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Programmatic Implementation of Contact Investigation in Eight African Countries
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 The objective was to implement CI under national tuberculosis programmatic conditions and to advocate for its scaling up. Contact investigation was implemented in 150 Basic Management Units identified across eight countries.
Kobto G. Koura +11 more
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Respiratory Research, 2021 Research question There is no widely accepted grading system for IPF disease severity, although physiologic impairment based on pulmonary function testing is frequently employed.
Jean Pastre +10 more
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Interstitial lung disease [PDF]
European Respiratory Review, 2014 Interstitial lung diseases are a group of diffuse parenchymal lung disorders associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Knowledge achieved in recent years has resulted in the publication of the new classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias, according to which there are three groups: major, rare and unclassified.
Antoniou, Katerina M. +5 more
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Communications Medicine, 2023 Hirotsu, Kakizaki et al. assess the presence of pneumonia and pathogenesis during infection with different SARS-CoV-2 variants. The prevalence of pneumonia differs depending on the infectious variant, with the lowest prevalence and mild lung pathogenesis
Yosuke Hirotsu +10 more
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SARS-CoV2 in public spaces in West London, UK during COVID-19 pandemic
BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2023 Background Spread of SARS-CoV2 by aerosol is considered an important mode of transmission over distances >2 m, particularly indoors.Objectives We determined whether SARS-CoV2 could be detected in the air of enclosed/semi-enclosed public spaces.Methods
Prashant Kumar +13 more
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Scleroderma lung disease [PDF]
European Respiratory Review, 2013 Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a systemic autoimmune disease that is characterised by endothelial dysfunction resulting in a small-vessel vasculopathy, fibroblast dysfunction with resultant excessive collagen production and fibrosis, and immunological abnormalities.
Joshua J. Solomon +5 more
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The importance of impulse oscillometry in bronchial provocation testing in confirming the diagnosis of asthma in male army recruits [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017 Background/Aim. Impulse oscillometry (IOS) is a technique valid for measuring the lung function in obstructive lung diseases and bronchial provocation tests. However, no consensus exists for its use.
Koruga Dragan +3 more
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Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 2020 Background Accurate knowledge of cell−/tissue-delivered dose plays a pivotal role in inhalation toxicology studies, since it is the key parameter for hazard assessment and translation of in vitro to in vivo dose-response.
Yaobo Ding +5 more
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Pulmonology, 2020 Introduction Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP) is an interstitial lung disease with limited treatment response and bad prognosis. Sometimes it is indistinguishable from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) becoming one of the main differential ...
Maria Laura Alberti +6 more
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Small cell lung cancer with thyroid gland oligometastasis: A case report
Thoracic Cancer, 2021 Extensive disease small cell lung cancer (ED‐SCLC) is a systemic disease characterized by diffuse metastases and a poor prognosis. Oligometastatic cases in ED‐SCLC are rare. This study reports the case of a 72‐year‐old Japanese male.
Toshiharu Tsutsui +6 more
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