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The role of combination antifungal therapy in the treatment of invasive aspergillosis: a systematic review
05 December 2011
Summary: Background: Because treatment outcomes of invasive aspergillosis (IA) remain suboptimal, clinicians have resorted to the use of combination antifungal therapy. We therefore sought to systemat...
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Musa A. Garbati,
Faisal A. Alasmari,
Mohammad A. Al-Tannir,
Imad M. Tleyjeh
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e76-e81
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Impact of the implementation of a vaccination strategy on hepatitis B virus infections in China over a 20-year period
19 December 2011
Summary: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination has been recommended for all neonates in China since 1992. This article reviews the impact of HBV vaccination throughout the past 20 years in China. Before...
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Zhuanbo Luo,
Lanjuan Li,
Bing Ruan
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e82-e88
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Evaluation of factors predictive of the prognosis in Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: new suggestions
08 December 2011
Summary: Background: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is one of the viral hemorrhagic fevers caused by tick bites. Common symptoms of the infection are fatigue, high fever, headache, and myalgia...
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Baris Ozturk,
Ediz Tutuncu,
Ferit Kuscu,
Yunus Gurbuz,
Irfan Sencan,
Hakan Tuzun
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e89-e93
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Impact of rotavirus vaccination on childhood gastroenteritis-related mortality and hospital discharges in Panama
12 December 2011
Summary: Background: Rotavirus vaccination was introduced in Panama in March 2006. This study was carried out in order to describe the trends in gastroenteritis-related (GER) hospitalizations and mort...
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Vicente Bayard,
Rodrigo DeAntonio,
Rodolfo Contreras,
Olga Tinajero,
Maria Mercedes Castrejon,
Eduardo Ortega-Barría,
Romulo E. Colindres
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e94-e98
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Evaluation of the mass measles vaccination campaign in Guangdong Province, China
28 November 2011
Summary: Objective: To evaluate the mass measles vaccination campaign of 2009 in Guangdong Province, China. Methods: Data on the campaign implementation, measles surveillance, and serological surveill...
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Zhi Qiang Peng,
Wei Shi Chen,
Qun He,
Guo Wen Peng,
Cheng Gang Wu,
Ning Xu,
Zhan Jie Zhao,
Jun Shu,
Qiu Tan,
Hui Zhen Zheng,
Li Feng Lin,
Hui Hong Deng,
Jin Yan Lin,
Yong Hui Zhang
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e99-e103
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First report of mefA and msrA/msrB multidrug efflux pumps associated with blaTEM-1 β-lactamase in Enterococcus faecalis
02 December 2011
Summary: Objectives: Enterococcus faecalis is thought to possess a great deal of intrinsic resistance to several antimicrobial agents. In this study we identified ampicillin- and erythromycin-resistan...
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Chedly Chouchani,
Allaaeddin El Salabi,
Rim Marrakchi,
Leila Ferchichi,
Timothy R. Walsh
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e104-e109
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Randomized controlled study of fractional doses of inactivated poliovirus vaccine administered intradermally with a needle in the Philippines
07 December 2011
Summary: Objective: Comparison of a fractional inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) dose administered intradermally (ID) to a full dose administered intramuscularly (IM). Methods: Healthy Filipino inf...
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Josefina Cadorna-Carlos,
Emmanuel Vidor,
Marie-Claude Bonnet
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e110-e116
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Epidemiology of scabies in the West Bank, Palestinian Territories (Occupied)
06 December 2011
Summary: Background: Scabies is a disease that is considered a public health problem in the Palestinian Territories and in other countries around the world. Scabies causes skin lesions leading to subs...
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Ahmad Amro,
Omar Hamarsheh
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e117-e120
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Trends and risk factors for HIV infection among young pregnant women in rural India
07 December 2011
Summary: Objectives: To study the trends of the HIV epidemic and risk factors associated with HIV in a rural area of India. We utilized HIV prevalence among young pregnant women as an indicator of pop...
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Gerardo Alvarez-Uria,
Manoranjan Midde,
Praveen K. Naik
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e121-e123
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Human herpesvirus 6 in donor biopsies associated with the incidence of clinical cytomegalovirus disease and hepatitis C virus recurrence
19 December 2011
Summary: Background: Reactivation of cytomegalovirus (CMV) and human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), as well as the recurrence of hepatitis C virus (HCV), occurs in the post liver transplantation period. Howev...
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Ana Carolina Guardia,
Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi,
Ana Maria Sampaio,
Arlete Milan,
Sandra Cecília Botelho Costa,
Célia Regina Pavan,
Ilka de Fátima Santana Ferreira Boin
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Tobacco consumption is a reversible risk factor associated with reduced successful treatment outcomes of anti-tuberculosis therapy
20 December 2011
Summary: Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the reversible factors that could possibly affect outcomes of anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) treatment. Methods: A retrospective observational ne...
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Yi-Chun Chiang,
You-Meei Lin,
Jen-Ai Lee,
Chun-Nin Lee,
Hsiang-Yin Chen
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e130-e135
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Gender inequities, relationship power, and childhood immunization uptake in Nigeria: a population-based cross-sectional study
26 December 2011
Summary: Background: This study aimed to simultaneously examine the association between multiple dimensions of gender inequities and full childhood immunization. Methods: A multilevel logistic regress...
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Diddy Antai
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Tuberculoid leprosy and cytomegalovirus retinitis as immune restoration disease in a patient with AIDS
12 December 2011
Summary: Here we report a unique case of tuberculoid leprosy and cytomegalovirus retinitis in a 27-year-old female patient with AIDS, suggestive of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)-induced...
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Shishir Kumar,
Manab Kumar Ghosh,
Somenath Sarkar,
Sudeshna Mallik,
Pradyot Narayan Biswas,
Bibhuti Saha
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e146-e148
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Menopause, and not age, is a critical factor associated with a worse response to antiviral therapy in women affected by chronic hepatitis C
03 January 2012
We read with great interest the article entitled “Impact of sex on virologic response rates in genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C patients with peg-interferon alpha-2a and ribavirin treatment”. It was sho...
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Stefano Gitto,
Aimilia Karampatou,
Pietro Andreone,
Erica Villa
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