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Face Mask Sampling for the Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Expelled Aerosols

Caroline M. L. Williams, Eddy S. G. Cheah, Joanne Malkin, Hemu Patel, Jacob Otu, Kodjovi Mlaga, Jayne S. Sutherland, Martin Antonio, Nelun Perera, Gerrit Woltmann, Pranabashis Haldar, Natalie J. Garton, Michael R. Barer

published 14 Aug 2014

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Culture Conversion Rate at 2 Months of Treatment According to Diagnostic Methods among Patients with Culture-Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Ha Youn Lee, Kyoung Ok Chae, Chang Hoon Lee, Sun Mi Choi, Jinwoo Lee, Young Sik Park, Sang-Min Lee, Chul-Gyu Yoo, Young Whan Kim, Sung Koo Han, Jae-Joon Yim

published 08 Aug 2014

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Pilot Quasi-Randomized Controlled Study of Herbal Medicine Hochuekkito as an Adjunct to Conventional Treatment for Progressed Pulmonary Mycobacterium avium Complex Disease

Yasunori Enomoto, Eri Hagiwara, Shigeru Komatsu, Ryuichi Nishihira, Tomohisa Baba, Hideya Kitamura, Akimasa Sekine, Atsuhito Nakazawa, Takashi Ogura

published 05 Aug 2014

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Evaluation of Genome-Wide Expression Profiles of Blood and Sputum Neutrophils in Cystic Fibrosis Patients Before and After Antibiotic Therapy

Massimo Conese, Stefano Castellani, Silvia Lepore, Orazio Palumbo, Antonio Manca, Teresa Santostasi, Angela Maria Polizzi, Massimiliano Copetti, Sante Di Gioia, Valeria Casavola, Lorenzo Guerra, Anna Diana, Pasqualina Montemurro, Maria Addolorata Mariggiò, Crescenzio Gallo, Angela Bruna Maffione, Massimo Carella

published 01 Aug 2014

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Prognostic Value of a Quantitative Analysis of Lipoarabinomannan in Urine from Patients with HIV-Associated Tuberculosis

Andrew D. Kerkhoff, Robin Wood, Monica Vogt, Stephen D. Lawn

published 30 Jul 2014

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A Subset of Circulating Blood Mycobacteria-Specific CD4 T Cells Can Predict the Time to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Sputum Culture Conversion

Catherine Riou, Clive M. Gray, Masixole Lugongolo, Thabisile Gwala, Agano Kiravu, Pamela Deniso, Lynsey Stewart-Isherwood, Shaheed Vally Omar, Martin P. Grobusch, Gerrit Coetzee, Francesca Conradie, Nazir Ismail, Gilla Kaplan, Dorothy Fallows

published 21 Jul 2014

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Sleep Disturbances and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Steady-State Bronchiectasis

Yonghua Gao, Weijie Guan, Gang Xu, Zhiya Lin, Yan Tang, Zhimin Lin, Huimin Li, Yang Gao, Qun Luo, Nanshan Zhong, Rongchang Chen

published 18 Jul 2014

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Host Cytokine Responses Induced after Overnight Stimulation with Novel M. tuberculosis Infection Phase-Dependent Antigens Show Promise as Diagnostic Candidates for TB Disease

Paulin N. Essone, Novel N. Chegou, Andre G. Loxton, Kim Stanley, Magdalena Kriel, Gian van der Spuy, Kees L. Franken, Tom H. Ottenhoff, Gerhard Walzl

published 15 Jul 2014

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Point-of-Care Lateral Flow Assays for Tuberculosis and Cryptococcal Antigenuria Predict Death in HIV Infected Adults in Uganda

Yukari C. Manabe, Bareng A. S. Nonyane, Lydia Nakiyingi, Olive Mbabazi, Gloria Lubega, Maunank Shah, Lawrence H. Moulton, Moses Joloba, Jerrold Ellner, Susan E. Dorman

published 07 Jul 2014

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Importance of Cough and M. tuberculosis Strain Type as Risks for Increased Transmission within Households

Edward C. Jones-López, Soyeon Kim, Geisa Fregona, Patricia Marques-Rodrigues, David Jamil Hadad, Lucilia Pereira Dutra Molina, Solange Vinhas, Nancy Reilly, Stephanie Moine, Soumitesh Chakravorty, Mary Gaeddert, Rodrigo Ribeiro-Rodrigues, Padmini Salgame, Moises Palaci, David Alland, Jerrold J. Ellner, Reynaldo Dietze

published 02 Jul 2014

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A Comparison of Tools Used for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case Study at Mubende Referral Hospital, Uganda

Adrian Muwonge, Sydney Malama, Barend M. de C. Bronsvoort, Demelash Biffa, Willy Ssengooba, Eystein Skjerve

published 26 Jun 2014

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Potentially Pathogenic Airway Bacteria and Neutrophilic Inflammation in Treatment Resistant Severe Asthma

Benjamin J. Green, Surasa Wiriyachaiporn, Christopher Grainge, Geraint B. Rogers, Valia Kehagia, Laurie Lau, Mary P. Carroll, Kenneth D. Bruce, Peter H. Howarth

published 23 Jun 2014

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Molecular Approaches for Detection of the Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Bangladesh

Tafsina Haque Aurin, Saurab Kishore Munshi, S. M. Mostofa Kamal, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Md. Shamim Hossain, Thaythayhla Marma, Farjana Rahman, Rashed Noor

published 16 Jun 2014

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