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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…
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…
Kübra Yıldırım, Cemilenur Ataş, Ece Şimşek, Ahmet Yılmaz Çoban
…evaluate the AYC-SENSITIVE® kit for rapid detection of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) isolates. With the AYC-SENSITIVE® kit, a total of 36 isolates for susceptibility testing were evaluated (5 of which are standard (…
Shirin Tarafder, Bayzid Bin Monir
…a and to determine any relationship of these genotypes with drug resistance the most essential method is molecular typing. It allows a rapid and precise species differentiation. Objective: This study was intended to observe the genotypes of XDR mycobacterium tuberculosis by deter…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sadhana Awasthi, Neha Verma, Ram Gopal Nautiyal, Hariom Kumar Solanki
Background: Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) has frequently been encountered in India, and its presence has been known virtually from the time anti-TB drugs were introduced for the treatment of Tuberculosis. Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a man-made phenomenon a…
…le and author information Metrics Abstract The emergence of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is alarming and demands in-depth knowledge for timely diagnosis. We performed genome-wide association analysis using 2237 clinical strains of Mtb to identify novel gene…
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…
Bashir Ullah, Rukhsana Saboor, Muhammad Zahid Iqbal, Atiq Ahmad Bhatti, Abad Ur Rehman, et al.
Aim: To determine the frequency of pre-extensively drug resistant tuberculosis, extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Study design: Retrospective/observational Place and duration of study: Department of Medicine, Bolan Medical…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…