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Pankaj Gupta, Lalit Nainiwal
Background: Tuberculosis is deadliest disease killing nearly 2 million people every year. Before the etiologic cause of TB was determined by Koch, cod liver oil and sunlight, both sources of vitamin D, were used in treatment of tuberculosis. After discovery of antibiotics, anti-i…
Anita Nur Charisma, Winariani Koesoemoprodjo
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) in extra-pulmonary organs, such as bone and joint TB, has an incidence rate of 19% of the cases and represents 11-15% of all extra-pulmonary TB. The predilection of bones and joints is the most common predilection with more than 10% of the cases. Gon…
T. Nanthini, Karaline Karunagari
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease which spreads from one person to another which has a devastating impact on the economic well-being of the individual, their families, and the entire community. The effective engagement of all health care providers especially nursing personnel…
Berlian Beatrix Rarome, Nurul Aisah, Retno Asih Setyoningrum, Ni Made Mertaniasih
The diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis remains a challenge worldwide. The GeneXpert MTB/RIF test, a rapid Mycobacteria tuberculosis diagnostic tool, was recommended for use in children. No pediatric studies of GeneXpert MTB/RIF assessing pulmonary tuberculosis within a hospital …
Divya Dayal
Background of the Study: Tuberculosis is a global public health issue despite the discovery of the causal bacterium over 100 years ago and availability of effective medications and vaccines for prevention and cure. Tuberculosis has a global incidence rate of 119 per lakh, with lo…
Joshua Rosenheim, Markos Abebe, Mulugeta Belay, Begna Tulu, Dawit Tayachew, et al.
Human exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is thought to result in a spectrum of outcomes including bacillary clearance, quiescent Mtb infection, incipient tuberculosis, subclinical tuberculosis and active tuberculosis [1]. Incipient tuberculosis - defined as a prolonged …
Adane Bitew, Solomon Bati
…y mycosis is increasing and often misdiagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis in developing countries where the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis is high. Objective: To determine the prevalence of pulmonary mycosis and pulmonary tuberculosis fungal co-infections. Methods: A hospita…
Agus Khoirul Anam
Abstract: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by germs of a group of mycobacterium namely mycobacterium tuberculosis. The objective of the research is to identify Tuberculosis patients complaints in side effects of drug treatment anti-tuberculosis and factors that influe…
Nkechi Eucharia Egbe, Azizat Olatunji, Peter A. Vantsawa
The accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB), detection of drug‐resistant TB and knowledge of the associated risk factors can reduce transmission of TB in the community. Therefore this study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Mycobaterium tuberculosis ( MTB ) and its r…
M. S. Ramya, Jyothi Jadhav, T S Ranganath
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a top infectious disease killer worldwide. In India although Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) has seen significant success in TB treatment, patient non-adherence or lost to follow up continue to persist and are influenced by…
D. S. Esmedlyaevа, Н. П. Алексеева, Marina Dyakova
…of adverse treatment outcomes in individuals with pulmonary tuberculosis (PT) is relevant due to the worldwide increase in drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MBT) strains to anti-tuberculosis drugs (PTP). Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their tissue inhibitors (T…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…