Background: Chest radiography (chest X-ray or CXR) plays an important role in the early detection of active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). In areas with a high TB burden that require urgent screening, there is often a shortage of radiologists available to interpret the X-ray results. Computer-aided detection (CAD) software employed with artificial intelligence (AI) systems may have the potential to solve this problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a vital role in tuberculosis (TB). Vitamin D receptor (VDR), an miRNA target gene, and its ligand, vitamin D (VitD), have been reported to exert protective effects against TB. However, whether miRNAs can affect the progression of TB by targeting VDR has not been reported.
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