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Mean platelet volume as an inflammation marker in active pulmonary tuberculosis
... Background: The mean platelet volume (MPV) reflects the size of platelets. It has been shown to be inversely correlated with level of the inflammation in some chronic inflammatory diseases. This prospective study aims to ...
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Circulating MicroRNAs in Patients with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... miR-29a was shown to directly target negative regulators of Wnt signaling, and Wnt was known to trigger macrophage inflammatory responses (12, 22). A recent study showed that miR-29a was specifically upregulated after ...
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Prevalence Of Diabetes Mellitus In Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients And Clinico-Radiological Presentation Of Tubercular Diabetic Patients.
... of active pulmonary tuberculosis admitted to Hospital of Chest & TB (Bari), Department of Pulmonary Medicine, RNT Medical College Udaipur, Rajasthan, India from November 2014- November ...
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Vitamin E-Selenium Supplement and Clinical Responses of Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... glutathione peroxidase by reducing free radicals at the membrane, and thereby preventing leakage of the free radicals into the cytosol and maintaining intracellular killing capacity of the cell (5). On the other hand, it ...
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Analysis of Immune Responses against a Wide Range of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigens in Patients with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential to develop effective im- munodiagnostics and better ...M. tuberculosis antigens, including 5 classical and 64 nonclassical (39 DosR regulon-encoded, 4 ...
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Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial of the effect of retinol and vitamin D supplementation on treatment in active pulmonary tuberculosis patients with diabetes
... with active pulmonary tuberculosis and have fasting plasma glucose (FPG) of ≥126 mg/dL or 2-hour glu- cose level of 200 mg/dL or above by OGTT; have no his- tory of previous anti-tuberculosis ...
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Original Article Elevated HMGB1-related interleukin-6 is associated with dynamic responses of monocytes in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis
... of active pulmonary tuberculosis (APTB) patients positive for Mtb culture test, and to evaluate its relationship with inflammatory cytokines ...
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High magnitude of diabetes mellitus among Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in Ethiopia
... doing active screening for DM in patients with pulmonary ...new pulmonary TB ...of active case finding of DM in patients diagnosed for TB and the integrating of TB and DM care ...diagnosed ...
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IL23R(Arg381Gln) Functional Polymorphism Is Associated with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Severity
... IL-23-deficient mice have shown that the absence of IL-23 has little or no effect on host resistance to Toxoplasma gondii, Crypto- coccus neoformans, and M. tuberculosis infection, unless IL-12 is also absent (27, ...
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Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ornithine Carboamyltransferase in Urine as a Possible Molecular Marker of Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... M. tuberculosis protein, Western blot analysis was carried out us- ing a polyclonal rabbit anti-MT1694 antiserum and two crude preparations of ...M. tuberculosis antigens (whole bacterial cell extract and ...
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Validation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv1681 Protein as a Diagnostic Marker of Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a clinical specimen has been the gold standard for TB diagnosis; however, it is expensive, time-consuming, and not available ...of active TB relies primarily on clinical ...
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Oxidative Stress Markers and Selenium Levels of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in Some Dot Centers in Port Harcourt
... with active pulmonary tuberculosis are low when compared with healthy ...with active tuberculosis have lower concentrations of various micronutrients including selenium in ...M. ...
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... with active pulmonary tuberculosis and enlarged lymph nodes (neck, axilla, mediastinum, and groin), a small left pleural effusion, and a small pericardial ...metabolically active lesions in ...
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Tuberculosis of acromioclavicular joint: a case report
... Osteoarticular tuberculosis is a great masquerader pre- senting in varied forms and in atypical ...of tuberculosis prevalence, osteoarticular tu- berculosis can be a primary and isolated lesion, without ...
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Clinical Evaluation of Anti Tuberculous Glycolipid Immunoglobulin G Antibody Assay for Rapid Serodiagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... with active smear-positive and/or culture-positive pulmonary tuber- culosis, the sensitivity for anti-TBGL antibody was calculated to be ...culture-negative active pulmonary ...
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Screening for tuberculosis: time to move beyond symptoms
... symptom- and chest-radiography screening for active pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-. negative persons and persons with unknown HIV status[r] ...
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Poncet’s disease: two case reports
... of active pulmonary or even extrapulmonary tuberculosis is polyarthropathy which is the involvement of multiple large and small joints in the body; a reactive constellation known as Poncet ’ s ...of ...
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A study of treatment outcomes of pulmonary tuberculosis and extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients in a tertiary care centre
... The present study showed that treatment outcome of TB patients at our DOTS cell did not meet the target success rate as recommended by WHO. Effective measures have to be taken in the programme to move forward to help in ...
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TUBERCULOSIS IN ICU PATIENTS
... microorganisms other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis must be excluded. In our study, two patients were immunosuppressed (One of the two patients was allogenic bone marrow transplantation and the other with renal ...
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Incidence of tuberculosis in children on antiretroviral therapy: a retrospective cohort study
... 34. Walters E, Duvenhage J, Draper HR, Hesseling AC, Van Wyk SS, Cotton MF, et al. Severe manifestations of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in HIV- infected children initiating antiretroviral therapy before 2 years ...
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