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Jun-**a Wei
Medicine & Public Health
Infectious Diseases
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Open AccessClinical and bacteriological features and prognosis of ascitic fluid infection in Chinese patients with cirrhosis
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) and bacterascites (BA) represent frequent and serious complications in cirrhosis patients with ascites. However, few detailed data are available regarding the clinical a...
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Open AccessAntibiotic resistance and molecular characterization of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli and non-typhoidal Salmonella strains isolated from infections in Southwest China
Bacterial diarrhea is one of the most common causes for medical consultations, mortality and morbidity in the world. Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) and non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) are major intestinal pa...
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Open AccessDifferentiating snail intermediate hosts of Schistosoma spp. using molecular approaches: fundamental to successful integrated control mechanism in Africa
Snail intermediate hosts play active roles in the transmission of snail-borne trematode infections in Africa. A good knowledge of snail-borne diseases epidemiology particularly snail intermediate host populati...
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Open AccessRisk factors affecting the mortality of HIV-infected patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in the cART era: a retrospective cohort study in China
Tuberculosis infection still places a great burden on HIV-infected individuals in China and other develo** countries. Knowledge of the survival of HIV-infected patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) woul...
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HIV Incidence and Care Linkage among MSM First-Time-Testers in Shenyang, China 2012–2014
HIV testing is the first step to the fulfillment of Treat as Prevention (TasP) and reaching the 90-90-90 goal in HIV control. However, there are still a large number of Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) have ne...
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Open AccessStudy roadmap for high-throughput development of easy to use and affordable biomarkers as diagnostics for tropical diseases: a focus on malaria and schistosomiasis
Interventions are currently being used against ‘infectious diseases of poverty’, which remain highly debilitating and deadly in most endemic countries, especially malaria, schistosomiasis, echinococcosis and A...
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Open AccessSurveillance-response systems: the key to elimination of tropical diseases
Tropical diseases remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in develo** countries. Although combined health efforts brought about significant improvements over the past 20 years, communities in resourc...
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Open AccessClinical characteristics and outcomes in critical patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) has become an important public health concern because of the high incidence and mortality rates, and limited treatment and vaccination. Until now, clinical studies ...
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Open AccessCo-infections with Babesia microti and Plasmodium parasites along the China-Myanmar border
Babesiosis is an emerging health risk in several parts of the world. However, little is known about the prevalence of Babesia in malaria-endemic countries. The area along the China-Myanmar border in Yunnan is a m...
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Clinical evaluation of oral levofloxacin 500 mg once-daily dosage for treatment of lower respiratory tract infections and urinary tract infections: a prospective multicenter study in China
Levofloxacin (LVFX), a fluoroquinolone agent, has a broad spectrum that covers Gram-positive and -negative bacteria and atypical pathogens. It demonstrates good clinical efficacy in the treatment of various in...
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Open AccessMolecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics of Mycobacterium tuberculosisin Taipei
The control of tuberculosis in densely populated cities is complicated by close human-to-human contacts and potential transmission of pathogens from multiple sources. We conducted a molecular epidemiologic ana...
