Cough and the transmission of tuberculosis

RD Turner, GH Bothamley - The Journal of infectious diseases, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Cough is a predominant feature of respiratory infection and, in tuberculosis, is of prime
importance for transmitting infection. Tuberculosis is transmitted by the air, yet the process by …

Serological diagnosis of tuberculosis.

GH Bothamley - The European respiratory journal. Supplement, 1995 - europepmc.org
The past decade has seen dramatic developments in serological tests for tuberculosis. The
long history of serological tests for tuberculosis is a testimony to the need for a sensitive …

High-dose vitamin D3 during intensive-phase antimicrobial treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: a double-blind randomised controlled trial

AR Martineau, PM Timms, GH Bothamley, Y Hanifa… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background Vitamin D was used to treat tuberculosis in the pre-antibiotic era, and its
metabolites induce antimycobacterial immunity in vitro. Clinical trials investigating the effect of …

Treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. An official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA clinical practice guideline

…, GB Migliori, G Sotgiu, GH Bothamley… - American journal of …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
Background: The American Thoracic Society, US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, European Respiratory Society, and Infectious Diseases Society of America jointly …

Vitamin D accelerates resolution of inflammatory responses during tuberculosis treatment

…, TR Venton, GH Bothamley… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Calcidiol, the major circulating metabolite of vitamin D, supports induction of pleiotropic
antimicrobial responses in vitro. Vitamin D supplementation elevates circulating calcidiol …

Tuberculosis contact investigation in low prevalence countries: a European consensus

CGM Erkens, M Kamphorst, I Abubakar, GH Bothamley… - 2010 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Contact investigation to identify individuals with tuberculosis and latent infection with
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important component of tuberculosis control in low tuberculosis …

Association of Tuberculosis and M. tuberculosis-Specific Antibody Levels with HLA

GH Bothamley, JS Beck, GMT Schreuder… - Journal of Infectious …, 1989 - academic.oup.com
In the search for HLA-linked immune response genes that control susceptibility to tuberculosis,
we performed HLA typing and measured antibody titers to well-defined Mycobacterium …

Specificity of antibodies to immunodominant mycobacterial antigens in pulmonary tuberculosis

PS Jackett, GH Bothamley, HV Batra… - Journal of clinical …, 1988 - Am Soc Microbiol
A serological survey was performed in groups of patients with active sputum smear-positive
or smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis, healthy household contacts, and controls. Sera …

[HTML][HTML] Ethnic variation in inflammatory profile in tuberculosis

…, Y Hanifa, K Islam, PM Timms, GH Bothamley… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Distinct phylogenetic lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) cause disease in
patients of particular genetic ancestry, and elicit different patterns of cytokine and chemokine …

Active case finding of tuberculosis in Europe: a Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (TBNET) survey

GH Bothamley, L Ditiu, GB Migliori… - European Respiratory …, 2008 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Tuberculosis control depends on successful case finding and treatment of individuals infected
with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Passive case finding is widely practised: the present …