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Wei Zhang, Qing Wang, Liru Zhang, Jiangxiong Wu, Jinlu Liu, et al.
…, bacterial genotyping has made a great contribution to the epidemiology of drug-resistant bacteria, and it should gradually become the mainstream monitoring method to be implemented.
Charles R. Newton
This chapter looks at the epidemiology of bacterial and parasitic infections of the central nervous system (CNS). Bacteria and parasites are important infections of the CNS, but the epidemiology has changed significantly over the last few decades with the introduction of vaccines…
A.S. Rodrigues, Elisabete Calabuig Chapina Ohara, Lívia Mendes Oliveira, Nathália Lima Souza
… Health. Descriptors used for the search were tuberculosis, epidemiology, incidence, vulnerability. The time frame determined 2012- 2022. RESULTS: In the stratification by Federated Unit, there is evidence of an important heterogeneity in the country, with the highest incidence c…
Lucas Gabriel Quadros Ramos, Fernanda Moreira Soares Boaventura Silveira, Jessica Elen Martins Alves, Karina Andrade de Prince
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, considering that this comorbidity represents a public health problem, it is of paramount importance to understand the associated clinical, epidemiological, and economic factors due to its high prevalence …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Maria Soledade Garcia Benedetti, Émerson Ricardo de Sousa Capistrano, Angela Maria Félix Alves Oliveira, Elba Urzedo de Freitas Lamounier, Karla Cristina Souza Rocha, et al.
Objective: To describe the epidemiological characteristics of tuberculosis among Venezuelan immigrants in the state of Roraima, Brazil. Methods: A descriptive and retrospective study, data were collected from the Information System of Notifiable Diseases - Sinan, in the period fr…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Reiko Hayashi
While medicine has been present throughout Japan’s history, health administration emerged in modern times, specifically from the Meiji era. The initial development of the health system was significantly influenced by the introduction of Western concepts and the impact of pandemic…
Rita Verstraeten, Marta Cossa, Leonardo Martínez, Kristin N. Nelson, Dinis Nguenha, et al.
Ending TB has been a global struggle for decades. Despite numerous efforts to accelerate the reduction in incidence and mortality, TB continues to be one of the top infectious killers worldwide. Global advances in reducing TB burden have been halted or reversed by the impact of t…
Koffi Herve Yangni‐Angate
Chronic constrictive pericarditis (CCP) is not rare in Africa with tuberculosis as the most common etiology. A long history of visceral tuberculosis, typical symptoms of CCP because of late clinical presentation in most cases, make diagnosis almost easy to establish. Echocardiogr…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Anna Didkowska, Monika Krajewska‐Wędzina, Blanka Orłowska, Monika Kozińska, Ewa Augustynowicz‐Kopeć, et al.
Although Poland is officially tuberculosis (TB) free, meaning that less than 0.1% of her cattle herd is TB-positive, the problem of bovine TB in Poland may be re-emerging: its presence has recently been confirmed in domestic and companion animals, wildlife such as the European bi…
Peter J. Dodd, Carel Pretorius, Brian Williams
…is chapter, we focus on mathematical models of tuberculosis epidemiology (TB) that include interactions with HIV and an explicit representation of transmission. We review the natural history of TB and illustrate how its features are simplified and incorporated in mathematical mod…
Musarrat Afza, Sam Ghebrehewet, Merav Kliner
…ing an incident control team. Background information on the epidemiology and clinical features of TB and the public health response to TB in educational, healthcare, and occupational settings are discussed. Case definitions, and a detailed risk assessment, with clear description …
Maria Helena Favarato, Victoria Luisa Pereira Aguiar, Edison Ferreira Paiva, Leonardo Oliveira Mendonça
…d, LILACS, and SciELO was reviewed to summarize evidence on epidemiology, differential diagnosis, and diagnostic strategies. **RESULTS:** Recurrent fever may arise from infectious diseases, autoimmune or autoinflammatory disorders, malignancies, metabolic or occupational conditi…