Annual Congress Berlin 2008

Saturday, 04.10.2008
Sunday, 05.10.2008
Monday, 06.10.2008
Tuesday, 07.10.2008
Wednesday, 08.10.2008

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2008; 32: Suppl. 52, abstract number.


Material from 2008:
  • 3952 Abstracts
  • 658 Slide presentations
  • 316 Webcasts
  • 96 Handouts
  • 1824 e-posters
  • 316 Multimedia files
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Epidemiological and clinical aspects of tuberculosis control

E-Communication Session
Chairs: F. Fiorentini (Castrocaro Terme, Italy), A. Sorete Arbore (Iasi, Romania)
Tuberculosis – trends and challenges in Germany
B. Brodhun, H. Barbara, A. Doris, L. Robert, H. Walter (Berlin, Germany)
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Assessment of factors behind treatment delay in pulmonary tuberculosis in southern Estonia
A. Altraja, M. Rahu, K. Rahu, L. Pehme (Tartu, Tallinn, Estonia)
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Accidental detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in patients with various respiratory diseases
H. Schweisfurth, U. Hinzen, J. Ortmann, D. Specht (Bad Lippspringe, Germany)
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Tuberculosis in homeless people: preliminary results of an integrate model for surveillance in Rome
G. Gualano, N. Bevilacqua, M. Vecchi, A. Cairo, P. Laurenti, S. Bruno, E. Girardi, D. Goletti, F. N. Lauria (Rome, Italy)
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Long-term outcomes of directly observed therapy in a low tuberculosis incidence setting
C. C. Dobler, A. B. H. Crawford, P. J. Jelfs, G. L. Gilbert, G. B. Marks (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
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Effect of a dedicated team on the rates of TB defaulters in a tertiary hospital between January 2005 to June 2007
M. S. K. Toh, C. Lo, S. Y. Low (Singapore, Singapore)
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Treatment results of multidrug resistant tuberculosis and the factors affecting treatment results
D. Duman, T. Karagoz, P. Pazarli, O. Yazicioglu Mocin (Istanbul, Sakarya, Turkey)
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Treatement of latent tubercolosis infection among intravenous drug abusers during the decade 1998-2007
D. Hatzilia, A. Papavasiliou, A. Tsarouha, M. Zontanos, M. Kardamaki, V. Sgountzos, E. Malesios, K. Konstantinou (Athens, Greece)
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Improving adherence in TB patients with alcohol and drug dependence through Sputnik initiative in Tomsk, Russia
D. Taran, I. Gelmanova, A. Golubkov, R. Mazitov, S. Mishustin, V. Golubchikova, S. Keshavjee (Tomsk, Russian Federation; Boston, MA, United States Of America)
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Tuberculosis treatment outcomes and resistance amplification in a high-prevalence multidrug-resistance region
M. Bonnet, M. Pardini, P. W. Andrew, H. Yesilkaya, H. Rinder, G. Orrù, F. Meacci, M. Oggioni, L. Fattorini, T. Jarosz, S. Niemann, F. Varaine (Geneva, Switzerland; Roma, Cagliari, Siena, Italy; Leicester, United Kingdom; Oberschleiβheim, Borst
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Laboratory system to detect multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in clinical practice
N. Morcillo, B. Imperiale, V. Gualtieri, B. Di Giulio (Florida, Buenos Aires, San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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The relevance of smear exam at two month of re-treatment for further evolution of the relapsed TB cases
M. Popescu-Hagen, M. Tanasescu, B. Mahler, D. Bica, M. Nitu, C. Didilescu, C. Marica (Bucharest, Craiova, Romania)
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DNA fingerprinting of mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in soldier patients by spoligotyping method
F. Ciftci, O. K. Koksalan, H. Kaya, E. Bozkanat, O. Sezer, Z. Kartaloglu (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Treatment outcome and one year follow-up status of patients treated under DOTS category II
N. Jain, K. K. Sharma, P. Gupta, N. Joshi (Jaipur, India)
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N-acetyltransferase 2 and CYP2E1 polymorphisms do not increase the risk of antituberculosis drug-induced hepatotoxicity in caucasian population
V. Leiro, A. Fernandez-Villar, D. Valverde, L. Constenla, R. Vazquez, L. Anibarro, D. Diaz-Cabanela, L. Piñeiro (Vigo, Pontevedra, A Coruña, Spain)
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The prevalence of initial drug resistance among pulmonary tuberculosis patients at one tertiary hospital in Cheonan, Korea
J. S. Park, J. H. Kong, S. S. Lee, H. Y. Kang (Cheonan, Republic Of Korea)
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A survey of tuberculosis case rates comparing the white UK and USA populations
S. Durairaj, N. Schulger, M. Asim, P. Davies (Liverpool, United Kingdom; New York, United States Of America)
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Risk factors for treatment failure in multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Estonia
K. Kliiman, A. Altraja (Tartu, Estonia)
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Comparative analysis of unemployed TB cases notified in sector 4 Bucharest in 1999 and 2006
I. Stoicescu, E. Ibraim, C. Didilescu (Bucharest, Romania)
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Observation results of 484 patients that use TNF alfa inhibitor in respect of the risk of tuberculosis
T. Cagatay, M. Aydin, Z. Gulbaran, R. Yildiz, L. Pur, A. Gul, M. Inanc, S. Kamali, B. Artim, Y. Cagatay, Z. Kilicarslan (Istanbul, Turkey)
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