Background: The role of remdesivir in the treatment of patients in hospital with COVID-19
remains ill defined in a global context. The World Health Organization Solidarity randomized …

Limited access to diagnostic services and the poor performance of current tests result in a
failure to detect millions of tuberculosis cases each year. An accurate test that could be used at …

Significantly more epithelial cells were collected by flocked swabs than by rayon swabs in
parallel nasopharyngeal and nasal swabs taken from 16 volunteers. Nasopharyngeal …

Importance A safe and effective treatment for recurrentClostridioides difficileinfection (CDI)
is urgently needed. Antibiotics kill toxin-producing bacteria but do not repair the disrupted …

Background Vitamin D has immunomodulatory effects that might aid clearance of mycobacterial
infection. We aimed to assess whether vitamin D supplementation would reduce time to …

Background Among healthcare workers in developing countries, nurses spend a large amount
of time in direct contact with tuberculosis (TB) patients, and are at high risk for acquisition …

Background Randomised controlled trials of adjunctive vitamin D in pulmonary tuberculosis
(TB) treatment have yielded conflicting results. Individual participant data meta-analysis …

Klebsiella spp. is a common cause of bovine mastitis, but information regarding its molecular
epidemiology is lacking from many parts of the world. On using mass spectrometry and …

Objective This study was performed to quantify the quality benefits and staff perceptions of a
computerized clinical information system implementation in an intensive care unit. Although …

Background India has a high burden of drug resistant TB, although there are few data on
XDR-TB. Although XDR-TB has existed previously in India, the definition has not been widely …