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Evaluation of host biomarkers for monitoring treatment response in spinal tuberculosis: A 12-month cohort study.
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DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research; South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research; Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Background: Monitoring treatment response is an important precaution in spinal tuberculosis (TB), particularly when the condition was clinically diagnosed rather than bacteriologically confirmed and when drug susceptibility testing was not performed. Conventional monitoring measures have limitations and there is a need for favourable alternatives. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate changes in immune biomarkers over the course of treatment for spinal TB and to compare these responses to the conventional monitoring measure, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR).
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[The Identification of Acinetobacter baumannii Blood Isolates by MALDI-TOF MS, ARDRA and blaOXA-51-like Gene-Specific Real-Time PCR].
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October 2020
Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology Ankara, Turkey.
The Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii (Acb) complex consists of phenotypically very similar nosocomial species; A.baumannii, Acinetobacter nosocomialis, Acinetobacter pittii, Acinetobacter seifertii and Acinetobacter djikshoorniae and one environmental species A.calcoaceticus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTyphoid Fever Diagnosis in Endemic Countries: A Clog in the Wheel of Progress?
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April 2018
Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu 400241, Nigeria.
Typhoid fever causes significant morbidity and mortality in developing countries, with inaccurate estimates in some countries affected, especially those situated in Sub-Saharan Africa. Disease burden assessment is limited by lack of a high degree of sensitivity and specificity by many current rapid diagnostic tests. Some of the new technologies, such as PCR and proteomics, may also be useful but are difficult for low-resource settings to apply as point-of-care diagnostics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhysico-chemical Analysis, Microbial Isolation, Sensitivity Test of the Isolates and Solar Disinfection of Water Running in Community Taps and River Kandutura in Nakuru North Sub-county, Kenya.
Open Microbiol J
October 2015
Department of Microbiology, Kenyatta University, P. O. Box 43844, Nairobi, Kenya.
Nakuru North sub-county is a peri-urban area which has both dry and wet seasons. Its residents rely mostly on untreated water sources for daily water needs due to unreliable water supply from the urban council. However, this water has not been evaluated on its quality despite residents solely depending on it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOptimization of the score cutoff value for routine identification of Staphylococcus species by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
December 2015
Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Staphylococcus species are important pathogens. We evaluated 2 score cutoffs (2.0 and 1.
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