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Jieying Wang, Jinhui Dong, Zhuolin Chen, Yuni Xu, Wenhua Qiu, et al.
**OBJECTIVE:** Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) remains a major public health challenge in China. Hainan, China's largest tropical island, possesses distinct socio-geographical features. However, the drug resistance patterns and molecular epidemiology of MDR-TB in this r…
Mogashoa T, Melamu P, Derendinger B, Ley SD, Streicher EM, et al.
The emergence and transmission of multidrug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) strains is a threat to global tuberculosis (TB) control. The early detection of drug resistance is critical for patient management. The aim of this s…
Javed H, Bakuła Z, Pleń M, Hashmi HJ, Tahir Z, et al.
…longside the 6th among countries with the highest burden of drug-resistant TB, including multi-drug resistant (MDR)-TB. Methods for rapid and reliable drug susceptibility testing (DST) are prerequisite for the prompt institution of effective anti-TB treatment. The aim of this stu…
Shah I, Poojari V, Meshram H
…high burden countries for tuberculosis (TB) including multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively-drug resistant (XDR) TB. Drug-resistant (DR) TB has threatened the TB care and is a major health problem in many countries; treatment of DR TB has been difficult requiring use o…
Ghajavand H, Kargarpour Kamakoli M, Khanipour S, Pourazar Dizaji S, Masoumi M, et al.
…eness, it is essential to gain an in-depth insight into the drug resistance mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( M. tuberculosis ). Methods In this study, we evaluated the contribution of 26 drug efflux pumps plus target gene mutations to the drug resistance levels in multi…
LaFreniere M, Dam D, Strudwick L, McDermott S
Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a public health issue of global importance that poses a threat to TB control efforts. Canada conducts nationwide surveillance to monitor emerging drug resistance trends and document progress towards reaching the goal of TB eliminatio…
Mujuni D, Kasemire DL, Ibanda I, Kabugo J, Nsawotebba A, et al.
Background Second-line drug resistance (SLD) among tuberculosis (TB) patients is a serious emerging challenge towards global control of the disease. We characterized SLD-resistance conferring-mutations among TB patients with rifampicin and/or isoniazid (RIF and/or INH) drug-resis…
Chiang SS, Brooks MB, Jenkins HE, Rubenstein D, Seddon JA, et al.
Background Household contacts of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) are at high risk for being infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and for developing TB disease. To guide regimen composition for the empirical treatment of TB infection and disease in these househo…
Mehrian P, Farnia P, Jalalvand D, Chamani MR, Bakhtiyari M
Purpose Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is simultaneously resistant to isoniazid and rifampin. Of course, this germ may also be resistant to other anti-tuberculosis drugs. Patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) are also resistant to all types of…
Monir BB, Sultana SS, Tarafder S
…um tuberculosis (MTB) contribute to regional differences in drug resistance. The emergence of pre-extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (Pre-XDR-TB) becomes obstacles to achieve End TB strategy in Bangladesh. This cross-sectional study was conducted to identify the strains of d…
Mphande-Nyasulu FA, Puengpipattrakul P, Praipruksaphan M, Keeree A, Ruanngean K
…erall, 70.4% of cases were male and 29.6% were female. Mono-drug-resistant TB, multi-drug-resistant TB and extensively-drug-resistant TB were observed in 2.72%, 4.1% and 0.68% of cases, respectively. Although not statistically significant, individuals with comorbidities had a 2.1…
Pan Y, Yu Y, Yi Y, Dou X, Lu J, et al.
Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) and drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) are serious global public health problems. This study aimed to explore the differences in drug resistance between DR-TB patients with and without DM. Risk factors for developing multidrug-resistant tubercul…
Alarcon-Braga EA, Salazar-Valdivia FE, Estrada-Grossmann JM, Mendez-Guerra C, Pacheco-Barrios N, et al.
Background The growing threat from pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) poses a major public health concern in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Therefore, this study aimed to summarize the available ev…
Bainomugisa A, Lavu E, Hiashiri S, Majumdar S, Honjepari A, et al.
An outbreak of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) has been reported on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea. Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains driving this outbreak and the temporal accrual of drug resistance mutations have not been described. Whole genome sequencing of 100 o…
Lan Y, Li Y, Chen L, Zhang J, Zhang H
… TB in 2017. The objectives of this study were to determine drug resistance profiles of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates and to analyze the trends in drug-resistant and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from 2008 to 2015 at a major hospital in Guizhou, a high-…
Li Q, Gao H, Zhang Z, Tian Y, Liu T, et al.
The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is involved in ineffective treatment of TB, especially multidrug resistant/extensively resistant TB (MDR/XDR-TB), leading to acquired resistance and transmission of drug-resistant strains. Second-line drugs (SLD), including both f…
Cai X, Xu X, He G, Jiang X, Wu L
… a global public health concern. This study aims to compare drug resistance in drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients with and without DM and analyse the risk factors of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Methods A total of 893 DR-TB patients were admitted to Wenzho…
Li Z, Liu F, Chen H, Han Y, You Y, et al.
…alence and significant clinical outcomes of pre-extensively drug-resistant plus additional drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR-plus) in Henan Provincial Chest Hospital between 2017 and 2021. Methods We analysed and summarized the drug sensitivity test (DST) results of clinical M…
Ketema DB, Alene M, Assemie MA, Yismaw L, Merid MW
Background The emergency of drug resistant tuberculosis is a major public health concern worldwide including Ethiopia. However, little is known about risk factors of mortality among drug resistant tuberculosis patients in the study site. Thus, this study was aimed to estimate the…
Zhao JL, Liu W, Xie WY, Cao XD, Yuan L
…control of TB are greatly difficult, due to the increase in drug-resistant TB, particularly multidrug-resistant TB. We speculated that there were some differences between drug-sensitive and drug-resistant MTB strains and that mazEF 3,6,9 toxin-antitoxin systems (TASs) were involv…
Yadav R, Saini A, Mankotia J, Khaneja R, Agarwal P, et al.
Rapid detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is important for the successful treatment of tuberculosis. Fluoroquinolone and aminoglycoside resistance detection by molecular methods becomes more complex due to cross resistance among them. Thus, we aimed to dete…
Chen Yang, Guangchuan Dai, Yicheng Guo, Tianzhen Wang, Weiwei Gao, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Drug-resistant tuberculosis has emerged as a major public health issue that requires immediate attention. NTS is an innovative method that allows for the direct detection of clinical samples without the need for culture. It could provide more accurate, reliable, a…
Oostvogels S, Ley SD, Heupink TH, Dippenaar A, Streicher EM, et al.
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), defined as resistance to at least isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RIF), a fluoroquinolone (FQ) and a second-line injectable drug (SLID), is difficult to treat and poses a major threat to TB control. The transmission dynamics and dist…
Bwire Wilson Bwire, Maurice C Y Mbago, Amina S Msengwa
**BACKGROUND:** The prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) multi-drug resistance is increasing worldwide, including in Tanzania. This trend hinders the attainment of sustainable development goal number three as it increases the number of cases of the disease and treatment costs. Fewer c…
Kateete DP, Kamulegeya R, Kigozi E, Katabazi FA, Lukoye D, et al.
…g cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Drug resistance, a huge problem in this contagious disease, is driven by point mutations in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome however, their frequencies vary geographically and this affects applicability of molecular…