Plan for toilet; Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium; Chicago, Illinois

Yellow and black ink on linen. Unsigned. 43 cm. x 43 cm. Scale: 1"=2' [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

A half-century of public health progress in New York State, 1900-1950; a compilation for the State Committee on Tuberculosis and Public Health of the State Charities Aid Association.

Cover title.

Tuberculosis in the United States. Prepared for the International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington, September 21 to October 12, 1908. Department of Commerce and Labor.

Prepared by Cressy L. Wilbur for 8th annual report on mortality statistics, for 1907.

Bijdrage tot de operatieve behandeling der tuberculosis peritonei.

Thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.

Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the Michigan State Sanatorium and the Central Michigan Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis, Howell, Michigan

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Tuberculosis Survey of the State Board of Health

Mode of access: Internet.

Hospital Licensing Act and Requirements for All Hospitals, Maternity Homes, Tuberculosis Nursing Homes, Nursing and Convalescent Homes

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the State Tuberculosis Commission.

Mode of access: Internet.

The bulletin of the California Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.

Mode of access: Internet.

Pulmonary tuberculosis; a synopsis,

Mode of access: Internet.

The conquest of bovine tuberculosis in the United States.

Mode of access: Internet.

Diagnostic standards and classification of tuberculosis.

Mode of access: Internet.

A cluster of tuberculosis associated with use of a marijuana water pipe

SETTING: New cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) were noted in a cluster of young Caucasian males, an unusual ethnic group for this disease in Queensland, Australia. It was noted that marijuana water pipe ('bong') smoking was common amongst cases and contacts. OBJECTIVE: To report this cluster of TB and to investigate whether shared use of a marijuana water pipe was associated with transmission of TB. DESIGN: All contacts were identified and screened according to standard protocols. Cases were asked to list contacts with whom they had shared a marijuana water pipe. RESULTS: Five cases of open pulmonary TB were identified clinically and on sputum culture, and all isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were identical on typing. Of 149 contacts identified, 114 (77%) completed screening, and 57 (50%) had significant tuberculin skin test (TST) reactions on follow-up. Of 45 contacts who had shared a marijuana water pipe with a case, 29 (64%) had a significant TST reaction. CONCLUSION: Sharing a marijuana water pipe with a case of pulmonary TB was associated with transmission of TB (OR 2.22, 95% CI 0.96-5.17), although the most important risk factor for acquiring TB infection in this cluster was close household contact with a case (OR 4.91, 95% CI 1.13-20.70).

Quantitative Association Tests of Immune Responses to Antigens of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: A Study of Twins in West Africa

There is now considerable evidence that host genetic factors are important in determining the outcome of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The aim of this study was to assess the role of several candidate genes in the variation observed in the immune responses to MTB antigens. In-vitro assays of T-cell proliferation, an in-vivo intradermal delayed hypersensitivity response; cytokine and antibody secretions to several mycobacterial peptide antigens were assessed in healthy, but exposed, West African twins. Candidate gene polymorphisms were typed in the NRAMP1, Vitamin D receptor, IL10, IL4, IL4 receptor and CTLA-4 genes. Variants of the loci IL10 (-1082 G/A), CTLA-4 (49 A/G) and the IL4 receptor (128 A/G) showed significant associations with immune responses to several antigens. T-cell proliferative responses and antibody responses were reduced, TNF-alpha responses were increased for subjects with the CTLA-4 G allele. The T-cell proliferative responses of subjects with IL10 GA and GG genotypes differed significantly. IL4 receptor AG and GG genotypes also showed significant differences in their T-cell proliferative responses to MTB antigens. These results yield a greater understanding of the genetic mechanisms that underlie the immune responses in tuberculosis and have implications for the design of therapeutic interventions.