Tuberculosis Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Tuberculosis, including details on symptoms, causes, treatment, pulmonary, mycobacterium.

Volume 2 (2005), Issue 5 (May)

1. Thwaites' diagnostic scoring and the prediction of tuberculous meningitis.
   Med Princ Pract, 14(3): 151-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and patients in retreatment.
   Eur Respir J, 25(5): 928-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Human immune recognition-based multicomponent subunit vaccines against tuberculosis.
   Eur Respir J, 25(5): 902-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Circulating interleukin-18 and osteopontin are useful to evaluate disease activity in patients with tuberculosis.
   Cytokine, 30(4): 203-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Patient adherence to prescribed antimicrobial drug dosing regimens.
   J Antimicrob Chemother, 55(5): 616-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Staff training and ambulatory tuberculosis treatment outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial in South Africa.
   Bull World Health Organ, 83(4): 250-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Mycobacterium tuberculosis as viewed through a computer.
   Trends Microbiol, 13(5): 206-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Genotypic analysis of the earliest known prehistoric case of tuberculosis in Britain.
   J Clin Microbiol, 43(5): 2236-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. ESAT-6/CFP-10 fusion protein and peptides for optimal diagnosis of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection by ex vivo enzyme-linked immunospot assay in the Gambia.
   J Clin Microbiol, 43(5): 2070-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Molecular typing of Mycobacterium bovis isolates from south-east Brazil by spoligotyping and RFLP.
    J Vet Med B Infect Dis Vet Public Health, 52(3): 129-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Risk of tuberculosis among household contacts in Salvador, Bahia.
    Braz J Infect Dis, 8(6): 424-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Screening for pulmonary tuberculosis in Teresópolis, RJ, Brazil: the search for respiratory symptomatic patients in emergency service of "Hospital das Clínicas de Teresópolis Costantino Ottaviano, Fundação Educacional Serra dos Orgãos".
    Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo, 47(2): 117-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Self-report INH adherence measures were reliable and valid in Latino adolescents with latent tuberculosis infection.
    J Clin Epidemiol, 58(6): 645-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Increased expression of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 19 kDa lipoprotein obliterates the protective efficacy of BCG by polarizing host immune responses to the Th2 subtype.
    Scand J Immunol, 61(5): 410-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. The influence of age on immunity to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
    Immunol Rev, 205: 229-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Interleukin-10 production by lung macrophages in CBA xid mutant mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
    Immunology, 115(2): 246-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Origins and properties of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in London.
    J Med Microbiol, 54: 575-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. How Finsen's light cured lupus vulgaris.
    Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomed, 21(3): 118-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Multifocal osteoarticular tuberculosis: a case report.
    Rheumatol Int, 25(4): 307-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. New live mycobacterial vaccines: the Geneva consensus on essential steps towards clinical development.
    Vaccine, 23(29): 3753-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Predictors of screening results for depressive symptoms among homeless adults in Los Angeles with latent tuberculosis.
    Res Nurs Health, 28(3): 220-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Prognosis of conservatively treated patients with Pott's paraplegia: logistic regression analysis.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 76(6): 866-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Stochastic efficiency analysis of bovine tuberculosis-surveillance programs in the Netherlands.
    Prev Vet Med, 69(1): 39-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Screening of new entrants for tuberculosis: responses to port notifications.
    J Public Health (Oxf), 27(2): 192-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Identification of tuberculosis cases by port health screening in Essex 1997-2003.
    J Public Health (Oxf), 27(2): 196-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Postpartum follow-up of a positive purified protein derivative (PPD) among an indigent population.
    Am J Obstet Gynecol, 192(5): 1455-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Prevalence and risk factors for transmission of infection among children in household contact with adults having pulmonary tuberculosis.
    Arch Dis Child, 90(6): 624-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Isoniazid pharmacokinetics in children treated for respiratory tuberculosis.
    Arch Dis Child, 90(6): 614-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Boosting with poxviruses enhances Mycobacterium bovis BCG efficacy against tuberculosis in guinea pigs.
    Infect Immun, 73(6): 3814-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Differential effects of total and partial neutralization of tumor necrosis factor on cell-mediated immunity to Mycobacterium bovis BCG infection.
    Infect Immun, 73(6): 3668-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Gamma interferon-induced T-cell loss in virulent Mycobacterium avium infection.
    Infect Immun, 73(6): 3577-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Peripheral blood and pleural fluid mononuclear cell responses to low-molecular-mass secretory polypeptides of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human models of immunity to tuberculosis.
    Infect Immun, 73(6): 3547-58. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Vaccination of cattle with a CpG oligodeoxynucleotide-formulated mycobacterial protein vaccine and Mycobacterium bovis BCG induces levels of protection against bovine tuberculosis superior to those induced by vaccination with BCG alone.
    Infect Immun, 73(6): 3540-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Prevalence and associations of vitamin D deficiency in foreign-born persons with tuberculosis in London.
    J Infect, 50(5): 432-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Intradural extramedullary tuberculoma of the spinal cord: a review of reported cases.
    J Infect, 50(5): 425-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Role of CD8+ T lymphocytes in control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
    Microbes Infect, 7(4): 776-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. TNF-blocking agents and tuberculosis: new drugs illuminate an old topic.
    Rheumatology (Oxford), 44(6): 714-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Neonatal exposure to active pulmonary tuberculosis in a health care professional.
    CMAJ, 172(11): 1453-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Vaccination of cattle with Mycobacterium bovis culture filtrate proteins and CpG oligodeoxynucleotides induces protection against bovine tuberculosis.
    Vet Immunol Immunopathol, 106(1): 53-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Tuberculin reactivity in adults after 50 years of universal bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination in Taiwan.
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 99(7): 509-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Mononeuropathy multiplex and chylothorax as earlier manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis.
    J Intern Med, 257(6): 561-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Cattle movements and bovine tuberculosis in Great Britain.
    Nature, 435(7041): 491-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Preclinical testing of the nitroimidazopyran PA-824 for activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a series of in vitro and in vivo models.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 49(6): 2294-301. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Bactericidal activity of the nitroimidazopyran PA-824 in a murine model of tuberculosis.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 49(6): 2289-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Protection of mice and guinea pigs against tuberculosis induced by immunization with a single Mycobacterium tuberculosis recombinant antigen, MTB41.
    Vaccine, 23(30): 3937-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Combined DNA vaccines formulated either in DDA or in saline protect cattle from Mycobacterium bovis infection.
    Vaccine, 23(30): 3887-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Disruption of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor production in the lungs severely affects the ability of mice to control Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
    J Leukoc Biol, 77(6): 914-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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