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A Blueprint to Address Research Gaps in the Development of Biomarkers for Pediatric Tuberculosis

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A Study of Feline Upper Respiratory Tract Disease with Reference to Prevalence and Risk Factors for Infection with Feline Calicivirus and Feline Herpesvirus

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A community-based isoniazid preventive therapy for the prevention of childhood tuberculosis in Ethiopia.

scientific article published on September 2017

A molecular epidemiological and genetic diversity study of tuberculosis in Ibadan, Nnewi and Abuja, Nigeria

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A multi-country non-inferiority cluster randomized trial of frontloaded smear microscopy for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Acceptability of the use of iron cooking pots to reduce anaemia in developing countries

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Accuracy of aneroid sphygmomanometer blood pressure recording compared with digital and mercury measurements in Brazil

scientific article published on January 2004

Acute norovirus gastroenteritis in children in a highly rotavirus-vaccinated population in Northeast Brazil. ⬇️

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Adenovirus infections within a family cohort in Iran

scientific article published on August 2009

Advances in tuberculosis diagnostics: the Xpert MTB/RIF assay and future prospects for a point-of-care test

scientific article published on 24 March 2013

Agreement Between the Douleur Neuropathique in 4 Questions and Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs Questionnaires to Classify Neuropathic Pain Among Patients with Leprosy

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An evaluation of the RIDASCREEN and IDEIA enzyme immunoassays and the RIDAQUICK immunochromatographic test for the detection of norovirus in faecal specimens

scientific article published on 22 September 2010

Analytical and clinical performance of a Chikungunya qRT-PCR for Central and South America.

scientific article published on 8 June 2017

Anticipating rotavirus vaccines in Brazil: Detection and molecular characterization of emerging rotavirus serotypes G8 and G9 among children with diarrhoea in Recife, Brazil

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Apparent extinction of non-G2 rotavirus strains from circulation in Recife, Brazil, after the introduction of rotavirus vaccine.

scientific article published on 4 January 2008

Are patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who are identified through active case finding in the community different than those identified in healthcare facilities?

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Association between histamine-2 receptor antagonists and adverse outcomes in neonates: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Association of tumour necrosis factor alpha and interleukin 6 levels with cytomegalovirus DNA detection and disease after renal transplantation

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Barriers to completing TB diagnosis in Yemen: services should respond to patients' needs

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Bleach-digested sputum smears for the diagnosis of TB in HIV-infected individuals

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Burden of acute respiratory infections in a family cohort in Iran

scientific article published on 21 February 2007

Can interferon-gamma or interferon-gamma-induced-protein-10 differentiate tuberculosis infection and disease in children of high endemic areas?

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Challenges in HIV and visceral leishmania co-infection: future research directions

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Chemoprophylaxis of bacterial meningitis

scientific article published on February 1993

Childhood tuberculosis: progress requires an advocacy strategy now.

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

Climate and Environmental Information and the Control of Epidemic Meningitis in Africa

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Clinical Case Definitions for Classification of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children: An Update.

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Clinical and laboratory diagnosis of the patients with sputum smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article published in January 2012

Clinical characteristics and treatment outcome of patients with visceral leishmaniasis and HIV co-infection in northwest Ethiopia

scientific article published on 14 May 2010

Clinical features and molecular epidemiology of rotavirus and norovirus infections in Libyan children

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Clinical presentation of adults with pulmonary tuberculosis with and without HIV infection in Nigeria

scientific article published on 10 July 2007

Co-infections with Chikungunya and Dengue Viruses, Guatemala, 2015

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Comparison of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility using solid and liquid culture in Nigeria

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Comparison of screening methods for anaemia in pregnant women in Awassa, Ethiopia

scientific article published on April 2003

Contribution of viruses, Chlamydia spp. and Mycoplasma pneumoniae to acute respiratory infections in Iranian children

scientific article published on 07 February 2007

Cryptococcal infection in an HIV-positive Ugandan population

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Current usefulness of Credé's method of preventing neonatal ophthalmia

scientific article published on March 2008

Cytokine Kinetics in the First Week of Tuberculosis Therapy as a Tool to Confirm a Clinical Diagnosis and Guide Therapy

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Cytokines in the management of rotavirus infection: A systematic review of in vivo studies

scientific article published on 14 April 2017

Detection of G12 human rotaviruses in Nepal

scientific article published on March 2007

Diagnostic accuracy of same-day microscopy versus standard microscopy for pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Diagnostic risk factors to differentiate tuberculous and acute bacterial meningitis

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Diarrhoea mortality in Aracaju, Brazil ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Duration and associated factors of patient delay during tuberculosis screening in rural Cameroon

scientific article published on 22 October 2007

Dust clouds and spread of infection

scientific article published in January 2002

Echocardiographic Characteristics of Patients with Sickle Cell Anaemia in Sergipe, Brazil

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Effect of reactive vaccination on meningitis epidemics in Southern Ethiopia

scientific article published on 4 September 2007

Effect of rotavirus vaccination on circulating virus strains

scientific article published in January 2008

Effect of zinc on the tuberculin response of children exposed to adults with smear-positive tuberculosis

scientific article published on December 2002

Effectiveness of Monovalent Rotavirus Vaccine (Rotarix) against Severe Diarrhea Caused by Serotypically Unrelated G2P[4] Strains in Brazil

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Effectiveness of drama in promoting voluntary HIV counselling and testing in rural villages in southern Malawi

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines against rotavirus infection and hospitalization in Latin America: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Environmental risk and meningitis epidemics in Africa

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Epidemiology of dengue fever in Guatemala

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Epidemiology of rotavirus diarrhoea in Iranian children

scientific article published on June 2004

Epidemiology training for primary health care: the use of computer-assisted distance learning

scientific article published on October 1996

Eradication of nasopharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in children and adults in rural Africa: a comparison of ciprofloxacin and rifampicin

scientific article published on March 1995

Essential oils and its bioactive compounds modulating cytokines: A systematic review on anti-asthmatic and immunomodulatory properties

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Estimating the post-neonatal prevalence of sickle cell disease in a Brazilian population

scientific article published on October 2010

Ethical issues in intervention studies on the prevention and management of diabetes and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Evaluation of the meningitis epidemics risk model in Africa

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Evaluation of tuberculosis diagnostics in children: 1. Proposed clinical case definitions for classification of intrathoracic tuberculosis disease. Consensus from an expert panel.

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Evaluation of tuberculosis diagnostics in children: 2. Methodological issues for conducting and reporting research evaluations of tuberculosis diagnostics for intrathoracic tuberculosis in children. Consensus from an expert panel

scientific article published on 3 April 2012

Evidence for affluence-related hypertension in urban Brazil

scientific article published on November 2004

Evidence of insulin-dependent signalling mechanisms produced by Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck fruit peel in an insulin resistant diabetic animal model.

scientific article published on 31 March 2018

Expanding Global Distribution of Rotavirus Serotype G9: Detection in Libya, Kenya, and Cuba ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2001

Exploring providers' perspectives of a community based TB approach in Southern Ethiopia: implication for community based approaches

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Expression of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) in Plasmodium falciparum-infected placenta

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Expression of tissue factor, the clotting initiator, on macrophages in Plasmodium falciparum-infected placentas

scientific article published on 5 July 2002

FluoroType MTB system for the detection of pulmonary tuberculosis

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Front-loaded smear microscopy for the diagnosis of pulmonary TB in Tripoli, Libya

scientific article published on 14 December 2012

Front-loading sputum microscopy services: an opportunity to optimise smear-based case detection of tuberculosis in high prevalence countries

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Functional Activity Limitation and Quality of Life of Leprosy Cases in an Endemic Area in Northeastern Brazil

scientific article published on July 2015

HIV and tuberculosis coinfection in the southern region of Ethiopia: a prospective epidemiological study

scientific article published on January 2004

Health extension workers improve tuberculosis case finding and treatment outcome in Ethiopia: a large-scale implementation study

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Household and family characteristics of street children in Aracaju, Brazil

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How many sputum smears are necessary for case finding in pulmonary tuberculosis?

scientific article published in October 2003

Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in a Large Adult Cohort in Jos, Nigeria

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

Human bocavirus in Iranian children with acute respiratory infections

scientific article published on May 2007

Human metapneumovirus and respiratory syncytial virus disease in children, Yemen

scientific article published on September 2006

Human metapneumovirus and respiratory syncytial virus, Brazil

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Hypertension in treated and untreated patients with HIV: a study from 2011 to 2013 at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

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IP-10 Kinetics in the First Week of Therapy are Strongly Associated with Bacteriological Confirmation of Tuberculosis Diagnosis in HIV-Infected Patients

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Immunogenicity of Haemophilus influenzae-diphtheria CRM197 protein conjugate vaccine (HbOC) in Libyan infants

scientific article published on February 1998

Impact of rotavirus vaccination on diarrhoea mortality and hospital admissions in Brazil

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Improving T-cell assays for the diagnosis of latent TB infection: potential of a diagnostic test based on IP-10.

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Incidence of rotavirus and all-cause diarrhea in northeast Brazil following the introduction of a national vaccination program

scientific article published on 24 July 2009

Incidence of rotavirus and circulating genotypes in Northeast Brazil during 7 years of national rotavirus vaccination

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Increase in susceptibility of young adults to hepatitis B infection in the Republic of Yemen

scientific article published on May 2003

Inducing sputum or advice from a trained worker: does it make a difference?

scientific article published on 19 July 2013

Infant Overweight as Early Marker of Childhood Overweight in Brazil

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Infections with the novel human bocavirus

Innovative community-based approaches doubled tuberculosis case notification and improve treatment outcome in Southern Ethiopia

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Intensive-phase treatment outcomes among hospitalized multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients: results from a nationwide cohort in Nigeria

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Interferon gamma, interferon-gamma-induced-protein 10, and tuberculin responses of children at high risk of tuberculosis infection

scientific article published on December 2008

Interferon gamma-induced protein-10 concentrations in children with previous tuberculosis infections and disease

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Interventions to increase tuberculosis case detection at primary healthcare or community level services

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Interventions to increase tuberculosis case detection at primary healthcare or community-level services

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

LED fluorescence microscopy for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a multi-country cross-sectional evaluation

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Lack of adherence to isoniazid chemoprophylaxis in children in contact with adults with tuberculosis in Southern Ethiopia

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Leprosy and disability in children younger than 15 years in an endemic area of northeast Brazil

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Management of bacterial meningitis

scientific article published on July 1993

Meningococcal disease in Africa

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Microbead-based spoligotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Ziehl-Neelsen-stained microscopy preparations in Ethiopia

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Microbiological validation of smear microscopy after sputum digestion with bleach; a step closer to a one-stop diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article published on 2 November 2005

Micronutrient concentrations in respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus in Yemeni children

scientific article published on March 2009

Micronutrient deficiencies in normal and overweight infants in a low socio-economic population in north-east Brazil

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Molecular Detection of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> in Oral Mucosa from Patients with Presumptive Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Molecular Epidemiology of Rotavirus Diarrhea among Children Aged <5 Years in Nepal: Predominance of Emergent G12 Strains during 2 Years

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Molecular analysis of the 18S rRNA gene of Cryptosporidium parasites from patients with or without human immunodeficiency virus infections living in Kenya, Malawi, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam

scientific article published on April 2003

Molecular epidemiology of rotavirus diarrhea among children and adults in Nepal: detection of G12 strains with P[6] or P[8] and a G11P[25] strain

scientific article published on October 2006

Multiple sampling in one day to optimize smear microscopy in children with tuberculosis in Yemen

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genotypes circulating in Nigeria based on spoligotyping obtained from Ziehl-Neelsen stained slides extracted DNA.

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Métodos de alimentação e evolução do peso de recém-nascidos com microcefalia congênita por Zika Vírus

scientific article published in 2021

Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection among pregnant women in Peshawar, Pakistan: prevalence and risk factors

scientific article published on April 2000

New policies, new technologies: modelling the potential for improved smear microscopy services in Malawi

scientific article published on 10 November 2009

Norovirus infection among children with acute gastroenteritis in Recife, Brazil: disease severity is comparable to rotavirus gastroenteritis

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Pain and quality of life in leprosy patients in an endemic area of Northeast Brazil: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

Patient and community experiences of tuberculosis diagnosis and care within a community-based intervention in Ethiopia: a qualitative study

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Patients direct costs to undergo TB diagnosis.

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Pilot study on multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Nigeria

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Piperacillin/tazobactam-resistant, cephalosporin-susceptible Escherichia coli bloodstream infections are driven by multiple acquisition of resistance across diverse sequence types

scientific article published in 2022

Point of care diagnostics for tuberculosis.

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

Potential of environmental models to predict meningitis epidemics in Africa

scientific article published on June 2006

Predominance of rotavirus P[4]G2 in a vaccinated population, Brazil

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Prevalence of Group A beta-haemolytic Streptococcus isolated from children with acute pharyngotonsillitis in Aden, Yemen

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Prevalence of blood-borne viral hepatitis in different communities in Yemen

scientific article published on August 2003

Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease among school-children in Aden, Yemen

scientific article published on January 2011

Randomized controlled trial of zinc and vitamin A as co-adjuvants for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Reduction in Rotavirus Disease and Sustained Predominance of G2P[4] Rotavirus Strain following Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccine in Recife, Brazil

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Relationships between serum concentrations of C-reactive protein and micronutrients, in patients with tuberculosis.

scientific article published on June 2004

Reply to Holm et al

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Resistance to first-line tuberculosis drugs in three cities of Nigeria

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Respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus in children with acute respiratory infections in Yemen

scientific article published on August 2005

Respiratory syncytial virus and metapneumovirus in children over two seasons with a high incidence of respiratory infections in Brazil

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Risk Factors for Death from Meningococcal Infection in Recife, Brazil

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Risk Factors for Physical Disability in Patients With Leprosy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Risk for tuberculosis among children

scientific article published on September 2006

Risk mapping and early warning systems for the control of meningitis in Africa

scientific article published on 7 May 2007

Rotavirus Genotypes Circulating in Brazil Before and After the National Rotavirus Vaccine Program: A Review

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

Rotavirus and norovirus infections in children in Sana'a, Yemen

scientific article published on 9 March 2011

Rotavirus diarrhoea in Thai infants and children ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1995

Rotavirus genotypes circulating in Brazil before national rotavirus vaccination: a review

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Rotavirus vaccination in northeast Brazil: A laudable intervention, but can it lead to cost-savings?

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Rural poverty and delayed presentation to tuberculosis services in Ethiopia

scientific article published in April 2005

SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating in northeastern Brazil since February 2020: Evidence for antibody detection in asymptomatic patients

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Same-day smears in the diagnosis of tuberculosis

scientific article published on December 2007

Seroepidemiology and risk factors of hepatitis B virus in Aden, Yemen

scientific article published on February 2011

Seroepidemiology of hepatitis A and hepatitis E viruses in Aden, Yemen

scientific article published on 9 September 2010

Seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C and HIV in Malawian pregnant women

scientific article published on November 1998

Severe anemia in Malawian children

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Short communication: colour vision and proficiency in diagnostic microscopy

scientific article published in May 2005

Short-term bleach digestion of sputum in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients co-infected with HIV.

scientific article published on 27 March 2007

Spatial clustering, social vulnerability and risk of leprosy in an endemic area in Northeast Brazil: an ecological study

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Spatial clusters, social determinants of health and risk of COVID-19 mortality in Brazilian children and adolescents: A nationwide population-based ecological study

scientific article published in 2022

Sub-national prevalence survey of tuberculosis in rural communities of Ethiopia

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Testing Pooled Sputum with Xpert MTB/RIF for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis To Increase Affordability in Low-Income Countries

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

The TDR Tuberculosis Specimen Bank: a resource for diagnostic test developers

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

The Urgent Need for New Diagnostics for Symptomatic Tuberculosis in Children ⬇️

scientific article published on December 28, 2010

The effect on haemoglobin of the use of iron cooking pots in rural Malawian households in an area with high malaria prevalence: a randomized trial

scientific article published on April 2003

The hidden costs of installing Xpert machines in a tuberculosis high-burden country: experiences from Nigeria.

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The impact of the H1N1 influenza pandemic on clinical presentations and viral epidemiology of acute respiratory infection in preschool children in Brazil

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The stool examination reports amoeba cysts: should you treat in the face of over diagnosis and lack of specificity of light microscopy?

scientific article published on January 2004

The use of hypertext: demonstration of the methods for investigating an epidemic of meningitis

scientific article published on January 1993

Treatment outcome in children with tuberculosis in southern Ethiopia

scientific article published on January 2009

Tuberculosis and diabetes in Nigerian patients with and without HIV.

scientific article published on 23 June 2017

Tuberculosis case detection in Nigeria, the unfinished agenda.

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Tuberculosis diagnostics for children in high-burden countries: what is available and what is needed

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Unusual norovirus and rotavirus genotypes in Ethiopia

scientific article published on February 2012

Use of Laboratory Assays To Predict Cytomegalovirus Disease in Renal Transplant Recipients ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1998

Use of purified protein derivative to assess the risk of infection in children in close contact with adults with tuberculosis in a population with high Calmette-Guérin bacillus coverage

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Use of tuberculin skin test, IFN-γ release assays and IFN-γ-induced protein-10 to identify children with TB infection

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

Viral and atypical bacterial detection in acute respiratory infection in children under five years

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Where is the meningitis belt? Defining an area at risk of epidemic meningitis in Africa

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Yield of smear microscopy and radiological findings of male and female patients with tuberculosis in abuja, Nigeria

scientific article published on 20 July 2010

Zinc and infection: a review

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Zinc supplementation in Brazilian children with acute diarrhoea

scientific article published on March 2003

alpha1-acid glycoprotein and alpha1-antitrypsin as early markers of treatment response in patients receiving the intensive phase of tuberculosis therapy

scientific article published on 10 February 2009

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