Sentences with phrase «of active tuberculosis»

Chiacchio T, Petruccioli E, Vanini V, Butera O, Cuzzi G, Petrone L, Matteucci G, Lauria FN, Franken KL, Girardi E, Ottenhoff TH, Goletti D. Higher frequency of T - cell response to M. tuberculosis latency antigen Rv2628 at the site of active tuberculosis disease than in peripheral blood.

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

This could lead to the development of active tuberculosis and perhaps drug resistant forms of the pathogen in some patients.

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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.

Mothers» contraindications: HIV positive, substance abuse, chemotherapy, radioactive isotope treatments until the elimination of the isotope from the mother's body, active tuberculosis, active chickenpox, active Herpes lesions, Chagas disease.

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).

The TB bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is estimated to be present in up to a third of the world's population, although active TB only develops in around one in 10 cases.

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.

«Being highly active against drug - resistant strains of M. tuberculosis, this novel class of drugs provides us with an excellent opportunity to treat tuberculosis.»

More than one - third of the world's population is susceptible to active tuberculosis, so it is unfortunate that Sutherlandia, which traditionally is taken to prevent or treat infections, can actually cause them to develop the disease, and perhaps also cause the microbe to become a drug - resistant «super bug.»»

According to Global Tuberculosis Control 2009, released on World TB Day (24 March), 9.27 million people developed active cases of TB that year, and 1.37 million of these people also had HIV infections.

Only the active form of tuberculosis is contagious but it is easily transmitted through casual contact.

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.

Active tuberculosis is treatable (and curable), but disease control and treatment adherence are complicated by a variety of factors, including availability of healthcare resources, multidrug - resistant tuberculosis strains and potentially toxic side effects of treatment.

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].

The rest of the genome appears to be cluttered with more than 1,100 «pseudogenes,» which resemble genes in M. tuberculosis but are no longer active.

To assess these responses in well defined cohorts of M. tuberculosis - infected or exposed individuals and patients with active TB either or not co-infected with HIV, and follow up longitudinally after anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy, in order to correlate specific responses with protective immunity.

One - third of the world population has latent TB — meaning they are infected with the bacteria (M. tuberculosis) that causes the disease but not actively suffering from the disease — providing a potential reservoir of infection if the disease moved into an active state.

The department has an active clinical research program including the analysis of immune responses to vaccination or different infectious diseases e.g. M. tuberculosis in humans and animals.

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

Plaintiff patients attending at the facilities of a defendant health corporation were potentially exposed to two patients with active tuberculosis.

His 1907 recommendations on tuberculosis control not given effect, he says, «owing to the active opposition of Mr. D.C. Scott.»

b. Tuberculosis (TB) Clearance: Applicants must provide evidence of a tuberculin skin test and / or chest X-ray received within the last 12 months prior to enrollment indicating no active tubercTuberculosis (TB) Clearance: Applicants must provide evidence of a tuberculin skin test and / or chest X-ray received within the last 12 months prior to enrollment indicating no active tuberculosistuberculosis (TB).