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Vol 6, No 01: January 2012

Special issue on Tuberculosis

Table of Contents

Editorials

JIDC approaches its fifth birthday PDF
Salvatore Rubino 1-3
Tuberculosis: novel approaches to an old disease PDF
Giovanni Fadda 4-5

Review Articles

Nodal tuberculosis revisited: a review PDF
Uma Handa, Irneet Mundi, Sugandha Mohan 6-12

Original Articles

Assessment of knowledge and practice of private practitioners regarding tuberculosis control in Ethiopia PDF
Solomon A Yimer, Carol Holm-Hansen, Gunnar Bjune 13-19
Diagnostic defaulters: an overlooked aspect in the Indian Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program PDF
Jagdish Rawat, Debasis Biswas, Girish Sindhwani, Vikas Kesharwani, Victor Masih, Bhupendra Singh Chauhan 20-22
Pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium simiae in Iran’s national referral center for tuberculosis PDF
Parvaneh Baghaei, Payam Tabarsi, Parissa Farnia, Majid Marjani, Fatemeh Maryam Sheikholeslami, Mahsa Chitsaz, Pegah Gorji Bayani, Masoud Shamaei, Davood Mansouri, Mohammad Reza Masjedi, Ali Akbar Velayati 23-28
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Rawalpindi, Pakistan PDF
Muhammad Khurram, Hamama Tul Bushra Khaar, Muhammad Fahim 29-32
Resistance patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Nairobi PDF
Perpetual Wangui Ndung'u, Samuel Kariuki, Zipporah Ng'ang'a, Gunturu Revathi 33-39
Evaluation of conventional molecular diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens from Morocco PDF
Fathiah Zakham, Halima Bazoui, Mohammed Akrim, Sanae Lemrabet, Ouafae Lahlou, Mohamed Elmzibri, Abdelaziz Benjouad, My Mustapha Ennaji, Rajae Elaouad 40-45
Improved detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using two independent PCR targets in a tertiary care centre in South India PDF
Ramya Barani, Gopalsamy Sarangan, Tessa Antony, Soundararajan Periyasamy, Anupma Jyoti Kindo, Padma Srikanth 46-52
Comparison of PCR with standard culture of fine needle aspiration samples in the diagnosis of tuberculosis lymphadenitis PDF
Yohannes Derese, Elena Hailu, Tekalign Assefa, Yonas Bekele, Adane Mihret, Abraham Aseffa, Jemal Hussien, Ibrahim Ali, Markos Abebe 53-57
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex detected by modified fluorescent in situ hybridization in lymph nodes of clinical samples PDF
Juan Rodriguez-Nuñez, Francisco J Avelar, Francisco Marquez, Bruno Rivas-Santiago, Cesar Quiñones, Alma L. Guerrero-Barrera 58-66
Utility of an interferon-gamma release assay as a potential diagnostic aid for active pulmonary tuberculosis PDF
Lynn Taki-Eddin, Fawza Monem 67-72
The MCP-1 (CCL2) -2518 GG genotype is associated with protection against pulmonary tuberculosis in Moroccan patients PDF
Naima Arji, Marc Busson, Ghali Iraqi, Jamal Eddine Bourkadi, Abdelaziz Benjouad, Wahid Boukouaci, Ouafae Lahlou, Jouda Ben Amor, Rajagopal Krishnamoorthy, Dominique Charron, Rajae El Aouad, Ryad Tamouza 73-78
Investigation of the levels of oxidative stress parameters in HIV and HIV-TB co-infected patients PDF
Olufunsho Awodele, Sunday O Olayemi, Joseph A Nwite, Titilope A Adeyemo 79-85

Case Reports

Primary tubercular psoas abscess: a rare presentation PDF
Kiran Chawla, Annet D’Souza, Shyamasunder Bhat N, Chiranjay Mukhopadhayay 86-88
Clinical and radiological deterioration due to Mycobacterium szulgai in an asthmatic patient PDF
Majid Marjani, Nahal Mansouri, Payam Tabarsi, Parvaneh Baghaei, Parissa Farnia, Fatemeh-Maryam Sheikholslami, Davood Mansouri 89-91
Isolated tuberculous epididymo-orchitis: an unusual presentation of tuberculosis PDF
Vishnu Prasad Shenoy, Shashidhar Viswanath, Annet D'Souza, Indira Bairy, Joseph Thomas 92-94

Letters to the Editor

Preliminary remarks on assembly whole genome sequencing of MDR M. tuberculosis isolated in Vietnam PDF
Ngo Viet Quynh Tram, Nguyen Hoang Bach, Nguyen Thi Chau Anh, Huynh Hai Duong, Le Nu Xuan Thanh, Le Van An, Stefano Ferroni, Piero Cappuccinelli 95-96
Morphological modification by tubercle bacilli: no time for denial PDF
Ali Akbar Velayati, Parissa Farnia, Mohammad Reza Masjedi, Gennady Konstantinovich Zhavnerko, Jalaledin Ghanavi, Nikolai Nikolaevich Poleschuyk 97-99
Performance of QuantiFERON TB in a student population at low risk of tuberculosis PDF
Paola Molicotti, Alessandra Bua, Stefania Zanetti 100-101