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Pinto PFPS, Teixeira CSS, Ichihara MY, Rasella D, Nery JS, et al.
Background Although household contacts of patients with tuberculosis are known to be particularly vulnerable to tuberculosis, the published evidence focused on this group at high risk within the low-income and middle-income country context remains sparse. Using nationwide data fr…
Daniel W, Tadesse S, Tamirat T, Selamu M
Background The risk of tuberculosis transmission is higher among household contacts than the general population. However, there is a paucity of information that explains the risk of experiencing active tuberculosis among household contacts in countries with a high burden of tuber…
Shayan Shah, Michael Eisenhut
<b>Background:</b> Active tuberculosis has been associated with false negative interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) results. This may relate to a suppression of the interferon gamma response associated with a more extensive Mycobacterium (M.) tuberculosis infection. <b>Objective…
Jia Q, Masleša-Galić S, Nava S, Horwitz MA
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects approximately one-third of the world's population, causing active tuberculosis (TB) in ~10 million people and death in ~1.5 million people annually. A potent vaccine is needed to boost the level of immunity conferred by the current Mycobacterium…
Lennard Meiwes, Irina Kontsevaya, Dumitru Chesov, Stela Kulciţkaia, Viola Dreyer, et al.
…ce mask sampling (FMS) confirmed detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA from exhaled breath in adults with tuberculosis. To date, no study has evaluated the use of FMS to detect pulmonary tuberculosis in children. We developed a method for FMS of M. tuberculosis-specific DNA…
Bi D, Liang C, Huang X, Pan H, Qin Y, et al.
…ility of commercially available antibodies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the diagnostic assessment of suspected tuberculosis in high-burden countries. Methods We conducted a retrospective, descriptive, cohort study among participants aged ≥ 18 years with suspected tuberculosis…
Ihor Dmytrovych Duzhyi, Г.П. Олещенко, Л.А. Бондаренко
The incidence of tuberculosis in our country, according to statistics, seems to be declining. However, it should be remembered that the figures of the Crimean Autonomous Republic and the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are excluded from the digital…
Tangkat Friday Hosle
Tuberculosis is a communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, considered a major risk to global health security. This study determined the prevalence, treatment outcomes, and factors associated with tuberculosis among 737 presumptive tuberculosis patients in Federa…
Puck T. Pelzer, Logan Stuck, Leonardo Martínez, Alexandra S Richards, Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña, et al.
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis vaccine trials using disease as the primary endpoint are large, time consuming, and expensive. An earlier immunological measure of the protection against disease would accelerate tuberculosis vaccine development. We aimed to assess whether the effectivene…
G.I.A. Okoroiwu, Gloria I. Onokpise
Introduction: The occurrence of multi-drug resistance tuberculosis among tuberculosis patients has raised global public health concern, especially in Nigeria. The increase in the number of cases of resistance tuberculosis despite the effort and need to curb the menace in Nigeria …
Meiwes L, Kontsevaya I, Chesov D, Kulciţkaia S, Dreyer V, et al.
…ce mask sampling (FMS) confirmed detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA from exhaled breath in adults with tuberculosis. To date, no study has evaluated the use of FMS to detect pulmonary tuberculosis in children. We developed a method for FMS of M. tuberculosis-specific DNA…
Pelzer PT, Stuck L, Martinez L, Richards AS, Acuña-Villaorduña C, et al.
Background Tuberculosis vaccine trials using disease as the primary endpoint are large, time consuming, and expensive. An earlier immunological measure of the protection against disease would accelerate tuberculosis vaccine development. We aimed to assess whether the effectivenes…
И.А. Ратникова, А.К. САДАНОВ, Elmira Namaz, B.B. BAIMAKHANOVA, Vyacheslav G. Melnikov, et al.
Tuberculosis remains one of the most common infectious diseases worldwide. The epidemiology of this disease shows that tuberculosis caused by mycobacteria, especially Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is still widespread, especially in developing countries. The study and development of…
Honjo K, Komiya K, Kan T, Uchida S, Goto A, et al.
…e advanced age is a main prognostic factor in patients with tuberculosis, the factors that specifically affect tuberculosis-related death are unclear because elderly people are at a risk for other age-related lethal diseases. We aimed to assess the impact of performance status on…
Seid G, Alemu A, Dagne B, Sinshaw W, Gumi B
Background The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex causes tuberculosis, a severe public health problem. Close contacts of someone who has active pulmonary tuberculosis were at a greater risk of contracting the disease. Despite the large number of primary research available in Sub-…
Leni Wahyuni, Agrijanti Agrijanti, Lalu Srigede
Tuberculosis is a contagious infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis or often called Acid-Fast Bacteria (AFC). Tuberculosis positive patients must undergo treatment by administering category 1 Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs (ATD) for approximately 6-8 months…
Jong Hoon Hyun, Myeongjee Lee, Inkyung Jung, Eun‐Hwa Kim, Seung Min Hahn, et al.
…cipients are immunocompromised and vulnerable to developing tuberculosis; however, active tuberculosis incidence is rapidly declining in South Korea. To evaluate the risk of developing active tuberculosis after transplantation, risk factors for tuberculosis and standardized incid…
Leyla Larsson, Ioana Diana Olaru, Anna-Lisa Behnke, Edson T Marambire, Martha Chipinduro, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis elimination is constrained by symptom-based and sputum-dependent diagnostic strategies, which miss asymptomatic disease and are difficult to deploy in community settings. Household contacts of people with tuberculosis are a priority population for scr…
М. В. Синицын, S. V. Bykov, М. Н. Решетников, I. S. Aralova, A. G. Antipov
…pare the effectiveness of endoscopic diagnosis of bronchial tuberculosis in pulmonary tuberculosis patients with different HIV status. Subjects and Methods . The data obtained during tracheobronchoscopy in 371 respiratory tuberculosis patients from 2018 to 2020 were retrospective…
NAIBI KEITOYO Amedé, Ngandolo Bongo Naré Richard, EHCHAKBE Augustave, DJERABE Victor, HAMADOU Oumarou, et al.
…lence and factors influencing the transmission of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients followed at the National Tuberculosis Control Program (PNT) in N’Djamena at Chad. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by a bacillus called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This was a study pr…
Prabhanshu Vyas, Smriti G. Solomon
Tuberculosis is a infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculin. The disease primarily affects the lungs and cause pulmonary tuberculosis. It can also affect structure such as Intestine, meanings, bones and joints, lymph gland, skin and others tissue and body parts. The d…
Araya,Shambel, Negesso AE, Zemenu Tamir
…992 362Email zemenut266@gmail.comBackground: Drug-resistant tuberculosis remains a major public health threat complicating tuberculosis control programs globally. Data on rifampicin resistance (RR), which is a surrogate marker for multidrug resistance, are limited among Ethiopian…
Yoo-Ri Jang, Mi‐Aie Lee
…pose: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of tuberculosis-related knowledge and family support on medication adherence in tuberculosis patients.Methods: The data were collected from 175 patients diagnosed with tuberculosis at three general hospitals located in two …
Ulhas Jadhav
…ackground: Sosman and Steidl (1923) had described “diabetic tuberculosis” a specific radiological pattern in patients with diabetes mellitus associated with pulmonary tuberculosis. These lesions usually consist of wedge-shaped area of density in which there is often cavitation in…
Merina Shrestha, Priyadarshini Shah Singh, Dilasha Rana, Aakash Jayswal
Introduction: Tuberculosis is a contagious disease which has always been a challenge over the course of human history. It is known to spread mostly from persons with undiagnosed and suspected tuberculosis cases. Diagnosing tuberculosis in an early stage with effective treatment i…