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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…WHO European Region carries only 3% of the global burden of tuberculosis (TB), it has one of the highest proportions of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). Despite a steady decline in TB burden during last decade, TB remains a public health threat in the Region. In 2016, the Region …
Masjedi, M.R., Cheragvandi, A., Hadian, M., Velayati, A.A.
…essed reasons for delay between patient's first symptoms of tuberculosis and initiation of therapy. Fifty newly diagnosed cases of pulmonary tuberculosis admitted to the NRITLD in Teheran were studied. Mean patient delay before consulting a physician was 12.5 +/- 10 days, signifi…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
The first annual report on tuberculosis control in the Eastern Mediterranean Region documents the activities and progress made in tuberculosis control in the Region during 2008. It is aimed at programme managers, policy-makers and physicians delivering care to patients symptomati…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
To address a decrease in notifications for tuberculosis (TB), Belarus introduced Xpert MTB/RIF testing, which is a rapid diagnosis test for TB and for rifampicin sensitivity, in patients with COVID-19 admitted to repurposed departments at TB hospitals. The WHO Regional Office for…
Hamze, M., Rahmo, A., Saade, M.
…cessfully applied in evaluating epidemiological linkages in tuberculosis. A total of 87 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were collected from patients in all regions of Lebanon and characterized in terms of drug sensitivity. Double-repetitive-element polymerase chain reactio…
Rahmo, A., Hamze, M.
The role of previous treatment in the dynamics of tuberculosis transmission has not been adequately investigated. Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from previously treated patients [n = 88] from all regions of Syrian Arab Republic were characterized in terms of antibiotic sensi…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Tuberculosis (TB), especially drug-resistant TB, is a public health challenge in both civilian and penitentiary sectors worldwide. The global End TB Strategy envisages specific measures to be taken by WHO Member States globally to tackle the problem and address the …
Marjani, M., Baghaei, P., Tabarsi, P., Shamaei, M., Mansouri, D., et al.
Patterns of drug resistance in recurrent cases of tuberculosis may be different than in those without a history of treatment. In this retrospective study, the drug resistance pattern and outcome of treatment with DOTS category I [CAT I] regimen was compared in 63 recurrent cases …
World Health Organization, Consultation on the Application of Tuberculosis Control within Primary Health Care Activities (1986 : Geneva)
…and managerial problems encountered in efforts to integrate tuberculosis control into primary health care systems. Conveying the collective views of 27 experts in tuberculosis and public health, the book issues guidance on the basis of technical knowledge and practical experience…
World Health Organization
…d for the detection of drug resistance in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex as part of the World Health Organization prequalification assessment of in vitro diagnostics. Developed within the WHO prequalification framework, the document establishes standardized procedures for…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…rteenth meeting of the European Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Control (TAG-TB) was held on 19–21 May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was held virtually, allowing for all participants to participate remotely. The objectives of the meeting were to (i) adv…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…e Ninth Meeting of the European Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Control was held in Copenhagen on 25–26 November 2014. The objectives of the meeting were to: (i) review the epidemiology of TB and drug-resistant TB in the WHO European Region, including the burdens and tre…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Tuberculosis: Voices of the Unheard is a pictorial based on a photo shoot conducted by Italian photographer Ricardo Venturi and sponsored by WHO and the Stop TB Partnership in Afghanistan in 2007. The photo shoot was carried out in conjunction with the visit of global Stop TB Amb…
World Health Organization
Tuberculosis remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, with progress towards elimination increasingly constrained by funding gaps, health system disruptions and recent reductions in international development assistance. This policy brief examines approaches to …
Al Jabri, A.A., Dorvlo, A.S.S., Al Rahbi, S., Al Abri, J., Al Adawi, S.
This study in Oman investigated knowledge about tuberculosis among 142 medics [medical students, paramedics] and 133 non-medics [arts and social science students]. Knowledge was assessed using a validated questionnaire with 28 statements on general knowledge, risk factors and dia…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
… high levels of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis in the European prison population, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, in collaboration with the institutions participating in the WHO health in prisons pro…
World Health Organization
…quencing (NGS) into surveillance systems for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). Developed to complement existing WHO guidance on tuberculosis surveillance and sequencing technologies, the document outlines strategic, technical and operational considerations for implementing NGS…
Kamel, M.I., Rashed, S., Foda, N., Mohie, A., Loutfy, M.
…ences in health care utilization and outcome of respiratory tuberculosis was carried out in Alexandria, Egypt. A cohort of 334 patients was followed-up for 8 months; 69.2% of cases were males. The pattern of tuberculosis symptoms was similar for both sexes. Women started treatmen…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…ol for identifying and addressing health system barriers to tuberculosis (TB) prevention, care and control. It provides managers of national TB control programmes tools to assess the performance of the general health system in providing essential functions of the TB control progr…
Sadeghi Hassanabadi, A., Yaghout, M.
The relation between drug addiction and tuberculosis was assessed in a comparative prevalence study. A group of 561 male addicts were compared with a group of 1532 non-addicts of similar sociocultural background. The results of infection rate showed a statistically significant di…
Wahdan, I.H., Sherif, A.A., Arafa, M.
To estimate tuberculosis incidence in Egypt, data were collected from national tuberculosis case notification records, vital registration statistics, tuberculin surveys and treatment outcomes. An important source of information was the national comprehensive tuberculin survey res…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…or Europe organized a high-level event to commemorate World Tuberculosis Day on 24 March 2014, marking the discovery of the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) by Robert Koch on 24 March 1882. A high-level panel discussed the progress in, challenges for and n…
Jabbar, A., Hussain, S.F., Khan, A.A.
…view was made of the records of all patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus admitted over a 5- year period to a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Among 42358 the total number with both tuberculosis and diabetes was 173. The prevalence of tuberculosis pati…
Bedrossian, N., Hamze, M., Rahmo, A.K., Jurjus, A., Saliba, J., et al.
Genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Lebanon on the national level may be beneficial for assessing patients and monitoring the therapeutic response to DOTS. This study aimed to characterize the spoligotypes of clinical isolates of M tuberculosis patients collected between Apr…
Baassi, L., El Fenniri, L., Bourkkadi, J., Benjalloun, C., Cherkaoui, I., et al.
…lysed 2 evaluation lots of the TB IgA EIA test in pulmonary tuberculosis patients [TBp]. Sera were obtained from 345 TBp, 18 healthy subjects [HS], 28 subjects in contact with tuberculous patients [CS] and 16 non-tuberculous lung disease patients [N-TB] for the first evaluation l…