Bronchography in Pulmonary Tuberculosis doc

... by bronchography are reviewed. 2) Bronchography supplements bronchoscopy and is a practical procedure in pulmonary tuberculosis. 3) The usual contraindications to bronchography in pulmonary tuberculosis, ... by bronchography are reviewed. 2) Bronchography supplements bronchoscopy and is a practical procedure in pulmonary tuberculosis. 3) The usual contraindications...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Getahun H, Harrington M, O'Brien R, Nunn P: Diagnosis of smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis in people with HIV infection or AIDS in resource constrained settings: informing urgent policy ... treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients attending a university teaching hospital. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 1997, 1:326–332. 7. Madebo T, Lindtjorn B: Delay in treatment of pu...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Hossein Niknam, Behrouz Nikbin ABSTRACT Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) has recently become a major problem in developed countries especially in immune compromised HIV infected individuals. ... polymorphic genes coding for cytokines or for cytokine receptors have been investigated in a case control study including a group of 40 Iranian PTB patients and 40 healthy indivi...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... lower serum vitamin A level in patient with pulmonary tuberculosis [3]. Koya- nagi et al, found a lower serum concentration of retinol and zinc in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis as com- pared ... Vitamin A levels to be associated with more extensive or severe disease, and low levels of retinol binding protein, prealbumin and albumin [2]. They also found that a high dose...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... [14]. Notably, the latter finding was in clear contradiction to the findings reported in Refs. [4,6,7], where an increased TB risk was attributed to MCP1 -2581G carriers. In the study of the Ghanaian ... shown to mediate increased transcriptional activity in vitro in a Caucasian study population [16]. Again, this finding is in contrast to the previous assumptions, namely that incr...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... pected disease, the risk approximated 15 per- cent for Negroes and 5 percent for whites. For older persons with minimal or suspected tuber- culosis, the risk was approximately 4 percent for Negroes and 2 percent for whites. The risk of reactivation among Negroes was not associated with degree of skin pigmentation. Long-term followup of persons with inactive disease appears to be an important...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... recurrent infection (2 cases), and right bronchial stenosis (1 case). In two of the patients the indication for surgery was intra-bronchial carcinoid tumour. Lymph node biopsies obtained during the ... recurrent infection (2 cases) and main right bronchial stenosis (1 case). In some of the patients, more than one indication existed. In two of the patients, the indication of surgery was...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... of tuberculosis in Hong Kong: a consensus statement. The Tuberculosis Control Coordinating Committee (Department of Health) and the Tuberculosis Subcommittee of the Coordinating Committee in Internal ... Inc (San Diego, CA, USA), in which the authors have no financial interest. Competing Interest The authors have no financial interest in the anti -tuberculosis drugs in this s...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... Mycobacterium tuberculosis serine ⁄ threonine protein kinase PknB. Infect Immun 67, 5676–5682. 6 Chaba R, Raje M & Chakrabarty PK (2002) Evidences that a eukaryotic-type serine ⁄ threonine protein kinase from ... kinase signaling in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103, 2558–2563. 25 Horinouchi S (2003) AfsR as an integrator of signals that are sensed by multiple se...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20