Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Breath of Fresh Air for Patients with Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection. 
  • A new predictive model for an improved respiratory isolation strategy in HIV-infected patients with PTB. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of standard versus intensified tuberculosis diagnostics on treatment decisions by physicians in Northern Tanzania. 
  • ATS Core Curriculum 2014: part I. Adult pulmonary medicine. 
  • Access to quality diagnosis and rational treatment for tuberculosis: real-world evidence from China-Gates Tuberculosis Control Project Phase III. 
  • Adult-onset pulmonary tuberculosis. 
  • Air Pollution and Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Nested Case-Control Study among Members of a Northern California Health Plan. 
  • Alcohol use and clinical manifestations of tuberculosis. 
  • Alcohol use and clinical manifestations of tuberculosis. 
  • Antepartum or postpartum isoniazid treatment of latent tuberculosis infection. 
  • Assessing health seeking behaviour among tuberculosis patients in rural South Africa. 
  • Association between 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer sequence groups of Mycobacterium avium complex and pulmonary disease. 
  • Autoantibodies to DEK oncoprotein in human inflammatory disease. 
  • Barriers to accessing TB diagnosis for rural-to-urban migrants with chronic cough in Chongqing, China: a mixed methods study. 
  • Bronchiectasis: Mechanisms and Imaging Clues of Associated Common and Uncommon Diseases. 
  • Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis. 
  • Causes of death on antiretroviral therapy: a post-mortem study from South Africa. 
  • Characteristics of basic health units and detection of tuberculosis cases. 
  • Cigarette smoking and pulmonary tuberculosis in northern California. 
  • Clinical and radiographic predictors of the etiology of pulmonary nodules in HIV-infected patients. 
  • Cutpoint selection for categorizing a continuous predictor. 
  • Daily rifapentine for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. A randomized, dose-ranging trial. 
  • Diagnosing Rhodococcus equi infections in a setting where tuberculosis is highly endemic: a double challenge. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy of C-reactive protein for active pulmonary tuberculosis: a meta-analysis. 
  • Effect of improving the quality of radiographic interpretation on the ability to predict pulmonary tuberculosis relapse. 
  • Epidemiology of tuberculosis in North Carolina, 1966 to 1986: analysis of demographic features, geographic variation, AIDS, migrant workers, and site of infection. 
  • Evolution of chest radiographs in treated patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and HIV infection. 
  • Factors affecting delays in tuberculosis diagnosis in rural China: a case study in four counties in Shandong Province. 
  • Factors associated with patient, and diagnostic delays in Chinese TB patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Gut hormones, appetite suppression and cachexia in patients with pulmonary TB. 
  • HIV-2-associated AIDS in the United States. The first case. 
  • HIV-specific health care utilization and mortality among tuberculosis/HIV coinfected persons. 
  • Hospital management of tuberculosis in a region with a low incidence of tuberculosis and a high prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacteria. 
  • How far have we come? Artificial intelligence for chest radiograph interpretation. 
  • How much of China's success in tuberculosis control is really due to DOTS? 
  • Hypothesis: is lung disease after silicate inhalation caused by oxidant generation? 
  • Identification and evolution of an IS6110 low-copy-number Mycobacterium tuberculosis cluster. 
  • Imaging of bacterial pulmonary infection in the immunocompetent patient. 
  • Immune distribution and localization of phosphoantigen-specific Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells in lymphoid and nonlymphoid tissues in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. 
  • Immunosuppression related to collagen-vascular disease or its treatment. 
  • Impact of Community-Based DOT on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. 
  • Impact of multiple policy interventions on the screening and diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis patients: a cascade analysis on six prefectures in China. 
  • Impact of radiology reports on timely tuberculosis diagnosis. 
  • Influence of M. tuberculosis lineage variability within a clinical trial for pulmonary tuberculosis. 
  • Integrated screening for tuberculosis and HIV in tuberculosis contact investigations: lessons learned in North Carolina. 
  • Interleukin 12B (IL12B) genetic variation and pulmonary tuberculosis: a study of cohorts from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, United States and Argentina. 
  • Is tuberculosis patients management improved in the integrated TB control model in West China? A survey in Guizhou Province, China. 
  • Low sensitivity of T-cell based detection of tuberculosis among HIV co-infected Tanzanian in-patients. 
  • MCP1 SNPs and pulmonary tuberculosis in cohorts from West Africa, the USA and Argentina: lack of association or epistasis with IL12B polymorphisms. 
  • Macrophage immunoregulatory pathways in tuberculosis. 
  • Major and massive hemoptysis: reassessment of conservative management. 
  • Mortality before or during treatment among tuberculosis patients in North Carolina, 1993-2003. 
  • Moving toward Tuberculosis Elimination. Critical Issues for Research in Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Tuberculosis Infection. 
  • Multiple, thin-walled cystic lesions of the lung. 
  • Mycobacterial disease in AIDS. 
  • Mycobacterial infection in immunocompromised patients. 
  • Mycobacterial infections in marrow transplant patients. 
  • Mycobacterial pulmonary infections after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis in lung transplant recipients. 
  • NOS2A, TLR4, and IFNGR1 interactions influence pulmonary tuberculosis susceptibility in African-Americans. 
  • Over- and under-treatment of TB patients in Eastern China: an analysis based on health insurance claims data. 
  • Pairing QuantiFERON gold in-tube with opt-out HIV testing in a tuberculosis contact investigation in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Paradoxical tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in children. 
  • Performance of Xpert Ultra nasopharyngeal swab for identification of tuberculosis deaths in northern Tanzania. 
  • Persistent problems of access to appropriate, affordable TB services in rural China: experiences of different socio-economic groups. 
  • Potentiation of P2RX7 as a host-directed strategy for control of mycobacterial infection. 
  • Predictors and outcomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia among patients with HIV and tuberculosis co-infection enrolled in the ACTG A5221 STRIDE study. 
  • Presumptive diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis based on radiographic findings. 
  • Pulmonary manifestations of nontuberculous Mycobacterium. 
  • Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infection: radiologic manifestations. 
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Radiologic manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis. 
  • Re: "Community-acquired pneumonia". 
  • Safety of rifampin and pyrazinamide for the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection. 
  • Seizing opportunities to end TB: a call for ambition and optimism on World TB Day. 
  • Severe cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions during treatment of tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection in Tanzania. 
  • Spatial patterns of pulmonary tuberculosis incidence and their relationship to socio-economic status in Vitoria, Brazil. 
  • Substitution of moxifloxacin for isoniazid during intensive phase treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. 
  • Substitution of rifapentine for rifampin during intensive phase treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: study 29 of the tuberculosis trials consortium. 
  • Successful cure of extensively drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in a young child. 
  • T Cell Responses against Mycobacterial Lipids and Proteins Are Poorly Correlated in South African Adolescents. 
  • Tb in a global health exchange program. 
  • Text messaging for enhancement of testing and treatment for tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus, and syphilis: a survey of attitudes toward cellular phones and healthcare. 
  • The "High-Riding" superior pericardial recess: CT findings. 
  • The Phagocyte Oxidase Controls Tolerance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection. 
  • The complexities of Xpert® MTB/RIF interpretation. 
  • The delivery of immunizations and other preventive services in private practices. 
  • The impact of human immunodeficiency virus infection on drug-resistant tuberculosis. 
  • The many faces of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infection. 
  • The value of end-of-treatment chest radiograph in predicting pulmonary tuberculosis relapse. 
  • Treatment of tuberculosis in patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection. 
  • Treatment seeking for symptoms suggestive of TB: comparison between migrants and permanent urban residents in Chongqing, China. 
  • Tuberculoma of the choroid. 
  • Tuberculosis and AIDS. 
  • Tuberculosis in the cytokine era: what rheumatologists need to know. 
  • Tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: case definitions for use in resource-limited settings. 
  • Understanding the costs of better tuberculosis diagnostics. 
  • Undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis deaths in rural South Africa. 
  • Using health and demographic surveillance to understand the burden of disease in populations: the case of tuberculosis in rural South Africa. 
  • Variants in toll-like receptors 2 and 9 influence susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Caucasians, African-Americans, and West Africans. 
  • Weight loss, fatigue, and mediastinal and hilar adenopathy in a 67-year-old man. 
  • [Effect of an antitoxin, administered for a month, on the course of cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis presently refractory to antibacterial drugs. Contribution to the use of oxynhyles (stimulative substances)]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Murdoch, David Martin, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering