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Frequency of tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria in HIV infected patients from Bogota, Colombia [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2001 Background The prevalence of infections by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and non-tuberculous Mycobacterium species in the HIV-infected patient population in Colombia was uncertain despite some pilot studies.
León Clara I +9 more
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Epidemiological profile and follow-up of patients with pulmonary disease by non-tuberculous mycobacteria in Baixada Santista area, São Paulo [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2022 Objective To present the frequency and species diversity of non-tuberculous mycobacteria, estimate the prevalence of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease, describe the epidemiological profile, and determine the follow-up of patients with non ...
Andréa Gobetti Vieira Coelho +4 more
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Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 2023 : Objectives: Non-tuberculous mycobacteria are opportunistic pathogens that cause disease mainly in immunocompromised hosts. The present study assessed the prevalence of antibiotic resistance among such mycobacteria from domestic and wild animals in ...
Irena Reil +8 more
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Induction of CCL8/MCP-2 by mycobacteria through the activation of TLR2/PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. [PDF]
, 2012 Pleural tuberculosis (TB), together with lymphatic TB, constitutes more than half of all extrapulmonary cases. Pleural effusions (PEs) in TB are representative of lymphocytic PEs which are dominated by T cells.
Chen, Jianxia +14 more
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Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2017 Goal of the study: analysis of drug resistance of certain species of non-tuberculous mycobacteria through testing by minimum inhibitory concentrations on the fluid nutritional media.Materials and method: drug resistance of non-tuberculous mycobacteria ...
O. I. Alkhovik, T. I. Petrenko
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A case report of pneumonia due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2021 Non-tuberculous mycobacteria are uncommon pathogens in immunocompetent individuals. We report an unusual case of pneumonia with pleural effusion caused by co-infection with two species of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent man in Nigeria.
Olukemi Adekanmbi, Sulaiman Lakoh
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Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria: Seven-Year Experience of a Tertiary Hospital
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2019 Introduction: Non-tuberculous mycobacteria are ubiquitous organisms. Precise determination of infection numbers is difficult, since reporting them to public health departments is frequently not mandatory; furthermore, isolating a non-tuberculous ...
Nuno Ferreira Monteiro +2 more
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Identification and characterization of non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from tuberculosis suspects in Southern-central China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The incidence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM)-related death has increased globally recently. To obtain information of the species and characterization of pathogens involved in NTM pulmonary infection in Southern-central China, we identified 160 non-
Xiao-li Yu +6 more
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Antibiotics, 2023 Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem worldwide, and the emergence of multi-resistant strains to first-line drugs has become the biggest obstacle to its treatment.
Carmen Molina-Torres +5 more
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An immunocompromised dialysis patient with skin and bone lesions [PDF]
, 2010 Patients with chronic kidney failure have disturbances of immune function involving both innate and adaptive systems. These result in both immunodepression which increases susceptibility to infection and immunoactivation leading to a chronic inflammatory
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