Screening for HIV-associated tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance before antiretroviral therapy using the Xpert MTB/RIF assay: a prospective study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:To reduce the risk of drug-induced haemolysis, all patients should be tested for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency (G6PDd) prior to prescribing primaquine (PQ)-based radical cure for the treatment of vivax malaria. This systematic review and individual patient meta-analysis assessed the uti...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Ley B,Winasti Satyagraha A,Rahmat H,von Fricken ME,Douglas NM,Pfeffer DA,Espino F,von Seidlein L,Henriques G,Oo NN,Menard D,Parikh S,Bancone G,Karahalios A,Price RN

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease that has been reported to be associated with obesity. We aimed to investigate a possible causal relationship between body mass index (BMI) and psoriasis. METHODS AND FINDINGS:Following a review of published epidemiological evidence of the association between o...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Budu-Aggrey A,Brumpton B,Tyrrell J,Watkins S,Modalsli EH,Celis-Morales C,Ferguson LD,Vie GÅ,Palmer T,Fritsche LG,Løset M,Nielsen JB,Zhou W,Tsoi LC,Wood AR,Jones SE,Beaumont R,Saunes M,Romundstad PR,Siebert S,McInn

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Is it ethical for scientists to conduct or to benefit from research in another country if that research would be unlawful, or not generally accepted, in their own country? ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Skene L

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PLOS Medicine editors discuss the new extension to the PRISMA reporting guidelines, PRISMA for Equity (PRISMA-E), and why it is relevant to the journal and to health research more generally. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： PLOS Medicine Editors.

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hannah Leslie and co-authors discuss priorities in individual countries for health system reform. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Thapa G,Jhalani M,García-Saisó S,Malata A,Roder-DeWan S,Leslie HH

更新日期：2019-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that a young child's risk of dying increases following the mother's death, but little is known about the risk when the mother becomes very ill prior to her death. We hypothesized that children would be more likely to die during the period several months before their mother's death, as well ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Clark SJ,Kahn K,Houle B,Arteche A,Collinson MA,Tollman SM,Stein A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The vast majority of medical interventions introduced into clinical development prove unsafe or ineffective. One prominent explanation for the dismal success rate is flawed preclinical research. We conducted a systematic review of preclinical research guidelines and organized recommendations according to the...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Henderson VC,Kimmelman J,Fergusson D,Grimshaw JM,Hackam DG

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessing the mortality impact of the 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus (H1N1pdm09) is essential for optimizing public health responses to future pandemics. The World Health Organization reported 18,631 laboratory-confirmed pandemic deaths, but the total pandemic mortality burden was substantially higher. We estim...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Simonsen L,Spreeuwenberg P,Lustig R,Taylor RJ,Fleming DM,Kroneman M,Van Kerkhove MD,Mounts AW,Paget WJ,GLaMOR Collaborating Teams.

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore the possibility that antibody-mediated complement lysis contributes to viremia control in HIV-1 infection, we measured the activity of patient plasma in mediating complement lysis of autologous primary virus. METHODS AND FINDINGS:Sera from two groups of patients-25 with acute HIV-1 infection and ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Huber M,Fischer M,Misselwitz B,Manrique A,Kuster H,Niederöst B,Weber R,von Wyl V,Günthard HF,Trkola A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unrecognized myocardial infarction (UMI) is known to constitute a substantial portion of potentially lethal coronary heart disease. However, the diagnosis of UMI is based on the appearance of incidental Q-waves on 12-lead electrocardiography. Thus, the syndrome of non-Q-wave UMI has not been investigated. De...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Kim HW,Klem I,Shah DJ,Wu E,Meyers SN,Parker MA,Crowley AL,Bonow RO,Judd RM,Kim RJ

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and lethal disorder characterized by fibroproliferation and excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix in the lung. METHODS AND FINDINGS:Using oligonucleotide arrays, we identified osteopontin as one of the genes that significantly distinguishes IPF f...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Pardo A,Gibson K,Cisneros J,Richards TJ,Yang Y,Becerril C,Yousem S,Herrera I,Ruiz V,Selman M,Kaminski N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intravenous morphine (IVM) is the most common strong analgesic used in trauma, but is associated with a clear time limitation related to the need to obtain an access route. The intranasal (IN) route provides easy administration with a fast peak action time due to high vascularization and the absence of first...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Blancher M,Maignan M,Clapé C,Quesada JL,Collomb-Muret R,Albasini F,Ageron FX,Fey S,Wuyts A,Banihachemi JJ,Bertrand B,Lehmann A,Bollart C,Debaty G,Briot R,Viglino D

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been increasing concerns regarding the safety and efficacy of neuroleptics in people with dementia, but there are very few long-term trials to inform clinical practice. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of long-term treatment with neuroleptic agents upon global cognitive decline an...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Ballard C,Lana MM,Theodoulou M,Douglas S,McShane R,Jacoby R,Kossakowski K,Yu LM,Juszczak E,Investigators DART AD.

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Care advances in the United States (US) have led to improved survival of children with neurological impairment (NI). Children with NI may account for an increasing proportion of hospital resources. However, this assumption has not been tested at a national level. METHODS AND FINDINGS:We conducted a study of...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Berry JG,Poduri A,Bonkowsky JL,Zhou J,Graham DA,Welch C,Putney H,Srivastava R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor that carries a 5-y survival rate of 5%. Attempts at eliciting a clinically relevant anti-GBM immune response in brain tumor patients have met with limited success, which is due to brain immune privilege, tumor immune evasion, and a pauc...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Curtin JF,Liu N,Candolfi M,Xiong W,Assi H,Yagiz K,Edwards MR,Michelsen KS,Kroeger KM,Liu C,Muhammad AK,Clark MC,Arditi M,Comin-Anduix B,Ribas A,Lowenstein PR,Castro MG

更新日期：2009-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Andrew Seale and colleagues discuss the development of a global strategy to counter sexually transmitted infections. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Seale A,Broutet N,Narasimhan M

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The radical cure of Plasmodium vivax and P. ovale requires treatment with primaquine or tafenoquine to clear dormant liver stages. Either drug can induce haemolysis in individuals with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, necessitating screening. The reference diagnostic method for G6PD activ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Pfeffer DA,Ley B,Howes RE,Adu P,Alam MS,Bansil P,Boum Y 2nd,Brito M,Charoenkwan P,Clements A,Cui L,Deng Z,Egesie OJ,Espino FE,von Fricken ME,Hamid MMA,He Y,Henriques G,Khan WA,Khim N,Kim S,Lacerda M,Lon C,Me

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug manufacturers have developed "evergreening" strategies to compete with generic medication after patent termination. These include marketing of slightly modified follow-on drugs. We aimed to estimate the financial impact of these drugs on overall healthcare costs and also to examine the impact of listing...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Vernaz N,Haller G,Girardin F,Huttner B,Combescure C,Dayer P,Muscionico D,Salomon JL,Bonnabry P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibre is promoted as part of a healthy dietary pattern and in diabetes management. We have considered the role of high-fibre diets on mortality and increasing fibre intake on glycaemic control and other cardiometabolic risk factors of adults with prediabetes or diabetes. METHODS AND FINDINGS:We conducted a ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Reynolds AN,Akerman AP,Mann J

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Policymakers worldwide are considering requiring warnings for sugary drinks. A growing number of experimental studies have examined sugary drink warnings' impacts, but no research to our knowledge has synthesized this literature. To inform ongoing policy debates, this study aimed to identify the effects of s...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Grummon AH,Hall MG

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Envenoming resulting from snakebites is an important public health problem in many tropical and subtropical countries. Few attempts have been made to quantify the burden, and recent estimates all suffer from the lack of an objective and reproducible methodology. In an attempt to provide an accurate, up-to-da...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Kasturiratne A,Wickremasinghe AR,de Silva N,Gunawardena NK,Pathmeswaran A,Premaratna R,Savioli L,Lalloo DG,de Silva HJ

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Gordon C. Smith discusses the study by Katy Kozhimannil and colleagues that examines variations in cesarean section rates in the US and argues for the need for high-quality routine data collection to better understand the reasons for these variations. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Smith GC

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The response to the next influenza pandemic will likely include extensive use of antiviral drugs (mainly oseltamivir), combined with other transmission-reducing measures. Animal and in vitro studies suggest that some strains of influenza may become resistant to oseltamivir while maintaining infectiousness (f...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Lipsitch M,Cohen T,Murray M,Levin BR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tom Boyles reflects on differing approaches taken for treating patients with Ebola virus disease in low- and high-resource settings. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Boyles TH

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For more than a decade, most parts of Somalia have not been under the control of any type of government. This "failure of state" is complete in the central and southern regions and most apparent in Mogadishu, which had been for a long period in the hands of warlords deploying their private militias in a batt...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Odenwald M,Hinkel H,Schauer E,Neuner F,Schauer M,Elbert TR,Rockstroh B

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many mathematical models have investigated the impact of expanding access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) on new HIV infections. Comparing results and conclusions across models is challenging because models have addressed slightly different questions and have reported different outcome metrics. This study co...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Eaton JW,Johnson LF,Salomon JA,Bärnighausen T,Bendavid E,Bershteyn A,Bloom DE,Cambiano V,Fraser C,Hontelez JA,Humair S,Klein DJ,Long EF,Phillips AN,Pretorius C,Stover J,Wenger EA,Williams BG,Hallett TB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychosis is a severe mental condition that is characterized by a loss of contact with reality and is typically associated with hallucinations and delusional beliefs. There are numerous psychiatric conditions that present with psychotic symptoms, most importantly schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, an...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Huang JT,Leweke FM,Oxley D,Wang L,Harris N,Koethe D,Gerth CW,Nolden BM,Gross S,Schreiber D,Reed B,Bahn S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attrition during the period from HIV testing to antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation is high worldwide. We assessed whether same-day HIV testing and ART initiation improves retention and virologic suppression. METHODS AND FINDINGS:We conducted an unblinded, randomized trial of standard ART initiation ver...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Koenig SP,Dorvil N,Dévieux JG,Hedt-Gauthier BL,Riviere C,Faustin M,Lavoile K,Perodin C,Apollon A,Duverger L,McNairy ML,Hennessey KA,Souroutzidis A,Cremieux PY,Severe P,Pape JW

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Prognostic models are abundant in the medical literature yet their use in practice seems limited. In this article, the third in the PROGRESS series, the authors review how such models are developed and validated, and then address how prognostic models are assessed for their impact on practice and patient outcomes, ill...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Steyerberg EW,Moons KG,van der Windt DA,Hayden JA,Perel P,Schroter S,Riley RD,Hemingway H,Altman DG,PROGRESS Group.

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a genetically heterogeneous group of retinal diseases that cause congenital blindness in infants and children. Mutations in the GUCY2D gene that encodes retinal guanylate cyclase-1 (retGC1) were the first to be linked to this disease group (LCA type 1 [LCA1]) and account f...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Williams ML,Coleman JE,Haire SE,Aleman TS,Cideciyan AV,Sokal I,Palczewski K,Jacobson SG,Semple-Rowland SL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00