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Type I interferons in tuberculosis: Foe and occasionally friend [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Medicine, 2018
Tuberculosis remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, and, despite its clinical significance, there are still significant gaps in our understanding of pathogenic and protective mechanisms triggered by Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
Mayer-Barber, K   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

An interferon-inducible neutrophil-driven blood transcriptional signature in human tuberculosis

open access: yesNature, 2010
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Efforts to control it are hampered by difficulties with diagnosis, prevention and treatment.
Christine M Graham, Zhaohui Xu, Tolu Oni
exaly   +2 more sources

Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals slow growth and low mutation rates during latent infections in humans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Very little is known about the growth and mutation rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during latent infection in humans. However, studies in rhesus macaques have suggested that latent infections have mutation rates that are higher than that observed ...
Alland, David   +9 more
core   +28 more sources

Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

open access: yesNature Reviews Microbiology, 2022
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, has infected humans for millennia. M. tuberculosis is well adapted to establish infection, persist in the face of the host immune response and be transmitted to uninfected individuals.
P. Chandra   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Difficult case of differential diagnosis of partial lung atelectasis. Case report

open access: yesТерапевтический архив, 2023
In December 2018 the patient over 60 years old sought medical help with complaints of persistent cough. Based on computed tomography data there were identified the sings (symptoms) of right lung lower lobe atelectasis.
Olga M. Gordeeva   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Autologous Cytokine-Induced Killer Cell Immunotherapy Enhances Chemotherapy Efficacy against Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

open access: yesJournal of Immunology Research, 2022
Objective. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) causes persistent infection and challenges tuberculosis control worldwide. T cell-mediated immunity plays a critical role in controlling Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection, and therefore ...
Peijun Tang   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

TBDLNet: a network for classifying multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis [PDF]

open access: yesEngineering Reports (2023), 2023
This paper proposes applying a novel deep-learning model, TBDLNet, to recognize CT images to classify multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis automatically. The pre-trained ResNet50 is selected to extract features. Three randomized neural networks are used to alleviate the overfitting problem.
arxiv   +1 more source

Possibilities of non-invasive diagnosis of fibrotic phenotype of interstitial lung diseases

open access: yesТерапевтический архив, 2023
Progressive pulmonary fibrosis is a major problem in respiratory medicine. Currently, there are no reliable biomarkers for early diagnosis of progressive pulmonary fibrosis, which leads to delayed diagnosis. Aim.
Evgeniy I. Shchepikhin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology of childhood tuberculosis after ceasing universal Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccination

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Universal Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination is recommended in countries with high tuberculosis (TB) burden. Nevertheless, several countries have ceased universal BCG vaccination over the past 40 years, with scarce comparative epidemiological ...
Sayori Kobayashi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Successful treatment of advanced tuberculosis of a single lung with staged correction of post-pneumonectomy syndrome

open access: yesВестник хирургии имени И.И. Грекова, 2021
An observation from practice is given – surgical treatment of a patient with advanced tuberculosis of a single lung and a pronounced lung displacement. Patient A., 47 years old, after 3 months from the left pneumonectomy for fibrocavernous tuberculosis ...
R. V. Tarasov   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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