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Case Reports A case of pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as diffuse alveolar haemorrhage: is there a role for anticardiolipin antibodies? Almerico Marruchella, Angela Corpolongo, Chiara Tommasi, Francesco N Lauria, and Pasquale Narciso PMCID: PMC2831900 Is the drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome (DIHS) due to human herpesvirus 6 infection or to allergy-mediated viral reactivation? Report of a case and literature review Ivan Gentile, Maria Talamo, and Guglielmo Borgia PMCID: PMC2845584 Kikuchi Fujimoto disease associated with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia: case report and literature review Feng Hua and Lei Zhu PMCID: PMC2842275 Plasmodium falciparum malaria and Parvovirus B19; a case of acute co-infection F Ingrassia, A Gadaleta, P Maggi, and G Pastore PMCID: PMC2858734 Kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: A case report Cheng-Yu Tsai, Shou-hsin Su, Yu-Hsin Cheng, Yu-lin Chou, Tai-Hsin Tsai, and Ann-Shung Lieu PMCID: PMC2875226 Successful treatment of late Salmonella infections in total hip replacement - report of two cases Kálmán Tóth, Gábor Janositz, Gyula Kovács, Krisztián Sisák, and Ervin Rudner PMCID: PMC2894836 Influenza A H5N1 and HIV co-infection: case report Annette Fox, Peter Horby, Nguyen Hong Ha, Le Nguyen Minh Hoa, Nguyen Tien Lam, Cameron Simmons, Jeremy Farrar, Nguyen Van Kinh, and Heiman Wertheim PMCID: PMC2901358 Circulating cytokines and procalcitonin in acute Q fever granulomatous hepatitis with poor response to antibiotic and short-course steroid therapy: a case report Chung-Hsu Lai, Jiun-Nong Lin, Lin-Li Chang, Yen-Hsu Chen, and Hsi-Hsun Lin PMCID: PMC2909238 Cryptococcosis mimicking cutaneous cellulitis in a patient suffering from rheumatoid arthritis: a case report Corina Probst, Georg Pongratz, Silvia Capellino, Rolf M Szeimies, Jürgen Schölmerich, Martin Fleck, Bernd Salzberger, and Boris Ehrenstein PMCID: PMC2931510 Commentary Searching for the elusive typhoid diagnostic Stephen Baker, Michael Favorov, and Gordon Dougan PMCID: PMC2846943 Correspondence Pattern and determinants of HIV research productivity in sub-Saharan Africa: bibliometric analysis of 1981 to 2009 PubMed papers Olalekan A Uthman PMCID: PMC2841182 Debate Central European Vaccination Advisory Group (CEVAG) guidance statement on recommendations for influenza vaccination in children Vytautas Usonis, Ioana Anca, Francis André, Roman Chlibek, Inga Ivaskeviciene, Atanas Mangarov, Zsófia Mészner, Roman Prymula, Pavol Šimurka, Eda Tamm, and Goran Tešović PMCID: PMC2905419 Study Protocol Does treatment of intestinal helminth infections influence malaria? Background and methodology of a longitudinal study of clinical, parasitological and immunological parameters in Nangapanda, Flores, Indonesia (ImmunoSPIN Study) Aprilianto E Wiria, Margaretta A Prasetyani, Firdaus Hamid, Linda J Wammes, Bertrand Lell, Iwan Ariawan, Hae Won Uh, Heri Wibowo, Yenny Djuardi, Sitti Wahyuni, Inge Sutanto, Linda May, Adrian JF Luty, Jaco J Verweij, Erliyani Sartono, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, and Taniawati Supali PMCID: PMC2859773 Technical Advances An optimal control theory approach to non-pharmaceutical interventions Feng Lin, Kumar Muthuraman, and Mark Lawley PMCID: PMC2850906 Rapid semi-automated quantitative multiplex tandem PCR (MT-PCR) assays for the differential diagnosis of influenza-like illness Elektra Szewczuk, Kiran Thapa, Terry Anninos, Kenneth McPhie, Geoff Higgins, Dominic E Dwyer, Keith K Stanley, and Jonathan R Iredell PMCID: PMC2881921 Field test of a novel detection device for Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen in cough Ruth McNerney, Beyene A Wondafrash, Kebede Amena, Ato Tesfaye, Elaine M McCash, and Nicol J Murray PMCID: PMC2891759 Research Articles Bacteremia causes hippocampal apoptosis in experimental pneumococcal meningitis Christian Østergaard, Stephen L Leib, Ian Rowland, and Christian T Brandt PMCID: PMC2824701 Variable viral clearance despite adequate ganciclovir plasma levels during valganciclovir treatment for cytomegalovirus disease in D+/R- transplant recipients Nancy Perrottet, Oriol Manuel, Frédéric Lamoth, Jean-Pierre Venetz, Roland Sahli, Laurent A Decosterd, Thierry Buclin, Manuel Pascual, and Pascal Meylan PMCID: PMC2820479 Influenza virus infection among pediatric patients reporting diarrhea and influenza-like illness Charisma Dilantika, Endang R Sedyaningsih, Matthew R Kasper, Magdarina Agtini, Erlin Listiyaningsih, Timothy M Uyeki, Timothy H Burgess, Patrick J Blair, and Shannon D Putnam PMCID: PMC2820480 Seroepidemiology of human Toxoplasma gondii infection in China Yue Xiao, Jigang Yin, Ning Jiang, Mei Xiang, Lili Hao, Huijun Lu, Hong Sang, Xianying Liu, Huiji Xu, Johan Ankarklev, Johan Lindh, and Qijun Chen PMCID: PMC2818656 Modelling imperfect adherence to HIV induction therapy Rachelle E Miron and Robert J Smith? PMCID: PMC2833165 Evidence for a "Founder Effect" among HIV-infected injection drug users (IDUs) in Pakistan Mohammad A Rai, Vivek R Nerurkar, Suhail Khoja, Saeed Khan, Richard Yanagihara, Arish Rehman, Shahana U Kazmi, and Syed H Ali PMCID: PMC2820481 Seasonal influenza risk in hospital healthcare workers is more strongly associated with household than occupational exposures: results from a prospective cohort study in Berlin, Germany, 2006/07 Chris J Williams, Brunhilde Schweiger, Genia Diner, Frank Gerlach, Frank Haaman, Gérard Krause, Albert Nienhaus, and Udo Buchholz PMCID: PMC2836320 Lasting immune memory against hepatitis B in children after primary immunization with 4 doses of DTPa-HBV-IPV/Hib in the first and 2nd year of life Michael Steiner, Gunasekaran Ramakrishnan, Britta Gartner, Olivier Van Der Meeren, Jeanne-Marie Jacquet, and Volker Schuster PMCID: PMC2821389 Modulation of hepatic PPAR expression during Ft LVS LPS-induced protection from Francisella tularensis LVS infection Saroj K Mohapatra, Leah E Cole, Clive Evans, Bruno W Sobral, Josep Bassaganya-Riera, Raquel Hontecillas, Stefanie N Vogel, and Oswald R Crasta PMCID: PMC2826305 Immunogenicity of antigens from the TbD1 region present in M. africanum and missing from "modern" M. tuberculosis: a cross- sectional study Bouke C de Jong, Abdulrahman Hammond, Jacob K Otu, Martin Antonio, Richard A Adegbola, and Martin O Ota PMCID: PMC2821388 Effect of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on invasive pneumococcal disease in preterm born infants Simon Rückinger, Mark van der Linden, and Rüdiger von Kries PMCID: PMC2823613 Population dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Shanghai, China: a comparative study Loubna Tazi, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Weiming Gu, Yang Yang, Lin Xue, Keith A Crandall, and Raphael P Viscidi PMCID: PMC2822776 Public health and economic impact of vaccination with 7-valent pneumococcal vaccine (PCV7) in the context of the annual influenza epidemic and a severe influenza pandemic Jaime L Rubin, Lisa J McGarry, Keith P Klugman, David R Strutton, Kristen E Gilmore, and Milton C Weinstein PMCID: PMC2823614 Duration of shedding of respiratory syncytial virus in a community study of Kenyan children Emelda A Okiro, Lisa J White, Mwanajuma Ngama, Patricia A Cane, Graham F Medley, and D James Nokes PMCID: PMC2822777 Black race, sex, and extrapulmonary tuberculosis risk: an observational study Christina T Fiske, Marie R Griffin, Holt Erin, Jon Warkentin, Kaltenbach Lisa, Patrick G Arbogast, and Timothy R Sterling PMCID: PMC2823615 Prognostic factors in left-sided endocarditis: results from the andalusian multicenter cohort Juan Gálvez-Acebal, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Francisco J Martínez-Marcos, Jose M Reguera, Antonio Plata, Josefa Ruiz, Manuel Marquez, Jose M Lomas, Javier de la Torre-Lima, Carmen Hidalgo-Tenorio, and Arístides de Alarcón PMCID: PMC2822778 Association of HIV infection with distribution and viral load of HPV types in Kenya: a survey with 820 female sex workers Stanley MF Luchters, Davy Vanden Broeck, Matthew F Chersich, Annalene Nel, Wim Delva, Kishor Mandaliya, Christophe E Depuydt, Patricia Claeys, John-Paul Bogers, and Marleen Temmerman PMCID: PMC2845133 Occupational injury history and universal precautions awareness: a survey in Kabul hospital staff Ahmad Shah Salehi and Paul Garner PMCID: PMC2835705 Mapping of hormones and cortisol responses in patients after Lyme neuroborreliosis Ivar Tjernberg, Martin Carlsson, Jan Ernerudh, Ingvar Eliasson, and Pia Forsberg PMCID: PMC2827415 Bayesian mapping of pulmonary tuberculosis in Antananarivo, Madagascar Rindra V Randremanana, Vincent Richard, Fanjasoa Rakotomanana, Philippe Sabatier, and Dominique J Bicout PMCID: PMC2829568 African meningitis belt pneumococcal disease epidemiology indicates a need for an effective serotype 1 containing vaccine, including for older children and adults Bradford D Gessner, Judith E Mueller, and Seydou Yaro PMCID: PMC2838886 The tuberculosis challenge in a rural South African HIV programme Catherine F Houlihan, Portia C Mutevedzi, Richard J Lessells, Graham S Cooke, Frank C Tanser, and Marie-Louise Newell PMCID: PMC2835706 Pp65 antigenemia, plasma real-time PCR and DBS test in symptomatic and asymptomatic cytomegalovirus congenitally infected newborns Sandro Binda, Antonella Mammoliti, Valeria Primache, Patrizia Didò, Carlo Corbetta, Fabio Mosca, Lorenza Pugni, Anna Bossi, Cristian Ricci, and Maria Barbi PMCID: PMC2833163 Contingency planning for a deliberate release of smallpox in Great Britain - the role of geographical scale and contact structure Thomas House, Ian Hall, Leon Danon, and Matt J Keeling PMCID: PMC2831898 Survey of HBsAg-positive pregnant women and their infants regarding measures to prevent maternal-infantile transmission Yan Guo, Jianqiong Liu, Liping Meng, Hu Meina, and Yukai Du PMCID: PMC2832640 Prevalence of HPV infection among Greek women attending a gynecological outpatient clinic Petroula Stamataki, Athanasia Papazafiropoulou, Ioannis Elefsiniotis, Margarita Giannakopoulou, Hero Brokalaki, Eleni Apostolopoulou, Pavlos Sarafis, and George Saroglou PMCID: PMC2829020 High-mobility group box-1 protein, lipopolysaccharide-binding protein, interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein in children with community acquired infections and bacteraemia: a prospective study Jana Pavare, Ilze Grope, Imants Kalnins, and Dace Gardovska PMCID: PMC2831899 Assessing the role of undetected colonization and isolation precautions in reducing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in intensive care units Theodore Kypraios, Philip D O'Neill, Susan S Huang, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, and Ben S Cooper PMCID: PMC2829569 Food-borne norovirus-outbreak at a military base, Germany, 2009 Maria Wadl, Kathrin Scherer, Stine Nielsen, Sabine Diedrich, Lüppo Ellerbroek, Christina Frank, Renate Gatzer, Marina Hoehne, Reimar Johne, Günter Klein, Judith Koch, Jörg Schulenburg, Uta Thielbein, Klaus Stark, and Helen Bernard PMCID: PMC2831023 Chronic pain associated with the Chikungunya Fever: long lasting burden of an acute illness Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, Sylvain Jean, Pierre Clavelou, Radhouane Dallel, and Didier Bouhassira PMCID: PMC2833164 Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) relating to avian influenza in urban and rural areas of China Nijuan Xiang, Ying Shi, Jiabing Wu, Shunxiang Zhang, Min Ye, Zhibin Peng, Lei Zhou, Hang Zhou, Qiaohong Liao, Yang Huai, Leilei Li, Zhangda Yu, Xiaowen Cheng, Weike Su, Xiaomin Wu, Hanwu Ma, Jianhua Lu, Jeffrey McFarland, and Hongjie Yu PMCID: PMC2838887 Healthcare workers and health care-associated infections: knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in emergency departments in Italy Cristiana Parmeggiani, Rossella Abbate, Paolo Marinelli, and Italo F Angelillo PMCID: PMC2848042 Genetic diversity of NS5A protein from hepatitis C virus genotype 3a and its relationship to therapy response Cíntia Bittar, Ana Carolina G Jardim, Lilian HT Yamasaki, Artur TL de Queiróz, Claudia MA Carareto, João Renato R Pinho, Isabel Maria VG de Carvalho-Mello, and Paula Rahal PMCID: PMC2838888 Evidence for waning of latency in a cohort study of tuberculosis Harald G Wiker, Tehmina Mustafa, Gunnar A Bjune, and Morten Harboe PMCID: PMC2843612 Dry weather induces outbreaks of human West Nile virus infections Guiming Wang, Richard B Minnis, Jerrold L Belant, and Charles L Wax PMCID: PMC2841181 Clinical severity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection is associated with bacterial load in oropharyngeal secretions but not with MP genotype Anna C Nilsson, Per Björkman, Christina Welinder-Olsson, Anders Widell, and Kenneth Persson PMCID: PMC2837002 Regional differences in rates of HIV-1 viral load monitoring in Canada: Insights and implications for antiretroviral care in high income countries Janet M Raboud, Mona R Loutfy, DeSheng Su, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Marina B Klein, Curtis Cooper, Nima Machouf, Sean Rourke, Sharon Walmsley, Anita Rachlis, P Richard Harrigan, Marek Smieja, Christos Tsoukas, Julio SG Montaner, Robert S Hogg, and the CANOC Collaboration PMCID: PMC2844400 Rapid screening of MDR-TB using molecular Line Probe Assay is feasible in Uganda Heidi Albert, Freddie Bwanga, Sheena Mukkada, Barnabas Nyesiga, Julius Patrick Ademun, George Lukyamuzi, Melles Haile, Sven Hoffner, Moses Joloba, and Richard O'Brien PMCID: PMC2841659 Awareness, attitudes, and practices related to the swine influenza pandemic among the Saudi public Hanan H Balkhy, Mostafa A Abolfotouh, Rawabi H Al-Hathlool, and Mohammad A Al-Jumah PMCID: PMC2844401 Extensive transmission of isoniazid resistant M. tuberculosis and its association with increased multidrug-resistant TB in two rural counties of eastern China: A molecular epidemiological study Yi Hu, Sven Hoffner, Weili Jiang, Weibing Wang, and Biao Xu PMCID: PMC2846942 Galactomannan testing of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid is useful for diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in hematology patients Li-Yang Hsu, Ying Ding, Jason Phua, Liang-Piu Koh, Douglas S Chan, Kay-Leong Khoo, and Paul A Tambyah PMCID: PMC2837869 Spatial distribution and risk factors of Brucellosis in Iberian wild ungulates Pilar M Muñoz, Mariana Boadella, Maricruz Arnal, María J de Miguel, Miguel Revilla, David Martínez, Joaquín Vicente, Pelayo Acevedo, Álvaro Oleaga, Francisco Ruiz-Fons, Clara M Marín, José M Prieto, José de la Fuente, Marta Barral, Montserrat Barberán, Daniel Fernández de Luco, José M Blasco, and Christian Gortázar PMCID: PMC2841660 Predicting results of mycobacterial culture on sputum smear reversion after anti-tuberculous treatment: a case control study Chin-Chung Shu, Jann-Tay Wang, Chih-Hsin Lee, Jann-Yuan Wang, Li-Na Lee, and Chong-Jen Yu PMCID: PMC2845134 A comparative epidemiologic analysis of SARS in Hong Kong, Beijing and Taiwan Eric HY Lau, C Agnes Hsiung, Benjamin J Cowling, Chang-Hsun Chen, Lai-Ming Ho, Thomas Tsang, Chiu-Wen Chang, Christl A Donnelly, and Gabriel M Leung PMCID: PMC2846944 Spatial clustering in the spatio-temporal dynamics of endemic cholera Diego Ruiz-Moreno, Mercedes Pascual, Michael Emch, and Mohammad Yunus PMCID: PMC2846945 Latent tuberculosis among pregnant mothers in a resource poor setting in Northern Tanzania: a cross-sectional study Faheem G Sheriff, Karim P Manji, Mohamed P Manji, Mohamedsuhel M Chagani, Rose M Mpembeni, Ahmed M Jusabani, Zaheerabbas R Alwani, and Taha S Karimjee PMCID: PMC2846946 Occult Hepatitis B Virus infection in ART-Naive HIV-Infected Patients seen at a Tertiary Care Centre in North India Swati Gupta and Sarman Singh PMCID: PMC2848043 Mortality among patients with tuberculosis requiring intensive care: a retrospective cohort study Denise R Silva, Diego M Menegotto, Luis F Schulz, Marcelo B Gazzana, and Paulo TR Dalcin PMCID: PMC2843613 Acquisition of antibodies to merozoite surface protein 3 among residents of Korogwe, north eastern Tanzania Method D Segeja, Bruno P Mmbando, Misago D Seth, John P Lusingu, and Martha M Lemnge PMCID: PMC2841183 Circulation of human influenza viruses and emergence of Oseltamivir-resistant A(H1N1) viruses in Cameroon, Central Africa Richard Njouom, Serge A Sadeuh Mba, Dominique Noah Noah, Victoria Gregory, Patrick Collins, Pierre Cappy, Alan Hay, and Dominique Rousset PMCID: PMC2838889 Diagnosis and follow-up of treatment of latent tuberculosis; the utility of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-tube assay in outpatients from a tuberculosis low-endemic country Anne M Dyrhol-Riise, Gerd Gran, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Bjørn Blomberg, Christel Gill Haanshuus, and Odd Mørkve PMCID: PMC2842274 Telling partners about chlamydia: how acceptable are the new technologies? Carol A Hopkins, Meredith J Temple-Smith, Christopher K Fairley, Natasha L Pavlin, Jane E Tomnay, Rhian M Parker, Frank J Bowden, Darren B Russell, Jane S Hocking, and Marcus Y Chen PMCID: PMC2838890 Population-based seroprevalence of HSV-2 and syphilis in Andhra Pradesh state of India John A Schneider, Vemu Lakshmi, Rakhi Dandona, G Anil Kumar, Talasila Sudha, and Lalit Dandona PMCID: PMC2848152 The effect of age on the response to the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine Hyunju Lee, Moon H Nahm, and Kyung-Hyo Kim PMCID: PMC2856571 The prevalence of common skin infections in four districts in Timor-Leste: a cross sectional survey Milena ML dos Santos, Salvador Amaral, Sonia P Harmen, Hayley M Joseph, Jose L Fernandes, and Megan L Counahan PMCID: PMC2841184 Population-based type-specific prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus infection in Estonia Anneli Uusküla, Mart Kals, Liina Kosenkranius, Louise-Anne McNutt, and Jack DeHovitz J PMCID: PMC2841185 Role of Culex and Anopheles mosquito species as potential vectors of rift valley fever virus in Sudan outbreak, 2007 AlaaEddeen M Seufi and Fatma H Galal PMCID: PMC2841661 The burden and characteristics of tuberculosis/human immunodeficiency virus (TB/HIV) in South Korea: a study from a population database and a survey Chang-Hoon Lee, Ji-young Hwang, Dae-Kyu Oh, Mee-Kyung Kee, Eunjung Oh, Jung-wook An, Jinhyun Kim, Heonsook Do, Hee-Jin Kim, Sung Soon Kim, Hwahyun Kim, and Jeong-Gu Nam PMCID: PMC2850338 Production of icaADBC-encoded polysaccharide intercellular adhesin and therapeutic failure in pediatric patients with staphylococcal device-related infections Bernardo Diemond-Hernández, Fortino Solórzano-Santos, Blanca Leaños-Miranda, Leoncio Peregrino-Bejarano, and Guadalupe Miranda-Novales PMCID: PMC2848661 The use of a geographic information system to identify a dairy goat farm as the most likely source of an urban Q-fever outbreak Barbara Schimmer, Ronald ter Schegget, Marjolijn Wegdam, Lothar Züchner, Arnout de Bruin, Peter M Schneeberger, Thijs Veenstra, Piet Vellema, and Wim van der Hoek PMCID: PMC2848044 Current crisis or artifact of surveillance: insights into rebound chlamydia rates from dynamic modelling David M Vickers and Nathaniel D Osgood PMCID: PMC2848153 Safety, efficacy, and immunogenicity of an inactivated influenza vaccine in healthy adults: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial over two influenza seasons Lisa A Jackson, Manjusha J Gaglani, Harry L Keyserling, John Balser, Nancy Bouveret, Louis Fries, and John J Treanor PMCID: PMC2845585 Comparative in vitro activity of Meropenem, Imipenem and Piperacillin/tazobactam against 1071 clinical isolates using 2 different methods: a French multicentre study Marie-Laure Joly-Guillou, Marie Kempf, Jean-Didier Cavallo, Monique Chomarat, Luc Dubreuil, Jeanne Maugein, Claudette Muller-Serieys, and Micheline Roussel-Delvallez PMCID: PMC2845586 Effectiveness of the 23-valent polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine against invasive pneumococcal disease in people 60 years or older Angel Vila-Corcoles, Olga Ochoa-Gondar, Jorge A Guzmán, Teresa Rodriguez-Blanco, Elisabet Salsench, Cruz M Fuentes, and EPIVAC Study Group PMCID: PMC2848154 Clients of sex workers in Switzerland: it makes sense to counsel and propose rapid test for HIV on the street, a preliminary report Esther-Amélie Diserens, Patrick Bodenmann, Chantal N'Garambe, Anne Ansermet-Pagot, Marco Vannotti, Eric Masserey, and Matthias Cavassini PMCID: PMC2856572 Role of interferon-gamma release assays in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with advanced HIV infection Adithya Cattamanchi, Isaac Ssewenyana, J Lucian Davis, Laurence Huang, William Worodria, Saskia den Boon, Samuel Yoo, Alfred Andama, Philip C Hopewell, and Huyen Cao PMCID: PMC2846947 Seroepidemiology of viral hepatitis, HIV and herpes simplex type 2 in the household population aged 21-64 years in Puerto Rico Cynthia M Pérez, Edmir Marrero, Marytere Meléndez, Sandra Adrovet, Héctor Colón, Ana P Ortiz, Marievelisse Soto-Salgado, Carmen Albizu, Esther A Torres, and Erick Suárez PMCID: PMC2851589 Efficacy of ethanol-based hand foams using clinically relevant amounts: a cross-over controlled study among healthy volunteers Günter Kampf, Sigunde Marschall, Sven Eggerstedt, and Christiane Ostermeyer PMCID: PMC2864273 Distinct genotypic profiles of the two major clades of Mycobacterium africanum Sidra E Gonçalves Vasconcellos, Richard C Huard, Stefan Niemann, Kristin Kremer, Adalberto R Santos, Philip N Suffys, and John L Ho PMCID: PMC2859774 Clinical deterioration during antituberculosis treatment in Africa: Incidence, causes and risk factors Dominique J Pepper, Suzaan Marais, Robert J Wilkinson, Feriyl Bhaijee, Gary Maartens, Helen McIlleron, Virginia De Azevedo, Helen Cox, Cheryl McDermid, Simiso Sokhela, Janisha Patel, and Graeme Meintjes PMCID: PMC2858733 Adjuvant glycerol is not beneficial in experimental pneumococcal meningitis Cornelia Blaser, Matthias Klein, Denis Grandgirard, Matthias Wittwer, Heikki Peltola, Michael Weigand, Uwe Koedel, and Stephen L Leib PMCID: PMC2861059 Decreased Streptococcus pneumoniae susceptibility to oral antibiotics among children in rural Vietnam: a community study Nguyen Quynh Hoa, Nguyen V Trung, Mattias Larsson, Bo Eriksson, Ho D Phuc, Nguyen TK Chuc, and Cecilia Stalsby Lundborg PMCID: PMC2853544 Changes of tau profiles in brains of the hamsters infected with scrapie strains 263 K or 139 A possibly associated with the alteration of phosphate kinases Gui-Rong Wang, Song Shi, Chen Gao, Bao-Yun Zhang, Chan Tian, Chen-Fang Dong, Rui-Min Zhou, Xiao-Li Li, Cao Chen, Jun Han, and Xiao-Ping Dong PMCID: PMC2868850 Parvovirus B19 infection and severe anaemia in Kenyan children: a retrospective case control study James Wildig, Yvonne Cossart, Norbert Peshu, Nimmo Gicheru, James Tuju, Thomas N Williams, and Charles R Newton PMCID: PMC2861060 Evaluation design of a systematic, selective, internet-based, Chlamydia screening implementation in the Netherlands, 2008-2010: implications of first results for the analysis Ingrid VF van den Broek, Christian JPA Hoebe, Jan EAM van Bergen, Elfi EHG Brouwers, Eva M de Feijter, Johannes SA Fennema, Hannelore M Götz, Rik H Koekenbier, Sander M van Ravesteijn, and Eline LM Op de Coul PMCID: PMC2858140 Dynamic models of pneumococcal carriage and the impact of the Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease Alessia Melegaro, Yoon Hong Choi, Robert George, W John Edmunds, Elizabeth Miller, and Nigel J Gay PMCID: PMC2867993 Outbreak of leptospirosis among triathlon participants in Germany, 2006 Stefan Brockmann, Isolde Piechotowski, Oswinde Bock-Hensley, Christian Winter, Rainer Oehme, Stefan Zimmermann, Katrin Hartelt, Enno Luge, Karsten Nöckler, Thomas Schneider, Klaus Stark, and Andreas Jansen PMCID: PMC2858141 Effect of negative air ions on the potential for bacterial contamination of plastic medical equipment Simon J Shepherd, Clive B Beggs, Caroline F Smith, Kevin G Kerr, Catherine J Noakes, and P Andrew Sleigh PMCID: PMC2873555 The realistic performance achievable with mycobacterial automated culture systems in high and low prevalence settings Sanne C van Kampen, Richard M Anthony, and Paul R Klatser PMCID: PMC2862026 Dosage effect on uropathogenic Escherichia coli anti-adhesion activity in urine following consumption of cranberry powder standardized for proanthocyanidin content: a multicentric randomized double blind study Amy B Howell, Henry Botto, Christophe Combescure, Anne-Béatrice Blanc-Potard, Lluis Gausa, Tetsuro Matsumoto, Peter Tenke, Albert Sotto, and Jean-Philippe Lavigne PMCID: PMC2873556 Salmonella enterica bacteraemia: a multi-national population-based cohort study Kevin B Laupland, Henrik C Schønheyder, Karina J Kennedy, Outi Lyytikäinen, Louis Valiquette, John Galbraith, Peter Collignon, and the International Bacteremia Surveillance Collaborative PMCID: PMC2861061 Tuberculosis burden in an urban population: a cross sectional tuberculosis survey from Guinea Bissau Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen, Zacarias J da Silva, Pernille Ravn, Morten Ruhwald, Paul L Andersen, Morten Sodemann, Per Gustafson, Peter Aaby, and Christian Wejse PMCID: PMC2860354 Hepatic and extra-hepatic sequelae, and prevalence of viral hepatitis C infection estimated from routine data in at-risk groups Annunziata Faustini, Paola Colais, Emanuele Fabrizi, Anna Maria Bargagli, Marina Davoli, Domenico Di Lallo, Anteo Di Napoli, Patrizio Pezzotti, Chiara Sorge, Rita Grillo, Carla Maresca, Olga Recchia, Carlo A Perucci, and HCV laboratory surveillance Lazio-Region Group PMCID: PMC2867994 Highly variable use of diagnostic methods for sexually transmitted infections-results of a nationwide survey, Germany 2005 Andreas Gilsdorf, Alexandra Hofmann, Osamah Hamouda, and Viviane Bremer PMCID: PMC2873557 Why do I need it? I am not at risk! Public perceptions towards the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccine Holly Seale, Anita E Heywood, Mary-Louise McLaws, Kirsten F Ward, Chris P Lowbridge, Debbie Van, and C Raina MacIntyre PMCID: PMC2864274 Comparison of commercial DNA preparation kits for the detection of Brucellae in tissue using quantitative real-time PCR Herbert Tomaso, Mireille Kattar, Meike Eickhoff, Ulrich Wernery, Sascha Al Dahouk, Eberhard Straube, Heinrich Neubauer, and Holger C Scholz PMCID: PMC2873554 Increase in isolation of extended spectrum beta lactamase producing multidrug resistant non typhoidal Salmonellae in Pakistan Kauser Jabeen, Afia Zafar, Seema Irfan, Erum Khan, Vikram Mehraj, and Rumina Hasan PMCID: PMC2872654 Cellular immunity in children with successful immunoprophylactic treatment for mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus Haruki Komatsu, Ayano Inui, Tsuyoshi Sogo, Eitaro Hiejima, Akihiko Tateno, Paul Klenerman, and Tomoo Fujisawa PMCID: PMC2879245 The development of a 16S rRNA gene based PCR for the identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae and comparison with four other species specific PCR assays Nabil Abdullah El Aila, Stefan Emler, Tarja Kaijalainen, Thierry De Baere, Bart Saerens, Elife Alkan, Pieter Deschaght, Rita Verhelst, and Mario Vaneechoutte PMCID: PMC2874796 Syphilis epidemiology in Norway, 1992-2008: resurgence among men who have sex with men Irena Jakopanec, Andrej M Grjibovski, Øivind Nilsen, and Preben Aavitsland PMCID: PMC2881089 Age groups and spread of influenza: implications for vaccination strategy Ying-Hen Hsieh PMCID: PMC2876165 Risk of latent TB infection in individuals employed in the healthcare sector in Germany: a multicentre prevalence study Anja Schablon, Melanie Harling, Roland Diel, and Albert Nienhaus PMCID: PMC2877045 Clinical and laboratory findings associated with severe scrub typhus Dong-Min Kim, Seok Won Kim, Seong-Hyung Choi, and Na Ra Yun PMCID: PMC2877676 Lives saved by Global Fund-supported HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programs: estimation approach and results between 2003 and end-2007 Ryuichi Komatsu, Eline L Korenromp, Daniel Low-Beer, Catherine Watt, Christopher Dye, Richard W Steketee, Bernard L Nahlen, Rob Lyerla, Jesus M Garcia-Calleja, John Cutler, and Bernhard Schwartländer PMCID: PMC2876166 Large screening of CA-MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus colonizing healthy young children living in two areas (urban and rural) of Portugal Débora A Tavares, Raquel Sá-Leão, Maria Miragaia, and Hermínia de Lencastre PMCID: PMC2876167 Seroprevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV and syphilis infections among blood donors at Gondar University Teaching Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: declining trends over a period of five years Belay Tessema, Gizachew Yismaw, Afework Kassu, Anteneh Amsalu, Andargachew Mulu, Frank Emmrich, and Ulrich Sack PMCID: PMC2881920 T cells, adhesion molecules and modulation of apoptosis in visceral leishmaniasis glomerulonephritis Francisco AL Costa, Maria G Prianti, Teresa C Silva, Silvana MMS 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A reanalysis of the Orange Farm male circumcision trial (ANRS-1265) Agnès Fiamma, Pascale Lissouba, Oliver E Amy, Beverley Singh, Oliver Laeyendecker, Thomas C Quinn, Dirk Taljaard, and Bertran Auvert PMCID: PMC2890001 Reversion and conversion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis IFN-γ ELISpot results during anti-tuberculous treatment in HIV-infected children Tom G Connell, Mary-Ann Davies, Christine Johannisen, Kathryn Wood, Sandy Pienaar, Katalin A Wilkinson, Robert J Wilkinson, Heather J Zar, David Beatty, Mark P Nicol, Nigel Curtis, and Brian Eley PMCID: PMC2890002 Avoidance behaviors and negative psychological responses in the general population in the initial stage of the H1N1 pandemic in Hong Kong Joseph TF Lau, Sian Griffiths, Kai Chow Choi, and Hi Yi Tsui PMCID: PMC2891756 Infrequent detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii by PCR in oral wash specimens from TB patients with or without HIV and healthy contacts in Tanzania Lotte Jensen, Andreas V Jensen, George Praygod, Jeremiah Kidola, 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