February 2019

Editorial Board
Published in issue: February 2019
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Editorial

Onchocerciasis associated epilepsy—A question of causality
• Paul T. Cantey,
• James Sejvar
Published in issue: February 2019
p185-186

Review

Animals as amplification hosts in the spread of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Can Chen,
• Peng Li,
• Ke-Feng Li,
• ...
• Ya-Xin Dai,
• Xi Cheng,
• Jian-Bo Yan
Published online: November 27, 2018
p77-84

Original Reports

Epidemiological investigation and successful management of a Burkholderia cepacia outbreak in a neurotrauma intensive care unit
• Neha Rastogi,
• Surbhi Khurana,
• Balaji Veeraraghavan,
• ...
• Ashutosh Panda,
• Rajesh Malhotra,
• Purva Mathur
Published online: October 17, 2018
p4-11

Inflammatory profiles revealed the dysregulation of cytokines in adult patients of HFMD
• Linghua Yu,
• Jin He,
• Linlin Wang,
• Huixing Yi
Published online: November 10, 2018
p12-20
Symptomatic respiratory Encephalitozoon cuniculi infection in renal transplant recipients
• Marta Kicia,
• Magdalena Szydłowicz,
• Kamil Cebulski,
• ...
• Andrzej B. Hendrich,
• Martin Kváč,
• Żaneta Kopacz
Published online: October 26, 2018
p21-25
Prevalence and determinants of latent tuberculosis infection among frontline tuberculosis healthcare workers in southeastern China: A multilevel analysis by individuals and health facilities
• Bin Chen,
• Hua Gu,
• Xiaomeng Wang,
• ...
• Ruixue Dai,
• Xiaolin Wei,
• Jianmin Jiang
Published online: November 21, 2018
p26-33

Does the use of adjunct urine lipopolysaccharide lipoarabinomannan in HIV-infected hospitalized patients reduce the utilization of healthcare resources? A post hoc analysis of the LAM multi-country randomized controlled trial
• Poobalan Naidoo,
• Aliasgar Esmail,
• Jonathan G. Peter,
• Malika Davids,
• Mohammed Fadul,
• Keertan Dheda
Published online: October 04, 2018
p37-43

Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (HIV, hepatitis B virus, herpes simplex virus type 2, and syphilis) in pregnant women in Ethiopia: Trends over 10 years (2005–2014)
• Desta Kassa,
• Gebremedhin Gebremichael,
• Tesfaye Tilahun,
• ...
• Minilik Demissie,
• Atsbeha Gebrexiabher,
• Yibeltal Assefa
Published online: November 22, 2018
p50-57

Sero-molecular epidemiology of enterovirus-associated encephalitis in Zhejiang Province, China, from 2014 to 2017
• Yi Sun,
• ZiPing Miao,
• JuYing Yan,
• ...
• YiJuan Chen,
• HaiYan Mao,
• YanJun Zhang
Published online: November 10, 2018
p58-64

Relationship between chest radiographic characteristics, sputum bacterial load, and treatment outcomes in patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
• J.B. te Riele,
• V. Buser,
• G. Calligaro,
• ...
• G. Theron,
• M. Lesosky,
• K. Dheda
Published online: November 02, 2018
p65-71

Ex vivo liver resection and autotransplantation versus allotransplantation for end-stage hepatic alveolar echinococcosis
• Shu Shen,
• Junjie Kong,
• Yiwen Qiu,
• Shenglong Zhang,
• Yan Qin,
• Wentao Wang
Published online: November 26, 2018
p87-93
Paradoxical reaction in HIV-negative tuberculous meningitis patients with spinal involvement
• Yin Liu,
• Zheng Wang,
• Guang Yao,
• ...
• Zhi Song,
• Wei Wang,
• Ding Liu
Published online: December 04, 2018
p104-108

Adjunctive Corticosteroids decreased the risk of mortality of non-HIV Pneumocystis Pneumonia
• Norihiko Inoue,
• Kiyohide Fushimi
Published online: December 07, 2018
p109-115

Antimicrobial resistance and molecular characteristics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from men who have sex with men
• Joana Calado,
• Rita Castro,
• Ângela Lopes,
• Maria José Campos,
• Miguel Rocha,
• Filomena Pereira
Published online: November 06, 2018
p116-122

Elevated IL-17 levels and echocardiographic signs of preserved myocardial function in benznidazole-treated individuals with chronic Chagas’ disease
• Edmundo J.N. Camara,
• Vitor R.R. Mendonca,
• Ligia C.L. Souza,
• ...
• Luis S. Alves-Silva,
• Benelson A.C. Guimarães,
• Manoel Barral-Netto
Published online: December 05, 2018
p123-130
Comparison of USA300 with non-USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a neonatal intensive care unit
• Takemi Murai,
• Kaoru Okazaki,
• Kazue Kinoshita,
• ...
• Takashi Sasaki,
• Keiichi Hiramatsu,
• Yuho Horikoshi
Published online: November 29, 2018
p134-138

Ecological niche modeling as a tool for prediction of the potential geographic distribution of Bacillus anthracis spores in Tanzania
• Elibariki R. Mwakapeje,
• Sood A. Ndimuligo,
• Gladys Mosomtai,
• ...
• Hezron E. Nonga,
• Robinson H. Mdegela,
• Eystein Skjerve
Published online: December 03, 2018
p142-151

Molecular characterization of the viral structural gene of the first dengue virus type 1 outbreak in Xishuangbanna: A border area of China, Burma and Laos
• Yao Lin,
• Dehong Ma,
• Songjiao Wen,
• ...
• Lijuan Qiu,
• Xiyun Shan,
• Qiangming Sun
Published online: December 05, 2018
p152-161

Comparison of molecular epidemiology of bloodstream methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates between a new and an old hospital in central Taiwan
• Chun-Yi Lee,
• Yu-Ping Fang,
• Yu-Fen Chang,
• Tsung-Hua Wu,
• Yu-Ying Yang,
• Yhu-Chering Huang
Published online: December 07, 2018
p162-168

Comparison of long-term mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction associated with or without sepsis
• En-Shao Liu,
• Cheng-Hung Chiang,
• Wang-Ting Hung,
• ...
• Yao-Shen Chen,
• Guang-Yuan Mar,
• Wei-Chun Huang
Published online: November 29, 2018
p169-178

Incidence, risk factors and outcome of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii nosocomial infections during an outbreak in a burn unit
• Anne-Lise Munier,
• Lucie Biard,
• Matthieu Legrand,
• ...
• Alexandre Mebazaa,
• Maurice Mimoun,
• Jean-Michel Molina
Published online: December 07, 2018
p179-184

High prevalence of epilepsy in an onchocerciasis endemic health zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite 14 years of community-directed treatment with ivermectin: A mixed-method assessment
• Deby Mukendi,
• Floribert Tepage,
• Innocent Akonda,
• ...
• Sonia Menon,
• An Hotterbeekx,
• Robert Colebunders
Published in issue: February 2019
p187-194

Short Communications

Development of a Digital Droplet Polymerase Chain Reaction (ddPCR) assay to detect Leishmania DNA in samples from Cutaneous Leishmaniasis patients
• Juan David Ramírez,
• Giovanny Herrera,
• Carlos Muskus,
• Claudia Mendez,
• María Clara Duque,
• Robert Butcher
Published online: November 03, 2018
p1-3

Urine Xpert MTB/RIF for the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis
• Anna Lena Lopez,
• Josephine G. Aldaba,
• Merrylle Morales-Dizon,
• ...
• Patrick Sylim,
• Aida Salonga,
• Karin Nielsen-Saines
Published online: November 26, 2018
p44-46

New sequence type in multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae harboring the bla_NDM-1-encoding gene in Brazil
• Roseane Galdioli Nava,
• Mariana Oliveira-Silva,
• Rafael Nakamura-Silva,
• André Pitondo-Silva,
• Eliana Carolina Vespero
Published online: November 26, 2018
p101-103

Seroprevalence of spotted fever group and typhus group rickettsiae in individuals with acute febrile illness from Gorakhpur, India
• Arati Mane,
• Suchit Kamble,
• Manish Kumar Singh,
• Manisha Ratnaparakhi,
• Amit Nirmalkar,
• Raman Gangakhedkar
Published online: November 01, 2018
p195-198

Measles in Italy: Viral strains and crossing borders
• Fabio Magurano,
• Melissa Baggieri,
• Francesca Mazzilli,
• ...
• Antonella Marchi,
• Loredana Nicoletti
• MoRoNet Group
Published online: November 13, 2018
p199-201

Case Reports

Severe hepatitis B reactivation during direct-acting antiviral treatment in “the absence” of hepatitis B surface antigen
• Lydia Sastre,
• Pablo Ruiz,
• Josep Costa,
• Xavier Forns
Published online: November 26, 2018
p47-49

Early complicated schistosomiasis in a returning traveller: Key contribution of new molecular diagnostic methods
• Simon Bonnefond,
• Lieselotte Cnops,
• Alexandre Duvignaud,
• ...
• Thierry Pistone,
• Jan Clerinx,
• Denis Malvy
Published online: November 28, 2018
p72-74

Severe Sinus Bradycardia in Puumala virus infection
• Andréa Pastissier,
• Sébastien Humbert,
• Pauline Naudion,
• Nadine Meaux-Ruault,
• Marc Badoz,
• Nadine Magy-Bertrand
Published online: November 29, 2018
p75-76
Molecular diagnosis of toxoplasmosis at the onset of symptomatic primary infection: A straightforward alternative to serological examinations
• Maude F. Lévêque,
• Delphine Chiffré,
• Chloé Galtier,
• ...
• Anaïs Iemmi,
• Pierre Flori,
• Yvon Sterkers
Published online: December 04, 2018
p131-133

Multispacer sequence typing of Coxiella burnetii DNA from removed prosthetic heart valve material discloses first human case of infective endocarditis caused by MST_18
• S.Y. Nielsen,
• N. Nørskov-Lauritsen
Published online: November 26, 2018
p139-141

Virtual Special Issue: One Health 2018; Edited By Kami Kim, Eskild Petersen, Lucille Blumberg and Shui Shan Lee

Human African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: The first case report in China
• Nian Chen,
• Ke Jin,
• Jingjing Xu,
• Jianfu Zhang,
• Yali Weng
Published online: November 10, 2018
p34-36
Non-AIDS-related comorbidities in people living with HIV-1 aged 50 years and older: The AGING POSITIVE study
• Rosário Serrão,
• Carmela Piñero,
• Jorge Velez,
• ...
• Ricardo Correia de Abreu,
• Joana Almeida,
• Leonor Pássaro
Published online: October 25, 2018
p94-100

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to “Sex differences in common childhood infections in Taiwan” [Int. J. Infect. Dis. 75 (2018) 115–117]
• TienYu Owen Yang,
• Wan-Ting Huang,
• Mei-Huei Chen,
• Kuan-Ying Arthur Huang,
• Pau-Chung Chen
Published online: December 19, 2018
p85-86