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Major outcomes of patients with tuberculous meningitis on directly observed thrice a week regime
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2014 Background: Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) of Government of India provides intermittent thrice-a-week directly observed treatment short course (RNTCP regimen).
Thomas Iype +6 more
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Bridging the gap: Insights in the immunopathology of Lyme borreliosis
European Journal of Immunology, Volume 54, Issue 12, December 2024.Lyme borreliosis is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato transmitted by Ixodes ticks. The disease progresses from early localized infection to more severe conditions driven by ongoing inflammation. Understanding the role of Th1/Th2 balance, B‐cell dysfunction, and autoimmunity in Lyme borreliosis pathogenesis could improve diagnosis and treatment ...
Marijn E. Snik +3 more
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Epidemic modelling of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds and badgers in Ireland [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Bovine tuberculosis, a disease that affects cattle and badgers in Ireland, was studied via stochastic epidemic modeling using incidence data from the Four Area Project (Griffin et al., 2005). The Four Area Project was a large scale field trial conducted in four diverse farming regions of Ireland over a five-year period (1997-2002) to evaluate the ...
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Label-free optical vibrational spectroscopy to detect the metabolic state of M. tuberculosis cells at the site of disease [PDF]
, 2017 Tuberculosis relapse is a barrier to shorter treatment. It is thought that lipid rich cells, phenotypically resistant to antibiotics, may play a major role. Most studies investigating relapse use sputum samples although tissue bacteria may play an important role. We developed a non-destructive, label-free technique combining wavelength modulated Raman (
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BMC Public Health, 2011 Background Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) has an increasing rate in Turkey. The reason remains largely unknown. A better understanding of the demographic and microbial characteristics of EPTB in the Turkish population would extend the knowledgebase ...
Koroglu Mehmet +5 more
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TUBERCULOSIS OF THE MENINGES IN THE VOLGOGRAD REGION
Journal of Volgograd State Medical University, 2017 The work deals with peculiarities of diagnostics, clinical course and outcomes of tuberculosis of the Central nervous system in modern conditions in the Volgograd region. In the morbidity structure of the predominant form is meningoencephalitis. In half of the cases tuberculosis of the meningitis developed on the background of HIV infection and chronic
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Hydrocephalus In Tuberculosis Meningitis In Children
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2003 NA
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Integration of Rule Based Expert Systems and Case Based Reasoning in an Acute Bacterial Meningitis Clinical Decision Support System [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 This article presents the results of the research carried out on the development of a medical diagnostic system applied to the Acute Bacterial Meningitis, using the Case Based Reasoning methodology. The research was focused on the implementation of the adaptation stage, from the integration of Case Based Reasoning and Rule Based Expert Systems. In this
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Variabilidad en las manifestaciones clínicas de la meningoencefalitis por tuberculosis
Kasmera, 2010 : With the objective of describing clinical manifestations in patients with meningeal encephalitis due to tuberculosis (TBC), a descriptive, retrospective study was made by reviewing clinical histories of 15 adult patients with a diagnosis of TBC in the ...
Soto María Cristina +6 more
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Protective effect of neonatal BCG vaccines against tuberculous meningitis
Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2004 Neonatal BCG vaccination reduces the risk of tuberculosis and provides protection higher than 80% against the development of meningeal and miliary tuberculosis in newborns.
Sandra Puvacić +3 more
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