Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is caused by tuberculosis infection of of the meninges, which are the membrane systems that encircle the brain, with a high morbidity and mortality rate. It is challenging to diagnose TBM among other types of meningitis, such as viral meningitis, bacterial meningitis and cryptococcal meningitis. We aimed to identify metabolites that are differentially expressed betw...

Tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) is defined as an excessive collapse of the intrathoracic trachea. Bronchoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing TBM; however it has major disadvantages, such as general anaesthesia. Cine computed tomography (CT) is a noninvasive alternative used to diagnose TBM, but its use in children is restricted by ionising radiation. Our aim was to evaluate the feasibility of...

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a serious complication of tuberculosis that affects the central nervous system. As TBM may result in permanent sequelae and death, rapid, accurate diagnostic tests using novel biomarkers are required for the early diagnosis and treatment of TBM. A quantitative proteomic study was therefore performed to identify differential proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid (CS...

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a devastating disease. TBM occurs more commonly in HIV infected patients. The influence of HIV co-infection on clinical manifestations and outcome of TBM is not well defined. Yet, some differences have been observed and stroke has been recorded to occur more frequently. This study reports on an HIV infected Caucasian female with lung, meningeal tuberculosis and s...

Background Tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) is defined as an excessive collapse of the intrathoracic trachea. Bronchoscopy is the gold standard to diagnose TBM, but bronchoscopy has major disadvantages, such as general anesthesia. Cine-CT is a non-invasive alternative to diagnose TBM, but its use in children is restricted by ionizing radiation. Our aim was to evaluate the feasibility of spirometerco...

Reasons for poor outcomes in tuberculous meningitis (TBM), which accounts for 2.3% of all tuberculosis cases in Thailand, are still being debated. Here, we studied factors associated with functional outcomes of TBM patients in Thailand where tuberculosis is endemic. We retrospectively reviewed all patients diagnosed with TBM at Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, between Janua...

BACKGROUND It is important to understand the anatomical relationship between the medial and lateral branches of superficial radial nerve (SRN) and the first dorsal compartment to prevent and minimize possible injury to these nerves during various procedures around the tip of radial styloid process (RSP). OBJECTIVE To delineate the anatomical location of the SRN in relation to the extensor pol...

The 'impassable' Eastern Pacific Barrier (EPB), ca 5000 km of deep water separating the eastern from the central Pacific, is the World's widest marine biogeographic barrier. Sequencing of mitochondrial DNA in 20 reef fish morphospecies encountered on both sides of the barrier revealed cryptic speciation in two. Among the other 18 species only two showed significant differentiation (as revealed ...

Using 1024 nights of data from 2002–2005 taken by the Cornell Narrow Field Imager (CNFI), we examine equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) zonal drift velocity characteristics. CNFI is located at the Maui Space Surveillance Site on the Haleakala Volcano (geographic: 20.71 N, 203.83 E; geomagnetic: 21.03 N, 271.84 E) on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The imager is set up to view in a magnetic fieldaligned...

We have recently reported that interleukin 18 (IL-18) pretreatment induces ¡mmunologically mediated antitumor effects in BALB/c mice injected i.p. with syngeneic Meth A sarcoma. In this study, mice were pretreated with IL-18 before Meth A transplantation, and immunocompetency in pretreated or untreated tumor-bearing mice (TBM) 3,9, and 15 days after transplantation was compared with that of no...