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https://read.qxmd.com/read/36949422/a-survival-analysis-of-socio-demographic-and-clinical-predictors-among-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-southern-iran
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Atefeh Esfandiari, Jamileh Kiani, Batool Amiri, Marzieh Mahmoodi, Fatemeh Abbasi, Erfan Javanmardi, Ahmad Yazdanpanah, Allahkarm Akhlaghi, Hedayat Salari
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate the socio-demographic, clinical, and laboratory risk factors in hospitalized COVID-19 patients during the first 6 months of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. METHOD: This retrospective hospital-based cross-sectional study included all laboratory-confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus that were admitted to the Shohadaye-Khalije-Fars Hospital in Bushehr, Iran, from February 22, 2020 to September 21, 2020. The patients' records were reviewed during the hospitalization period...
March 22, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36949406/comparisons-of-lymphocytes-profiles-and-inflammatory-cytokines-levels-in-blood-of-patients-with-differed-severity-of-infection-by-human-adenovirus-type-7
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Junping Sun, Xidong Ma, Mingyue Zhang, Mei Xie, Xingang Zhang, Xinjie Han, Xinfu Li, Enlu Zhou, Junyu Wang, Jianxin Wang
BACKGROUND: Human adenovirus (HAdV) infection outbreak causes community-acquired pneumonia. Cellular immune dysfunction and hypercytokinemia play important roles in the pathogenesis of adenovirus respiratory infection. Some soluble factors in peripheral blood can assist in judging the virus-induced disease severity. The expression levels of inflammatory cytokines differ among patients with different disease severity. However, whether and how HAdV-7 infection influences the composition of blood immune cells and serum cytokine levels in patients at different disease stages, as well as the diagnosis values of these parameters, have rarely been intensively studied...
March 22, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36949399/complete-excision-of-giant-clavicular-hydatid-cyst-a-case-report
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Xin Wang, Jinyong Huang, Liping Su, Qian Ma, Chao Ma, Zengru Xie
BACKGROUND: Echinococcosis, also known as hydatid disease, is a zoonotic parasitic disease prevalent in pastoral areas, mainly involving the liver and lungs, and less frequently the bones and surrounding soft tissues. Diagnosis and treatment of bone hydatid disease is a challenge, and because of the insidious course of the disease, the lesions are often widely disseminated by the time patients seek medical attention. CASE PRESENTATION: A 29-year-old woman presented with a painless mass that was gradually increasing in size in the cervical thorax...
March 22, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36949387/modelling-the-impact-of-combining-hiv-prevention-interventions-on-hiv-dynamics-in-fishing-communities-in-uganda
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Cécile Kremer, Anatoli Kamali, Monica Kuteesa, Janet Seeley, Niel Hens, Rebecca N Nsubuga
BACKGROUND: In countries with mature generalized HIV epidemics such as Uganda, there are still groups of individuals that are disproportionately affected. Among the key populations in Uganda are fishing communities, which make up about 10% of the population. Compared to the general population, HIV prevalence and incidence among individuals living in these communities is high. This high HIV burden has been attributed to several factors including limited access to prevention and treatment services as well as ongoing high-risk sexual behaviour...
March 22, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36949383/epidemiological-profile-of-arboviruses-in-two-different-scenarios-dengue-circulation-vs-dengue-chikungunya-and-zika-co-circulation
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Pablo Cantalice Santos Farias, André Filipe Pastor, Juliana Prado Gonçales, Iasmyn Dayanne Santos do Nascimento, Ellida Suellen de Souza Ferraz, Thaísa Regina Rocha Lopes, Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo, Maria Rosângela Cunha Duarte Côelho, José Valter Joaquim Silva Júnior
BACKGROUND: The severity and distribution of dengue virus (DENV) infections have been attributed to a complex interaction among viral, host and environmental factors. Herein, we investigated the influence of chikungunya (CHIKV) and Zika (ZIKV) viruses on the epidemiological profile of dengue cases, using Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, as a study model. In addition, we described and compared the epidemiological profile related to each arbovirus (DENV vs. CHIKV vs. ZIKV). METHODS: All cases of dengue, chikungunya and Zika reported to the Pernambuco Health Department in 2011-2013 (DENV circulation) and 2016-2018 (DENV, CHIKV and ZIKV co-circulation) were included in our study...
March 22, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36949380/severe-cmv-pneumonitis-and-the-resulting-ards-in-a-28-year-old-pregnant-woman-a-case-report
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Sotirios Kalogeropoulos, Evgenia Zarogianni, Georgios Adonakis, Apostolos Kaponis
BACKGROUND: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common virus. In pregnant women, CMV infection is usually mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic but can lead to fetal infection. Here we present a rare case of severe CMV pneumonitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome in a healthy immunocompetent pregnant woman. CASE PRESENTATION: A previous healthy 28-year-old woman with spontaneous conception, was admitted to the General University Hospital of Patras at 29 weeks of gestation with a day history of fever, fatigue, pharyngitis, and cough...
March 22, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36944925/esophageal-anthracosis-occurred-after-treatment-of-esophageal-tuberculosis-secondary-to-mediastinal-tuberculous-lymphadenitis-a-rare-case-report
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Weixin Cheng, Xinxin Zhou, Miaomiao Lu, Xi Jin, Feng Ji
BACKGROUND: Anthracosis is a disease generally considered to be in the lungs resulting from exposure to industrial dust in the workplace. Esophageal anthracosis is a fairly rare phenomenon and shows a strong correlation with tuberculosis. Moreover, esophageal involvement in tuberculosis is also rare. We here present an extremely rare case in which follow-up gastroesophageal endoscopy revealed a mass with a sunken, black area in the center and raised ring-like pattern in the surrounding mucosa resembling malignant melanoma...
March 21, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36944917/incidence-accuracy-and-barriers-of-diagnosing-healthcare-associated-infections-a-case-study-in-southeast-iran
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Naser Nasiri, Ali Sharifi, Iman Ghasemzadeh, Malahat Khalili, Ali Karamoozian, Ali Khalooei, Amin Beigzadeh, AliAkbar Haghdoost, Hamid Sharifi
BACKGROUND: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a threat to patients. Accurate surveillance is required to identify and prevent HAIs. To estimate the incidence rate, report the accuracy and identify the barriers of reporting HAIs using a mixed-method study. METHODS: In this quantitative study, we externally evaluated the incidence rate and accuracy of the routine surveillance system in one of the main hospitals by an active follow-up of patients from September to December 2021...
March 21, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36941581/concordance-in-pathogen-identification-at-the-upper-and-lower-respiratory-tract-of-children-with-severe-pneumonia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Heping Wang, Xiaonan Li, Yuejie Zheng, Lilly M Verhagen, Jiali Gu, Li Li, Zhi Xu, Wenjian Wang, Marien I de Jonge
BACKGROUND: Nasopharyngeal swabs are taken to determine the causative agent of community acquired pneumonia (CAP), while the reliability of upper respiratory tract sampling as a proxy for lower respiratory tract infections is still unclear. METHODS: Nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid samples and clinical data were collected from 153 hospitalized children between 3 months and 14 years of age with severe CAP, enrolled from March to June 2019...
March 20, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36932376/does-telehealth-affect-the-adherence-to-art-among-patients-with-hiv-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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Elham Davtalab Esmaeili, Hosein Azizi, Saeed Dastgiri, Leila R Kalankesh
BACKGROUND: Several studies have shown different effects of telehealth interventions on adherence to Antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people living with HIV. This study conducted a meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) to estimate the pooled effect of telehealth interventions on the treatment adherence of HIV patients. METHODS: The researchers conducted literature searches in Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases...
March 17, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36932367/presentation-of-severe-brucellosis-in-5-year-old-boy-challenges-and-results
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Yulia Dinikina, Uliana Tsoy, Andrey Dyachkov, Roman Grozov, Aleksandr Mushkin, Vyacheslav Zorin, Irina Nikitina, Elena Grineva
Brucellosis is highly contagious zoonotic bacterial disease caused by gram-negative genus. It has a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and due to variety and nonspecificity of clinical signs the diagnostics can be very complicated. We present a clinical case of severe chronic brucellosis in a 5-years old boy with long-term course of disease and multiorgan involvement. A different complication of brucellosis including severe syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH) are discussed. Despite severe course of disease patient achieved significant clinical improvement due to multidisciplinary approach and optimal etiotropic and pathogenetic treatment...
March 17, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36932357/case-control-study-of-human-anthrax-outbreak-investigation-in-farta-woreda-south-gondar-northwest-ethiopia
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Taddie Wondmnew, Biset Asrade
BACKGROUND: Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the Bacillus anthracis bacteria, which is one of the top five important livestock diseases and the second top priority zoonotic disease, next to rabies, in Ethiopia, which remains a major problem for animals and public health in Ethiopia. This study was conducted to verify the existence of the outbreak, determine risk factors, and implement measures to control the anthrax outbreak in Farta woreda, South Gondar zone, Northwest Ethiopia in 2019...
March 17, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36932346/immune-response-to-co-administration-of-measles-mumps-and-rubella-mmr-and-yellow-fever-vaccines-a-randomized-non-inferiority-trial-among-one-year-old-children-in-argentina
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Carla Vizzotti, Jennifer B Harris, Analía Aquino, Carolina Rancaño, Cristian Biscayart, Romina Bonaventura, Andrea Pontoriero, Elsa Baumeister, Maria Cecilia Freire, Mirta Magariños, Blanca Duarte, Gavin Grant, Susan Reef, Janeen Laven, Kathleen A Wannemuehler, Alba Maria Ropero Alvarez, J Erin Staples
BACKGROUND: In yellow fever (YF) endemic areas, measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), and YF vaccines are often co-administered in childhood vaccination schedules. Because these are live vaccines, we assessed potential immune interference that could result from co-administration. METHODS: We conducted an open-label, randomized non-inferiority trial among healthy 1-year-olds in Misiones Province, Argentina. Children were randomized to one of three groups (1:1:1): Co-administration of MMR and YF vaccines (MMR1 YF1 ), MMR followed by YF vaccine four weeks later (MMR1 YF2 ), or YF followed by MMR vaccine four weeks later (YF1 MMR2 )...
March 17, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36932337/hiv-1-tat-amino-acid-residues-that-influence-tat-tar-binding-affinity-a-scoping-review
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Piwai Terry Gotora, Rencia van der Sluis, Monray Edward Williams
HIV-1 remains a global health concern and to date, nearly 38 million people are living with HIV. The complexity of HIV-1 pathogenesis and its subsequent prevalence is influenced by several factors including the HIV-1 subtype. HIV-1 subtype variation extends to sequence variation in the amino acids of the HIV-1 viral proteins. Of particular interest is the transactivation of transcription (Tat) protein due to its key function in viral transcription. The Tat protein predominantly functions by binding to the transactivation response (TAR) RNA element to activate HIV-1 transcriptional elongation...
March 17, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36932323/serum-mast-alt-ratio-had-high-predictive-value-for-adverse-outcome-of-severe-fever-with-thrombocytopenia-syndrome-with-severe-condition
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Li Wang, Youde Liu, Renliang Qu, Zhiqiang Zou
BACKGROUND: Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) usually demonstrates multi-organ injury with a high mortality rate. This study aimed to investigate associations of serum aspartate/alanine aminotransferase (AST)/ALT, cytosolic AST (cAST)/ALT and mitochondrial AST (mAST)/ALT ratios with the prognosis of SFTS patients. METHODS: A total of 355 confirmed SFTS patients were included. Clinical and laboratory data were compared between survivors and nonsurvivors...
March 17, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927441/efficacy-of-azithromycin-in-treating-ureaplasma-urealyticum-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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Weibin Fan, Qisheng Wang, Zuyu Liang, Jinyu Wang, Lin Zhang
BACKGROUND: Ureaplasma urealyticum is the most prevalent genital mycoplasma isolated from the urogenital tract of females, but there is no unified treatment plan. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of azithromycin in treating Ureaplasma urealyticum. METHODS: From the earliest to June 2022, published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on azithromycin treatment of Ureaplasma urealyticum were retrieved by searching PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science...
March 16, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36922787/the-differences-in-drug-resistance-between-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-patients-with-and-without-diabetes-mellitus-in-northeast-china-a-retrospective-study
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Yuanping Pan, Yingying Yu, Yaohui Yi, Xiaofeng Dou, Jiachen Lu, Ling Zhou
BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) and drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) are serious global public health problems. This study aimed to explore the differences in drug resistance between DR-TB patients with and without DM. Risk factors for developing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) were also investigated among DR-TB patients. METHODS: The patient's basic demographic, clinical characteristics, and drug susceptibility testing (DST) data were collected from the Chinese Disease Control Information System...
March 15, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36918835/co-morbidity-associated-with-development-of-severe-covid-19-before-vaccine-availability-a-retrospective-cohort-study-in-the-first-pandemic-year-among-the-middle-aged-and-elderly-in-j%C3%A3-nk%C3%A3-ping-county-sweden
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Dennis Nordvall, Dan Drobin, Toomas Timpka, Robert G Hahn
BACKGROUND: In preparation of future pandemics, it is important to recognise population-level determinants associated with development of severe illness before efficient vaccines and evidence-based therapeutic measures are available. The aim of this study was to identify pre-pandemic diagnoses recorded in a middle-aged and elderly population that were associated with development of severe COVID-19 during the first pandemic year. METHODS: A cohort study design was used...
March 14, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36918832/core-genome-sequencing-and-genotyping-of-leptospira-interrogans-in-clinical-samples-by-target-capture-sequencing
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Linda Grillova, Thomas Cokelaer, Jean-François Mariet, Juliana Pipoli da Fonseca, Mathieu Picardeau
BACKGROUND: The life-threatening pathogen Leptospira interrogans is the most common agent of leptospirosis, an emerging zoonotic disease. However, little is known about the strains that are currently circulating worldwide due to the fastidious nature of the bacteria and the difficulty to isolate cultures. In addition, the paucity of bacteria in blood and other clinical samples has proven to be a considerable challenge for directly genotyping the agent of leptospirosis directly from patient material...
March 14, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36918829/perceived-barriers-and-facilitators-for-adhering-to-covid-19-preventive-measures-in-chile-a-qualitative-study-in-three-large-cities
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Alexandra Obach, Báltica Cabieses, Francisca Vezzani, Consuelo Robledo, Alice Blukacz, Pablo Vial
BACKGROUND: Globally, it has been reported that different social determinants of health -structural, sociodemographic, economic, living conditions and cultural factors- may affect opportunities to adhere to prevention measures against SARS-CoV-2. The objective of this study was to explore the perceptions around barriers and facilitators for adherence to COVID-19 prevention measures among the adult population residing in three large cities in Chile from a social determinants of health perspective...
March 14, 2023: BMC Infectious Diseases
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