Abstract Introduction: The diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis requires an invasive and time-consuming reference method. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is rapid, but validation in pleural tuberculosis is still weak. Objective: To establish the operating characteristics of real-time polymerase chain re...
Derrame Pleural/diagnóstico,
Reacción en Cadena en Tiempo Real de la PolimerasaMétodos,
Tuberculosis Pleural/diagnóstico,
Colombia,
Estudios Transversales,
Hospitales Universitarios,
Mesotelioma/diagnóstico,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis/aislamiento & purificación,
Pleuresia/diagnóstico,
Valor Predictivo de las Pruebas,
Sensibilidad y Especificidad
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a zoonosis causing economic losses and public health risks in many countries. The disease diagnosis in live animals is performed by intradermal tuberculin test, which is based on delayed hypersensitivity reactions. As tuberculosis has complex immune response, this test has li...
La tuberculosis extrapulmonar es una manifestación de la tuberculosis que se da cuando la bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis pasa del parénquima pulmonar a otros órganos por vía hematógena, linfática o por contigüidad. Entre diversos métodos de detección del bacilo de Koch en sitios diferentes ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the risk of infection and illness caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis among health care and security staff in prisons in two regions of Rio Grande do Sul (RS). Method: cross-sectional study involving prison staff. An interview and sputum smear microscopy and culture wer...
Brasil/epidemiología,
Estudios Transversales,
Personal de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos,
Tuberculosis Latente/epidemiología,
Tuberculosis Latente/etiología,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis/patogenicidad,
Prevalencia,
Prisiones/organización & administración,
Prisiones/estadística & datos numéricos,
Factores de Riesgo,
Prueba de Tuberculina/estadística & datos numéricos,
Tuberculosis/epidemiología,
Tuberculosis/etiología
BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused mainly by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The better understanding of important metabolic pathways from M. tuberculosis can contribute to the development of novel therapeutic and prophylactic strategies to combat TB. Nucleoside hydrol...
Moraes, Eloise Brasil;
Slompo, Letícia;
Finardi, Amanda Juliane;
Silveira, Heloisa Paro Pedro da;
Ruiz, Luciana;
Gomes, Harrison Magdinier;
Richini, Virginia Bodelão;
Suffys, Philip;
Fortaleza, Carlos Magno Castelo Branco;
Cavalcanti, Ricardo;
Baptista, Ida Maria Foschiani Dias.
BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a disease that affects many countries around the world, including Brazil. Recently, a subtype of Latin American-Mediterranean family strain was identified and characterised by RDRio. The strain has been associated with different characteristics of the disease...
ABSTRACT In Mexican Traditional Medicine 187 plant species are used in the treatment of respiratory conditions that may be associated with tuberculosis. In this contribution, we review the ethnobotany, chemistry and pharmacology of 63 species whose extracts have been assayed for antimycobacterial activit...
Antituberculosos/química,
Antituberculosos/farmacología,
Recuento de Colonia Microbiana,
Etnobotánica,
Formazáns,
México,
Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis/efectos de los fármacos,
Extractos Vegetales/química,
Extractos Vegetales/farmacología,
Plantas Medicinales/química,
Reproducibilidad de los Resultados,
Sales de Tetrazolio
Linfocitopenia CD4 idiopática (LCI) é uma imunodeficiência rara e grave caracterizada por uma diminuição inexplicável da contagem absoluta de linfócitos T CD4, a qual está associada a infecções oportunistas. Existem poucos relatos de casos na literatura que descrevem a IL2 como uma opção tera...
Verza, Mirela;
Schmid, Karen Barros;
Barcellos, Regina Bones;
Linck, Natali;
Bello, Graziele Lima;
Scapin, Daniel;
Sperhacke, Rosa Dea;
Silva, Márcia Susana Nunes;
Wollheim, Claudia;
Rivero, Martha Gabriela Celle;
Kritski, Afrânio Lineu;
Rezende Jr, Leonides;
Oliveira, Martha Maria;
Costa, Elis Regina Dalla;
Rossetti, Maria Lucia Rosa.
BACKGROUND In high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, there are few data on the performance of new molecular commercialised assays developed locally. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of a new molecular commercialised assay for TB diagnosis (Detect-TB) in three laboratories. METHODS A total of ...
Abstract: The lipid-rich cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a dynamic structure that is involved in the regulation of the transport of nutrients, toxic host-cell effector molecules, and anti-tuberculosis drugs. It is therefore postulated to contribute to the long-term bacterial survival in an inf...
