Correction to: HCV-infected individuals have higher prevalence of comorbidity and multimorbidity: a retrospective cohort study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sustained health-related quality-of-life of patients surviving community-acquired pneumonia has not been accurately quantified. The aim of the current study was to quantify differences in health-related quality-of-life of community-dwelling elderly with and without community-acquired pneumonia during a 1...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Mangen MJ,Huijts SM,Bonten MJ,de Wit GA

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microascus cirrosus, the teleomorph of Scopulariopsis spp., is a saprobic species with a worldwide distribution and rarely causes human infection. In the present paper, we present the first case of primary cutaneous M. cirrosus infection in a Chinese female. CASE PRESENTATION:A 17-year-old female presented ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Gao L,Chen J,Gao D,Li M

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diarrhea is the second most common cause of death among children less than 5 years of age worldwide. The etiological agents of diarrhea in the southeast coastal area of China were studied from July 2009 to December 2014. METHODS:A total of the 2318 patients were enrolled in this study and examined for the p...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Zheng S,Yu F,Chen X,Cui D,Cheng Y,Xie G,Yang X,Han D,Wang Y,Zhang W,Chen Y

更新日期：2016-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Australia two acellular Bordetella pertussis vaccines have replaced the use of a whole cell vaccine. Both of the licensed acellular vaccines contain the following three components; pertussis toxoid, pertussis filamentous haemagglutinin and the 69 kDa pertactin adhesin. One vaccine also contains pertussis ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Byrne S,Slack AT

更新日期：2006-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of diabetes mellitus continues to inexorably rise in the United States and throughout the world. Lower limb amputations are a devastating comorbid complication of diabetes mellitus. Osteomyelitis increases the risk of amputation fourfold and commonly presages death. Antimicrobial therapy for d...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Bessesen MT,Doros G,Henrie AM,Harrington KM,Hermos JA,Bonomo RA,Ferguson RE,Huang GD,Brown ST

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to limited therapeutic options, the spread of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) have become a major public health concern. We conducted a prospective, randomized, open-label comparison of the therapeutic efficacy of piperacillin-tazobactam (PTZ), cefepime, and ertapenem in febrile nosocomial urin...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Seo YB,Lee J,Kim YK,Lee SS,Lee JA,Kim HY,Uh Y,Kim HS,Song W

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) spread and infections in patients with haematological malignancies are a serious concern especially in endemic areas. Treatment failures and delay in appropriate therapy for CRKP infections are frequent and the mortality rate associated with CRKP bacteremia i...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Micozzi A,Gentile G,Minotti C,Cartoni C,Capria S,Ballarò D,Santilli S,Pacetti E,Grammatico S,Bucaneve G,Foà R

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bloodstream infection (BSI) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality for patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The unrelated cord blood transplantation (UCBT) can provided opportunities for patients without suitable donors for bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and p...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ge J,Yang T,Zhang L,Zhang X,Zhu X,Tang B,Wan X,Tong J,Song K,Yao W,Sun G,Sun Z,Liu H

更新日期：2018-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Globally, diarrhea is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among less than 5 years old children and it contributes to the deaths of approximately one million children every year. In Ethiopia, diarrhea is the second cause of under-five mortality and morbidity. However, in the study area, studies were ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Workie GY,Akalu TY,Baraki AG

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complete clearance of intracellular viruses depends on effector cells of innate and adaptive immune systems. This study aimed to identify the relationships among antiviral cytokines produced by natural killer (NK) and T cells and clinical-virological characteristics in untreated chronic hepatitis B (CHB) pat...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Gu Y,Lian Y,Zheng Q,Huang Z,Gu L,Bi Y,Li J,Huang Y,Wu Y,Chen L,Huang Y

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lamivudine inhibits replication of both human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) and is commonly used as part of antiretroviral therapy. The main limitation in the use of lamivudine is resistant mutation selection. Most of these mutations affect the YMDD motif of the HBV DNA polymerase....

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Santos EA,Sucupira MV,Arabe J,Gomes SA

更新日期：2004-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early insights into the timing of the start, peak, and intensity of the influenza season could be useful in planning influenza prevention and control activities. To encourage development and innovation in influenza forecasting, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) organized a challenge to pre...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Biggerstaff M,Alper D,Dredze M,Fox S,Fung IC,Hickmann KS,Lewis B,Rosenfeld R,Shaman J,Tsou MH,Velardi P,Vespignani A,Finelli L,Influenza Forecasting Contest Working Group.

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clusters of infectious diseases are frequently detected late. Real-time, detailed information about an evolving cluster and possible associated conditions is essential for local policy makers, travelers planning to visit the area, and the local population. This is currently illustrated in the Zika virus outb...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Groeneveld GH,Dalhuijsen A,Kara-Zaïtri C,Hamilton B,de Waal MW,van Dissel JT,van Steenbergen JE

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibiotic resistance is a threat in developing countries (DCs) because of the high burden of bacterial disease and the presence of risk factors for its emergence and spread. This threat is of particular concern for neonates in DCs where over one-third of neonatal deaths may be attributable to severe infecti...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Huynh BT,Padget M,Garin B,Herindrainy P,Kermorvant-Duchemin E,Watier L,Guillemot D,Delarocque-Astagneau E

更新日期：2015-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infectious disease prevention and control strategies require a coordinated, transnational approach. To establish core capacities of the International Health Regulations (IHR), the World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy. Epidemic-prone Lassa...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Keïta M,Kizerbo GA,Subissi L,Traoré FA,Doré A,Camara MF,Barry A,Pallawo R,Baldé MO,Magassouba N,Djingarey MH,Fall IS

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Saudi Arabia (SA) and other Islamic countries are limited. This study describes the results of a five-year surveillance for STIs in SA. METHODS:This is a case series descriptive study of all confirmed STIs diagnosed in SA from January, 1995 through December,...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Madani TA

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) in Chinese hospitals is not clearly delineated. Thus we sought to assess the prevalence of MDRO in Chinese intensive care units (ICUs). METHODS:Prospective study of inpatients admitted consecutively to eight ICUs in four Chinese cities in 2009-10. Admis...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ma X,Wu Y,Li L,Xu Q,Hu B,Ni Y,Wu A,Sun S,Jarlier V,Robert J

更新日期：2015-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Development of tuberculosis (TB) is determined by various risk factors and the interactions of temporal and spatial distributions. The aim of this study was to identify the most salient risk factors for TB disease as well as multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB) at the oblast (provincial) level in Kazakhstan. MET...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Terlikbayeva A,Hermosilla S,Galea S,Schluger N,Yegeubayeva S,Abildayev T,Muminov T,Akiyanova F,Bartkowiak L,Zhumadilov Z,Sharman A,El-Bassel N

更新日期：2012-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) has been recognized as one of the leading infectious diseases among children in China, which causes hundreds of annual deaths since 2008. In China, the reports of monthly HFMD cases usually have a delay of 1-2 months due to the time needed for collecting and processing cl...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Zhao Y,Xu Q,Chen Y,Tsui KL

更新日期：2018-08-13 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:Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can progress to cirrhosis and end-stage liver disease in a substantial proportion of patients. The infection is frequently asymptomatic, leaving many infected individuals unaware of the diagnosis until complications occur. This advocates the screening of healthy indi...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kileng H,Gutteberg T,Goll R,Paulssen EJ

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification and differentiation of strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by DNA fingerprinting has provided a better understanding of the epidemiology and tracing the transmission of tuberculosis. We set out to determine if there was a relationship between the risk of belonging to a group of tuberculo...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Asiimwe BB,Joloba ML,Ghebremichael S,Koivula T,Kateete DP,Katabazi FA,Pennhag A,Petersson R,Kallenius G

更新日期：2009-02-05 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:HPV burden is a predictor for high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cancer. The natural history of HPV load in young women being recently exposed to HPV is described in this paper. METHODS:A total of 636 female university students were followed for 2 years. Cervical specimens with HPV-16, -18, -...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ramanakumar AV,Goncalves O,Richardson H,Tellier P,Ferenczy A,Coutlée F,Franco EL

更新日期：2010-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:African malaria vectors bite predominantly indoors at night so sleeping under an Insecticide-Treated Net (ITN) can greatly reduce malaria risk. Behavioural adaptation by mosquitoes to increasing ITN coverage could allow vector mosquitoes to bite outside of peak sleeping hours and undermine efficacy of this k...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Killeen GF,Kihonda J,Lyimo E,Oketch FR,Kotas ME,Mathenge E,Schellenberg JA,Lengeler C,Smith TA,Drakeley CJ

更新日期：2006-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The occurrence of antibiotic resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates is a serious public health problem in different corners of the globe. The objective of this study was to analyze the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of N. gonorrhoeae in Northwest Ethiopia. METHODS:This was a retrospective study of N...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Tibebu M,Shibabaw A,Medhin G,Kassu A

更新日期：2013-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:world has not faced a severe pandemic for decades, except the rather mild H1N1 one in 2009, pandemic influenza models are inherently hypothetical and validation is, thus, difficult. We aim at reconstructing a recent seasonal influenza epidemic that occurred in Switzerland and deem this to be a promising vali...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Smieszek T,Balmer M,Hattendorf J,Axhausen KW,Zinsstag J,Scholz RW

更新日期：2011-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The China-Myanmar border is a particularly interesting region that has very high prevalence of and considerable diversity of HIV-1 recombinants. Due to the transient nature of their work, long-distance truck drivers (LDTDs) have a comparatively high potential to become infected with HIV-1 and further spread ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Zhou YH,Liang YB,Pang W,Qin WH,Yao ZH,Chen X,Zhang C,Zheng YT

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibiotic resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii have been responsible for an increasing number of nosocomial infections including bacteremia and ventilator-associated pneumonia. In this study, we analyzed 38 isolates of A. baumannii obtained from two hospital outbreaks in Los Angeles County for the m...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Warner WA,Kuang SN,Hernandez R,Chong MC,Ewing PJ,Fleischer J,Meng J,Chu S,Terashita D,English L,Chen W,Xu HH

更新日期：2016-05-04 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