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Enabling Policy Planning and Innovation Management through Patent Information...
Submitted by Vanessa Suane (vanessa.suane@icict.fiocruz.br) on 2016-05-05T13:03:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012. Enabling policy planning and innovation management through patent... -
Animal Welfare in Studies on Murine Tuberculosis: Assessing Progress over a 1...
There is growing concern over the welfare of animals used in research, in particular when these animals develop pathology. The present study aims to identify the main sources of... -
The Complete Genome Sequence of Mycoplasma bovis Strain Hubei-1
Infection by Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) can induce diseases, such as pneumonia and otitis media in young calves and mastitis and arthritis in older animals. Here, we report the... -
What Research Is Needed to Stop TB? Introducing the TB Research Movement
With 9.4 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths worldwide in 2009, tuberculosis (TB) constitutes an unacceptable burden of human suffering and loss [1]. The tools available... -
Rifampicin versus streptomycin for brucellosis treatment in humans: A meta-an...
Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease with a high morbidity in developing countries, but there the optimal treatment is not yet determined. Therefore, the development of a simple... -
Comparative tuberculosis (TB) prevention effectiveness in children of Bacillu...
Background Except during a 1-year period when BCG vaccine was not routinely administered, annual coverage of infants with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) in Kazakhstan since... -
What is the cost of diagnosis and management of drug resistant tuberculosis i...
BACKGROUND: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is undermining TB control in South Africa. However, there are hardly any data about the cost of treating DR-TB in high burden... -
Diagnostic accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for bone and joint tuberculosi...
Background This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for the diagnosis of bone and joint tuberculosis. Methods We searched databases from their... -
An attempt to reproduce a previous meta-analysis and a new analysis regarding...
: Directly observed therapy (DOT) is almost universally used for the treatment of TB. Several meta-analyses using different methods have assessed the effectiveness of DOT... -
Development of new TB regimens : harmonizing trial design, product registrati...
International audience; • Regulatory approval of new tuberculosis (TB) drugs can be based on data from trial(s) using a surrogate endpoint of treatment efficacy under an... -
A novel strategy for interpreting the T-SPOT.TB test results read by an ELISP...
Background The T-SPOT.TB can be read by an ELISPOT plate imager as an alternative to a labor-intensive and time-consuming manual reading, but its accuracy has not been... -
Comparison of Quantitative Techniques including Xpert MTB/RIF to Evaluate Myc...
Introduction: Accurate quantification of mycobacterial load is important for the evaluation of patient infectiousness, disease severity and monitoring treatment response in... -
Do black lives matter in public health research and training?
Objective To examine whether investments made in public health research align with the health burdens experienced by white and black Americans. Methods In this... -
Will COVID-19 become the next neglected tropical disease?
The World Health Organization (WHO) currently classifies 20 diseases and conditions as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). However, since its inception in 2007, PLOS Neglected...
