Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigSuggestions(1)
Exact(30)
Presumed ocular tuberculosis should be considered among patients with diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis.
Thus, screening for tuberculosis should be encouraged, particularly if the refugees reach an industrialized country (Odone et al. 2014).
Recommendations published in 2003 by the US Centers for Disease Control are that treatment of tuberculosis should be with the combination of isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol [20].
For people that do not respond to treatment, sputum culture should be considered, and culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis should be carried out in persons with a chronic productive cough.
Additionally, these guidelines suggest that individuals with first-time tuberculosis should be analyzed separately from those with recurrent disease, since those with recurrent disease are more likely to harbor resistant strains [4].
However, recent evidences indicate that rather than a binary distribution between active and latent disease, tuberculosis should be seen as a wide continuous spectrum of infection outcomes characterized by a range of lesions that provide different microenvironments with different abilities to support bacterial replication, persistence or killing [3].
Similar(30)
As a disease with a known causal agent, pathogenesis, mode of transmission and predisposing factors, as well as an effective cure, the goal of eradication of tuberculosis (TB) should be a plausible one [ 1].
Thus, additional infections with resistant M. tuberculosis strains should be considered when tuberculosis therapy fails.
Women in areas with a high HIV and tuberculosis prevalence should be encouraged to present for screening at the first sign of tuberculosis symptoms.
The new recommendations included: all TB suspects need to be tested for HIV, in HIV positive individuals only two sputa (spot-morning) need to be obtained and one positive smear is enough to diagnose TB; a chest X-ray and Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures should be performed if smears are negative and an antibiotic trial should not be done as a diagnostic test [ 8].
It also suggested that an "order of battle" approach to prescribing AIDS drugs, like that used for tuberculosis medicines, should be adopted in place of the current free-for-all.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com