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Venkateswari Ramachandra, Usharani Brammacharry, Aaina Muralidhar, Anbazhagi Muthukumar, Revathi Mani, et al.
…stic tool capable of simultaneously detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance. This study aimed to assess the diagnostic precision of GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay to detect pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis and evaluate the performance for detecting of rif…
Venkateswari Ramachandra, Usharani Brammacharry, Aaina Muralidhar, Anbazhagi Muthukumar, Revathi Mani, et al.
…stic tool capable of simultaneously detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance. This study aimed to access the diagnostic precision of Xpert MTB/RIF assay to detect pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and to evaluate the performance for the detection of…
World Health Organization
This web annex to the WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis, Module 3: Diagnosis, provides technical guidance for culture-based drug susceptibility testing (DST) of anti-tuberculosis drugs used in the treatment of tuberculosis. The manual describes standardized phenotypic DST …
Pham Dinh Dong, Nguyễn Kim Cương, Nguyen Thi Phuong, Nguyễn Ngọc Hồng, Nguyễn Văn Hùng, et al.
…ional TB Program has made great efforts to detect and treat tuberculosis. Objectives: Assessment of Mycobacterial level in sputum before treatment, and susceptibility to the first line anti-TB drugs of M. tuberculosis strains isolated from TB patients with AFB (+) and non-multidr…
Dorota Sokół, Arkadiusz Standyło, Jakub Czarnota, Tomasz Skubel, Michał Dobrzyński, et al.
…z-Szczęsna Halina. </strong><strong>The correlation between tuberculosis and diabetes incidence and the impact of mass migration on the development of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis on the example of India and England</strong><strong>. </strong><strong>Journal of Ed…
B. Abdullahi, M.A. Shaibu, A.U. Jibrin
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, is one of the most ancient chronic infectious illnesses and the second greatest cause of infectious death worldwide, behind COVID-19. This study was conducted at the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Training Center…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…Region has the highest rates in the world of drug-resistant tuberculosis and increasing rates of HIV/tuberculosis coinfection. Eighteen high-priority countries have been identified to urgently scale up tuberculosis control interventions: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Es…
Anand Kumar, Aparjot Singh, Sudhir Chaudhri, Sanjay Kumar Verma, Kiran Pandey, et al.
Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, most commonly, infects the lungs (pulmonary TB). Most cases of female genital TB (FGTB) are found in premenopausal women, theoretically because an atrophic endometrium provides a poor milieu for mycobacterial growth. Female genital TB gener…
Anagoni Srikar, B. V. Ramana, Parnakshi Sarma, Alladi Mohan, Abhijit Chaudhury
Abstract Background: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a global public health problem. Methods: We tested 104 strains each of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex ( Mtb ) isolated from new cases and previously treated cases against four first line anti-tuberculosis agent…
Shaohua Yao, Yan Jy, Li L, Daqing Ma, Jun Liu, et al.
…Wang,1 Aimin Wang,1 Fangjin Bao,1 Zekun Zhang,1 Xundi Bao1 1Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment Institute of Anhui Province (Anhui Chest Hospital), Hefei 230022, Anhui, People’s Republic of China; 2Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei Fourt…
World Health Organization
This web annex to the WHO consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use presents the second edition of the checklist for assessing tuberculosis (TB) surveillance and vital registration systems. The document aims to support countries in evaluating whether their sur…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
The European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative (ELI), with its secretariat at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, has developed this technical document to address the need in the WHO European Region for increasing timely and accurate detection of tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-…
Peter M. Mbelele, Emmanuel Mpolya, Elingarami Sauli, Bariki Mtafya, Nyanda Elias Ntinginya, et al.
Abstract Background Rifampin or multidrug-resistant-tuberculosis (RR/MDR-TB) treatment has transitioned to injectable-free regimens. We tested whether M. tuberculosis ( Mtb ) elimination rates measured by molecular bacterial load assay (TB-MBLA) in sputa correlate with compositio…
O.I. Sakhelashvili–Bil
Objective — to study the features of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis of the lungs of respiratory organs in children and adolescents from focuses of chemoresistant tuberculosis infection. 
 Materials and methods. To study the features of the course of multidrug-resistant pul…
Leonardo Martínez, Neus Altet, F Boulahbal, Joan A. Caylà, Tsira Chakhaia, et al.
…t Objective To evaluate the impact of isoniazid on incident tuberculosis in household contacts of MDR tuberculosis cases. Design Systematic review and individual-participant meta-analysis. Data sources MEDLINE, Web of Science, BIOSIS, and Embase without language restrictions for …
World Health Organization, Haigh, Kathryn, Twabi, Hussein, Ryan, Hannah, Lutje, Vittoria, et al.
A. A. Abdurakhimov
Aim. To conduct a comparative study of the effectiveness of treatment of MDR-TB patients by using short-term and individual chemotherapy regimens and including the drug Cholecalciferol in the treatment complex. Material and methods. The group of MDR-TB patients with a short-term …
World Health Organization, Solans, Belén P., Béranger, Agathe, Radtke, Kendra, Mohamed, Ali, et al.
Boosra Harun Prima, Md Ehsanul Hoque, Shakeel Ahmed, Md. Zakir Hossain, Sharmin Akhtar, et al.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest communicable diseases. Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and classified as Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) and Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis (EPTB). EPTB account for 15-20 % cases of tuberculosis. EPTB diag…
Kasim Izebe, Kolo Ibrahim, Josiah Ademola Onaolapo, Peters Oladosu, Y. Ya’aba, et al.
The management, control and elimination of tuberculosis (TB) have been difficult with the advent of HIV and cases of multidrug resistant (MDR-TB) tuberculosis. The cases of multidrug resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid pose greater challenges on first line and second line drug…
A. A. Zhurilo, A. I. Barbova, Yu. A. Cherednik, P. S. Trofimova, S. V. Mironchenko, et al.
…RPLUS STRIPS FOR DETECTION OF MUTATIONS, ASSOCIATED WITH M. TUBERCULOSIS RESISTANCE TO RIFAMPICIN IN TUBERCULOSIS A. A. Zhurilo, A. I. Barbova, Yu. A. Cherednik, P. S. Trofi mova, S. V. Mironchenko, O. V. Pavlova, A. V. Chernov, L. M. Sladkova Summary The aim was to analyze the l…
Rehbar Khan, Munish Ahmad, Santosh Raghav
Background: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) prevalence is increasing throughout the world. Although, most important risk factor for development of MDR-TB is inadequate and irregular previous treatment for tuberculosis, but newly treated patients are also at risk due to …
Alloysius Chibuike Ogodo, Verwiyeh Silas Tatah, Francis Ushie Ebuara, Chidera Favour Ogodo
This chapter introduces Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the agent that causes tuberculosis and the drugs (first- and second-line) for tuberculosis treatment as well as the effects of phytochemicals against Mycobacterium tuberculosis . It starts by giving an overview of the organism …
А. А. Kozhokaru, I. V. Ogorodniychuk, V. Yakymets, Lyudmyla Buyun, Yu-Fu Fu
…VID-19 pandemic, creating a new threat to the fight against tuberculosis. The incidence of tuberculosis within the Armed Forces has increased, mirroring the broader trends of rising tuberculosis rates across Ukraine.Problem Statement. In light of the difficult epidemic situation …
Srabani Banerjee, Melissa Severn
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death, worldwide. Worldwide 10 million people developed TB in 2017, (i.e.,133 cases per 100,000).– However, only 6.4 million cases were reported to WHO, indicating that 36% of cases were undiagnosed or not reported. According to a …