Thorax: 68 (3)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (11 February, 2013) Free

Editorials

Further evidence supporting programmatic screening for, and treatment of latent TB Infection (LTBI) in new entrants to the UK from high TB prevalence countries (19 September, 2012) Free
Lawrence Peter Ormerod
The association of diabetes and tuberculosis: impact on treatment and post-treatment outcomes (11 February, 2013) Free
Roshani N Sanghani, Zarir F Udwadia
Tuberculosis immunodiagnosis: delving below the surface (11 February, 2013) Free
Ajit Lalvani, David W Connell

Tuberculosis

Original article: Risk of tuberculosis following HIV seroconversion in high-income countries (31 October, 2012) Free
Sara Lodi, Julia del Amo, Antonella d'Arminio Monforte, Sophie Abgrall, Caroline Sabin, Charles Morrison, Hansjakob Furrer, Roberto Muga, Kholoud Porter, Enrico Girardi, on behalf of the CASCADE collaboration in EuroCoord
Original article: Association of diabetes and tuberculosis: impact on treatment and post-treatment outcomes (18 December, 2012)
María Eugenia Jiménez-Corona, Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Lourdes García-García, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Guadalupe Delgado-Sánchez, Miriam Bobadilla-del-Valle, Sergio Canizales-Quintero, Elizabeth Ferreira-Guerrero, Renata Báez-Saldaña, Norma Téllez-Vázquez, Rogelio Montero-Campos, Norma Mongua-Rodriguez, Rosa Areli Martínez-Gamboa, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Alfredo Ponce-de-León
Original article: Ethnicity and mycobacterial lineage as determinants of tuberculosis disease phenotype (27 September, 2012) Free
Manish Pareek, Jason Evans, John Innes, Grace Smith, Suzie Hingley-Wilson, Kathryn E Lougheed, Saranya Sridhar, Martin Dedicoat, Peter Hawkey, Ajit Lalvani
Original article: Community-based evaluation of immigrant tuberculosis screening using interferon γ release assays and tuberculin skin testing: observational study and economic analysis (12 June, 2012) Free
Manish Pareek, Marion Bond, Jennifer Shorey, Suranjith Seneviratne, Margaret Guy, Peter White, Ajit Lalvani, Onn Min Kon
Original article: Single-step QuantiFERON screening of adult contacts: a prospective cohort study of tuberculosis risk (6 September, 2012) Free
Pranabashis Haldar, Helen Thuraisingam, Hemu Patel, Nelun Pereira, Robert C Free, James Entwisle, Martin Wiselka, Edwyn Wren Hoskyns, Philip Monk, Michael R Barer, Gerrit Woltmann
Original article: Modelling the cost-effectiveness of strategies to prevent tuberculosis in child contacts in a high-burden setting (20 June, 2012) Free
Anna M Mandalakas, Anneke C Hesseling, Robert P Gie, H S Schaaf, Ben J Marais, Edina Sinanovic
Original article: Chronic respiratory disease, inhaled corticosteroids and risk of non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis (10 July, 2012) Free
Claire Andréjak, Rikke Nielsen, Vibeke Ø Thomsen, Pierre Duhaut, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Reimar Wernich Thomsen
Original article: Lower prevalence of tuberculosis infection in BCG vaccinees: a cross-sectional study in adult prison inmates (27 September, 2012) Free
Pei-Chun Chan, Chin-Hui Yang, Luan-Yin Chang, Kwei-Feng Wang, Yi-Chen Kuo, Chou-Jui Lin, Shih-Wei Lee, Po-Ren Hsueh, Chi-Tai Fang, Li-Min Huang
Original article: BCG-specific IgG-secreting peripheral plasmablasts as a potential biomarker of active tuberculosis in HIV negative and HIV positive patients (24 August, 2012)
Senait Ashenafi, Getachew Aderaye, Martha Zewdie, Rubhana Raqib, Amsalu Bekele, Isabelle Magalhaes, Beede Lema, Meseret Habtamu, Rokeya Sultana Rekha, Getachew Aseffa, Markus Maeurer, Abraham Aseffa, Mattias Svensson, Jan Andersson, Susanna Brighenti

Reviews

Review of the British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2012, 5 to 7 December, London, UK (12 January, 2013) Free
Hannah Kelly Bayes, Alistair Colin Church, Andrew J Fisher, on behalf of the BTS Science and Research Committee
Advances in tuberculosis 2011–2012 (15 January, 2013) Free
Heather J Zar, Zarir F Udwadia

Research letters

Research letter: BCG protects against tuberculosis irrespective of HIV status: a matched case-control study in Mwanza, Tanzania (24 August, 2012) Free
Daniel Faurholt-Jepsen, Nyagosya Range, George PrayGod, Kidola Jeremiah, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Martine G Aabye, Harleen M S Grewal, John Changalucha, Daniel R Witte, Aase B Andersen, Henrik Friis
Research letter:
The yield of different pleural fluid volumes for Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture
(4 August, 2012) Free
Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier, Coenraad Frederik Koegelenberg, Chris T Bolliger, Pui Khi Chung, Cornelia Rautenbach, Elizabeth Wasserman, Maurizio Bernasconi, Sven Olaf Friedrich, Andreas Henri Diacon
Research letter: Follow-up of the Finnish Asthma Programme 2000–2010: reduction of hospital burden needs risk group rethinking (15 April, 2012) Free
Paula Kauppi, Miika Linna, Jaana Martikainen, Mika J Mäkelä, Tari Haahtela

PostScript

Correspondence:
FEV₁ decline in cystic fibrosis
(28 November, 2012) Free
Martin Miller
Correspondence:
Author's response: understanding the natural progression in %FEV₁ decline in patients with cystic fibrosis: a longitudinal study
(4 December, 2012) Free
David Taylor-Robinson, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Hanne Vebert Olesen, Tania Pressler, Rosalind Smyth, Peter Diggle
Correspondence: Primary lysis/necrosis of eosinophils and clinical control of asthma (15 December, 2012) Free
Carl Persson
Correspondence: Authors’ response (19 December, 2012) Free
Fatemeh Fattahi, Franke Volbeda, Martine Broekema, Monique E Lodewijk, Machteld N Hylkema, Helen K Reddel, Wim Timens, Dirkje S Postma, Nick H T ten Hacken
Correspondence: Amoxycillin-clavulanate for chronic wet cough in children: cautious interpretation of study findings warranted (22 December, 2012) Free
Patrick Stark, Rachel Heenan, Francesca Orsani, Kim Jachno, Tom G Connell
Correspondence:
Letter in response to: Stark P et al Amoxycillin-clavulanate for chronic wet cough in children: cautious interpretation of study findings warranted
(15 January, 2013) Free
Julie Marchant, Helen Petsky, Anne B Chang

Chest clinic

Research update

Research update: How should I interpret an interferon gamma release assay result for tuberculosis infection? (11 February, 2013) Free
Ibrahim Abubakar, Helen Ruth Stagg, Hilary Whitworth, Ajit Lalvani

Case based discussion

Case based discussion: A case of cough and breathlessness (12 September, 2012) Free
Georgina Esterbrook, Ian Molyneux, Andrew L Clark, Alyn H Morice

Pulmonary puzzle

Pulmonary puzzle: A cavitating pulmonary lesion with eosinophilia (21 July, 2012) Free
Alastair Charles McGregor, Nyree Griffin, Ronan A Breen, William Newsholme

Images in thorax

Images in Thorax: Rapid-growth pneumatocele mimics massive pneumothorax in a HIV-positive patient (26 June, 2012) Free
Min-Shiau Hsieh, Chun-Ku Chen, Wing-Wai Wong, Chien-Sheng Huang

Miscellaneous

Journal club: New treatments for Tuberculosis (7 December, 2012) Free
William Martin Ricketts

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March 2013 - Volume 68 - 3

Airwaves

Editorials

Tuberculosis

Reviews

Research letters

PostScript

Chest clinic

Research update

Case based discussion

Pulmonary puzzle

Images in thorax

Miscellaneous

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March 2013 - Volume 68 - 3

Airwaves

Editorials

Tuberculosis

Reviews

Research letters

PostScript

Chest clinic

Research update

Case based discussion

Pulmonary puzzle

Images in thorax

Miscellaneous

Issue Information