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SARS-CoV-2 viral load as a predictor for disease severity in outpatients and hospitalised patients with COVID-19: A prospective cohort study

Fredrikke Christie Knudtzen, Thøger Gorm Jensen, Susan Olaf Lindvig, Line Dahlerup Rasmussen, Lone Wulff Madsen, Silje Vermedal Hoegh, Malene Bek-Thomsen, Christian B. Laursen, Stig Lønberg Nielsen, Isik Somuncu Johansen

published 12 Oct 2021

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Combined assessment of tuberculosis case notification rate and infection control at health facilities of Dale districts, Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Makka Adam Ali, Ermias Sissay Balcha, Adugna Abdi Woldesemayat, Lopisso Dessalegn Tirore

published 12 Oct 2021

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Prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis and associated risk factors: A community survey in Thirvallur District, south India

Chandra Kumar Dolla, Bhaskaran Dhanaraj, Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran, Sriram Selvaraj, Pradeep Aravindan Menon, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Rajendran Krishnan, Rajesh Mondal, Muniyandi Malaisamy, Srinivasa B. Marinaik, Lakshmi Murali, Srikanth Prasad Tripathy

published 05 Oct 2021

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The NICU flora: An effective technique to sample surfaces

Naomi Sultan, Irina Shchors, Marc V. Assous, Maskit Bar-Meir

published 23 Sep 2021

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Predictors of unfavorable responses to therapy in rifampicin-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis using an integrated approach of radiological presentation and sputum mycobacterial burden

Narendran Gopalan, Vignes Anand Srinivasalu, Ponnuraja Chinnayan, Banurekha Velayutham, Adhin Bhaskar, Ramesh Santhanakrishnan, Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Sridhar Rathinam, Mahilmaran Ayyamperumal, Kumar Satagopan, Dhanalakshmi Rajendran, Tamizhselvan Manoharan, Sekar Lakshmanan, Paulkumaran Paramasivam, Dhanalakshmi Angamuthu, Mangalambal Ganesan, John Washington Easudoss Arockia, Ramesh Babu Venkatesan, Venkatesan Lakshmipathy, Shivakumar Shanmugham, Balaji Subramanyam, Shakila Shankar, Jawahar Mohideen Shaheed, Baskaran Dhanaraj, Narayanan Paranji Ramiyengar, Soumya Swaminathan, Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran

published 20 Sep 2021

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Prevalence and molecular characterization of antibiotic resistance and associated genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates: A clinical observational study in different hospitals in Chattogram, Bangladesh

Afroza Akter Tanni, Md. Mahbub Hasan, Nahid Sultana, Wazir Ahmed, Adnan Mannan

published 10 Sep 2021

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Comparison of profile and treatment outcomes between elderly and non-elderly tuberculosis patients in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, South India

Sharan Murali, Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Selby Knudsen, Gautam Roy, Jerrold Ellner, Charles Robert Horsburgh, Natasha Hochberg, Padmini Salgame, Senbagavalli Prakash Babu, Sonali Sarkar

published 27 Aug 2021

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Effect of TGF-β1 on eosinophils to induce cysteinyl leukotriene E₄ production in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease

Youngwoo Choi, Soyoon Sim, Dong-Hyun Lee, Hee-Ra Lee, Ga-Young Ban, Yoo Seob Shin, Yoon-Keun Kim, Hae-Sim Park

published 26 Aug 2021

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Predicting treatment outcomes following an exacerbation of airways disease

Andreas Halner, Sally Beer, Richard Pullinger, Mona Bafadhel, Richard E. K. Russell

published 20 Aug 2021

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Are neighbourhoods of tuberculosis cases a high-risk population for active intervention? A protocol for tuberculosis active case finding

Bachti Alisjahbana, Raspati Cundarani Koesoemadinata, Panji Fortuna Hadisoemarto, Bony Wiem Lestari, Sri Hartati, Lidya Chaidir, Chuan-Chin Huang, Megan Murray, Philip Campbell Hill, Susan Margaret McAllister

published 13 Aug 2021

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Field evaluation of a prototype tuberculosis lipoarabinomannan lateral flow assay on HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients

John T. Connelly, Alfred Andama, Benjamin D. Grant, Alexey Ball, Sandra Mwebe, Lucy Asege, Martha Nakaye, Brianda Barrios Lopez, Helen V. Hsieh, David Katumba, Job Mukwatamundu, Mayimuna Nalubega, Victoria M. Hunt, Stephen Burkot, Harisha Ramachandraiah, Alok Choudhary, Lech Ignatowicz, Bernhard H. Weigl, Christine Bachman, Jerry Mulondo, Fred Semitala, William Worodria, Abraham Pinter, Beston Hamasur, David Bell, Adithya Cattamanchi, Akos Somoskovi

published 26 Jul 2021

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Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of laboratory-based c-reactive protein as a triage test for active pulmonary tuberculosis

Thomas H. A. Samuels, Romain Wyss, Stefano Ongarello, David A. J. Moore, Samuel G. Schumacher, Claudia M. Denkinger

published 12 Jul 2021

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GeneXpert on patients with human immunodeficiency virus and smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis

Nguyen Kim Cuong, Nguyen Bao Ngoc, Nguyen Binh Hoa, Vu Quoc Dat, Nguyen Viet Nhung

published 06 Jul 2021

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