abstract：BACKGROUND:Device-associated health care-associated infections (DA-HAIs) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients constitute a major therapeutic issue complicating the regular hospitalisation process and having influence on patients' condition, length of hospitalisation, mortality and therapy cost. METHODS:The study invo...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Duszynska W,Rosenthal VD,Szczesny A,Zajaczkowska K,Fulek M,Tomaszewski J

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A more stringent QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT) conversion (from negative to positive) definition has been proposed to allow more definite detection of recent tuberculosis (TB) infection. We explored alternative conversion definitions to assist the interpretation of serial QFT results and estimate inciden...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Sloot R,Shanaube K,Claassens M,Telisinghe L,Schaap A,Godfrey-Faussett P,Ayles H,Floyd S

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Saksenaea species (spp.) are uncommon causes of mucormycosis but are emerging pathogens mostly associated with trauma and soil contamination often in immunocompetent hosts. Due to lack of sporulation in the laboratory, diagnosis and susceptibility testing is difficult so optimal treatment regimens are unknow...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Davidson N,Campbell K,Foroughi F,Tayal V,Lynar S,Crawford LC,Kidd SE,Baird R,Davies J,Meumann EM

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The triple burden of COVID-19, tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus is one of the major global health challenges of the twenty-first century. In high burden HIV/TB countries, the spread of COVID-19 among people living with HIV is a well-founded concern. A thorough understanding of HIV/TB and COVID-1...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Tamuzi JL,Ayele BT,Shumba CS,Adetokunboh OO,Uwimana-Nicol J,Haile ZT,Inugu J,Nyasulu PS

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In accordance with international guidance for tuberculosis (TB) prevention, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health recommends isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) for children aged 12 months and older who are living with HIV. Concerns about tolerability, adherence, and potential mistreatment of undiagnosed TB with m...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Hunter OF,Kyesi F,Ahluwalia AK,Daffé ZN,Munseri P,von Reyn CF,Adams LV

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spinal neuroschistosomiasis (SN) is one of the most severe clinical presentations of schistosomiasis infection and an ectopic form of the disease caused by any species of Schistosoma. In Brazil, all cases of this clinical manifestation are related to Schistosoma mansoni, the only species present in the count...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Domingues ALC,Barbosa CS,Agt TFA,Mota AB,Franco CMR,Lopes EP,Loyo R,Gomes ECS

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen which can invade different mammalian cells and reach to the central nervous system (CNS), leading to meningoencephalitis and brain abscesses. In the diagnosis of L. monocytogenes meningoencephalitis (LMM), the traditi...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Lan ZW,Xiao MJ,Guan YL,Zhan YJ,Tang XQ

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A healthy 25-year-old woman developed COVID-19 disease with clinical characteristics resembling Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), a rare form of COVID-19 described primarily in children under 21 years of age. CASE PRESENTATION:The patient presented with 1 week of weakness, dyspnea, and ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kofman AD,Sizemore EK,Detelich JF,Albrecht B,Piantadosi AL

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacteria responsible for infections in immunocompromised patients and is one of the most common causes of nosocomial infections particularly in intensive care and burn units. We aimed to investigate the population structure of P. aeruginosa strains isolated from pati...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Brzozowski M,Krukowska Ż,Galant K,Jursa-Kulesza J,Kosik-Bogacka D

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) control is a primary global health priority but the goal to eliminate TB is being threatened by the increase in incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). With this series of seven MDR-TB cases in migrant patients with identical Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains we aim to illu...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Joean O,Thiele T,Schütz K,Schwerk N,Sedlacek L,Kalsdorf B,Baumann U,Stoll M

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Raoultella planticola(R.planticola) is a very rare opportunistic pathogen and sometimes even associated with fatal infection in pediatric cases. Recently,the emergence of carbapenem resistance strains are constantly being reported and a growing source of concern for pediatricians. CASE PRESENTATION:We repor...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Chen X,Guo S,Liu D,Zhong M

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing antimalarial drug resistance is a significant hindrance to malaria control and elimination programs. For the last six decades, chloroquine (CQ) plus pyrimethamine remains the first-line treatment for P. vivax malaria. Regions where both P. falciparum and P. vivax co-exist, P. vivax is exposed ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kaur H,Sehgal R,Kumar A,Bharti PK,Bansal D,Mohapatra PK,Mahanta J,Sultan AA

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The parasite Entamoeba histolytica is the causal agent of amoebiasis, a worldwide emerging disease. Amebic brain abscess is a form of invasive amebiasis that is both rare and frequently lethal. This condition always begins with the infection of the colon by E. histolytica trophozoites, which subsequently tra...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Victoria-Hernández JA,Ventura-Saucedo A,López-Morones A,Martínez-Hernández SL,Medina-Rosales MN,Muñoz-Ortega M,Ávila-Blanco ME,Cervantes-García D,Barba-Gallardo LF,Ventura-Juárez J

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal sepsis is one of the major causes of death during the first month of life and early empirical treatment with injectable antibiotics is a life-saving intervention. Adherence to World Health Organisation guidelines on first line antibiotics is crucial to mitigate the risks of increased antimicrobial r...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ekman B,Paudel P,Basnet O,Kc A,Wrammert J

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that was firstly reported in Wuhan, China, with cases now confirmed in more than 100 countries. However, COVID-19 pneumonia with spontaneous pneumothorax is unknown. CASE PRESENTATION:We reported a case of 66-year-old man infected with COVID-19, presenting wi...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Chen X,Zhang G,Tang Y,Peng Z,Pan H

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease caused by brucella. It has been an increasing trend in recent years (Wang H, Xu WM, Zhu KJ, Zhu SJ, Zhang HF, Wang J, Yang Y, Shao FY, Jiang NM, Tao ZY, Jin HY, Tang Y, Huo LL, Dong F, Li ZJ, Ding H, Liu ZG, Emerg Microbes Infect 9:889-99, 2020). Brucellosis is capable to in...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Geng L,Feng Y,Li D,Nan N,Ma K,Tang X,Li X

更新日期：2020-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore the clinical features and CT findings of clinically cured coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with viral RNA positive anal swab results after discharge. METHODS:Forty-two patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to Yongzhou Central Hospital, Hunan, China, between January 20, 2020, and Ma...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Zhou H,Zhu L,Leng Y,Wang D,Bai HX,Xiong Z,Shi L,Liao W

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading globally. Recently, several articles have mentioned that the early acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) caused by COVID-19 significantly differ from those of ARDS due to other causes. Actually, we newly observed that some mechanica...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Xia J,Feng Y,Li M,Yu X,Zhang Y,Duan J,Zhan Q

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment is the most important cause of poor TB outcomes, and improving support for TB patients is a primary priority for governments, but there has been little research on the effects of family, social and national policy support factors on TB treatment adherence. The cur...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Chen X,Du L,Wu R,Xu J,Ji H,Zhang Y,Zhu X,Zhou L

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rise in antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern, and antibiotic overuse needs to be reduced. Earlier studies of out-of-hours care have indicated that antibiotic prescribing is less appropriate than that of in-hours care. However, no study has compared the out-of-hours treatment of infecti...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Cronberg O,Tyrstrup M,Ekblom K,Hedin K

更新日期：2020-08-20 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:Treatment of tuberculosis infection (TBI) in individuals at high risk for tuberculosis (TB) disease is a priority for TB elimination in the US. Newly arrived refugees in Middle Tennessee are screened for TBI, but factors associated with gaps in the TBI care cascade are not well characterized. METHODS:We ass...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Manful A,Waller L,Katz B,Cummins J,Warkentin J,Reagon B,Shaw-Kaikai J,Zhu Y,van der Heijden YF

更新日期：2020-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Globally, tuberculosis (TB) is the 10th leading cause of death. Despite no country achieved its target, the world health organization (WHO) proposed a 90-90-90 approach to fastening the end TB strategy. Improvement and progression of TB control need good knowledge and a favorable attitude towards the disease...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Gelaye KA,Debalkie G,Ayele TA,Wami SD,Sisay MM,Fetene D,Wolde HF,Akalu TY

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Listeriosis is a severe food-borne infection caused by the Gram-positive rod, Listeria monocytogenes. Despite the low incidence (3-8 cases per million), Listeriosis has a case fatality rate of 20-30% as it occurs predominantly in immunocompromised individuals at extremes of age, diabetics and pregnant women....

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Al Ohaly R,Ranganath N,Saffie MG,Shroff A

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to identify ten different 16S rRNA methyltransferase genes (rmtA, rmtB, rmtC, rmtD, armA, rmtF, npmA, rmtH, rmtE and rmtG) and their coexisting ESBL and carbapenemase with the emergence of three E.coli clones within a single study centre. METHODS:A total of 329 non-duplicate E.coli isolates...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Wangkheimayum J,Bhattacharjee M,Das BJ,Singha KM,Chanda DD,Bhattacharjee A

更新日期：2020-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of life-threatening complications, such as visceral disseminated varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection, is greater in immunosuppressed individuals, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. CASE PRESENTATION:Here, a case is reported of a Caucasian woman diagnosed with lupus nephritis an...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Vassia V,Croce A,Ravanini P,Leutner M,Saglietti C,Fangazio S,Quaglia M,Smirne C

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) may be resistant to immunosuppression reduction and ribavirin treatment in kidney transplant recipients because of mutant strains and severe side effects of ribavirin which conduct to dose reduction. Sofosbuvir efficacy is controversial. Peg-interferon 2 alpha (PEG-IFN) is currently c...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Ollivier-Hourmand I,Lebedel L,Lecouf A,Allaire M,Nguyen TTN,Lier C,Dao T

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of bacterial diarrhea worldwide, and increasing rates of fluoroquinolone (FQ) resistance in C. jejuni are a major public health concern. The rapid detection and tracking of FQ resistance are critical needs in developing countries, as these antimicrobials are widely use...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Espinoza N,Rojas J,Pollett S,Meza R,Patiño L,Leiva M,Camiña M,Bernal M,Reynolds ND,Maves R,Tilley DH,Kasper M,Simons MP

更新日期：2020-07-16 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:The spread of airborne infectious diseases such as measles is a critical public health concern. The U.S. was certified measles-free in 2000, but the number of measles cases has increased in recent years breaking the record of the nationwide annual number of cases since 1992. Although the characteristics of s...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Azimi P,Keshavarz Z,Cedeno Laurent JG,Allen JG

更新日期：2020-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) can be challenging to diagnose, often requiring bronchoscopy. Since most patients suspected of PJP undergo imaging, we hypothesized that the findings of these studies could help estimate the probability of disease prior to invasive testing. METHODS:We created a cohort ...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Hsu JM,Hass A,Gingras MA,Chong J,Costiniuk C,Ezer N,Fraser RS,McDonald EG,Lee TC

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asymptomatic screening for gonorrhoea in heterosexual men is currently not recommended in many countries including Australia, given the prevalence is relatively low in the heterosexual population. We aimed to determine the proportion of urethral gonorrhoea cases among heterosexual men attending a sexual heal...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Martín-Sánchez M,Ong JJ,Fairley CK,Chen MY,Williamson DA,Maddaford K,Aung ET,Carter G,Bradshaw CS,Chow EPF

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extended use of oseltamivir in an immunocompromised host could reportedly induce neuraminidase gene mutation possibly leading to oseltamivir-resistant influenza A/H3N2 virus. To our knowledge, no report is available on the clinical course of a severely immunocompromised patient with a dual E119D/R292K neuram...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Harada N,Shibata W,Koh H,Takashita E,Fujisaki S,Okamura H,Nanno S,Yamada K,Nakamae H,Hino M,Kakeya H

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

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:Men who have sex with men (MSM) bear a high burden of syphilis infection. Expanding syphilis testing to improve timely diagnosis and treatment is critical to improve syphilis control. However, syphilis testing rates remain low among MSM, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. We describe the proto...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Cheng W,Wang C,Tang W,Ong JJ,Fu H,Marks M,Smith MK,Li C,Nie J,Zhao P,Zheng H,Yang B,Tucker JD

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial infections are the most frequent complications in patients with malignancy, and the epidemiology of nosocomial infections among cancer patients has changed over time. This study aimed to evaluate the characteristics, antibiotic resistance patterns, and prognosis of nosocomial infections due to mult...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Jiang AM,Shi X,Liu N,Gao H,Ren MD,Zheng XQ,Fu X,Liang X,Ruan ZP,Yao Y,Tian T

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Why human tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) cases differ from year to year, in some years more 100%, has not been clarified, yet. The cause of the increasing or decreasing trends is also controversial. Austria is the only country in Europe where a 40-year TBE time series and an official vaccine coverage time ser...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Rubel F,Walter M,Vogelgesang JR,Brugger K

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ordinal health longitudinal response variables have distributions that make them unsuitable for many popular statistical models that assume normality. We present a multilevel growth model that may be more suitable for medical ordinal longitudinal outcomes than are statistical models that assume normality and...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Dessie ZG,Zewotir T,Mwambi H,North D

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PCRctic is an innovative assay based on 16S rDNA PCR technology that has been designed to detect a single intact bacterium in a specimen of cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF). The assay's potential for accurate, fast and inexpensive discrimination of bacteria-free CSF makes it an ideal adjunct for confident exclusio...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Abelian A,Mund T,Curran MD,Savill SA,Mitra N,Charan C,Ogilvy-Stuart AL,Pelham HRB,Dear PH

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of people living with HIV is key in HIV prevention and control. Partner Notification service is a World Health Organization backed strategy of reaching out to sexual partners of people diagnosed with HIV for HIV testing. However, its adoption and success rate in Kenya remains unknown. METHODS...

journal_title：BMC infectious diseases

authors： Kariuki RM,Rithaa GK,Oyugi EO,Gachathi DM

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00