Zoonotic disease research in East Africa.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regardless of chronic treatment with antiretroviral therapy (ART), the switching rate for ART regarding anchor drugs has not been articulated in real-world clinical-settings in Japan. We assessed switch rates and time-to-switch of ART regimens according to anchor drug classes (integrase strand transfer inhib...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ruzicka DJ,Kuroishi N,Oshima N,Sakuma R,Naito T

更新日期：2019-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Following publication. ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Almeida A,Codeço C,Luz PM

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-severe acute respiratory syndrome (non-SARS)-related human coronaviruses (HCoVs), including HCoV-229E, -HKU1, -NL63, and -OC43, have been detected in respiratory tract samples from children and adults. However, the natural prevalence of antibodies against these viruses in serum among population is unknow...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Zhou W,Wang W,Wang H,Lu R,Tan W

更新日期：2013-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prompt diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB) has paramount importance to reduce TB morbidity and mortality and to prevent the spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Few studies so far have assessed the diagnostic delay of TB and its risk factors in low-incidence countries. METHODS:We present a cross-sectiona...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Peri AM,Bernasconi DP,Galizzi N,Matteelli A,Codecasa L,Giorgio V,Di Biagio A,Franzetti F,Cingolani A,Gori A,Lapadula G

更新日期：2018-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The live attenuated tetravalent dengue vaccine (CYD-TDV) is licensed using a 0-, 6- and 12-month schedule in dengue-endemic areas. An effective shorter schedule may provide more rapid, optimal protection of targeted populations during vaccine campaigns in dengue-endemic countries. We compared immune response...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kirstein J,Douglas W,Thakur M,Boaz M,Papa T,Skipetrova A,Plennevaux E

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although a dramatic decrease in AIDS progression has been observed after Highly Active Anti Retroviral Therapy (HAART) in both low- and high-resource settings, few data support that fact in low-resource settings.This study describes the incidence of AIDS-defining illnesses (ADI) after HAART initiation and an...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： De Beaudrap P,Etard JF,Diouf A,Ndiaye I,Ndèye GF,Sow PS,Ndèye KC,Ecochard R,Delaporte E,ANRS 1215 Study Group.

更新日期：2010-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Influenza disease burden varies by age and this has important public health implications. We compared the proportional distribution of different influenza virus types within age strata using surveillance data from twenty-nine countries during 1999-2014 (N=358,796 influenza cases). METHODS:For each virus, we...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Caini S,Spreeuwenberg P,Kusznierz GF,Rudi JM,Owen R,Pennington K,Wangchuk S,Gyeltshen S,Ferreira de Almeida WA,Pessanha Henriques CM,Njouom R,Vernet MA,Fasce RA,Andrade W,Yu H,Feng L,Yang J,Peng Z,Lara J,Bruno A,d

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular diagnostics have emerged as an efficient and feasible alternative for broad detection of pathogens in faeces. However, collection of stool samples is often impractical in both clinical work and in epidemiology studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic performance of rectal sw...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kabayiza JC,Andersson ME,Welinder-Olsson C,Bergström T,Muhirwa G,Lindh M

更新日期：2013-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent data have shown that HTLV-1 is prevalent among HIV positive patients in Mozambique, although the impact of HTLV-1 infection on HIV disease progression remains controversial. Our aim was to determine the phenotypic profile of T lymphocytes subsets among Mozambican patients co-infected by HIV and HTLV-1...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Gudo ES,Bhatt NB,Bila DR,Abreu CM,Tanuri A,Savino W,Silva-Barbosa SD,Jani IV

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Collecting adequate information on key epidemiological indicators is a prerequisite to informing a public health response to reduce the impact of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Malaysia. Our goal was to overcome the acute data shortage typical of low/middle income countries using statistical modelling ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： McDonald SA,Mohamed R,Dahlui M,Naning H,Kamarulzaman A

更新日期：2014-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most common multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings worldwide, but little is known about MRSA transmission outside of acute healthcare settings especially in Asia. We describe the methods for a prospective longitudinal study of...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Shankar N,Chow ALP,Oon J,Hsu LY,Ang B,Pang J,De Sessions PF,Periaswamy B,Tambyah PA,Teo DB,Tam CC

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with HIV/AIDS on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) suffer from physical, psychological and spiritual problems. Despite international policy explicitly stating that a multidimensional approach such as palliative care should be delivered throughout the disease trajectory and alongside treatment, the effect...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Lowther K,Simms V,Selman L,Sherr L,Gwyther L,Kariuki H,Ahmed A,Ali Z,Jenkins R,Higginson IJ,Harding R

更新日期：2012-11-06 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 population structure and drug resistance pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) isolates in Ethiopian prisons and some communities is still unknown. METHODS:A comparative cross sectional study was conducted on 126 MTBC strains isolated from prisons and communities in southwestern, southern...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ali S,Beckert P,Haileamlak A,Wieser A,Pritsch M,Heinrich N,Löscher T,Hoelscher M,Niemann S,Rachow A

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-related stigma always is major obstacles to an effective HIV response worldwide. The effect of HIV-related stigma on HIV prevention and treatment is particularly serious in China. This study was to examine stigma attitude towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) among general individuals in Heilongjia...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Li X,Yuan L,Li X,Shi J,Jiang L,Zhang C,Yang X,Zhang Y,Zhao D,Zhao Y

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The technique most frequently used to genotype HCV is quantitative RT-PCR. This technique is unable to provide an accurate genotype/subtype for many samples; we decided to develop an in-house method with the goal of accurately identifying the genotype of all samples. As a Belgium National Centre of reference...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Goletti S,Zuyten S,Goeminne L,Verhofstede C,Rodriguez-Villalobos H,Bodeus M,Stärkel P,Horsmans Y,Kabamba-Mukadi B

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schistosoma sp. infection has been shown to interact with HIV-1 by modifying susceptibility to the virus and impacting AIDS outcome, but very little is known about the potential impact of Schistosoma sp. infection on the efficiency of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in HIV-1 infected individuals. One study su...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Masikini P,Colombe S,Marti A,Desderius B,de Dood CJ,Corstjens PLAM,van Dam GJ,Seugendo M,Kalluvya S,Downs JA

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purposes of this study were to determine the incidence of central and peripheral venous catheter-related bacteraemias, the relationship between the suspected and final confirmed bacteraemia origins, and the differences in microbiological, epidemiological, clinical, and analytical characteristics between ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ruiz-Giardin JM,Ochoa Chamorro I,Velázquez Ríos L,Jaqueti Aroca J,García Arata MI,SanMartín López JV,Guerrero Santillán M

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The inflammasome responses in Treponema pallidum infection have been poorly understood to date. This study aimed to investigate the expression of the nucleotide-binding leucine-rich receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome in the development of tissue inflammation in rabbits infected with T. pallidum. METHOD...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Lin LR,Xiao Y,Liu W,Chen YY,Zhu XZ,Gao ZX,Gao K,Tong ML,Zhang HL,Li SL,Lin HL,Li WD,Liang XM,Lin Y,Liu LL,Yang TC

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to further characterize the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) antigens, in order to provide new insight into host-pathogen interactions in tuberculosis (TB), and to offer tools for a more accurate diagnosis of the different stages of TB. METHODS:T-cell respons...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Sargentini V,Mariotti S,Carrara S,Gagliardi MC,Teloni R,Goletti D,Nisini R

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mozambican healthcare workers have high rates of latent and active tuberculosis, but occupational screening for tuberculosis is not routine in this setting. Furthermore, the specificity of tuberculin skin testing in this population compared with interferon gamma release assay testing has not been established...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Graves SK,Augusto O,Viegas SO,Lederer P,David C,Lee K,Hassane A,Cossa A,Amade S,Peleve S,Zindoga P,Massawo L,Torriani FJ,Nunes EA

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall antigen lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in urine permits diagnoses of tuberculosis (TB) to be made in HIV-infected patients with advanced immunodeficiency. This can be achieved at the point-of-care within just 30 minutes using the Determine TB-LAM, which is a commercially ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Lawn SD,Dheda K,Kerkhoff AD,Peter JG,Dorman S,Boehme CC,Nicol MP

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytomegalovirus retinitis is a common AIDS-associated illness, leading to blindness in up to 30% of patients. This study was to investigate the prevalence and clinical management of the cytomegalovirus retinitis associated with AIDS in a large municipality of China. METHODS:Clinical and laboratory data from...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Shi Y,Lu H,He T,Yang Y,Liu L,Zhang R,Zheng Y,Shen Y,Zhang Y,Zhang Z

更新日期：2011-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) outbreaks have been reported over the past decade. South Korea recently faced AI outbreaks whose economic impact was estimated to be 6.3 billion dollars, equivalent to nearly 50% of the profit generated by the poultry-related industries in 2008. In addition, AI ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kim T,Hwang W,Zhang A,Sen S,Ramanathan M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trichosporon mycotoxinivorans is a recently described yeast-like fungal organism and its association as a pathogen for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) was reported previously. We show the clinical course of a CF patient over 9 years as well as the applications of modern molecular and proteomic identificat...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Goldenberger D,Hinić V,Prince SS,Tamm M,Balestra AM,Hohler D,Frei R

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Influenza vaccination is recognized as a primary public health intervention which prevents the illness of patients and relieves the societal burdens of influenza for medical community as well as the economy. To date, no effectiveness study of influenza vaccination has been conducted including a large populat...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Shibata N,Kimura S,Hoshino T,Urushihara H

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Involvement of trochlear nerve during Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) Infection has been rarely described, and always in association with skin rash. CASE PRESENTATION:We describe the case of a patient with VZV infection presenting as isolated diplopia due to fourth cranial nerve palsy. The diagnosis has been o...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Pisapia R,Rianda A,Mariano A,Testa A,Galgani S,Vincenzi L,Abdeddaim A,Oliva A,Narciso P

更新日期：2013-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Ethiopia a tiebreaker algorithm using 3 rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in series is used to diagnose HIV. Discordant results between the first 2 RDTs are resolved by a third 'tiebreaker' RDT. Médecins Sans Frontières uses an alternate serial algorithm of 2 RDTs followed by a confirmation test for all doubl...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Shanks L,Siddiqui MR,Kliescikova J,Pearce N,Ariti C,Muluneh L,Pirou E,Ritmeijer K,Masiga J,Abebe A

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether viral coinfections cause more severe disease than Bordetella pertussis (B. pertussis) alone remains unclear. We compared clinical disease severity and sought clinical and demographic differences between infants with B. pertussis infection alone and those with respiratory viral coinfections. We also a...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Frassanito A,Nenna R,Nicolai A,Pierangeli A,Tozzi AE,Stefanelli P,Carsetti R,Concato C,Schiavoni I,Midulla F,Pertussis study group.

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Raw seafood consumption was identified as the major risk factor for hepatitis A during the large epidemic of 1996 and 1997 in Puglia (South Italy). In Puglia, vaccination for toddlers and preadolescents has been recommended since 1998.The aim of the study was to evaluate the incidence, seroprevalence, molecu...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Chironna M,Prato R,Sallustio A,Martinelli D,Tafuri S,Quarto M,Germinario C

更新日期：2012-10-25 00:00:00