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 6 (2009), Issue 3 (March)

1. Meropenem-clavulanate is effective against extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
   Science, 323(5918): 1215-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Poor concordance between interferon-gamma release assays and tuberculin skin tests in diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection among HIV-infected individuals.
   BMC Infect Dis, 9: 15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Latent tuberculosis infection in children: a call for revised treatment guidelines.
   Pediatrics, 123(3): 816-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Performance of commercial blood tests for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in children and adolescents.
   Pediatrics, 123(3): e419-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Correlations of mutations in katG, oxyR-ahpC and inhA genes and in vitro susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains segregated by spoligotype families from tuberculosis prevalent countries in South America.
   BMC Microbiol, 9: 39. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Diagnostic accuracy of in-house PCR for pulmonary tuberculosis in smear-positive patients: meta-analysis and metaregression.
   J Clin Microbiol, 47(3): 569-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Molecular typing of Mycobacterium bovis strains isolated in Italy from 2000 to 2006 and evaluation of variable-number tandem repeats for geographically optimized genotyping.
   J Clin Microbiol, 47(3): 636-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Cross-priming amplification for rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum specimens.
   J Clin Microbiol, 47(3): 845-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Detection and prediction of active tuberculosis disease by a whole-blood interferon-gamma release assay in HIV-1-infected individuals.
   Clin Infect Dis, 48(7): 954-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. T-SPOT.TB responses during treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
    BMC Infect Dis, 9: 23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Lymphocyte proliferation to mycobacterial antigens is detectable across a spectrum of HIV-associated tuberculosis.
    BMC Infect Dis, 9: 21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. More vaccine efficacy studies on the recombinant Bacille Calmette-Guerin co-expressing Ag85B, Mpt64 and Mtb8.4.
    Scand J Immunol, 69(4): 342-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Differential upregulation of chemokine receptors on CD56 NK cells and their transmigration to the site of infection in tuberculous pleurisy.
    FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol, 55(3): 352-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and identification of molecular markers of disease.
    Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol, 40(4): 398-409. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Intensified tuberculosis case finding among HIV-Infected persons from a voluntary counseling and testing center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 50(5): 537-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Effect of rifampicin on efavirenz pharmacokinetics in HIV-infected children with tuberculosis.
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 50(5): 439-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Serum copper (cu) alterations in pulmonary tuberculosis patients under treatment with ethambutol.
    Biol Trace Elem Res, 128(2): 161-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Evaluation of antitubercular drug-loaded surfactants as inhalable drug-delivery systems for pulmonary tuberculosis.
    J Biomed Mater Res A, 89(2): 281-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Erythema induratum and chronic hepatitis C infection.
    J Clin Virol, 44(4): 333-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. SILA 421, an inhibitor of efflux pumps of cancer cells, enhances the killing of intracellular extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
    Int J Antimicrob Agents, 33(5): 479-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Mycobacterium xenopi pulmonary infections: a multicentric retrospective study of 136 cases in north-east France.
    Thorax, 64(4): 291-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Crohn's disease in India: a multicenter study from a country where tuberculosis is endemic.
    Dig Dis Sci, 54(5): 1099-107. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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