U.S. and state officials say the consolidation of the public health agency’s vast trove of information could expose patients ...

We have all heard of antibodies – proteins produced by our bodies to bind to viruses or bacteria, marking them for ...

Objectives The WHO currently recommends stool testing using GeneXpert MTB/Rif (Xpert) for the diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis (TB). The simple one-step (SOS ...

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2 UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London/Camden Primary Care Trust, London, UK Background: The control of ...

Current experimental TB vaccines in adults are designed to target conventional peptide-specific CD4 + and CD8 + T cells. However, this strategy does not appear to be promising as these vaccines ...

Also, the Global Fund financed Project Axshya worked on the principle of community participation in TB care and control. One of the major activities in the project was active case finding for TB using ...

Aim To study the effect of the duration of anti-tubercular treatment (ATT) on the recurrence of uveitis associated with latent tuberculosis (TB). Methods Retrospective review of all consecutive ...

Our search strategy combined broad search terms for TB and diagnostic studies (see Appendix pages 2–4 for the details of the search terms). Studies were excluded if they were case control studies, ...

Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350122, China ...

Is Hamilton County the next Statehouse target? In recent years, Hamilton County cities have found themselves on the same side as Indianapolis in facing local control fights on issues including ...