Epidemiology of urinary tract infection and antimicrobial resistance in a pediatric hospital in Nepal.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although resistance to isoniazid (INH) is the most common form of drug resistance seen among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, there have been few studies on the efficacy and optimal duration of treatment for patients with INH-resistant tuberculosis (TB). METHODS:We evaluated retrospectively the treatmen...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kim YH,Suh GY,Chung MP,Kim H,Kwon OJ,Lim SY,Lim SY,Koh WJ

更新日期：2008-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of mother-to-child transmission rate of HIV is high and risk factors are common in Ethiopia. This systematic review and meta-analysis intended to provide the pooled estimation of mother-to-child transmission rate and its risk factors in Ethiopia. METHODS:We searched PubMed, Google Scholar, EMBASE...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Endalamaw A,Demsie A,Eshetie S,Habtewold TD

更新日期：2018-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is little knowledge regarding the prevalence and nature of renal impairment in African populations initiating antiretroviral treatment, nor evidence to inform the most cost effective methods of screening for renal impairment. With the increasing availability of the potentially nephrotixic drug, tenofov...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Franey C,Knott D,Barnighausen T,Dedicoat M,Adam A,Lessells RJ,Newell ML,Cooke GS

更新日期：2009-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of life-threatening and invasive infections with encapsulated bacteria is increased in patients with hyposplenia or asplenia. We report a case of recurrent invasive pneumococcal meningitis in a woman with previous unknown hyposplenia. She was vaccinated after the first episode of meningitis and deve...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ballegaard VC,Schejbel L,Hoffmann S,Kantsø B,Fischer CP

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The widespread antimicrobial resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a serious problem for the treatment and control of gonorrhoea. Many of the previously effective therapeutic agents are no longer viable. Because N. gonorrhoeae infections are not reportable in Germany, only limited data on disease epidemiolo...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Buder S,Dudareva S,Jansen K,Loenenbach A,Nikisins S,Sailer A,Guhl E,Kohl PK,Bremer V,GORENET study group.

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal bloodstream infection (BSI) is the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Although most neonatal BSIs are primary bacteremia, some are associated with a focus of infection. This distinction is not well characterized. METHODS:All patients with neo...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Wu IH,Tsai MH,Lai MY,Hsu LF,Chiang MC,Lien R,Fu RH,Huang HR,Chu SM,Hsu JF

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing the dosage of daptomycin may be advantageous in severe infection by enhancing bactericidal activity and pharmacodynamics. However, clinical data on using daptomycin at doses above 6 mg/kg in Asian population are limited. METHODS:A retrospective observational cohort study of all hospitalized adult...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Lai CC,Sheng WH,Wang JT,Cheng A,Chuang YC,Chen YC,Chang SC

更新日期：2013-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of typhoid fever is confirmed by culture of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi (S. typhi). However, a more rapid, simpler, and cheaper diagnostic method would be very useful especially in developing countries. The Widal test is widely used in Africa but little information exists about its relia...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ley B,Mtove G,Thriemer K,Amos B,von Seidlein L,Hendriksen I,Mwambuli A,Shoo A,Malahiyo R,Ame SM,Kim DR,Ochiai LR,Clemens JD,Reyburn H,Wilfing H,Magesa S,Deen JL

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several symptoms are classically thought to be suggestive of pertussis in children, but the diagnostic value of these symptoms in adolescent and adult patients is unclear. We evaluated the accuracy of the clinical findings for the early presumptive diagnosis of pertussis in adolescent and adult patients. Fur...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Miyashita N,Akaike H,Teranishi H,Kawai Y,Ouchi K,Kato T,Hayashi T,Okimoto N

更新日期：2013-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Typhoid fever mainly occurs in (sub) tropical regions where sanitary conditions remain poor. In other regions it occurs mainly among returning travelers or their direct contacts. The aim of this study was to evaluate the current Dutch guidelines for typhoid vaccination. METHOD:Crude annual attack rates (AR)...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Suryapranata FS,Prins M,Sonder GJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:China faces a serious HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM), and a large proportion of new infections are attributed to their regular male sex partners (RP). The objective of this study was to investigate the association between intimate relationship characteristics and HIV-related behaviors amo...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： He J,Xu HF,Cheng WB,Zhang SJ,Gu J,Hao YT,Hao C

更新日期：2018-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug susceptibility testing (DST) remains an important concern for implementing treatment of MDR tuberculosis patients. Implementation of molecular tests for drug resistance identification would facilitate DST particularly in developing countries where culturing is difficult to perform. We have characterized...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Surcouf C,Heng S,Pierre-Audigier C,Cadet-Daniel V,Namouchi A,Murray A,Gicquel B,Guillard B

更新日期：2011-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Airborne fungi play an important role in causing allergy and infections in susceptible people. Identification of these fungi, based on morphological characteristics, is time-consuming, expertise-demanding, and could be inaccurate. METHODS:We developed an oligonucleotide array that could accurately identify ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Hung WT,Su SL,Shiu LY,Chang TC

更新日期：2011-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical site infections following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures pose substantial burden on patients and healthcare systems. This study aims to describe the incidence of surgical site infections and causative pathogens following CABG surgery over the period 2003-2012, and to identify risk fa...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Si D,Rajmokan M,Lakhan P,Marquess J,Coulter C,Paterson D

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide (NO*) plays a pivotal role as a leishmanicidal agent in mouse macrophages. NO* resistant Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been associated with a severe outcome of these diseases. METHODS:In this study we evaluated the in vitro toxicity of nitric oxide for the promastigote st...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Giudice A,Camada I,Leopoldo PT,Pereira JM,Riley LW,Wilson ME,Ho JL,de Jesus AR,Carvalho EM,Almeida RP

更新日期：2007-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Treatment of malaria in a timely manner could avert deaths. Treatment ultimately relies on the rapid and accurate diagnosis. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), a cytogenetic technique based on detection of specific nucleic acid, has the potential t...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kandie R,Ochola R,Njaanake K

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic (H1N1pdm) affected thousands of people in Mexico and the United States, and spread rapidly throughout the world from April 2009 to July 2010. To explore the age-specific prevalence of seroprotection against H1N1pdm infection, we estimated pre-existing humoral ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Lv J,Ren ZY,Zhang YY,Liu YE,Gao J,Yao K,Feng D,Li ZY,Feng X,Liu YX,Jia N

更新日期：2017-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brucellosis is endemic in many areas in China. The current diagnosis of Brucellosis predominantly relies on the traditional bacterial culture and serum agglutination test. In this study, we aimed to explore the value of ELISA in the diagnosis of Brucellosis in Chinese population. METHODS:We recruited 235 pa...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Xu N,Wang W,Chen F,Li W,Wang G

更新日期：2020-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to compare the transmissibility of the 2009 pH1N1 pandemic during successive waves of infections in summer and fall/winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and to assess the temporal changes during the course of the outbreak in relation to the intervention measures implemented, we analyze the epidemiolog...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Hsieh YH,Cheng KF,Wu TN,Li TC,Chen CY,Chen JH,Lin MH,Center for Infectious Education and Research Team.

更新日期：2011-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Central nervous system (CNS) infections are a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality globally. However, most published studies have been conducted in developed countries where the epidemiology and aetiology differ significantly from less developed areas. Additionally, there may be regional differ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Lee HG,William T,Menon J,Ralph AP,Ooi EE,Hou Y,Sessions O,Yeo TW

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has an increasing pediatric prevalence worldwide. However, molecular characteristics of C. difficile in Chinese children with acute gastroenteritis have not been reported. METHODS:A five-year cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary children's hospital in Zheji...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Shuai H,Bian Q,Luo Y,Zhou X,Song X,Ye J,Huang Q,Peng Z,Wu J,Jiang J,Jin D

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes of miRNAs in exosome have been reported in different disease diagnosis and provided as potential biomarkers. In this study, we compared microRNA profile in exosomes in 5 MHFMD and 5 ESHFMD as well as in 5 healthy children. METHODS:Different expression of miRNAs in exosomes across all the three group...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Jia HL,He CH,Wang ZY,Xu YF,Yin GQ,Mao LJ,Liu CW,Deng L

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Within the genus Aspergillus, A. flavus is the second most important species of clinical significance. It is predominantly associated with infections involving sinuses, eye and skin, mostly in geographic regions with hot and arid climate, including the Middle East. Recent reports on emergence of resistance t...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Al-Wathiqi F,Ahmad S,Khan Z

更新日期：2013-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug resistant tuberculosis is a major public health problem in Morocco and worldwide. Treatment outcome of drug resistant tuberculosis is poor and requires a long period of treatment with many toxic and expensive antituberculosis drugs. The aim of this study is to evaluate treatment outcomes of drug resista...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： El Hamdouni M,Bourkadi JE,Benamor J,Hassar M,Cherrah Y,Ahid S

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-brucellar and non-tuberculous infectious sacroiliitis (ISI) is a rare disease, with misleading clinical signs that delay diagnosis. Most observations are based on isolated case reports or small case series. Our aim was to describe the clinical, bacteriological, and radiological characteristics of ISI, as...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Hermet M,Minichiello E,Flipo RM,Dubost JJ,Allanore Y,Ziza JM,Gaudin P,Thomas T,Dernis E,Glace B,Regnier A,Soubrier M

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturing capacity and distribution agility is enhanced through the availability of equivalent antigen-sparing vaccines. We evaluated equivalence in terms of immunogenicity between GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines' A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)v-like-AS03 vaccines manufactured in Dresden ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Launay O,Duval X,Fitoussi S,Jilg W,Kerdpanich A,Montellano M,Schwarz TF,Watanveerade V,Wenzel JJ,Zalcman G,Bambure V,Li P,Caplanusi A,Madan A,Gillard P,Vaughn DW

更新日期：2013-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brain abscesses, a severe infectious disease of the CNS, are usually caused by a variety of different pathogens, which include Streptococcus intermedius (S. intermedius). Pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas (PAVFs), characterized by abnormal direct communication between pulmonary artery and vein, are a rare und...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Gao LY,Xu GR,Dai TJ

更新日期：2020-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Erysipelas is a common infection that often recurs, but the impact of specific risk factors for reoccurrence remains elusive. In the present study we aimed at clarifying predisposing conditions for reoccurrence. METHODS:Medical records were reviewed from all patients ≥18 years of age diagnosed with erysipel...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Inghammar M,Rasmussen M,Linder A

更新日期：2014-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged during 2009 and has spread worldwide. This virus can cause injuries to the lungs, liver, and heart. However, data regarding whether this influenza virus can affect pancreatic islets are limited. We investigated the effects of influenza A (H1N1) pneumonia on fasti...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Wang W,Chen H,Li Q,Qiu B,Wang J,Sun X,Xiang Y,Zhang J

更新日期：2011-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Streptococcus pneumoniae (Pnc), nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) and Moraxella catarrhalis (Mcat) are the most important bacterial pathogens associated with otitis media (OM). Previous studies have suggested that early upper respiratory tract (URT) bacterial carriage may increase risk of subsequent ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Sun W,Jacoby P,Riley TV,Bowman J,Leach AJ,Coates H,Weeks S,Cripps A,Lehmann D,Kalgoorlie Otitis Media Research Project Team.

更新日期：2012-12-21 00:00:00