Computer laboratory notification system via short message service to reduce health care delays in management of tuberculosis in Taiwan.

PubWeight™: 1.44‹?› | Rank: Top 5%

🔗 View Article (PMID 21496958)

Published in Am J Infect Control on April 15, 2011

Authors

Tun-Chieh Chen1, Wei-Ru Lin, Po-Liang Lu, Chun-Yu Lin, Shu-Hui Lin, Chuen-Ju Lin, Ming-Chu Feng, Horn-Che Chiang, Yen-Hsu Chen, Ming-Shyan Huang

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Infectious Diseases, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

Articles by these authors

Gastro-intestinal metastasis of primary lung carcinoma: clinical presentations and outcome. Lung Cancer (2006) 3.42

Laboratory diagnostics of dengue fever: an emphasis on the role of commercial dengue virus nonstructural protein 1 antigen rapid test. J Microbiol Immunol Infect (2012) 2.32

Genome-wide association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci in never-smoking women in Asia. Nat Genet (2012) 2.26

Urinary Mycobacterium szulgai infection in an immunocompetent patient. South Med J (2009) 2.02

H3K9 histone methyltransferase G9a promotes lung cancer invasion and metastasis by silencing the cell adhesion molecule Ep-CAM. Cancer Res (2010) 1.98

The 5p15.33 locus is associated with risk of lung adenocarcinoma in never-smoking females in Asia. PLoS Genet (2010) 1.90

Eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis associated with eating raw snails: correlation of brain magnetic resonance imaging scans with clinical findings. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2003) 1.65

Absence of heme oxygenase-1 exacerbates atherosclerotic lesion formation and vascular remodeling. FASEB J (2003) 1.58

Does empirical treatment of community-acquired pneumonia with fluoroquinolones delay tuberculosis treatment and result in fluoroquinolone resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis? Controversies and solutions. Int J Antimicrob Agents (2012) 1.56

Epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Gram-negative bacteria causing urinary tract infections in the Asia-Pacific region: 2009-2010 results from the Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART). Int J Antimicrob Agents (2012) 1.54

National surveillance study on carbapenem non-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan: the emergence and rapid dissemination of KPC-2 carbapenemase. PLoS One (2013) 1.43

Antiproliferative activity of aucubin is through cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human non-small cell lung cancer A549 cells. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol (2008) 1.42

Sphingomonas paucimobilis bacteremia in humans: 16 case reports and a literature review. J Microbiol Immunol Infect (2010) 1.37

Purple urine bag syndrome, not always a benign process. Am J Emerg Med (2009) 1.31

Evaluation of the Cobas TaqMan MTB test for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory specimens. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.30

Cyclooxygenase-2-deficient mice are resistant to endotoxin-induced inflammation and death. FASEB J (2003) 1.29

Impact of renal failure on the outcome of dengue viral infection. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2008) 1.28

Bioactive eunicellin-based diterpenoids from the soft coral Cladiella krempfi. Mar Drugs (2011) 1.26

Variety of TEM-, SHV-, and CTX-M-type beta-lactamases present in recent clinical isolates of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Enterobacter cloacae from Taiwan. Microb Drug Resist (2005) 1.22

Fucosyltransferase 8 as a functional regulator of nonsmall cell lung cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.22

Cisplatin selects for multidrug-resistant CD133+ cells in lung adenocarcinoma by activating Notch signaling. Cancer Res (2012) 1.20

Multicenter study in Taiwan of the in vitro activities of nemonoxacin, tigecycline, doripenem, and other antimicrobial agents against clinical isolates of various Nocardia species. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2011) 1.19

Molecular typing and resistance mechanisms of imipenem-non-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan: results from the Taiwan surveillance of antibiotic resistance (TSAR) study, 2002-2009. J Med Microbiol (2012) 1.18

N-α-acetyltransferase 10 protein suppresses cancer cell metastasis by binding PIX proteins and inhibiting Cdc42/Rac1 activity. Cancer Cell (2011) 1.17

Fluoroquinolones are associated with delayed treatment and resistance in tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Infect Dis (2010) 1.16

The decline of autophagy contributes to proximal tubular dysfunction during sepsis. Shock (2012) 1.15

Loss of E-cadherin expression correlates with poor differentiation and invasion into adjacent organs in gastric adenocarcinomas. Cancer Lett (2003) 1.15

KPC-2-encoding plasmids from Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan. J Antimicrob Chemother (2013) 1.14

Antimicrobial-resistant nocardia isolates, Taiwan, 1998-2009. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.14

Molecular characterisation of the metallo-beta-lactamase genes in imipenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria from a university hospital in southern Taiwan. Int J Antimicrob Agents (2008) 1.14

The apoptotic effect of cordycepin on human OEC-M1 oral cancer cell line. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol (2006) 1.13

Essential role of nephrocystin in photoreceptor intraflagellar transport in mouse. Hum Mol Genet (2009) 1.12

A polymorphism in the APE1 gene promoter is associated with lung cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2009) 1.11

Mycobacterium abscessus endocarditis: a case report and literature review. Kaohsiung J Med Sci (2008) 1.11

6-Shogaol, an active constituent of dietary ginger, induces autophagy by inhibiting the AKT/mTOR pathway in human non-small cell lung cancer A549 cells. J Agric Food Chem (2009) 1.10

Hormone replacement therapy and lung cancer risk in Chinese. Cancer (2007) 1.09

MicroRNA-33a functions as a bone metastasis suppressor in lung cancer by targeting parathyroid hormone related protein. Biochim Biophys Acta (2013) 1.09

High-level expression of ampC beta-lactamase due to insertion of nucleotides between -10 and -35 promoter sequences in Escherichia coli clinical isolates: cases not responsive to extended-spectrum-cephalosporin treatment. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2003) 1.08

Spatiotemporal focusing-based widefield multiphoton microscopy for fast optical sectioning. Opt Express (2012) 1.07

The role of medial temporal lobe in retrieving spatial and nonspatial relations from episodic and semantic memory. Hippocampus (2010) 1.06

Admission time and outcomes of patients in a medical intensive care unit. Kaohsiung J Med Sci (2007) 1.06

The effect of Gu-Sui-Bu (Drynaria fortunei J. Sm) on bone cell activities. Biomaterials (2002) 1.06

Why is in-hospital diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis delayed in southern Taiwan? J Formos Med Assoc (2010) 1.05

Bilateral simultaneous facial palsy following scrub typhus meningitis: a case report and literature review. Kaohsiung J Med Sci (2011) 1.05

Chronic kidney disease is a potential risk factor for the development of purple urine bag syndrome. J Am Geriatr Soc (2009) 1.04

Mycobacterium chelonae empyema in an immunocompetent patient. J Med Microbiol (2008) 1.04

Microbiological, epidemiological, and clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with cryptococcosis in Taiwan, 1997-2010. PLoS One (2013) 1.04

Evaluation of macrolide resistance and enhanced molecular typing of Treponema pallidum in patients with syphilis in Taiwan: a prospective multicenter study. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 1.03

Cytotoxic and anti-inflammatory eunicellin-based diterpenoids from the soft coral Cladiella krempfi. Mar Drugs (2013) 1.03

Different efficacies of erlotinib and gefitinib in taiwanese patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective multicenter study. J Thorac Oncol (2011) 1.03

Epidemiology of acute q Fever, scrub typhus, and murine typhus, and identification of their clinical characteristics compared to patients with acute febrile illness in southern taiwan. J Formos Med Assoc (2009) 1.02

Clinical features and prognostic factors of emphysematous urinary tract infection. J Microbiol Immunol Infect (2009) 1.02

First Report of bla(IMP-8) in Raoultella planticola. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2013) 1.01

Downregulation of circadian clock genes in chronic myeloid leukemia: alternative methylation pattern of hPER3. Cancer Sci (2006) 1.01

Characterization of arecoline-induced effects on cytotoxicity in normal human gingival fibroblasts by global gene expression profiling. Toxicol Sci (2007) 1.01

Lung tumor-associated osteoblast-derived bone morphogenetic protein-2 increased epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition of cancer by Runx2/Snail signaling pathway. J Biol Chem (2011) 1.00

A population study of the self-care behaviors and their associated factors of diabetes in Taiwan: results from the 2001 National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan. Prev Med (2005) 1.00

Adenylate kinase-4 is a marker of poor clinical outcomes that promotes metastasis of lung cancer by downregulating the transcription factor ATF3. Cancer Res (2012) 1.00

Lansoprazole-based sequential and concomitant therapy for the first-line Helicobacter pylori eradication. J Dig Dis (2012) 1.00

Evaluation of reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification in conjunction with ELISA-hybridization assay for molecular detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Microbiol Methods (2008) 0.99

PPISearch: a web server for searching homologous protein-protein interactions across multiple species. Nucleic Acids Res (2009) 0.99

Characterization of fluoroquinolone resistance mechanisms and their correlation with the degree of resistance to clinically used fluoroquinolones among Escherichia coli isolates. J Chemother (2007) 0.99

Lung cancer-derived galectin-1 mediates dendritic cell anergy through inhibitor of DNA binding 3/IL-10 signaling pathway. J Immunol (2010) 0.99

Sphingomonas paucimobilis bacteraemia and septic arthritis in a diabetic patient presenting with septic pulmonary emboli. J Med Microbiol (2009) 0.98

Role of Ets-2 in the regulation of heme oxygenase-1 by endotoxin. J Biol Chem (2004) 0.98

CXCL5/ENA78 increased cell migration and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition of hormone-independent prostate cancer by early growth response-1/snail signaling pathway. J Cell Physiol (2011) 0.98

Antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial pathogens associated with community-acquired respiratory tract infections in Asia: report from the Community-Acquired Respiratory Tract Infection Pathogen Surveillance (CARTIPS) study, 2009-2010. Int J Antimicrob Agents (2011) 0.98

Galectin-1 promotes lung cancer tumor metastasis by potentiating integrin α6β4 and Notch1/Jagged2 signaling pathway. Carcinogenesis (2013) 0.98

NK-cell lineage predicts poor survival in primary intestinal NK-cell and T-cell lymphomas. Am J Surg Pathol (2009) 0.98

Ferulic acid augments angiogenesis via VEGF, PDGF and HIF-1 alpha. J Nutr Biochem (2009) 0.98

Antiproliferative activity of paeoniflorin is through cell cycle arrest and the Fas/Fas ligand-mediated apoptotic pathway in human non-small cell lung cancer A549 cells. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol (2007) 0.98

Dengue hemorrhagic fever complicated with acute pancreatitis and seizure. J Formos Med Assoc (2004) 0.97

Oxidative and endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling are involved in dehydrocostuslactone-mediated apoptosis in human non-small cell lung cancer cells. Lung Cancer (2009) 0.96

Up-regulation of fibronectin and tissue transglutaminase promotes cell invasion involving increased association with integrin and MMP expression in A431 cells. Anticancer Res (2010) 0.96

Disruption of striated preferentially expressed gene locus leads to dilated cardiomyopathy in mice. Circulation (2008) 0.96

The decline of high drug resistance rate of pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from a southern Taiwan medical centre, 1996-2000. Int J Antimicrob Agents (2003) 0.96

Genome-wide association study of genetic predictors of overall survival for non-small cell lung cancer in never smokers. Cancer Res (2013) 0.96

Lung tumor-associated dendritic cell-derived resistin promoted cancer progression by increasing Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome candidate 1/Twist pathway. Carcinogenesis (2013) 0.95

Comparison of 10 day bismuth quadruple therapy with high-dose metronidazole or levofloxacin for second-line Helicobacter pylori therapy: a randomized controlled trial. J Antimicrob Chemother (2012) 0.95

Association of an EGFR intron 1 SNP with never-smoking female lung adenocarcinoma patients. Lung Cancer (2008) 0.95