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The efficacy and safety of uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery on the treatment for stage II-III tuberculous empyema: a single-arm clinical retrospective study from 2016 to 2021 in a thoracic surgery center in China

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022
Background Surgery is an important adjuvant treatment for tuberculous empyema(TE). We thus conducted a single arm-clinical retrospective study of stage II-III TE patients who underwent uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (Uni-VATS) over a 5-year ...
Wenwen Sun, Guidong Yin, Haomin Cai, Yiming Zhou, Jin Gu, Shanhao Chen, Lin Fan   +6 more
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A deletion in the RD105 region confers resistance to multiple drugs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

BMC Biology, 2019
Background The emergence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), especially those that are multidrug resistant poses a serious threat to global tuberculosis control.
Lianhua Qin, Jie Wang, Junmei Lu, Hua Yang, Ruijuan Zheng, Zhonghua Liu, Xiaochen Huang, Yonghong Feng, Zhongyi Hu, Baoxue Ge   +9 more
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Factors Influencing False-Negative Results of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) in Active Tuberculosis and the Desirability of Resetting Cutoffs for Different Populations: A Retrospective Study

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Objectives The value of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) in the diagnosis of TB varies by population, comorbidities, and other factors. In this study, we aimed to investigate factors that influence false-negative results of QFT-GIT test in the ...
Yuanyuan Yu, Yidian Liu, Lan Yao, Yanheng Shen, Qin Sun, Wei Sha   +5 more
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Association of IL4RA and IL-8 polymorphism in predicting susceptibility towards tuberculosis

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2023
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease frequently affecting the lungs. With two fatalities from tuberculosis (TB) occurring every three minutes, India has the highest disease burden.
Jyotish K, Jawahar Lal Joshi, Heena Kansal, Vishal Chopra, Kranti Garg, Nidhi Girdhar, Karan Sharma, Rishabh Deshwal, Siddharth Sharma   +8 more
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Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis commonly complicates treated pulmonary tuberculosis with residual cavitation

European Respiratory Journal, 2019
Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) complicates treated pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), with high 5-year mortality. We measured CPA prevalence in this group.
I. Page, R. Byanyima, S. Hosmane, Nathan Onyachi, C. Opira, M. Richardson, R. Sawyer, A. Sharman, D. Denning   +8 more
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The detection of airborne transmission of tuberculosis from HIV-infected patients, using an in vivo air sampling model [PDF]

, 2007
Background. Nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis remains an important public health problem. We created an in vivo air sampling model to study airborne transmission of tuberculosis from patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and ...
A. Gonzalez, A. R. Escombe, Balasubramanian, Beggs, Bhatia, C. A. Evans, C. Martinez, C. Noakes, C. Oeser, Caviedes, Cohn, Curtis, D. A. J. Moore, E. Ticona, Edlin, Elliott, Escombe, Gangadharam, Ikeda, J. S. Friedland, Katz, L. Caviedes, Luna-Herrera, M. Navincopa, Markowitz, Mastorides, Mills, Mitchison, Mitchison, Nardell, Nardell, Nunn, P. Sheen, Prabhakar, R. H. Gilman, Riley, RILEY, Riley, Schafer, Sultan, Xu   +40 more
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Development and Validation of a Deep Learning–based Automatic Detection Algorithm for Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis on Chest Radiographs

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Detection of active pulmonary tuberculosis on chest radiographs (CRs) is critical for the diagnosis and screening of tuberculosis. An automated system may help streamline the tuberculosis screening process and improve diagnostic performance ...
Eui Jin Hwang, Sunggyun Park, K. Jin, Jung Im Kim, So Young Choi, Jong Hyuk Lee, J. Goo, Jaehong Aum, J. Yim, C. Park, Dong Hyeon Woo Choi In Pyung Yong Sub Lim Kim Jae Yeon Kim Woo Choi Hwang Song Lim Kim Wi Oh Kang, Dong Hyeon Kim, Woo Woo, C. Choi, I. Hwang, Y. Song, Lim Lim, K. Kim, J. Wi, Su Suk Oh, Mi-Jin Kang   +20 more
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Empiric treatment of pulmonary TB in the Xpert era: Correspondence of sputum culture, Xpert MTB/RIF, and clinical diagnoses. [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundClinical tuberculosis diagnosis and empiric treatment have traditionally been common among patients with negative bacteriologic test results. Increasing availability of rapid molecular diagnostic tests, including Xpert MTB/RIF and the new Xpert
Cattamanchi, Adithya, Dowdy, David W, Isooba, David, Kamoga, Caleb, Katamba, Achilles, Kato-Maeda, Midori, Kendall, Emily A, Kitonsa, Peter J, Mukiibi, James, Nakasolya, Olga, Nalutaaya, Annet, Robsky, Katherine, Salvatore, Phillip P   +12 more
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The Gut Microbiome Signatures Discriminate Healthy From Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2019
Cross talk occurs between the human gut and the lung through a gut-lung axis involving the gut microbiota. However, the signatures of the human gut microbiota after active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection have not been fully understood.
Yongfei Hu, Yuqing Feng, Jiannan Wu, Fei Liu, Zhiguo Zhang, Yanan Hao, S. Liang, Boxing Li, Jing Li, Na Lv, Yuhui Xu, B. Zhu, Zhaogang Sun   +12 more
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Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in western China in 2010–11: a population-based, cross-sectional survey [PDF]

, 2016
Background Progress in tuberculosis control in China has been the slowest in western areas, which have the highest prevalence. We assessed the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in the Xinjiang province, China, 10 years after introduction of a ...
Feng, Xue, Gang, Wu, J Milligan, Paul, Merle, Corinne, Mijiti, Peierdun, Nianqiang, Liu, Upur, Halmurat, Yuehua, Li   +7 more
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