Sentences with phrase «of tuberculosis patients»

Impact of co-infections and BCG immunisation on immune responses among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in a Ugandan cohort.

The study, conducted by Louis Grandjean of Imperial College London, and colleagues, compared new tuberculosis cases among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in South Lima and Callao, Peru to determine the relative fitness of MDRTB versus drug - susceptible tuberculosis.

Not exact matches

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain describes the management of time in a tuberculosis sanatorium: so that the day will not weigh oppressively on the patients, it is broken every two or three hours with meals or snacks.

The hospital opened in 1913 to treat tuberculosis patients and was the site of the first clinical trials for the hydrazides treatment that eventually led to the cure of the disease, according to the EDC.

From the 1870s through the 1940s, when tuberculosis was raging across Europe and the Americas, TB patients were sent to sanatoriums where they were prescribed rest and plenty of fresh air.

«For example, some cancers may not impact many patients and some antibacterial drugs, such as that for drug - resistant tuberculosis, may not be profitable, but it is almost a responsibility of biomedical researchers in academics to do something about it.»

MRI scan of tuberculosis meningitis patient reveals a loss of blood supply to part of the brain (white patch highlighted by the white arrow).

Nearly half a million newly infected patients harbor multidrug - resistant (MDR) strains of M. tuberculosis.

But the findings of this ground - breaking study with the estimates of people treated in the private sector for tuberculosis reveal that there could be well over 1 million TB patients not being accounted for in the national TB programme surveillance.

Because of the wait for a diagnosis, isolation of the patient is key — a practice similar to hospital protocol for patients with suspected tuberculosis.

However, data from animal studies of Ebola, as well as studies of patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, provide a sound basis for initial recommendations.

The findings, which could lead to new treatments for a disease that kills more HIV / AIDS patients than tuberculosis, appear in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM.)

Introduction of 9 - 12 month courses of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis therapy will increase the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the total number of anti-tuberculosis drugs during the course of treatment and save funds that can be used to treat more patients.

«Only a minority of urban Indian pharmacies correctly managed patients with presumed tuberculosis,» explains Dr. Srinath Satyanarayana, first author of the study, and a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at McGill University, «but most correctly managed a case of confirmed tuberculosis.»

The Tuberculosis Network Clinical Trials Group (TBNET), an international consortium of clinicians and scientists, documented the management of 380 patients with Multidrug - Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR - TB) at 23 different sites across Europe over five years.

The researchers next showed that the Smurf1 gene controls M. tuberculosis growth in human macrophages and that the Smurf1 protein was found in association with bacteria in the lungs of patients with tuberculosis infections.

An earlier form of the vaccine was used in the DarDar Trial, a seven - year study in Tanzania sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health involving patients with HIV infection who at birth had received BCG, the current tuberculosis vaccine.

They help us ensure that patients receive the appropriate anti-TB drugs to combat their specific form of tuberculosis.

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

Treatment success rate of drug - resistant tuberculosis in HIV - positive patients is low and requires more effective regimen using new drugs compatible with antiretroviral therapy.

The so - called «international» edition of HIV / AIDS Medicine features up - to - date clinical information on HIV / AIDS, such as the best treatment options for patients with drug - resistant tuberculosis — a condition often found among HIV - positive individuals — but also includes specialized chapters on managing and treating HIV and AIDS in resource - poor settings.

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Sarah's recent work links Genome - Wide Association Studies (GWAS) with genomic studies of the pathogen, and investigates the interaction of both host and pathogen genomes in Vietnamese tuberculosis and enteric fever patients.

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.

Tuberculosis patients currently take a combination of antibiotics for at least six months — a complicated regimen of medications that costs about $ 16,000.

2011 — Collaborators in Kenya investigate impact of initiating ART for patients co-infected with HIV and Tuberculosis — Researchers concluded that while earlier ART did not reduce the rate of new AIDS - defining illness and death, it was associated with a lower rate of new AIDS - defining illnesses and death.

In the long run, the scientists hope their lung stem cell therapy will also help patients with other lung fibrosis conditions of which there are dozens, including COPD, cystic fibrosis, and fibro - cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis.

I suspect that cod liver oil was used primarily in tuberculosis patients until the turn of the century.

With the task of diagnosing each «patient» as a zombie or as suffering from one of 10 actual diseases (tuberculosis, malaria etc.), learners visited 10 stations (one for each disease) that were home to a range of learning materials, including readings, images, activities and models.

Patient 18: A male refugee claimant experiencing chest pain and having characteristics that makes his physician suspicious of tuberculosis is not eligible for a chest x-ray.

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

Supervise specialized care of patients including but not limited to: Cystic Fibrosis, Acute / Chronic Asthma, Hepatitis, HIV, Tuberculosis, and negative pressure Isolation.