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List of journal publications related to tuberculosis in Hong Kong

(Note: The list below is for quick and easy reference only, and cannot meant to be comprehensive.)

2005

  • Ichikawa M, Nakahara S, Wakai S. Lowered tuberculosis notifications and deterred health care seeking during the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong. Am J Public Health 2005;95:933-4.
  • Yew WW, Leung CC. Are some people not safer after successful treatment of tuberculosis? Am J Respir Crit Care med 2005;171:1324-5.
  • Nemery B, Yew WW, Albert R, Brun-Buisson C, Macnee W, Martinez FJ, Angus DC, Abraham E. Tuberculosis, nontuberculous lung infection, pleural disorders, pulmonary function, respiratory muscles, occupational lung disease, pulmonary infections, and social issues in AJRCCM in 2004. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005;171:554-62.
  • Cheng VC, Yew WW, Yuen KY. Molecular diagnostics in tuberculosis. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2005;24:711-20.
  • Tso HW, Ip WK, Chong WP, Tam CM, Chiang AKS, Lau YL. Association of interferon gamma and interleukin 10 genes with tuberculosis in Hong Kong Chinese. Genes Immun 2005;6:358-63.
  • Mok CC. Consensus statements on the indications and monitoring of anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) therapy for rheumatic diseases in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Bull Rhemat Dis 2005;5:1-7.
  • Leung CC, Yew WW, Chan TY, Tam CM, Chan CY, Chan CK, Tang N, Chang KC, Law WS. Seasonal pattern of tuberculosis in Hong Kong. Int J Epidemiol 2005;34:924-30.
  • Leung CC, Chan CK, Tam CM, Yew WW, Kam KM, Au KF, Tai LB, Leung SM, Ng J. Chest radiograph screening for tuberculosis in a Hong Kong prison. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005;9:627-32.
  • Wong MY, Leung CC, Tam CM, Lee SN. Directly observed treatment of tuberculosis in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005;9:443-9.
  • Chan-yeung M, Yeh AG, Tam CM, Kam KM, Leung CC, Yew WW, Lam CW. Socio-demographic and geographic indicators and distribution of tuberculosis in Hong Kong: a spatial analysis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005;9:1320-6.
  • Lau KK, Yu IT, Chan AC, Wong LK, Tam CM, Sheng B, Li HL; Hong Kong Tuberculous Meningitis Study Group. A registry of tuberculous meningitis in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005;9:1391-7.
  • Kam KM, Yip CW, Tse LW, Wong KL, Lam TK, Kremer K, Au BK, van Soolingen D. Utility of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit typing for differentiating multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates of the Beijing family. J Clin Microbiol 2005;43:306-13.
  • Kremer K, Au BK, Yip PC, Skuce R, Supply P, Kam KM, van Soolingen D. Use of variable-number tandem-repeat typing to differentiate Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family isolates from hong Kong and comparison with IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism typing and spoligotyping. J Clin Microbiol 2005;43:314-20.
  • Chiang CY, Rieder HL, Kim SJ, Kam KM, Dawson D, Lin TP, Luh KT. Quality of sputum smear microscopy in Taiwan. J Formos Med Assoc 2005;104:502-6.
  • Leung CC, Chang KC, Law WS, Yew WW, Tam CM, Chan CK, Wong MY. Determinants of spirometric abnormalities among silicotic patients in Hong Kong. Occup Med 2005;55:490-3.
  • Law WS, Tam CM, Leung CC. How do we tackle latent tuberculosis infection in immunocompetent persons? Public Health & Epidemiology Bulletin 2005;14(3)36-40.
  • Wong CF, Leung SK, Yew. Percentage reduction of pleural effusion as a simple predictor of pleural scarring in tuberculous pleuritis. Respirology 2005;10:515-9.
  • Wong PC. Management of tuberculous pleuritis: can we do better? Respirology 2005;10:144-8.
  • Moore Gillon J. Tuberculin testing, BCG, and tuberculosis today (ed). Thorax 2005;60:90-1.
  • Leung CC, Yew WW, Tam CM, Chan CK, Chang KC, Law WS, Lee SN, Wong MY, Au KF. Tuberculin response in BCG vaccinated schoolchildren and the estimation of annual risk of infection in Hong Kong. Thorax 2005;60:124-9.

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2004

  • Leung CC, Li T, Lam TH, Yew WW, Law WS, Tam CM, Chan WM, Chan CK, Ho KS, Chang KC. Smoking and tuberculosis among the elderly in Hong Kong. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004;170:1027-33.
  • Vernon AA, Iademarco MF. In the treatment of TB, you get what you pay for (ed). Am Rev Respir Crit Care Med 2004;170:040-2.
  • Chang KC, Leung CC, Yew WW, Ho SC, Tam CM. A nested case-control study on treatment-related risk factors for early relapse of tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004;170:1124-30.
  • Leung CC, Chan CK, Yew WW. Side effects of antituberculosis therapy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004;169:1168-9; author reply 1169.
  • Chan CY, Au-Yeang C, Yew WW, Leung CC, Cheng AF. In vitro postantibiotic effects of rifapentine, isoniazid, and moxifloxacin against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2004;48:340-3.
  • Cheng AF, Yew WW, Chan EW, Chin ML, Hui MM, Chan RC. Multiplex PCR amplimer conformation analysis for rapid detection of gyrA mutations in fluoroquinolone-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2004;48:596-601.
  • Chen ML, Yu WC, Lam CW, Au KM, Kong FY, Chan AY. Diagnostic value of pleural fluid adenosine deaminase activity in tuberculosis pleurisy. Clin Chim Acta 2004;341:101-7.
  • Yam WC, Cheng VC, Hui WT, Wang LN, Seto WH, Yuen KY. Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens using single-tube biotinylated nested polymerase chain reaction-enzyme linked immunoassay (PCR-ELISA). Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2004;48:271-5.
  • Kam KM, Yip CW. Surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility to second-line drugs in Hong Kong 1995-2002 after the implementation of DOTS-plus. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2004;8:760-6.
  • Leung CC, Yew WW, Tam CM, Chan CK, Chang KC, Law WS, Wong MY, Au KF. Socio-economic factors and tuberculosis: a district-based ecological analysis in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2004;8:958-64.
  • Kim SJ, Espinal MA, Abe C, Bai GH, Boulahbal F, Fattorin L, Gilpin C, Hoffner S, Kam KM, Martin-Casabona N, Rigouts L, Vincent V. Is second-line anti-tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing reliable? Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2004;8:1157-8.
  • Chang KC, Leung CC, Tam CM. Risk factors for defaulting from anti-tuberculosis treatment under directly observed treatment in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2004;8:1492-8.
  • Chan RCY, Hui M, Chan EWC, Au TK, Chin ML, Yip CK, AuYeang CKW, Yeung CYL, Kam KM, Yip PCW, Cheng AFB. Genetic and phenotypic characterisation of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Hong Kong. J Antimicrob Chemother 2004;54:593-602.
  • Chu CM, Woo PC, Chong KT, Leung WS, Chan VL, Yuen KY. Association of presence of Aspergillus antibodies with hemoptysis in patients with old tuberculosis or bronchiectasis but no radiologically visible mycetoma. J Clin Microbiol 2004;42:665-9.
  • Yam WC, Tam CM, Leung CC, Tong HL, Chan KH, Leung ET, Wong KC, Yew WW, Seto WH, Yuen KY, Ho PL. Direct detection of rifampin-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis in respiratory specimens by PCR-DNA sequencing. J Clin Microbiol 2004;42:4438-43.
  • Cheng VC, Yam WC, Hung IF, Woo PC, Lau SK, Tang BS, Yuen KY. Clinical evaluation of the polymerase chain reaction for the rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis. J Clin Pathol 2004;57:281-5.
  • Tso HW, Lau YL, Tam CM, Wong HS, Chiang AK. Associations between IL12B polymorphisms and tuberculosis in the Hong Kong Chinese population. J Infect Dis 2004;190:913-9.
  • Chomej P, Bauer K, Bitterlich N, Hui DSC, Chan KS, Gosse H, Schauer J, Hoheisel g, Sack U. Differential diagnosis of pleural effusions by fuzzy-logic-based analysis of cytokines. Respir Med 2004;98:308-17.

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2003

  • Au WY, Cheng VC, Ho PL, Yuen KY, Hung I, Ma SY, Lie AK, Liang R, Kwong YL. Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in Chinese hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients. Bone Marrow Transplant 2003;32:709-14.3
  • Leung CC, Law WS, Chang KC, Tam CM, Yew WW, Chan CK, Wong MY. Initial experience on rifampin and pyrazinamide vs isoniazid in the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection among patients with silicosis in Hong Kong. Chest 2003;124:2112-8.
  • Yew WW, Chan CK, Leung CC, Chau CH, Tam CM, Wong PC, Lee J. Comparative roles of levofloxacin and ofloxacin in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: preliminary results of a retrospective study from Hong Kong. Chest 2003;124:1476-81.
  • Wong DA, Yip PC, Tse DL, Tung VW, Cheung DT, Kam KM. Routine use of a simple low-cost genotypic assay for the identification of mycobacteria in a high throughput laboratory. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2003;47:421-6.
  • Cheng VC, Woo PC, Lau SK, Cheung CH, Yung RW, Yam LY, Yuen KY. Peripartum tuberculosis as a form of immunorestitution disease. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2003;22:313-7. Review.
  • Cheng VC, Yam WC, Woo PC, Lau SK, Hung IF, Wong SP, Cheung WC, Yuen KY. Risk factors for development of paradoxical response during antituberculosis therapy in HIV-negative patients. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2003;22:597-602.
  • El Sony Asma, Beyers N, Enarson D, Chan-Yeung M. Tuberculosis in women. Eur Respir J Monograph 25- 2003; 8:152-166.
  • Davies PD, Yew WW. Recent developments in the treatment of tuberculosis. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2003;12:1297-312.
  • So SY. The continued threat of tuberculosis. Hong Kong Med J 2003;9:77.
  • Tam CM, Leung CC, Noertjojo K, Chan SL, Chan-Yeung M. Tuberculosis in Hong Kong - patient characteristics and treatment outcome. Hong Kong Med J 2003;9:83-90.
  • Chan-yeung M, Noertjojo K, Leung CC, Chan SL, Tam CM. Prevalence and predictors of default from tuberculosis treatment in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Med J 2003;9:263-8.
  • Chan KH, Ho PL, Cheung RT, Tsang KL, Fong GC, Cheng PW, Ho SL. Tuberculous meningitis with tuberculomata presenting as postpartum pyrexia of unknown origin. Hosp Med 2003;64:306-7.
  • Yew WW, Tam CM. DOTS and DOTS-Plus in Hong Kong [letter]. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2003;7(1):99-100.
  • Yew WW, Leung SK. Prediction of residual pleural thickening in tuberculous pleural effusion. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2003;7:199-200.
  • Chau CH, Yew WW, Lam FM. Pleural effusion due to Mycobacterium gordonae infection. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2003;7:503.
  • Leung CC, Yew WW, Chan CK, Tam CM, Lam CW, Chang KC, Chau CH, Lau KS, Law WS. Smoking and tuberculosis in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2003;7:980-6.
  • Chan-Yeung M, Tam CM, Wong H, Leung CC, Wang J, Yew WW, Lam CW, Kam KM. Molecular and conventional epidemiology of TB in Hong Kong: a population-based prospective study. J Clin Microb 2003;41:2706-8.
  • Lee J, Yew WW, Wong CF, Wong PC, Chiu CS. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a lung transplant recipient. J Heart Lung Transplant 2003;22:1168-73.
  • Leung ET, Kam KM, Chiu A, Ho PL, Seto WH, Yuen KY, Yam WC. Detection of katG Ser315Thr substitution in respiratory specimens from patients with isoniazid-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis using PCR-RFLP. J Med Microbiol 2003;52(11):999-1003.
  • Wong CF, Yew WW, Leung SK, Chan CY, Hui M, Au-Yeang C, Cheng AF. Assay of pleural fluid interleukin-6, tumour necrosis factor-alpha and interferon-gamma in the diagnosis and outcome correlation of tuberculous effusion. Respir Med 2003;97:1289-95.

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2002

  • Kam KM, Yip CW, Tse LW, Leung OC, Sin LP, Chan MY, Wong WS. Trends in multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in relation to sputum smear positivity in Hong Kong, 1989-1999. Clin Infect Dis 2002;34:324-9.
  • Yew WW. Clinically significant interactions with drugs used in the treatment of tuberculosis. Drug Saf 2002;25:111-33.
  • Cheng VC, Ho PL, Lee RA, Chan KS, Chan KK, Woo PC, Lau SK, Yuen KY. Clinical spectrum of paradoxical deterioration during antituberculosis therapy in non-HIV-infected patients. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2002;21:803-9.
  • Yuen KY, Woo PC. Tuberculosis in blood and marrow transplant recipients. Hematol Oncol 2002;20:51-62. Review.
  • Chang KC, Leung CC, Tam CM. A clinical approach to tuberculosis. Hong Kong Med Ass CME Bull 2002;1-11.
  • Lee WY, Pang KY, Wong CK. Brain tuberculoma in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Med J 2002;8:52-6.
  • Leung ECC, Tam CM. Comorbidities among patients with tuberculosis in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Practitioner 2002;24:170-8.
  • Tai LB, Chan CK, Li PCK, Tam CM. "A patient with TB exacerbation" HKTS/ACCP newsletter 2002;12:16-21.
  • Vernon A, Burman W, Horsburgh CR. Another step on the path to better TB therapies (ed). Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6:1-2.
  • Tam CM, Chan SL, Kam KM, Goodall RL, Mitchison DA. Rifapentine and isoniazid in the continuation phase of a 6-month regimen. Final report at 5 years: prognostic value of various measures. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6:3-10.
  • Chan-Yeung M, Noertjojo K, Chan SL, Tam CM. Sex differences in tuberculosis in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6:11-8.
  • Noertjojo K, Tam CM, Chan SL, Tan J, Chan-Yeung M. Contact examination for tuberculosis in Hong Kong is useful. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6:19-24.
  • Yew WW, Chau CH. Utility of fluoroquinolones in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis--a balanced view? Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6174-5; author reply 175-6.
  • Chan-Yeung M, Noertjojo K, Tan J, Chan SL, Tam CM. Tuberculosis in the elderly in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6:771-9.
  • Noertjojo K, Tam CM, Chan SL, Chan-Yeung MM. Extra-pulmonary and pulmonary tuberculosis in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6:879-86.
  • Yew WW, Chan E, Chan CY, Cheng AF. Genotypic and phenotypic resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to rifamycins and fluoroquinolones. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6:936-7.
  • Yew WW, Chau CH, Lee J. Superficial fungal infection of the skin during treatment of tuberculosis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6:1132.
  • Leung CC, Yew WW, Chan CK, Chau CH, Tam CM, Lam CW, Tam WO, Lau KS, Liu WT. Tuberculosis in older people: a retrospective and comparative study from Hong Kong. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002; 50:1219-26.
  • Chang KC, Leung CC, Tam CM. Recent trend of tuberculosis in Hong Kong. Public Health & Epidemiology Bulletin 2002;11:69-75.
  • Tam LS, Li EK, Wong SM, Szeto CC. Risk factors and clinical features for tuberculosis among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in Hong Kong. Scand J Rheumatol. 2002;31:296-300.

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2001

  • Lui SL, Tang S, Li FK, Choy BY, Chan TM, Lo WK, Lai KN. Tuberculosis infection in Chinese patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Am J Kidney Dis 2001;38:1055-60.
  • Chan CY, Au-Yeang C, Yew WW, Hui M, Cheng AF. Postantibiotic effects of antituberculosis agents alone and in combination. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2001;45:3631-4.
  • Lam HT, Ho sy, Hedley AJ, Mak KH, Peto R. Mortality and smoking in Hong Kong: case-control study of all adult deaths in 1998. BMJ 2001;323:361.
  • Yew WW. Therapeutic drug monitoring in antituberculosis chemotherapy: clinical perspectives. Clin Chim Acta 2001;313:31-6.
  • Yew WW, Tong SC, Lui KS, Leung SK, Chau CH, Wang EP. Comparison of MB/BacT system and agar proportion method in drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2001;39:229-32.
  • Seto WH. Preventing nosocomial Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in international settings. Emerg Infect Dis 2001;7:245-8.
  • Yuen MC, Tung WK. An uncommon cause of foot ulcer: tuberculosis osteomyelitis. Emerg Med J 2001;18:140-1.
  • Chan MY, Borgdorff M, Yip CW, de Haas PE, Wong WS, Kam KM, Van Soolingen D. Seventy percent of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Hong Kong represent the Beijing genotype. Epidemiol Infect 2001;127:169-71.
  • Chan SL, Lee YT, Chan YC, Au YK, Yeung VT. A young male patient with persistent fever due to tuberculous peritonitis. Hong Kong Med J 2001;7:209-12.
  • Lee J, Yew WW, Wong PC, Fu KH. Non-hodgkin's pleural lymphoma in long-standing tuberculous pyothorax mimicking suppuration. Int J Infect Dis 2001;5:167-9.
  • Yew WW. Risk factors for hepatotoxicity during anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy in Asian populations. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5:99-100.
  • Chang KC, Leung CC, Tam CM. Tuberculosis risk factors in a silicotic cohort in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5:177-84.
  • Yew WW, Wong CF, Chan CY, Cheung SW, Cheng AF. Serological diagnosis of tuberculosis using IgA detection against the mycobacterial kp-90 antigen. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5:585-6.
  • Leung CC, Tam CM, Chan SL, Chan-Yeung M, Chan CK, Chang KC. Efficacy of the BCG revaccination programme in a cohort given BCG vaccination at birth in Hong Kong. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5:717-23.
  • Espinal MA, Gupta R, Raviglione MC. The future may not be so dark (ed). Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5:787-8.
  • Kam KM, Yip CW. Surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance in Hong Kong, 1986-1999, after the implementation of directly observed treatment. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5:815-23.
  • Yew WW, Chau CH, Lee J, Wong PC, Leung CK. Hoarseness due to recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy from intrathoracic mycobacteriosis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5:1074-5.
  • Green RA. Efficacy of the BCG revaccination programme in Hong Kong (letter). Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5(12):1161.
  • Fine PEM. Efficacy of the BCG revaccination programme in Hong Kong (letter). Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5(12):1161-2.
  • Wong DA, Yip PC, Cheung DT, Kam KM. Simple and rational approach to the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex species, and other commonly isolated mycobacteria. J Clin Microbiol 2001;39:3768-71.
  • Hui M, Cheung SW, Chan CY, Cheng AF. Rapid identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from Bactec 12B broth cultures originating from non-respiratory secretion specimens: comparison between Accuprobe and in-house polymerase chain reaction. Pathology 2001;33:61-5.
  • Chu CM, Yung CY, Leung WS, Chan VL, Leung EM. Early unplanned readmission of patients with newly diagnosed tuberculosis discharged from acute hospital to ambulatory treatment. Respirology 2001;6:145-9.
  • Wong GWK, Hui DSC, Tam CM, Chan HH, Fok TF, Chan-Yeung M, Lai CKW. Asthma, atopy and tuberculin responses in Chinese schoolchildren in Hong Kong. Thorax 2001;56:770-3.
  • Hoheisel G, Sach U, Hui DS, Huse K, Chan KS, Chan KK, Hartwig K, Schuster E, Scholz GH, Schauer J. Occurrence of matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases in tuberculous pleuritis. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2001;81:203-9.

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