World tb day 2015 message from efrain

  • A couple of recent claims from a South African-based AIDS activist drew our attention to tuberculosis research and development.
  • The WHO celebrated its 2015 World Health Day with the theme of food safety on 8 April.
  • The Human Infection Challenge Vaccine Network (HIC-Vac) is an international network of researchers who are developing human infection challenge studies to.

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    Can We Breed Cattle for Lower Bovine TB Infectivity?

    Introduction

    Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a zoonotic disease, which can compromise both human health and international livestock trade. Zoonotic TB caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is responsible for an estimated 10–15% of human TB cases (1) and was estimated in 2016 as causing 12,500 deaths globally (2, 3). Addressing bTB infection in humans has been embedded within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2016–2030 and World Health Organisation's (WHO) End TB Strategy framework, which employs a “One Health” approach aiming to end the global TB epidemic by 2030 (2–4).

    In the UK, bTB has been the most pressing animal health problem, with financial losses amounting to over £175 m per annum (5). Tackling bTB has been a persistent challenge for the livestock industry, veterinary profession and policy-makers, and also the research community. The current national bTB er

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    Articles

  • Cytokine responses to Staphylococcus aureusbloodstream infection differ between patient cohorts that have different clinical courses of infection

    The clinical course of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection fryst vatten unpredictable and bacterial virulence, host immune response and patient characteristics are among the factors that contribute to the clinical ...

    Authors: Sinead McNicholas, Alida Fe Talento, Joanne O’Gorman, Margaret M Hannan, Maureen Lynch, Catherine M Greene, Hilary Humphreys and Deirdre Fitzgerald-Hughes

    Citation:BMC Infectious Diseases 2014 14:580

    Content type: Research articlePublished on: 15 November 2014

  • Mold contamination in a controlled hospital environment: a 3-year surveillance in southern Italy

    Environmental monitoring of airborne filamentous fungi is necessary to reduce fungal concentrations in operating theaters and in controlled environments, and to prevent infections. The present study reports re...

    Authors: Giuseppina Cagg

  • world tb day 2015 message from efrain

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    Version Changes

    Revised. Amendments from Version 1

    This new version is a little more extended version giving more details about the case description and discussion according to the reviewers’ comments. In the Abstract, we added a sentence making transition from tuberculosis in general to abdominal tuberculosis. In Evolution of Case 1 and Case 2, we structured the text into three paragraphs in order to make this paragraph easier to read. In Discussion, we have rewritten two paragraphs in order to relate pertinent literature with our presented cases. In addition, we highlighted the fact that tuberculosis is the great mimicker and diagnosing properly tuberculosis could be economically beneficial. We added two new References regarding misdiagnosis of cancer as tuberculosis (the opposite as in our cases) and cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of diagnosis of tuberculosis. Finally, we changed some improperly used words in Abstract, Evolution and Dis