A retrospective serological survey of hepatitis B virus infection in Northeast China.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uganda has experienced seven Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks and four Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreaks between 2000 and 2019. We investigated the seroprevalence and risk factors for Marburg virus and ebolaviruses in gold mining communities around Kitaka gold mine in Western Uganda and compared them ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Nyakarahuka L,Schafer IJ,Balinandi S,Mulei S,Tumusiime A,Kyondo J,Knust B,Lutwama J,Rollin P,Nichol S,Shoemaker T

更新日期：2020-07-01 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:Consumption of unwashed, raw or unhygienically prepared fruits and vegetables act as potential source for the spread of various parasitic diseases. Moreover, the level of contamination and species of contaminant parasites vary from place to place because of variations in environmental and human factors. Ther...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Alemu G,Mama M,Misker D,Haftu D

更新日期：2019-05-14 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:Group A Streptococcal (GAS) infections cause the autoimmune disease acute rheumatic fever (ARF), which can progress to chronic rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Treating pharyngitis caused by GAS with antibiotics is important in preventing ARF. However, it is difficult to distinguish these infections from GAS c...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Bennett J,Moreland NJ,Oliver J,Crane J,Williamson DA,Sika-Paotonu D,Harwood M,Upton A,Smith S,Carapetis J,Baker MG

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study is to elucidate the disinfection effect of ozone producing low-pressure Hg vapor lamps against human pathogens. Ozone producing low-pressure Hg vapor lamps emit mainly 254 nm ultraviolet light C (UVC) with about 10% power of Vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) light at 185 nm. The combination of UVC and VUV ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Szeto W,Yam WC,Huang H,Leung DYC

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial pathogen resistance to antibiotics including methicillin. The resistance first emerged in 1960 in a healthcare setting only after two years of using methicillin as a viable treatment for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus. MRSA lead...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Wagner R,Agusto FB

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decade, scrub typhus (ST) has been emerging or re-emerging in some areas of Asia, including Guangzhou, one of the most affected endemic areas of ST in China. METHODS:Based on the data on all cases reported in Guangzhou from 2006 to 2014, we characterized the epidemiological features, and identif...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Sun Y,Wei YH,Yang Y,Ma Y,de Vlas SJ,Yao HW,Huang Y,Ma MJ,Liu K,Li XN,Li XL,Zhang WH,Fang LQ,Yang ZC,Cao WC

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Belgian HIV epidemic is largely concentrated among men who have sex with men and Sub-Saharan Africans. We studied the continuum of HIV care of those diagnosed with HIV living in Belgium and its associated factors. METHODS:Data on new HIV diagnoses 2007-2010 and HIV-infected patients in care in 2010-2011...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Van Beckhoven D,Florence E,Ruelle J,Deblonde J,Verhofstede C,Callens S,Vancutsem E,Lacor P,Demeester R,Goffard JC,Sasse A,BREACH Belgian Research on AIDS and HIV Consortium.

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A decline in hemoglobin (Hb) concentration during antiviral therapy in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is a serious side effect. It may compel to dose reduction or even termination of antiviral treatment. The activation of erythropoietin (EPO) synthesis as a physiological response to anemia and its relation to a g...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Amanzada A,Goralczyk AD,Reinhardt L,Moriconi F,Cameron S,Mihm S

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to establish 1) the performance of chest X-ray (CXR) in all suspects of tuberculosis (TB), as well as smear-negative TB suspects and 2) to compare the cost-effectiveness of the routine diagnostic pathway using Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) sputum microscopy followed by CXR if case of neg...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： van Cleeff MR,Kivihya-Ndugga LE,Meme H,Odhiambo JA,Klatser PR

更新日期：2005-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetes is a risk factor for infection with coronaviruses. This study describes the demographic, clinical data, and outcomes of critically ill patients with diabetes and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). METHODS:This retrospective cohort study was conducted at 14 hospitals in Saudi Arabia (September...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Jose J,Al-Dorzi HM,Al-Omari A,Mandourah Y,Al-Hameed F,Sadat M,Al Qasim E,Alraddadi B,Al Harthy A,Al Mekhlafi GA,Almotairi A,Al Khatib K,Abdulmomen A,Qushmaq I,Sindi AA,Mady A,Solaiman O,Al-Raddadi R,Maghrabi K,Ragab

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The WHO guidelines for the management of advanced HIV disease recommend a package of care consisting of rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART), enhanced screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and cryptococcal meningitis, co-trimoxazole prophylaxis, isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT), fluconaz...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Benzekri NA,Sambou JF,Ndong S,Tamba IT,Faye D,Diallo MB,Diatta JP,Faye K,Sall I,Sall F,Manga NM,Malomar JJ,Ndour CT,Hawes SE,Seydi M,Gottlieb GS

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Temporary increases in plasma HIV RNA ('blips') are common in HIV patients on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). Blips above 500 copies/mL have been associated with subsequent viral rebound. It is not clear if this relationship still holds when measurements are made using newer more sensitive assays....

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Young J,Rickenbach M,Calmy A,Bernasconi E,Staehelin C,Schmid P,Cavassini M,Battegay M,Günthard HF,Bucher HC,Swiss HIV Cohort Study.

更新日期：2015-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Direct immunofluorescence assays (DFA) are a rapid and inexpensive method for the detection of respiratory viruses and may therefore be used for surveillance. Few epidemiological studies have been published based solely on DFA and none included respiratory picornaviruses and human metapneumovirus (hMPV). We ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Sadeghi CD,Aebi C,Gorgievski-Hrisoho M,Mühlemann K,Barbani MT

更新日期：2011-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Male urethritis is primary sexually transmitted. Northern Territory (NT) has the highest rates of gonococcal infection in Australia and local guidelines recommend empiric treatment with azithromycin and ceftriaxone for all men presenting with urethritis. As gonococcal drug resistance is a growing concern, th...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Chen W,Connor S,Gunathilake M

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter cinaedi is rarely identified as a cause of infected aneurysms; however, the number of reported cases has been increasing over several decades, especially in Japan. We report three cases of aortic aneurysm infected by H. cinaedi that were successfully treated using meropenem plus surgical stent g...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Matsuo T,Mori N,Mizuno A,Sakurai A,Kawai F,Starkey J,Ohkushi D,Abe K,Yamasaki M,Ito J,Yoshino K,Mikami Y,Uehara Y,Furukawa K

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In some populations, complete shifts in the genotype of the strain of measles circulating in the population have been observed, with given genotypes being replaced by new genotypes. Studies have postulated that such shifts may be attributable to differences between the fitness of the new and the old genotype...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Nojiri S,Vynnycky E,Gay N

更新日期：2008-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candida parapsilosis was the most common species causing candidemia in the 2010 China Hospital Invasive Fungal Surveillance Net (CHIF-NET) database. Compared to Candida albicans, the description of azole resistance and mechanisms in C. parapsilosis is very limited. We report a patient with C. parapsilosis ca...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Zhang L,Xiao M,Watts MR,Wang H,Fan X,Kong F,Xu YC

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variations of porB1A and porB1B genes and their serotypes exist in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from different geographical areas, and some site mutations in the porB1B gene correlate with drug resistance. METHODS:The β-lactamase production of N. gonorrhoeae isolates was determined by paper acidometric te...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Sun A,Fan X,Gu Y,Du P,Tang R,Mao Y,Lin X,Yan J

更新日期：2010-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Lao PDR, the epidemiology of varicella infection is uncertain, since it is not a notifiable disease and VZV outbreaks are rarely reported as fever/rash (F/R) diseases. METHODS:We estimated the seroprevalence of VZV (IgG ELISA) in different age cohorts (9 months to 46 years; N = 3139) and investigated VZV...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Nouanthong P,Hübschen JM,Billamay S,Mongkhoune S,Vilivong K,Khounvisith V,Sinner R,Grandadam M,Phonekeo D,Black AP,Muller CP

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute myopericarditis and exertional rhabdomyolysis, two uncommon but well-described diseases with potentially life-threatening effects, are generally considered as independent clinical entities. However, they may in fact be pathophysiologically related under certain circumstances. This is the first ever rep...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Tseng GS,Hsieh CY,Hsu CT,Lin JC,Chan JS

更新日期：2013-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although breast-feeding accounts for 15-20% of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV, it is not prohibited in some developing countries because of the higher mortality associated with not breast-feeding. We assessed the potential impact, on HIV infection and infant mortality, of a recommendation for sho...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Atashili J,Kalilani L,Seksaria V,Sickbert-Bennett EE

更新日期：2008-05-16 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:Despite the widespread offer of free HIV testing in France, the proportion of people who have never been tested remains high. The objective of this study was to identify, in men and women separately, the various factors independently associated with no lifetime HIV testing. METHODS:We used multilevel logist...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Massari V,Lapostolle A,Grupposo MC,Dray-Spira R,Costagliola D,Chauvin P

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endemic presence of Klebsiella pneumoniae resistant to carbapenem in Italy has been due principally to the clonal expansion of CC258 isolates; however, recent studies suggest an ongoing epidemiological change in this geographical area. METHODS:50 K. pneumoniae strains, 25 carbapenem-resistant (CR-Kp) and 25...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Fasciana T,Gentile B,Aquilina M,Ciammaruconi A,Mascarella C,Anselmo A,Fortunato A,Fillo S,Petralito G,Lista F,Giammanco A

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under-reporting of tuberculosis (TB) cases complicates disease control, hinders contact tracing and alters the accuracy of epidemiological data, including disease burden. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the proportion of unreported TB cases in Spanish healthcare facilities and to identify t...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Morales-García C,Rodrigo T,García-Clemente MM,Muñoz A,Bermúdez P,Casas F,Somoza M,Milá C,Penas A,Hidalgo C,Casals M,Caylá JA,Working Group on Under-reporting of Tuberculosis in Spain.

更新日期：2015-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an established correlation between maternal education and reduction in childhood mortality. One proposed link is that an increase in maternal education will lead to an increase in health care access and vaccine uptake. Vaccinations are a central preventative child health tool, therefore demonstratin...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Forshaw J,Gerver SM,Gill M,Cooper E,Manikam L,Ward H

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A global pandemic mortality study found prominent regional mortality variations in 2009 for Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09. Our study attempts to identify factors that explain why the pandemic mortality burden was high in some countries and low in others. METHODS:As a starting point, we identified possible risk fac...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Morales KF,Paget J,Spreeuwenberg P

更新日期：2017-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in developing countries like Bangladesh. Female sex workers (FSWs) and their clients are active sources for spreading TB. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge of TB among FSWs in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh. METHODS:It was a cross-sectional s...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Rana MM,Islam MR,MoinUddin S,Wadood MA,Hossain MG

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00