background bcg (bacille calmette-guerin) vaccine is an attenuated live vaccine administered to prevent tuberculosis. disseminated infection due to bcg is a rare life threatening complication of this vaccine, especially in immunocompromised patients. objectives the current study evaluated the sensitivity pattern of the bcg strain supplied by the institute de pasteur, iran against anti-mycobacter...

PURPOSE Investigate drug resistant rate in recurrent cases after cure, or after drop-out from treatment, and the analysis of the risk factors for acquired drug resistance in these cases. OBJECT Patients who were previously treated for tuberculosis that was drug sensitive or unknown about previous drug sensitivity, and were hospitalized to Fukujuji Hospital to start treatment for recurrent tub...

We propose to assess the therapeutic value of biomarker-guided individualized chemotherapy in patients with metastasizing lung adenocarcinoma. In this study, we used primary cells from pleural effusions from sixteen patients diagnosed with adenocarcinomas originating in the lung and from four patients with no malignant diagnosis. The ex vivo drug sensitivity of primary cells was assessed for 32...