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Time to detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as an alternative to quantitative cultures by Bark, C.M, Okwera, A, Joloba, M.L, Thiel, B.A, Nakibali, J.G, Debanne, S.M, Boom, W.H, Eisenach, K.D, Johnson, J.L

“…Summary Testing new drugs is critical to improving the treatment of tuberculosis. Quantitative cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on solid media have been…”
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Bacterial Factors That Predict Relapse after Tuberculosis Therapy by Colangeli, Roberto, Jedrey, Hannah, Kim, Soyeon, Connell, Roy, Ma, Shuyi, Chippada Venkata, Uma D, Chakravorty, Soumitesh, Gupta, Aditi, Sizemore, Erin E, Diem, Lois, Sherman, David R, Okwera, Alphonse, Dietze, Reynaldo, Boom, W. Henry, Johnson, John L, Mac Kenzie, William R, Alland, David

“…In pretreatment isolates of M. tuberculosis with decrements of the minimum inhibitory concentration of isoniazid or rifampin below the standard resistance…”
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Differential gene expression of activating Fcγ receptor classifies active tuberculosis regardless of human immunodeficiency virus status or ethnicity by Sutherland, J.S., Loxton, A.G., Haks, M.C., Kassa, D., Ambrose, L., Lee, J.-S., Ran, L., van Baarle, D., Maertzdorf, J., Howe, R., Mayanja-Kizza, H., Boom, W.H., Thiel, B.A., Crampin, A.C., Hanekom, W., Ota, M.O.C., Dockrell, H., Walzl, G., Kaufmann, S.H.E., Ottenhoff, T.H.M.

“…New diagnostics and vaccines for tuberculosis (TB) are urgently needed, but require an understanding of the requirements for protection from/susceptibility to…”
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Polymorphisms in TICAM2 and IL1B are associated with TB by Hall, N B, Igo, R P, Malone, L L, Truitt, B, Schnell, A, Tao, L, Okware, B, Nsereko, M, Chervenak, K, Lancioni, C, Hawn, T R, Mayanja-Kizza, H, Joloba, M L, Boom, W H, Stein, C M

“…Human genetic susceptibility for tuberculosis (TB) has been demonstrated by several studies, but few have examined the multiple innate and adaptive immunity…”
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Sputum Mycobacterium tuberculosis mRNA as a Marker of Bacteriologic Clearance in Response to Antituberculosis Therapy by Li, L, Mahan, C.S, Palaci, M, Horter, L, Loeffelholz, L, Johnson, J.L, Dietze, R, Debanne, S.M, Joloba, M.L, Okwera, A, Boom, W.H, Eisenach, K.D

“…mRNA is a marker of cell viability. Quantifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis mRNA in sputum is a promising tool for monitoring response to antituberculosis…”
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GENOMIC AND FUNCTIONAL CELLULAR RESPONSES IN HEAVILY TUBERCULOSIS-EXPOSED OLDER ADULTS by Canaday, D.H., Richardson, B., Pyles, J., Wilkinson, P., Boom, W.H., Mayanja, H.K., Cameron, M.

“…Little known about changes in immune responses to TB that occur with aging. We identified pulmonary TB index cases and enrolled their heavily TB exposed…”
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Human immunity to M. tuberculosis: T cell subsets and antigen processing by Boom, W.H, Canaday, David H, Fulton, Scott A, Gehring, Adam J, Rojas, Roxana E, Torres, Marta

“…A hallmark of M. tuberculosis infection is the ability of most (90–95%) healthy adults to control infection through acquired immunity, in which antigen…”
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Flow analysis of MHC molecules and other membrane proteins in isolated phagosomes by Ramachandra, L, Sramkoski, R.M, Canaday, D.H, Boom, W.H, Harding, C.V

“…A method was developed to apply flow cytometry analysis to the characterization of individual phagosomes. Macrophages were incubated with latex beads and…”
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Brugia malayi: acquired resistance to microfilariae in BALB/c mice correlates with local Th2 responses by Pearlman, E, Kroeze, W K, Hazlett, Jr, F E, Chen, S S, Mawhorter, S D, Boom, W H, Kazura, J W

“…The role of specific Th subsets in the regulation of acquired resistance to the filarial parasite Brugia malayi is not known. We examined pathologic and…”
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Screening of a cosmid library of Mycobacterium bovis BCG in Mycobacterium smegmatis for novel T-cell stimulatory antigens by Averill, L E, Cavallo, U, Wallis, R S, Boom, W H, Bona, M, Mincek, M, Pascopella, L, Jacobs, Jr, W R, Ellner, J J

“…We have developed a novel method for screening a Mycobacterium bovis (BCG) cosmid library in Mycobacterium smegmatis for the detection of immunostimulatory…”
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Tuberculosis vaccines: How close to human testing? by Jacobs, G.G., Johnson, J.L., Boom, W.H., Wallis, R.S., Whalen, C.C., Ginsberg, A.M.

“…On 24 July 1997, in Cleveland, Ohio, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) convened a workshop entitled 'Tuberculosis vaccines:…”
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