The antituberculosis drug rifampin is a major example of this phenomenon. Twenty-one of 30 methadone-maintained patients in a TB clinic developed mild-to-severe narcotic-withdrawal symptoms when ...

In 28 HIV+TB+ patients starting HAART, PR was significantly associated with commencing HAART within 6 weeks of starting antituberculosis treatment (p = 0.03) and was more common in those with ...

We did a systematic review and meta-analysis of trials of treatment for rifampicin-susceptible tuberculosis to evaluate the ...

Concurrent treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV infection is challenging, given drug--drug interactions, overlapping toxicities, and worsening clinical symptoms due to immune reconstitution ...

Theory Department, Laboratory for Cheminformatics, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of ...

Background The relative frequency of compressive and non-compressive myelopathies and their aetiologies have not been evaluated extensively in most sub-Saharan African countries. The case of Cameroon ...

Cigarette smoke causes significant oxidant stress which is further enhanced by recruitment and activation of inflammatory cells to the lung. Polymorphisms in some detoxification enzymes are thought to ...

1 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kordofan, El-Obeid, Sudan. 2 Aldaman International Hospital, El-Obeid, Sudan. 3 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Laboratory ...