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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), Sriati, A. (Aat), Suryani, S. (Suryani), Widianti, E. (Efri)   +3 more
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Transcriptional Blood Signatures Distinguish Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Sarcoidosis, Pneumonias and Lung Cancers

PLoS ONE, 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 to
C. Bloom, C. Graham, M. Berry, Fotini Rozakeas, Paul S. Redford, Yuanyuan Wang, Zhaohui Xu, K. Wilkinson, R. Wilkinson, Y. Kendrick, G. Devouassoux, T. Ferry, M. Miyara, D. Bouvry, Valeyre Dominique, G. Gorochov, D. Blankenship, M. Saadatian, P. Vanhems, H. Beynon, R. Vancheeswaran, M. Wickremasinghe, D. Chaussabel, J. Banchereau, V. Pascual, L. Ho, M. Lipman, A. O’Garra   +27 more
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Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Treated in Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis “Podhrastovi“ in Ten-Year Period (from 1998 to 2007)

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, Aida Ustamujić, Vladimir Lovre, Hasan Žutić, Sadika Genjac, Mina Mašić -Zečević   +5 more
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Use of Xpert MTB/RIF in Decentralized Public Health Settings and Its Effect on Pulmonary TB and DR-TB Case Finding in India [PDF]

, 2015
Background Xpert MTB/RIF, the first automated molecular test for tuberculosis, is transforming the diagnostic landscape in high-burden settings. This study assessed the impact of up-front Xpert MTB/RIF testing on detection of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB)
Alavadi, U, Arinaminpathy, N, Babre, A, Boehme, C, Denkinger, C, Dewan, PK, Ghedia, M, Gray, C, Gupta, RS, Kulsange, S, Paramasivan, CN, Parmar, M, Raizada, N, Ramachandran, R, Sachdeva, KS, Sreenivas, A, Thakur, R, Vadera, B, Van den Hof, S, Van't Hoog, AH   +19 more
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The Gut Microbiome Signatures Discriminate Healthy From Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2019
Cross talk occurs between the human gut and the lung through a gut-lung axis involving the gut microbiota. However, the signatures of the human gut microbiota after active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection have not been fully understood.
Yongfei Hu, Yuqing Feng, Jiannan Wu, Fei Liu, Zhiguo Zhang, Yanan Hao, S. Liang, Boxing Li, Jing Li, Na Lv, Yuhui Xu, B. Zhu, Zhaogang Sun   +12 more
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Model of Empowerment to Improve Autonomy Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) Tuberculosis Patients [PDF]

, 2016
Empowerment as not yet optimal health promotion efforts done to enhance the autonomy of Directly Observed Treatment (DOT), which affect the success of the recovery of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.
Abdullah, E. (Endang), Hamidah, H. (Hamidah), Khariroh, S. (Syamilatul), Soedirham, O. (Oedojo)   +3 more
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PCR-reverse blot hybridization assay in respiratory specimens for rapid detection and differentiation of mycobacteria in HIV-negative population

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Rapid identification of pathogenic Mycobacterium species is critical for a successful treatment. However, traditional method is time-consuming and cannot discriminate isolated non-tuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM) at species level.
Qing Zhang, Heping Xiao, Liping Yan
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Early innate immunity determines outcome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pulmonary infection in rabbits

Cell Communication and Signaling, 2013
BackgroundPulmonary infection of humans by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), results in active disease in 5-10% of individuals, while asymptomatic latent Mtb infection (LTBI) is established in the remainder.
S. Subbian, N. Bandyopadhyay, L. Tsenova, P. O’Brien, Viraj Khetani, Nicole L. Kushner, B. Peixoto, P. Soteropoulos, J. Bader, P. Karakousis, D. Fallows, G. Kaplan   +11 more
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Efficacy of the Xpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis/rifampicin assay for diagnosing sputum-smear negative or sputum-scarce pulmonary tuberculosis in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Objective: To evaluate he diagnostic performance of the Xpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Rifampin (MTB/RIF) assay in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF).
Juan Yang, Yanheng Shen, Lei Wang, LiXia Ju, Xiaocui Wu, Peng Wang, Xiaohui Hao, Qin Sun, Fangyou Yu, Wei Sha   +9 more
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Anthropometric indices of Gambian children after one or three annual rounds of mass drug administration with azithromycin for trachoma control. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Mass drug administration (MDA) with azithromycin, carried out for the control of blinding trachoma, has been linked to reduced mortality in children.
A Amza, A Amza, A Sommer, A Weisz, AE Roth, AJ Weisz, Ansumana Sillah, C Nokes, C Panter-Brick, CG Victora, CJ Whitty, CL Coles, CL Coles, D Stare, David C W Mabey, EJ Giamarellos-Bourboulis, EK Gough, EM Harding-Esch, EM Harding-Esch, Emma M Harding-Esch, EV Basilion, I Udan, JD Keenan, JH Humphrey, John Hart, KL Kotloff, KN Ryan, L Leonor Rodríguez, LS Stephenson, Martin J Holland, MG Rowland, MG Rowland, MP Eccles, P Aaby, PG Lunn, R Goto, RL Guerrant, Robin L Bailey, S Haug, Sarah E Burr, T Edwards, Tansy Edwards, TC Porco, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO   +46 more
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