Burden and challenges in managing TB infection among people with occupational exposure to silica in India by B. Kalottee, P. Mahajan, A. Nuken, D. Nair, P. Thekkur, A.M.V. Kumar, V. Rai, M. Parmar, H. Solanki, R. Rao, S.K. Mattoo, R. Kumar

Subjects: “…tuberculosis…”
Get full text

Non Tuberculous Mycobacterium Infection with Cavernolith: A Rare Case Report by Anjana Ledwani, Babaji Ghewade, Vivek Alone, Ashwin Karnan

Subjects: Get full text

Designing community-based strategies to reach non-household contacts of people with tuberculosis in Lusaka, Zambia: a rapid qualitative study among key stakeholders by Andrew D. Kerkhoff, Marksman Foloko, Evelyn Kundu-Ng’andu, Herbert Nyirenda, Zainab Jabbie, Mainza Syulikwa, Chanda Mwamba, Mary Kagujje, Monde Muyoyeta, Anjali Sharma

Subjects: “…tuberculosis…”
Get full text

Clinical Significance of Negative Costimulatory Molecule PD-1/PD-L1 on Peripheral Blood Regulatory T Cell Levels among Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Chenchen Yang, Fanchao Dai, Rexiti Pulati, Yan Jiao, Qian Xu

“…This study aimed to investigate the expression and clinical significance of negative costimulatory molecules programmed death-1 (PD-1) and programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) on CD4+CD25+CD127low regulatory T cells (Tregs) in peripheral blood of patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Methods. A total of 30 patients with active pulmonary TB and 20 healthy controls were enrolled. …”
Get full text

Effect of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy on the Incidence of Tuberculosis among Seropositive Children Attending HIV/AIDS Care in Two General Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021 by Fassikaw Kebede, Birhanu Kebede, Tsehay Kebede, Melaku Agmasu

“…The human immune deficiency virus (HIV) is the strongest risk factor for the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) by way of reactivation of latent or new infection. …”
Get full text

Low body mass index as a predictor of sputum culture conversion and treatment outcomes among patients receiving treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lesotho by Lawrence Oyewusi, Chengbo Zeng, KJ Seung, Stephanie Mpinda, Mikanda Kunda, Carole D Mitnick, Makelele Kanu, Meseret Tamirat, Joalane Makaka, Mabatloung Mofolo, Refiloe Maime, Llang Maama, Ninza Senyo, Bamidele Oguntoyinbo, Lwayi Mayombo, Molly F Franke

“…Background A low body mass index (BMI) at the start of treatment for rifampicin- or multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) is associated with poor treatment outcomes and may contribute to delayed sputum culture conversion, thereby prolonging the period of potential transmission to others. …”
Get full text

Diagnostic accuracy of cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test and resistance pattern in new and previously treated tuberculosis cases: A prospective observational study by Ranjit Suva, Gaurang Khadiya, Kinjal D. Rami, Urvashi Modh, Firoz Ghanchi, Yogesh Murugan

Subjects: Get full text

Contribution to diagnostics/prognostics of tuberculosis in children. I. New methods of assaying zinc and simultaneously copper and zinc in diluted sera by flame atomic-absorption spectrometry by Luterotti Svjetlana, Kordić Tončica Vukman, Dodig Slavica

Get full text

Protocol of a parallel group Randomized Control Trial (RCT) for Mobile-assisted Medication Adherence Support (Ma-MAS) intervention among Tuberculosis patients. by Zekariyas Sahile, Lua Perimal-Lewis, Paul Arbon, Anthony John Maeder

“…<h4>Background</h4>Non-adherence to Tuberculosis (TB) medication is a serious threat to TB prevention and control programs, especially in resource-limited settings. …”
Get full text

Impact of alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking on the drug-resistance of newly diagnosed tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study in Shandong, China, during 2004–2020 by Yi-Fan Li, Yao Liu, Qi Fu, Wan-mei Song, Jin-yue Liu, Qian-yun Zhang, Ting-ting Xu, Shi-jin Li, Qi-qi An, Si-qi Liu, Huai-chen Li, Ning Ning Tao, Xue-han Zhu, Chun-bao Yu, Jihua Dong

“…Objectives To investigate the independent and collective impact of alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking on the drug-resistance of newly diagnosed tuberculosis (TB).Design This was a retrospective cohort study.Setting Shandong, China.Participants Patients with newly diagnosed TB from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2020 were collected. …”
Get full text

Tuberculosis healthcare service disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, India and South Africa: A model-based analysis of country-level data by Abigail K. de Villiers, Muhammad Osman, Claudio J. Struchiner, Anete Trajman, Dheeraj Tumu, Vaibhav V. Shah, Guilherme L. Werneck, Layana C. Alves, Megha Choudhary, Sunita Verma, Sanjay K. Mattoo, Sue-Ann Meehan, Urvashi B. Singh, Anneke C. Hesseling, Florian M. Marx

Get full text

Tuberculosis healthcare service disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, India and South Africa: A model-based analysis of country-level data. by Abigail K de Villiers, Muhammad Osman, Claudio J Struchiner, Anete Trajman, Dheeraj Tumu, Vaibhav V Shah, Guilherme L Werneck, Layana C Alves, Megha Choudhary, Sunita Verma, Sanjay K Mattoo, Sue-Ann Meehan, Urvashi B Singh, Anneke C Hesseling, Florian M Marx

“…Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious disease cause of death worldwide. …”
Get full text

The feasibility of using liver function indices and FibroScan in combination to predict the occurrence of anti-tuberculosis drug-induced liver injury in Patients with liver disease by Shaoqiang Wu, Qiaohua Yang, Huai Li, Yongzhong Li

Subjects: Get full text

Immunological mechanisms of tuberculosis susceptibility in TB-infected individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus: insights from mycobacterial growth inhibition assay and cytokine analysis by Bindu Dasan, Anuradha Rajamanickam, Arul Nancy Pandiarajan, Sivakumar Shanmugam, Sujatha Nott, Subash Babu

“…ABSTRACT Several studies have highlighted the increased risk of active tuberculosis (TB) in individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM), especially in TB-endemic regions. …”
Get full text

Diagnosis and Classification of Tuberculosis Chest X-ray Images of Children Less Than 15 years at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Using Deep Learning. by Kawuma, Simon, Kumbakumba, Elias, Mabirizi, Vicent, Nanjebe, Deborah, Mworozi, Kenneth, Mukama, Adolf Oyesigye, Kyasimire, Lydia

Subjects: Get full text

Navigating Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: A Case Series from a Tertiary Care Facility Highlighting Rare Presentations, Diagnostic Challenges, Drug Resistance, and Therapeutic Complexities by Megha R. Pathak, Karan Jaykrushna Pandya, Surabhi P. Ramwani, Anil Pingalsur, Shifa Karatela, Jitendra A. Sisodia, Amit R. Dedun

Subjects: Get full text

The prognosis for delayed immune recovery in HIV-infected children might be associated with pre-cART CD4+ T cell count irrespective of co-infection with tuberculosis by Funsho J. Ogunshola, Ruhul A. Khan, Musie Ghebremichael

Get full text

Interferon (IFN)-gamma (γ) inducible protein 10 (IP-10) in the diagnosis of latent and active tuberculosis in Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG)-vaccinated pediatric population by Magdalena Druszczynska, Michał Seweryn, Sebastian Wawrocki, Anna Pankowska, Anastasiia Kulbachko, Magdalena Jurczak, Magdalena Kowalewska-Pietrzak

Get full text

Evaluation of a Commercial Multiplex Real-Time PCR with Melting Curve Analysis for the Detection of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Complex and Five Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Species by Keun Ju Kim, Yunhee Chang, Seung Gyu Yun, Myung-Hyun Nam, Yunjung Cho

Subjects: “…tuberculosis…”
Get full text

Exploring the Role of C-C Motif Chemokine Ligand-2 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Genetic Association Study from North India by Sanjay K. Biswas, Mayank Mittal, Ekata Sinha, Vandana Singh, Nidhi Arela, Bharat Bajaj, Pramod K. Tiwari, Vishwa M. Katoch, Keshar K. Mohanty

“…CCL2 level was observed to be positively correlated with IL12p70, IFN-γ and TNF-α, thus suggesting the immunological regulatory role of CCL2 against pulmonary tuberculosis. CCL2-2518 GG and -362 CC genotypes were found to be associated with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis and CCL2-2518AG and CCL2-362GC with resistance from PTB. …”
Get full text