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Chengdu CoenBiotech Co., Ltd
… aged 18-65 years old, including 30 healthy subjects and 30 tuberculosis patients. Low-dose (2.5 μg/ml), medium-dose (5 μg/ml), and high-dose (10 μg/ml) studies will be conducted separately for healthy subjects and pulmonary tuberculosis patients, with 20 participants in each dos…
Heba M Shalaby, MD
…uate the role of bronchoscopy in diagnosis of endobronchial tuberculosis in suspected pulmonary tuberculosis patients whose sputum samples are negative for Ziehl Neelsen stain. Bronchoscopy plays a major role in identification and diagnosis of EBTB. As a general principal, Bronc…
Achim Hoerauf, Prof. Dr.
…ncreased susceptibility and worsened disease course of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria in filarial endemic regions. Moreover, the investigators demonstrated that M. perstans infections polarize and suppress immune responses with likely consequences for concomitant infections a…
Timothy Seers, Dr
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading infectious cause of death worldwide. Current strategies for monitoring TB treatment response are culture dependent and insensitive. New methods of assessing treatment response in vivo could inform new drug development and other treatment strategies.…
shao fa xu, doctor
… of this study is to determine the better preoperative anti-tuberculosis treatment period of patients with spinal tuberculosis. Quality assurance plan：All the investigators will receive uniform training. Standard cases follow-up,collection,management systems will be established.…
A-Dong Shen, Master, Yu-Jie Qi, Master, Wei Zhao, Doctor
…s based on the hypothesis that the pharmacokinetics of anti-tuberculosis drugs in TB children are different from adults. The investigators aim to study the population pharmacokinetics of children receiving the anti-tuberculsis drugs for treatment of TB. In this study, the investi…
Olivier Marcy, PhD, Maryline Bonnet, PhD, Eric Wobudeya, PhD
… TB-Speed Decentralisation study aims to increase childhood Tuberculosis (TB) case detection at district hospital (DH) and Primary health Care (PHC) levels using adapted and child-friendly specimen collection methods, i.e. Nasopharyngeal Aspirate (NPA) and stool samples, sensitiv…
Wei Zhao, Ph.D
…reatment duration to 26 weeks for patients with mild spinal tuberculosis.
Assiut University
…ir quality of life. However, the pattern and nature of post-tuberculosis lung impairment is still not identified. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the type and degree of lung physiology changes in previously treated tuberculous patients which latter may affect their q…
Antonio Rivero, MD PhD, Luis Lopez-Crtés, MD, PhD, Rafael Castillo, MD, José Verdejo, MD, Miguel Angel García, MD, et al.
…erence and safety of three regimens of chemoprophylaxis for tuberculosis (TB) in HIV-infected patients with positive tuberculin skin test. DESINGS: We performed a randomised, comparative and open clinical assay carried out in 316 HIV-infected patients. The patients were randomly…
Constance A Benson, MD, Umesh Lalloo, MD, FRCP
…, safe, and effective co-treatment regimens for HIV-related tuberculosis (TB) among patients who require protease inhibitor (PI)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART). This study compared three alternative co-treatment options among participants in high TB endemic resource-constrain…
NanoPin Technologies, Inc.
…stigate the accuracy of the NanoDetect-TB kit in diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) using frozen serum and plasma samples collected from individuals suspected to have TB disease. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are: * How does this investigational device compare to the gold …
Stichting Longartsen voor Afrika
…ted to determine whether in patients who are diagnosed with tuberculosis on a clinical basis (where tuberculosis is not found in the sputum) might have other lung diseases than tuberculosis. Depending on the precise nature of your complaints, additional investigations shall be r…
Beijing Chest Hospital
…t has shown promising application prospects in the field of tuberculosis treatment in recent years. Studies have demonstrated that contezolid exhibits comparable anti-tuberculosis activity to linezolid both in vitro and in vivo, and even superior intracellular bactericidal activi…
Meng-Chih Lin, MD
Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains at epidemic levels globally. Innate and adaptive immune responses evolve as protective mechanisms against mycobacterial infection in humans. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are transmembrane proteins characterized by an extracellular l…
Ravinder Goswami, MD, DM, SK Sharma, MD, PHD, DK Mitra, MBBS, PhD, Urvashi B Singh, MD, PhD, Nandita Gupta, PhD, et al.
Tuberculosis and vitamin D deficiency are important public health problems in India. Before the advent of effective antitubercular therapy, patients with tuberculosis were advised treatment and rest at sanatorium where sunshine was available in plenty. There have been reports ass…
Anuradha Rajamanickam, PhD
… the causative agent of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Tuberculosis (TB) is the foremost cause of infectious deaths globally. In 2025, an additional 1.4 million TB deaths could occur as direct consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is postulated that individuals with laten…
Ying Liang, M.D.
…substantial health and economic burden worldwide. Pulmonary tuberculosis has been confirmed as an important risk factor for COPD and this specific phenotype is thereby named as "tuberculosis-associated COPD". Although it is a generally accepted concept, several relevant problems …
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
…omized controlled trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) administered during the "window period" to prevent new Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections in children and adolescents. The main question it aims to answer is: Can immediate TP…
Shen Gwan Han, MD
Pulmonary tuberculosis is one of the most important infectious diseases in human with high mortality. Early diagnosis followed by antibiotic treatment is the only way for control of the disease. However, most of commercial tuberculosis diagnostic kits are of moderate sensitivity…
Mark Hatherill, MD, FCPaed
…p an individual cough up a better sputum sample to test for tuberculosis (TB). In addition, this study will test whether samples obtained with saline nebulization are better at finding TB in people with HIV infection. The study will enroll up to 600 individuals, aged 12 and older…
Gordin F
…h course of isoniazid ( INH ) in the prevention of clinical tuberculosis in anergic (having diminished or absent reactions to specific antigens) HIV-infected persons who are at high risk for tuberculous infection. A substantial number of HIV-infected persons are anergic, and thu…
Wang Ye Prof
The global incidence rate and mortality of tuberculosis (TB) pose a challenge to achieving the goals set out in the tuberculosis eradication strategy and the SDGs by 2030. At present, timely and accessible early detection methods for tuberculosis are still a major obstacle. In th…
Nathalie DE CASTRO, MD PHD
The French Tuberculosis Cohort is a prospective, national, multicenter, low-intervention study including subjects aged 18 years and older with tuberculosis disease for which inpatient treatment is initiated. The goal of this observational study is to follow-up and anti-tuberculos…
Sophia B Siddiqui, M.D.
…stigate how the body reacts to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the organism that causes tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a major global health problem whose solution requires development of an effective vaccine. However, incomplete understanding of how immunity to M…