[HTML][HTML] Assessing the burden of COVID-19 in developing countries: systematic review, meta-analysis and public policy implications

AT Levin, N Owusu-Boaitey, S Pugh, BK Fosdick… - BMJ Global …, 2022 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction The infection fatality rate (IFR) of COVID-19 has been carefully measured and
analysed in high-income countries, whereas there has been no systematic analysis of age …

An overview of new antitubercular drugs, drug candidates, and their targets

A Bahuguna, DS Rawat - Medicinal research reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis and more recently
totally drug‐resistant strains of M. tuberculosis, display unique mechanisms to survive in the …

Patient adherence to tuberculosis treatment: a systematic review of qualitative research

SA Munro, SA Lewin, HJ Smith, ME Engel… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and has
received considerable attention in recent years, particularly in low-and middle-income …

Benzothiazinones Kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Blocking Arabinan Synthesis

V Makarov, G Manina, K Mikusova, U Möllmann… - Science, 2009 - science.org
New drugs are required to counter the tuberculosis (TB) pandemic. Here, we describe the
synthesis and characterization of 1, 3-benzothiazin-4-ones (BTZs), a new class of …

A multistage tuberculosis vaccine that confers efficient protection before and after exposure

C Aagaard, T Hoang, J Dietrich, PJ Cardona, A Izzo… - Nature medicine, 2011 - nature.com
All tuberculosis vaccines currently in clinical trials are designed as prophylactic vaccines
based on early expressed antigens. We have developed a multistage vaccination strategy in …

Rapid molecular detection of extrapulmonary tuberculosis by the automated GeneXpert MTB/RIF system

D Hillemann, S Rüsch-Gerdes… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT In total, 521 nonrespiratory specimens (91 urine, 30 gastric aspirate, 245 tissue,
113 pleural fluid, 19 cerebrospinal fluid [CSF], and 23 stool specimens) submitted to the …

Risk of tuberculosis from exposure to tobacco smoke: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MN Bates, A Khalakdina, M Pai, L Chang… - Archives of internal …, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
Background There is no consensus whether tobacco smoking increases risk of tuberculosis
(TB) infection, disease, or mortality. Whether this is so has substantial implications for …

Who puts the tubercle in tuberculosis?

DG Russell - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2007 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB), an illness that mainly affects the respiratory system, is one of the world's
most pernicious diseases. TB currently infects one-third of the world's population and kills …

Identification of cytokine-specific sensory neural signals by decoding murine vagus nerve activity

TP Zanos, HA Silverman, T Levy… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The nervous system maintains physiological homeostasis through reflex pathways that
modulate organ function. This process begins when changes in the internal milieu (eg …

Probabilistic integrative modeling of genome-scale metabolic and regulatory networks in Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Chandrasekaran, ND Price - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Prediction of metabolic changes that result from genetic or environmental perturbations has
several important applications, including diagnosing metabolic disorders and discovering …