Food for thought: addressing undernutrition to end tuberculosis

P Sinha, K Lönnroth, A Bhargava… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis is the leading cause of deaths from an infectious disease worldwide. WHO's
End TB Strategy is falling short of several 2020 targets. Undernutrition is the leading …

Transcriptomics for child and adolescent tuberculosis

M Kaforou, C Broderick, O Vito, M Levin… - Immunological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) in humans is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). It is estimated
that 70 million children (< 15 years) are currently infected with Mtb, with 1.2 million each year …

Comprehensive lipid and lipid-related gene investigations of host immune responses to characterize metabolism-centric biomarkers for pulmonary tuberculosis

NP Long, NK Anh, NTH Yen, NK Phat, S Park… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Despite remarkable success in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), it remains
one of the most devastating infectious diseases worldwide. Management of TB requires an …

A protein signature associated with active tuberculosis identified by plasma profiling and network-based analysis

Z Mousavian, E Folkesson, G Fröberg, F Foroogh… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Annually, approximately 10 million people are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB), and
1.4 million die of the disease. If left untreated, each person with active TB will infect 10–15 …

A 10-gene biosignature of tuberculosis treatment monitoring and treatment outcome prediction

NP Long, NK Phat, NTH Yen, S Park, Y Park, YS Cho… - Tuberculosis, 2021 - Elsevier
The clinical utility of blood transcriptomic biosignatures for the treatment monitoring and
outcome prediction of tuberculosis (TB) remains limited. In this study, we aimed to discover …

Malnutrition leads to increased inflammation and expression of tuberculosis risk signatures in recently exposed household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis

A VanValkenburg, V Kaipilyawar, S Sarkar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Most individuals exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) develop latent
tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and remain at risk for progressing to active tuberculosis disease …

Comparison of gene set scoring methods for reproducible evaluation of tuberculosis gene signatures

X Wang, A VanValkenberg, AR Odom, JJ Ellner… - BMC Infectious …, 2024 - Springer
Background Blood-based transcriptional gene signatures for tuberculosis (TB) have been
developed with potential use to diagnose disease. However, an unresolved issue is whether …

肺结核患者营养状况及对抗结核治疗效果影响.

廖钦, 罗钰坤, 贺婵, 敬洪艳 - China Tropical Medicine, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
遂宁市中心医院, 四川遂宁629200 摘要: 目的了解肺结核患者的营养状况及对常规抗结核治疗
效果的影响, 为提高肺结核常规治疗疗效提供依据. 方法收集2020 年4 月—2022 年4 …

[HTML][HTML] The sound of silent RNA in tuberculosis and the lncRNA role on infection

EF Rocha, CL Vinhaes, M Araújo-Pereira, TF Mota… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and Diabetes Mellitus is
one of the major comorbidities (TB/DM) associated with the disease. A total of 103 …

[HTML][HTML] The nutritional nexus: Modeling the impact of malnutrition on TB transmission

YA Liana, JZ Ndendya, N Shaban - Scientific African, 2025 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant problem in many parts of the world, particularly in
nations with poor and intermediate incomes. In this study, a deterministic model for …