Diabetes is a Risk Factor for Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Case-Control Study from Mwanza, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2011 Diabetes and TB are associated, and diabetes is increasingly common in low-income countries where tuberculosis (TB) is highly endemic. However, the role of diabetes for TB has not been assessed in populations where HIV is prevalent.
Christensen, Dirk Lund +29 more
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iMeta, EarlyView.The Human Biomarker Navigator integrates the disease continuum, biomarker dynamics, cross‐organ biomarker networks, biomarker classification, and technology‐driven paradigms. It maps how biomarkers link multi‐system physiology and pathology across the nervous, respiratory, endocrine, circulatory, immune, digestive, urinary, reproductive, and ...
Meng‐Yao Li +29 more
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BMC Pulmonary MedicineObjective Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is a widely-used diagnostic test for tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE), but its accuracy, optimal diagnostic threshold and relevant factors are controversial or unclear. We aimed to reassess these diagnostic variables
Chi Yang +6 more
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iNew Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Tofacitinib is a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor approved for the treatment of moderate‐to‐severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, its synovium‐related molecular mechanisms, particularly its regulatory effect on fibroblast‐like synoviocyte (FLS) migration, remain incompletely understood.
Shuqi Fang +13 more
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Polymorphism in the EREG gene confers susceptibility to tuberculosis
BMC Medical Genetics, 2019 Background Host genetic factors affect the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection as well as the progression of the disease. Epiregulin (EREG) belongs to the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family, which binds to the epidermal growth
Wen Cao +7 more
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Blood vessels and their construction in the cavities of pulmonary tuberculosis [PDF]
, 1958 First of all, we investigated the origin, the construction and distribution of the bronchial arteries and veins in adult rabbits, and then observed various changes of the blood vessels in experimental cavities and caseous foci and also studied the ...
Takata, Jun-nosuke, Hiraki, Kiyoshi
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The development and validation of a diagnostic scoring system to differentiate pulmonary tuberculosis from non-tuberculosis pulmonary infections in HIV-infected patients with severe immune suppression. [PDF]
BMC Infect Dis, 2021 Ouyang J +7 more
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Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Iran (2001-08) [PDF]
Background and Objective: The characterization of any disease have important role for the evaluation and control strategy and programming of diseases. This study was done to determine the epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Iran during 2001-08. Materials and
ارسنگ, شهرام +2 more
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Delay in Tuberculosis Case-Finding and Treatment in Mwanza, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2000 Health facilities in Mwanza region, Tanzania. To determine factors responsible for delay from onset of symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis to initiation of treatment.
Wandwalo, E R, Mørkve, O
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Characteristics and early outcomes of patients with Xpert MTB/RIF-negative pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed during screening before antiretroviral therapy. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: A proportion of patients with tuberculosis diagnosed by sputum culture during screening before antiretroviral therapy (ART) have false-negative Xpert MTB/RIF assay results (Xpert-negative tuberculosis).
Vogt, Monica +5 more
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