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Guangtian Liu, Jufen Lv, Linlin Chen, Yinglong Ma, Bofei Liu, et al.
**INTRODUCTION:** China is one of the three countries with the largest TB burden globally, with an increased number of patients reported in 2021. **OBJECTIVE:** In this study, we aimed to investigate the epidemiological profile of tuberculosis (TB) and the genotype characteristi…
Parul Verma, Geeti Khullar, Satyaki Ganguly, P Narsimha Rao, Pragya Nair, et al.
…articles on this subject, reviews the present literature on epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features and types of CTB, including its associations and investigations.
Luis M Rodríguez-Martínez, Jose L Chavelas-Reyes, Carlo F Medina-Ramírez, Eli Fuentes-Chávez, Zurisaday S Muñoz-Troncoso, et al.
…f drug-resistant strains. This work addresses the molecular epidemiology of TB in the Mexican context, emphasizing its role in understanding transmission, genetic diversity, and resistance mechanisms. To achieve this, we reviewed molecular typing approaches including spoligotypin…
Luis M Rodríguez-Martínez, Jose L Chavelas-Reyes, Carlo F Medina-Ramírez, Jorge A Valdés-González, Eli Fuentes-Chávez, et al.
…ons in maintaining endemicity. Recent advances in molecular epidemiology, such as PCR, MIRU-VNTR, and whole-genome sequencing, provide promising avenues for surveillance and control. Finally, we discuss the importance of adopting a One Health framework that bridges veterinary, me…
Rodica Anghel, Antonia-Ruxandra Folea, Vlad-Luca Moga, Cristian Pavel, Diana Troncotă, et al.
…ugh 27 December 2025 was performed, focusing on lung cancer epidemiology, screening, implementation barriers, risk stratification, and adjunctive diagnostic approaches in the four selected CEE countries. A total of 297 articles were included.The evidence confirms a persistently h…
Jorge Varanda, Ana Abecasis
In 1988, the remote mining town of Dundo, in Lunda-Norte, Angola, displayed an anomalously high HIV-1 prevalence of 14.2%, despite the absence of recognised epidemic drivers. Archival and epidemiological evidence suggests that colonial medical interventions, rather than sexual tr…
Danielle L Silva, Nalu T A Peres, Daniel A Santos
…risk factors associated with coinfections, pathophysiology, epidemiology, and the challenges of early diagnosis. Recognizing the substantial worldwide public health burden posed by fungal coinfections is crucial to improve survival rates.
Jamal Hassan Mohamoud, Mohamed Hussein Adam, Ahmed Mahad Sheikh Mohamed, Mohamed Adam Mahamud, Hodo Aideed Asowe
… narrative review synthesizes the available evidence on the epidemiology of TB in Somalia, examines the health system and socio-environmental determinants of transmission, reviews the national TB control response, and highlights key challenges and future directions for TB elimina…
Defne Yigci, İlker Kayı, Yusuf Ziya Demiroğlu, Murat Kutlu, Zeki Kılıçaslan, et al.
… health challenge. We provide an overview of the current TB epidemiology in Turkey, highlighting key findings related to TB incidence, diagnostic challenges, and treatment outcomes. **RESULTS:** A gradual decline in TB incidence in Turkiye has been observed over recent year…
Olivier Uwishema, Lydia Daniel Bisetegn, Pascaline Munezero, Courage Chandipwisa, Gerard Nkurunziza, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Communicable diseases remain a major public health challenge in Rwanda, contributing significantly to morbidity and mortality. Despite notable progress in reducing the burden of infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis, recent threats, inclu…
Emmanuel M Sindato
…w aims to summarise tuberculosis and diabetes double burden epidemiology, the overlap, the current moment and future prospects, including exploration of cost-effective interventions to enhance tuberculosis and diabetes integrated care. A literature search was conducted in Pu…
Mariona Cortacans, Nino Gogichadze, Pablo Soldevilla, Zoran Stojanovic, Onno Akkerman, et al.
This review brings together global data on bacterial, fungal, nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) and viral infections that complicate the course of individuals following the diagnosis of pulmonary or extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB). It shows how residual structural lung damage (…
Rajwinder Kaur, Varsha Sharma, Anju Kumari
Female genital tuberculosis (FGTB), a form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is an under-recognized but significant cause of female infertility, particularly in developing countries. It primarily spreads through the hematogenous route and …
Agata Maciejak-Jastrzębska, Grażyna Sygitowicz, Sylwia Brzezińska, Kinga Bielska, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć
…logical and structural characteristics of mycobacteria; the epidemiology of the disease; and the role of the main diagnostic methods; with a particular focus on molecular methods and MALDI-TOF MS. This paper highlights their advantages and limitations and discusses their implicat…
Alanna Bergman, Tania Thomas
Tuberculosis (TB) remains an ongoing threat. TB requires exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but disease development is driven by exposure, infectiousness, susceptibility, and environment. TB elimination requires increased awareness about TB prevention and treatment strategie…
L M Méndez-Rodríguez, L C Nocua-Báez, G Mejía-Salgado, A de-la-Torre, C A Álvarez-Moreno
Infectious uveitis is an inflammation of the uveal tract, corresponding to the middle layer of the eye, triggered by a response against an infectious agent. This condition is classified into anterior, intermediate, posterior and panuveitis. The most frequent infectious agents in …
Bogdan Sendrea, Argyrios Periferakis, Aristodemos-Theodoros Periferakis, Ioannis Xefteris, Lamprini Troumpata, et al.
Spinal infections in general, and infectious spondylodiscitis in particular, are increasingly diagnosed in the Western world, in recent decades. This rise in incidence is associated with an ageing population and with an increased availability of accurate diagnostic modalities. Ev…
Mohit Goyal, Sham Santhanam
Tropical rheumatic diseases (TRDs) can be due to infectious as well as non-infectious causes. General and disease-specific risk factors have been identified as reasons for the prevalence of these diseases in the tropics. Predisposing factors such as higher temperatures and humidi…
Leong Tung Ong
Recent population-based studies conducted in Asia have revealed a notable increase in the overall incidence of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infection, coinciding with a decline in tuberculosis (TB) cases. The incidence of NTM infection has exceeded that of TB in Japan, with …
Ben J Marais, H Simon Schaaf
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of disease and death in young children from TB-endemic countries, especially in areas affected by poverty, social disruption, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. This article reviews the disease burden and the natural history of di…
Gustavo Esteban Lugo-Zamudio, Oscar Sosa-Hernández, Briceida López-Martínez, Clemente Cruz-Cruz, Emilio Mariano Durán-Manuel, et al.
…iological surveillance issued by the General Directorate of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health. However, both diseases, mainly in the chronic state, present challenges because of their ability to mimic autoimmune disorders. This review explores the phenomenon of clinical and …
Justin Devine, Bart Jacobs, Isabel Leroux-Roels, Geert Leroux-Roels, Robbert van der Most
With ageing populations, the prevalence of different types of dementias is increasing. The pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, has been linked to the presence of plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the central nervous system of patients. Th…
Nathalia M Correa-Valencia, Jorge A Fernández-Silva
…ormation compiled over the last 100 years to understand the epidemiology and public health response to PTB in Colombia. Using four academic databases, we retrieved articles that mentioned MAP/PTB in Colombia, had no language limitations, and were published between 1924 and 2024. …
Ashok Kumar Pannu
…among the leading causes. This article reviews the evolving epidemiology of PUO in LMICs and proposes a structured, stepwise diagnostic approach that integrates local epidemiology, potential diagnostic clues, targeted investigations, and whole-body imaging to improve diagnostic a…
Cristina Cioti, Miruna Cristian Gherase, Irina Tica, Gabriela Fricatel, Elena Ciciu, et al.
Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and lung cancer (LC) are major causes of global respiratory morbidity and mortality. Increasing evidence suggests that tuberculosis may induce persistent pulmonary alterations that extend beyond microbiological cure, potentially facilitating lung carc…