Bompangue, Didier Moore, Sandra Taty, Nadège Impouma, Benido Sudre, Bertrand Manda, Richard Balde, Thierno Mboussou, Franck Vandevelde, Thierry
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BackgroundRapid control of cholera outbreaks is a significant challenge in overpopulated urban areas. During late-2017, Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, experienced a cholera outbreak that showed potential to spread throughout the city. A novel targeted water and hygiene response strategy was implemented to quickly ste...
Wu, Shuiyan Guo, Xubei Xu, Zhong Han, Meilin Huang, Lili Tao, Yunzhen Li, Ying Li, Yanhong Zhang, Tao Bai, Zhenjiang
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BackgroundRisk factors related to mortality due to invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) have been unveiled previously, but early clinical manifestations of IPD based on prognosis remain uncovered.MethodsThe demographic characteristics, clinical features, serotype, antibiotic susceptibility, and outcomes of 97 hospitalized children with laboratory-co...
Xie, Li-Min Lin, Geng-Ling Dong, Hao-Neng Liao, Ying-Xia Liu, Ye-Ling Qin, Jian-Feng Guo, Xu-Guang
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BackgroundCryptococcus is a conditional pathogenic fungus causing cryptococcosis, which is one of the most serious fungal diseases faced by humans. Lateral flow immunochromatographic assay (LFA) is successfully applied to the rapid detection of cryptococcal antigens.MethodsStudies were retrieved systematically from the Embase, PubMed, Web of Scienc...
King, Jacqueline Harder, Timm Beer, Martin Pohlmann, Anne
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BackgroundDue to the frequent reassortment and zoonotic potential of influenza A viruses, rapid gain of sequence information is crucial. Alongside established next-generation sequencing protocols, the MinION sequencing device (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) has become a serious competitor for routine whole-genome sequencing. Here, we established a n...
Zhang, Yiling Zhang, Cheng Hu, Ying Yao, Hongmei Zeng, Xianchun Hu, Changrong Zhao, Li Zhang, Xiangyan Ye, Xianwei
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BackgroundThe family cluster is one of most important modes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission throughout China, and more details are needed about how family clusters cause the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).Case presentationWe retrospectively reviewed 7 confirmed cases from one family cluste...
Zhang, Ying Riera, Jefferson Ostrow, Kayla Siddiqui, Sauleh de Silva, Harendra Sarkar, Sahotra Fernando, Lakkumar Gardner, Lauren
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BackgroundMore than 80,000 dengue cases including 215 deaths were reported nationally in less than 7 months between 2016 and 2017, a fourfold increase in the number of reported cases compared to the average number over 2010–2016. The region of Negombo, located in the Western province, experienced the greatest number of dengue cases in the country a...
Sharifipour, Ehsan Shams, Saeed Esmkhani, Mohammad Khodadadi, Javad Fotouhi-Ardakani, Reza Koohpaei, Alireza Doosti, Zahra EJ Golzari, Samad
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BackgroundCOVID-19 is known as a new viral infection. Viral-bacterial co-infections are one of the biggest medical concerns, resulting in increased mortality rates. To date, few studies have investigated bacterial superinfections in COVID-19 patients. Hence, we designed the current study on COVID-19 patients admitted to ICUs.MethodsNineteen patient...
Zhou, Hui Zhu, Liping Leng, Yueshuang Wang, Dongcui Bai, Harrison X. Xiong, Zeng Shi, Linbo Liao, Weihua
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BackgroundTo explore the clinical features and CT findings of clinically cured coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with viral RNA positive anal swab results after discharge.MethodsForty-two patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to Yongzhou Central Hospital, Hunan, China, between January 20, 2020, and March 2, 2020, were tested for sever...
Qurtas, Dindar S. Shabila, Nazar Pauls
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundDuring the outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq that started in 2015, the course of the disease and the treatment were not consistent with the available literature. Physicians, particularly dermatologists, faced challenges with treating the cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions with high rates of treatment failure...
Yang, Mei Li, Lin Jiang, Chunfan Qin, Xiaomin Zhou, Min Mao, Xiaogang Xing, Hui
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BackgroundEvidence suggested that vaginal microbiome played a functional role in the progression of cervical lesions in female infected by HPV. This study aimed at evaluating the influence of common vaginal infection on the carcinogenicity of high risk HPV (hr-HPV).MethodsFrom January 15, 2017 to December 31, 2017, 310,545 female aged at least 30 y...
