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Nicola Harvey, Guy McGrath, James O'Shaughnessy, Jamie A Tratalos, Brian Byrne, et al.
… health, biosecurity and the economy. The complexity of bTB epidemiology, driven by multiple host species, undetected transmission and incomplete diagnostic sensitivity, makes surveillance and control challenging. Pathogen whole-genome sequencing (WGS) can clarify transmission dy…
Menean M, Scandale P, Apuzzo A, Barresi C, Checchin L, et al.
…-threatening inflammatory conditions. Understanding uveitis epidemiology, etiology, and clinical findings is fundamental for a prompt diagnosis and optimal patient management. The aim of the study is to report the epidemiology of uveitis in a national referral center in Northern …
Rina de Zwaan, Gerard de Vries, Ella Ubbelohde, Arnout Mulder, Miranda Kamst-van Agterveld, et al.
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is able to identify epidemiological links between Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. Recent clustering can be ruled out using a pre-defined single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) threshold. If WGS clusters grow significantly over time limited genetic…
Azger Dusthackeer, Mahizhaveni Balasubramanian, Sam Ebenezer Rajadas, Christy Rosaline Nirmal, Padmasini Elango, et al.
**INTRODUCTION:** The rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis poses a significant challenge in patient management. Epidemiological cut-off values define drug resistance in. In our previous study, we reported deviations from the WHO-recommended epidemiological cut-off values and ident…
Christian Gortázar
Article Figures and data Abstract eLife digest Introduction Results Discussion Materials and methods Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Data availability References Decision letter Author response Article and author information Metrics Abstract Quantifying pathogen transmission in multi-host …
Zheng MQ, Li XX, Xu R, Liu S, Rui ZY, et al.
… literature study. In this study, publications on molecular epidemiology were analyzed using bibliometric analysis. The statistical analysis of influential publications, journals, countries and authors was first conducted. Methods The Web of Science database was searched for publ…
E. M. Belilovsky, Borisov Se
Ensuring effective epidemiological surveillance of tuberculosis is essential and one of the paramount tasks for any national tuberculosis control program. The article analyzes the organization of the tuberculosis epidemiological monitoring system at the level of the subject, base…
Jane E. Gross, Jason Fullmer, Gregory McCleland, Silvia M. Caceres, Katie R. Poch, et al.
BACKGROUND: Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Centers worldwide have reported healthcare-associated outbreaks of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). We report a retrospective investigation of shared Mycobacterium abscessus strains among people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) receiving care at Dell…
Francisco Patrício de Andrade Júnior, Januse Míllia Dantas de Araújo, Laísa Vilar Cordeiro, Egberto Santos Carmo, Vanessa Santos de Arruda Barbosa, et al.
Introduction: tuberculosis is a bacteriosis caused by the etiological agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which initially affects the lungs, however it can become extrapulmonary. Although this infection is an important public health problem in Brazil, epidemiological studies on thi…
Dixit A, Ektefaie Y, Kagal A, Freschi L, Karyakarte R, et al.
…orld's burden, are not well studied. We conducted a genomic epidemiology study to compare epidemiological success, host factors, and drug resistance among the 4 major Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lineages (L1-L4) circulating in Pune, India. Methods We performed whole-genome s…
Han Z, Li J, Sun G, Gu K, Zhang Y, et al.
Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has become a major public health problem in China, with mounting evidence suggesting that recent transmission accounts for the majority of MDR-TB. Here we aimed to reveal the transmission pattern of an MDR-TB outbreak in the Ji…
Yu Bai, Y. Xue, Mucong Li, Mengtao Li, Chanyuan Wu
To the Editor: Tuberculosis (TB) persists as one of the leading causes of death from a single infectious agent worldwide and has regained prominence following the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic.[1] Patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) constitute a partic…
N. V. Lukyanenko, N. Ya. Lukyanenko, V. V. Shevchenko, M. A. Asmanova
Due to the incidence increase of tuberculosis, there is increasing need for epidemiological surveillance of concomitant pathologies among HIV-infected people. The main goal of the authors is to develop information technologies for collecting and processing material on the inciden…
Chisompola NK, Streicher EM, Muchemwa CMK, Warren RM, Sampson SL
… drug resistance AND Africa AND (spoligotyping OR molecular epidemiology OR IS6110 OR MIRU OR DNA fingerprinting OR RFLP OR VNTR OR WGS)" were used to identify relevant articles reporting the molecular epidemiology of drug resistant TB in Africa. Results Diverse genotypes are ass…
Wei Zhang, Qing Wang, Liru Zhang, Jiangxiong Wu, Jinlu Liu, et al.
…, bacterial genotyping has made a great contribution to the epidemiology of drug-resistant bacteria, and it should gradually become the mainstream monitoring method to be implemented.
Caihong Xu, Yaxin Wen, Dongmei Hu, Yuhong Li, Yanlin Zhao
…bution (also known as the three-dimensional distribution in epidemiology). The chi-square test was used for comparisons between groups. Joinpoint regression was used to analyze the temporal trends in PTB notification rates, and ArcGIS 10.3 software was used to visualize the resul…
Irina Kostyukova, О. А. Пасечник, Igor Mokrousov
Background. Tuberculosis (TB) infection remains relevant as one of the leading public health problems in Russia. The aim. To characterize the dynamics and trends of epidemiological manifestations of TB infection in the Omsk region. Materials and methods . An observational descrip…
Sanskar Virmani, Kamila Ubbiniyazova
Introduction. Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of mortality among people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) globally, accounting for approximately 167 000 deaths annually despite expanded antiretroviral therapy coverage. The World Health Organization Global…
E.M. Tudor, Konstantin Yavorsky, Albina Brumaru, V.A. Bolotnikova, А. А. Korlotyanu, et al.
… TB, TB relapse, risk factors, age-related characteristics, epidemiology, TB chemotherapy course.
Thamires de Sousa Melo, Flaviana Maria de Sousa Melo, Ana Mirelle Neves do Nascimento, Rafael Gomes Firmino, Igara Oliveira Lima, et al.
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, primarily affecting the lungs but capable of affecting other structures and organs such as the kidneys, meninges, bones, among others. This infection typically has a greater impact on i…
Rito T, Matos C, Carvalho C, Machado H, Rodrigues G, et al.
…episodes of transmission, mostly undetected using classical epidemiology alone. Conclusions Although control policies have been successful in decreasing incidence in Porto, the discerned complexity suggests that, for elimination to be a realistic goal, strategies need to be adjus…
A.I. Senizhuk, S.S. Vazhaeva, T.N. Knestikova
Significance. The current epidemiological situation of tuberculosis in Russia has a negative trend. It is influenced not only by medical, but also by demographic, socio-economic, environmental and other factors. Purpose. Identify the most important socio-economic and environmenta…
Ni X, Zhu C, Li Q, Jiang H, Liu J, et al.
…where the tuberculosis incidence rate is high. However, the epidemiology characteristics of M. tuberculosis L4 in China remain poorly understood. Here, the 15-loci Variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) patterns of 975 L4 isolates from a National Survey of Tuberculosis in China…
Victor Abiola Adepoju, Safayet Jamil, Ify Genevieve Ifeanyi‐Ukaegbu, Olusola Daniel Sokoya, ABM Alauddin Chowdhury, et al.
…ities, particularly HIV status, significantly influence the epidemiology of EPTB [6-8]. In West Africa and Nigeria, male gender and positive HIV status have been strongly associated with EPTB, as shown in studies from Ghana and Benin Republic [9, 10]. In Nigeria, the epidemiologi…
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…