The effects of diabetes on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

P Huangfu, C Ugarte-Gil, J Golub… - … of Tuberculosis and …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
BACKGROUND: Previous evidence synthesis has suggested diabetes mellitus (DM)
worsens tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes. However, these reviews are limited by the …

Management of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

C Lange, RE Aarnoutse, JWC Alffenaar… - … of tuberculosis and …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB; defined as resistance to at
least rifampicin and isoniazid) represents a growing threat to public health and economic …

The emerging role of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in tuberculosis

T Magcwebeba, A Dorhoi, N du Plessis - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Myeloid cells are crucial for the host control of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb)
infection, however the adverse role of specific myeloid subsets has increasingly been …

Coprevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis in low‐income and middle‐income countries: a systematic review

HS McMurry, E Mendenhall… - Diabetes/metabolism …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing coprevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB) in low‐income and
middle‐income countries (LMICs) indicates a rising threat to the decades of progress made …

[HTML][HTML] Forecasting the impact of diabetes mellitus on tuberculosis disease incidence and mortality in India

SF Awad, P Huangfu, HH Ayoub, F Pearson… - Journal of Global …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background In context of the rapidly expanding diabetes mellitus (DM) epidemic in India and
slowly declining tuberculosis (TB) incidence, we aimed to estimate the past, current, and …

Elevated circulating levels of monocyte activation markers among tuberculosis patients with diabetes co‐morbidity

NP Kumar, K Moideen, Y Bhootra, A Nancy… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Alteration in the frequency of monocyte subsets is a hallmark of tuberculosis–diabetes co‐
morbidity (TB‐DM). To study this association, we examined the plasma levels of sCD 14 …

Immunometabolism and pulmonary infections: implications for protective immune responses and host-directed therapies

M Rao, E Dodoo, A Zumla, M Maeurer - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The biology and clinical efficacy of immune cells from patients with infectious diseases or
cancer are associated with metabolic programming. Host immune-and stromal-cell genetic …

Burden and characteristics of the comorbidity tuberculosis—diabetes in Europe: TBnet prevalence survey and case-control study

M Sane Schepisi, A Navarra… - Open forum …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background The growing burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) is posing a threat to global
tuberculosis (TB) control. DM triples the risk of developing TB, modifies the presenting …

Diabetes in active tuberculosis in low-income countries: to test or to take care?

F Di Gennaro, C Marotta, M Antunes… - The Lancet Global …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis and diabetes are a topical example of an association between communicable
and noncommunicable diseases. These diseases are mutually linked, increasing each …

Point of care HbA1c level for diabetes mellitus management and its accuracy among tuberculosis patients: a study in four countries

P Huangfu, YV Laurence, B Alisjahbana… - … of Tuberculosis and …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is common among tuberculosis (TB) patients and
often undiagnosed or poorly controlled. We compared point of care (POC) with laboratory …