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Etiology of severe childhood pneumonia in the Gambia, West Africa, determined by conventional and molecular microbiological analyses of lung and pleural aspirate samples. [PDF]

, 2014
Molecular analyses of lung aspirates from Gambian children with severe pneumonia detected pathogens more frequently than did culture and showed a predominance of bacteria, principally Streptococcus pneumoniae, >75% being of serotypes covered by current ...
Adegbola, Richard A, Antonio, Martin, Briese, Thomas, Chimah, Osaretin, Corrah, Tumani, Dione, Michel, Ebruke, Bernard E, Greenwood, Brian, Hill, Philip C, Howie, Stephen RC, Ideh, Readon C, Jallow, Mariatou, Lipkin, W Ian, Machuka, Eunice M, Morris, Gerard AJ, Mulholland, Kim, Njie, Malick, Oluwalana, Claire, Secka, Ousman, Tokarz, Rafal, Townend, John   +20 more
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Cost-effectiveness of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube versus tuberculin skin test for diagnosis and treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in primary health care workers in Brazil.

PLoS ONE, 2019
OBJECTIVES:The goal of this study was to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis from the public health system perspective, comparing five strategies for Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) diagnosis in primary health care workers in Brazil.
Rafaela Borge Loureiro, Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel, Rosangela Caetano, Renata Lyrio Peres, Geisa Fregona, Jonathan E Golub, José Ueleres Braga   +6 more
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Preserved cellular immunity in smoldering acute leukemia [PDF]

, 1976
"Smoldering acute leukemia", a variant of acute myelogenous leukemia, has been recognized with frequent incidence in recent years. This is chracterized by benign clinical course, poor physical findings, leukopenia and mild anemia in the ...
Toki, Hironobu
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Comparative evaluation of immunological tests for at-risk children in Tomsk Region

Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to compare the results of immunological tests (tests with recombinant allergen TB in standard dilution (RAT) and the Mantoux tuberculin test) in children at risk of developing tuberculosis in Tomsk Region.Materials and ...
N. N. Kabanets, O. V. Filinyuk, O. I. Urazova, K. S. Morozova, O. V. Kolokolova   +4 more
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A Comparison of Two-Step Tuberculin Skin Test between Health-Care Workers and Nonhospital Employees [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2010
Background: The tuberculin test is widely used to identify tuberculosisinfection. Some individuals infected with Mycobacteriumtuberculosis may have an initial negative skin test reactionto tuberculin. The two step purified protein derivative skin testcan
Iraj Nikokar, Ameneh Dadgran, Lida Mafozei   +2 more
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Steroids Decrease Prevalence of Positive Tuberculin Skin Test in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Implications on Anti-TNF Therapies

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2014
Tuberculin skin test has been used as an indicator of latent tuberculosis in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) before administration of biologicals.
Shweta Agarwal, Siddharth Kumar Das, Girdhar G. Agarwal, Ragini Srivastava   +3 more
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Tuberculin Skin Test and CD4+/CD8+ T Cell Counts in Adults Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Medellín, Colombia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1997
To evaluate the effect of BCG vaccination and T lymphocyte subpopulations on the reactivity to the tuberculin skin test, 113 asymtomatic HIV+ individuals were tuberculin tested by intradermal injection of 5TU of purified protein derivative and the levels
JI Rodríguez, M Arias, SC París, MP Arbeláez, J Betancur, LF García   +5 more
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Evaluation of latent tuberculosis infection in liver transplant recipients

Iranian Journal of Microbiology, 2021
Background and Objectives: Tuberculosis is one of the main reasons for mortality in liver transplant recipients. Since Iran is considered as a tuberculosis-endemic country, the present study aims to evaluate the outcome of latent tuberculosis infection ...
Zahra Ahmadinejad, Maryam Mokhtaryan, Arezoo Salami, Monavar Talebian, Hamideh Irajian, Fereshteh Ghiasvand   +5 more
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Upper-Room Ultraviolet Light and Negative Air Ionization to Prevent Tuberculosis Transmission [PDF]

, 2009
Background Institutional tuberculosis (TB) transmission is an important public health problem highlighted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the emergence of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant TB.
A. Roderick Escombe, Alland, Altman, Armando Gonzalez, Arnold, Bailey Mitchell, Balasubramanian, Basu, Bock, Brubacher, Carlos Martínez, Carlton A Evans, Catanzaro, Catherine Noakes, David A. J Moore, Dwyer, Eduardo Ticona, Escombe, Escombe, Escombe, First, First, First, Fletcher, Gandhi, Gast, Iseman, Jensen, Jon S Friedland, Joshi, Kerr, Ko, Ko, Macher, Marcos Navincopa, Menzies, Mitchell, Mitchell, Mohle-Boetani, Moore, Nardell, Nardell, Nardell, Nardell, Nicas, Noakes, Pai, Patricia Sheen, Peter Wilson, Richardson, Riley, Riley, Riley, Riley, Riley, Riley, Robert H Gilman, Rocio Ramirez, Rudnick, Seo, Stead, Talbot, Valway, Willi Quino, Xu, Xu   +65 more
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C-Tb Skin Test: A Step Toward Tuberculosis Eradication [PDF]

Pediatric Infectious Disease
C-Tb is a novel diagnostic test for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. It is a skin test based on the principle of tuberculin skin test containing early secreted antigenic target 6 (ESAT-6) and culture filtrate protein 10 (CFP-10).
Harshini T Reddy, Bhaskar Shenoy
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