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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, Olivia B. Mbitikon, Attannon A. Fiogbé, Abdoul R. Ouédraogo, Albert Kuate Kuate, Aboubacar S. Magassouba, Alphazazi Soumana, Georges Hermana, Barnabé Gning, Mohammed F. Dogo, Monicah Andefa, Gisèle Badoum   +11 more
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients with severe physiologic impairment: characteristics and outcomes

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, Scott Barnett, Inga Ksovreli, Jeannie Taylor, A. Whitney Brown, Oksana A. Shlobin, Kareem Ahmad, Vikramjit Khangoora, Shambhu Aryal, Christopher S. King, Steven D. Nathan   +10 more
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Lung tropism in hospitalized patients following infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants from D614G to Omicron BA.2

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, Yumiko Kakizaki, Akitoshi Saito, Toshiharu Tsutsui, Syunya Hanawa, Haruna Yamaki, Syuichiro Ide, Makoto Kawaguchi, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Miyashita, Masao Omata   +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, Kian Fan Chung, Ian Adcock, Pankaj K Bhavsar, Hisham Abubakar-Waziri, Gopinath Kalaiarasan, Rebecca Wawman, Faye Hobbs, Claire Dilliway, Fangxin Fang, Christopher Pain, Alexandra Porter, Emma Ransome, Vincent Savolainen   +13 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, Tot-Vereš Kristina, Plavec Goran, Lončarević Olivera   +3 more
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Quartz crystal microbalances (QCM) are suitable for real-time dosimetry in nanotoxicological studies using VITROCELL®Cloud cell exposure systems

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, Patrick Weindl, Anke-Gabriele Lenz, Paula Mayer, Tobias Krebs, Otmar Schmid   +5 more
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Comparative survival analysis between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis

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, Jose María Malet Ruiz, Martin Eduardo Fernández, Leandro Fassola, Fabián Caro, Ivette Buendía Roldán, Francisco Paulin   +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, Haruna Yamaki, Takashi Kumagai, Chisa Omori, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yumiko Kakizaki, Yoshihiro Miyashita   +6 more
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Efficacy and safety of switching from ticagrelor to clopidogrel during the early and late phase in acute coronary syndrome patients after percutaneous coronary intervention

Platelets, 2020
In patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), treatment using ticagrelor demonstrated significant ischemic benefits over clopidogrel; however, it was associated with increased bleeding complications leading to frequent de-escalation to clopidogrel. The
Chenggang Wang, Wen Zheng, Ayman Shaqdan, Chunmei Wang, Xiuchuan Qin, Xuedong Zhao, Xu Wang, Lin Yuan, Shaoping Nie, Ran Liu   +9 more
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Palliative care for people with non-malignant lung disease: summary of current evidence and future direction [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The physical and psychosocial needs of patients with chronic non-malignant lung disease are comparable to those with lung cancer. This article will focus on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease and cystic fibrosis ...
Boland, Jason, Martin, Jonathan, Ross, Joy R, Ross, Joy R., Wells, Athol U, Wells, Athol U.   +5 more
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