Issue 1/2011
Content (359 Articles)
Factors associated with mortality in patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis
Payam Nahid, Leah G Jarlsberg, Irina Rudoy, Bouke C de Jong, Alon Unger, L Masae Kawamura, Dennis H Osmond, Philip C Hopewell, Charles L Daley
Sources, perceived usefulness and understanding of information disseminated to families who entered home quarantine during the H1N1 pandemic in Victoria, Australia: a cross-sectional study
Anne M Kavanagh, Rebecca J Bentley, Kate E Mason, Jodie McVernon, Sylvia Petrony, James Fielding, Anthony D LaMontagne, David M Studdert
A comparative examination of tuberculosis immigration medical screening programs from selected countries with high immigration and low tuberculosis incidence rates
Gonzalo G Alvarez, Brian Gushulak, Khaled Abu Rumman, Ekkehardt Altpeter, Daniel Chemtob, Paul Douglas, Connie Erkens, Peter Helbling, Ingrid Hamilton, Jane Jones, Alberto Matteelli, Marie-Claire Paty, Drew L Posey, Daniel Sagebiel, Erika Slump, Anders Tegnell, Elena Rodríguez Valín, Brita Askeland Winje, Edward Ellis
Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniaeas primary causes of acute otitis media in colombian children: a prospective study
Alexandra Sierra, Pio Lopez, Mercedes A Zapata, Beatriz Vanegas, Maria M Castrejon, Rodrigo DeAntonio, William P Hausdorff, Romulo E Colindres
Prognostic factors and monomicrobial necrotizing fasciitis: gram-positive versus gram-negative pathogens
Ching-Yu Lee, Liang-Tseng Kuo, Kuo-Ti Peng, Wei-Hsiu Hsu, Tsan-Wen Huang, Ying-Chao Chou
The antimicrobial resistance patterns and associated determinants in Streptococcus suisisolated from humans in southern Vietnam, 1997-2008
Ngo T Hoa, Tran TB Chieu, Ho DT Nghia, Nguyen TH Mai, Pham H Anh, Marcel Wolbers, Stephen Baker, James I Campbell, Nguyen VV Chau, Tran T Hien, Jeremy Farrar, Constance Schultsz
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) types Western blot (WB) band profiles as potential surrogate markers of HIV disease progression and predictors of vertical transmission in a cohort of infected but antiretroviral therapy naïve pregnant women in Harare, Zimbabwe
Kerina Duri, Fredrik Müller, Felicity Z Gumbo, Nyaradzai E Kurewa, Simba Rusakaniko, Mike Z Chirenje, Munyaradzi P Mapingure, Babill Stray-Pedersen
Prevalence and cumulative incidence of abnormal cervical cytology among HIV-infected Thai women: a 5.5-year retrospective cohort study
Amphan Chalermchockcharoenkit, Chenchit Chayachinda, Manopchai Thamkhantho, Chulaluk Komoltri
Burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in the Middle Eastern and North African pediatric population
Hanane Khoury, Isla Ogilvie, Antoine C El Khoury, Yinghui Duan, Mireille M Goetghebeur
Bacterial vaginosis is associated with uterine cervical human papillomavirus infection: a meta-analysis
Evy Gillet, Joris FA Meys, Hans Verstraelen, Carolyne Bosire, Philippe De Sutter, Marleen Temmerman, Davy Vanden Broeck
Factors associated with presentation to care with advanced HIV disease in Brussels and Northern France: 1997-2007
Bakhao Ndiaye, Julia Salleron, Anne Vincent, Pierre Bataille, Frédérique Bonnevie, Philippe Choisy, Karine Cochonat, Clotilde Fontier, Habib Guerroumi, Bernard Vandercam, Hugues Melliez, Yazdan Yazdanpanah
Clinical profiles of patients colonized or infected with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates: a 20 month retrospective study at a Belgian University Hospital
Didier Schoevaerdts, Pierre Bogaerts, Alexandre Grimmelprez, Marie de Saint-Hubert, Bénédicte Delaere, Jacques Jamart, Christian Swine, Youri Glupczynski
Efficacy and Safety of Prophylactic Vaccines against Cervical HPV Infection and Diseases among Women: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis
Beibei Lu, Ambuj Kumar, Xavier Castellsagué, Anna R Giuliano
Chromoblastomycosis after a leech bite complicated by myiasis: a case report
Günther Slesak, Saythong Inthalad, Michel Strobel, Matthias Marschal, Martin JR Hall, Paul N Newton
Antibody dynamics and spontaneous viral clearance in patients with acute hepatitis C infection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alexander M Strasak, Arthur Y Kim, Georg M Lauer, Paulo S de Sousa, Cleber F Ginuino, Carlos A Fernandes, Carlos E Velloso, Adilson J de Almeida, Jaqueline M de Oliveira, Clara F Yoshida, Julian Schulze zur Wiesch, Gláucia Paranhos-Baccalá, Stefan Lang, Larry J Brant, Hanno Ulmer, Susanne Strohmaier, Lalit Kaltenbach, Elisabeth Lampe, Lia L Lewis-Ximenez
Is public transport a risk factor for acute respiratory infection?
Joy Troko, Puja Myles, Jack Gibson, Ahmed Hashim, Joanne Enstone, Susan Kingdon, Christopher Packham, Shahid Amin, Andrew Hayward, Jonathan Nguyen Van-Tam
Neurosyphilis manifesting with unilateral visual loss and hyponatremia: a case report
Katrin Milger, Vera Fleig, Anke Kohlenberg, Thomas Discher, Jürgen Lohmeyer
Possible impact of rising sea levels on vector-borne infectious diseases
Ranjan Ramasamy, Sinnathamby N Surendran
Prevalence and risk factors of latent tuberculosis infection among health care workers in Malaysia
Shaharudin Rafiza, Krishna Gopal Rampal, Aris Tahir
Genital warts and infection with human immunodeficiency virus in high-risk women in Burkina Faso: a longitudinal study
Andrea J Low, Tim Clayton, Issouf Konate, Nicolas Nagot, Abdoulaye Ouedraogo, Charlotte Huet, Marie-Noelle Didelot-Rousseau, Michel Segondy, Philippe Van de Perre, Philippe Mayaud
A case of septicaemic anthrax in an intravenous drug user
Arfon GMT Powell, Joseph EM Crozier, Heather Hodgson, David J Galloway
Tuberculosis infection among homeless persons and caregivers in a high-tuberculosis-prevalence area in Japan: a cross-sectional study
Takahiro Tabuchi, Toshio Takatorige, Yukio Hirayama, Nobuaki Nakata, Shigeyoshi Harihara, Akira Shimouchi, Koshiro Fujita, Hiroko Yoshida, Yoshitaka Tamura, Takayuki Nagai, Tomoshige Matsumoto, Tetsuya Takashima, Hiroyasu Iso
Long-term CD4+ T-cell count evolution after switching from regimens including HIV nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI) plus protease inhibitors to regimens containing NRTI plus non-NRTI or only NRTI
Carlo Torti, Antonella d'Arminio-Monforte, Anton L Pozniak, Giuseppe Lapadula, Giuliana Cologni, Andrea Antinori, Andrea De Luca, Cristina Mussini, Antonella Castagna, Paola Cicconi, Lorenzo Minoli, Andrea Costantini, Giampiero Carosi, Hua Liang, Bruno M Cesana
Knowledge and attitudes of healthcare workers in Chinese intensive care units regarding 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic
Xiaochun Ma, Zhenyang He, Yushan Wang, Li Jiang, Yuan Xu, Chuanyun Qian, Rongqing Sun, Erzhen Chen, Zhenjie Hu, Lihua Zhou, Fachun Zhou, Tiehe Qin, Xiangyuan Cao, Youzhong An, Renhua Sun, Xijing Zhang, Jiandong Lin, Yuhang Ai, Dawei Wu, Bin Du
Immunologically reactive M. leprae antigens with relevance to diagnosis and vaccine development
Lucas H Sampaio, Mariane MA Stefani, Regiane M Oliveira, Ana LM Sousa, Greg C Ireton, Steven G Reed, Malcolm S Duthie
A prospective registry of emergency department patients admitted with infection
Julian M Williams, Jaimi H Greenslade, Juliet V McKenzie, Kevin H Chu, Anthony FT Brown, David Paterson, Jeffrey Lipman
The spatial epidemiology and clinical features of reported cases of La Crosse Virus infection in West Virginia from 2003 to 2007
Andrew D Haddow, Danae Bixler, Agricola Odoi
Clinical features, acute complications, and outcome of Salmonella meningitis in children under one year of age in Taiwan
Hung-Ming Wu, Wan-Yu Huang, Meng-Luen Lee, Albert D Yang, Ko-Ping Chaou, Lin-Yu Hsieh
Outcomes and associated risk factors of patients traced after being lost to follow-up from antiretroviral treatment in Lilongwe, Malawi
Ralf Weigel, Mindy Hochgesang, Martin WG Brinkhof, Mina C Hosseinipour, Matt Boxshall, Eustice Mhango, Brains Nkwazi, Hannock Tweya, Maggie Kamlaka, Frederick Chagwera, Sam Phiri
Successful treatment of a child with vascular pythiosis
Tavitiya Sudjaritruk, Virat Sirisanthana
Dengue-2 Structural Proteins Associate with Human Proteins to Produce a Coagulation and Innate Immune Response Biased Interactome
Brenda B Folly, Almeriane M Weffort-Santos, CG Fathman, Luis RB Soares
'The difference in determinants of Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium in a sample of young Australian women.'
Jennifer Walker, Christopher K Fairley, Catriona S Bradshaw, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Marcus Y Chen, Jimmy Twin, Nicole Taylor, Basil Donovan, John K Kaldor, Kathleen McNamee, Eve Urban, Sandra Walker, Marian Currie, Hudson Birden, Francis Bowden, Jane Gunn, Marie Pirotta, Lyle Gurrin, Veerakathy Harindra, Suzanne Garland, Jane S Hocking
Geodemographics profiling of influenza A and B virus infections in community neighborhoods in Japan
Yoshinari Kimura, Reiko Saito, Yoshiki Tsujimoto, Yasuhiko Ono, Tomoki Nakaya, Yugo Shobugawa, Asami Sasaki, Taeko Oguma, Hiroshi Suzuki
The impact of maternal HIV infection on cord blood lymphocyte subsets and cytokine profile in exposed non-infected newborns
Eliane Borges-Almeida, Helaine MBPM Milanez, Maria Marluce S Vilela, Fernanda GP Cunha, Beatriz M Abramczuk, Suiellen C Reis-Alves, Konradin Metze, Irene Lorand-Metze
Incidence of Hepatitis-C among HIV infected men who have sex with men (MSM) attending a sexual health service: a cohort study
Deepa G Gamage, Tim RH Read, Catriona S Bradshaw, Jane S Hocking, Kerry Howley, Marcus Y Chen, Christopher K Fairley
Early changes in inflammatory and pro-thrombotic biomarkers in patients initiating antiretroviral therapy with abacavir or tenofovir
Authors: Sergio Padilla, Mar Masiá, Natalia García, Inmaculada Jarrin, Consuelo Tormo, Félix Gutiérrez
Twelve years' detection of respiratory viruses by immunofluorescence in hospitalised children: impact of the introduction of a new respiratory picornavirus assay
Christine D Sadeghi, Christoph Aebi, Meri Gorgievski-Hrisoho, Kathrin Mühlemann, Maria Teresa Barbani
Antibodies against Coxiella burnetii and pregnancy outcome during the 2007-2008 Q fever outbreaks in the Netherlands
Wim van der Hoek, Jamie CE Meekelenkamp, Alexander CAP Leenders, Nancy Wijers, Daan W Notermans, Chantal WPM Hukkelhoven
High prevalence of childhood multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Johannesburg, South Africa: a cross sectional study
Lee Fairlie, Natalie C Beylis, Gary Reubenson, David P Moore, Shabir A Madhi
Adherence to treatment guidelines for acute diarrhoea in children up to 12 years in Ujjain, India - a cross-sectional prescription analysis
Deepali Pathak, Ashish Pathak, Gaetano Marrone, Vishal Diwan, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
Study design and participant characteristics of a randomized controlled trial of directly administered antiretroviral therapy in opioid treatment programs
Bernadette Anna Mullen, Katie Cook, Richard D Moore, Cynthia Rand, Noya Galai, Mary E McCaul, Sheldon Glass, Krisann K Oursler, Gregory M Lucas
The GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic spreading scenarios at the global scale
Wouter Van den Broeck, Corrado Gioannini, Bruno Gonçalves, Marco Quaggiotto, Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani
Tuberculous meningitis in Denmark: a review of 50 cases
Anne-Sophie H Christensen, Åse B Andersen, Vibeke Ø Thomsen, Peter H Andersen, Isik S Johansen
Phylogenetic and recombination analysis of human bocavirus 2
Weixia Cheng, Jinan Chen, Ziqian Xu, Jiemei Yu, Canping Huang, Miao Jin, Huiying Li, Ming Zhang, Yu Jin, Zhao-jun Duan
Maternal and perinatal factors associated with hospitalised infectious mononucleosis in children, adolescents and young adults: record linkage study
Imran Mahmud, Omar A Abdel-Mannan, Clare J Wotton, Michael J Goldacre
Should colloid boluses be prioritized over crystalloid boluses for the management of dengue shock syndrome in the presence of ascites and pleural effusions?
Ranjan Premaratna, Erandi Liyanaarachchi, Mindu Weerasinghe, H Janaka de Silva
Dynamic changes of serum soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (sTREM-1) reflect sepsis severity and can predict prognosis: a prospective study
Jie Zhang, Danyang She, Dan Feng, Yanhong Jia, Lixin Xie
Weight and height z-scores improve after initiating ART among HIV-infected children in rural Zambia: a cohort study
Catherine G Sutcliffe, Janneke H van Dijk, Bornface Munsanje, Francis Hamangaba, Pamela Sinywimaanzi, Philip E Thuma, William J Moss
Timely HAART initiation may pave the way for a better viral control
Paola Paci, Federico Martini, Massimo Bernaschi, Gianpiero D'Offizi, Filippo Castiglione
Malaria prevention reduces in-hospital mortality among severely ill tuberculosis patients: a three-step intervention in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Raffaella Colombatti, Martina Penazzato, Federica Bassani, Cesaltina Silva Vieira, Antonia Araujo Lourenço, Fina Vieira, Simone Teso, Carlo Giaquinto, Fabio Riccardi
Accumulation and transport of microbial-size particles in a pressure protected model burn unit: CFD simulations and experimental evidence
Christian Beauchêne, Nicolas Laudinet, Firas Choukri, Jean-Luc Rousset, Sofiane Benhamadouche, Juliette Larbre, Marc Chaouat, Marc Benbunan, Maurice Mimoun, Jean-Patrick Lajonchère, Vance Bergeron, Francis Derouin
Anal infections with concomitant Chlamydia trachomatisgenotypes among men who have sex with men in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Koen D Quint, Reinier JM Bom, Wim GV Quint, Sylvia M Bruisten, Maarten F Schim van der Loeff, Servaas A Morré, Henry JC de Vries
Evaluation of envelope domain III-based single chimeric tetravalent antigen and monovalent antigen mixtures for the detection of anti-dengue antibodies in human sera
Gaurav Batra, Satish K Nemani, Poornima Tyagi, Sathyamangalam Swaminathan, Navin Khanna
Herpes simplex virus infections among rural residents in eastern China
Haijiang Lin, Na He, Meifang Su, Jifu Feng, Li Chen, Meiyang Gao
Using an online survey of healthcare-seeking behaviour to estimate the magnitude and severity of the 2009 H1N1v influenza epidemic in England
Ellen Brooks-Pollock, Natasha Tilston, W John Edmunds, Ken TD Eames
Identification of tuberculosis-associated proteins in whole blood supernatant
Takahiro Tanaka, Shinsaku Sakurada, Keiko Kano, Eri Takahashi, Kazuki Yasuda, Hisashi Hirano, Yasushi Kaburagi, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Nguyen Thi Le Hang, Luu Thi Lien, Ikumi Matsushita, Minako Hijikata, Takafumi Uchida, Naoto Keicho
Economic burden of vulvar and vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia: retrospective cost study at a German dysplasia centre
Monika Hampl, Eduard Huppertz, Olaf Schulz-Holstege, Patrick Kok, Sarah Schmitter
Hepatocyte growth factor levels in Legionella pneumonia: A retrospective study
Futoshi Higa, Morikazu Akamine, Makoto Furugen, Kenji Hibiya, Michio Koide, Maki Tamayose, Yuichiro Tamaki, Syusaku Haranaga, Noriko Arakaki, Satomi Yara, Masao Tateyama, Jiro Fujita
Clinical characteristics of Pneumocystis pneumonia in non-HIV patients and prognostic factors including microbiological genotypes
Yasufumi Matsumura, Yuichiro Shindo, Yoshitsugu Iinuma, Masaki Yamamoto, Michinori Shirano, Aki Matsushima, Miki Nagao, Yutaka Ito, Shunji Takakura, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Satoshi Ichiyama
Association of mutation patterns in gyrA/B genes and ofloxacin resistance levels in Mycobacterium tuberculosisisolates from East China in 2009
Zhenling Cui, Jie Wang, Junmei Lu, Xiaochen Huang, Zhongyi Hu
IS element IS16 as a molecular screening tool to identify hospital-associated strains of Enterococcus faecium
Guido Werner, Carola Fleige, Uta Geringer, Willem van Schaik, Ingo Klare, Wolfgang Witte
Oncogenic HPV among HIV infected female population in West Bengal, India
Kamalesh Sarkar, Reshmi Pal, Baishali Bal, Bibhuti Saha, Subhasish Bhattacharya, Sharmila Sengupta, Partha Pratim Mazumdar, Shekhar Chakraborti
Hospitalised patients with suspected 2009 H1N1 Influenza A in a hospital in Norway, July - December 2009
Bjorn J Brandsaeter, Magnus Pillgram, Dag Berild, Harald Kjekshus, Anne-Marte B Kran, Bente M Bergersen
Genetic variation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis circulating in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
Maya A Dymova, Oleksander O Liashenko, Petro I Poteiko, Valeriy S Krutko, Eugeny A Khrapov, Maxim L Filipenko
Otalgia and eschar in the external auditory canal in scrub typhus complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome and multiple organ failure
Bor-Jen Lee, Chia-Yi Chen, Sung-Yuan Hu, Yu-Tse Tsan, Tzu-Chieh Lin, Lee-Min Wang
First molecular identification of the zoonotic parasite Anisakis pegreffii(Nematoda: Anisakidae) in a paraffin-embedded granuloma taken from a case of human intestinal anisakiasis in Italy
Simonetta Mattiucci, Michela Paoletti, Francesco Borrini, Massimo Palumbo, Raffaele Macarone Palmieri, Vincenzo Gomes, Alessandra Casati, Giuseppe Nascetti
Travel-related schistosomiasis, strongyloidiasis, filariasis, and toxocariasis: the risk of infection and the diagnostic relevance of blood eosinophilia
Gijs G Baaten, Gerard J Sonder, Tom van Gool, Joan A Kint, Anneke van den Hoek
Hospitalization due to varicella in the Netherlands
Alies van Lier, Nicoline AT van der Maas, Gerwin D Rodenburg, Elisabeth AM Sanders, Hester E de Melker
Female gender predicts lower access and adherence to antiretroviral therapy in a setting of free healthcare
Christine Tapp, M-J Milloy, Thomas Kerr, Ruth Zhang, Silvia Guillemi, Robert S Hogg, Julio Montaner, Evan Wood
Prevalence and trend of hepatitis C virus infection among blood donors in Chinese mainland: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Xiaofei Gao, Qian Cui, Xiang Shi, Jing Su, Zhihang Peng, Xin Chen, Na Lei, Keqin Ding, Lu Wang, Rongbin Yu, Ning Wang
Community-based cross-sectional survey of latent tuberculosis infection in Afar pastoralists, Ethiopia, using QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and tuberculin skin test
Mengistu Legesse, Gobena Ameni, Gezahegne Mamo, Girmay Medhin, Gunnar Bjune, Fekadu Abebe
Did the pandemic have an impact on influenza vaccination attitude? a survey among health care workers
Bilgin Arda, Raika Durusoy, Tansu Yamazhan, Oğuz Reşat Sipahi, Meltem Taşbakan, Hüsnü Pullukçu, Esra Erdem, Sercan Ulusoy
Clinical and epidemiological aspects of a hepatitis E outbreak in Bangui, Central African Republic
Alice I Goumba, Xavier Konamna, Narcisse P Komas
A longitudinal study of allergy and intestinal helminth infections in semi urban and rural areas of Flores, Indonesia (ImmunoSPIN Study)
Firdaus Hamid, Aprilianto E Wiria, Linda J Wammes, Maria MM Kaisar, Bertrand Lell, Iwan Ariawan, Hae Won Uh, Heri Wibowo, Yenny Djuardi, Sitti Wahyuni, Robert Schot, Jaco J Verweij, Ronald van Ree, Linda May, Erliyani Sartono, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Taniawati Supali
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex drug resistance pattern and identification of species causing tuberculosis in the West and Centre regions of Cameroon
Jean-Paul Assam-Assam, Veronique B Penlap, Fidelis Cho-Ngwa, Jean-Claude Tedom, Irene Ane-Anyangwe, Vincent P Titanji
Sequential multiplex PCR assay for determining capsular serotypes of colonizing S. pneumoniae
Sarah Jourdain, Pierre-Alexandre Drèze, Jozef Vandeven, Jan Verhaegen, Laurence Van Melderen, Pierre R Smeesters
Modeling the variations in pediatric respiratory syncytial virus seasonal epidemics
Molly Leecaster, Per Gesteland, Tom Greene, Nephi Walton, Adi Gundlapalli, Robert Rolfs, Carrie Byington, Matthew Samore
The influence of chronic renal failure on the spectrum and antimicrobial susceptibility of uropathogens in community-acquired acute pyelonephritis presenting as a positive urine culture
Yeon Soon Jung, Ho Sik Shin, Hark Rim
Pathological femoral neck fracture caused by an echinococcus cyst of the vastus lateralis - case report
János Csotye, Krisztián Sisák, Loránt Bardócz, Kálmán Tóth
Fever screening during the influenza (H1N1-2009) pandemic at Narita International Airport, Japan
Hiroshi Nishiura, Kazuko Kamiya
Trends in antibiotic use among outpatients in New Delhi, India
Anita Kotwani, Kathleen Holloway
Onset of a pandemic: characterizing the initial phase of the swine flu (H1N1) epidemic in Israel
Uri Roll, Rami Yaari, Guy Katriel, Oren Barnea, Lewi Stone, Ella Mendelson, Michal Mandelboim, Amit Huppert
Usefulness and applicability of the revised dengue case classification by disease: multi-centre study in 18 countries
Judit Barniol, Roger Gaczkowski, Eliana Vega Barbato, Rivaldo V da Cunha, Doris Salgado, Eric Martínez, Carmita Soria Segarra, Ernesto B Pleites Sandoval, Ajay Mishra, Ida Safitri Laksono, Lucy CS Lum, José G Martínez, Andrea Núnez, Angel Balsameda, Ivan Allende, Gladys Ramírez, Efren Dimaano, Kay Thomacheck, Naeema A Akbar, Eng E Ooi, Elci Villegas, Tran T Hien, Jeremy Farrar, Olaf Horstick, Axel Kroeger, Thomas Jaenisch
Activities of colistin- and minocycline-based combinations against extensive drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from intensive care unit patients
Wang Liang, Xiao-fang Liu, Jun Huang, De-mei Zhu, Jian Li, Jing Zhang
Mycobacterial infections in a large Virginia hospital, 2001-2009
Gowri Satyanarayana, Scott K Heysell, Kenneth W Scully, Eric R Houpt
Rapid identification of allergenic and pathogenic molds in environmental air by an oligonucleotide array
Wen-Tsung Hung, Shu-Li Su, Lin-Yi Shiu, Tsung C Chang
The clinical utility of tuberculin skin test and interferon-γ release assay in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis among young adults: a prospective observational study
Ji Eun Lee, Hee-Jin Kim, Sei Won Lee
Risk factors for serotype 19A carriage after introduction of 7-valent pneumococcal vaccination
Robert Cohen, Corinne Levy, Eric Bonnet, Franck Thollot, Michel Boucherat, Bernard Fritzell, Véronique Derkx, Edouard Bingen, Emmanuelle Varon
Statistical estimates of absenteeism attributable to seasonal and pandemic influenza from the Canadian Labour Force Survey
Dena L Schanzer, Hui Zheng, Jason Gilmore
Fasting plasma glucose is an independent predictor for severity of H1N1 pneumonia
Wei Wang, Hong Chen, Qiang Li, Bo Qiu, Jiajun Wang, Xiwen Sun, Ying Xiang, Jinchao Zhang
Improved antiretroviral treatment outcome in a rural African setting is associated with cART initiation at higher CD4 cell counts and better general health condition
Erik Mossdorf, Marcel Stoeckle, Emmanuel G Mwaigomole, Evarist Chiweka, Patience L Kibatala, Eveline Geubbels, Honoraty Urassa, Salim Abdulla, Luigia Elzi, Marcel Tanner, Hansjakob Furrer, Christoph Hatz, Manuel Battegay
Performance of whole-blood interferon-gamma release assay in patients admitted to the emergency department with pulmonary infiltrates
Yoon Jee Lee, Jaehee Lee, Yi Young Kim, Dong Il Won, Seung Ick Cha, Jae Yong Park, Tae Hoon Jung, Chang Ho Kim
The use of microbead-based spoligotyping for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex to evaluate the quality of the conventional method: Providing guidelines for Quality Assurance when working on membranes
Edgar Abadia, Jian Zhang, Viviana Ritacco, Kristin Kremer, Raymond Ruimy, Leen Rigouts, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Atiná Ribeiro Elias, Maryse Fauville-Dufaux, Karolien Stoffels, Voahangy Rasolofo-Razanamparany, Darío Garcia de Viedma, Marta Herranz, Sahal Al-Hajoj, Nalin Rastogi, Carlo Garzelli, Enrico Tortoli, Philip N Suffys, Dick van Soolingen, Guislaine Refrégier, Christophe Sola
Feasibility of magnetic bead technology for concentration of mycobacteria in sputum prior to fluorescence microscopy
Heidi Albert, Patrick J Ademun, George Lukyamuzi, Barnabas Nyesiga, Yukari Manabe, Moses Joloba, Stuart Wilson, Mark D Perkins
Ureaplasma parvum infection alters filamin a dynamics in host cells
Ayman B Allam, Sophie Alvarez, Mary B Brown, Leticia Reyes
The health status of Q-fever patients after long-term follow-up
Gabriëlla Morroy, Jeannette B Peters, Malou van Nieuwenhof, Hans HJ Bor, Jeannine LA Hautvast, Wim van der Hoek, Clementine J Wijkmans, Jan H Vercoulen
Outcomes of polio eradication activities in Uttar Pradesh, India: the Social Mobilization Network (SM Net) and Core Group Polio Project (CGPP)
William M Weiss, MH Rahman, Roma Solomon, Vibha Singh, Dora Ward
Antifungal susceptibility of invasive yeast isolates in Italy: the GISIA3 study in critically ill patients
Giulia Morace, Elisa Borghi, Roberta Iatta, Gerardino Amato, Stefano Andreoni, Gioconda Brigante, Claudio Farina, Giuliana Lo Cascio, Gianluigi Lombardi, Ester Manso, Michele Mussap, Patrizia Pecile, Roberto Rigoli, Elisabetta Tangorra, Maria Valmarin, Maria Teresa Montagna
Community Acquired Bacteremia in Young Children from Central Nigeria- A Pilot Study
Stephen Obaro, Lovett Lawson, Uduak Essen, Khalid Ibrahim, Kevin Brooks, Adekunle Otuneye, Denis Shetima, Patience Ahmed, Theresa Ajose, Michael Olugbile, David Idiong, Damola Ogundeji, Comfort Ochigbo, Grace Olanipekun, Walid Khalife, Richard Adegbola
A case of native valve endocarditis caused by Burkholderia cepacia without predisposing factors
Hyun Kyun Ki, Sung Hea Kim, Seong Woo Han, Hae Suk Cheong
Reconstructing the 2003/2004 H3N2 influenza epidemic in Switzerland with a spatially explicit, individual-based model
Timo Smieszek, Michael Balmer, Jan Hattendorf, Kay W Axhausen, Jakob Zinsstag, Roland W Scholz
Confirmed adult dengue deaths in Singapore: 5-year multi-center retrospective study
Yee-Sin Leo, Tun L Thein, Dale A Fisher, Jenny G Low, Helen M Oh, Rajmohan L Narayanan, Victor C Gan, Vernon J Lee, David C Lye
Core mutations, IL28B polymorphisms and response to peginterferon/ribavirin treatment in Swedish patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection
Erik Alestig, Birgitta Arnholm, Anders Eilard, Martin Lagging, Staffan Nilsson, Gunnar Norkrans, Thomas Wahlberg, Rune Wejstål, Johan Westin, Magnus Lindh
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) related to the Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 among Chinese General Population: a Telephone Survey
Yilan Lin, Lijuan Huang, Shaofa Nie, Zengyan Liu, Hongjie Yu, Weirong Yan, Yihua Xu
Cellular HIV-1 DNA levels in patients receiving antiretroviral therapy strongly correlate with therapy initiation timing but not with therapy duration
Dai Watanabe, Shiro Ibe, Tomoko Uehira, Rumi Minami, Atsushi Sasakawa, Keishiro Yajima, Hitoshi Yonemoto, Hiroki Bando, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Daisuke Kasai, Yasuharu Nishida, Masahiro Yamamoto, Tsuguhiro Kaneda, Takuma Shirasaka
A prospective study of urinary pneumococcal antigen detection in healthy Karen mothers with high rates of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage
Paul Turner, Claudia Turner, Napaphat Kaewcharernnet, Naw Yi Mon, David Goldblatt, François Nosten
HIV, STI prevalence and risk behaviours among women selling sex in Lahore, Pakistan
Mohsin Saeed Khan, Magnus Unemo, Shakila Zaman, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
Establishing the extent of malaria transmission and challenges facing pre-elimination in the Republic of Djibouti
Abdisalan M Noor, Maoulid B Mohamed, Cleopatra K Mugyenyi, Mouna A Osman, Hawa H Guessod, Caroline W Kabaria, Ifrah A Ahmed, Mary Nyonda, Jackie Cook, Christopher J Drakeley, Margaret J Mackinnon, Robert W Snow
Serum levels of inflammatory and regulatory cytokines in patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Ana Saksida, Branka Wraber, Tatjana Avšič-Županc
Phenotypic characteristics of isolates of Aspergillus section Fumigatifrom different geographic origins and their relationships with genotypic characteristics
María Guadalupe Frías-De León, Monserrat Zavala-Ramírez, Susana Córdoba, Gerardo Zúñiga, Esperanza Duarte-Escalante, Armando Pérez-Torres, Armando Zepeda-Rodríguez, Irma López-Martínez, María José Buitrago, María del Rocío Reyes-Montes
What zinc supplementation does and does not achieve in diarrhea prevention: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Archana B Patel, Manju Mamtani, Neetu Badhoniya, Hemant Kulkarni
Persistent Neutrophilic Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Patient after Basilar Skull Fracture: Case Report
Jaime S Green, Shira R Abeles, Daniel Z Uslan, Sanjay R Mehta
Pulmonary melioidosis in Cambodia: A prospective study
Blandine Rammaert, Julien Beauté, Laurence Borand, Sopheak Hem, Philippe Buchy, Sophie Goyet, Rob Overtoom, Cécile Angebault, Vantha Te, Patrich Lorn Try, Charles Mayaud, Sirenda Vong, Bertrand Guillard
Severe community-acquired Enterobacterpneumonia: a plea for greater awareness of the concept of health-care-associated pneumonia
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An Investigation of Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Disinfection Procedures in Italy
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Ecological factors associated with dengue fever in a central highlands Province, Vietnam
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MRSA prevalence in european healthcare settings: a review
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Blood culture status and mortality among patients with suspected community-acquired bacteremia: a population-based cohort study
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To use or not to use a condom: A prospective cohort study comparing contraceptive practices among HIV-infected and HIV-negative youth in Uganda
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Viral-bacterial co-infection in Australian Indigenous children with acute otitis media
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Five-years surveillance of invasive aspergillosis in a university hospital
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Peginterferon alpha-based therapy for chronic hepatitis B focusing on HBsAg clearance or seroconversion: a meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials
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Time series analysis of dengue incidence in Guadeloupe, French West Indies: Forecasting models using climate variables as predictors
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Tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA) acquired in Southwestern Germany
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Comparative evaluation of the potential impact of rotavirus versus hpv vaccination in GAVI-eligible countries: A preliminary analysis focused on the relative disease burden
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Early acquisition and high nasopharyngeal co-colonisation by Streptococcus pneumoniae and three respiratory pathogens amongst Gambian new-borns and infants
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Introduction of an electronic monitoring system for monitoring compliance with Moments 1 and 4 of the WHO "My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene" methodology
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Estimation of type- and subtype-specific influenza vaccine effectiveness in Victoria, Australia using a test negative case control method, 2007-2008
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Trends in chlamydia and gonorrhea positivity among heterosexual men and men who have sex with men attending a large urban sexual health service in Australia, 2002-2009
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Severe morbidity and mortality in untreated HIV-infected children in a paediatric care programme in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 2004-2009
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Unsuccessful therapy with adefovir and entecavir-tenofovir in a patient with chronic hepatitis B infection with previous resistance to lamivudine: a fourteen-year evolution of hepatitis B virus mutations
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Knowledge attitudes and practices of grade three primary schoolchildren in relation to schistosomiasis, soil transmitted helminthiasis and malaria in Zimbabwe
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Progressive dementia associated with ataxia or obesity in patients with Tropheryma whipplei encephalitis
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Herpes zoster in Germany: Quantifying the burden of disease
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The prevalence of HBV infection in the cohort of IDPs of war against terrorism in Malakand Division of Northern Pakistan
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Effectiveness of treatment with pegylated interferon and ribavirin in an unselected population of patients with chronic hepatitis C: A Danish nationwide cohort study
Nanna Hansen, Niels Obel, Peer B Christensen, Mette Kjær, Alex L Laursen, Henrik B Krarup, Axel Møller, Poul Schlichting, Jens Bukh, Nina Weis
Pneumonia and poverty: a prospective population-based study among children in Brazil
Lícia KAM Thörn, Ruth Minamisava, Simonne S Nouer, Luiza H Ribeiro, Ana Lucia Andrade
Does prolonged β-lactam infusions improve clinical outcomes compared to intermittent infusions? A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized, controlled trials
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Impact of early life exposures to geohelminth infections on the development of vaccine immunity, allergic sensitization, and allergic inflammatory diseases in children living in tropical Ecuador: the ECUAVIDA birth cohort study
Philip J Cooper, Martha E Chico, Irene Guadalupe, Carlos A Sandoval, Edward Mitre, Thomas AE Platts-Mills, Mauricio L Barreto, Laura C Rodrigues, David P Strachan, George E Griffin
A clinical pathway for community-acquired pneumonia: an observational cohort study
Christopher R Frei, Allison M Bell, Kristi A Traugott, Terry C Jaso, Kelly R Daniels, Eric M Mortensen, Marcos I Restrepo, Christine U Oramasionwu, Andres D Ruiz, William R Mylchreest, Vanja Sikirica, Monika R Raut, Alan Fisher, Jeff R Schein
Soil transmitted helminths and schistosoma mansoni infections among school children in zarima town, northwest Ethiopia
Abebe Alemu, Asmamaw Atnafu, Zelalem Addis, Yitayal Shiferaw, Takele Teklu, Biniam Mathewos, Wubet Birhan, Simon Gebretsadik, Baye Gelaw
Incident cervical infections with high- and low-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infections among mothers in the prospective Finnish Family HPV Study
Karolina Louvanto, Marjut A Rintala, Kari J Syrjänen, Seija E Grénman, Stina M Syrjänen
Unnecessary use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in hospitalized patients
Nicole L Werner, Michelle T Hecker, Ajay K Sethi, Curtis J Donskey
Antiretroviral treatment reverses HIV-associated anemia in rural Tanzania
Asgeir Johannessen, Ezra Naman, Svein G Gundersen, Johan N Bruun
Bacterial infection profiles in lung cancer patients with febrile neutropenia
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During the summer 2009 outbreak of "swine flu" in Scotland what respiratory pathogens were diagnosed as H1N1/2009?
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Role of P27-P55 operon from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the resistance to toxic compounds
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Successive influenza virus infection and Streptococcus pneumoniae stimulation alter human dendritic cell function
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Analysis of CDC social control measures using an agent-based simulation of an influenza epidemic in a city
Yong Yang, Peter M Atkinson, Dick Ettema
Incidence of and risk factors for community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: A nested case-control study
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Effectiveness of a MF-59™-adjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine to prevent 2009 A/H1N1 influenza-related hospitalisation; a matched case-control study
Anneke Steens, Eleonora G Wijnans, Jeanne P Dieleman, Miriam CJM Sturkenboom, Marianne AB van der Sande, Wim van der Hoek
Development and evaluation of reverse transcription-loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for rapid detection of enterovirus 71
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Antenatal screening for HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis in the Netherlands is effective
Eline LM Op de Coul, Susan Hahné, Yolanda WM van Weert, Petra Oomen, Colette Smit, Kitty PB van der Ploeg, Daan W Notermans, Kees Boer, Marianne AB van der Sande
Integrated monitoring and evaluation and environmental risk factors for urogenital schistosomiasis and active trachoma in Burkina Faso before preventative chemotherapy using sentinel sites
Artemis Koukounari, Seydou Touré, Christl A Donnelly, Amadou Ouedraogo, Bernadette Yoda, Cesaire Ky, Martin Kaboré, Elisa Bosqué-Oliva, María-Gloria Basáñez, Alan Fenwick, Joanne P Webster
High Rates of All-cause and Gastroenteritis-related Hospitalization Morbidity and Mortality among HIV-exposed Indian Infants
Harjot K Singh, Nikhil Gupte, Aarti Kinikar, Renu Bharadwaj, Jayagowri Sastry, Nishi Suryavanshi, Uma Nayak, Srikanth Tripathy, Ramesh Paranjape, Arun Jamkar, Robert C Bollinger, Amita Gupta
The contribution of water contact behavior to the high Schistosoma mansoni Infection rates observed in the Senegal River Basin
Seydou Sow, Sake J de Vlas, Foekje Stelma, Kim Vereecken, Bruno Gryseels, Katja Polman
In vaginal fluid, bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis can be suppressed with lactic acid but not hydrogen peroxide
Deirdre E O'Hanlon, Thomas R Moench, Richard A Cone
Comparison of quantitative real time PCR with Sequencing and ribosomal RNA-FISH for the identification of fungi in Formalin fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue specimens
Volker Rickerts, Prasanna D Khot, David Myerson, Daisy L Ko, Evelyn Lambrecht, David N Fredricks
Inactivation and sub-lethal injury of salmonella typhi, salmonella typhimurium and vibrio cholerae in copper water storage vessels
Riti Sharan, Sanjay Chhibber, Robert H Reed
Factors associated with 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) vaccination acceptance among university students from India during the post-pandemic phase
Padmanaban S Suresh, Venkatesh Thejaswini, Thangarasu Rajan
Randomized controlled trial of pulse methyl prednisolone × placebo in treatment of pulmonary involvement associated with severe leptospirosis. [ISRCTN74625030]
Ana Flávia C Azevedo, Demócrito de B Miranda-Filho, Gustavo T Henriques-Filho, Alfredo Leite, Ricardo AA Ximenes
Evaluation of sexual history-based screening of anatomic sites for chlamydia trachomatis and neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in men having sex with men in routine practice
Remco PH Peters, Stephan P Verweij, Noëmi Nijsten, Sander Ouburg, Johan Mutsaers, Casper L Jansen, A Petra van Leeuwen, Servaas A Morré
Mitigating effects of vaccination on influenza outbreaks given constraints in stockpile size and daily administration capacity
Maytee Cruz-Aponte, Erin C McKiernan, Marco A Herrera-Valdez
Characterization of early host responses in adults with dengue disease
Thomas Tolfvenstam, Anna Lindblom, Mark J Schreiber, Ling Ling, Angelia Chow, Eng Eong Ooi, Martin L Hibberd
Temporal changes in HCV genotype distribution in three different high risk populations in San Francisco, California
Paulo Telles Dias, Judith A Hahn, Eric Delwart, Brian R Edlin, Jeff Martin, Paula Lum, Jennifer Evans, Alex Kral, Steve Deeks, Michael P Busch, Kimberly Page
The ProPrems trial: investigating the effects of probiotics on late onset sepsis in very preterm infants
Suzanne M Garland, Jacinta M Tobin, Marie Pirotta, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Gillian Opie, Susan Donath, Mimi LK Tang, Colin J Morley, Leah Hickey, Linh Ung, Susan E Jacobs
Anemia and iron homeostasis in a cohort of HIV-infected patients in Indonesia
Rudi Wisaksana, Rachmat Sumantri, Agnes R Indrati, Aleta Zwitser, Hadi Jusuf, Quirijn de Mast, Reinout van Crevel, Andre van der Ven
Short-term follow-up of chagasic patients after benznidazole treatment using multiple serological markers
Ana Fernández-Villegas, María Jesús Pinazo, Concepción Marañón, M Carmen Thomas, Elizabeth Posada, Bartolomé Carrilero, Manuel Segovia, Joaquim Gascon, Manuel C López
Prognostic factors related to sequelae in childhood bacterial meningitis: Data from a Greek meningitis registry
Vasiliki A Vasilopoulou, Maria Karanika, Kalliopi Theodoridou, Antonios T Katsioulis, Maria N Theodoridou, Christos S Hadjichristodoulou
Young male patients are at elevated risk of developing serious central nervous system complications during acute Puumala hantavirus infection
Timo Hautala, Nina Hautala, Saara-Mari Mähönen, Tarja Sironen, Eija Pääkkö, Ari Karttunen, Pasi I Salmela, Olli Vainio, Seppo Rytky, Alexander Plyusnin, Antti Vaheri, Olli Vapalahti, Heikki Kauma
Forecasting incidence of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in China using ARIMA model
Qiyong Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Baofa Jiang, Weizhong Yang
Tuberculosis in Sudan: a study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain genotype and susceptibility to anti-tuberculosis drugs
Ghada S Sharaf Eldin, Imad Fadl-Elmula, Mohammed S Ali, Ahmed B Ali, Abdel Latif GA Salih, Kim Mallard, Christian Bottomley, Ruth McNerney
Diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin in critically ill immunocompromised patients
Nicolas Bele, Michael Darmon, Isaline Coquet, Jean-Paul Feugeas, Stéphane Legriel, Nadir Adaoui, Benoît Schlemmer, Élie Azoulay
Clinical characteristics and cerebrospinal fluid parameters in patients with peripheral facial palsy caused by Lyme neuroborreliosis compared with facial palsy of unknown origin (Bell's palsy)
Daniel Bremell, Lars Hagberg
Effect of variable transmission rate on the dynamics of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
Diego F Cuadros, Philip H Crowley, Ben Augustine, Sarah L Stewart, Gisela García-Ramos
Real-time PCR detection of Human Herpesvirus 1-5 in patients lacking clinical signs of a viral CNS infection
Birgitta Sundén, Marie Larsson, Tina Falkeborn, Jakob Paues, Urban Forsum, Magnus Lindh, Liselotte Ydrenius, Britt Åkerlind, Lena Serrander
Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella isolated from lactating cows and in contact humans in dairy farms of Addis Ababa: a cross sectional study
Zelalem Addis, Nigatu Kebede, Zufan Sisay, Haile Alemayehu, Alehegne Wubetie, Tesfu Kassa
Extended antimicrobial treatment of bacterial vaginosis combined with human lactobacilli to find the best treatment and minimize the risk of relapses
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of childhood pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus infection: an observational cohort study
Jung-Woo Rhim, Kyung-Yil Lee, You-Sook Youn, Jin-Han Kang, Ji-Chang Kim
School nurses' experiences of delivering the UK HPV vaccination programme in its first year
Shona Hilton, Kate Hunt, Helen Bedford, Mark Petticrew
The role of schools in the spread of mumps among unvaccinated children: a retrospective cohort study
Wilhelmina LM Ruijs, Jeannine LA Hautvast, Reinier P Akkermans, Marlies EJL Hulscher, Koos van der Velden
An analysis of national target groups for monovalent 2009 pandemic influenza vaccine and trivalent seasonal influenza vaccines in 2009-10 and 2010-11
Sophia Ng, Peng Wu, Hiroshi Nishiura, Dennis KM Ip, Esther ST Lee, Benjamin J Cowling
Direct association between pharyngeal viral secretion and host cytokine response in severe pandemic influenza
Raquel Almansa, Andres Anton, Paula Ramirez, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, David Banner, Tomás Pumarola, Luoling Xu, Jesús Blanco, Longsi Ran, Guillermo Lopez-Campos, Fernando Martin-Sanchez, Lorenzo Socias, Ana Loza, David Andaluz, Enrique Maravi, Mónica Gordón, Maria C Gallegos, Victoria Fernandez, Cristobal León, Pedro Merino, Maria Ángeles Marcos, Francisco Gandía, Felipe Bobillo, Salvador Resino, Jose Mª Eiros, Carmen Castro, Paula Mateo, Milagros Gonzalez-Rivera, Jordi Rello, Raul Ortiz de Lejarazu, David J Kelvin, Jesus F Bermejo-Martin
Severe influenza cases in paediatric intensive care units in Germany during the pre-pandemic seasons 2005 to 2008
Andrea Streng, Veit Grote, Johannes G Liese
How often is a work-up for Legionella pursued in patients with pneumonia? A retrospective study
Brian Hollenbeck, Irene Dupont, Leonard A Mermel
Efficacy of interventions to increase the uptake of chlamydia screening in primary care: a systematic review
Rebecca J Guy, Hammad Ali, Bette Liu, Simone Poznanski, James Ward, Basil Donovan, John Kaldor, Jane Hocking
Could peak proteinuria determine whether patient with dengue fever develop dengue hemorrhagic/dengue shock syndrome? - A prospective cohort study
Farhad F Vasanwala, Rukshini Puvanendran, Stephanie Fook-Chong, Joo-Ming Ng, Sufi M Suhail, Kheng-Hock Lee
Non-nosocomial healthcare-associated infective endocarditis in Taiwan: an underrecognized disease with poor outcome
Kuan-Sheng Wu, Susan Shin-Jung Lee, Hung-Chin Tsai, Shue-Ren Wann, Jui-Kuang Chen, Cheng-Len Sy, Yung-Hsin Wang, Yu-Ting Tseng, Yao-Shen Chen
Tolerability of inhaled N-chlorotaurine in an acute pig streptococcal lower airway inflammation model
Martin Schwienbacher, Benedikt Treml, Anna Pinna, Ralf Geiger, Hannes Reinstadler, Iris Pircher, Elisabeth Schmidl, Christian Willomitzer, Johannes Neumeister, Michael Pilch, Maria Hauer, Thomas Hager, Consolato Sergi, Sabine Scholl-Bürgi, Thomas Giese, Alexander Löckinger, Markus Nagl
Effect of praziquantel treatment of Schistosoma mansoni during pregnancy on immune responses to schistosome antigens among the offspring: results of a randomised, placebo-controlled trial
Robert Tweyongyere, Patrice A Mawa, Macklyn Kihembo, Frances M Jones, Emily L Webb, Stephen Cose, David W Dunne, Birgitte J Vennervald, Alison M Elliott
Clusters of spatial, temporal, and space-time distribution of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Liaoning Province, Northeastern China
Wei Wu, Junqiao Guo, Peng Guan, Yingwei Sun, Baosen Zhou
Increase in serotype 19A prevalence and amoxicillin non-susceptibility among paediatric Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from middle ear fluid in a passive laboratory-based surveillance in Spain, 1997-2009
Asunción Fenoll, Lorenzo Aguilar, Maria-Dolores Vicioso, Maria-Jose Gimenez, Olga Robledo, Juan-Jose Granizo
Characteristics of pncA mutations in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Taiwan
Yu-Chi Chiu, Shiang-Fen Huang, Kwok-Woon Yu, Yu-Chin Lee, Jia-Yih Feng, Wei-Juin Su
What is the potential for bisexual men in China to act as a bridge of HIV transmission to the female population? Behavioural evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis
Eric PF Chow, David P Wilson, Lei Zhang
Comparison of the virulence of exopolysaccharide-producing Prevotella intermedia to exopolysaccharide non-producing periodontopathic organisms
Takeshi Yamanaka, Kazuyoshi Yamane, Tomoyo Furukawa, Chiho Matsumoto-Mashimo, Chieko Sugimori, Takayuki Nambu, Noboru Obata, Clay B Walker, Kai-Poon Leung, Hisanori Fukushima
Detection of Pulmonary tuberculosis: comparing MR imaging with HRCT
Elisa Busi Rizzi, Vincenzo Schinina', Massimo Cristofaro, Delia Goletti, Fabrizio Palmieri, Nazario Bevilacqua, Francesco N Lauria, Enrico Girardi, Corrado Bibbolino
Canadian oncogenic human papillomavirus cervical infection prevalence: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Andrea C Tricco, Carmen H Ng, Vladimir Gilca, Andrea Anonychuk, Ba' Pham, Shirra Berliner
Investigation of an Escherichia coli O145 outbreak in a child day-care centre - extensive sampling and characterization of eae- and stx 1-positive E. coli yields epidemiological and socioeconomic insight
Erik Wahl, Line Vold, Bjørn A Lindstedt, Torkjel Bruheim, Jan E Afset
Impact of Lipodystrophy on the prevalence and components of metabolic syndrome in HIV-infected patients
Paula Freitas, Davide Carvalho, Selma Souto, Ana Cristina Santos, Sandra Xerinda, Rui Marques, Esteban Martinez, António Sarmento, José Luís Medina
Host response transcriptional profiling reveals extracellular components and ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporters gene enrichment in typhoid fever-infected Nigerian children
Sok Kean Khoo, David Petillo, Mrutyunjaya Parida, Aik Choon Tan, James H Resau, Stephen K Obaro
A longitudinal study of stavudine-associated toxicities in a large cohort of South African HIV infected subjects
Colin N Menezes, Mhairi Maskew, Ian Sanne, Nigel J Crowther, Frederick J Raal
Specificity of a whole blood IGRA in German nursing students
Anja Schablon, Roland Diel, Genia Diner, Ute Anske, Wulf Pankow, Felix C Ringshausen, Albert Nienhaus
Impact of routine PCV7 (Prevenar) vaccination of infants on the clinical and economic burden of pneumococcal disease in Malaysia
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HIV Surveillance in a Large, Community-Based Study: Results from the Pilot Study of Project Accept (HIV Prevention Trials Network 043)
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The changing seroepidemiology of enterovirus 71 infection among children and adolescents in Singapore
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Delays in starting antiretroviral therapy in patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis accessing non-integrated clinical services in a South African township
Stephen D Lawn, Lucy Campbell, Richard Kaplan, Francesca Little, Carl Morrow, Robin Wood
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International travel and the risk of hospitalization with non-typhoidal Salmonella bacteremia. A Danish population-based cohort study, 1999-2008
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Molecular typing of mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates circulating in Jiangsu Province, China
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Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusBacteremia and Endocarditis among HIV Patients: A cohort study
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Motivational brief intervention for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections in travelers: a randomized controlled trial
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Factors associated with paradoxical immune response to antiretroviral therapy in HIV infected patients: a case control study
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Relationship between the population incidence of febrile convulsions in young children in Sydney, Australia and seasonal epidemics of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, 2003-2010: a time series analysis
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Clinical and prognostic features among children with acute encephalitis syndrome in Nepal; a retrospective study
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Assessment of risk factors related to healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection at patient admission to an intensive care unit in Japan
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The appropriateness of prescribing antibiotics in the community in Europe: study design
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Retrospective study of necrotizing fasciitis and characterization of its associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusin Taiwan
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Pandemic A/H1N1v influenza 2009 in hospitalized children: a multicenter Belgian survey
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The persisting burden of invasive pneumococcal disease in HIV patients: an observational cohort study
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Improved sensitivity of an interferon-gamma release assay (T-SPOT.TB™) in combination with tuberculin skin test for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis in the presence of HIV co-Infection
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A prospective study of vaginal trichomoniasis and HIV-1 shedding in women on antiretroviral therapy
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A retrospective observational study on the efficacy of colistin by inhalation as compared to parenteral administration for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia associated with multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Reinout Naesens, Erika Vlieghe, Walter Verbrugghe, Philippe Jorens, Margareta Ieven
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Elodie Trichet, Stéphan Cohen-Bacrie, John Conrath, Michel Drancourt, Louis Hoffart
Bovine tuberculosis at a cattle-small ruminant-human interface in Meskan, Gurage region, Central Ethiopia
Rea Tschopp, Kidist Bobosha, Abraham Aseffa, Esther Schelling, Meseret Habtamu, Rahel Iwnetu, Elena Hailu, Rebuma Firdessa, Jemal Hussein, Douglas Young, Jakob Zinsstag
Prevalence and clinical management of cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS patients in shanghai, china
Ying Shi, Hongzhou Lu, Taiwen He, Yalin Yang, Li Liu, Renfang Zhang, Yufang Zheng, Yinzhong Shen, Yunzhi Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang
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Molecular analysis of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in an HIV co-infected patient with reactivation of occult HBV infection following discontinuation of lamivudine-including antiretroviral therapy
Andrea Costantini, Katia Marinelli, Giulia Biagioni, Alessia Monachetti, Monica L Ferreri, Luca Butini, Maria Montroni, Aldo Manzin, Patrizia Bagnarelli
TREM-1 expression on neutrophils and monocytes of septic patients: relation to the underlying infection and the implicated pathogen
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The burden of varicella from a parent's perspective and its societal impact in The Netherlands: an Internet survey
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Antibiotic resistance in primary care in Austria - a systematic review of scientific and grey literature
Kathryn Hoffmann, Gernot Wagner, Petra Apfalter, Manfred Maier
Fine mapping of genetic polymorphisms of pulmonary tuberculosis within chromosome 18q11.2 in the Chinese population: a case-control study
Yaoyao Dai, Xia Zhang, Hongqiu Pan, Shaowen Tang, Hongbing Shen, Jianming Wang
Detrimental effect of apoptosis of lymphocytes at an early time point of experimental abdominal sepsis
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Temporal trend and climate factors of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome epidemic in Shenyang City, China
Xiaodong Liu, Baofa Jiang, Weidong Gu, Qiyong Liu
Transmissibility and temporal changes of 2009 pH1N1 pandemic during summer and fall/winter waves
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The epidemiology of human papillomavirus infection in HIV-positive and HIV-negative high-risk women in Kigali, Rwanda
Nienke J Veldhuijzen, Sarah L Braunstein, Joseph Vyankandondera, Chantal Ingabire, Justin Ntirushwa, Evelyne Kestelyn, Coosje Tuijn, Ferdinand W Wit, Aline Umutoni, Mireille Uwineza, Tania Crucitti, Janneke HHM van de Wijgert
Seroepidemiololgy of rickettsioses in Sri Lanka: a patient based study
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Actinobaculum schaalii- invasive pathogen or innocent bystander? A retrospective observational study
Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, Reno Frei, Maja Weisser, Daniel Goldenberger, Andreas F Widmer
Seroprevalence and risk factors of herpes simplex virus type-2 infection among pregnant women in Northeast India
Dipankar Biswas, Biswajyoti Borkakoty, Jagadish Mahanta, Kamini Walia, Lahari Saikia, Brogen S Akoijam, Lobsang Jampa, Alia Kharkongar, Eric Zomawia
CMV retinitis in China and SE Asia: the way forward
David Heiden, Peter Saranchuk
Improved detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in upper and lower respiratory tract specimens from children with suspected pneumocystis pneumonia using real-time PCR: a prospective study
Catherine M Samuel, Andrew Whitelaw, Craig Corcoran, Brenda Morrow, Nei-Yuan Hsiao, Marco Zampoli, Heather J Zar
The impact of vancomycin susceptibility on treatment outcomes among patients with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureusbacteremia
Hitoshi Honda, Christopher D Doern, Wm Michael-Dunne Jr, David K Warren
Successful management of cryptococcosis of the bilateral adrenal glands and liver by unilateral adrenalectomy with antifungal agents: a case report
Yayoi Matsuda, Hisaya Kawate, Yuka Okishige, Ichiro Abe, Masahiro Adachi, Keizo Ohnaka, Naoichi Satoh, Junichi Inokuchi, Katsunori Tatsugami, Seiji Naito, Masatoshi Nomura, Ryoichi Takayanagi
Clinical effectiveness of rapid tests for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) in hospitalized patients: a systematic review
Julie Polisena, Stella Chen, Karen Cimon, Sarah McGill, Kevin Forward, Michael Gardam
Enhanced upper genital tract pathologies by blocking Tim-3 and PD-L1 signaling pathways in mice intravaginally infected with Chlamydia muridarum
Bo Peng, Chunxue Lu, Lingli Tang, I-Tien Yeh, Zhimin He, Yimou Wu, Guangming Zhong
Stability and infectivity of novel pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus in blood-derived matrices under different storage conditions
Xue Wang, Olga Zoueva, Jiangqin Zhao, Zhiping Ye, Indira Hewlett
The definition of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders: are we overestimating the real prevalence?
Magnus Gisslén, Richard W Price, Staffan Nilsson
Age- and region-specific hepatitis B prevalence in Turkey estimated using generalized linear mixed models: a systematic review
Mehlika Toy, Fatih Oguz Önder, Tanja Wörmann, A Mithat Bozdayi, Solko W Schalm, Gerard J Borsboom, Joost van Rosmalen, Jan Hendrik Richardus, Cihan Yurdaydin
Excess mortality related to seasonal influenza and extreme temperatures in Denmark, 1994-2010
Jens Nielsen, Anne Mazick, Steffen Glismann, Kåre Mølbak
Effect modification of environmental factors on influenza-associated mortality: a time-series study in two Chinese cities
Lin Yang, Ping Yan Chen, Jian Feng He, King Pan Chan, Chun Quan Ou, Ai Ping Deng, JS Malik Peiris, Chit Ming Wong
Epidemiological characteristics of varicella from 2000 to 2008 and the impact of nationwide immunization in Taiwan
Luan-Yin Chang, Li-Min Huang, I-Shou Chang, Fang-Yu Tsai
Timeliness of contact tracing among flight passengers for influenza A/H1N1 2009
Corien M Swaan, Rolf Appels, Mirjam EE Kretzschmar, Jim E van Steenbergen
Influenza A/H1N1 septic shock in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. A case report
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Reducing malaria misdiagnosis: the importance of correctly interpreting Paracheck Pf®"faint test bands" in a low transmission area of Tanzania
Lisa K Allen, Jennifer M Hatfield, Giselle DeVetten, Jeremy C Ho, Mange Manyama
Circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) correlate with disease status in leprosy
Luciana Silva Rodrigues, Mariana Andrea Hacker, Ximena Illarramendi, Maria Fernanda Miguens Castelar Pinheiro, José Augusto da Costa Nery, Euzenir Nunes Sarno, Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani
Detection of human bocavirus from children and adults with acute respiratory tract illness in Guangzhou, southern China
Wen-Kuan Liu, De-Hui Chen, Qian Liu, Huan-Xi Liang, Zi-Feng Yang, Sheng Qin, Rong Zhou
Intracardiac left atrial tuberculoma in an eleven-month-old infant: case report
Cantinotti M, De Gaudio M, de Martino M, Assanta N, Moschetti R, Veneruso G, Crocetti M, Murzi B, Chiappini E, Galli L
Incidence of maternal Toxoplasma infections in pregnancy in Upper Austria, 2000-2007
Ulrich Sagel, Alexander Krämer, Rafael T Mikolajczyk
Inconvenience due to travelers' diarrhea: a prospective follow-up study
Darius Soonawala, Jessica A Vlot, Leo G Visser
Clinical outcome of pneumococcal meningitis during the emergence of pencillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: an observational study
Edilane L Gouveia, Joice N Reis, Brendan Flannery, Soraia M Cordeiro, Josilene BT Lima, Ricardo M Pinheiro, Kátia Salgado, Ana Veronica Mascarenhas, M Gloria Carvalho, Bernard W Beall, Mitermayer G Reis, Albert I Ko
Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Masindi District, Uganda: outbreak description and lessons learned
Matthias Borchert, Imaam Mutyaba, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Julius Lutwama, Henry Luwaga, Geoffrey Bisoborwa, John Turyagaruka, Patricia Pirard, Nestor Ndayimirije, Paul Roddy, Patrick Van Der Stuyft
Encephalitis temporally associated with live attenuated Japanese encephalitis vaccine: four case reports
Na Jia, Qiu-Min Zhao, Xiao-Fang Guo, Jing-Xia Cheng, Chao Wu, Shu-Qing Zuo, Pei-Fang Dai, Jun-Ying Zhao, Jiu-Song Zhang
Multi-centre evaluation of the speed-oligo Mycobacteria assay for differentiation of Mycobacteriumspp. in clinical isolates
Sabine Hofmann-Thiel, Laziz Turaev, Tarig Alnour, Lore Drath, Maria Müllerova, Harald Hoffmann
Latent tuberculosis infection, tuberculin skin test and vitamin D status in contacts of tuberculosis patients: a cross-sectional and case-control study
Alberto Arnedo-Pena, José Vicente Juan-Cerdán, Angeles Romeu-Garcia, Daniel Garcia-Ferrer, Rita Holguín-Gómez, Jesús Iborra-Millet, Concepción Herrero-Carot, María Jesús Sanchis Piñana, Juan Bellido-Blasco, José Antonio Ferrero-Vega, Lourdes Safont Adsuara, Esther Silvestre Silvestre, Noemi Meseguer Ferrer, Vicenta Rodrigo Bartual
Risk Factors for HIV-1 seroconversion among Taiwanese men visiting gay saunas who have sex with men
Yen-Ju Chen, Yu-Ting Lin, Marcelo Chen, Szu-Wei Huang, Su-Fen Lai, Wing-Wai Wong, Hung-Chin Tsai, Yu-Huei Lin, Hsin-Fu Liu, Shu-Yu Lyu, Yi-Ming A Chen
Disseminated rhodococcus equi infection in HIV infection despite highly active antiretroviral therapy
Francesca Ferretti, Antonio Boschini, Cristiana Iabichino, Simonetta Gerevini, Paola De Nardi, Monica Guffanti, Giuseppe Balconi, Adriano Lazzarin, Paola Cinque
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