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  • Performance of the TB-LAMP diagnostic assay in reference laboratories: Results from a multicentre study 
    Pham, Thu Hang; Peter, Jonathan; Mello, Fernanda C. Q.; Parraga, Tommy; Lan, Nguyen Thi Ngoc; Nabeta, Pamela; Valli, Eloise; Cáceres Nakiche, Tatiana; Dheda, Keertan; Dorman, Susan E.; Hillemann, Doris; Gray, Christen M.; Perkins, Mark D. (Elsevier, 2018)
    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of TB-LAMP, a manual molecular tuberculosis (TB) detection method, and provide comparison to the Xpert MTB/RIF assay. METHODS: In a large multicentre study, two sputum ...
  • Prospective study of the magnitude and duration of changes in tuberculin reactivity during uncomplicated and complicated measles 
    Tamashiro, Victor G.; Perez, Horestes H.; Griffin, Diane E. (Wolters Kluwer Health, 1987)
    The suppression of cellular immune responses during measles is thought to contribute to the development of secondary infections which often complicate this disease. To determine whether there was a difference in the altered ...
  • The seasonality of tuberculosis, sunlight, vitamin D, and household crowding 
    Wingfield, Tom; Schumacher, Samuel G.; Sandhu, Gurjinder; Tovar, Marco A.; Zevallos, Karine; Baldwin, Matthew R.; Montoya, Rosario; Ramos, Eric S.; Jongkaewwattana, Chulanee; Lewis, James J.; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Friedland, Jon S.; Evans, Carlton Anthony William (Oxford University Press, 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 ...
  • Sputum Microscopy With Fluorescein Diacetate Predicts Tuberculosis Infectiousness 
    Datta, Sumona; Sherman, Jonathan M.; Tovar, Marco A.; Bravard, Marjory A.; Valencia, Teresa; Montoya, Rosario; Quino, Willi; D'Arcy, Nikki; Ramos, Eric S.; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Evans, Carlton Anthony William (Oxford University Press, 2017)
    Background: Sputum from patients with tuberculosis contains subpopulations of metabolically active and inactive Mycobacterium tuberculosis with unknown implications for infectiousness. Methods: We assessed sputum microscopy ...

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