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Г. Н. Можокина, A. G. Samoylov, I. А. Vаsilyevа
…and the prospects of their use in the treatment of multiple drug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. The article describes mechanisms of action of beta-lactams and macrolides on tuberculous mycobacteria; the results of studies and safety profiles are given.
Gudisa Bereda
…levating number of second-line medicines used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are becoming a threat to public health worldwide. Recent guidelines recommended at least 20 months of treatment, but recent regimens are toxic, poorly tolerated and insufficiently effective, w…
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…
Ganes Mahata, Rupam Kumar T. A, Pronoy Sen, Sandip Mukhopadhyay
The emergence of drug resistant mycobacterium has become a significant public health problem creating an obstacle to effective tuberculosis (TB) control. Freedom from TB is possible with timely, regular, complete treatment, with assurance, prevention and management of side effect…
Salman Khan, Nadeem ur Rehman, Mohammad Zubair, Nisar Khan
Abstract Background: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) is a growing global health concern that is a chronic danger to world health due to tuberculosis (TB). Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the frequency of both pre extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (P…
Pradeep M Muragundi
Introduction: Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a recent challenge for tuberculosis control program. The absence of the functional drugs and high rate of the failure in treatment and mortality rate also high jeopardize for epidemiology. Its prevalence is unknown…
Neetha S. Murthy, Sanjeev Nair, P. Ramya, Renu Susan George, B Ravikrishnan, et al.
Resistance to antimycobacterial agents consistently remains a major obstacle to end TB in India. Geographical prevalence data regarding drug-resistant evolutionary genetics of M. tuberculosis (MTB) remains sparse in India. Our objective was to determine the genotypic drug resista…
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…
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…
Rahul Kumar, Rajiv Garg, Silpa Kshetrimayum, Amita Jain
Background: Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a major threat to the realization of the goal of a TB free world in the near future. It is important to study the reasons for the increasing number of such cases so that effective action can be taken to control this growing epide…
Microbiologist- External Quality Assurance, State TB control Society, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Keerthivasan Gurumurthy
… concern in India especially with the increasing numbers of drug-resistant cases of tuberculosis. Lack of early diagnosis, inadequate and inappropriate treatment are the major contributors to the development of drug resistance. PMDT strategy strives for early diagnosis and approp…
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…
Yousaf Jamal, Jamal Ahmad, Afsar Ali, Mahmood Iqbal Malik, Sultan Mehmood Kamran, et al.
Objective: To study the patterns of resistance to anti tuberculosis drugs in patients of drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis. Study Design: Cross sectional analytical study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Pulmonology, PEMH Rawalpindi from Jul 2016 to Dec 2017. Metho…
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…
Parissa Farnia, Poopak Farnia, Jalaledin Ghanavi, Saeid Besharati, Ali Akbar Velayati
…ion, insertion, or substation occurred in susceptible, mono-drug and multidrug resistant-TB isolates were observed at PE-PGRS family protein Wag22 (Rv1759c) and PE_PGRS31 (Rv1768) at exponential phase. Although, a large deletion (at Rv1759c; Rv1768) was observed in extensively dr…
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…
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…
Cicilia Windiyaningsih, Hendra Badaruddin
…sistant tuberculosis is a global challenge especially multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). Drug-resistant Tuberculosis is classified as a condition where Mycobacterium tuberculosis can’t be treated with anti-tuberculosis drugs. The study aimed to determine the associated risk factor…
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…
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…
Rupam Kumar Ta, Pronoy Sen
BACKGROUND: The emergence of drug resistant mycobacterium has become a signicant public health problem creating an obstacle to effective Tuberculosis (TB) control. Freedom from TB is possible with timely, regular, complete treatment, with assurance, prevention and management of …
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…
Hanif Esmail, Gopalan Narendran, Andrew Nunn
The management of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) has been a formidable challenge for patients, healthcare providers and public health systems for many years. In particular, for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), resistant to both rifampicin and isoniazid, the available treatme…
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…
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…