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Establishment of a biosafe murine model of skeletal tuberculosis using Mycobacterium smegmatis

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
This study developed a biosafe, accessible, and versatile murine model of bone TB using Mycobacterium smegmatis, a fast‐growing, nonpathogenic mycobacterial species with high genomic homology to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Three infection routes—subperiosteal calvarial injection, intratibial injection, and intracardiac (left ventricular) inoculation ...
Yewei Jia, Yuhuai Guo, Yusheng Yang, Jie Zhang, Ziyang Zhang, Ying Qu, Jiulin Tan, Jie Shen, Nathachit Limjunyawong, Jianzhong Xu, Zehua Zhang, Fei Luo, Ce Dou   +12 more
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Performance of the MeltPro TB assay as initial test for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis with drug-resistance detection

Molecular Medicine, 2023
Background The MeltPro TB assay (MeltPro) is a molecular rapid diagnostic test designed for detecting resistance to antituberculosis drugs. However, the performance of MeltPro as an initial diagnostic test for simultaneously detecting the presence of ...
Zhi-bin Liu, Li-ping Cheng, Hong-qiu Pan, Xiao-cui Wu, Fu-hui Lu, Jie Cao, Lei Wang, Wei Wei, Hong-yu Chen, Wei Sha, Qin Sun   +10 more
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Case‐Based Immunology: B Cells and Systemic Sclerosis Interstitial Lung Disease

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an important complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc), with high mortality and morbidity. Recent clinical studies in SSc‐ILD have led to US Food and Drug Administration–approved therapies in SSc‐ILD. Importantly, evidence from these studies has been extrapolated to guide management of ILDs of other systemic autoimmune
Nina Goldman, Voon Ong, Christopher P. Denton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characteristics of peripheral Vγ2Vδ2 T cells in interferon-γ release assay negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background It is not fully explained why some active tuberculosis patients show negative interferon-γ release assays (IGRAs). In this study, we tried to explore associations of IGRAs with the characteristics of peripheral Vγ2Vδ2 T cells and their ...
Liping Yan, Hongbo Shen, Heping Xiao
doaj   +1 more source

Hubungan Pengetahuan Dengan Efikasi Diri Penderita Tuberkulosis Paru Di Balai Besar Kesehatan Paru Masyarakat Surakarta [PDF]

, 2016
Tuberculosis ( TB ) is a pulmonary infectious diseases that can attack the lungs. Handling of the high prevalence of TB should be taken to control the disease Pulmonary TB , one of which is the treatment. Treatment of pulmonary TB disease carried out for
, Okti Sri Purwanti, S.Kep., M.Kep., Ns., Sp.Kep.M.B., , Sahuri Teguh K, S. Kep., Ns.,M.Kep, Herawati, Mrs. Erni   +2 more
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Review of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB: global perspectives with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2010
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global emergency and is responsible for 1.7 million deaths annually. Widespread global misuse of isoniazid and rifampicin over three decades has resulted in emergence of the ominous spread of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB ...
Abdool Karim, Amor, Balabanova, Caminero, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chan, Chiang, Chiang, Chiang, Churchyard, Dheda, Dravniece, Dubrovina, Elliott, Espinal, Espinal, Espinal, Flament-Saillour, Gandhi, Gandhi, Gandhi, Goble, Grobusch, Habeenzu, Hoek, Holtz, Holtz, Iseman, Johnson, Kehinde, Kim, Kingkaew, Korenromp, Kranzer, Lalloo, Laserson, Lienhardt, Ma, Martin, Matteelli, Meskel, Migliori, Migliori, Migliori, Migliori, Migliori, Moore, Motus, O’Donnell, Pablos-Méndez, Pai, Park, Pietzka, Pillay, Quy, Saravia, Schaaf, Schaaf, Shah, Somocurcio, Sonnenberg, Sotgiu, Torun, Umubyeyi, Wallis, WHO, WHO, WHO and IUATLD, Wright, Wright, Zumla   +70 more
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Epidemiological characteristics and influencing factors of tuberculosis aggregation in schools in Wuhan, China during 2017–2022

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundWuhan is located in the hinterland of China, in the east of Hubei Province, at the intersection of the Yangtze River and Hanshui River. It is a national historical and cultural city, an important industrial, scientific, and educational base ...
Zhengbin Zhang, Gang Wu, Aiping Yu, Jing Hu, Wei Zhang, Zhouqin Lu, Jun Wu, Lina Wang, Xiaojun Wang, Jianjie Wang, Guiyang Wang, Yuehua Li, Meilan Zhou   +12 more
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Delay in DOTS for new pulmonary tuberculosis patient from rural area of Wardha District, India [PDF]

, 2010
Vast majority of active tuberculosis patients seeks treatment, do so promptly, still many patients spend a great deal of time and money “shopping for health” and too often they do not receive either accurate diagnosis or effective treatment, despite ...
Bawankule, S, Gaidhane, A, Khatib , N, Quazi, SZ   +3 more
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Accuracy of diabetes screening methods used for people with tuberculosis, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, South Africa [PDF]

, 2018
Objective To evaluate the performance of diagnostic tools for diabetes mellitus, including laboratory methods and clinical risk scores, in newly-diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients from four middle-income countries.
Alisjhabana, B, Coronel, J, Critchley, J, Dockrell, HM, Grint, D, Hill, PC, Ioana, M, Kerry-Barnard, S, Koeseomadinata, RC, Malherbe, ST, McAllister, S, Moore, DAJ, Pearson, F, Riza, A-L, Ronacher, K, Ruslami, R, TANDEM consortium, Ugarte-Gil, C, Van Crevel, R, Walzl, G   +19 more
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Comparative Study of GeneXpert with ZN Stain and Culture in Samples of Suspected Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2016
INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis remains one of the deadliest communicable diseases. There are number of tests available for the diagnosis of tuberculosis but conventional microscopy has low sensitivity and culture although gold standard, but takes longer time ...
M. Agrawal, A. Bajaj, Vinaya Bhatia, S. Dutt   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source