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4. Multi-drug resistant A cinetobacterinfections in critically injured Canadian forces soldiers

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5. Nationwide trends in molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Finland, 1997–2004

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6. Restaurant outbreak of Legionnaires' disease associated with a decorative fountain: an environmental and case-control study

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7. Identification of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli isolated from infants and children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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8. A rationale for continuing mass antibiotic distributions for trachoma

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9. Analysis of multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms closely positioned in the ovine PRNPgene using linear fluorescent probes and melting curve analysis

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10. U.S. medical resident familiarity with national tuberculosis guidelines

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11. Analysis of vancomycin use and associated risk factors in a university teaching hospital: a prospective cohort study

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12. Treatment of two postoperative endophthalmitis cases due to Aspergillus flavus and Scopulariopsis spp. with local and systemic antifungal therapy

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13. Combined use of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism and IS6110 -RFLP in fingerprinting clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Kerala, South India

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14. Longitudinal monitoring of Ehrlichia ruminantium infection in Gambian lambs and kids by pCS20 PCR and MAP1-B ELISA

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15. Identification of gene targets against dormant phase Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections

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16. T-cell and serological responses to Erp, an exported Mycobacterium tuberculosisprotein, in tuberculosis patients and healthy individuals

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17. Knowledge and attitudes of parents and professionals to neonatal BCG vaccination in light of recent UK policy changes: A questionnaire study

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18. Poor knowledge – predictor of nonadherence to universal precautions for blood borne pathogens at first level care facilities in Pakistan

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19. Meningococcal, influenza virus, and hepatitis B virus vaccination coverage level among health care workers in Hajj

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20. Comparative antimicrobial susceptibility of aerobic and facultative bacteria from community-acquired bacteremia to ertapenem in Taiwan

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21. Short-term and one-year outcome of infective endocarditis in adult patients treated in a Finnish teaching hospital during 1980–2004

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22. The distribution of sexually-transmitted Human Papillomaviruses in HIV positive and negative patients in Zambia, Africa

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23. Influenza pandemic intervention planning using InfluSim: pharmaceutical and non- pharmaceutical interventions

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24. Seroepidemiology of infection with Toxoplasma gondii in healthy blood donors of Durango, Mexico

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25. Diagnosis of tuberculosis in an Indian population by an indirect ELISA protocol based on detection of Antigen 85 complex: a prospective cohort study

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26. Declining hepatitis A seroprevalence in adults in Catalonia (Spain): a population-based study

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27. First international diagnostic accuracy study for the serological detection of West Nile virus infection

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28. Incidence of cytomegalovirus infection among the general population and pregnant women in the United States

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29. Antifungal prophylaxis in chemotherapy-associated neutropenia: a retrospective, observational study

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33. PCR reveals significantly higher rates of Trypanosoma cruzi infection than microscopy in the Chagas vector, Triatoma infestans: High rates found in Chuquisaca, Bolivia

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34. Oral infection of mice with Salmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium causes meningitis and infection of the brain

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35. Serology based disease status of Pakistani population infected with Hepatitis B virus

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36. Higher pre-infection vitamin E levels are associated with higher mortality in HIV-1-infected Kenyan women: a prospective study

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38. Reduction of Clostridium Difficile and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus contamination of environmental surfaces after an intervention to improve cleaning methods

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39. Characteristics and management of HIV-1-infected pregnant women enrolled in a randomised trial: differences between Europe and the USA

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44. Predictive factors of virological success to salvage regimens containing protease inhibitors in HIV-1 infected children

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47. Prevalence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci colonization and its risk factors in chronic hemodialysis patients in Shiraz, Iran

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48. Nasal carriage of a single clone of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among kindergarten attendees in northern Taiwan

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49. The association of RANTES polymorphism with severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong and Beijing Chinese

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