Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Kabra, Sushil K."

Now showing items 1-5 of 5

    • Approaching a diagnostic point-of-care test for pediatric tuberculosis through evaluation of immune biomarkers across the clinical disease spectrum 

      Jenum, Synne; Sivakumaran, Dhanasekaran; Lodha, Rakesh; Mukherjee, Aparna; Saini, Deepak Kumar; Singh, Sarman; Singh, Varinder; Medigeshi, Guruprasad; Haks, Marielle C.; Ottenhoff, Tom H.M.; Doherty, Timothy Mark; Kabra, Sushil K.; Ritz, Christian; Grewal, Harleen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-01-04)
      The World Health Organization (WHO) calls for an accurate, rapid, and simple point-of-care (POC) test for the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) in order to make progress “Towards Zero Deaths”. Whereas the sensitivity ...

    • BLR1 and FCGR1A transcripts in peripheral blood associate with the extent of intrathoracic tuberculosis in children and predict treatment outcome 

      Jenum, Synne; Bakken, Rasmus; Sivakumaran, Dhanasekaran; Mukherjee, Aparna; Lodha, Rakesh; Singh, Sarman; Singh, Varinder; Haks, Marielle C.; Ottenhoff, Tom H.M.; Kabra, Sushil K.; Doherty, Timothy Mark; Ritz, Christian; Grewal, Harleen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-12-12)
      Biomarkers reflecting the extent of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-induced pathology and normalization during anti-tuberculosis treatment (ATT) would considerably facilitate trials of new treatment regimens and the identification ...

    • Novel transcriptional signatures for sputum-independent diagnostics of tuberculosis in children 

      Gjøen, John Espen; Jenum, Synne; Sivakumaran, Dhanasekaran; Mukherjee, Aparna; MacAden, Ragini; Kabra, Sushil K.; Lodha, Rakesh; Ottenhoff, Tom H.M.; Haks, Marielle C.; Doherty, Timothy Mark; Ritz, Christian; Grewal, Harleen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-07-19)
      Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) is challenging to diagnose, confirmed by growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at best in 40% of cases. The WHO has assigned high priority to the development of non-sputum diagnostic tools. We ...

    • Predictors of time to recovery in infants with probable serious bacterial infection 

      Singh, Prashant; Wadhwa, Nitya; Lodha, Rakesh; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Aneja, Satinder; Natchu, Uma Chandra Mouli; Chandra, Jagdish; Rath, Bimbadhar; Sharma, Vinod Kumar; Kumari, Mohini; Saini, Saviti; Kabra, Sushil K.; Bhatnagar, Shinjini; Strand, Tor A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-24)
      Introduction: Serious bacterial infections continue to be an important cause of death and illness among infants in developing countries. Time to recovery could be considered a surrogate marker of severity of the infection. ...

    • Xpert MTB/RIF assay can be used on archived gastric aspirate and induced sputum samples for sensitive diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis 

      Singh, Sarman; Singh, Amit; Prajapati, Suneel; Kabra, Sushil K.; Lodha, Rakesh; Mukherjee, Aparna; Singh, Varinder; Hesseling, Anneke C.; Grewal, Harleen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-29)
      Background: Tuberculosis (TB) in children is neglected, mainly due to lack of sensitive diagnostic tools. Recently Xpert MTB/RIF assay has revolutionized the diagnostic field, but its usefulness in pediatric TB has not ...