J

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Indirect herd effect from vaccination of children offers potential for improving the effectiveness of influenza prevention in the remaining unvaccinated population. Static models used in cost-effectiveness analyses cannot dynamically capture herd effects. The objective of this study was to develop a methodol...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Van Vlaenderen I,Van Bellinghen LA,Meier G,Nautrup BP

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients asking for a free anonymous HIV test may have contracted other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as Chlamydia trachomatis, yet Chlamydia prevalence in that population is unknown. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and factors associated with Chlamydia infection in patients seeking H...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Lallemand A,Bremer V,Jansen K,Nielsen S,Münstermann D,Lucht A,Tiemann C

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colombia was the second most affected country during the American Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic, with over 109,000 reported cases. Despite the scale of the outbreak, limited genomic sequence data were available from Colombia. We sought to sequence additional samples and use genomic epidemiology to describe ZIKV...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Black A,Moncla LH,Laiton-Donato K,Potter B,Pardo L,Rico A,Tovar C,Rojas DP,Longini IM,Halloran ME,Peláez-Carvajal D,Ramírez JD,Mercado-Reyes M,Bedford T

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lomentospora prolificans (formally Scedosporium prolificans) is an environmental mould with a global distribution. Endocarditis caused by L. prolificans is a rare but serious emerging disease in immunocompromised patients. Prior to this case there have only been eight cases reported in the literature. Diagno...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kelly M,Stevens R,Konecny P

更新日期：2016-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess the economic aspects of HBV (hepatitis B virus) transmission prevention for premarriage individuals in a country with cultural backgrounds like Iran and intermediate endemicity of HBV infection. METHODS:A cost-effectiveness analysis model was used from the health care system and society perspectiv...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Adibi P,Rezailashkajani M,Roshandel D,Behrouz N,Ansari S,Somi MH,Shahraz S,Zali MR

更新日期：2004-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid influenza diagnosis is important for early identification of outbreaks, effective management of high-risk contacts, appropriate antiviral use, decreased inappropriate antibiotic use and avoidance of unnecessary laboratory testing. Given the inconsistent performance of many rapid influenza tests, clinic...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Woolpert T,Brodine S,Lemus H,Waalen J,Blair P,Faix D

更新日期：2012-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is an important public health problem in Brazil and in several tropical regions of the world. In the Americas, Brazil is the country with the highest number of registered cases. In Brazil, the state of Minas Gerais has the highest number of cases in the southeastern region. In th...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Cardoso DT,de Souza DC,de Castro VN,Geiger SM,Barbosa DS

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Provision of information plays a critical role in supporting patients to be engaged or empowered to be involved with infection prevention measures in hospitals. This explorative study evaluated the suitability, readability and accessibility of information on healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) and infec...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Park J,Seale H

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the prevalence of HIV or HCV in injecting drug users (IDUs) in Serbia and Montenegro. We measured prevalence of antibodies to HIV (anti-HIV) and hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV), and risk factors for anti-HCV, in community-recruited IDUs in Belgrade and Podgorica, and determined the perform...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Judd A,Rhodes T,Johnston LG,Platt L,Andjelkovic V,Simić D,Mugosa B,Simić M,Zerjav S,Parry RP,Parry JV

更新日期：2009-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epidemic patterns of influenza B infection and their association with climate conditions are not well understood. Influenza surveillance in Okinawa is important for clarifying transmission patterns in both temperate and tropical regions. Using surveillance data, collected over 7 years in the subtropical ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Iha Y,Kinjo T,Parrott G,Higa F,Mori H,Fujita J

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human Rhinovirus (HRV) is responsible for the majority of common colds and is frequently accompanied by secondary bacterial infections through poorly understood mechanisms. We investigated the effects of experimental human HRV serotype 16 infection on the upper respiratory tract microbiota. METHODS:Six heal...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Hofstra JJ,Matamoros S,van de Pol MA,de Wever B,Tanck MW,Wendt-Knol H,Deijs M,van der Hoek L,Wolthers KC,Molenkamp R,Visser CE,Sterk PJ,Lutter R,de Jong MD

更新日期：2015-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Device-associated health care-associated infections (DA-HAIs) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients constitute a major therapeutic issue complicating the regular hospitalisation process and having influence on patients' condition, length of hospitalisation, mortality and therapy cost. METHODS:The study invo...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Duszynska W,Rosenthal VD,Szczesny A,Zajaczkowska K,Fulek M,Tomaszewski J

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen causing female genital tract infection throughout the world. Reinfection with the same serovar, as well as multiple infections with different serovars, occurs in humans. Using a murine model of female C. trachomatis genital trac...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Lyons JM,Morré SA,Airo-Brown LP,Peña AS,Ito JI

更新日期：2005-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterocytozoon bieneusi has been increasingly reported to infect humans and various mammals. Microsporidia cause diarrhea in HIV-infected patients worldwide. PCR amplification and sequencing based on the internal transcribed spacer region have been used to describe the genotypes of E. bieneusi and transmissi...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Liu H,Jiang Z,Yuan Z,Yin J,Wang Z,Yu B,Zhou D,Shen Y,Cao J

更新日期：2017-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Approximately 50% of cases of penile carcinoma (PeCa), a rare neoplasm worldwide, are associated with human papillomavirus (HPV). However, the detection of HPV-DNA is not sufficient to consider it the etiological factor in the development of this type of cancer. Currently, the overexpression of P16INK4A is u...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Martínez-Bailón C,Mantilla-Morales A,Méndez-Matías G,Alvarado-Cabrero I,Maldonado-Rodríguez R,Quintero-Becerra J,Arias-Flores R,Piña-Sánchez P

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is believed that the current prevalence of malaria in endemic areas reflects selection for the carrier form of sickle cell trait through a survival advantage. Malaria has been incriminated as a great cause of mortality in people with sickle cell disease (SCD). However, people with SCD, a high-risk group, ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Eleonore NLE,Cumber SN,Charlotte EE,Lucas EE,Edgar MML,Nkfusai CN,Geh MM,Ngenge BM,Bede F,Fomukong NH,Kamga HLF,Mbanya D

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00