Research: Tuberculosis

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Lack of Weight Gain and Relapse Risk in a Large Tuberculosis Treatment Trial

This article, published in May 2006 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, presents research that demonstrates that if a patient is underweight or does not have a significant weight gain while on therapy the relapse rate of TB is much higher than in well nourished TB patients. easily identified, even in resource-poor settings.
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The top twenty papers on tuberculosis

Which papers have provided the most interesting recent advances in tuberculosis research? Which new discoveries in pathogenesis, epidemiology, drug discovery or vaccine development have been the most important or are likely to have the highest impact to the field?
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Link http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v13/n3/full/nm0307-276.html
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