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Trials 2009, 10:43
Heterogeneity of treatment effects was neither rigorously nor routinely reported in a sample of randomised controlled trials published in 5 leading medical journals, suggesting the need for revised standards of reporting.

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BMC Infectious Diseases 2009, 9:89
Oral and vaginal metronidazole antibiotics are equally effective, regardless of route, in decreasing concentrations of most anaerobic bacteria for treatment of bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy, a condition associated with risk of pre-term birth.

Infectious Agents and Cancer 2009, 4:8
Mark Schiffman and colleagues discuss the recent reassessment by the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the carcinogenicity of different HPV types.

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:252
Infection of different mammalian cell types by the intracellular pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi induces a range of host responses, involving cytokine-independent gene expression, a block in the cell cycle and impairment of cytokinesis.

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BMC Medicine 2009, 7:26
While most European countries have delayed decisions on a universal routine childhood varicella vaccination program, Paolo Bonanni and colleagues discuss the benefits, challenges and practicalities of how such a program may be put into effect across Europe.

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A comparative, randomized clinical trial of artemisinin/naphtoquine twice daily one day versus artemether/lumefantrine six doses regimen in children and adults with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Cote d'Ivoire
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