Screening rates for HIV and diabetes in patients with active TB: results of a nationwide survey in Japan by Y. Kimura, Y. Sasabuchi, T. Jo, Y. Hashimoto, R. Kumazawa, M. Ishimaru, H. Matsui, A. Yokoyama, G. Tanaka, H. Yasunaga

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Analysis of Turberculosis-COVID-19 Coinfection Using Fractional Derivatives by Samuel Okyere, Joseph Ackora-Prah, Saleem Abdullah, Samuel Akwasi Adarkwa, Frank Kofi Owusu, Kwame Bonsu, Mary Osei Fokuo, Mary Ann Yeboah

“…Fractional-order derivative modeling continues to receive great interest among researchers across the globe. In this study, Tuberculosis-COVID-19 coinfection is studied using Atangana–Baleanu fractional-order derivatives defined in Caputo sense. …”
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Impact of race-neutral global reference equations on spirometry interpretation in healthy children in The Gambia by E. Nkereuwem, V.F. Edem, O. Owolabi, M. Genekah, S.A. Owusu, E.D. McCollum, B. Kampmann, T. Togun

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Giant Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm in an Asymptomatic Young Male by Priyank Shah, Nishant Gupta, Irvin Goldfarb, Fayez Shamoon

“…Etiological factors include atherosclerosis, Marfan’s syndrome, giant cell arteritis, tuberculosis, syphilis, HIV-associated vasculitis, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, and medial agenesis. …”
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Using Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography to Monitor Disease Progression in Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis by Aakriti Garg, Joaquin De Rojas, Priya Mathews, Albert Hazan, James Lin, Danielle Trief, Leejee H. Suh

“…The first patient had prolonged nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use, while the second had inflammatory arthritis by laboratory findings without any systemic findings as well as possible concurrent tuberculosis. In both patients, AS-OCT demonstrated corneal thinning at the onset of the disease with improvement six months after initiation of intensive medical therapy. …”
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Innate Immune Memory: The Latest Frontier of Adjuvanticity by Elfi Töpfer, Diana Boraschi, Paola Italiani

“…This effect has been most extensively investigated for the tuberculosis vaccine strain Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG). …”
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Synthesis of Some New Pyrimidine-Azitidinone Analogues and Their Antioxidant, In Vitro Antimicrobial, and Antitubercular Activities by Mallikarjunaswamy Chandrashekaraiah, Mallesha Lingappa, Vathsala Deepu Channe Gowda, Doddamedur Giddegowda Bhadregowda

“…The newly synthesized analogues were examined for the antimicrobial activity against some bacterial and fungal strains and in vitro antituberculosis activity against mycobacterium tuberculosis. These observations provide some predictions to design further antibacterial and antituberculosis active compounds prior to their synthesis according to molecular studies.…”
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Infectious Disease Management: Lessons from Cuba by Noni E Macdonald, Beth Halperin, Enrique Beldarrain Chaple, Jeff Scott, John M Kirk

“…Canada's poor track record of tuberculosis control in the north (5) raises the concern that this problem is not limited to crisis situations, but rather has deeper implications for the management of infectious diseases in Canada.…”
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The Arve Valley and Environmental Health: From Therapeutic Imagination to Eco-anxiety by Alexandre Savioz

“…Historically, the Plateau d'Assy in the Arve Valley was a major healthcare destination, particularly specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis between the 1920s and 1970s. From the 19th century onwards, a collective imagination emerged around the myth of clean air of the mountains. …”
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AI Horizons in Indian Healthcare: A Vision for Transformation and Equity by Neelesh Kapoor, S N Sanjana, Shubha B. Davalagi, P S Balu, Soumitra Sethia

“…Notable implementations include AI-driven disease detection systems, telemedicine platforms, and public health surveillance tools, with successful applications in tuberculosis screening, breast cancer detection, and ophthalmological care. …”
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Eales’ Disease: When the Rare Sounds Frequent by Beatriz Oliveira Lopes, Margarida Sena Brízido, Ana Isabel Reis, Margarida Maria Miranda, Susana Morais Pina

“…The classic association with hypersensitivity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein infers that immunologic disturbance may be involved. …”
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Overlapping of DRESS and Stevens-Johnson syndrome due to first-line antituberculosis drugs: a case report by Cristian Morán-Mariños, Felix Llanos-Tejada, Rebeca Huamani-Llantoy, Capriny Bernal-Turpo, Kimberly López-Pilco, Alex Ventura-Leon, Renato Casanova-Mendoza

“…In addition, the availability of safe therapeutic alternatives for tuberculosis treatment allows for more effective and safer management in these patients.…”
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CXC Chemokines in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Disease and Pharmacological Relevance by Kayode Komolafe, Maricica Pacurari

“…The current review presents the understanding of the roles of CXC ligands (CXCLs) and their cognate receptors (CXCRs) in the pathogenesis of several lung diseases such as allergic rhinitis, COPD, lung fibrosis, lung cancer, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. The potential therapeutic benefits of pharmacological or other CXCL/CXCR axis manipulations are also discussed.…”
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Comparative analysis of C-Reactive protein levels among Non-comorbid, Comorbid, and Multimorbid Hospitalized COVID-19 patients by Maria Shoukat, Haseeb Khan, Moona Nazish, Abdur Rehman, Sheharyar Raashid, Saad Ahmed, Wajid Munir, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei, Massab Umair, Muhammad Osama Bin Abid, Nasim Akhtar, Wajid Zaman, Malik Badshah

“…The objective of this study was to evaluate the association of major comorbidities such as ischemic heart diseases, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and lung infections e.g. tuberculosis with serum CRP levels in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. …”
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Identification of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Patients with Pulmonary Diseases in Gyeongnam, Korea, Using Multiplex PCR and Multigene Sequence-Based Analysis by Min-Jeong Kim, Kyu-Min Kim, Jeong-Ih Shin, Jong-Hun Ha, Dong-Hae Lee, Jeong-Gyu Choi, Jin-Sik Park, Jung-Hyun Byun, Jung-Wan Yoo, Seokyong Eum, Myunghwan Jung, Seung Chul Baik, Woo Kon Lee, Hyung Lyun Kang, Min-Kyoung Shin

“…As the diagnosis and treatment of NTM infection should be distinguished from tuberculosis, and the treatment should be specific to the species of NTM acquired, accurate species identification is required. …”
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The bronchoalveolar lavage fluid CD44 as a marker for pulmonary fibrosis in diffuse parenchymal lung diseases by Magda Suchankova, Magda Suchankova, Eszter Zsemlye, Eszter Zsemlye, Jan Urban, Peter Baráth, Lenka Kohútová, Barbara Siváková, Barbara Siváková, Martina Ganovska, Elena Tibenska, Kinga Szaboova, Eva Tedlova, Dominik Juskanic, Dominik Juskanic, Kristina Kluckova, Kristina Kluckova, Michaela Kardohelyova, Tetiana Moskalets, Anna Ohradanova-Repic, Patrik Babulic, Maria Bucova, Vladimir Leksa

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Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy misdiagnosed as intracranial infectious diseases: case reports and literature review by Runhua Bai, Runhua Bai, Li An, Wei Du, Zhiwei Wang, Xiaokun Qi, Jianguo Liu, Ming Ren, Yingxin Yu

“…Case 2 was a 74-year-old male, presenting with fever, excessive sweating, fatigue, and memory loss. Anti-tuberculosis treatment was ineffective. With positive GFAP IgG in CSF, he was diagnosed with A-GFAP-A. …”
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Case Report of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease from Sub-Saharan Africa: An Important Mimic of Tuberculous Lymphadenitis by Karishma Sharma, Fredrick Otieno, Reena Shah

“….), and can mimic more common diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) in endemic areas. We report a case of a 29-year-old black African woman who was admitted with headache, neck pain, fever, and lymphadenopathy. …”
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Bioactive Fused Pyrazoles Inspired by the Adaptability of 5-Aminopyrazole Derivatives: Recent Review by Dana M. Odeh, Mohanad M. Odeh, Taghrid S. Hafez, Ashraf S. Hassan

“…Many compounds inspired by the 5-aminopyrazole derivatives possess a wide spectrum of biological activities and medicinal applications such as antioxidants, anticancer agents, enzyme inhibitors, antimicrobials, and anti-tuberculosis activities. This review summarizes the recently reported synthesis methods and biological activities of fused pyrazole and pyrazole-based derivatives based on 5-aminopyrazole compounds within the last 5 years (2020 to present). …”
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Shifting lines in D. H. Lawrence’s travel writings by Tim GUPWELL

“…Lawrence (1885-1930) spent much of his life travelling around the globe, at least until his untimely death from tuberculosis. But Lawrence’s travel writing was inextricably linked with his personal philosophy, and one aspect that particularly fascinated Lawrence was the idea of straight lines. …”
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