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Mousumi Saha, Indrani Sarkar, Arnab Sen
…gnificant role in the evolutionary study of these bacteria. Tuberculosis, a noxious bacterial disease caused by M. tuberculosis, has infected a large section of the population throughout the world, including India. M. tuberculosis is the most successful pathogen of this genus tha…
William R. Jacobs
Tuberculosis (TB) has been a leading cause of death throughout human history. The World Health Organization reported over 1.6 million deaths from TB and over 10 million new cases of TB in 2017, making TB the single leading cause of death from an infectious agent today. The chemic…
Sunil Chandrasen Chand
…years of age. A relationship between Takayasu arteritis and tuberculosis has been suggested for a long time. The cause of TA is unknown, but a link between TA and tuberculosis (TB) has been proposed. Mikito Takayasu, a Japanese ophthalmologist, described the first instance of Tak…
Gloria Guillermina Guerrero Manríquez
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb). TB causes mortality of millions of people every year. Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette Güerin (BCG) is the only officially approved vaccine that protects against miliary TB and children bu…
Abdul Karim Siddiqui, Vijay Kumar Garg, Vikrant Sharma
…and incomplete or unnoticed follow-up may trouble pulmonary tuberculosis patient. Any delay in diagnosing TB may lead to interrupting governments’ campaigns to eliminate national TB control programs. Improper planning and lengthy treatment may affect your bills. The wrong predict…
G. Mac-Fiberesima, SD Abbey, C. K. Wachukwu, O. Azuonwu
Tuberculosis is a life-threatening infectious disease that is responsible for the death of most people all over the world. It is characterized by coughing, fever, night sweats and loss of weight due to the pathology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that causes the disease. In some c…
Deepak V. Sawant, Shivaji H. Pawar, Rajendra Patil, Siddhi Sawant
…iologically documented new cases of pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis of any gender and age group or untreated MTB cases and patients with anti-tuberculosis drug therapy in the past 6 months. Exclusion criteria include patients with anti-TB therapy or its constituent drugs in …
Abdul Karim Siddiqui, Vijay Kumar Garg
Tuberculosis, as a contagious pulmonary disorder, may spread easily from an infected person to a non-infected person. The Microbiologically Confirmed Pulmonary TB Survey done from 2019–2021 in a population aged ≥ 15 years shows Delhi with 534 per lakh at the top among the high pr…
Cynthia A. Bonville, Joseph B. Domachowske
Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infection is transmitted person to person via the airborne route through inhaling infected aerosols. Affected individuals are often completely asymptomatic with the only evidence for inf…
Manish Dwivedi, Priya Giri
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadly diseases in the present era caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Principally, this bacterium attacks the lungs, however, MTB Has been observed affecting any part of the human body including the kidney, spine, and brain. Drug-resistant progr…
Jay Mehta, Asim K. Dutt
This chapter investigates how the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) has changed in recent years due to shifting demographic trends. Although the incidence of TB in the United States has followed a generally downward trend in recent decades, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and an increase i…
David Kusner
The interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with human macrophages are central to all aspects of the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, from initial infection to reactivation disease. Characterization of the biochemical mechanisms by which macrophages respond to M. tuberculosis has…
Igor Mokrousov
Abstract Dissemination of epidemic Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains is a global concern, and any world region may be at risk of their introduction. This is a well-known cliché, but the reality is more nuanced. Based on the analysis of East-Asian and Euro-American lineages of M.…
P Gunavathy, B. Usharani, Muthukumar Anbazhagi, R Venkateswari, B. Revathi Mani, et al.
It is crucial to rapidly and accurately diagnose tuberculosis (TB) to reduce morbidity, mortality, and the risk of transmission. A simple, cost-effective diagnostic test to rapidly detect M. tuberculosis in clinical samples is essential. We evaluated an in-house diagnostic test b…
Indu Verma, Khushpreet Kaur
…es have contributed significantly towards medical advances. Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is one of the deadly diseases, and worldwide millions of people suffer from TB and die every year. Diagnostics constitutes the most important component of TB…
Bernadette Dian Novita, Ari Christy Mulyono, Ferdinand Erwin
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), remains the biggest infection burden in the word. Rifampin (RIF) and Isoniazid (INH) are the most effective antibiotics for killing M.tb. However, the resistance rate of rifampin and INH are high and lead to almost 35% tr…
Saeed Albogami, Abdelfattah Touman
…into the adjacent tuberculous cavity. The incidence of such tuberculosis related pulmonary vascular complication is extremely rare, hence, under recognized by many physicians. Pulmonary pseudoaneurysms are challenging to treat because they cause life-threatening hemoptysis. Furth…
Priya Shrivastava, Laxmikant Gautam, Anamika Jain, Nikhar Vishwakarma, Sonal Vyas, et al.
…an relations. Antibiotic resistant strains of mycobacterium tuberculosis have threatened the progress in management and control of worldwide epidemic of tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis intrinsically resists many antimicrobials, limiting the number of compounds available …
Simon Tiberi
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a thin, aerobic, non-spore forming, slow-growing (doubling time twelve hours) non-motile rod-shaped bacteria, belonging to the family Mycobacteriaceae. Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex is made up of several species, including M. tuberculosis,…
Pailin Kongmebhol, José Florencio F. Lapeña
Tuberculosis of the head and neck accounts for approximately one-third of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. From the surgical perspective, cervical lymph nodes, deep neck spaces, and salivary glands may be covered by head and neck surgery, while the ear, nose, and throat are tradition…
Lydia Gibango, Anna-Mari Reid, Jonathan L. Seaman, Namrita Lall
Tuberculosis is a prevalent disease that poses a serious threat to human health. Relevant and reliable research can help in improving tuberculosis control globally. Drug development is considered one of the top priorities in tuberculosis research, followed by diagnosis, diagnosti…
Kaviyashruthi Thamilselvi Senthivel, Tatineni Saiteja, Beaulah Jeyavathana, M. Uma
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the foremost global issues, especially in resource-poor setups that lack diagnostic equipment. This study seeks to generate highly advanced models using deep learning algorithms in order to autonomously detect tuberculosis and precisely visualize the a…
Vaishali N. Pardeshi, Tushar Lokhande, Khemchand R. Surana, Ashwini Shelke, Yogita B. Thombare
Tuberculosis (TB) is still a significant public health issue across the world, especially with the advent of multidrug-resistant TB. The incapacity of humans to manage this illness derives from the fact that formerly successful TB vaccinations and treatments are no longer effecti…
Heini Hakosalo
…akes use of an extensive collection of written, unpublished tuberculosis-related illness narratives to analyze the experience of tuberculosis and tuberculosis sanatoria “from below” within the context of twentieth-century Finland. Hakosalo argues that by linking their personal il…
Tatiana Chiriac, Evelina Lesnic, Serghei Ghindă, Ludmila Rudi, Liliana Cepoi
…ocytes collected form 65 patients, new cases with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). The patients were distributed in the main study group, which included 34 cases with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), divided in the 1st study group with 12 cases with primary drug-resistance and the 2n…