Primary oral tuberculosis in a patient with lepromatous leprosy: Diagnostic dilemma [0.03%]
一例瘤型皮肤利什曼病患者的原发口腔结核感染——诊断难题
Vithiya Ganesan,Jharna Mandal
Vithiya Ganesan
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is the most common form of TB. Primary infection can also affect the pharynx, cervical lymph node, intestine, or oral mucosa. Historically, the observed incidence of concomitant infection with leprosy and TB is h...
Mohamed Ali Sbai,Sofien Benzarti,Hichem Msek et al.
Mohamed Ali Sbai et al.
Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in developing countries. Hand and wrist is a rare localization for extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, a pseudotumoral form of soft tissue tuberculosis of the wrist is exceptional. We report the case ...
Use of an adipocyte model to study the transcriptional adaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to store and degrade host fat [0.03%]
利用脂肪细胞模型研究结核分枝杆菌转录适应宿主储存和分解脂肪的现象
Shivangi Rastogi,Pooja Agarwal,Manju Y Krishnan
Shivangi Rastogi
During its persistence in the infected host, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) accumulates host-derived fatty acids in intracytoplasmic lipid inclusions as triacylglycerols which serve primarily as carbon and energy reserves. The Mtb genome ...
Carlos Eduardo Dias Campos,Cláudia Fontoura Dias,Gisela Unis et al.
Carlos Eduardo Dias Campos et al.
In this study we describe the first isolation of Mycobacterium triplex in Latin America. This species causes infections in humans, with very few reports from around the world. We isolated two sputum specimens of a patient with a 6-year hist...
Interaction of antimicrobial peptide with mycolyl transferase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis [0.03%]
抗微生物肽与结核杆菌_mycolyl转移酶的相互作用
Devjani I Banerjee,Tejas P Gohil
Devjani I Banerjee
It is estimated that about 40% of the Indian population are infected with tuberculosis (TB) and that ∼3,000,000 people die as a result of TB annually. TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2011, the World Health Organization decla...
Ayman Rihawi,Glen Huang,Ahmad Al-Hajj et al.
Ayman Rihawi et al.
Tuberculosis and lung cancer rarely coincide together but have been proven to have a definitive link. In this case we describe tuberculosis and adenocarcinoma diagnosed together in the same lobe of the lung. The patient was found to have an...
Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains isolated from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Anambra State, Nigeria [0.03%]
尼日利亚安纳姆州肺结核患者分离的结核分枝杆菌复合群菌株的基因多样性
Gertrude N Uzoewulu,Lovett Lawson,Ibeh S Nnanna et al.
Gertrude N Uzoewulu et al.
In this study, we analyzed Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) genetic diversity in Anambra State, Nigeria based on spoligotyping followed by 5-loci exact tandem repeats (ETRs). Spoligotyping of 180 MTC strains isolated in 2009-2011 fr...
Populations of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis lack a cell wall: Isolation, visualization, and whole-genome characterization [0.03%]
休眠结核分枝杆菌菌群没有细胞壁：分离、可视化及全基因组表征
Ali Akbar Velayati,Thomas Abeel,Terrance Shea et al.
Ali Akbar Velayati et al.
Objective/background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) causes active tuberculosis (TB) in only a small percentage of infected people. In most cases, the infection is clinically latent, where bacilli can persist in human h...
Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in ruminants in different parts of India [0.03%]
印度不同地区的反刍动物中MAP的分子流行病学特征研究
Ganesh G Sonawane,Shirish D Narnaware,Bhupendra N Tripathi
Ganesh G Sonawane
Objective/background: Paratuberculosis is an economically important, chronic, and incurable disease in ruminants, caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP). Understanding the genetic variability of M...
Previous treatment, sputum-smear nonconversion, and suburban living: The risk factors of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among Malaysians [0.03%]
既往治疗、涂阳不转阴以及生活在郊区是马来西亚人患耐多药结核病的危险因素
Noorsuzana Mohd Shariff,Shamsul Azhar Shah,Fadzilah Kamaludin
Noorsuzana Mohd Shariff
The number of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients is increasing each year in many countries all around the globe. Malaysia has no exception in facing this burdensome health problem. We aimed to investigate the factors that contribute ...