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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome: comparison with scrub typhus and clinical diagnostic prediction
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is emerging in Asian 3 countries, China, Japan and Korea, which are scrub typhus …
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Whole-genome sequences of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli in South-Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo: characterization of phylogenomic changes, virulence and resistance genes
BACKGROUND: Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli are responsible for severe infections worldwide. Whereas their genotypic and pathogenic characteristics are not …
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High prevalence and characterization of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae in Chadian hospitals
BACKGROUND: Extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE) represent a major problem in the management of nosocomial infections. However, ESBL-PE are not systematically …
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A superiority of viral load over CD4 cell count when predicting mortality in HIV patients on therapy
BACKGROUND: CD4 cell count has been identified to be an essential component in monitoring HIV treatment outcome. However, CD4 cell …
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: The epidemiology and chemotherapeutic approaches to the control of urinary schistosomiasis in school-age children (SAC): a systematic review
BACKGROUND: Human schistosomiases are acute and chronic infectious diseases of poverty. Currently, epidemiological data of urinary schistosomiasis (US) in school-age …
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Epidemiology and molecular characterization of the re-emerging measles virus among children and adults in the Haut-Ogooue, Gabon
BACKGROUND: Measles is one of the most infectious diseases with a high mortality rate worldwide. It is caused by the …
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CRYPTOCOCCAL meningitis in a HIV negative newly diagnosed diabetic patient: a CASE report
BACKGROUND: This case report emphasizes the need to recognize cryptococcus as a possible cause of meningitis in non-HIV patients in …
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Comparison of an in-house real-time duplex PCR assay with commercial HOLOGIC® APTIMA assays for the detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis in urine and extra-genital specimens
BACKGROUND: Extra-genital Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis infections are mostly asymptomatic, and important reservoir sites of infection as they often …
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Epidemiological description of a protracted cholera outbreak in Tonj East and Tonj North counties, former Warrap State, South Sudan, May-Oct 2017
BACKGROUND: On 18th May 2017, State Ministry of Health of former Warrap State received a report from Tonj East County …
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Prevalence and associated factors of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae among female commercial sex workers in Hawassa City, Southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are the most common pathogens causing genital tract infections. Female commercial sex workers (FCSWs) …
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Missed pulmonary tuberculosis: a cross sectional study in the general medical inpatient wards of a large referral hospital in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Every year around 4 million people with tuberculosis (TB) are not detected. Thus may not get the medical care …
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Cost of three models of care for drug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Nigeria accounts for a significant proportion of the global drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) burden, a large proportion of which goes …
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Rates of hospitalization and death for all-cause and rotavirus acute gastroenteritis before rotavirus vaccine introduction in Kenya, 2010–2013
BACKGROUND: Rotavirus vaccine was introduced in Kenya immunization program in July 2014. Pre-vaccine disease burden estimates are important for assessing …
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Viral load detection and management on first line ART in rural Rwanda
BACKGROUND: To achieve the ambitious 90-90-90 UNAIDS targets, access to routine viral load (VL) is critical. To measure VL, Rwanda …
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Healthcare-associated infections: bacteriological characterization of the hospital surfaces in the University Hospital of Abomey-Calavi/so-ava in South Benin (West Africa)
BACKGROUND: Healthcare-associated infections have become a public health problem, creating a new burden on medical care in hospitals. The emergence …
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Influence of subinhibitory antifungal concentrations on extracellular hydrolases and biofilm production by Candida albicans recovered from Egyptian patients
BACKGROUND: Extracellular hydrolases (phospholipase, aspartyl protease and haemolysin) and biofilm production are considered as major virulence factors of the opportunistic …
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Viral species richness and composition in young children with loose or watery stool in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Stool consistency is an important diagnostic criterion in both research and clinical medicine and is often used to define …
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Time delay and associated mortality from negative smear to positive Xpert MTB/RIF test among TB/HIV patients: a retrospective study
BACKGROUND: The GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay (Xpert®) is known to be a feasible, effective and a hopeful tool for rapid tuberculosis …
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Helicobacter pylori infection among patients presenting with dyspepsia at a primary care setting in Cameroon: seroprevalence, five-year trend and predictors
BACKGROUND: Almost half the world's population is infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) with the highest reported prevalence from Africa. …
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Investigating the virulence genes and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Vibrio cholerae O1 in environmental and clinical isolates in Accra, Ghana
Cholera has been endemic in Ghana since its detection in 1970. It has been shown that long-term survival of the …