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Shreya Veggalam, Venkataramana Kandi
… one-fourth of all TB cases occur in India. TB is an urgent health care challenge and requires effective and well-planned actions to control and eliminate. It continues to occur in India due to issues with the healthcare infrastructure, including an overburdened system caused by …
Angela Loyse, MD
…oject is investigating whether the DREAMM interventions (1) Health system strengthening, 2) Co-designed education programs tailored to frontline healthcare workers, 3) Implementation of a diagnostic and treatment algorithm and, 4) Communities of practice in infectious diseases an…
Ricardo Vieira Teles Filho, Guilherme de Matos Abe, Lucas Henrique Souza de Azevêdo, Nilo Carrijo Melo, Marcelo Fouad Rabahi, et al.
…. This review highlights the role of tuberculosis in public health, especially in economically active groups where BTB is most prevalent.
P.V.R. Leelamohan, Mohan Kumar R
…ia. No other disease has so much sociological, economic and health significance as Tuberculosis has. In 2005 there were an estimated 8.8 million new cases of Tuberculosis worldwide, with 1.9 million of those occurring in India. In India in 2000, there were an estimated 481,573,00…
Sattar Najafvand Drikvand, Laleh Gharacheh, Farzad Faraji Khiavi, Soheila Najafvand Drikvand
…ergency and is one of the major threats to human and public health, more than 60 years of its medical treatment, as well as the economic and social development of societies. More than 2 billion individuals are infected with mycobacterium, causing the morbidity and mortality of 10…
Siraveni Thirupathi, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, S. Chandrababu
…ts as a social and economic burden. Tuberculosis is a major health problem in developing countries. Abdominal tuberculosis is most common extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculosis can suspect in endemic countries like India, and can have various presentations and complications, …
Muhammad Musharaf, Umer Usman
…to be disease of developing countries is now a major public health problem for developed nation as well. In two thousand seventeen 940,000 people died of AIDS-related illnesses. Pakistan ranks 5th among high burden tuberculous patients countries. Fortunately, HIV is less prevalen…
Titilade Kehinde Ayandeyi Teibo
…dy comprises TB cases reported by the Oyo State Ministry of health between 2015 and 2019. The spatial analysis technique was applied to analyze the spatial distribution of incidence and mortality rate of TB. To identify areas with spatial dependence of TB, the Gi* technique was u…
Titilade Kehinde Ayandeyi Teibo
…dy comprises TB cases reported by the Oyo State Ministry of health between 2015 and 2019. The spatial analysis technique was applied to analyze the spatial distribution of incidence and mortality rate of TB. To identify areas with spatial dependence of TB, the Gi* technique was u…
Tri Pitara Mahanggoro, Noor Aulia Fajriyati, Iffa Karina Permatasari
Indonesia ranks second in the world regarding tuberculosis after India. Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that can be cured if treatment is carried out quickly and precisely. Factors related to adherence to treatment, duration of treatment, socioeconomic, nutritional status, smoking…
Karthikeyan P. Iyengar, Anil Agarwal, Vijay Kumar Jain, Pranav Ish
…0' reduction in TB testing lab capacity and availability of health care staff in India.[3] The TB clinics have shut due to diversion of staff, shortage, and risk of too much social contact in these clinics. Supply chains of drugs become harder to sustain during a time of physical…
Alemayehu Molla, Birhanie Mekuriaw, H Kerebih
… Kerebih21Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia; 2Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, EthiopiaPurpose: The study aimed to assess the mag…
Patrick Angala, Beatrice Abong’o, David Masinde
… significant cause of illness and death. In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 10 million people contracted TB, resulting in approximately 1.2 million deaths. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlighted that around 3.6 milli…
Anahit Demirchyan, Varduhi Petrosyan
Abstract Background Self-rated health (SRH) is a proven strong predictor of all-cause mortality. In tuberculosis (TB) patients, poor SRH is related to higher disease severity and mortality. This study sought to prospectively measure poor SRH and identify its determinants among pr…
Aliasgar Esmail, MD FCP
…ermine the true cost of diagnosing and treating EPTB to the health system and patients, and we will determine how IRISA-TB could potentially result in cost savings.
Melissa Davidsen Jørstad
Tuberculosis (TB) is still a major global public health concern. Of the 7 million incident TB cases recognized by the World Health Organization in 2018, 15% were extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases. Diagnosing EPTB remains a challenge despite continuing efforts and progress …
Ahmed Wali, N. Safdar, Atiqa Ambreen, Sabira Tahseen, Tehmina Mustafa
…e in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. OBJECTIVE: To assess the healthcare-seeking pathways, different delays and factors associated with delays among the patients who presented in the outpatient department with tuberculous lymphadenitis and pleuritis, the most common manifestations …
Evelina Lesnic, L.D. Todoriko, Ihor Semianiv, Adriana Niguleanu
…targeted interventions to mitigate the pandemic's impact on healthcare control efforts, addressing both clinical and social determinants of TB. Materials and methods. A prospective, case-control study which included 270 patients with pulmonary TB registered during 2020—2023, when…
Eloise T. M. Filardi, Roberto Carlos Cruz Carbonell, Fernando R. Pavan, Felipe A. Cerni, Manuela B. Pucca
…onsiderable socioeconomic impact. When employed as a public health strategy, vaccines are widely considered one of the best investments available, primarily due to their exceptional cost-effectiveness (4). The benefits of vaccination extend far beyond the immediate prevention of …
Shoaib Hassan, Tehmina Mustafa, Bjarne Robberstad, Ole Frithjof Norheim
…rculosis (EPTB), despite its high disease-burden, Universal Health Coverage (UHC) implementation remains growing a public health concern. <h3>Methods</h3> We conducted a prospective cohort study from August 2014-2015 at Mnazi-Mmoja Hospital, Zanzibar. EPTB patients were interview…
Anindya Adhikari, Tripti Rani Das, Ashis Sardar, Anuradha Sinha, Arijit Majumdar, et al.
Background: The most common site of tubercular infection is lungs, but various extrapulmonary sites also can be affected by tuberculosis (TB). Very few fine-needle aspiration-based studies supplemented by cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test (CBNAAT) and radiology have…
Chikwaiwa, Belamino K.
…s also recommended that the state and interested players in health combine their efforts in retooling the soft and hardware of things at the hospital. This can be done through the provision of modern equipment, infrastructure, qualified and motivated staff to operate TB hospitals…
Carlos Eduardo Freitas Dantas, Maria Luisa Souza de Paula, Thiago Sales, Mylena Etelvina de Macedo Alves, Pedro Henrique Matheus Leão dos Santos, et al.
…is ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis ) remains a relevant public health challenge in Brazil, with 30,259 cases recorded in Recife between 2013 and 2023. The municipality accounts for 45.1% of tuberculosis diagnoses in the state, standing out as the epicenter of the disease in Pernambu…
Rahana Pervin, M Atiqul Haque, Tanjela Bushra, Syeda Afroz, Sudipta Das, et al.
…sociation with EPTB, while the absence of ventilation, poor health status, overcrowding and contact duration displayed non-significant positive associations. The female gender, higher education, passive smoking and Bacillus Calmette–Guerin vaccination demonstrated statistically n…
A. P. de Moraes, João Paulo Cavalcanti Figueiredo Soares, Raimundo Fabricio Seade Vieira, Deivid Ramos dos Santos, Dante Bernardes Guibilei, et al.
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the occurrence of notified cases of bone tuberculosis in Brazil during the period from 2009 to 2018. Methods: Quantitative, descriptive and retrospective study. The data consisted of cases reported to the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINA…