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Constance A Benson, MD, Umesh Lalloo, MD, FRCP
…, safe, and effective co-treatment regimens for HIV-related tuberculosis (TB) among patients who require protease inhibitor (PI)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART). This study compared three alternative co-treatment options among participants in high TB endemic resource-constrain…
Ayola A Adegnika, MD, PhD
…ber of adverse events of with confirmed multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patient treated with a 9months regimen. Study participants will be followed up, under existing protocol derived from a study protocol developed by the "Union internationale contre les maladies respiratoires…
Yap JB Boum II, PhD
…e the performance of PCR in identification and detection of tuberculosis using DNA extracts from stained slides (Ziehl Neelsen and Fluorescence) and Filter paper (FTA card and Genocard). The secondary objectives of this study are to assess the MTB extraction yield from smear-neg…
NanoPin Technologies, Inc.
…stigate the accuracy of the NanoDetect-TB kit in diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) using frozen serum and plasma samples collected from individuals suspected to have TB disease. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are: * How does this investigational device compare to the gold …
Angella Musiimenta, PhD
…e Wallet- a behavioral and economic intervention to support tuberculosis treatment adherence in rural southwestern Uganda. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are: • Determine the optimal design and develop My Mobile Wallet as an intervention to support tuberculosis medicati…
Beijing Hospital
Background: Drug resistant tuberculosis is a serious public health problem that threatens the health of human life and the development of society and economy. At present, the diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis mainly depends on traditional drug susceptibility test. But it …
Stichting Longartsen voor Afrika
…ted to determine whether in patients who are diagnosed with tuberculosis on a clinical basis (where tuberculosis is not found in the sputum) might have other lung diseases than tuberculosis. Depending on the precise nature of your complaints, additional investigations shall be r…
Sophia B Siddiqui, M.D.
Background: * Tuberculosis is a disease of the lungs caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). The most popular and least expensive tool used to detect the presence of the tuberculosis bacteria is called sputum smears, which is a lab test used to look …
Dr Govind K Makharia, MD, DM, DNB
Most of the guidelines on the treatment of tuberculosis suggest that 6 months treatment is sufficient for extrapulmonary tuberculosis except for bone tuberculosis and tubercular meningitis. Despite these recommendations, most physicians treating abdominal tuberculosis use antitub…
Nawal Salahuddin, MBBS,FCCP
Tuberculosis is a global public health problem. One third of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis (TB) with almost 2 million deaths per year globally. According to the WHO, Pakistan ranks 8th amongst the 22 high TB burden countries, with an estimated prevalence is…
Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Surabaya
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) infection is still a problem that cannot be overcome in Indonesia. In 2018 the number of tuberculosis (TB) sufferers in Indonesia reached more than 850/100,000 population, an increase around 20% from the previous year's incidence. One …
West China Hospital
Organ transplant recipients are a high incidence group of tuberculosis infection, and the incidence rate is 7-27 times that of the general population. The prevention of postoperative tuberculosis infection is an important part of kidney transplant recipients postoperative follow-…
Beijing Chest Hospital
…t has shown promising application prospects in the field of tuberculosis treatment in recent years. Studies have demonstrated that contezolid exhibits comparable anti-tuberculosis activity to linezolid both in vitro and in vivo, and even superior intracellular bactericidal activi…
Sophia B Siddiqui, M.D.
… the immune system responds to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria (bacteria that cause tuberculosis) in order to better understand how the germ produces infection and how the immune response might work to control the infection. Only about one in 10 people infecte…
Clifton E Barry, Ph.D.
…Korea, will examine why some people are more susceptible to tuberculosis (TB) than others and why some strains of M tuberculosis (the bacteria that causes TB) are more difficult to treat or become resistant to drug treatments. The study will compare blood samples and other medica…
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Tuberculosis represents the second highest death rate from an infectious disease in the world, just after COVID-19. The most affected department of France is Seine-Saint-Denis. Since 2005, this department with difficult socio-economic conditions has the highest incidence rate in …
Meng-Chih Lin, MD
Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains at epidemic levels globally. Innate and adaptive immune responses evolve as protective mechanisms against mycobacterial infection in humans. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are transmembrane proteins characterized by an extracellular l…
Anuradha Rajamanickam, PhD
… the causative agent of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Tuberculosis (TB) is the foremost cause of infectious deaths globally. In 2025, an additional 1.4 million TB deaths could occur as direct consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is postulated that individuals with laten…
Ravinder Goswami, MD, DM, SK Sharma, MD, PHD, DK Mitra, MBBS, PhD, Urvashi B Singh, MD, PhD, Nandita Gupta, PhD, et al.
Tuberculosis and vitamin D deficiency are important public health problems in India. Before the advent of effective antitubercular therapy, patients with tuberculosis were advised treatment and rest at sanatorium where sunshine was available in plenty. There have been reports ass…
Seiwon Lee
…oom or are hospitalized For patients who diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis or extrapulmonary tuberculosis using Xpert TB/RIF, additionally, diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis or extrapulmonary tuberculosis using a new diagnostic method, and check the test results. Check whether the tu…
Atlanta VA Medical Center
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by a bacterium (a germ) that can cause illness in any organ of the body, but most frequently causes disease of the lungs. TB is short for tuberculosis. Treating TB requires several months (usually 6 months) of treatment, with the first 2 months be…
Tulane University
Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose diagnostic challenges in low- and middle-income countries with high rates of TB disease, due to the well-described impact of paucibacillary disease in children, and current TB culture and polymerase-chain reaction tests are of limited…
Huashan Hospital
Female genital tuberculosis infection (FGTB) is an important cause of female infertility in TB-endemic areas. The pregnancy rate of assisted reproductive treatment (ART) in the infertile women with FGTB is still unsatisfied even after receiving standard anti-tuberculosis treatmen…
Ying Liang, M.D.
…substantial health and economic burden worldwide. Pulmonary tuberculosis has been confirmed as an important risk factor for COPD and this specific phenotype is thereby named as "tuberculosis-associated COPD". Although it is a generally accepted concept, several relevant problems …
Andrew Moss
…erence to biweekly directly observed prophylaxis (DOPT) for tuberculosis in homeless adults in San Francisco. BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis was on the decline from the mid 1950s until the mid 1980s; however, the United States is now experiencing a resurgence of tuberculosis. In 1992…