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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, 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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The detection of airborne transmission of tuberculosis from HIV-infected patients, using an in vivo air sampling model [PDF]
, 2007 Background. Nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis remains an important public health problem. We created an in vivo air sampling model to study airborne transmission of tuberculosis from patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and ...
A. Gonzalez +40 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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Validation of a clinical-radiographic score to assess the probability of pulmonary tuberculosis in suspect patients with negative sputum smears [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Clinical suspects of pulmonary tuberculosis in which the sputum smears are negative for acid fast bacilli represent a diagnostic challenge in resource constrained settings. Our objective was to validate an existing clinical-radiographic score
Soto, Alonso +5 more
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Spatial Patterns of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Analysing Rainfall Patterns in Visual Formation [PDF]
, 2018 Management sustainability related tuberculosis patient treatment was limited. Tuberculosis analysis was still in the form of data aggregation. This is cross sectional survey using geographical information system, analyzed by descriptive methods, the ...
Rohman, H. (Hendra)
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Psychosocial Need Analysis of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis. [PDF]
, 2014 Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic pulmonary disease impacted on physical and psychosocial of the patients. However, to date, the goverment’s programs has not address the psychososial problem of the patients yet.
Hernawati, T. (Taty) +3 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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Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2008 Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is the most common primary malign tumour of pleura. The aim of this study was to evaluate cases of MPM diagnosed and treated in Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis “Podhrastovi” during ten-year period (1998-
Vesna Čukić +5 more
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Tuberculosis diagnostics and biomarkers: needs, challenges, recent advances, and opportunities [PDF]
, 2012 Tuberculosis is unique among the major infectious diseases in that it lacks accurate rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests. Failure to control the spread of tuberculosis is largely due to our inability to detect and treat all infectious cases of pulmonary
Alexandre Harari +118 more
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