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| Christian WejseSummaryAffiliation: University of Copenhagen Country: Denmark Publications
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Vitamin D as supplementary treatment for tuberculosis: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trialChristian Wejse
Infectious Disease Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Brendstrupgaardsvej, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 179:843-50. 2009..Vitamin D has been shown to be involved in the host immune response toward Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
[Picture of the month: Mollaret meningitis]Christian Wejse
Arhus Universitetshospital, Skejby Sygehus, Infektionsmedicinsk Afdeling
Ugeskr Laeger 166:3510. 2004
TBscore: Signs and symptoms from tuberculosis patients in a low-resource setting have predictive value and may be used to assess clinical courseChristian Wejse
Bandim Health Project, Statens Serum Institute, Bissau, Guinea Bissau
Scand J Infect Dis 40:111-20. 2008..Low TBscore or fall in TBscore at treatment completion may be used as a measure of improvement...
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in a West African population of tuberculosis patients and unmatched healthy controlsChristian Wejse
Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Statens Serum Institut, Bissau, Guinea Bissau, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Clin Nutr 86:1376-83. 2007..Little is known regarding vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in African populations and in tuberculosis (TB) patients. VDD has been shown to be associated with TB...
Urine suPAR levels compared with plasma suPAR levels as predictors of post-consultation mortality risk among individuals assumed to be TB-negative: a prospective cohort studyPaulo Rabna
Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Apartado 861, Bissau Codex, Guinea Bissau
Inflammation 33:374-80. 2010..75. For HIV-negative individuals, little or no prognostic effect was observed. However, in both HIV positives and negatives, the predictive effect of U-suPAR was found to be inferior to that of P-suPAR...
Utility of the plasma level of suPAR in monitoring risk of mortality during TB treatmentPaulo Rabna
Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Bissau, Guinea Bissau
PLoS ONE 7:e43933. 2012..To investigate whether changes in the plasma level of soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) can be used to monitor tuberculosis (TB) treatment efficacy...
Tuberculosis burden in an urban population: a cross sectional tuberculosis survey from Guinea BissauMorten Bjerregaard-Andersen
Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Apartado 861, 1004 Bissau Codex, Guinea Bissau
BMC Infect Dis 10:96. 2010..We conducted a cross sectional survey for pulmonary TB and TB symptoms in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, in an urban cohort with known HIV prevalence. TB surveillance in the area is routinely based on passive case finding...
High mortality risk among individuals assumed to be TB-negative can be predicted using a simple testPaulo Rabna
Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Bissau, Guinea Bissau, West Africa
Trop Med Int Health 14:986-94. 2009..To determine mortality among assumed TB negative (aTBneg) individuals in Guinea-Bissau and to investigate whether plasma levels of soluble urokinase receptor (suPAR) can be used to determine post-consultation mortality risk...
Impact of tuberculosis exposure at home on mortality in children under 5 years of age in Guinea-BissauVictor F Gomes
Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Bissau, Guinea Bissau
Thorax 66:163-7. 2011..To assess mortality related to exposure to tuberculosis (TB) at home among children in urban areas of Guinea-Bissau...
Variant mannose-binding lectin alleles are not associated with susceptibility to or outcome of invasive pneumococcal infection in randomly included patientsGitte Kronborg
Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
J Infect Dis 185:1517-20. 2002..Thus, in a random adult population with invasive pneumococcal infection, MBL does not seem to play a role in the pathophysiology, in contrast to earlier observations in patients with other concomitant immune abnormalities...
Inter-observer variation of the Bandim TB-scoreLine Raaby
Infectious Disease Research Unit, Skejby, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Scand J Infect Dis 41:220-3. 2009..The kappa value of the total Bandim TBscore being at or above 8 points was 0.637, representing a good inter-observer agreement. No systematic bias was found...
Macrophage serum markers in pneumococcal bacteremia: Prediction of survival by soluble CD163Holger Jon Møller
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, AS Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Crit Care Med 34:2561-6. 2006..This study investigated sCD163 and other markers of macrophage activation (neopterin, ferritin, transcobalamin, and soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor [suPAR]) as prognostic factors in patients with pneumococcal bacteremia...
Should micronutrient supplementation be integrated into the case management of tuberculosis?Christine Stabell Benn
J Infect Dis 197:1487-9. 2008
