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Tuberculosis in Malta : a case for sputum induction [PDF]

, 2013
Sputum induction is a procedure used to help patients expectorate samples of sputum for laboratory analysis. It is a simple, safe and standardised procedure which may avoid the use of more invasive and potentially harmful interventions such as fibreoptic
Farrugia, Brian
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Evaluation of giant african pouched rats for detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients from a high-endemic setting [PDF]

, 2015
This study established evidence about the diagnostic performance of trained giant African pouched rats for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum of well-characterised patients with presumptive tuberculosis (TB) in a high-burden setting.; The TB ...
Jugheli, Levan, Mohamed Sasamalo, Mhimbira, Francis A., Weetjens, Bart J., Reither, Klaus, Mahoney, Amanda, Christophe Cox, Mulder, Christiaan, Bart J Weetjens, Negussie W Beyene, Francis A Mhimbira, Timothy L Edwards, Glass, Tracy R., Sasamalo, Mohamed, Beyene, Negussie W., Klaus Reither, Cox, Christophe, Christiaan Mulder, Edwards, Timothy L., Levan Jugheli, Amanda Mahoney, Tracy R Glass   +21 more
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Successful Translational Prediction of Bedaquiline's Phase 2a Clinical Trial Results against Tuberculosis: The Zebrafish as a New Approach Methodology

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Tuberculosis remains an urgent global health crisis that requires an accelerated development of novel regimens. Rodent and rabbit studies currently inform early translational predictions. However, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryo/larva, as a New Approach Methodology, provides an ethical, cost‐effective, and high‐throughput non‐mammalian disease model
Bart van Lieshout, Aanisah Hanuun, J. G. Coen van Hasselt, Rob C. van Wijk   +3 more
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Sputum as a source of adipokines in bronchial asthma

Учёные записки Санкт-Петербургского государственного медицинского университета им. Акад. И.П. Павлова, 2014
Forty-four patients with allergic (ABA) and non-allergic (NABA) variants of bronchial asthma (BA) were examined to evaluate levels of key adipokines (leptin, resistin, adiponectin) in sputum in different variants of BA.
V. N. Mineev, T. M. Lalaeva, T. S. Vasiljeva, A. A. Kuzmina   +3 more
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Sputum Galactomannan Has Utility in the Diagnosis of Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Diagnosis of pulmonary aspergillosis (PA), a fungal disease caused by Aspergillus species, is challenging since symptoms are unspecific. The galactomannan (antigen secreted by Aspergillus species) test in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid is a valuable ...
Ali Nuh, Newara Ramadan, Anand Shah, Darius Armstrong-James   +3 more
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Incidence and impact of respiratory tract infections on outcomes in patients with status epilepticus: A 20‐year longitudinal observation

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This study was undertaken to identify the incidence of respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in a large cohort of adult patients with status epilepticus (SE) and to characterize their associations with clinical features and outcome determinants.
Sebastian Berger, Sira M. Baumann, Urs Fisch, Lisa Hert, Pascale Grzonka, Sabina Hunziker, Stephan Rüegg, Sarah Tschudin‐Sutter, Raoul Sutter   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experiences of registered nurses of their role in carrying out the induced sputum procedure in diagnosing childhood Tuberculosis [PDF]

, 2011
Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease dating back at least 5000 years, but the TB epidemic is said to be getting worse than at any other time in history (Puri & John, 1997: 12).
Isaacs, Whasiefa
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Direct comparison of Xpert MTB/RIF assay with liquid and solid mycobacterial culture for quantification of early bactericidal activity [PDF]

, 2013
Contains fulltext : 119262.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)The early bactericidal activity of antituberculosis agents is usually determined by measuring the reduction of the sputum mycobacterial load over time on solid agar ...
Boeree, M.J., Diacon, A.H., Boeree, Martin J., Hoelscher, M., Venter, Amour, Friedrich, S.O., Diacon, Andreas H., Kayigire, X.A., Heinrich, Norbert, Hoelscher, Michael, Gillespie, Stephen Henry, Gillespie, S.H., Dawson, Rodney, Venter, A., Kayigire, Xavier A., Heinrich, N., Aarnoutse, R.E., Dawson, R., et al., Friedrich, Sven O.   +19 more
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Randomized Phase II Trial of Consolidation Pembrolizumab After Definitive Chemoradiotherapy in Locally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: KCSG HN19‐09, CONPELAN Study

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The benefit of consolidation programmed cell death protein 1 (PD‐1) blockade after chemoradiotherapy in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) remains unclear. Methods Patients with stages II–IVB NPC were randomized (2:1) to pembrolizumab 200 mg or placebo every 3 weeks for up to 17 cycles after chemoradiotherapy ...
Sang Hoon Chun, Seyoung Seo, Jang Ho Cho, Keon‐Uk Park, Sang‐Cheol Lee, Yong Won Choi, Tak Yun, Seong Hoon Shin, Sung‐Bae Kim, Seungeun Lee, Chang Ho Ahn, Bhumsuk Keam   +11 more
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Microbial Landscape and Antibiotic-Susceptibility Profiles of Microorganisms in Patients with Bacterial Pneumonia: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study of COVID-19 and Non-COVID-19 Cases in Aktobe, Kazakhstan

Antibiotics, 2023
This cross-sectional study investigated the microbial landscape and antibiotic-resistance patterns in patients with bacterial pneumonia, with a focus on the impact of COVID-19.
Nurgul Ablakimova, Aigul Z. Mussina, Gaziza A. Smagulova, Svetlana Rachina, Meirambek S. Kurmangazin, Aigerim Balapasheva, Dinara Karimoldayeva, Afshin Zare, Mahdi Mahdipour, Farhad Rahmanifar   +9 more
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