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 4 (2007), Issue 5 (May)

1. Neutralization of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) by antibody but not TNF receptor fusion molecule exacerbates chronic murine tuberculosis.
   J Infect Dis, 195(11): 1643-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Accelerated detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes essential for bacterial survival in guinea pigs, compared with mice.
   J Infect Dis, 195(11): 1634-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. T cell-based diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis infection.
   Curr Opin Infect Dis, 20(3): 264-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Reactivation of tuberculosis by tumor necrosis factor neutralization.
   Eur Cytokine Netw, 18(1): 5-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Transpedicular decancellation osteotomy in the treatment of posttuberculous kyphosis.
   J Spinal Disord Tech, 20(3): 209-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Deep venous thrombosis associated with tuberculosis.
   Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis, 18(4): 377-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Aptamer from whole-bacterium SELEX as new therapeutic reagent against virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 357(3): 743-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Fibrinolytic characteristics and their significance in malignant, tuberculous and cirrhotic pleural and ascitic fluids.
   Int J Lab Hematol, 29(2): 132-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Renal tuberculosis in adult polycystic kidney disease: report of 2 cases and review of the literature.
   Int J Surg Pathol, 15(2): 196-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Mycobacterium bovis shedding patterns from experimentally infected calves and the effect of concurrent infection with bovine viral diarrhoea virus.
    J R Soc Interface, 4(14): 545-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Screening for pulmonary tuberculosis using chest radiography in new employees in an industrial park in Taiwan.
    Am J Infect Control, 35(4): 254-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Educational outreach to promote screening for tuberculosis in primary care: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
    Lancet, 369(9572): 1528-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Risk of acquired drug resistance during short-course directly observed treatment of tuberculosis in an area with high levels of drug resistance.
    Clin Infect Dis, 44(11): 1421-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Prospective study of sputum induction, gastric washing, and bronchoalveolar lavage for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients who are unable to expectorate.
    Clin Infect Dis, 44(11): 1415-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. A recently evolved sublineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strain family is associated with an increased ability to spread and cause disease.
    J Clin Microbiol, 45(5): 1483-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Distribution and activation of T-lymphocyte subsets in tuberculous bovine lymph-node granulomas.
    Vet Pathol, 44(3): 366-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. P2X7 and NRAMP1/SLC11 A1 gene polymorphisms in Mexican mestizo patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.
    Clin Exp Immunol, 148(3): 469-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. The effect of the host's iron status on tuberculosis.
    J Infect Dis, 195(12): 1745-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. The prognosis of latent tuberculosis: can disease be predicted?
    Trends Mol Med, 13(5): 175-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. CD4+ CD25+ transforming growth factor-beta-producing T cells are present in the lung in murine tuberculosis and may regulate the host inflammatory response.
    Clin Exp Immunol, 148(3): 537-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Cost-effectiveness of interferon-gamma release assay screening for latent tuberculosis infection treatment in Germany.
    Chest, 131(5): 1424-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Lymph node paradoxical enlargement during treatment for tuberculous spondylodiscitis (Pott's disease).
    Joint Bone Spine, 74(3): 292-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. High coverage with HAART is required to substantially reduce the number of deaths from tuberculosis: system dynamics simulation.
    Int J STD AIDS, 18(4): 267-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Hyperendemic pulmonary tuberculosis in peri-urban areas of Karachi, Pakistan.
    BMC Public Health, 7: 70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Mycobacterium tuberculosis at autopsy--exposure and protection: an old adversary revisited.
    J Clin Pathol, 60(5): 487-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Managing multiple and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV.
    Expert Opin Pharmacother, 8(8): 1035-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Clinical, immunological, and epidemiological importance of antituberculosis T cell responses in HIV-infected Africans.
    Clin Infect Dis, 44(12): 1639-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosis.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 175(11): 1199-206. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. T-cell assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: moving the research agenda forward.
    Lancet Infect Dis, 7(6): 428-38. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. IFN-gamma therapy of tuberculosis and related infections.
    J Interferon Cytokine Res, 27(5): 353-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Global Fund grant programmes: an analysis of evaluation scores.
    Lancet, 369(9575): 1807-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Musculoskeletal tuberculosis in Bradford - a 6-year review.
    Ann R Coll Surg Engl, 89(4): 405-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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