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Diagnosing extrapulmonary tuberculosis (E-TB) remains a challenge because clinical samples obtained from sites that are not easily accessible are sometimes paucibacillary, decreasing the sensitivity of diagnostic tests. Adenosine deaminase (ADA)...
Perioperative opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH) can be defined as the "increased perception of pain after opioid-based anesthesia and surgery" since hyperalgesia is defined as "increased pain from a stimulus that normally...
Systematic review had become one of the important research area in medicine. Systematic review can be demonstrating benefit or harm of an intervention when results of individual studies are inconclusive....
Tuberculosis (TB) is still an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Nearly one-third of the world's population is latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and 10% of them will develop...
Pulmonary tuberculosis is still serious, one of the great public health problems in Korea. Recently, the increase in the aged population, human immunodeficiency virus coinfection, and drug-resistant tuberculosis have reinforced...
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a great public health concern worldwide. MDR-TB denotes bacillary resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is MDR-TB with additional bacillary resistance...
The goal of antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is to eliminate or suppress HBV with the aim of preventing the devastating complications of cirrhosis, hepatic failure,...