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Browsing by Subject "Tuberculosis, Pulmonary"
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(Elsevier, 2018)Leave no one behind. This is the overarching pledge of the Sustainable Development Goals; a pledge that is far from being realised. In 2016, more than 4 million people with tuberculosis were estimated to be undiagnosed or ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients remains complex and demands easy to perform and accurate tests. Xpert®MTB/RIF (MTB/RIF) is a molecular TB diagnostic ...
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Gender-dependent differences in plasma matrix metalloproteinase-8 elevated in pulmonary tuberculosis (Public Library of Science, 2015)Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health pandemic and greater understanding of underlying pathogenesis is required to develop novel therapeutic and diagnostic approaches. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are emerging as ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2013)Background: Cachexia is a hallmark of pulmonary tuberculosis and is associated with poor prognosis. A better understanding of the mechanisms behind such weight loss could reveal targets for therapeutic intervention. The ...
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(BioMed Central, 2019)Background: TB transmission in healthcare facilities is an important public health problem, especially in the often-overcrowded settings of HIV treatment scale-up. The problem is compounded by the emergence of drug resistant ...
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(Wiley, 2011)Objective: To evaluate the performance of an algorithm based on WHO recommendations for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-negative patients. Methods: We recruited HIV-negative patients with clinical ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2011)Background: Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) is a promising new rapid diagnostic technology for tuberculosis (TB) that has characteristics that suggest large-scale roll-out. However, because the test is expensive, there are concerns ...
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(Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, 2020)SARS CoV-2 infection, called COVID-19, began in China and spread to the rest of the planet with harmful impacts on public health and the world economy. Brazil was the first country in Latin America, to report a case, in ...
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(European Respiratory Society, 2011)Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health pandemic. Infection is spread by the aerosol route and Mycobacterium tuberculosis must drive lung destruction to be transmitted to new hosts. Such inflammatory tissue damage is ...
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