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Yun‐Jeong Jeong, Jae Seuk Park, Hyung Woo Kim, Jinsoo Min, Yousang Ko, et al.
<b>Background:</b> Tuberculosis (TB) remains an unresolved public health problem and is the leading cause of death attributable to a single infectious pathogen. The first step in developing strategies to reduce TB mortality is to identify the direct causes of death in patients wi…
World Health Organization
…entation guide provides operational guidance for conducting tuberculosis (TB) epidemiological reviews and assessments of TB surveillance and vital registration systems within the framework of national TB programme reviews. The document describes the rationale, objectives and meth…
María Vitale
Mycobacterium bovis is considered the proxy for zoonotic tuberculosis by international health organisations. However, in a large screening study of 940 mycobacteria-positive cultures from hospitalised patients, mainly from India and some from Bangladesh and Nepal, Shannon C Duffy…
Anthony Kodzo-Grey Venyo
Cases of tuberculosis of the testis, epididymis, scrotum and or the penis including the urethra are very rare even though pulmonary tuberculosis is common globally. In view of the fact that tuberculosis of the scrotum and scrotal contents and penis is rare, it would be envisaged …
Douglas Wilson, Patrick Cudahy, Paul K. Drain
Clinicians need improved tests to diagnose tuberculosis, especially in people living with HIV. Sputum-based molecular tests (eg, the Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert Ultra assays, Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) perform well in adults with presumptive tuberculosis who are HIV-positive (ie, s…
V. S. Krutko, L. H. Nikolaieva, Tetiana Maistat, О.A. Oparin, Anton Rohozhyn
Tuberculosis is infectious and socially dependent disease, being now one of the most pressing issues in practical health care. As well the usual types of tuberculosis infection, chemoresistant tuberculosis is spreading rapidly in the world. The WHO estimates that about 500,000 pe…
Ravindra Y Mandolikar, Raju Hanumant Patil, Narendra Madhekar
Introduction: Tuberculosis is a chronic, communicable, infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli usually affecting lungs primarily resulting in pulmonary tuberculosis. Objective: to evaluate the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) through…
Nilesh NamdeoGhule, Geeta Shiroor
The high incidence of Tuberculosis is a cause for concern and a huge threat to public health globally. The delays in case detection, diagnosis, health seeking, and non-adherence to treatment are some of the reason for the high Tuberculosis burden globally. In many tuberculosis Ce…
Fernanda Bruzadelli Paulino da Costa, Mark P. Nicol, Maresa Botha, Lesley Workman, Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio, et al.
BACKGROUND: Paediatric tuberculosis leads to more than 200 000 deaths annually. We aimed to investigate the incidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease in the first decade of life in the Drakenstein Child Health Study (DCHS), a South African cohort …
D. M. Kutuzova, T.E. Tyulkova, Valentina Tinkova
…enting with limited pulmonary damage, who were monitored in tuberculosis care institutions. Patients and Methods: a retrospective study was conducted based on medical record analysis of patients observed for tuberculosis in an antituberculosis dispensary during 2020–2021. Initial…
Cosmas Kenan Onah, Benedict Ndubueze Azuogu, Edmund Ndudi Ossai, Adaoha Pearl Agu, Victoria Chioma Azuogu, et al.
Abstract Background: A major constraint to tuberculosis control is low case finding with under-reporting to national authorities. Evidence shows that Patent Medicine Dealers are first port of call for most people with symptoms of tuberculosis, yet there is poor referral of such c…
Visensius Krisdianilo, Vincentia Ade Rizky, Saadah Siregar, Asvia Rahayu
Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is known as a highly pathogenic bacterium. These bacteria are aerobic in shape like rods and have resistance to acids. This bacteria can cause tuberculosis (TB). TB disease has been widely recognized as a cause of death which is quite high i…
Expert Group on TB Recording and Reporting Forms and Registers, World Health Organization, World Health Organization
Rana Al Hamawi
Population Medicine considers the following types of articles:• Research Papers -reports of data from original research or secondary dataset analyses.• Review Papers -comprehensive, authoritative, reviews within the journal's scope.These include both systematic reviews and narrat…
World Health Organization
Alejandro Quiroz Compeán, José de J. Cendejas Gomez, A. Gangemi, Alfredo Ponce‐de‐León, Mariano J. Sotomayor de Zavaleta, et al.
…: Kidney & Bladder II (MP77)1 Apr 2020MP77-06 GENITOURINARY TUBERCULOSIS: IS IT CLINICALLY RELEVANT TO DIFFERENTIATE MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS FROM MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS? Alejandro Quiroz Compeán*, José de J. Cendejas Gomez, Adrian M. Garza Gangemi, Alfredo Ponce de Leon, Mariano …
Şua Sümer, Nazlım Aktuğ Demir, Onur Ural, Fatma Çölkesen
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that can affect all organs and tissues. The clinical forms of primary cutaneous tuberculosis are tuberculosis primary complex (tuberculosis chancre) and tuberculosis cutis miliaris (miliary cutaneous tuber…
Niladrita Deb -
…A study to assess the effectiveness of STP on prevention of tuberculosis among care takers of patients with tuberculosis visited at selected hospital of Kanpur. The objective of the study was to assess the pretest and post - test level of knowledge regarding prevention of tubercu…
Raju Hanumant Patil, Ravindra Y Mandolikar, Narendra Madhekar
Background: Tuberculosis is a very ancient disease of mankind; its description has been found in Hippocrates (460-377BC) observation, the ancient Buddhist and Chinese writing. Objective: To evaluate the RNTCP through assessment of treatment outcome of the pulmonary tuberculosis p…
Phe Tran Thi, Quyen Bui Thi Tu, Hoa Nguyen Binh
…d: The study aims to describe the knowledge and practice of tuberculosis prevention among family members of pulmonary tuberculosis patients being treated at Da Nang Lung Hospital in 2023 and some associated factors. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 168 family mem…
Chandulal, Rohan Naik
Tuberculosis is the major public health concern globally. Cardiovascular involvement was observed in 1-2% of cases with pulmonary tuberculosis. The present study was designed to assess the ECG changes in pulmonary tuberculosis before and after anti-tuberculosis therapy. A total o…
Shayan Shah, Michael Eisenhut
<b>Background:</b> Active tuberculosis has been associated with false negative interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) results. This may relate to a suppression of the interferon gamma response associated with a more extensive Mycobacterium (M.) tuberculosis infection. <b>Objective…
Lennard Meiwes, Irina Kontsevaya, Dumitru Chesov, Stela Kulciţkaia, Viola Dreyer, et al.
…ce mask sampling (FMS) confirmed detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA from exhaled breath in adults with tuberculosis. To date, no study has evaluated the use of FMS to detect pulmonary tuberculosis in children. We developed a method for FMS of M. tuberculosis-specific DNA…
Ihor Dmytrovych Duzhyi, Г.П. Олещенко, Л.А. Бондаренко
The incidence of tuberculosis in our country, according to statistics, seems to be declining. However, it should be remembered that the figures of the Crimean Autonomous Republic and the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are excluded from the digital…
Tangkat Friday Hosle
Tuberculosis is a communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, considered a major risk to global health security. This study determined the prevalence, treatment outcomes, and factors associated with tuberculosis among 737 presumptive tuberculosis patients in Federa…