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Interventions for neurocognitive dysfunction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Purpose of review: To evaluate current barriers to HIV cure strategies and interventions for neurocognitive dysfunction with a particular focus on recent advancements over the last three years. Recent findings: Optimal anti-retroviral therapy (ART) poses
Brew, B, Ellero, J, Lubomski, M
core   +2 more sources

Infection control in the brain and the eye

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain and the eye, is considered to have a ‘privileged’ mechanism for dealing with immunological challenge (immune privilege, IP). CNS IP has been revealed through experiments using foreign protein antigens and cell and tissue alloantigens (grafts), but evidence for a role for IP in modulating ...
John V. Forrester   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Paediatric BCG Vaccine Century: From Historical Success to Future Innovations

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim The tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, Bacille‐Calmette‐Guérin (BCG), protects infants against severe forms of primary TB. Yet, it does not protect against pulmonary reactivation TB in adults. Methods A literature review was conducted between 1st January and 28th February 2025 using PubMed, Google Scholar and reports of the World Health ...
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
wiley   +1 more source

Inconsistent standard of care for tuberculosis screening and preventive therapy before initiating systemic psoriasis treatment

open access: yesJDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Background and Objectives Preventive tuberculosis (TB) therapy before initiating MTX or IL‐17/IL‐23/IL‐12/23p40 inhibitors for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is supported by indirect evidence of TB reactivations with TNF inhibitors. However, direct evidence for MTX or IL‐17/IL‐23/IL‐12/23p40 inhibitors is limited.
Christoph Zeyen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Latent tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis in children and adolescents

open access: yesEinstein (São Paulo)
Objective: To describe the characteristics of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection. Methods: A retrospective study, between 2012 and 2015, with data from patients of Programa Einstein na Comunidade de Paraisópolis.
Cassia Satsuki Ishikawa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extracellular matrix and proteolysis: mechanisms driving irreversible changes and shaping cell behavior

open access: yesThe FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
Irreversible ECM proteolysis by remodeling enzymes shapes development, homeostasis, and disease. ECM‐degrading proteases display cell specificity and are governed by shared mechanisms, exhibiting functional redundancy in generating matrikines, growth factors, and cytokines.
Inna Solomonov, Orit Kollet, Irit Sagi
wiley   +1 more source

Elevated Levels of Galectin-9 but Not Osteopontin in HIV and Tuberculosis Infections Indicate Their Roles in Detecting MTB Infection in HIV Infected Individuals

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Galectin-9 (Gal-9) and osteopontin (OPN) play immunomodulatory roles in tuberculosis and HIV infections. Evaluation of their levels as well as their interplay with different pro-inflammatory cytokines is critical to understand their role in ...
Ashwini Shete   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Double Burden. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
One third of the world's population is latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and with the lifestyle changes succeeding the on-going urbanization, populations already burdened by tuberculosis are experiencing a dramatic increase in chronic ...
Faurholt-Jepsen, Daniel
core  

Study of the possibility of improving the differentiation of latent and active tuberculosis infection

open access: yesBuletinul Academiei de Ştiinţe a Moldovei: Ştiinţe Medicale, 2019
Latent TB infection (LTI)-asymptomatic nontransmissiv tuberculosis infection with hidden persistence of M.tuberculosis in host organism. The problem of detection of latent tuberculosis infection is very urgent and difficult task.
Zyifi Kadimova
doaj  

Tuberculosis contact tracing among children and adolescent referred to children's hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015
Objective: To describe the investigation of latent tuberculosis infection and indication for isoniazid preventive therapy in children and adolescents evaluated at the children's hospital. Methods: This retrospective study examines all latent tuberculosis
Angela Marcia Cabral Mendonça   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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