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: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: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:Recent analysis of trends of non-invasive infections with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), of trends of MRSA infections in outpatient settings and of co-resistance profiles of MRSA isolates are scarce or lacking in Germany. METHODS:We analysed data from the Antimicrobial Resistance Survei...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Walter J,Noll I,Feig M,Weiss B,Claus H,Werner G,Eckmanns T,Hermes J,Abu Sin M

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current diagnostic methods for Schistosoma japonicum infection are insensitive for low-density infections. Therefore, a new diagnostic assay based on recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) technology was established and assessed for field applification. METHODS:The S.japonicum RPA assay was developed to...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Xing W,Yu X,Feng J,Sun K,Fu W,Wang Y,Zou M,Xia W,Luo Z,He H,Li Y,Xu D

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most optimal antifungal agent for empiric treatment of invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) in febrile neutropenia is controversial. Our objective was evaluate the relative efficacy of antifungals for all-cause mortality, fungal infection-related mortality and treatment response in this population. METHODS:P...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Chen K,Wang Q,Pleasants RA,Ge L,Liu W,Peng K,Zhai S

更新日期：2017-02-20 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:Enterovirus 71 (EV-A71) shows a potential of rapid death, but the natural history of the infection is poorly known. This study aimed to examine the natural history of EV-A71 infection. METHODS:This was a prospective longitudinal observational study performed between January 1st and October 31st, 2012, at th...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Yang SD,Li PQ,Li YM,Li W,Lai WY,Zhu CP,Tao JP,Deng L,Liu HS,Ma WC,Lu JM,Hong Y,Liang YT,Shen J,Hu DD,Gao YY,Zhou Y,Situ MX,Chen YL

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Procalcitonin (PCT) has become a commonly used serum inflammatory marker. Our aim was to describe the kinetics and usefulness of serial post-operative PCT measurements to detect bacterial infection in a cohort of children immediately after pediatric liver transplantation (pLT). METHODS:We performed a retros...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Cousin VL,Lambert K,Trabelsi S,Galetto-Lacour A,Posfay-Barbe KM,Wildhaber BE,McLin VA

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bronchiolitis is considered one of the earliest and most common causes of hospitalisation in young children. Development of molecular technologies allowed a better understanding of bronchiolitis aetiology. Results from cohort studies evaluating the association between single, multiple viral infections and cl...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Janahi I,Abdulkayoum A,Almeshwesh F,Alkuwari M,Al Hammadi A,Alameri M

更新日期：2017-02-13 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:Screening for benign or malignant process of pelvis in young females is a challenge for a physician in a limited resource country. Tuberculosis should be always considered in the differential diagnosis of a pelvic mass in countries with high prevalence of tuberculosis. Negative results of analysis of periton...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Namani S,Qehaja-Buçaj E,Namani D

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to a lack of survey of health care seeking behavior for influenza, the actual magnitude of influenza in Beijing of China has not been well described. METHODS:During 2013-2014 influenza season, two cross-sectional household surveys were carried out respectively during the epidemic and non-epidemic season...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Wang X,Wu S,Yang P,Li H,Chu Y,Tang Y,Hua W,Zhang H,Li C,Wang Q

更新日期：2017-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community-genotype methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CG-MRSA) clones are a global concern due to their resistance and increased virulence and their ability to cause infections both hospitalized patients and healthy people in the community. Here, we characterize 32 isolates of a new CG-MRSA clone. ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Escobar-Perez J,Reyes N,Marquez-Ortiz RA,Rebollo J,Pinzón H,Tovar C,Moreno-Castañeda J,Corredor ZL,Castro BE,Moncada MV,Vanegas N

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Ethiopia, measles case-based surveillance was introduced in 2004 as one strategy for measles control by laboratory confirmation of suspected cases. In this article, epidemiological distribution of laboratory-confirmed measles cases were reported from the Southern Nation Nationalities and Peoples Region (S...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Getahun M,Beyene B,Ademe A,Teshome B,Tefera M,Afework A,HaileMariam Y,Assefa E,Hailegiorgis Y,Asha A

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death from infectious diseases worldwide. Sputum smear microscopy remains the most widely available pulmonary TB diagnostic tool particularly in resource limited settings. A highly sensitive diagnostic with minimal infrast...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Gelaw B,Shiferaw Y,Alemayehu M,Bashaw AA

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date more than 20 antigenically distinct strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi (OT) reported within the tsutsugamushi triangle that cause an undifferentiated acute febrile illness in humans. Genotypic characterization of OT in different geographic regions or within the same country, is important in order to e...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Premaratna R,Blanton LS,Samaraweera DN,de Silva GN,Chandrasena NT,Walker DH,de Silva HJ

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Statin use is associated with a modest increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) among the general population. However, HIV-infected patients have a higher risk of developing DM, and it is unclear whether statins have a diabetogenic effect in these patients. Therefore, we investigated the as...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Spagnuolo V,Galli L,Poli A,Salpietro S,Gianotti N,Piatti P,Cossarini F,Vinci C,Carini E,Lazzarin A,Castagna A

更新日期：2017-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A previous study explored factors discriminating colonization and true infection among non-transplant, non-neutropenic patients with repeated Aspergillus spp. isolation from lower respiratory samples. The present study explored the evolution of patients with Aspergillus colonization in that study to determin...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Barberán J,García-Pérez FJ,Villena V,Fernández-Villar A,Malmierca E,Salas C,Giménez MJ,Granizo JJ,Aguilar L,working group on Infectious Diseases from the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine.

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with contact to healthcare-system in high-prevalence countries (HPC) and refugee patients in hospital settings (REF) have previously been identified to be at risk of carrying multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO). Comparative studies addressing the epidemiology of MDRO in patients transferred from ho...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Reinheimer C,Kempf VA,Jozsa K,Wichelhaus TA,Hogardt M,O'Rourke F,Brandt C

更新日期：2017-01-05 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 Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is proposed to be a zoonotic disease. Dromedary camels have been implicated due to reports that some confirmed cases were exposed to camels. Risk factors for MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections in humans are incompletely understood. This study aimed to describe ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Aleanizy FS,Mohmed N,Alqahtani FY,El Hadi Mohamed RA

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2009 revised World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for dengue describe fever as the core symptom. Accordingly, the diagnosis of non-febrile patients is complicated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the importance of fever in patients with dengue according to the 2009 revised WHO classification....

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Tukasan C,Furlan NB,Estofolete CF,Nogueira ML,da Silva NS

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is caused by MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV). More than 80% of reported cases have occurred in Saudi Arabia, with a mortality exceeding 50%. Health-care workers (HCWs) are at risk of acquiring and transmitting this virus, so the concerns of HCWs in Saudi Arabia regarding M...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Abolfotouh MA,AlQarni AA,Al-Ghamdi SM,Salam M,Al-Assiri MH,Balkhy HH

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There currently is a severe Zika Virus (ZIKV) epidemic in Brazil and other South American countries. Due to international travel, this poses severe public health risk of ZIKV importation to other countries. We estimate the prevalence of ZIKV in an import region by the time a microcephaly case is detected, si...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Saad-Roy CM,van den Driessche P,Ma J

更新日期：2016-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amoebic liver abscess is the most common extra intestinal manifestation of amoebiasis in tropical countries. It usually presents with right hypochondrial pain, fever and anorexia. Amoebic liver abscess has gained clinical significance due to the wide variety of clinical presentations which can cause diagnost...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ratnasamy V,Thirunavukarasu K,Selvam K,Arumugam M

更新日期：2016-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although early presentation to HIV-care is essential to ensure timely initiation of antiretroviral therapy, recent studies have shown that especially migrants present to HIV-care at a later stage of HIV-infection. Currently, thirty percent of all newly diagnosed HIV cases in Germany originate from abroad. So...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Zeitlmann N,Gunsenheimer-Bartmeyer B,Santos-Hövener C,Kollan C,An der Heiden M,ClinSurv Study Group.

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systematic reviews suggest that the incidence of diagnosed tuberculosis is two- to- three times higher in those with diabetes mellitus than in those without. Few studies have previously reported the association between diabetes or hyperglycaemia and the prevalence of active tuberculosis and none in a populat...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Bailey SL,Ayles H,Beyers N,Godfrey-Faussett P,Muyoyeta M,du Toit E,Yudkin JS,Floyd S

更新日期：2016-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The central-line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) are the most common healthcare-associated infections in childhood. Despite the international data available on healthcare-associated infections in selected groups of patients, there is a lack of large and good quality studies. The present survey is ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Venturini E,Montagnani C,Benni A,Becciani S,Biermann KP,De Masi S,Chiappini E,de Martino M,Galli L,CLABSI (central-line associated bloodstream infections) study group.

更新日期：2016-12-01 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: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:The preferred regimen for HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is based mainly on safety and tolerability because it is given to immunocompetent people without HIV infection for a limited time (28 days). The frequency of adverse events (AEs) may be > 60%. Although AEs are generally not severe, they can lead t...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Valin N,Fonquernie L,Daguenel A,Campa P,Anthony T,Guiguet M,Girard PM,Meyohas MC

更新日期：2016-11-29 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:The most frequent pathogen that causes bacterial meningitis is the Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus (S.) pneumoniae. CCAAT/enhancer binding protein δ is a transcription factor that has recently been hypothesized to play a detrimental role in outcome of meningitis caused by S. pneumoniae. Here, we studie...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Duitman J,Valls Serón M,Engelen-Lee J,Brouwer MC,Spek CA,van de Beek D

更新日期：2016-11-11 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:Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is one of the commonest cancers in Central Africa, a region with the unusual peculiarity to be hyperendemic for infections with Hepatitis B, C and D viruses. However, data estimating the respective proportions of HCC cases attributable to these viruses are still limited in this...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Amougou MA,Noah DN,Moundipa PF,Pineau P,Njouom R

更新日期：2016-11-07 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:Information about improvements in the health status of population at-risk of helminth infection after anthelminthic treatment helps to evaluate the effectiveness of the large scale deworming program. The objectives of this study were to assess the impact of anthelminthic treatment on the prevalence and inten...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Yimam Y,Degarege A,Erko B

更新日期：2016-10-28 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: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