Integrating socio-economic support into drug-resistant TB care to optimise treatment outcomes by J. Limo, C. Pahe, I. Kathure, L. Ndungu, A. Mahihu, C. Mwashumbe, E. Mueni, H. Momanyi

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Disutility Study for Adult Patients with Moderate to Severe Crohn’s Disease by Melany Worbes-Cerezo, Beenish Nafees, Andrew Lloyd, Katy Gallop, Imran Ladha, Cicely Kerr

“…Participants rated lymphoma as the worst AE/surgical complication state (0.44, SD=0.37), followed by tuberculosis (0.47, SD=0.85) and anastomotic leak (0.48, SD=0.38). …”
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Complete Genome Sequencing of Polar Arthrobacter sp. PAMC25284, Copper Tolerance Potential Unraveled with Genomic Analysis by Jayram Karmacharya, Prasansah Shrestha, So-Ra Han, Hyun Park, Tae-Jin Oh

“…In addition, our strain PAMC25284 has the same MmcO gene as M. tuberculosis, with a locus tag KY499_RS04055 similarity of 40.61%, which is the highest among the Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria studied for this gene. …”
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Systemic Sclerosis in Males—Deciphering the Enigma of Erasmus Syndrome by Reena K. Sharma, Mudita Gupta

“…Silicosis and systemic sclerosis synergistically add to lung damage, and at the same time, these patients are more prone to infections like tuberculosis.…”
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A social enterprise model for TB detection and treatment through the private sector in Pakistan by S. M. A. Zaidi, W. Z. Jamal, U. Ibrahim, S. Khowaja, A. J. Khan, J. Creswell

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TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS OF THE ANKLE MIMICKING SYNOVITIS IN CHILD - A CASE REPORT by Erick Yudistira Christanto, Sulis Bayusentono

“…Background: Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis is approximately 10% of all tuberculosis (TB) cases, and the musculoskeletal system's involvement was only 2-4. …”
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A Chinese Traditional Therapy for Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis in Mice by Lifang Sun, Minjie Mao, Zhisheng Yan, Cuiyun Zuo, Xiaojie Zhang

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Internal Jugular Vein Thrombosis in Isolated Tuberculous Cervical Lymphadenopathy by Sanjay Khaladkar, Avadhesh Chauhan, Arijit Ghosh, Kunaal Jain, Surbhi Chauhan

“…Tuberculosis is a common infectious disease with a high prevalence in developing countries and presents a major public health issue. …”
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A New Experimental Infection Model in Ferrets Based on Aerosolised Mycobacterium bovis by Lyanne McCallan, David Corbett, Peter L. Andersen, Claus Aagaard, David McMurray, Claire Barry, Suzan Thompson, Samuel Strain, Jim McNair

“…There is significant interest in developing vaccines to control bovine tuberculosis, especially in wildlife species where this disease continues to persist in reservoir species such as the European Badger (Meles meles). …”
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Characteristics of Invasive Pulmonary Fungal Diseases Diagnosed by Pathological Examination by Dong Zhang, Xin Li, Junquan Zhang, Junping Wu, Xin Sun

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The miR-146a SNP Rs2910164 and miR-155 SNP rs767649 Are Risk Factors for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in the Iranian Population by Neda K. Dezfuli, Ian M. Adcock, Shamila D. Alipoor, Sharareh Seyfi, Babak Salimi, Maryam Mafi Golchin, Neda Dalil Roofchayee, Mohammad Varhram, Esmaeil Mortaz

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Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm as a Cause of Massive Hemoptysis: Diagnosis and Management by Peter Corr

“…I present a case of an inflammatory pulmonary aneurysm (Rasmussen aneurysm) from active pulmonary tuberculosis. This is an uncommon cause for massive hemoptysis which was successfully treated by endovascular coiling.…”
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A Case of Tuberculous Meningitis with Tuberculoma in Nonimmunocompromised Immigrant by Parth Rali, Hammad Arshad, Eric Bihler

“…We present a case of tuberculous (TB) meningitis in nonimmunocompromised immigrant worker who initially presented with headache and later with generalized tonic clonic seizures and disseminated tuberculosis.…”
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Clinical and Epidemiological Study on Tubercular Uveitis in a Tertiary Eye Care Centre in Italy by M. La Cava, A. Bruscolini, M. Sacchetti, M. P. Pirraglia, A. Moramarco, M. Marenco, G. Iaiani, G. Covelli, T. Rizzo, I. Abicca, A. Lambiase

“…Twelve (42.9%) patients came from tuberculosis endemic areas. All patients received specific antitubercular treatment (ATT) and were evaluated for a mean follow-up of 3.2 ± 2.9 years. …”
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Impact of bedaquiline resistance probability on treatment decision for rifampicin-resistant TB by T.P.H. Trang, R. Kessels, T. Decroo, A. Van Rie

“…METHOD: We performed a discrete choice experiment with 55 international rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis physicians. We employed mixed-effects multinomial logistic regression to quantify the effect of prBDQR, patient attributes, and contextual factors on the decision to continue BDQ or not when sequencing results become available. …”
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Absolute Lymphocyte Count Is Not a Suitable Alternative to CD4 Count for Determining Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in Fiji by Dashika A. Balak, Karen Bissell, Christine Roseveare, Sharan Ram, Rachel R. Devi, Stephen M. Graham

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Savings from the introduction of BPaL and BPaLM regimens at the country level by C. Auer, A. Gupta, C. Malbacius, A. Ghafoor, Y. Kock, O. Medvedieva, P. Hanlon, P. Steinmann, S. Juneja

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A scoping review of biopsychosocial risk factors and co-morbidities for common spinal disorders. by Bart N Green, Claire D Johnson, Scott Haldeman, Erin Griffith, Michael B Clay, Edward J Kane, Juan M Castellote, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Matthew Smuck, Eric L Hurwitz, Kristi Randhawa, Hainan Yu, Margareta Nordin

“…Risk factors were reported for group 1: non-specific low back pain (smoking, overweight/obesity, negative recovery expectations), non-specific neck pain (high job demands, monotonous work); group 2: degenerative spinal disease (workers' compensation claim, degenerative scoliosis), and group 3: spinal tuberculosis (age, imprisonment, previous history of tuberculosis), spinal cord injury (age, accidental injury), vertebral fracture from osteoporosis (type 1 diabetes, certain medications, smoking), and neural tube defects (folic acid deficit, anti-convulsant medications, chlorine, influenza, maternal obesity). …”
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UAV With the Ability to Control with Sign Language and Hand by Image Processing by Hediyeh Hojaji, Alireza Delisnav, Mohammad Hossein Ghafouri Moghaddam, Fariba Ghorbani, Shadi Shafaghi, Masoud Shafaghi

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A New Functional Model for Prediction of Chaperone Activity of the Recombinant M. tb Acr (α-Crystallin) Using Insulin as Substrate by Gautam Krishnan, Utpal Roy

“…Mycobacterium tuberculosis Acr is an important protein expressed in latent tuberculosis which is active as an oligomer in preventing misfolding of cellular proteins. …”
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