Sentences with phrase «for active tuberculosis»

Proteomic profiling of eccrine sweat reveals its potential as a diagnostic biofluid for active tuberculosis.

The recently published Systematic screening for active tuberculosis: an operational guide provides guidance on how to target and tailor TB screening, as this allows to detect active disease and to provide immediate treatment, thus breaking possible transmission among the refugees and their close contacts.

Not exact matches

When my appetite retreated further — I had contracted active tuberculosis, although I wouldn't know it for another year — I just started making everything richer and sweeter.

Certain infections, like HIV; untreated, active tuberculosis (ok to pump); untreated brucellosis; active herpes lesions on her breast (ok to pump); and mothers who are positive for the human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I or II

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Women with active, untreated tuberculosis must be separated from their baby for the first two weeks of treatment, during which time they may express their breast milk for their baby.

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

Colorado State University researchers have developed a device for use in the field that can identify both active tuberculosis infection and dormant microbes, which could flare up into full - blown illness *

More than 10.6 million people worldwide fell ill and 1.7 million died from tuberculosis last year while a quarter of the world has latent TB, which will develop into active tuberculosis for one in ten victims years or even decades later.

Those infected have about a 10 % lifetime risk of becoming ill with active tuberculosis; however, this risk is much higher for people whose immune system is compromised by HIV infection, malnutrition or other illness.

Although people with latent tuberculosis can not spread the disease, the ability to test for increased genetic susceptibility to development of active disease could lead to unfair treatment of specific subpopulations that are already marginalized, and could allow familiar ethical issues surrounding the justifiability of ethnic stratification to surface [100][103].

For example, a particular gene variant in the promoter region of the IL10 gene is associated with a 40 to 60 % increased risk of developing active tuberculosis among Europeans and Americans [75].

There are 22 high - burden countries globally, among them Ethiopia, accounting for 80 % of all active tuberculosis cases.