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Trends and risk factors of care-seeking delay among students with pulmonary tuberculosis in Wuhan, China, 2012–2025 [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
BackgroundCare-seeking delay among students with tuberculosis (TB) poses a significant barrier to school-based TB prevention and control. Such delay facilitates the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in high-density populations and frequently ...
Zhengbin Zhang   +11 more
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CCL2 responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis are associated with disease severity in tuberculosis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
BACKGROUND Leucocyte activating chemokines such as CCL2, CCL3, and CXCL8 together with proinflammatory IFNgamma, TNFalpha and downmodulatory IL10 play a central role in the restriction of M.
Hussain Rabia   +28 more
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Pulmonary Tuberculosis [PDF]

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 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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Open decortication for patients presenting with stage III tuberculous empyema with low density lines on CT imaging

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
To explore the influence of CT findings on the optimal timing of open decorticationin patients with stage III tuberculous empyema. A total of 80 patients with stage III tuberculous empyema who had undergone open decortications were recruited; 44 patients
Xiaoyu Liu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis within family households by DTM-PCR and MIRU-VNTR genotyping

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a public health threat. There are few studies on transmission and genotyping of MDR-TB family households in China.
Jun Chen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness and safety of bedaquiline-containing regimens for treatment on patients with refractory RR/MDR/XDR-tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study in East China

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Objective Refractory rifampicin-resistant/multidrug resistant/extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (RR/MDR/XDR-TB) were defined as patients infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) resistant to rifampicin(RR-TB), or at least resistant to ...
Shao-Jun Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnostic Value of Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation in the Bronchial Tuberculosis Induced Central Airway Stenosis

open access: yesInfectious Diseases and Therapy, 2020
Introduction Electronic bronchoscopy is invasive and may cause pain. This study aimed to explore the clinical value of virtual bronchoscopic navigation (VBN) in the diagnosis of benign central airway stenosis (CAS) secondary to tracheobronchial ...
Li-Ping Cheng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transcriptional Blood Signatures Distinguish Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Sarcoidosis, Pneumonias and Lung Cancers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Rationale New approaches to define factors underlying the immunopathogenesis of pulmonary diseases including sarcoidosis and tuberculosis are needed to develop new treatments and biomarkers. Comparing the blood transcriptional response of tuberculosis
Lipman, M   +122 more
core   +1 more source

Effectiveness and safety of regimens containing linezolid for treatment of Mycobacterium abscessus pulmonary Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 2023
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of linezolid-containing regimens for treatment of M. abscessus pulmonary disease. Methods The records of 336 patients with M.
Li-ping Cheng   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of Bronchoscopic TransParenchymal Nodule Access in tuberculous bronchial occlusion

open access: yesThe Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2022
Bronchoscopic TransParenchymal Nodule Access (BTPNA) technology is mainly used for sampling or ablative treatment of lung parenchymal lesions that cannot be reached by bronchoscopy and its appendages, generally for palliative treatment of some lung ...
Qiusheng Jing   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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