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A retrospective TBNET assessment of linezolid safety, tolerability and efficacy in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

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Accuracy of immunodiagnostic tests for active tuberculosis using single and combined results: a multicenter TBNET-Study.

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Active case finding of tuberculosis in Europe: a Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (TBNET) survey

scientific article published on 11 June 2008

Acute exacerbation of COPD

scientific article published in May 2004

Adult patients with nosocomial pneumonia: epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment

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Advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis

scientific article published on February 2010

Antibiotic drug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published in December 2007

Antimycobacterial immune responses in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis.

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Ascertaining in vivo virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages in patients in Mbeya, Tanzania.

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Aspergillus in airway material : Ignore or treat?

scientific article published on 6 October 2017

Association between tuberculin skin test reactivity, the memory CD4 cell subset, and circulating FoxP3-expressing cells in HIV-infected persons

scientific article published on March 2009

Attitudes about tuberculosis prevention in the elimination phase: a survey among physicians in Germany

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Availability of anti-tuberculosis drugs in Europe: Table 1–

scholarly article by Giovanni Sotgiu et al published 31 July 2012 in European Respiratory Journal

Availability, price and affordability of anti-tuberculosis drugs in Europe: a TBNET survey

scientific article published on 13 November 2014

Avoiding the effect of BCG vaccination in detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection with a blood test

scientific article published on 15 February 2006

Bedaquiline-based treatment regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

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Beyond multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET study.

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Beyond the IFN-γ horizon: biomarkers for immunodiagnosis of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

scientific article published on 05 December 2013

Bifunctional T-cell-derived cytokines for the diagnosis of tuberculosis and treatment monitoring.

scientific article published on 22 August 2014

Bronchoalveolar lavage enzyme-linked immunospot for a rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis: a Tuberculosis Network European Trialsgroup study

scientific article published on 09 July 2009

Bronchoalveolar lavage immunodiagnosis for tuberculosis suspects in Europe and Africa

scientific article published in September 2010

CD4+ T-lymphocyte nadir and the effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on phenotypic and functional immune restoration in HIV-1 infection

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Challenges and perspectives for improved management of HIV/Mycobacterium tuberculosis co-infection

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Characterization of patients with chronic pulmonary aspergillosis according to the new ESCMID/ERS/ECMM and IDSA guidelines

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Childhood BCG vaccination does not influence control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth by human bronchoalveolar lavage cells

scientific article published on 28 February 2015

Chronic Cough and Severe Weight Loss in a 55-Year-Old Previously Healthy Man.

scientific article published on July 2017

Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis: rationale and clinical guidelines for diagnosis and management

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Cigarette smoking and culture conversion in patients with susceptible and M/XDR-TB

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Clade-specific virulence patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains in human primary macrophages and aerogenically infected mice

scientific article published on 30 July 2013

Clinical Application of Interferon-γ Release Assays for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Countries with Low Incidence

scientific article published on 04 January 2016

Clinical Management of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in 16 European Countries.

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Clinical and operational value of the extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis definition

scientific article published on 09 August 2007

Clinical implications of molecular drug resistance testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a TBNET/RESIST-TB consensus statement

scientific article published on January 2016

Clinical management of adults and children with multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

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Clofazimine for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Combined antigen-specific interferon-γ and interleukin-2 release assay (FluoroSpot) for the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

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Comment on: Daily 300 mg dose of linezolid for the treatment of intractable multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 3 August 2009

Comparison of molecular and immunological methods for the rapid diagnosis of smear-negative tuberculosis

scientific article published on November 2013

Consensus Not Yet Reached on Key Drugs for Extensively Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment

scientific article published in 2009

Cost-optimisation of screening for latent tuberculosis in close contacts

scientific article published on 29 March 2006

Cure Not Possible, by Definition

scientific article published in November 2015

Dendritic cell recruitment in response to skin antigen tests in HIV-1-infected individuals correlates with the level of T-cell infiltration

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Design of tuberculosis vaccine trials under financial constraints

scientific article published on 14 April 2016

Destructive Osteoarthritis after Delayed Diagnosis of Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Detection of transrenal DNA for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and treatment monitoring.

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Development of a one-step probe based molecular assay for rapid immunodiagnosis of infection with M. tuberculosis using dried blood spots

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Development of a standardised tool to survey MDR-/XDR-TB case management in Europe

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Diagnosis and management of Aspergillus diseases: executive summary of the 2017 ESCMID-ECMM-ERS guideline.

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Diagnosis and treatment of latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Diagnosis of infections in pneumology

scientific article published on 20 May 2010

Diagnosis of tuberculosis in patients with psoriasis: the need for a modified approach

Disseminated mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (MAC) infection in the era of effective antiretroviral therapy: is prophylaxis still indicated?

scientific article published on January 2004

Droplets, dust and guinea pigs: an historical review of tuberculosis transmission research, 1878-1940

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Drug resistance beyond extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: individual patient data meta-analysis

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Drug-resistant tuberculosis: An update on disease burden, diagnosis and treatment

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Early BCG vaccination is unrelated to pulmonary immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in adults

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

Editorial Commentary: 1, 2, 3 (Years)  …  and You're Out: The End of a 123-year Historic Era.

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

Empfehlungen zur Therapie, Chemoprävention und Chemoprophylaxe der Tuberkulose im Erwachsenen- und Kindesalter

Epidemiologie, Diagnostik und Therapie erwachsener Patienten mit nosokomialer Pneumonie

scientific article published on 06 December 2012

Epidemiology and clinical management of XDR-TB: a systematic review by TBNET.

scientific article published on 27 February 2009

European union standards for tuberculosis care

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Evolving characteristics of toxoplasmosis in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus-1: clinical course and Toxoplasma gondii-specific immune responses.

scientific article published on 12 February 2007

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Is Worse than Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Different Methodology and Settings, Same Results

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in long-term travellers.

scientific article published in June 2016

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: back to the future

scientific article published in September 2010

Failing treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a matter of definition

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

False-negative interferon-γ release assay results in active tuberculosis: a TBNET study.

scientific article published on 30 October 2014

Fatal outcome of a hyperinfection syndrome despite successful eradication of Strongyloides with subcutaneous ivermectin

scientific article published in October 2005

Fluoroquinolone resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. What have we learnt? [Editorial]

scholarly article by Wing-Wai Yew & Christoph Lange published 1 January 2014 in International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Fluoroquinolones: are they essential to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis?

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From the authors

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Functional Immune Reconstitution by Interleukin-2 Adjunctive Therapy for HIV/Mycobacterial Co-infection

scientific article published on September 2015

Getting personal perspectives on individualized treatment duration in multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

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HIV and lung

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HIV-1 infection impairs the bronchoalveolar T-cell response to mycobacteria

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High Rates of Treatment Success in Pulmonary Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis by Individually Tailored Treatment Regimens.

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

High-dose isoniazid in the shorter-course multidrug-resistant tuberculosis regimen in the Republic of Moldova.

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Highlights der Tuberkulose-Literatur 2006

Immune reconstitution with antiretroviral therapies in chronic HIV-1 infection

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Immunological Evidence of Incipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis

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Impact of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific interferon-γ release assay in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for a rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis

scientific article published on 11 April 2011

Improving the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: good, but not good enough

scientific article published on 19 October 2019

In reply

In vitro naïve T cell proliferation failure predicts poor post-immunization responses to neoantigen, but not recall antigens, in HIV-infection

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Increased expression of beta-defensin 1 (DEFB1) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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Increased expression of the natural killer cell inhibitory receptor CD85j/ILT2 on antigen-specific effector CD8 T cells and its impact on CD8 T-cell function

Increased frequencies of pulmonary regulatory T-cells in latentMycobacterium tuberculosisinfection

Infektionsdiagnostik in der Pneumologie

Infektionsdiagnostik in der Pneumologie

Intensive care unit patients with lower respiratory tract nosocomial infections: the ENIRRIs project.

scientific article published in October 2017

Intention to Test Is Intention to Treat

Interferon- release assays for diagnosis of active pleural tuberculosis: a developing world perspective

Interferon- release assays for the diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

scholarly article by R. Diel et al published 31 October 2011 in European Respiratory Journal

Interferon-gamma release assays for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis: sensible or silly?

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Interferon-  release assays for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Interferon-γ release assays for the diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 28 October 2010

Joint efforts urgently needed at times of emerging tuberculosis drug resistance.

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Klinik und Diagnose der Tuberkulose

Klinische Diagnostik der pulmonalen Tuberkulose

Lack of evidence of isoniazid efficacy for the treatment of MDR/XDR-TB in the presence of the katG 315T mutation.

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Limited Benefit of the New Shorter Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Regimen in Europe.

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Linezolid in the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: the way forward?

scholarly article by Wing-Wai Yew & Christoph Lange published 1 June 2014 in International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Linezolid safety, tolerability and efficacy to treat multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

scholarly article by M. Villar et al published 31 August 2011 in European Respiratory Journal

Lipoarabinomannan-Responsive Polycytotoxic T Cells Are Associated with Protection in Human Tuberculosis

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Local immunodiagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by enzyme-linked immunospot

scientific article published on 7 November 2007

M/XDR-tuberculosis: therapy as prevention

scientific article published on 25 November 2014

MDR-TB and XDR-TB: drug resistance and treatment outcomes

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

MDR-TB in Eastern Europe in the era of the TB elimination action framework

scientific article published on January 2017

Management of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Management of patients with multidrug-resistant/extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET consensus statement

scientific article published on 23 March 2014

Mikrobiologisches Monitoring bei Ventilator-assoziierten Pneumonien auf Intensivstationen

scholarly article by I Joost et al published 26 January 2010 in Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Molecular-based tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing: one size fits all?

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Most antiviral CD8 T cells during chronic viral infection do not express high levels of perforin and are not directly cytotoxic

scientific article published on 22 August 2002

Multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Germany

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Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the West. Europe and United States: epidemiology, surveillance, and control

scientific article published on December 2009

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe, 2010-2011

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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Ukraine at a time of military conflict.

scientific article published in April 2015

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the Kharkiv Region, Ukraine

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Nadir CD4+ T-cell count and numbers of CD28+ CD4+ T-cells predict functional responses to immunizations in chronic HIV-1 infection.

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Nicht-tuberkulöse Mykobakteriosen bei der HIV-Infektion

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Nosocomial transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

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Novel drugs against tuberculosis: a clinician's perspective.

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Numbers needed to treat to prevent tuberculosis

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Of Blind Men and Elephants: Making Sense of Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

scholarly article by Giovanni Battista Migliori et al published 15 November 2008 in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Personalized Medicine for Chronic Respiratory Infectious Diseases: Tuberculosis, Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Diseases, and Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis

scientific article published on 6 September 2016

Personalized medicine for patients with MDR-TB.

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Perspectives for personalized therapy for patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Plasmacytoid dendritic cells infiltrate the skin in positive tuberculin skin test indurations

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Poor adherence to management guidelines in nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary diseases.

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Potential role for IL-2 ELISpot in differentiating recent and remote infection in tuberculosis contact tracing

scientific article (publication date: 20 July 2010)

Preventing and managing antimicrobial resistance: imperative for chest physicians

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

Preventive chemotherapy for contacts of MDR-TB: is the proof in the pudding?

Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: An Updated Research Agenda

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Progress in tuberculosis vaccine development and host-directed therapies--a state of the art review.

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Proliferation responses to HIVp24 during antiretroviral therapy do not reflect improved immune phenotype or function

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Pulmonary Disease Caused by Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria

scientific article published on 21 May 2016

Pulmonary immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in exposed individuals.

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

Rapid diagnosis of CNS tuberculosis by a T-cell interferon-gamma release assay on cerebrospinal fluid mononuclear cells

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Rapid diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis meningitis by enumeration of cerebrospinal fluid antigen-specific T-cells.

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Rapid diagnosis of pulmonary TB by BAL enzyme-linked immunospot assay in an immunocompromised host

scientific article published in May 2008

Rapid diagnosis of smear-negative tuberculosis by bronchoalveolar lavage enzyme-linked immunospot.

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Rapid immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis in a woman receiving anti-TNF therapy

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Recent controversies about MDR and XDR-TB: Global implementation of the WHO shorter MDR-TB regimen and bedaquiline for all with MDR-TB?

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Relationship between chemokine receptor expression, chemokine levels and HIV-1 replication in the lungs of persons exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Relationship of immunodiagnostic assays for tuberculosis and numbers of circulating CD4+ T-cells in HIV infection

scientific article published on 16 July 2009

Reply from the Authors of Limited Benefit of the New Shorter MDR-TB Regimen in Europe

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

Reply to Dookie et al., "Whole-Genome Sequencing To Guide the Selection of Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis"

scientific article published on 27 July 2018

Resistance to fluoroquinolones and second-line injectable drugs: impact on multidrug-resistant TB outcomes

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

Resistance to second-line injectables and treatment outcomes in multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis cases.

scientific article published in June 2008

Response to Rv2628 latency antigen associates with cured tuberculosis and remote infection

scientific article published on 19 November 2009

Revisiting Healthcare Workers as a Risk Group for Progression toward Tuberculosis.

scientific article published in October 2015

Risk Assessment of Tuberculosis in Contacts by IFN-γ Release Assays. A Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group Study.

scientific article published on May 2015

Risk assessment of tuberculosis in immunocompromised patients. A TBNET study

scientific article published on November 2014

Risk for latent and active tuberculosis in Germany

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S100A7/psoriasin expression in the human lung: unchanged in patients with COPD, but upregulated upon positive S. aureus detection

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Serial measurements of transrenal mycobacterial DNA as indicators of the early bactericidal activity (EBA) of antituberculosis drugs

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

State-of-the-Art Series on Precision Medicine in Respiratory Diseases

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

State-of-the-art series on tuberculosis and migration

scientific article published on October 2016

Stellenwert der T-Zell-Interferon-γ-Sekretionstests in der Tuberkulosediagnostik

Surgery as an Adjunctive Treatment for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: An Individual Patient Data Metaanalysis

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Susceptibility to tuberculosis is associated with TLR1 polymorphisms resulting in a lack of TLR1 cell surface expression

scholarly article by Peter Uciechowski et al published 3 June 2011 in Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Suttons's law: local immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis

scientific article published on 18 October 2008

T-Cell Therapy: Options for Infectious Diseases

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TB and M/XDR-TB infection control in European TB reference centres: the Achilles' heel?

TB and MDR/XDR-TB in European Union and European Economic Area countries: managed or mismanaged?

scientific article published on 9 February 2012

TB or not TB: the role of immunodiagnosis

scientific article published on November 2012

TB or not TB: update from the ERS Respiratory Infection Assembly 10

TBNET - Collaborative research on tuberculosis in Europe.

scientific article published on 11 December 2012

The European Respiratory Journal targets tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

The Wingless homolog WNT5A and its receptor Frizzled-5 regulate inflammatory responses of human mononuclear cells induced by microbial stimulation

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The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis

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The risk of tuberculosis in transplant candidates and recipients: a TBNET consensus statement

scientific article published on 10 April 2012

The risk of tuberculosis related to tumour necrosis factor antagonist therapies: a TBNET consensus statement

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Therapy and prophylaxis of opportunistic infections in HIV-infected patients: a guideline by the German and Austrian AIDS societies (DAIG/ÖAG) (AWMF 055/066)

scientific article published on 14 September 2013

Time to culture positivity and sputum smear microscopy during tuberculosis therapy.

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Treatment Outcomes in Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis.

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Treatment of Tuberculosis.

scientific article published in November 2015

Treatment of latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis: update 2010.

scientific article published on 06 August 2010

Treatment of tuberculosis: update 2010

scholarly article by W. W. Yew et al published 16 September 2010 in European Respiratory Journal

Treatment outcomes of MDR-TB and HIV co-infection in Europe

scientific article published on 8 June 2017

Treatment responses in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Germany.

scientific article published in April 2018

Tuberculosis Guideline for Adults - Guideline for Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis including LTBI Testing and Treatment of the German Central Committee (DZK) and the German Respiratory Society (DGP)

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in Europe: Based on Treatment Completion, Not Cure.

scientific article published on 21 March 2017

Tuberculosis contact investigation in low prevalence countries: a European consensus

scientific article published on October 2010

Tuberculosis contact investigation with a new, specific blood test in a low-incidence population containing a high proportion of BCG-vaccinated persons.

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Tuberculosis in migrants in low-incidence countries: epidemiology and intervention entry points

scientific article published on June 2017

Tuberculosis preventive chemotherapy: the times they are a-changin'.

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Tuberculosis, one disease, many faces

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Tuberculosis: current state of knowledge: an epilogue

scientific article published on October 2013

Tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenopathy: Reaching the target

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Tuberkulose

scientific article published on 07 October 2015

Tuberkulose

Update Pneumonie 2012

Use of a T-cell interferon- release assay for the diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy

scientific article published on 22 August 2007

Viral Load and Risk of Tuberculosis in HIV Infection

scientific article published in February 2016

Vitamin d and tuberculosis: new light on a potent biologic therapy?

scientific article published in May 2009

What Is Resistance? Impact of Phenotypic versus Molecular Drug Resistance Testing on Therapy for Multi- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.

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What about existing databases?

scientific article published on 18 June 2010

When is a non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection a pulmonary disease?

scientific article published on July 2016

Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related gammaretrovirus in respiratory tract

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[Current position regarding the diagnosis of tuberculosis]

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[Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Adult Patients with Nosocomial Pneumonia - Update 2017 - S3 Guideline of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, the German Society for Infectious Diseases, the German Society for

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

[Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis].

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[Infections with non-tuberculous mycobacteria in HIV-infected patients]

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

[Joint Statement on the New WHO Recommendations for Treatment of Multidrug- and Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis]

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

[Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease - The New ATS/ERS/ESCMID/IDSA Guideline]

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

[Pneumonia in immunocompromised patients]

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

[The New WHO Guidelines for Rapid Diagnostics and Treatment of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Commented for Germany, Austria and Switzerland]

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

β-Lactams against Tuberculosis--New Trick for an Old Dog?

scientific article published on 13 July 2016