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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, AD Harries, Benson R. Kidenya, CC Boehme, DA Moore, DA Moore, Daniel W. Fitzgerald, EF Lyamuya, F Ardito, G Shiferaw, GS Ejigu, GV Mukamolova, HP Chien, J Minion, JL Davis, JS Michael, JW Pape, L Caviedes, Lauren E. Webster, Madhukar Pai, N Kiraz, NM Buderer, PD Davies, PE Farmer, PW Ndung’u, Robert N. Peck, Rodrick Kabangila, RP Lazarus, S Keshavjee, Serena P. Koenig, Stephen E. Mshana, W Zhu, Warren D. Johnson, WG Park   +33 more
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Tuberculosis [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2016
Although the worldwide incidence of tuberculosis has been slowly decreasing, the global disease burden remains substantial (∼9 million cases and ∼1·5 million deaths in 2013), and tuberculosis incidence and drug resistance are rising in some parts of the world such as Africa.
Keertan, Dheda, Clifton E, Barry, Gary, Maartens   +2 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, Alimuddin Zumla, Armand, Axelsson-Robertson, Banada, Ben Marais, Betsou, Blakemore, Boehme, Boehme, Cattamanchi, Chow, Cuevas, Cuevas, Cuevas, Cuevas, Diel, Dowdy, Dye, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Ferrara, Giovanni-Batista Migliori, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Green, Harari, Helb, Helen Cox, Hillemann, Hohn, Ibrahim Abubakar, Jeremiah Chakaya, John, Justin O’Grady, Karin Weyer, Keeler, Kemp, Kunnath-Velayudhan, Lawn, Lawn, Lawn, Lawn, Lawn, Lemaire, Lin, Ling, Liu, Long, Lucica Ditui, Lynn Zijenah, Mann, Marais, Marais, Marais, Marais, Marco Schito, Markus Maeurer, Marlowe, Martin P. Grobusch, Martina Casenghi, Matthew Bates, McNerney, Michael Hoelscher, Michel Pletschette, Minion, Moore, Morris, Mwaba, Nathan Ford, Nathanson, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Nicol, Nicol, Oberhelman, O’Grady, Peter, Peter Mwaba, Peter S. Kim, Rifat Atun, Rose, Ruth McNerney, S. Bertel Squire, Samana Schwank, Sester, Shah, Soumya Swaminathan, Squire, Squire, Steingart, Steingart, Steingart, Steve Lawn, Storla, Temple, Theron, Timothy D. Mchugh, Treatment Action Group, Tully, Vadwai, Van Rie, van Wyk, Wallis, Walzl, Weyer, Wilson, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, Wright, Wright, Zar, Ziad Memish, Zumla, Zumla   +118 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, Atun, Rifat, Chakaya, Jeremiah, Cox, Helen, Ditiu, Lucica, Ford, Nathan, Grobusch, Martin, Hoelscher, Michael, Lawn, Stephen D., Maeurer, Markus, Marais, Ben, Mchugh, Timothy D., McNerney, Ruth, Memish, Ziad, Migliori, Giovanni-Battista, Mwaba, Peter, O'Grady, Justin, Pletschette, Michel, Ramsay, Andrew, Raviglione, Mario, Schito, Marco, Squire, S. Bertel, Swaminathan, Soumya, Zumla, Alimuddin   +23 more
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Tuberculosis [PDF]

European Respiratory Review, 2014
Tuberculosis remains a serious health problem worldwide, particularly affecting the poorest in both high-income and developing countries. It was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization in 1993. Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis is caused by mycobacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, and is acquired ...
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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, A. R. Escombe, Balasubramanian, Beggs, Bhatia, C. A. Evans, C. Martinez, C. Noakes, C. Oeser, Caviedes, Cohn, Curtis, D. A. J. Moore, E. Ticona, Edlin, Elliott, Escombe, Gangadharam, Ikeda, J. S. Friedland, Katz, L. Caviedes, Luna-Herrera, M. Navincopa, Markowitz, Mastorides, Mills, Mitchison, Mitchison, Nardell, Nardell, Nunn, P. Sheen, Prabhakar, R. H. Gilman, Riley, RILEY, Riley, Schafer, Sultan, Xu   +40 more
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Microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility assay for the diagnosis of TB. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: New diagnostic tools are urgently needed to interrupt the transmission of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Rapid, sensitive detection of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in sputum has been demonstrated in ...
Caviedes, Luz, Coronel, Jorge, Escombe, A Roderick, Evans, Carlton AW, Friedland, Jon S, Gilman, Robert H, Hollm-Delgado, Maria-Graciela, LaChira, Doris, Moore, David AJ, Oberhelman, Richard, Piñedo, Yvette, Salazar, Cayo, Sanchez, Eduardo, Saravia, Juan Carlos, Vivar, Aldo   +14 more
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High Prevalence of Tuberculosis among Adults with Fever Admitted at a Tertiary Hospital in North-western Tanzania [PDF]

, 2012
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death in developing countries where HIV is endemic. This hospital based study was done to estimate the magnitude of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and to determine predictors of tuberculosis among febrile ...
Kabangila, Rodrick, Kataraihya, Johannes B., Kidenya, Benson R., Meremo, Alfred J., Mshana, Stephen E.   +4 more
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Tuberculosis [PDF]

Annual Review of Public Health, 2002
▪ Abstract  Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Of these, the most common species to infect humans is M. tuberculosis. The TB bacillus is an extremely successful human pathogen, infecting two billion persons worldwide; an estimated 2 to 3 million people die from tuberculosis each year.
Parvathi, Tiruviluamala, Lee B, Reichman
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A CLINICAL CASE OF DISSEMINATED PULMONARY LESIONS WITH A CONCURRENT CONDITION

Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2018
The article presents a clinical case of a complex differential diagnostics of disseminated pulmonary lesions with a concurrent condition.
Anzhela S. Polyakova, Tatevik R. Bagdasaryan, Igor E. Stepanyan, Yury S. Berezovskiy, Vladimir V. Romanov, Atadzhan E. Ergeshov   +5 more
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