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Al-Zanbagi AB, Shariff MK
…rld too. Its worldwide prevalence with a huge impact on the healthcare system both in economic and health terms has prompted the World Health Organization to make it a top priority infectious disease. Tuberculous infection of the pulmonary system is the most common form of this d…
Shreya Veggalam, Venkataramana Kandi
… one-fourth of all TB cases occur in India. TB is an urgent health care challenge and requires effective and well-planned actions to control and eliminate. It continues to occur in India due to issues with the healthcare infrastructure, including an overburdened system caused by …
Subramonian A, Severn M
….2 million deaths attributable to the disease. The enormous health and economic burden caused by the disease make it a major public health issue. In Canada, active TB infection rates are one of the lowest in the world. There were 1,796 active cases of TB nationwide in 2017, mostl…
Ricardo Vieira Teles Filho, Guilherme de Matos Abe, Lucas Henrique Souza de Azevêdo, Nilo Carrijo Melo, Marcelo Fouad Rabahi, et al.
…. This review highlights the role of tuberculosis in public health, especially in economically active groups where BTB is most prevalent.
P.V.R. Leelamohan, Mohan Kumar R
…ia. No other disease has so much sociological, economic and health significance as Tuberculosis has. In 2005 there were an estimated 8.8 million new cases of Tuberculosis worldwide, with 1.9 million of those occurring in India. In India in 2000, there were an estimated 481,573,00…
Aldriwesh MG, Alaqeel RA, Mashraqi AM, Mashraqi MM, Albdah BA, et al.
…sis (anti-TB) treatment and how that might affect patients' health status. Here, the prevalence and etiologies of other LRTIs in a cohort of PTB patients were determined, and the clinical features and outcomes were described. Methods Adult patients with PTB between 2015 and 2020 …
Gopalaswamy R, Subbian S, Shanmugam S, Mondal R, Padmapriyadarsini C
Diseases due to pathogenic mycobacteria cause significant health and economic impact on humans worldwide. Although mycobacterial diseases primarily affect the lungs, the involvement of extrapulmonary organs has also gained ground, particularly among individuals with co-existing m…
Sattar Najafvand Drikvand, Laleh Gharacheh, Farzad Faraji Khiavi, Soheila Najafvand Drikvand
…ergency and is one of the major threats to human and public health, more than 60 years of its medical treatment, as well as the economic and social development of societies. More than 2 billion individuals are infected with mycobacterium, causing the morbidity and mortality of 10…
Siraveni Thirupathi, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, S. Chandrababu
…ts as a social and economic burden. Tuberculosis is a major health problem in developing countries. Abdominal tuberculosis is most common extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculosis can suspect in endemic countries like India, and can have various presentations and complications, …
Muhammad Musharaf, Umer Usman
…to be disease of developing countries is now a major public health problem for developed nation as well. In two thousand seventeen 940,000 people died of AIDS-related illnesses. Pakistan ranks 5th among high burden tuberculous patients countries. Fortunately, HIV is less prevalen…
van Elsland SL, van Dongen SI, Bosmans JE, Schaaf HS, van Toorn R, et al.
…n from a societal perspective using probabilistic analysis. Health care, informal care, lost productivity costs and costs in other sectors, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and family impact were assessed during interviews with care givers, children, medical staff and manag…
Praveen Nayak, Vishnukanth Govindaraj, Dharm Prakash Dwivedi, Noyal M Joseph, T P Elamurugan, et al.
…BACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the biggest health problem in developing countries with enormous social and economic implications. The commonest form of extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) is tubercular cervical lymphadenitis, or scrofula. The diagnosis and management of TB …
Shoaib Hassan, Mala Kanthali, Manju Raj Purohit, Tehmina Mustafa
…itis and 80% of pleuritis patients experienced catastrophic health expenditures (CHE), defined as costs exceeding 20% of annual income. Up to 42% of patients were pushed below the poverty line. Asset-based inequality analysis showed that lower socioeconomic groups faced a disprop…
Tri Pitara Mahanggoro, Noor Aulia Fajriyati, Iffa Karina Permatasari
Indonesia ranks second in the world regarding tuberculosis after India. Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that can be cured if treatment is carried out quickly and precisely. Factors related to adherence to treatment, duration of treatment, socioeconomic, nutritional status, smoking…
Karthikeyan P. Iyengar, Anil Agarwal, Vijay Kumar Jain, Pranav Ish
…0' reduction in TB testing lab capacity and availability of health care staff in India.[3] The TB clinics have shut due to diversion of staff, shortage, and risk of too much social contact in these clinics. Supply chains of drugs become harder to sustain during a time of physical…
Alemayehu Molla, Birhanie Mekuriaw, H Kerebih
… Kerebih21Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia; 2Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, EthiopiaPurpose: The study aimed to assess the mag…
Patrick Angala, Beatrice Abong’o, David Masinde
… significant cause of illness and death. In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 10 million people contracted TB, resulting in approximately 1.2 million deaths. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlighted that around 3.6 milli…
Anahit Demirchyan, Varduhi Petrosyan
Abstract Background Self-rated health (SRH) is a proven strong predictor of all-cause mortality. In tuberculosis (TB) patients, poor SRH is related to higher disease severity and mortality. This study sought to prospectively measure poor SRH and identify its determinants among pr…
Hassan S, Mustafa T, Muller W, Torres L, Marijani M, et al.
…onary Tuberculosis (EPTB) poses challenges from patient and health system perspectives. The cost-effectiveness analysis of the Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) test to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis is documented. However, there are no economic evaluations for EPTB. Considering the reporte…
Febi AR, Manu MK, Mohapatra AK, Praharaj SK, Guddattu V
…valuated. We examined the level of psychological stress and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of such patients and the effect of antituberculosis therapy on them. Our prospective cohort study included newly diagnosed adult pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB patients. Assessment…
Jørstad MD, Aẞmus J, Marijani M, Sviland L, Mustafa T
…erculosis (EPTB). The aims of this study were to assess the health care seeking behaviour, EPTB knowledge and diagnostic delay in presumptive EPTB patients at the main referral hospital in Zanzibar, factors associated with longer delay, and the impact of untreated EPTB on self-ra…
Ahmed Wali, N. Safdar, Atiqa Ambreen, Sabira Tahseen, Tehmina Mustafa
…e in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. OBJECTIVE: To assess the healthcare-seeking pathways, different delays and factors associated with delays among the patients who presented in the outpatient department with tuberculous lymphadenitis and pleuritis, the most common manifestations …
Chatterjee S, Toshniwal MN, Bhide P, Sachdeva KS, Rao R, et al.
…India. This study estimates the costs of TB services from a health systems´ perspective to facilitate the efficient allocation of resources by India´s National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme. METHODS: Data were collected from a multi-stage, stratified random sample of 20 faci…
Evelina Lesnic, L.D. Todoriko, Ihor Semianiv, Adriana Niguleanu
…targeted interventions to mitigate the pandemic's impact on healthcare control efforts, addressing both clinical and social determinants of TB. Materials and methods. A prospective, case-control study which included 270 patients with pulmonary TB registered during 2020—2023, when…
Benjamin Hegarty, Paula Jops, Janet Gare, Jane Greig, Herick Aeno, et al.
… consistent calls to incorporate gender frameworks into One Health research and policy. Men's and women's roles in relation to animals in many rural and agricultural communities may influence potential pathogen exposure and transmission patterns of zoonotic infectious diseases. H…