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The Role of Cytomegalovirus in Congenital and Early Postnatal Infections in Northeastern Bulgaria

Folia Medica, 2017
Background: Human cytomegalovirus is a ubiquitous, large enveloped DNA β-herpesvirus that, like other herpesviruses, establishes lifelong latency following primary infection.
Stoykova Zhivka D., Ivanova Lilia I., Todorova Tatina T.   +2 more
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Estimated dengue force of infection and burden of primary infections among Indian children

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Comprehensive, age-stratified dengue surveillance data are unavailable from India and many more dengue cases occur than are reported. Additional information on dengue transmission dynamics can inform understanding of disease endemicity and ...
Amit Bhavsar, Clarence C. Tam, Suneela Garg, Guru Rajesh Jammy, Anne-Frieda Taurel, Sher-Ney Chong, Joshua Nealon   +6 more
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Seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis, syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, rubella, cytomegalovirosis and human immunodeficiency virus infection among pregnant patients followed up from 2008 to 2012 at hospital universitário Antônio Pedro, Niterói RJ

DST, 2022
Introduction: Screening and treatment of infectious diseases in pregnant women have great importance in planning preventive actions and development of maternal and child health policies.
Solange Artimos de Oliveira, Remberto Mauricio de la Cruz Vargas Vilte, Kátia Martins Lopes de Azevedo, Sérgio Setúbal   +3 more
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Recent HIV infection rates among HIV positive patients seeking voluntary counseling and testing centers in the metropolitan region of Recife - Pe, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
The BED capture enzyme immunoassay test makes it possible to determine whether individuals were recently infected with HIV. OBJECTIVE: In this study, the overall HIV and recent infections prevalences were determined at five Voluntary Counseling and ...
Ana Maria Salustiano Cavalcanti, Ana Maria de Brito, Daniela Medeiros Salustiano, Kledoaldo Oliveira de Lima, Sirleide Pereira da Silva, Heloisa Ramos Lacerda   +5 more
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Seroepidemiological study of livestock brucellosis in a pastoral region

Epidemiology and Infection, 2011
SUMMARYA seroepidemiological study of Brucella infections in multiple livestock species in the Borana pastoral system of Ethiopia was performed between December 2007 and October 2008. A cross-sectional multi-stage sampling technique was employed to select 575 cattle, 1073 camels and 1248 goats from the target populations.
Bekele Megersa, Eystein Skjerve, Jacques Godfroid, Alemayehu Regassa, Demelash Biffa, Fufa Abunna   +5 more
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Epidemiological investigation of an acute case of Chagas disease in an area of active transmission in Peruvian Amazon region Investigação epidemiológica de caso agudo da doença de Chagas em área de transmissão ativa na região da Amazônia peruana

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2010
The study objective was to investigate an acute case of Chagas disease in the San Pedro de Shishita community, Pebas District, in the Peruvian Amazon basin, a non-endemic area.
Rufino Cabrera, Silvia Vega, Abraham G. Cáceres, César Ramal A., Carlos Álvarez, Pedro Ladera, Raul Pinedo, Gladys Chuquipiondo   +7 more
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Seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection among children of low socioeconomic level in São Paulo

São Paulo Medical Journal
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Helicobacter pylori infection is mainly acquired during childhood, and is associated with significant morbidity in adults. The aim here was to evaluate the seroprevalence and risk factors of H.
Aurea Cristina Portorreal Miranda, Rodrigo Strehl Machado, Edina Mariko Koga da Silva, Elisabete Kawakami   +3 more
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[Seroepidemiologic studies].

Revista espanola de salud publica, 2010
Serological studies allow us to study diseases distribution by an indirect way, trough serological detection of infection and immunity markers. These studies are applied in public health research, in studies to infections, to evaluate control and immunization programs and to evaluate historical background when a new microorganism is found.
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Nationwide representative serosurvey of third-grade school children to evaluate the hepatitis B vaccination impact in Kyrgyzstan, 2022

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Kyrgyzstan introduced universal hepatitis B childhood vaccination in 1999 to reduce the burden of hepatitis B. In 2016, aligned with the goal of controlling hepatitis B in the WHO European Region, a regional target of 0.5% was set for ...
Michael Brandl, Gulnara Zhumagulova, Gulbara Ishenapysova, Zuridin Nurmatov, Tatiana Enverovna Kuchuk, Nurzhan Zamirbekova, Gulsunai Sattarova, Saikal Temirbekova, Zhanara Bekenova, Martyna Gassowski, Liudmila Mosina, Antons Mozalevskis, Sandra Dudareva, Siddhartha Sankar Datta   +13 more
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Antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato among Adults, Germany, 2008–2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
To assess Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (the cause of Lyme borreliosis) seropositivity in Germany, we tested serum samples from health survey (2008–2011) participants.
Hendrik Wilking, Volker Fingerle, Christiane Klier, Michael Thamm, Klaus Stark   +4 more
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