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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…
Dashuki AR, Ruzlin ANM, Zamzuri MAIA, Chen XW
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 suc…
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…
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…
Sharma R, Prajapati S, Patel P, Patel B, Gajjar S, et al.
…spite the nationwide implementation of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program in India, adverse outcome after treatment is on rise. Program guidelines propose follow-up of cured patients for 2 years which is rarely done. Objectives The main objectives of this study is …
Malwe S, Bawiskar D, Wagh V
The revised National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Program is an initiative undertaken by the government of India and was active from 1997 to 2020. Later it was renamed as National TB Elimination Program, which eyes the complete eradication of TB by 2025. The revised National Tubercu…
Thibaut Morel-Journel, Christophe Guyeux, Christophe Sola
Lineage 1 is an ancestral lineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) comprising five sublineages. In a previous study, we suggested that a representative of sublineage L1.1.3, present in both Mozambique and northern Brazil, SIT129, may have been brought to Brazil by…
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 …
Kay AW, DiNardo AR, Dlamini Q, Kahari J, Mndzebele T, et al.
… are increasingly used in children to establish evidence of tuberculosis (TB) infection and to assist in the diagnosis of TB disease. The QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assay is being phased out in favor of a next-generation test, the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) assay. The Q…
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…
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…
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…
Alemu A, Diriba G, Seid G, Wondimu A, Moga S, et al.
Objectives To assess tuberculosis (TB) and associated factors among patients with presumptive TB with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Methods A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted from January to December 2023 among 381 patients with CKD attending six hospitals found in…
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…
Khader Y, Al-Rahamneh MJ, Abu Khudair S, Abaza H, Al Shatnawi A, et al.
Objectives Evaluate and determine the gaps in the National Tuberculosis Program and Tuberculosis Surveillance System in Jordan. Methods A concurrent embedded mixed quantitative/qualitative methods study was conducted to assess the National Tuberculosis Program and Tuberculosis Su…
Bhargava A, Bhargava M, Meher A, Benedetti A, Velayutham B, et al.
Background In India, tuberculosis and undernutrition are syndemics with a high burden of tuberculosis coexisting with a high burden of undernutrition in patients and in the population. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of nutritional supplementation on tuberculosi…
V. S. Krutko, L. H. Nikolaieva, Tetiana Maistat, О.A. Oparin, Anton Rohozhyn
Tuberculosis is infectious and socially dependent disease, being now one of the most pressing issues in practical health care. As well the usual types of tuberculosis infection, chemoresistant tuberculosis is spreading rapidly in the world. The WHO estimates that about 500,000 pe…
Ravindra Y Mandolikar, Raju Hanumant Patil, Narendra Madhekar
Introduction: Tuberculosis is a chronic, communicable, infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli usually affecting lungs primarily resulting in pulmonary tuberculosis. Objective: to evaluate the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) through…
Melike Hazal Can, Sedona Sweeney, Brian W Allwood, Susan E Dorman, Ted Cohen, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Untreated pulmonary tuberculosis causes ongoing lung damage, which can persist after treatment. Conventional modelling approaches for assessing tuberculosis health effects might not fully capture these mechanisms. We evaluated how tuberculosis-associated lung dama…
Simon C Mendelsohn, Humphrey Mulenga, Michele Tameris, Tumelo Moloantoa, Stephanus T Malherbe, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** More than half of tuberculosis cases detected by community prevalence surveys are classified as asymptomatic. We evaluated yield of symptom and chest radiograph screening of tuberculosis-exposed household contacts in South Africa. **METHODS:** For this prospectiv…
Nilesh NamdeoGhule, Geeta Shiroor
The high incidence of Tuberculosis is a cause for concern and a huge threat to public health globally. The delays in case detection, diagnosis, health seeking, and non-adherence to treatment are some of the reason for the high Tuberculosis burden globally. In many tuberculosis Ce…