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Kerschberger B, Lekelem S, Daka M, Ntshalintshali N, Mabhena E, et al.

2025-04-17 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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The global epidemic of Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is marked by its widespread prevalence, varied resistance patterns, and significant impact on sexua...

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Rasti R, Kumbakumba E, Nanjebe D, Mlotshwa P, Nassejje M, et al.

2025-03-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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In low-resource settings, limited laboratory capacity adds to the burden of central nervous system (CNS) infections in children and spurs overuse of ...

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Wild A, Shortall C, Dewachi O, Naim C, Green A, et al.

2025-02-07 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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While the relationship between conflict-associated injuries and antimicrobial resistance is increasingly being elucidated, data concerning civilian c...

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Mazzilli S, Aslam MK, Akhtar J, Miazek M, Wailly Y, et al.

2024-09-27 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody self-testing (HCVST) may help expand screening access and support HCV elimination efforts. Despite potential benefit...

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Mukooza E, Schausberger B, Mmema N, Dlamini V, Aung A, et al.

2024-08-15 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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Improving treatment success rates among multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients is critical to reducing its incidence and mortality, but adherence poses a...

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Migamba S, Ardiet DL, Migisha R, Nansikombi HT, Agaba B, et al.

2024-03-30 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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In 2022, a Sudan virus disease (SVD) outbreak occurred in Uganda, resulting in 142 confirmed cases, most in Mubende and Kassanda districts. We determined risk factors for ...

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Shephard M, Matthews S, Kularatne R, Andrewartha K, Blondeel K, et al.

2024-03-04 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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In 2018, the World Health Organization commenced a multi-country validation study of the Cepheid GeneXpert for a range of molecular-based point-of-care (POC) tests in prim...

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Swaminathan A, du Cros PAK, Seddon JA, Mirgayosieva S, Asladdin R, et al.

2017-06-12 • BMC Infectious Diseases

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant (MDR)-TB with additional resistance to injectable agents or fluoroquinolones are challenging to treat due to la...

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Blaizot S, Maman D, Riche B, Mukui I, Kirubi B, et al.

2016-04-29 • BMC Infectious Diseases

Multiple prevention interventions, including early antiretroviral therapy initiation, may reduce HIV incidence in hyperendemic settings. Our aim was to predict the short-term impact of v...

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Wilkinson LS, Grimsrud A, Cassidy T, Orrell C, Voget J, et al.

2019-07-30 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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The antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence club (AC) differentiated service delivery model, where clinically stable ART patients receive their ART refills and psychosoci...

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Heiden D, Saranchuk P

2011-11-24 • BMC Infectious Diseases

AIDS-related CMV retinitis is a common clinical problem in patients with advanced HIV/AIDS in China and Southeast Asia. The disease is causing blindness, and current clinical management,...

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le Polain de Waroux O, Cohuet S, Ndazima D, Kucharski AJ, Juan-Giner A, et al.

2018-04-11 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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Quantification of human interactions relevant to infectious disease transmission through social contact is central to predict disease dynamics, yet data from low-resource ...

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Murray J, Whitehouse K, Ousley J, Bermudez E, Soe TT, et al.

2020-03-20 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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Adolescents living with HIV/AIDS (ALHIV) are a particularly vulnerable but often overlooked group in the HIV response despite additional disease management challenges. <...

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Horter SCB, Stringer B, Gray NSB, Parpieva N, Safaev K, et al.

2020-09-16 • BMC Infectious Diseases

Introduction: Person-centred care, an internationally recognised priority, describes the involvement of people in their care and treatment decisions, and the consideration of their needs...

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Hepple P, Nguele P, Greig J, Bonnet MMB, Sizaire V

2010-09-21 • BMC Infectious Diseases

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Diagnostic options for pulmonary tuberculosis in resource-poor settings are commonly limited to smear microscopy. We investigated whether bleach concentration by se...

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Swaminathan A, du Cros PAK, Achar J, Kliescikova J, Mirgayosieva S, et al.

2020-04-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases

Background: There are unique challenges in the diagnosis and management of multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in children. It is difficult to obtain confirmatory microbiological ...

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Vernier L, Lenglet AD, Hogema B, Moussa AM, Ariti C, et al.

2018-06-26 • BMC Infectious Diseases

From September 2016-April 2017, Am Timan, Chad, experienced a large HEV outbreak in an urban setting with a limited impact in terms of morbidity and mortality. To better understand HEV e...

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Mpala Q, Maphalala G, Uribe PAD, de la Tour R, Kalombola S, et al.

2018-11-14 • BMC Infectious Diseases

Viral load (VL) testing is being scaled up in resource-limited settings. However, not all commercially available VL testing methods have been evaluated under field conditions. This study...

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Bastard M, Soulinphumy K, Phimmasone P, Saadani A, Ciaffi L, et al.

2013-01-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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In April 2003, Médecins Sans Frontières launched an HIV/AIDS programme to provide free HAART to HIV-infected patients in Laos. Although HIV prevalence is estimated as low ...

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Menon S, Rossi R, Nshimyumukiza L, Wusiman A, Zdraveska N

2016-07-26 • BMC Infectious Diseases

On a global scale, nearly two billion persons are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. From this vast reservoir of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection, a substantial number will deve...

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Mycoplasma genitalium infection in Eswatini amid syndromic case management: Prevalence, coinfections, diagnostic challenges and treatment gaps

Clinical utility of the FilmArray® meningitis/encephalitis panel in children with suspected central nervous system infection in a low-resource setting – a prospective study in southwestern Uganda

Conflict-associated wounds and burns infected with GLASS pathogens in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: A systematic review

Usability and acceptability of self-testing for hepatitis C virus exposure in a high-prevalence urban informal settlement in Karachi, Pakistan

Understanding the role of video direct observed therapy for patients on an oral short-course regimen for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: findings from a qualitative study in Eswatini

Individual and household risk factors for Ebola disease among household contacts in Mubende and Kassanda districts, Uganda, 2022

Independent clinic-based evaluation of point-of-care testing for the screening of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoea and Trichomonas vaginalis in women-at-risk in Australia, Guatemala, Morocco, and South Africa

Peripheral Neuropathy in a Diabetic Child Treated with Linezolid for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Potential Impact of Multiple Interventions on HIV Incidence in a Hyperendemic Region in Western Kenya: a Modelling Study

A cluster randomized controlled trial of extending ART refill intervals to six-monthly for anti-retroviral adherence clubs

CMV retinitis in China and SE Asia: the way forward

Characteristics of human encounters and social mixing patterns relevant to infectious diseases spread by close contact: a survey in Southwest Uganda

High levels of viral repression, malnutrition and second-line ART use in adolescents living with HIV: a mixed methods study from Myanmar

Person-centred care in practice: perspectives from a short course regimen for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

Direct microscopy versus sputum cytology analysis and bleach sedimentation for diagnosis of tuberculosis: a prospective diagnostic study

A case report of a child with probable drug resistant tuberculous pericarditis with a review of challenges involved in diagnosis, treatment and follow up of children with DR-TB pericarditis

Seroprevalence and risk factors of recent infection with hepatitis E virus during an acute outbreak in an urban setting in Chad, 2017

Field suitability and diagnostic accuracy of the Biocentric open real-time PCR platform for plasma-based HIV viral load quantification in Swaziland

Women experience a better long-term immune recovery and a better survival on HAART in Lao People's Democratic Republic

Convergence of a Diabetes Mellitus, Protein Energy Malnutrition, and TB Epidemic: the Neglected Elderly Population