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Early and efficient detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum by microscopic observation of broth cultures. [PDF]
, 2013 Early, efficient and inexpensive methods for the detection of pulmonary tuberculosis are urgently needed for effective patient management as well as to interrupt transmission. These methods to detect M. tuberculosis in a timely and affordable way are not
A Cattamanchi +33 more
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Journal of Immunology Research, 2022 Objective. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) causes persistent infection and challenges tuberculosis control worldwide. T cell-mediated immunity plays a critical role in controlling Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection, and therefore ...
Peijun Tang +17 more
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Difficult case of differential diagnosis of partial lung atelectasis. Case report
Терапевтический архив, 2023 In December 2018 the patient over 60 years old sought medical help with complaints of persistent cough. Based on computed tomography data there were identified the sings (symptoms) of right lung lower lobe atelectasis.
Olga M. Gordeeva +6 more
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Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2022 The objective of the study: to investigate diagnostics, course and outcomes of COVID-19 in children and adolescents with tuberculosis in relation to the epidemic control activities.Subjects and Methods: during the pandemic of coronavirus infection (the ...
E. S. Ovsyankina +5 more
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Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis--Current Dilemmas, Unanswered Questions, Challenges and Priority Needs [PDF]
, 2012 Tuberculosis was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Following the declaration and the promotion in 1995 of directly observed treatment short course (DOTS), a cost-effective strategy to contain the tuberculosis ...
Abubakar, Ibrahim +23 more
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Медицинская иммунология, 2023 Innate immune cells (monocytes/macrophages, NK) can also develop immune memory, which means that these cells are trained after their first encounter with pathogens so that they exhibit a nonspecific immunological response to the same or another pathogen.
А. P. Lykov +5 more
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Epidemiology of latent tuberculosis infection in Japan-born and foreign-born children in Japan
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2023 Objective: This study aims to compare the epidemiology of notifications of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among Japan-born and foreign-born children in Japan between 2010 and 2020, and to assess the language used during LTBI case interviews with ...
Saori Kasuya +4 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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Metallochaperones Are Needed for Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Escherichia coli Nicotinamidase-Pyrazinamidase Activity. [PDF]
, 2020 Mycobacterium tuberculosis nicotinamidase-pyrazinamidase (PZAse) is a metalloenzyme that catalyzes conversion of nicotinamide-pyrazinamide to nicotinic acid-pyrazinoic acid. This study investigated whether a metallochaperone is required for optimal PZAse
Antiparra, R +10 more
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The seasonality of tuberculosis, sunlight, vitamin D, and household crowding. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Unlike other respiratory infections, tuberculosis diagnoses increase in summer. We performed an ecological analysis of this paradoxical seasonality in a Peruvian shantytown over 4 years. METHODS: Tuberculosis symptom-onset and diagnosis dates
Adams +38 more
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