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Historical review of studies on the effect of treating latent tuberculosis by Mølhave, M., Wejse, C.

“…•Historical trials have documented a marked reduction of active tuberculosis.•Treatment of latent TB also reduced the prevalence of latent TB infection.•It was…”
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Stool testing for pulmonary TB diagnosis in adults by Laursen, L. L., Dahl, V. N., Wejse, C.

“…BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is acid-fast and able to survive in the gastrointestinal tract. Thus, bacteria can be found in stool if sputum is…”
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Population attributable fraction for undernutrition due to TB does not take account of bidirectional causality by Patsche, C.B, Sifna, A., Wejse, C.

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Treatment delay affects clinical severity of tuberculosis: a longitudinal cohort study by Virenfeldt, J, Rudolf, F, Camara, C, Furtado, A, Gomes, V, Aaby, P, Petersen, E, Wejse, C

“…Objectives To describe the risk factors for treatment delay and the effect of delay on the severity of tuberculosis (TB) in a prospectively followed TB cohort…”
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Hypertension is associated with increased mortality in patients with tuberculosis in Guinea-Bissau by Seegert, A.B., Patsche, C.B., Sifna, A., Gomes, V.F., Wejse, C., Storgaard, M., Rudolf, F.

“…•Tuberculosis (TB) is associated with several non-communicable diseases.•In Guinea-Bissau, 12.8% of patients with TB have high blood pressure.•Patients with…”
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Advantages and limitations of virtual multi-disciplinary team meetings on difficult-to-treat mycobacteria by Dahl, V.N., Burke, A., Fløe, A., Bruchfeld, J., Schön, T., Wejse, C.M., Andersen, A.B., Svensson, E., van Ingen, J., Davies Forsman, L.

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A self-rated health score predicts severe disease and high mortality in patients with pulmonary TB by Bohlbro, A. S., Patsche, C. B., Mendes, A. M., Sifna, A., Gomes, V., Wejse, C., Rudolf, F.

“…BACKGROUND: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with pulmonary TB may be predictive of disease outcome; however, HRQoL instruments are often…”
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A structured 2-week follow-up visit in the cascade of care for TB increases case detection by Rudolf, F., Abate, E., Moges, B., Gomes, V. F., Mendes, A. M., Sifna, A., Fekadu, H., Bizuneh, S., Wejse, C., Schön, T.

“…OBJECTIVES Delayed detection in TB due to structural and diagnostic shortcomings is pivotal for disease transmission, morbidity and mortality. We investigated…”
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TB-related deaths among adults in Guinea-Bissau by Kühle, A. J., Patsche, C. B., Fløe, A., Sifna, A., Gomes, V., Wejse, C., Rudolf, F.

“…SETTING: In an urban demographic, high TB burden surveillance site in Guinea-Bissau, most deaths occur at home, and information on cause of death (CoD) is…”
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A cross-sectional study of risk factors for TB among socially marginalised people by Stærke, N. B., Weinreich, U. M., Jensen, T. T., Hilberg, O., Wejse, C., Fløe, A.

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Clinical presentations and outcomes of HIV-1 and HIV-2 among infected children in Guinea-Bissau: a nationwide study by Dutschke, A., Jensen, M.M., Nanque, J.P., Medina, C., Sanha, F.C., Holm, M., Wejse, C., Jespersen, S., Hønge, B.L.

“…Disease progression, loss to follow-up, and mortality of HIV-2 compared with HIV-1 in children is not well understood. This is the first nationwide study…”
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SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among people living with HIV in Guinea–Bissau by Dutschke, A., Wejse, C., Nanque, J.P., Medina, C., Hønge, B.L., Jespersen, S., Rodrigues, A., da Silva, D., da Silva, Z., Medina, C., Oliviera-Souto, I., Østergaard, L., Laursen, A., Aaby, P., Fomsgaard, A., Erikstrup, C., Wejse, C., Hønge, B.L., Jespersen, S.

“…In low-income countries with poor SARS-CoV-2 monitoring and high HIV burden, the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 is scarcely studied in people living with HIV (PLWH)…”
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Long-term effects of smallpox vaccination on expression of the HIV-1 co-receptor CCR5 in women by Beck, K B, Hønge, B L, Olesen, J S, Petersen, M S, Jespersen, S, Wejse, C, da Silva, Z J, Medina, C, Té, D D S, Moeller, B K, Benn, C S, Aaby, P, Erikstrup, C

“…Smallpox vaccinations were stopped globally in 1980. Recent studies have shown that in women, being smallpox vaccinated was associated with a reduced risk of…”
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Antibiotic treatment interruption of suspected lower respiratory tract infections based on a single procalcitonin measurement at hospital admission—a randomized trial by Kristoffersen, K.B., Søgaard, O.S., Wejse, C., Black, F.T., Greve, T., Tarp, B., Storgaard, M., Sodemann, M.

“…Recent studies have suggested that procalcitonin (PCT) is a safe marker for the discrimination between bacterial and viral infection, and that PCT-guided…”
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Tuberculosis case finding and mortality prediction: added value of the clinical TBscore and biomarker suPAR by Rudolf, F., Wagner, A-J., Back, F. M., Gomes, V. F., Aaby, P., Østergaard, L., Eugen-Olsen, J., Wejse, C.

“…SETTING: A suburban area of Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau; the study was conducted among presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis (prePTB) patients seeking…”
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Low prevalence of malnourishment among household contacts of patients with tuberculosis in Guinea-Bissau by Patsche, C. B., Rudolf, F., Mogensen, S. W., Sifna, A., Gomes, V. F., Byberg, S., Wejse, C.

“…SETTING: An urban demographic surveillance site in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa.BACKGROUND We hypothesised that if previous malnutrition…”
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HIV treatment in Guinea-Bissau: room for improvement and time for new treatment options by Jespersen, S, Månsson, F, Lindman, J, Wejse, C, Medina, C, da Silva, Z J, Te, DdS, Medstrand, P, Esbjörnsson, J, Hønge, B L

“…Despite advances in the treatment quality of HIV throughout the world, several countries are still facing numerous obstacles in delivering HIV treatment at a…”
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Impact of HIV-1, HIV-2, and HIV-1+2 dual infection on the outcome of tuberculosis by Wejse, C, Patsche, C.B, Kühle, A, Bamba, F.J.V, Mendes, M.S, Lemvik, G, Gomes, V.F, Rudolf, F

“…Highlights • In West Africa both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are prevalent and have different impacts on tuberculosis (TB) risk and outcome. • We included 1312 patients in…”
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Sedimentation rate and suPAR in relation to disease activity and mortality in patients with tuberculosis by Schulman, H., Niward, K., Abate, E., Idh, J., Axenram, P., Bornefall, A., Forsgren, S., Jakobsson, J., öhrling, C., Kron, M., Brudin, L., Diro, E., Getachew Kebede, A., Paues, J., Bruchfeld, J., Wejse, C., Stendahl, O., Schön, T.

“…OBJECTIVE: To investigate how levels of the soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) correlate with…”
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The challenge of discriminating between HIV‐1, HIV‐2 and HIV‐1/2 dual infections by Hønge, BL, Jespersen, S, Medina, C, Té, DS, Silva, ZJ, Christiansen, M, Kjerulff, B, Laursen, AL, Wejse, C, Krarup, H, Erikstrup, C, Rodrigues, Amabelia, Silva, David, Oliviera‐Souto, Ines, Østergaard, Lars, Aaby, Peter, Fomsgaard, Anders

“…Objectives Discrimination between HIV‐1 and HIV‐2 is important to ensure appropriate antiretroviral treatment (ART) and epidemiological surveillance. However,…”
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