Christian Wejse

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Affiliation: University of Copenhagen
Country: Denmark

Publications

  1. ncbi Vitamin D as supplementary treatment for tuberculosis: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
    Christian Wejse
    Infectious Disease Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Brendstrupgaardsvej, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 179:843-50. 2009
  2. ncbi [Picture of the month: Mollaret meningitis]
    Christian Wejse
    Arhus Universitetshospital, Skejby Sygehus, Infektionsmedicinsk Afdeling
    Ugeskr Laeger 166:3510. 2004
  3. ncbi TBscore: Signs and symptoms from tuberculosis patients in a low-resource setting have predictive value and may be used to assess clinical course
    Christian Wejse
    Bandim Health Project, Statens Serum Institute, Bissau, Guinea Bissau
    Scand J Infect Dis 40:111-20. 2008
  4. ncbi Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in a West African population of tuberculosis patients and unmatched healthy controls
    Christian 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
  5. ncbi 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 study
    Paulo Rabna
    Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Apartado 861, Bissau Codex, Guinea Bissau
    Inflammation 33:374-80. 2010
  6. ncbi Utility of the plasma level of suPAR in monitoring risk of mortality during TB treatment
    Paulo Rabna
    Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Bissau, Guinea Bissau
    PLoS ONE 7:e43933. 2012
  7. ncbi Tuberculosis burden in an urban population: a cross sectional tuberculosis survey from Guinea Bissau
    Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen
    Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Apartado 861, 1004 Bissau Codex, Guinea Bissau
    BMC Infect Dis 10:96. 2010
  8. ncbi High mortality risk among individuals assumed to be TB-negative can be predicted using a simple test
    Paulo Rabna
    Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Bissau, Guinea Bissau, West Africa
    Trop Med Int Health 14:986-94. 2009
  9. ncbi Impact of tuberculosis exposure at home on mortality in children under 5 years of age in Guinea-Bissau
    Victor F Gomes
    Bandim Health Project, INDEPTH Network, Bissau, Guinea Bissau
    Thorax 66:163-7. 2011
  10. ncbi Variant mannose-binding lectin alleles are not associated with susceptibility to or outcome of invasive pneumococcal infection in randomly included patients
    Gitte Kronborg
    Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
    J Infect Dis 185:1517-20. 2002

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Publications13

  1. ncbi Vitamin D as supplementary treatment for tuberculosis: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
    Christian 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...
  2. ncbi [Picture of the month: Mollaret meningitis]
    Christian Wejse
    Arhus Universitetshospital, Skejby Sygehus, Infektionsmedicinsk Afdeling
    Ugeskr Laeger 166:3510. 2004
  3. ncbi TBscore: Signs and symptoms from tuberculosis patients in a low-resource setting have predictive value and may be used to assess clinical course
    Christian 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...
  4. ncbi Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in a West African population of tuberculosis patients and unmatched healthy controls
    Christian 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...
  5. ncbi 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 study
    Paulo 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...
  6. ncbi Utility of the plasma level of suPAR in monitoring risk of mortality during TB treatment
    Paulo 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...
  7. ncbi Tuberculosis burden in an urban population: a cross sectional tuberculosis survey from Guinea Bissau
    Morten 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...
  8. ncbi High mortality risk among individuals assumed to be TB-negative can be predicted using a simple test
    Paulo 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...
  9. ncbi Impact of tuberculosis exposure at home on mortality in children under 5 years of age in Guinea-Bissau
    Victor 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...
  10. ncbi Variant mannose-binding lectin alleles are not associated with susceptibility to or outcome of invasive pneumococcal infection in randomly included patients
    Gitte 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...
  11. ncbi Inter-observer variation of the Bandim TB-score
    Line 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...
  12. ncbi Macrophage serum markers in pneumococcal bacteremia: Prediction of survival by soluble CD163
    Holger 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...
  13. ncbi Should micronutrient supplementation be integrated into the case management of tuberculosis?
    Christine Stabell Benn
    J Infect Dis 197:1487-9. 2008