Browsing by Subject "Tuberculosis"
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(2014-06-12)Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death due to infectious disease. The causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a facultative intracellular parasite with a slow regeneration rate. Though there is a decline ...
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(2007-09-17)Tuberculosis is the world’s leading cause of death by infectious disease. Antibiotic resistance and HIV co-infection is increasing at an alarming rate. Mycosins-1-5 are subtilisin-like serine proteases within the periplasmic ...
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(2012-10-19)Thymidylate synthase (TS), encoded by the ThyA gene, is essential for the growth and survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and therefore is a potential drug target. Thymidylate synthase binds both a substrate, ...
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(2012-02-14)Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, has an incubation period ranging from a few months to several years following infection via inhalation into the lungs. Whole body fluorescence scanners ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The adoptive transfer technique in a guinea pig model of pulmonary tuberculosis was used to analyze the function of thymus dependent lymphocytes involved in delayed hypersensitivity and resistance to pulmonary tuberculosis. ...
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(2016-12-14)Current therapies for treatment of mycobacterial infections are adequate when diagnosis and pathology is well defined. Yet more evidence is beginning to accumulate for the multitude of reasons behind drug insensitive ...
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(2016-07-13)Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1.5 million people and rivaled AIDS, becoming the leading cause of death from infectious disease in 2014. The prevalence of multidrug resistant TB has intensified the current therapeutic procedure, ...
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(2014-08-27)We have integrated a fluorescence microendoscope into a whole-animal optical imaging system, allowing for simultaneous microscopic and macroscopic imaging of tdTomato expressing BCG in vivo. A 535 nm LED was collimated and ...
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(2016-02-12)As the world population battles drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), there is an urgent need for novel anti-tubercular drugs. This dissertation documents the studies of glyoxylate shunt enzymes, isocitrate lyase (ICL) and ...
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(2009-05-15)Malaria and tuberculosis constitute two of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. Together, they afflict over one third of the world’s population. Once thought of as one of a group of nearly vanquished diseases only ...
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(2019-12-02)Tuberculosis (TB) is a deadly disease that has claimed the lives of many across the world. According to the data from the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), one-fourth of the world's population was infected ...
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(2011-07-27)Mycobacterium tuberculosis currently affects 1/3 of the world's population. Over the past 20 years tuberculosis has become more resistant to all front line drugs used against it. Because of this, the threat of Multi Drug ...