Recent research has focused on understanding the mechanisms of infection, the immune response to different variants of M. abscessus, and the development of new treatment strategies to combat these ...

Once thought to be environmental and opportunistic mycobacteria only affecting immunocompromised individuals, both fast- and slow-growing M. abscessus and M. avium complex organisms are emerging as ...

But antibiotics can typically get rid of it. Mycobacterium abscessus complex (MABC). This is a fast-growing group of NTM that mostly causes lung disease. MABC shows up a lot in people with cystic ...

Purpose. The successful use of inhaled morphine to relieve dyspnea in a patient with end-stage cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is described. Dyspnea, the sensation of breathlessness or labored ...

Objective This systematic review aims to summarise all the available evidence related to the association between pre-operative patient expectations (outcome expectations, process expectations and ...

The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63108, United States Department of Pathology and Immunology, Division of ...

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The incidence and number of deaths from non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease have been steadily increasing globally. These lesser known “cousins” of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) were once ...

WOH brings together the expertise of our three university partners and four major UK institutes with national capability for working on high consequence pathogens, to provide a broad training and ...