Impact of race-neutral global reference equations on spirometry interpretation in healthy children in The Gambia by E. Nkereuwem, V.F. Edem, O. Owolabi, M. Genekah, S.A. Owusu, E.D. McCollum, B. Kampmann, T. Togun

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Giant Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm in an Asymptomatic Young Male by Priyank Shah, Nishant Gupta, Irvin Goldfarb, Fayez Shamoon

“…Etiological factors include atherosclerosis, Marfan’s syndrome, giant cell arteritis, tuberculosis, syphilis, HIV-associated vasculitis, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, and medial agenesis. …”
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Using Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography to Monitor Disease Progression in Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis by Aakriti Garg, Joaquin De Rojas, Priya Mathews, Albert Hazan, James Lin, Danielle Trief, Leejee H. Suh

“…The first patient had prolonged nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use, while the second had inflammatory arthritis by laboratory findings without any systemic findings as well as possible concurrent tuberculosis. In both patients, AS-OCT demonstrated corneal thinning at the onset of the disease with improvement six months after initiation of intensive medical therapy. …”
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Innate Immune Memory: The Latest Frontier of Adjuvanticity by Elfi Töpfer, Diana Boraschi, Paola Italiani

“…This effect has been most extensively investigated for the tuberculosis vaccine strain Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG). …”
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Synthesis of Some New Pyrimidine-Azitidinone Analogues and Their Antioxidant, In Vitro Antimicrobial, and Antitubercular Activities by Mallikarjunaswamy Chandrashekaraiah, Mallesha Lingappa, Vathsala Deepu Channe Gowda, Doddamedur Giddegowda Bhadregowda

“…The newly synthesized analogues were examined for the antimicrobial activity against some bacterial and fungal strains and in vitro antituberculosis activity against mycobacterium tuberculosis. These observations provide some predictions to design further antibacterial and antituberculosis active compounds prior to their synthesis according to molecular studies.…”
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Infectious Disease Management: Lessons from Cuba by Noni E Macdonald, Beth Halperin, Enrique Beldarrain Chaple, Jeff Scott, John M Kirk

“…Canada's poor track record of tuberculosis control in the north (5) raises the concern that this problem is not limited to crisis situations, but rather has deeper implications for the management of infectious diseases in Canada.…”
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Eales’ Disease: When the Rare Sounds Frequent by Beatriz Oliveira Lopes, Margarida Sena Brízido, Ana Isabel Reis, Margarida Maria Miranda, Susana Morais Pina

“…The classic association with hypersensitivity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein infers that immunologic disturbance may be involved. …”
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Overlapping of DRESS and Stevens-Johnson syndrome due to first-line antituberculosis drugs: a case report by Cristian Morán-Mariños, Felix Llanos-Tejada, Rebeca Huamani-Llantoy, Capriny Bernal-Turpo, Kimberly López-Pilco, Alex Ventura-Leon, Renato Casanova-Mendoza

“…In addition, the availability of safe therapeutic alternatives for tuberculosis treatment allows for more effective and safer management in these patients.…”
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CXC Chemokines in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Disease and Pharmacological Relevance by Kayode Komolafe, Maricica Pacurari

“…The current review presents the understanding of the roles of CXC ligands (CXCLs) and their cognate receptors (CXCRs) in the pathogenesis of several lung diseases such as allergic rhinitis, COPD, lung fibrosis, lung cancer, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. The potential therapeutic benefits of pharmacological or other CXCL/CXCR axis manipulations are also discussed.…”
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Comparative analysis of C-Reactive protein levels among Non-comorbid, Comorbid, and Multimorbid Hospitalized COVID-19 patients by Maria Shoukat, Haseeb Khan, Moona Nazish, Abdur Rehman, Sheharyar Raashid, Saad Ahmed, Wajid Munir, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei, Massab Umair, Muhammad Osama Bin Abid, Nasim Akhtar, Wajid Zaman, Malik Badshah

“…The objective of this study was to evaluate the association of major comorbidities such as ischemic heart diseases, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and lung infections e.g. tuberculosis with serum CRP levels in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. …”
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Identification of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Patients with Pulmonary Diseases in Gyeongnam, Korea, Using Multiplex PCR and Multigene Sequence-Based Analysis by Min-Jeong Kim, Kyu-Min Kim, Jeong-Ih Shin, Jong-Hun Ha, Dong-Hae Lee, Jeong-Gyu Choi, Jin-Sik Park, Jung-Hyun Byun, Jung-Wan Yoo, Seokyong Eum, Myunghwan Jung, Seung Chul Baik, Woo Kon Lee, Hyung Lyun Kang, Min-Kyoung Shin

“…As the diagnosis and treatment of NTM infection should be distinguished from tuberculosis, and the treatment should be specific to the species of NTM acquired, accurate species identification is required. …”
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Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy misdiagnosed as intracranial infectious diseases: case reports and literature review by Runhua Bai, Runhua Bai, Li An, Wei Du, Zhiwei Wang, Xiaokun Qi, Jianguo Liu, Ming Ren, Yingxin Yu

“…Case 2 was a 74-year-old male, presenting with fever, excessive sweating, fatigue, and memory loss. Anti-tuberculosis treatment was ineffective. With positive GFAP IgG in CSF, he was diagnosed with A-GFAP-A. …”
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Case Report of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease from Sub-Saharan Africa: An Important Mimic of Tuberculous Lymphadenitis by Karishma Sharma, Fredrick Otieno, Reena Shah

“….), and can mimic more common diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) in endemic areas. We report a case of a 29-year-old black African woman who was admitted with headache, neck pain, fever, and lymphadenopathy. …”
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Bioactive Fused Pyrazoles Inspired by the Adaptability of 5-Aminopyrazole Derivatives: Recent Review by Dana M. Odeh, Mohanad M. Odeh, Taghrid S. Hafez, Ashraf S. Hassan

“…Many compounds inspired by the 5-aminopyrazole derivatives possess a wide spectrum of biological activities and medicinal applications such as antioxidants, anticancer agents, enzyme inhibitors, antimicrobials, and anti-tuberculosis activities. This review summarizes the recently reported synthesis methods and biological activities of fused pyrazole and pyrazole-based derivatives based on 5-aminopyrazole compounds within the last 5 years (2020 to present). …”
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Prescribing patterns and safety of biologics in immune-mediated rheumatic diseases: Karnataka biologics cohort study group experience by Vineeta Shobha, Vijay Rao, Anu Mohan Desai, Ramesh Jois, Chandrashekara Srikantiah, B G Dharmanand, Sharath Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Chethana Dharmapalaiah, K M Mahendranath, Shiva Prasad, Manisha Daware, Yogesh Singh, Uma Karjigi

“…Pre-screening for latent tuberculosis (TB) is consistent across centres, and TB prophylaxis appears to be effective in preventing its reactivation.…”
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Impact of media coverage on the transmission dynamics of TB with vaccines and treatment. by Kumneger Tadesse Mulugeta, Mohammed Yiha Dawed, Shewafera Wondimagegnhu Teklu

“…Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadly infectious diseases affecting millions of individuals throughout the world. …”
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Synthesis of Substituted Thioureas and Their Sulfur Heterocyclic Systems of p-Amino Salicylic Acid as Antimycobacterial Agents by Mohammed Saleh I. T. Makki, Reda M. Abdel-Rahman, Hassan M. Faidallah, Khalid Ali Khan

“…The in vitro antitubercular activity of synthesized compounds against M. tuberculosis strain H37Rv showed moderate-to-good activity.…”
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Identification of pathogenic bacteria by biosensors in water and wastewater by Sakineh Hargolzadeh, Soheila Kashanian, Maryam Nazari

“…Pathogenic microorganisms, such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, legionella, Shigella and etc. can contaminate drinking water and lead to disease and even death. …”
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The silent menace: Worm bezoar causing acute intestinal obstruction by Shiva Shiva, Sahil Kumar, Pankaj Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Suresh Kumar

“…In contrast to developed nations, where the usual causes of obstruction are adhesions, strictures, and metabolic derangements, infective etiologies, like tuberculosis and parasitic infestations, are more common in developing countries. …”
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Diagnosis dan Tatalaksana Penyakit Paru Nontuberculous mycobacteria by Linda Ratna Juita, Fauzar Fauzar

“…Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) juga dikenal dengan atypical mycobacteria atau mycobacteria other than tuberculosis merupakan organisme patogen oportunistik yang dapat menyebabkan penyakit paru progresif. …”
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