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Amanda Mabhula
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death due to a single infectious disease and remains a major threat to global public health. The increasing emergence of multi-drug resistance to current anti-TB drugs, exacerbated by the long treatment duration, highlights the need for n…
幸作 小宮
…e advanced age is a main prognostic factor in patients with tuberculosis, the factors that specifically affect tuberculosis-related death are unclear because elderly people are at a risk for other age-related lethal diseases.We hypothesized that performance status, a prognostic f…
Ann Mary Joyce
…rs ago, in 1993, the World Health Organization had declared tuberculosis (TB), a global health emergency due to its severity and consequences. An age-old disease, TB still remains a major public health problem reaching epidemic proportions in many developing countries, with a thi…
Avery Calkins
Between 1900 and 1940, tuberculosis moved from being the second highest cause of death in the United States to no longer being a leading cause of death. The historical causes of the decline in tuberculosis thus remain unclear. This paper examines the role of public health demonst…
Happy Ary Satyani, Krit Pongpirul
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the 13th leading causes of death from a single infectious agent in the world in 2019. Some of the factors that influence the tuberculosis incident in the world are caused by undernourishment, HIV infection, alcohol use disorders, smoking, and diabetes.…
GODFREY ADEBASIKU, Julius Oluka
Background Tuberculosis is an infectious airborne bacterial disease. The study aims to assess the factors contributing to non-adherence to Ani-Tuberculosis drugs among Tuberculosis Patients. Methodology A cross-sectional study was designed at Arua Regional Referral Hospital in th…
H M Rickman
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading infectious cause of mortality globally. However, significant reductions have been achieved, particularly in high-burden urban settings in southern Africa, and transmission is concentrating in vulnerable populations and neighbourhoods. This he…
Alvaro Schwalb Calderón
…de la población mundial ha sido infectada por Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), agente causante de la tuberculosis (TB). A pesar de los esfuerzos actuales, la reducción de la TB avanza lentamente. Esta tesis busca generar estimaciones precisas de la carga de infección viable por …
Bei Shi Lee
Tuberculosis is a deadly communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Recent advances have revealed that the pathogen’s energy metabolism is particularly vulnerable to chemical inhibition. For instance, Telacebec (Q203), which targets the respiratory terminal oxidas…
Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed Al‐Darraji
Background: \nPoorly managed tuberculosis (TB) control programmes in prisons have detrimental health consequences, placing prisoners at an increased risk for TB morbidity and mortality. This situation could further fuel the TB epidemic in the general population when prisoners…
Abdulloh Mazalan
…as to compare the effectiveness between the newly developed Tuberculosis Contact Reminder System (TCRS) and current system in improving the screening uptake and retention rate in the subsequent screening among TB contacts, staffs’ satisfaction and description of implementation co…
Percis Phindile Khumalo
… therapy and \nlimiting the emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis. However, the prevalence of TB \ncontinues to soar despite the available comprehensive treatment. The study \ninvestigated determinants of adherence to TB treatment and the strategies to enhance …
Mosunmula Oluwaseun Iwakun
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OFTHE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN MICROBIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY, FACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARI…
Victor Williams
…, several people continue to die from diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis annually. Current estimates show that low-resource settings, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, have the highest incidence of new tuberculosis cases, with a year-on-year increase in diabetes mellitus cases. Fu…
Henock Bekele Keto
…s factors associated with the development of drug resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia. \nDESIGN: A quantitative case-control study was conducted to determine if there were any significant differences in prevalence of pre-defined factors between cases and controls. \nMETHOD…
PHILIP MANGWI, DR. NIWAGIIRA MULODOKAYI
… of the study It was for the prevalence and risk factors of tuberculosis among patients attending to Arua Regional Referral Hospital, Arua district. The specific objectives To establish the prevalence of Tuberculosis among patients seen at Arua Regional Referral Hospital, individ…
Arunagiri Pandiyan
INTRODUCTION: According to WHO global tuberculosis report 2018, Worldwide, TB is one of the top 10 causes of death and the leading cause from a single infectious agent (above HIV/AIDS). False-negative results and misdiagnosis of TB suspects are common in developing nations, as mo…
Chu-Chang Ku
Socioeconomic barriers to tuberculosis care-seeking and costs due to care-seeking lead to unfavourable treatment, epidemiological and economic outcomes. Especially in the post-2015 era, socioeconomic interventions for tuberculosis control are receiving increasing attention. In Ta…
L. L. Wang
Tuberculosis, caused by bacteria in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, is a major global public health issue. The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis strains presents an alarming challenge to disease control, casting a shadow over the ambitious elimination goals set by …
L. J. Wang
Tuberculosis, caused by bacteria in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, is a major global public health issue. The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis strains presents an alarming challenge to disease control, casting a shadow over the ambitious elimination goals set by …
Nura Mohammad Rabiu Ahmad
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that is considered to be the biggest killer of mankind in the history of infectious diseases. There are still more than 10 million new TB cases every year and it causes more than 1.5 million deaths annually, according to World Health Org…
Themba Mzembe
…espite effective treatment being available since the 1940s, tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death by a single infectious agent. Continued transmission is one of the driving factors of the TB epidemic. In high TB and HIV prevalent settings Mycobacterium tuberculosis t…
Mota, Bárbara da Silva
A tuberculose, provocada pela Mycobacterium tuberculosis, permanece uma das principais causas de morte devido a um único agente infecioso. A vacina Bacillus Calmette-Cuérin (BCG) representa uma estratégia crucial no combate global contra a tuberculose, contudo, apresenta uma efic…
S Rajeev Gayathri
INTRODUCTION: Patients treated with pulmonary tuberculosis are frequently left with sequelae. The resulting parenchymal impairment can cause pulmonary hypertension. But tuberculosis sequelae as a cause of pulmonary hypertension have not been evaluated and remain an unmeasured bur…
Nuzulul Laili
Background: Tuberculosis, well-known as TB, was a disease that caused by the bacteria infection of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis still became a health issue both in Indonesia and in the world-wide even the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that TB as a global he…