1Altogether, 125 patients received ‘late’ treatment and 23 remained undiagnosed before death thus received no anti-TB treatment (see text). Comparisons between those who had...

*Values in parentheses are for highest-resolution shell.aRmerge = Σh Σi|Ii(h)−<I(h)>/|Σh Σi Ii(h), where I is the observed intensity and <I> is the average intensity...

Abbreviations: CBO =  Canadian-born 'Other'; CBA =  Canadian-born Aboriginal; FBO = Foreign-born 'Other'; FBSSA = Foreign-born sub-Saharan African. *Percent of all TB cases....

Outcome definitions for turn-around-times (TAT) and their respective sample.

Sequence of primers used in the study.

¶Non-reactive to methacholine up to a dose of 1.96 mg.¶¶One individual, not subjected to methacholine, was selected based on FEV1 reversability with a value of 25%.¶¶¶Budesonide...

†Patients with successful treatment outcomes (cured and completed).

Figures are median number of days and IQR in parentheses except for DST laboratory TAT >60 days, which is percentage and absolute value in parentheses.

Maximum likelihood estimates (with standard errors) of the Gompertz parameters and the effect of the time period covariate on mortality (with likelihood ratio test).

Test-positive cows revealing BTB lesions post mortem/positive culture of M. bovis.*One culled cow had been identified as positive at slaughter, prior to the test being ordered.

Data are presented as mean±SD, median (interquartile range) or percent. Chi-square test for categorical variables, the unpaired t test or Mann-Whitney U test for continuous...

Continuous variables are presented as median and range. 1: CD: Crohn’s disease, UC: ulcerative colitis, IBS-D: diarrhea predominant IBS, IBS-C: constipation predominant IBS,...

aSpecified with reference to Cook [30] and Waage et al. [36] using distributions defined in Biosecurity Australia [31]; b Derived from Sapoukhina et al. [37]; c ABS [6], Note...

*Married, civil union (reference) vs. single, separated, divorced, widowed. **Diabetes (reference) vs. no known diabetes. ***Total pack years calculation: (#cigarettes per day...

AFB = Acid fast bacillus; AII = airborne infection isolation; GMH = Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA, USA; NAAT = nucleic acid amplification test; PPV = positive predictive...

BackgroundCredible measures of disease incidence, trends and mortality can be obtained through surveillance using manual chart review, but this is both time-consuming and...

*Per 10-year increase in age. Other covariates in the models included gender, extra-pulmonary manifestations, smear-negativity, and requirement of ICU care.

AFB = Acid-fast bacillus; HIV+ = HIV-seropositive; HIV - =  HIV-seronegative; NTM = non-tuberculous mycobacteria; PPV = positive predictive value; TB = tuberculosis

a World Bank (2012). Country and Lending Groups, Low and Lower Middle Income countries [cited August 29, 2013]; Available from:...

NOTE: Age distribution between the groups was compared using Kruskal-Wallis test. Percentage of male individuals and positive Quantiferon tests were analyzed using chi-square...