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Lifan Zhang, Huimin Ma, Qiping Ge, Yueqiu Zhang, Xiaochun Shi, et al.
Abstract Background To establish the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) specific IFN-γ/IL-2/TNF-α-FluoroSpot assay, and preliminarily evaluate its accuracy of differential diagnosis of active tuberculosis (ATB) and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Methods Patients with patholo…
Shaohua Yao, Yan Jy, Li L, Daqing Ma, Jun Liu, et al.
…Wang,1 Aimin Wang,1 Fangjin Bao,1 Zekun Zhang,1 Xundi Bao1 1Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment Institute of Anhui Province (Anhui Chest Hospital), Hefei 230022, Anhui, People’s Republic of China; 2Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei Fourt…
Anuradha Kalotra, Dinesh Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Arvind Kumar Yadav, Kiran Lachala, et al.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) patients suffer enormously due to huge cost on diagnosis and treatment. This study aims to assess the total expenditure and its predictors among patients of TB. Methodology: A longitudinal study was conducted among TB Patients registered in first qua…
O. A. Zhurilo, A. I. Barbova, P.S. Trophimova, S.V. Mironchenko
…ng the Xpert MTB/XDR method in the algorithm for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in Ukraine. Materials and methods. 51 strains of M. tuberculosis (MBT) were studied using Xpert MTB/XDR cartridges, the LPA method and the BASTEC system: 16 MTB strains of the control panel with known r…
Peter M. Mbelele, Emmanuel Mpolya, Elingarami Sauli, Bariki Mtafya, Nyanda Elias Ntinginya, et al.
Abstract Background Rifampin or multidrug-resistant-tuberculosis (RR/MDR-TB) treatment has transitioned to injectable-free regimens. We tested whether M. tuberculosis ( Mtb ) elimination rates measured by molecular bacterial load assay (TB-MBLA) in sputa correlate with compositio…
S. Saxena, Palak Bhikharbhai Patel, Drushi Patel, Ankur Shah
Patellar tuberculosis (TB) is an uncommon occurrence and has been sparsely reported in the literature. Imaging plays a key role in its diagnosis, as clinical symptoms vary and are often unspecific. We present two cases of isolated patellar tuberculosis, its classical imaging feat…
Y J Li, Yachun Wang, Lukuan Wei, Wei Wang
… the clinical utility of urinary routine and renal function、Tuberculosis antibody test (TB-DOT) or T-cell spot tests for TB infection(T-SPOT.TB) in blood, either separately or in combination, for the diagnosis of urinary tuberculosis (UTB). Methods Retrospective analysis of urina…
A R Dashuki, Aimi Nadira Mat Ruzlin, Mohd ‘Ammar Ihsan Ahmad Zamzuri, X W Chen
INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major global health challenges and concerns. Despite the availability of effective treatment in Malaysia, it remained a consistently high notification rate of TB cases. The objective of this study was to determine the proportion of su…
Hasto Yuwono
… method and presents an innovative approach for eradicating tuberculosis through the PDCA cycle. The focus is on setting goals for progress and creating strategies to reach them. The research proposes a new innovation, Smantub, combined with technology to decrease TB cases. Findi…
Rim Abbas, Ali Salami, Ghassan Ghssein
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that primarily target the lungs. The transmission of this disease occurs through the air in the form of droplet nuclei. Unfortunately, there has been an emergence of resistance to strains of such infections, such as mu…
Yusup Subagio Sutanto, Magdalena Sutanto, Agnes Sri Harti, Nony Puspawati
… this research is to study the sensitivity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates from suspect TB patients to seromucous of snail and chitosan as an alternative to anti-TB drugs.
 Methods: The research methods include management specimen, freeze-drying of snail seromuc…
Ricvan Dana Nindrea, Milya Novera, Armaita, Long Chiau Ming, Lemmuel Tayo, et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) treatment adherence remained a major challenge in high-burden settings, and psychosocial factors such as TB-related stigma and patient motivation may be associated with whether patients completed therapy. This study examined the relationships between TB-related …
T. Anupama, Megha Priyadarshini, Swaraj Sinha, Smiti Narain, Pritam Ghosh, et al.
Background: To increase community participation in tuberculosis (TB) elimination efforts, the government of India has launched ‘Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharath Abhiyan’ (PMTBMBA) under the national TB elimination programme. The scheme allows interested parties (Ni-kshay mitras) to…
Dickens Odongo
Tuberculosis from a TB hotspots map (Appendix 1) in 3 parishes of Kitwe Central, Rukoni, and Kafunjo between December 2020 to September 2021. Areas with more than 31.8 cases of TB as per the hotspot map guided the team on where to put outreach posts. The team mobilized those with…
Linda B.K.
Tuberculosis (TB), despite availability of preventive and curative measures, remains a public health challenge, ranked among leading contributors of mortality globally, even with enactment of global and national control statergies.
Yun‐Jeong Jeong, Jae Seuk Park, Hyung Woo Kim, Jinsoo Min, Yousang Ko, et al.
<b>Background:</b> Tuberculosis (TB) remains an unresolved public health problem and is the leading cause of death attributable to a single infectious pathogen. The first step in developing strategies to reduce TB mortality is to identify the direct causes of death in patients wi…
Lynn Sosa, Gibril J. Njie, Mark N. Lobato, Sapna Bamrah Morris, William G. Buchta, et al.
…dated recommendations for screening health care workers for tuberculosis, including eliminating serial screening in the absence of exposure or ongoing transmission. This article presents updated recommendations for screening health care workers for tuberculosis, including elimina…
Delia Goletti, Seif Al-Abri, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Cecilia S. Lindestam Arlehamn, Pranabashis Haldar, et al.
Every year, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is commemorated on March 24 and is targeted at raising public and political awareness of TB, a preventable and treatable disease. World TB Day commemorates the day in 1882 when Professor Robert Koch announced his discovery of the microbial …
Michael Lauzardo, Meghan Nodurft-Froman
Until recently, tuberculosis in children has received little attention from the international public health community, despite it being a key sentinel event indicating recent transmission and hence a window into efforts to control transmission.1Shingadia D Novelli V Diagnosis and…
Eskild Petersen, Martin Rao, Giuseppe Ippolito, Gina Gualano, Jeremiah Chakaya, et al.
Tuberculosis today remains the world's number one cause of death from an infectious disease (WHO, 2018aWHO World Health Organization. Global tuberculosis report.2018Google Scholar). According to data from the World Health Organization Global Tuberculosis Report (WHO, 2018aWHO Wor…
María Vitale
Mycobacterium bovis is considered the proxy for zoonotic tuberculosis by international health organisations. However, in a large screening study of 940 mycobacteria-positive cultures from hospitalised patients, mainly from India and some from Bangladesh and Nepal, Shannon C Duffy…
Anthony Kodzo-Grey Venyo
Cases of tuberculosis of the testis, epididymis, scrotum and or the penis including the urethra are very rare even though pulmonary tuberculosis is common globally. In view of the fact that tuberculosis of the scrotum and scrotal contents and penis is rare, it would be envisaged …
Douglas Wilson, Patrick Cudahy, Paul K. Drain
Clinicians need improved tests to diagnose tuberculosis, especially in people living with HIV. Sputum-based molecular tests (eg, the Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert Ultra assays, Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) perform well in adults with presumptive tuberculosis who are HIV-positive (ie, s…
MV Smilianska, AY Volianskyi, LA Sukhanova, NV Kashpur
…ades, great changes have taken place in the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB), which are reflected in the change in the statistical indicators of the spread of tuberculosis, due to both the infectious and social nature of the disease. At the end of the 20th century, after a long …
Takele Teklu, Biniam Wondale, Biruhalem Taye, Milkessa Hailemariam, Shiferaw Bekele, et al.
Additional file 3: Supplemental database 3. Global ANOVA analysis to identify the proteins that showed significant differences among the eight groups (HC, LTBI, NTM, and TB) in plasma samples with and without stimulation. To perform the quantization analysis, the LFQ values of ea…