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American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1946 ABSTRACT This review on pulmonary tuberculosis includes an introduction that describes how the lung is the portal of entry for the tuberculosis bacilli to enter the body and then spread to the rest of the body. The symptoms and signs of both primary and reactivation tuberculosis are described.
Lyon, Sarah M., Rossman, Milton D.
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView., 2023 This review discusses the use of Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) for detecting antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Various SERS studies used with AI techniques, including machine learning and deep learning, are analyzed for their advantages and limitations.
Zakarya Al‐Shaebi +4 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Patients diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) have poor sleep quality due to multiple factors. We aimed to assess the sleep status and related factors of TB patients in Shenzhen, China. Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted on 461
Hailin Zhang +9 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Infectious diseases caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are increasingly common. This retrospective cohort study examined factors associated with outcomes in patients from Shanghai who had NTM pulmonary disease (NTMPD) from January 2014 to ...
Li-Ping Cheng +7 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background Emergence of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) is a major hurdle for TB control programs especially in developing countries like China. Resistance to fluoroquinolones is high among MDR-TB patients.
Jun Chen +6 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 With increased focus on nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD), and the improvement in detection methods, the global incidence continues to increase every year, but the diagnosis and treatment are difficult with a high misdiagnosis rate ...
Hai Lou +6 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background Surgery is an important adjuvant treatment for tuberculous empyema(TE). We thus conducted a single arm-clinical retrospective study of stage II-III TE patients who underwent uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (Uni-VATS) over a 5-year ...
Wenwen Sun +6 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Objectives The value of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) in the diagnosis of TB varies by population, comorbidities, and other factors. In this study, we aimed to investigate factors that influence false-negative results of QFT-GIT test in the ...
Yuanyuan Yu +5 more
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Association of IL4RA and IL-8 polymorphism in predicting susceptibility towards tuberculosis
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2023 Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease frequently affecting the lungs. With two fatalities from tuberculosis (TB) occurring every three minutes, India has the highest disease burden.
Jyotish K +8 more
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A deletion in the RD105 region confers resistance to multiple drugs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
BMC Biology, 2019 Background The emergence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), especially those that are multidrug resistant poses a serious threat to global tuberculosis control.
Lianhua Qin +9 more
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