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A review of the possible prognostic values of biochemical changes in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections

Adegboro, B; Babazhitsu, M; Mba, N I.

Afr. J. Clin. Exp. Microbiol; 22 (4), 2021

Because of high mortality and long-term hospital stay among patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections, it is important to search for biochemical changes in different organs and systems that could be useful in diagnosis and prognosis of COVID-19. We conducted a literature search of online databases including Pu...

COVID-19, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2, Biomarkers, Diagnosis

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Tuberculosis bacillary load, an early marker of disease severity: the utility of tuberculosis Molecular Bacterial Load Assay

Sabiiti, Wilber; Azam, khalide; Farmer, Eoghan Charles William; Kuchaka, Davis; Mtafya, bariki; Bowness, Ruth; Oravcova, katarina.

Thorax; 75 (7), 2020

In this comparative biomarker study, we analysed 1768 serial sputum samples from 178 patients at 4 sites in Southeast Africa. We show that tuberculosis Molecular Bacterial Load Assay (TB-MBLA) reduces time-to-TB-bacillary-load-result from days/weeks by culture to hours and detects early patient treatment...

Antibiotics, Antitubercular/therapeutic use, Bacterial Load, Biomarkers/metabolism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis/growth & development, Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolation & purification, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/therapy, d0127200, Prognosis, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/metabolism, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/microbiology

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