Germs, Volume 12, Issue 1

Introduction: Advocacy for immunization has been ongoing in various parts of the world to improve immunization uptake amongst children. Annually within the last decade, immunization has been reported to avert over two million deaths globally. This st...

Introduction: Contemporary emergence of multidrug resistance (MDR) urges regular updates on circulating pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance profiles. We aimed to identify the burden of MDR and World Health Organization (WHO) priority Gram ne...

Introduction: In low- and middle-income countries including Nepal, respiratory tract infection (RTI) is considered as one of the most prominent public health problems in children. Multiple carriage of respiratory pathogens is common in children, espe...

Significant alteration of cognitive and affective behaviors mediated by neural pathways in the central nervous system (CNS), currently referred to as “brain fog”, is a major long-term complication following recovery from an acute infectious event [...]

Introduction: Year 2020 has been a cornerstone in medical research due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The process of understanding the condition brought to light certain organ involvement like pulmonary or kidney damage or endocrine disbalances,...

Introduction: Ecthyma gangrenosum (EG) is a rare cutaneous manifestation commonly associated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in immunocompromised individuals. Additionally, different bacterial and fungal pathogens have also been identified. How...

Introduction: Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a commensal bacterium found in the saliva of dogs and cats. In most cases C. canimorsus causes local infection resulting from bite-wounds, scratches or licks but severe forms can occur. The following case de...

Introduction: Right-sided lesions caused by staphylococci are the most common clinical entity of infectious endocarditis (IE) among iv drug abusers. But some aspects of the epidemiological history are critical in terms of early detection of uncommon...

Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at the epicenter in times of a calamity and are pivotal in the overall response during outbreaks [...]

Introduction: Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) have been separately associated to gliomas. IDH is a molecular marker considered in the histo-molecular classification of gliomas as well as in their management and prognos...

Introduction: This study aimed to identify factors associated with self-medication in patients with COVID-19. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using medical records of patients with COVID-19 who self-medicated before admission to a hosp...

Introduction: Nowadays, chronic viral hepatitis represents one of the most common pathological entities with over 400 million cases worldwide, with high diagnosis and treatment cost, severe complications in late stages and an annual death-rate around...

Introduction: Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a bacillus that can cause cutaneous and systemic diseases in humans. Studies on the infection caused by this bacterium have been mostly done as case reports. This study aimed to systematically review E. r...

Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly spread worldwide and claimed millions of lives. Several studies have attempted to understand the relationship between COVID-19 infection and health disparities. The aim of the...

Introduction: The test and treat strategy recommends starting ART on the same day of diagnosis; yet, in Namibia neither baseline viral load (VL) nor genotypic resistance testing (GRT) are recommended prior to ART initiation. However, some clients ret...

Introduction: Among the less common symptoms associated with the SARS-CoV-2 infection the attention is drawn by a persistent hiccup that was recently quoted in the literature. Case report: We present the case of a 46-year-old Caucasian male patient h...