TB and Outbreaks Week

Diagnostics - "Rapid Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Its Possible Application to Multi-Drug Resistant Cases."

Drug Resistance - "Emerging Pathogens and Resistance Patterns, International Perspectives, Western Pacific Realities."

Drug Resistance - "Status of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region."

Therapy - "Management of Tuberculosis in AIDS Patients."

Therapy - Drug Resistance - "Immunotherapy for Multi-Drug Resistant M. tuberculosis."

Animal Studies/Murine - Regulatory Role of TNF - "Exacerbation of Acute and Chronic Murine Tuberculosis by Administration of a Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-Expressing Adenovirus."

Diagnosis - Yersinia Pseudotuberculosis - "Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis in Association with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infection."

Diagnostics - Strain Analysis - "Enzymatic and Antigenic Analyses of Strains of Mycobacterium bovis, M. bovis BCG, and M. tuberculosis."

Diagnostics - Tuberculous Lymphadenitis - "Tuberculous Lymphadenitis: Extended Cytomorphologic Features."

Diagnostics - Tuberculous Peritonitis - "Increased CA 125 in a Patient with Tuberculous Peritonitis: Case Report and Review of Published Works."

Diagnostics - Use of Middlebrook 7H11 Agar - "Rapid Detection of Tuberculous and Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria by Microscopic Observation of Growth on Middlebrook 7H11 Agar."

Diagnostics - Yersinia/Tuberculous Enterocolitis - "Prominent Small Bowel Ga-67 Uptake Associated with Yersinial and Tuberculous Enterocolitis."

Drug Resistance - Isoniazid - "Missense Mutations in the Catalase-Peroxidase Gene, katG, are Associated with Isoniazid Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis."

Immunology - Gamma Delta T Cells - "CD4⁺ Alpha Beta T Cell and Gamma Delta T Cell Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Similarities and Differences in Ag Recognition, Cytotoxic Effector Function

International/Europe - Drug Resistance in Italy - "Drug Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains Isolated from HIV Infected Italian Patients: Preliminary Report from a Multicentric Study."

International/Europe - Irish Seroprevalence - "The Relationship Between the Tuberculin Test and the Kveim Test in Sarcoidosis in Ireland."

Peptic Ulcer Disease - Relationship to TB - "Tuberculosis in Relation to a History of Peptic Ulcer Disease and Treatment of Gastric Hyperacidity."

Therapy - KRM-1648 In Vitro Activity - "In Vitro Activity of the Benzoxazinorifamycin KRM-1648 Against Drug-Susceptible and Multidrug-Resistant Tubercle Bacilli."