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List of works by Afranio L Kritski

A comparison of tuberculosis diagnostic systems in a retrospective cohort of HIV-infected children in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

scientific article published on 25 April 2017

A screening system for smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis using artificial neural networks

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Abandonment of Treatment for Latent Tuberculosis Infection and Socioeconomic Factors in Children and Adolescents: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

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Accuracy of polimerase chain reaction for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis.

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Addressing the tuberculosis-depression syndemic to end the tuberculosis epidemic.

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Administrative measures for preventing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among healthcare workers in a teaching hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

scientific article published on 17 March 2009

Anemia in hospitalized patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Assessment of a clinical score for screening suspected pulmonary tuberculosis cases.

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Association between serum selenium level and conversion of bacteriological tests during antituberculosis treatment.

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Association of serum levels of iron, copper, and zinc, and inflammatory markers with bacteriological sputum conversion during tuberculosis treatment

scientific article published on 24 June 2014

Associations between systemic inflammation, mycobacterial loads in sputum and radiological improvement after treatment initiation in pulmonary TB patients from Brazil: a prospective cohort study

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Audiometric evaluation of patients treated for pulmonary tuberculosis.

scientific article published in January 2012

Brazilian Response to Global End TB Strategy : The National Tuberculosis Research Agenda

scientific article published in February 2016

Catastrophic care-seeking costs as an indicator for lung health.

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Classification and regression tree (CART) model to predict pulmonary tuberculosis in hospitalized patients.

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Clinical Features and Treatment Outcomes of Patients with Drug-Resistant and Drug-Sensitive Tuberculosis: A Historical Cohort Study in Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Clinical evaluation of the microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility assay for detection of tuberculosis

scientific article published on 22 January 2007

Comparison of sputum induction with fiberoptic bronchoscopy in the diagnosis of tuberculosis: experience at an acquired immune deficiency syndrome reference center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Comparison of two laboratory-developed PCR methods for the diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Brazilian patients with and without HIV infection ⬇️

scientific article published on March 29, 2011

Completeness of tuberculosis reporting forms for disease control in individuals with HIV/AIDS in priority cities of Bahia state.

scientific article published on April 2015

Continuous monitoring of implemented tuberculosis control measures in middle-income high-endemic countries

scientific article published on 28 December 2010

Cost effectiveness of antituberculosis interventions.

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Cost-effectiveness analysis of PCR for the rapid diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

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Data Integration in the Brazilian Public Health System for Tuberculosis: Use of the Semantic Web to Establish Interoperability

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Delayed culture conversion due to cigarette smoking in active pulmonary tuberculosis patients

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Detection of tuberculosis drug resistance: a comparison by Mycobacterium tuberculosis MLPA assay versus Genotype®MTBDRplus.

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Development of multiplex assay for rapid characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Development of two artificial neural network models to support the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in hospitalized patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Developments in Impact Assessment of New Diagnostic Algorithms for Tuberculosis Control

scientific article published on October 2015

Diagnosing pleural tuberculosis

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Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children and adolescents: comparison of two versions of the Brazilian Ministry of Health scoring system

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Down-modulation of lung immune responses by interleukin-10 and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) and analysis of TGF-beta receptors I and II in active tuberculosis.

scientific article published on May 2004

Drug resistance patterns among hospitalized tuberculous patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1993-1994.

scientific article published in July 1999

Drug-resistant tuberculosis in subjects included in the Second National Survey on Antituberculosis Drug Resistance in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

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Emerging multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing genotype circulating in Russia express a pattern of biological properties associated with enhanced virulence

scientific article published on 7 March 2010

Epidemiological aspects of tuberculosis in children and adolescents in Rio de Janeiro.

scientific article published on July 2012

Evaluation of the Commercial Kit SIRE Nitratase for detecting resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil

scientific article published in July 2017

Evaluation of the Mean Cost and Activity Based Cost in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Laboratory Routine of a High-Complexity Hospital in Brazil.

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Factors associated with delayed diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

scientific article published in July 2011

Factors associated with pulmonary tuberculosis among patients seeking medical attention at referral clinics for tuberculosis.

scientific article published on September 2012

Field evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic test for tuberculosis

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Genetic diversity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family in Brazil and Mozambique and relation with infectivity and induction of necrosis in THP-1 cells

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Genetic profile of the arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 coding gene among individuals from two different regions of Brazil

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Hypervirulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain triggers necrotic lung pathology associated with enhanced recruitment of neutrophils in resistant C57BL/6 mice

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IS1245 genotypic analysis of Mycobacterium avium isolates from patients in Brazil

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Immune function in young children with previous pulmonary or miliary/meningeal tuberculosis and impact of BCG vaccination

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Immune response during HIV and tuberculosis co-infection.

scientific article published in May 1998

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) and IgG immune responses against P-90 antigen for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and screening for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

scientific article published on January 2004

In house reverse membrane hybridisation assay versus GenoType MTBDRplus and their performance to detect mutations in the genes rpoB, katG and inhA.

scientific article published on 7 May 2014

Inflammatory and immunogenetic markers in correlation with pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Interleukin-10 and interferon-gamma patterns during tuberculosis treatment: possible association with recurrence [Short communication] ⬇️

scientific article published on 08 March 2012

Latent Tuberculosis Infection Diagnostic and Treatment Cascade among Contacts in Primary Health Care in a City of Sao Paulo State, Brazil: Cross-Sectional Study

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Liquid vs Solid Culture Medium to Evaluate Proportion and Time to Change in Management of Suspects of Tuberculosis-A Pragmatic Randomized Trial in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care Units in Brazil

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Low expression of antigen-presenting and costimulatory molecules by lung cells from tuberculosis patients

scientific article published on 29 October 2007

Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated in the State of Parana in southern Brazil.

scientific article published on 27 September 2008

Outcomes from patients with presumed drug resistant tuberculosis in five reference centers in Brazil.

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Outcomes of TB treatment by HIV status in national recording systems in Brazil, 2003-2008.

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PCR colorimetric dot-blot assay and clinical pretest probability for diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in smear-negative patients

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Performance of a molecular assay to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in clinical specimens: multicenter study in Brazil.

scientific article published on February 2017

Pleural fluid ADA, IgA-ELISA and PCR sensitivities for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Preferential recruitment of phagocytes into the lung of patients with advanced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and tuberculosis.

scientific article published in January 2000

Prevalence of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in prisoners

scientific article published on September 2016

Prevalence of pyrazinamide resistance and Wayne assay performance analysis in a tuberculosis cohort in Lima, Peru

scientific article published on August 2017

Proposal for tuberculosis death surveillance in information systems.

scientific article published on December 2010

RDRio Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is associated with a higher frequency of cavitary pulmonary disease.

scientific article published on 7 May 2008

RFLP patterns and risk factors for recent tuberculosis transmission among hospitalized tuberculosis patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Real time PCR quantification of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum samples treated with propidium monoazide.

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Recombinant antigen production for assays of intradermoreaction for diagnosis and surveillance of tuberculosis.

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Response from authors to letter from Eduardo Hernández-Garduño (TUBE 2013_75) Tuberculosis monoresistance and culture conversion in smokers Nijenbandring de Boer R, et al., "Delayed culture conversion due to cigarette smoking in active pulmonary tub

scientific article published on 28 June 2014

Role of IFN-γ +874 T/A single nucleotide polymorphism in the tuberculosis outcome among Brazilians subjects

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Safety and effectiveness of HAART in tuberculosis-HIV co-infected patients in Brazil

scientific article published on February 2013

Scale-up of services and research priorities for diagnosis, management, and control of tuberculosis: a call to action

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

Sensitivity of SL-IV and PPD for sero-diagnosis of tuberculosis in HIV seronegative and HIV-infected persons

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Sequence analysis of NAT2 gene in Brazilians: identification of undescribed single nucleotide polymorphisms and molecular modeling of the N-acetyltransferase 2 protein structure.

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Serologic diagnosis of tuberculosis using a simple commercial multiantigen assay

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Social determinants of health and catastrophic costs associated with the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Spirometry results after treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis: comparison between patients with and without previous lung disease: a multicenter study

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Spoligotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from patients residents of 11 states of Brazil.

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Sustained elevated levels of C-reactive protein and ferritin in pulmonary tuberculosis patients remaining culture positive upon treatment initiation.

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TMC207: the first compound of a new class of potent anti-tuberculosis drugs

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The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex-restricted gene cfp32 encodes an expressed protein that is detectable in tuberculosis patients and is positively correlated with pulmonary interleukin-10.

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The importance of audiometric monitoring in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

scientific article published in September 2017

The presence of a booster phenomenon among contacts of active pulmonary tuberculosis cases: a retrospective cohort

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Transcriptomic Biomarkers for Tuberculosis: Evaluation of DOCK9. EPHA4, and NPC2 mRNA Expression in Peripheral Blood

scientific article published on 25 October 2016

Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to contacts of HIV-infected tuberculosis patients.

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Transmission of tuberculosis to close contacts of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

scientific article published in January 1996

Treatment outcomes of MDR-tuberculosis patients in Brazil: a retrospective cohort analysis.

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Tuberculin skin test conversion among medical students at a teaching hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Tuberculosis and HIV infection among female inmates in São Paulo, Brazil: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Tuberculosis as a cause of false-positive results in HIV screening EIA tests

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

Tuberculosis caused by RDRio Mycobacterium tuberculosis is not associated with differential clinical features

scientific article published on 03 August 2012

Tuberculosis contact tracing among children and adolescent referred to children's hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

Tuberculosis incidence in a cohort of individuals infected with human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) in Salvador, Brazil.

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Tuberculosis is associated with a down-modulatory lung immune response that impairs Th1-type immunity

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction dot-blot assay, used with Ziehl-Neelsen staining, for the rapid and convenient diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive and -seronegative individuals.

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

Works in the field of tuberculosis study published in the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology between 2004 and 2011: types of articles, study models, level of scientific evidence, and social impact.

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