Showing 51–75 of 200 documents
Sorted by hybrid relevance (keyword + semantic via RRF)
da Costa FBP, Nicol MP, Botha M, Workman L, Arcêncio RA, et al.
Background Paediatric tuberculosis leads to more than 200 000 deaths annually. We aimed to investigate the incidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease in the first decade of life in the Drakenstein Child Health Study (DCHS), a South African cohort i…
Fernanda Bruzadelli Paulino da Costa, Mark P. Nicol, Maresa Botha, Lesley Workman, Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio, et al.
BACKGROUND: Paediatric tuberculosis leads to more than 200 000 deaths annually. We aimed to investigate the incidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease in the first decade of life in the Drakenstein Child Health Study (DCHS), a South African cohort …
Saunders MJ, Wingfield T, Datta S, Montoya R, Ramos E, et al.
…eness of social protection and biomedical interventions for tuberculosis-affected households might be improved by risk stratification. We therefore derived and externally validated a household-level risk score to predict tuberculosis among contacts of patients with tuberculosis. …
Marcy O, Goyet S, Borand L, Msellati P, Ung V, et al.
Background There is no gold standard for tuberculosis diagnosis in children. Clinical Case Definitions for Classification of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children were proposed by international experts in 2012 and updated in 2015. We aimed to compare the 2012 and 2015 Clinical C…
D. M. Kutuzova, T.E. Tyulkova, Valentina Tinkova
…enting with limited pulmonary damage, who were monitored in tuberculosis care institutions. Patients and Methods: a retrospective study was conducted based on medical record analysis of patients observed for tuberculosis in an antituberculosis dispensary during 2020–2021. Initial…
Oo MM, Tassanakijpanich N, Phyu MH, Safira N, Kandel S, et al.
Background The comorbid presence of tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus has become an increasingly important public health threat to the prevention and control of both diseases. Thus, household contact investigation may serve a dual purpose of screening for both tuberculosis and d…
Visensius Krisdianilo, Vincentia Ade Rizky, Saadah Siregar, Asvia Rahayu
Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is known as a highly pathogenic bacterium. These bacteria are aerobic in shape like rods and have resistance to acids. This bacteria can cause tuberculosis (TB). TB disease has been widely recognized as a cause of death which is quite high i…
Alrajhi AA, Alotaibi J, Alghamdi AM, Almanea H, AlSebayel M, et al.
Objectives Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA has been detected in multiple organs in people without active tuberculosis or a history of tuberculosis. Molecular testing for metabolic activity has suggested that M tuberculosis DNA represents viable bacilli. Whether transplanted organs…
Cosmas Kenan Onah, Benedict Ndubueze Azuogu, Edmund Ndudi Ossai, Adaoha Pearl Agu, Victoria Chioma Azuogu, et al.
Abstract Background: A major constraint to tuberculosis control is low case finding with under-reporting to national authorities. Evidence shows that Patent Medicine Dealers are first port of call for most people with symptoms of tuberculosis, yet there is poor referral of such c…
Onah CK, Azuogu BN, Ossai EN, Agu AP, Azuogu VC, et al.
Background A major constraint to tuberculosis control is low case finding with under-reporting to national authorities. Evidence shows that Patent Medicine Dealers are first port of call for most people with symptoms of tuberculosis, yet there is poor referral of such clients to …
Chen J, Xu Z, Xu H, Bai L
Objectives Reducing mortality during anti-tuberculosis treatment is crucial for completing full-course standardized therapy and achieving tuberculosis cure. The study aims to analyze the mortality and its influencing factors among pulmonary tuberculosis patients undergoing anti-t…
Hao X, Bai J, Ding Y, Wang J, Liu Y, et al.
…ty of traditional etiological methods to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis rapidly and effectively, the antibody responses against 38kD and 16kD-antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( M. tuberculosis ) were both detected in order to obtain a better serological detection method fo…
Rana Al Hamawi
Population Medicine considers the following types of articles:• Research Papers -reports of data from original research or secondary dataset analyses.• Review Papers -comprehensive, authoritative, reviews within the journal's scope.These include both systematic reviews and narrat…
Alejandro Quiroz Compeán, José de J. Cendejas Gomez, A. Gangemi, Alfredo Ponce‐de‐León, Mariano J. Sotomayor de Zavaleta, et al.
…: Kidney & Bladder II (MP77)1 Apr 2020MP77-06 GENITOURINARY TUBERCULOSIS: IS IT CLINICALLY RELEVANT TO DIFFERENTIATE MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS FROM MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS? Alejandro Quiroz Compeán*, José de J. Cendejas Gomez, Adrian M. Garza Gangemi, Alfredo Ponce de Leon, Mariano …
Gemechu Gelana Ararame, Birbirsa Sefera Senbeta, Tesfaye Negesa Liche, Elias Zewdu Sileshi
Comorbid diseases are complex diseases associated with tuberculosis that may affect tuberculosis treatment outcomes and mortality. The impact of comorbid diseases on tuberculosis treatment outcomes and mortality is not well known in Ethiopia. To assess the impact of comorbid dise…
Menzies NA, Swartwood NA, Cohen T, Marks SM, Maloney SA, et al.
Background For settings with low tuberculosis incidence, disease elimination is a long-term goal. We investigated pathways to tuberculosis pre-elimination (incidence Methods Using a mathematical modelling framework, we simulated how US tuberculosis incidence could be affected by …
Şua Sümer, Nazlım Aktuğ Demir, Onur Ural, Fatma Çölkesen
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that can affect all organs and tissues. The clinical forms of primary cutaneous tuberculosis are tuberculosis primary complex (tuberculosis chancre) and tuberculosis cutis miliaris (miliary cutaneous tuber…
Phe Tran Thi, Quyen Bui Thi Tu, Hoa Nguyen Binh
…d: The study aims to describe the knowledge and practice of tuberculosis prevention among family members of pulmonary tuberculosis patients being treated at Da Nang Lung Hospital in 2023 and some associated factors. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 168 family mem…
Niladrita Deb -
…A study to assess the effectiveness of STP on prevention of tuberculosis among care takers of patients with tuberculosis visited at selected hospital of Kanpur. The objective of the study was to assess the pretest and post - test level of knowledge regarding prevention of tubercu…
Raju Hanumant Patil, Ravindra Y Mandolikar, Narendra Madhekar
Background: Tuberculosis is a very ancient disease of mankind; its description has been found in Hippocrates (460-377BC) observation, the ancient Buddhist and Chinese writing. Objective: To evaluate the RNTCP through assessment of treatment outcome of the pulmonary tuberculosis p…
Chandulal, Rohan Naik
Tuberculosis is the major public health concern globally. Cardiovascular involvement was observed in 1-2% of cases with pulmonary tuberculosis. The present study was designed to assess the ECG changes in pulmonary tuberculosis before and after anti-tuberculosis therapy. A total o…
Meier NR, Sutter TM, Jacobsen M, Ottenhoff THM, Vogt JE, et al.
Rationale Tuberculosis diagnosis in children remains challenging. Microbiological confirmation of tuberculosis disease is often lacking, and standard immunodiagnostic including the tuberculin skin test and interferon- γ release assay for tuberculosis infection has limited sensiti…
Silva S, Arinaminpathy N, Atun R, Goosby E, Reid M
Background The tuberculosis targets for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for a 90% reduction in tuberculosis deaths by 2030, compared with 2015, but meeting this target now seems highly improbable. To assess the economic impact of not meeting the target until 2045…
Reichler MR, Khan A, Sterling TR, Zhao H, Moran J, et al.
Background The risk and timing of tuberculosis among recently exposed close contacts of patients with infectious tuberculosis are not well established. Methods We prospectively enrolled patients ≥15 years of age with culture-confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis and their close contac…
Chiang SS, Murray MB, Kay AW, Dodd PJ
Introduction During adolescence, tuberculosis incidence rises, with a greater increase in males compared with females. Tuberculosis notifications and estimates infrequently disaggregate adolescent age groups. Moreover, the factors that drive the increases in overall incidence and…