EVALUATION OF FLUORESCEIN DIACETATE VIABILITY STAINING DURING TREATMENT FOLLOW-UP EXAMINATIONS OF SMEAR POSITIVE PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS

Evaluation of Fluorescein Diacetate Viability Staining during Treatment Follow-up Examinations of Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients

Background: Assessment of treatment response to pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is currently done by follow-up cultures since smear microscopy cannot distinguish viable from nonviable bacilli.This Ladies Pants delays the therapeutic decision and increases the work load on the TB laboratories.This study evaluated the utility of fluorescein diacetate (FD

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Skim Milk Culture of Lactobacillus johnsonii SBT0309 Increases Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase Activity and Inhibits Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Interleukin-8 Production in Intestinal Epithelial Cells

Background/Objectives: Intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) is an enzyme expressed in the intestinal brush border, which may exert anti-inflammatory effects by detoxifying lipopolysaccharides eStream (LPSs), thereby preventing metabolic disorders.Various food components have been reported to influence IAP activity.However, few studies have evaluat

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A protein-protein interaction map reveals that the Coxiella burnetii effector CirB inhibits host proteasome activity.

Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent Left Bearing House of the zoonotic disease Q fever, which is featured by its ability to replicate in acid vacuoles resembling the lysosomal network.One key virulence determinant of C.burnetii is the Dot/Icm system that transfers more than 150 effector proteins into host cells.These effectors function to co

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