OBJECTIVES: The early diagnosis and immunoregulatory mechanisms of active tuberculosis (ATB) and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) remain unclear, and the role of metabolic genes in host-pathogen interactions requires further investigation.
Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy
Nov 28, 2024
The existing clinical diagnostic methods of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) usually have some of the following limitations, such as time-consuming, invasive, radioactive, insufficiently sensitive and accurate. This study demonstrates the possibility of u...
BACKGROUND: Current diagnostic methods cannot effectively distinguish between latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and active tuberculosis (ATB). This study aims to explore novel non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers for LTBI and to elucidate possible m...
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
Nov 1, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Active tuberculosis (ATB), instigated by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), rises as a primary instigator of morbidity and mortality within the realm of infectious illnesses. A significant portion of M.tb infections maintain an asymptom...
Accurate detection and risk stratification of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) remains a major clinical and public health problem. We hypothesize that multiparameter strategies that probe immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis can provide...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 25, 2019
Tuberculosis remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide. Only 5-15% of people infected with develop active TB disease (ATB), while others remain latently infected (LTBI) during their lifetime, which has a completely different clinica...
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this verification study was to compare the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) to the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In Tube (QFT-GIT). The new QFT-Plus test contains an extra antigen tube which, according to the manufacturer additionally...
Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro
Jan 1, 2019
Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is estimated in nearly one quarter of the world's population, and of those immunocompetent and infected ~10% will proceed to active tuberculosis (TB). Current diagnostics cannot definitively identify LTBI and prov...
Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia
Jan 1, 2018
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in renal transplant recipients and to assess sociodemographic, behavioral, and clinical associations with positive tuberculin skin test (TST) results.
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