Patricia Sheen

TL;DR: L-GG supplementation may be useful as a prophylactic measure to control diarrhea in undernourished children at increased risk, especially nonbreastfed children in the toddler age group.

TL;DR: MODS is a rapid, inexpensive, sensitive, and specific method for MTB detection and susceptibility testing; it is particularly appropriate for use in developing countries burdened by significant infection rates and increasing numbers of multiple-drug-resistant cases.

TL;DR: Upper-room UV lights and negative air ionization each prevented most airborne TB transmission detectable by guinea pig air sampling, providing an effective, low-cost intervention for use in TB infection control in high-risk clinical settings.

TL;DR: The use of molecular fingerprinting to investigate patient infectiousness in the current era of HIV infection and multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB highlights the importance of rapid TB drug-susceptibility testing to allow prompt initiation of effective treatment, and environmental control measures to reduce ongoing TB transmission in crowded health care settings.

TL;DR: An in vivo air sampling model is created to study airborne transmission of tuberculosis from patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and to evaluate environmental control measures for nosocomial tuberculosis.