In situ PCR for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in endoscopic mucosal biopsy specimens of intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn disease [PDF]
, 2008 Tuberculosis and Crohn disease are granulomatous disorders affecting the intestinal tract with similar clinical manifestations and pathologic features.
Donoghue, HD +3 more
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Latent tuberculosis infection in the Polish prison staff
Medycyna Pracy, 2021 Background Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by acid-fast mycobacteria from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex group. The disease spreads when people with pulmonary tuberculosis excrete bacteria when they cough, sneeze, laugh or ...
Aneta Filipek-Czerska +2 more
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Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Healthcare Students and Postgraduates in a Mediterranean Italian Area: What Correlation with Work Exposure? [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Tuberculosis screening is part of the standard protocol for evaluating the risk of infection in healthcare workers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among students attending various ...
Antonina Ciccarello +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 BackgroundTuberculosis remains a major public health problem worldwide accounting for 1.4 million deaths annually. LL-37 is an effector molecule involved in immunity with both antimicrobial and immunomodulatory properties.
Ester Lilian Acen +6 more
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AASLD practice guidance on drug, herbal, and dietary supplement–induced liver injury
, 2022 Hepatology, EarlyView.
Robert J. Fontana +6 more
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Viewpoint: Scientific dogmas, paradoxes and mysteries of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection [PDF]
, 2011 Worldwide, there are nearly 10 million new cases of active TB and 1.8 million associated deaths every year. WHO estimates that one-third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), forming a huge latent Mtb global ...
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Tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis in prison inmates [PDF]
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2012 OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalences of tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis in inmates. METHODS: Observational study was carried out with inmates of a prison and a jail in the State of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, between March and December of 2008. Questionnaires were used to collect sociodemographic and epidemiological data.
Nogueira, Péricles Alves +2 more
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Negligible risk of inducing resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with single-dose rifampicin as post-exposure prophylaxis for leprosy [PDF]
, 2016 Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for leprosy is administered as one single dose of rifampicin (SDR) to the contacts of newly diagnosed leprosy patients. SDR reduces the risk of developing leprosy among contacts by around 60 % in the first 2-3 years after ...
Anthony, Richard +13 more
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The bacillary and macrophage response to hypoxia in tuberculosis and the consequences for T cell antigen recognition [PDF]
, 2016 M. tuberculosis is a facultative anaerobe and its characteristic pathological hallmark, the granuloma, exhibits hypoxia in humans and in most experimental models. Thus the host and bacillary adaptation to hypoxia is of central importance in understanding
Barry III, CE +5 more
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Effect of HIV-1 infection on T-Cell-based and skin test detection of tuberculosis infection [PDF]
, 2007 RATIONALE: Two forms of the IFN-gamma release assay (IFNGRA) to detect tuberculosis infection are available, but neither has been evaluated in comparable HIV-infected and uninfected persons in a high tuberculosis incidence environment.
Connell, Tom G +11 more
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