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  1. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infections among HIV-1 infected individuals are growing worldwide health problems characterized by lack of effective vaccines, need for expensive treatmen...

    Authors: Beatrice Mukami Muriuki, Michael Muita Gicheru, Dorcas Wachira, Anthony Kebira Nyamache and Samoel Ashimosi Khamadi
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:363
  2. Tyrosinemia type 1 (TT1) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by deficiency of the enzyme fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH). TT1 usually presents in infancy with features suggestive of liver disease or ...

    Authors: Sarar Mohamed, Mohammed A Kambal, Nasir A Al Jurayyan, Abdulrahman Al-Nemri, Amir Babiker, Rana Hasanato and Abdullah S Al-Jarallah
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:362
  3. Acute patellar tendon ruptures with poor tissue quality. Ruptures that have been neglected are difficult to repair. Several surgical techniques for the repair of the patellar tendon have been reported, however...

    Authors: Yuji Takazawa, Hiroshi Ikeda, Muneaki Ishijima, Mitsuaki Kubota, Yoshitomo Saita, Haruka Kaneko, Yohei Kobayashi, Ryo Sadatsuki, Shinnosuke Hada and Kazuo Kaneko
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:361
  4. Dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) is commonly used in mouse studies to induce a very reproducible colitis that effectively mimics the clinical and histological features of human inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) pat...

    Authors: Emilie Viennois, Fengyuan Chen, Hamed Laroui, Mark T Baker and Didier Merlin
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:360
  5. The molecular epidemiology of C. jejuni and C. coli clinical strains isolated from children with gastroenteritis, was investigated using the multilocus sequence typing method (MLST). This analysis establishes for...

    Authors: Vasiliki Ioannidou, Anastasios Ioannidis, Emmanouil Magiorkinis, Pantelis Bagos, Chryssoula Nicolaou, Nicolaos Legakis and Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:359
  6. Vitamin B12 deficiency is common in older people, and may be responsible for reversible dementia. Low serum vitamin B12 levels were also observed in patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). It is not kno...

    Authors: Dina Silva, Ulrike Albers, Isabel Santana, Margarida Vicente, Isabel Pavão Martins, Ana Verdelho, Manuela Guerreiro and Alexandre de-Mendonça
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:357
  7. Due to the difficult geographic terrain with lack of roads and transport, the Sikkim State in India finds difficulties in contending the respiratory diseases especially during the rainy seasons.

    Authors: Ankur Barua, VK Tiwari and Santosh P Kesari
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:356
  8. While efforts to improve cancer outcomes have typically focused on improving quality of care, recently, a growing emphasis has been placed on timely access to quality cancer care. This retrospective cohort stu...

    Authors: Geoffrey Porter, Robin Urquhart, Cynthia Kendell, Jingyu Bu, Yarrow McConnell and Eva Grunfeld
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:355
  9. We aimed to describe orbital positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging findings, both structural and metabolic, in different clinical stages of Graves ophthalmopathy (GO). This prospect...

    Authors: Leonardo García-Rojas, Gloria Adame-Ocampo, Guillermo Mendoza-Vázquez, Erick Alexánderson and José Luis Tovilla-Canales
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:353
  10. Paediatric tuberculosis (TB) is poorly addressed in Ethiopia and information about its magnitude and the genotype distribution of the causative Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains responsible for its spread are sc...

    Authors: Bereket Workalemahu, Stefan Berg, Wondewosen Tsegaye, Alemseged Abdissa, Tsinuel Girma, Markos Abebe and Abraham Aseffa
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:352
  11. The role of abscisic acid (ABA) as a possible activator of cold acclimation process was postulated since endogenous levels of ABA increase temporarily or constitutively during cold-hardening. Exogenous applica...

    Authors: Reiko Shinkawa, Aiko Morishita, Kumiko Amikura, Rika Machida, Hiroki Murakawa, Kazuyuki Kuchitsu and Masaya Ishikawa
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:351
  12. Malaria and HIV infections during pregnancy can individually or jointly unleash or confound pregnancy outcomes. Two of the probable outcomes are fetal anemia and cord blood malaria parasitemia. We determined c...

    Authors: Amos K Laar, Fredrick E Grant, Yaw Addo, Ireneous Soyiri, Bright Nkansah, James Abugri, Alexander S Laar, William K Ampofo, Juliette M Tuakli and Isabella A Quakyi
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:350
  13. Severe acute exacerbation in chronic hepatitis B could lead to mortality in some patients unless timely liver transplantation is performed. The baseline bilirubin level has been reported to be an important pro...

    Authors: Yi-Cheng Chen, Chao-Wei Hsu, Ming-Yang Chang and Chau-Ting Yeh
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:349
  14. Percutaneous coronary intervention with placement of a drug-eluting stent in a diabetic patient with ST-elevation myocardial infarction is a relatively common procedure, and always requires subsequent treatmen...

    Authors: Juan Lacalzada, Belén Marí, María Manuela Izquierdo, Alejandro Sánchez-Grande, Alejandro de la Rosa and Ignacio Laynez
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:348
  15. Fulminant type 1 diabetes is a non-autoimmune disorder characterized by sudden onset. This complication is rarely associated with myocarditis, suggesting an involvement of viral infection. We report a patient ...

    Authors: Katsuhiro Makino, Ikiko Nishimae, Noriyuki Suzuki, Syuya Nitta, Hiroki Saitoh, Masashi Kasao and Kazunaga Takazawa
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:347
  16. The growing attention given to H. pylori is not surprising since this pathogen colonizes more than at least half of the world’s inhabitants. In Ethiopia particularly in Gondar, there is no current study conducted...

    Authors: Biniam Mathewos, Beyene Moges and Mulat Dagnew
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:346
  17. Schistosomiasis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, with over 200 million people infected worldwide. Eighty-five percent of cases are in Africa. The hepatosplenic form develops over time by an immune ...

    Authors: Lara Payne, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Mable Mutengo, Akwi W Asombang and Paul Kelly
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:344
  18. Expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeats in the non-coding region of the C9ORF72 gene was recently identified as being responsible for over 40% of the cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis associated with frontote...

    Authors: Mariam Annan, Émilie Beaufils, Ursule-Catherine Viola, Patrick Vourc’h, Caroline Hommet and Karl Mondon
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:343
  19. Isoniazid treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is commonly prescribed in refugees and immigrants. We aimed to assess understanding of information provided about LTBI, its treatment and potential s...

    Authors: Katie Butcher, Beverley-Ann Biggs, Karin Leder, Chris Lemoh, Daniel O’Brien and Caroline Marshall
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:342
  20. Duddingtonia flagrans and Monacrosporium thaumasium are promising fungus species in veterinary biological control of gastrointestinal nematodes because of their production capacity of fungal structures (conidia a...

    Authors: Manoel Eduardo da Silva, Jackson Victor de Araújo, Fabio Ribeiro Braga, Luana Alcântara Borges, Filippe Elias F Soares, Walter dos Santos Lima and Marcos Pezzi Guimarães
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:340
  21. Trastuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds to the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER 2) and inhibits carcinoma cellular proliferation. Its use as an adjuva...

    Authors: Meryem Aitelhaj, Siham LKhouyaali, Ghizlane Rais, Amina Mohtaram, Soundouss Raissouni, Brahim Ghissassi, Saber Boutayeb, Hind Mrabti, Youssef Bensouda and Hassan Errihani
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:339
  22. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is endemic worldwide. Given significant rates of infectivity, all infants born to Hepatitis B surface antigen positive mothers need to receive treatment at birth, immunization and post-...

    Authors: Rebecca J Sainato, Elizabeth G Simmons, Dawn F Muench, Mark W Burnett and LoRanée Braun
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:338
  23. Methicillin-resistant staphylococci can colonize and cause diseases in companion animals. Unfortunately, few molecular studies have been carried out in Brazil and other countries with the aim of characterizing...

    Authors: Isidório Mebinda Zuco Quitoco, Mariana Severo Ramundo, Maria Cícera Silva-Carvalho, Raquel Rodrigues Souza, Cristiana Ossaille Beltrame, Táya Figueiredo de Oliveira, Rodrigo Araújo, Pedro Fernandez Del Peloso, Leonardo Rocchetto Coelho and Agnes Marie Sá Figueiredo
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:336
  24. We report an extremely rare case of massive hemoptysis and complete left-sided lung collapse in pregnancy due to pulmonary tuberculosis in a health care worker with good maternal and fetal outcome.

    Authors: Gwinyai Masukume, Elton Sengurayi, Phinot Moyo, Julio Feliu, Danboy Gandanhamo, Wedu Ndebele, Solwayo Ngwenya and Rudo Gwini
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:335
  25. The current revolution in genomics has been made possible by software tools called genome assemblers, which stitch together DNA fragments “read” by sequencing machines into complete or nearly complete genome s...

    Authors: Mohammadreza Ghodsi, Christopher M Hill, Irina Astrovskaya, Henry Lin, Dan D Sommer, Sergey Koren and Mihai Pop
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:334
  26. The study of coffee polysaccharides-degrading enzymes from the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei, has become an important alternative in the identification for enzymatic inhibitors that can be used as an alt...

    Authors: Carolina Aguilera-Gálvez, Juan J Vásquez-Ospina, Pablo Gutiérrez-Sanchez and Ricardo Acuña-Zornosa
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:333
  27. We report the outcomes of BioMed Central’s public consultation on implementing open data-compliant licensing in peer-reviewed open access journals. Respondents (42) to the 2012 consultation were six to one in ...

    Authors: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Stefan Busch and Matthew J Cockerill
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:318
  28. Adrenocorticotropic hormone-producing extraadrenal paragangliomas are extremely rare. We present a case of severe hypercortisolemia due to ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion by a nasal paraganglioma.

    Authors: Theodoros Thomas, Steffen Zender, Christoph Terkamp, Elmar Jaeckel and Michael P Manns
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:331
  29. Influenza A virus contributes to seasonal epidemics and pandemics and contains Global Ordered RNA structure (GORS) in the nucleoprotein (NP), non-structural (NS), PB2, and M segments. A related virus, influenz...

    Authors: Salvatore F Priore, Walter N Moss and Douglas H Turner
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:330
  30. Esophageal dysmotility and gastroparesis are common secondary complications in patients with diabetes mellitus. Patients with dysmotility express antibodies against gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in ser...

    Authors: Kerstin Berntorp, Anders Frid, Ragnar Alm, Gunilla Nordin Fredrikson, Klas Sjöberg and Bodil Ohlsson
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:329
  31. Hiccup (Singultus) is a sudden and involuntary contraction of the diaphragm followed by a sharp closure of the epiglottis which results in the production of a specific “hic” sound. Normally, hiccups are treate...

    Authors: Georgi Konstantinov Maximov and Deepak Kamnasaran
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:327
  32. Hangul (Cervus elaphus hanglu), the eastern most subspecies of red deer, is now confined only to the mountains in the Kashmir region of Jammu & Kashmir State of India. It is of great conservation significance as ...

    Authors: Mukesh, Lalit K Sharma, Ved P Kumar, Samina A Charoo, Nipun Mohan, Surendra P Goyal and Sambandam Sathyakumar
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:326
  33. To inform the design of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of an exercise-based programme for long term stroke survivors, we conducted a mixed methods before-and-after case series with assessment at three tim...

    Authors: Leon Poltawski, Jacqueline Briggs, Anne Forster, Victoria A Goodwin, Martin James, Rod S Taylor and Sarah Dean
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:324
  34. Bacteriological examination of sputum is the cornerstone in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in developing world, which is usually done using a Ziehl-Nelseen (ZN) method. However, due to limited laboratory ...

    Authors: Yemane Weldu, Daniel Asrat, Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel and Aregawi Hailesilasie
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:323
  35. Arcobacter spp. have in recent years received increasing interest as potential emerging enteropathogens and zoonotic agents. They are associated with various animals including poultry and can be isolated from mea...

    Authors: Louise Hesselbjerg Rasmussen, Jette Kjeldgaard, Jens Peter Christensen and Hanne Ingmer
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:322
  36. Eclampsia is known to cause posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) that is often associated with an extensive neurovascular damage affecting preferably posterior regions, often leading to reversib...

    Authors: Maïga Youssoufa, Kuate Tegueu Callixte and Napon Christian
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:321
  37. Spontaneous regression of lesions occurs in non-infectious benign diseases, such as sarcoidosis, as well as in infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis. Lung cancer and malignant lymphoma, on the other hand, ...

    Authors: Munehisa Fukusumi, Tatsuya Ibe, Shinjiro Takeoka, Kazushige Wakuda, Atsuto Mouri, Yoichiro Hamamoto and Mitsuhiro Kamimura
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:320
  38. Typhoid fever is a systemic illness which in high-income countries mainly affects travellers. The incidence is particularly high on the Indian subcontinent. Travellers who visit friends and relatives (VFR) hav...

    Authors: Freja Cecille Barrett, Jenny Dahl Knudsen and Isik Somuncu Johansen
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:315
  39. Improving postgraduate medical training is one important step to attract more medical students into general practice. Keeping pace with international developments moving to competence-based curricula for gener...

    Authors: Jost Steinhaeuser, Jean-François Chenot, Marco Roos, Thomas Ledig and Stefanie Joos
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:314

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