Latent tuberculosis infection prevalence in second generation immigrants from high to low TB burden countries.

Background: Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) diagnosis in a country with a low tuberculosis burden is complicated. Since the prevalence of LTBI in second generation immigrants has not been well recognized, we conducted a cross-sectional study which aimed to explore the differences in LTBI prevalence between offspring of immigrants from high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries and those whose parents were born in countries with a low TB burden.

Methods: Between May 2014 and April 2018 young native Israelis who were required to perform pre-occupational tuberculin skin tests (TST) (medical and paramedical personnel or teaching assistants of immigrants from high TB burden countries) and who had a TST result of 10mm and above were tested for QuantiFERON-TB In Tube (QFT-GIT).

Psychiatric side effects of acute high-dose corticosteroid therapy in neurological conditions.

It has been implied that high-dose corticosteroids (CSs) commonly cause psychiatric side effects. Here, we examined the rate and risk factors of psychiatric side effects during high-dose CS treatment in patients with neurological disorders. Patients treated with high-dose intravenous CSs for neurological disorders were evaluated for depression, mania, and psychosis using the Beck Depression Inventory, the Geriatric Depression Scale, the Young Mania Rating Scale, and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale before CS treatment, immediately after, and 1 month following treatment.

Antibodies against Mac-1 attenuate neutrophil accumulation after traumatic brain injury in rats.

Neutrophils (PMN) accumulate and are associated with cerebrovascular disturbances after experimental traumatic or ischemic brain injury, and meningitis. We hypothesized that posttraumatic PMN accumulation in brain is mediated by the PMN adhesion receptor Mac-1 (CD11b/CD18). Anesthetized rats were randomized to receive 2 mg/kg intravenously of murine monoclonal antibody to rat Mac-1 (1-B6) or anti-Mac-1 F(ab)2' [1-B6F(ab)2'] fragment (Repligen Corp.