Background Since the publication of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Guideline on the
'Management of opportunistic mycobacterial infections' in 2000, our understanding of the …

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are emerging worldwide as significant causes of
chronic pulmonary infection, posing a number of challenges for both clinicians and …

Iron is essential for many biological processes, however, too much or too little iron can result
in a wide variety of pathological consequences, depending on the organ system, tissue or …

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous in the environment and exist as an
important cause of pulmonary infections in humans. Pulmonary involvement is the most …

Introduction Cystic fibrosis (CF) manifests with clinical and histopathological variability
depending on environmental and genetic factors. Moreover, the genes encoding ion …

In recent years, the incidence and prevalence of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial
(NTM) disease have increased worldwide. Although the reasons for this increase are …

Background Cystic fibrosis (CF) is due to dysfunction of the CFTR channel and function of
this channel is, in turn, affected by modifier genes that can impact the clinical phenotype. In …

Rationale Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental mycobacteria that can
cause a chronic progressive lung disease. Although epidemiological data indicate potential …

Introduction: Recent findings propose that Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
(MAP) infection could act as risk factor in favoring multiple sclerosis (MS) progression …

Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 encoding gene (NRAMP1) plays an
important role in immune response against intracellular pathogens. To evaluate the effects …