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Infectious disease epidemiology

Section edited by Giovanni Rezza

This section aims to publish studies on the epidemiology of infectious diseases and the use of public health interventions for their control.

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  1. Many tropical countries are currently experiencing dengue (DEN), chikungunya (CHIK) and also more recently Zika (ZIKA) epidemics (particularly in Latin America). Although the risk of transmission and spread of...

    Authors: Marion Le Tyrant, Daniel Bley, Catherine Leport, Serge Alfandari and Jean-François Guégan

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1014

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  2. Cannabis has been identified as a possible risk factor in some tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks. As the most widely used (largely) illegal substance in Western countries this may be an important public health conce...

    Authors: Clare E. French, Caroline M. Coope, Luke A. McGuinness, Charles R. Beck, Sophie Newitt, Lauren Ahyow, Matt Hickman and Isabel Oliver

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1006

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  3. Chronic hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection affects 80–100 million people in sub-Saharan Africa and accounts for an estimated 650,000 deaths annually. The prevalence of active hepatitis B virus infection among w...

    Authors: Paul Semakula Katamba, David Mukunya, Doris Kwesiga and Victoria Nankabirwa

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1004

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  4. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is the highest incidence of infectious diseases in China. Shantou is one of the most infected cities. Therefore, it is necessary for us to understand the epidemic characteri...

    Authors: Haoyuan Zhang, Lianpeng Yang, Liping Li, Guangxing Xu and Xubin Zhang

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:998

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  5. Gauteng Province has the second lowest tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate in South Africa but the greatest proportion of TB/HIV co-infection, with 68% of TB patients estimated to have HIV. TB treatment outcomes ...

    Authors: Kaitlyn M. Berry, Carly A. Rodriguez, Rebecca H. Berhanu, Nazir Ismail, Lindiwe Mvusi, Lawrence Long and Denise Evans

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:973

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  6. Dengue fever is the world’s fastest spreading mosquito borne viral infection. It is prevalent throughout both subtropical and tropical region, and affects over 128 countries. Dengue virus (DENV) infection pose...

    Authors: Salomon Bonsi Tchuandom, Jules Colince Tchadji, Thibau Flaurant Tchouangueu, Monique Zambo Biloa, Etienne Philémon Atabonkeng, Marcelle Irina Miste Fumba, Eithel Sylvian Massom, Godwin Nchinda and Jules-Roger Kuiate

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:958

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  7. Despite advancement in Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services, the rate of MTCT of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa is still high. This is partly due to low retention of HIV positive mothers in H...

    Authors: Enosk Mirembe Masereka, Tom Denis Ngabirano, Charles Peter Osingada, Christine Sekaggya Wiltshire, Barbara Castelnuovo and Agnes N. Kiragga

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:950

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  8. Community-driven projects that aim to address public concerns about health risks from H. pylori infection in Indigenous Arctic communities (estimated H. pylori prevalence = 64%) show frequent failure of treatment...

    Authors: Kathleen Williams, Amy Colquhoun, Rachel Munday and Karen J. Goodman

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:949

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  9. Various neglected tropical diseases show spatially changing seasonality at small areas. This phenomenon has received little scientific attention so far. Our study contributes to advancing the understanding of ...

    Authors: Phuong N. Truong, Thuong Vu Nguyen, Thao Thi Thanh Nguyen and Alfred Stein

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:937

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  10. Dengue is a major public health problem in the tropics and sub-tropics, but the disease is less known to non-dengue-endemic countries including in Northeast Asia. However, an unexpected dengue outbreak occurre...

    Authors: Jung-Seok Lee and Andrew Farlow

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:934

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  11. Annual seasonal influenza vaccination (SIV) is recommended for people with diabetes, but their SIV rates remain far below public health targets. We aimed to identify temporal trajectories of SIV uptake over a ...

    Authors: Aurélie Bocquier, Sébastien Cortaredona, Lisa Fressard, Pierre Loulergue, Jocelyn Raude, Ariane Sultan, Florence Galtier and Pierre Verger

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:918

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  12. The first Canadian outbreak of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) was identified in 2004 in Calgary, Alberta. Using a novel model of MRSA population-based surveillance, soc...

    Authors: Victoria C. Gill, Irene Ma, Maggie Guo, Dan B. Gregson, Christopher Naugler and Deirdre L. Church

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:914

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  13. To determine the treatment behaviors among a community-based cohort of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected persons and to examine the disease progression among non-antiviral-treated HBV-infected cases aft...

    Authors: Hui Zheng, Guomin Zhang, Fuzhen Wang, Zundong Yin, Ning Miao, Xiaojin Sun, Xiaofeng Liang and Fuqiang Cui

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:901

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  14. Influenza generates a significant societal impact on morbidity, mortality, and associated costs. The study objective was to identify factors associated with influenza-like-illness (ILI) episodes during seasona...

    Authors: Caroline Guerrisi, Marie Ecollan, Cécile Souty, Louise Rossignol, Clément Turbelin, Marion Debin, Thomas Goronflot, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Thomas Hanslik, Vittoria Colizza and Thierry Blanchon

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:879

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  15. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is a disease known worldwide for its vulnerability factors, magnitude and mortality. The objective of the study was to analyze the sp...

    Authors: Shirley Verônica Melo Almeida Lima, Allan Dantas dos Santos, Andrezza Marques Duque, Marco Aurélio de Oliveira Goes, Marcus Valerius da Silva Peixoto, Damião da Conceição Araújo, Caíque Jordan Nunes Ribeiro, Márcio Bezerra Santos, Karina Conceição Gomes Machado de Araújo and Marco Antônio Prado Nunes

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:873

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  16. There are few data available about childhood tuberculosis (TB) in rural hospitals in low-income countries. We assessed differences in epidemiological characteristics and treatment outcomes in children with TB ...

    Authors: José M. Ramos, Mario Pérez-Butragueño, Abraham Tesfamariam, Francisco Reyes, Gebre Tiziano, Jacob Endirays, Seble Balcha, Tamasghen Elala, Dejene Biru, Belén Comeche and Miguel Górgolas

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:856

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  17. Lyme disease is emerging in Canada due to expansion of the range of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis from the United States. National surveillance for human Lyme disease cases began in Canada in 2009. Reported n...

    Authors: N. H. Ogden, C. Bouchard, J. Badcock, M. A. Drebot, S. P. Elias, T. F. Hatchette, J. K. Koffi, P. A. Leighton, L. R. Lindsay, C. B. Lubelczyk, A. S. Peregrine, R. P. Smith and D. Webster

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:849

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  18. Varicella is a highly contagious childhood disease. Generally benign, serious complications necessitating antibiotic use may occur. The objective of this study was to characterize the rate, appropriateness and...

    Authors: Lara J. Wolfson, Marìa Esther Castillo, Norberto Giglio, Zsófia Mészner, Zsuzsanna Molnár, Mirella Vàzquez, Jacek Wysocki, Alexandra Altland, Barbara J. Kuter, Melissa Stutz, Emmanouil Rampakakis and Craig S. Roberts

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:826

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  19. Delays in diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis are a major set-back to global tuberculosis control. There is currently no global evidence on the average delays thus, the most important contributor...

    Authors: Segun Bello, Rotimi Felix Afolabi, David Taiwo Ajayi, Tarang Sharma, Deborah Olamiposi Owoeye, Omobola Oduyoye and Joseph Jasanya

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:820

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  20. Malaria and Lyme disease were the largest vector-borne epidemics in recent US history. Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease with intense transmission, had higher morbidity and mortality, whereas Lyme and other ti...

    Authors: Ilia Rochlin, Dominick V. Ninivaggi and Jorge L. Benach

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:804

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  21. Access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Ethiopia has been scaled up since the introduction of the service in 2003. Free ART was launched in 2005, resulting in fewer new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) inf...

    Authors: Getinet Abera Lenjiso, Berhanu Seyoum Endale and Yadeta Dessie Bacha

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:771

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  22. Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne arbovirus that can produce serious public health consequences. In 2016, ZIKV caused an epidemic in many countries around the world, including the United States. ...

    Authors: Shahir Masri, Jianfeng Jia, Chen Li, Guofa Zhou, Ming-Chieh Lee, Guiyun Yan and Jun Wu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:761

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  24. Scabies occurs worldwide with a prevalence between 0.3 and 46.0%. In Ghana, even though a 5.1% proportion of scabies was reported in a retrospective review of skin diseases at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, t...

    Authors: Basil Benduri Kaburi, Donne Kofi Ameme, George Adu-Asumah, Dora Dadzie, Emmanuel Kwame Tender, Smith Vincent Addeh, Theophilus Aryee, Adolphina Addo-Lartey, Samuel Oko Sackey, Fredrick Wurapa, Edwin Andrew Afari and Ernest Kenu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:746

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  25. Indigenous communities across the circumpolar north have elevated H. pylori (Hp) prevalence and stomach cancer incidence. We aimed to describe the Hp-associated disease burden among western Canadian Arctic partic...

    Authors: Katharine Fagan-Garcia, Janis Geary, Hsiu-Ju Chang, Laura McAlpine, Emily Walker, Amy Colquhoun, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Safwat Girgis, Billy Archie, Brendan Hanley, Andre Corriveau, John Morse, Rachel Munday and Karen J. Goodman

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:730

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  26. In an effort to complement the current chemotherapy based schistosomiasis control interventions in Shinyanga district, community knowledge, perceptions and water contact practices were qualitatively assessed u...

    Authors: Teckla Angelo, Safari M. Kinung’hi, Jorum Buza, Joseph R. Mwanga, Henry Curtis Kariuki and Shona Wilson

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:703

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  27. Malaria remains endemic in Ghana despite several interventions. Studies have demonstrated very high levels of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia in both under-five and school-age children. Mass testing, treatme...

    Authors: Ignatius Cheng Ndong, Daniel Okyere, Juliana Yartey Enos, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Corinne Simone C. Merle, Alexander Nyarko, Kwadwo Ansah Koram and Collins Stephan Ahorlu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:695

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  28. This study was initiated to evaluate, for the first time, the performance and quality of the influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance system in Tunisia.

    Authors: Rihab Yazidi, Wafa Aissi, Hind Bouguerra, Mariem Nouira, Ghassen Kharroubi, Latifa Maazaoui, Mokhtar Zorraga, Naima Abdeddaiem, Sadok Chlif, Awatef El Moussi, Mohamed Ali Ben Hadj Kacem, Mohamed Ali Snoussi, Wissem Ghawar, Makram Koubaa, Lauren Polansky, Margaret McCarron…

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:694

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  29. To achieve the goal of measles eradication, all WHO member countries should continuously monitor the status of measles elimination. This work aims to characterize measles outbreaks in Iran from 2014 to 2016 an...

    Authors: Naser Piri, Manoochehr Karami, Leili Tapak, Seyed Mohsen Zahraei and Younes Mohammadi

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:687

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  30. Hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection transmitted from blood donors is a concern in China, as many articles about HGV infection in Chinese blood donors from different provinces have been published. This study aime...

    Authors: Taiwu Wang, Juecai Chen, Qi Zhang, Xia Huang, Nanzhen Xie, Jinhai Zhang, Tongjian Cai, Yao Zhang and Hongyan Xiong

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:685

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  31. Thermal fogging of Insecticides is a vector control strategy used by the Medellin Secretary of Health to combat dengue. This method is employed during outbreaks to curb populations of potentially infectious ad...

    Authors: Andrés F. Usuga, Lina M. Zuluaga-Idárraga, Natalia Alvarez, Raúl Rojo, Enrique Henao and Guillermo L. Rúa-Uribe

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:669

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  32. Infectious diseases spread through inherently spatial processes. Road and air traffic data have been used to model these processes at national and global scales. At metropolitan scales, however, mobility patte...

    Authors: Robert Moss, Elham Naghizade, Martin Tomko and Nicholas Geard

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:656

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  33. Dengue Fever (DF) is underrecognized mosquito borne viral disease prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions. In 2013, Ethiopia reported the first confirmed DF outbreak in Dire Dawa city which affected 11,4...

    Authors: Luna Habtamu Degife, Yoseph Worku, Desalegn Belay, Abyot Bekele and Zegeye Hailemariam

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:650

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  34. Few studies focused on longitudinal modifications over time of high-risk HPV (HR-HPV) at anal and oral sites in HIV+ men who have sex with men (MSM).

    Authors: Saverio Giuseppe Parisi, Monica Basso, Renzo Scaggiante, Samantha Andreis, Carlo Mengoli, Mario Cruciani, Claudia Del Vecchio, Nicola Menegotto, Daniela Zago, Loredana Sarmati, Massimo Andreoni and Giorgio Palù

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:645

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  35. Leptospirosis is still endemic in Malaysia and has been prevalent in Selangor where cases have been underreported. Primarily, this was due to lack of awareness in the urban community in this region. This study...

    Authors: Nurul Munirah Abdullah, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin Wan Mohammad, Mohd Nazri Shafei, Surianti Sukeri, Zawaha Idris, Wan Nor Arifin, Noramira Nozmi, Siti Nor Sakinah Saudi, Suhailah Samsudin, Abdul-Wahab Zainudin, Rukman Awang Hamat, Rosni Ibrahim, Siti Norbaya Masri, Suhainizam Muhammad Saliluddin, Aziah Daud, Malina Osman…

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:628

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  36. The Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa has produced a large amount of data on participating countries, and in particular o...

    Authors: Bien-Aimé Makasa Mandja, Didier Bompangue, Pascal Handschumacher, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, Gérard Salem, Jean-Jacques Muyembe and Frédéric Mauny

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:624

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  37. Serological surveillance, based on the measurement of the presence of specific antibodies in a given population, can be used in addition to traditional and routine disease surveillance methods. The added value...

    Authors: Tinne Lernout, Benoît Kabamba-Mukadi, Veroniek Saegeman, Marie Tré-Hardy, Morgane de Laveleye, Tommi Asikainen, Ram Benny Dessau, Sophie Quoilin and Amber Litzroth

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:597

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  38. Unlike their younger counterparts, some of today’s older HIV patients were diagnosed before the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The psychosocial and behavioral outcomes of people living...

    Authors: Luis Sagaon-Teyssier, Antoine Vilotitch, Marion Mora, Gwenaëlle Maradan, Valérie Guagliardo, Marie Suzan-Monti, Rosemary Dray-Spira and Bruno Spire

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:590

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  39. Since 2009, in Ontario, reportable disease surveillance data has been used for timely in-season estimates of influenza severity (i.e., hospitalizations and deaths). Due to changes in reporting requirements inf...

    Authors: J. Leigh Hobbs, Michael Whelan, Anne-Luise Winter, Michelle Murti and Karin Hohenadel

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:567

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  40. Varicella is typically mild and self-limiting, but can be associated with complications and even death. The limited data available on varicella in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) indicate substantial bur...

    Authors: Luiza Helena Falleiros Arlant, Maria Catalina Pirez Garcia, Maria L. Avila Aguero, Miguel Cashat, Cintia Irene Parellada and Lara J. Wolfson

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:528

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  41. Hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) is a communicable disease of increasing global importance with 1.75 million new infections and 400,000 related deaths annually. Until recently, treatment options have had low ...

    Authors: Bernard Luke Edmunds, Emma Ruth Miller and George Tsourtos

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:527

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  42. Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is an important cause of mortality in children and adults. However, studies assessing risk factors for ARI-related deaths in low- and middle-income settings are limited. We de...

    Authors: Sara Tomczyk, John P. McCracken, Carmen Lucia Contreras, Maria Renee Lopez, Chris Bernart, Juan Carlos Moir, Kenneth Escobar, Lisette Reyes, Wences Arvelo, Kim Lindblade, Leonard Peruski, Joe P. Bryan and Jennifer R. Verani

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:499

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  43. The Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN) aims to determine the burden of severe influenza disease and Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness (IVE). This is a prospective, active surveillance and hos...

    Authors: Víctor Baselga-Moreno, Svetlana Trushakova, Shelly McNeil, Anna Sominina, Marta C. Nunes, Anca Draganescu, Serhat Unal, Parvaiz Koul, Jan Kyncl, Tao Zhang, Ainagul Kuatbayeva, Afif Ben-Salah, Elena Burtseva, Joan Puig-Barberà and Javier Díez-Domingo

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:487

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  44. Globally in 2015 about 214 million malaria cases and 438,000 deaths were reported with 75% were from Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria transmission in Ethiopia is unstable, and outbreaks are considered public health...

    Authors: Afewerki Tesfahunegn, Gebretsadik Berhe and Equbay Gebregziabher

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:484

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  45. Childhood tuberculosis (TB) diagnoses often lack microbiologic confirmation and require empiric treatment. Barriers to empiric treatment include concern for poor outcomes and adverse effects. We thus determine...

    Authors: Eric Wobudeya, Devan Jaganath, Moorine Penninah Sekadde, Betty Nsangi, Heather Haq and Adithya Cattamanchi

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:446

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  46. People living in poverty (PLP) are highly vulnerable to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. This study aimed to investigate the epidemiology of HBV infection in PLP in the metropolitan region of Goiânia, Goiás ...

    Authors: Lara Cristina da Cunha Guimarães, Sandra Brunini, Rafael Alves Guimarães, Hélio Galdino-Júnior, Ruth Minamisava, Vanessa Elias da Cunha, Jordana Rúbia Souza Santos, Elisângela de Paula Silveira- Lacerda, Christiane Moreira Souza, Vera Lúcia Brandão de Oliveira, Gabriela Cavalcante Albernaz, Thiago Guida de Menezes and Giovanni Rezza

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:443

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  47. Retention of HIV Exposed Infants (HEIs) in care ensures adequate care. Data on retention of HEIs at large referral hospitals in Uganda is limited. We investigated the retention level of HEIs and associated fac...

    Authors: Pontius Apangu, Jonathan Izudi, Francis Bajunirwe, Edgar Mulogo and Vincent Batwala

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:436

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  50. This paper investigates the relationship between psychological health and quality of life (QOL) of people affected by leprosy (PAL) living in a community in Guangdong province, China.

    Authors: Mingzhou Xiong, Xiaohua Wang, Ting Su, Bin Yang, Ming Li and Daocheng Zheng

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:424

    Content type: Research article

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