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Bhargava A, Bhargava M, Meher A, Benedetti A, Velayutham B, et al.
Background In India, tuberculosis and undernutrition are syndemics with a high burden of tuberculosis coexisting with a high burden of undernutrition in patients and in the population. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of nutritional supplementation on tuberculosi…
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…
Melike Hazal Can, Sedona Sweeney, Brian W Allwood, Susan E Dorman, Ted Cohen, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Untreated pulmonary tuberculosis causes ongoing lung damage, which can persist after treatment. Conventional modelling approaches for assessing tuberculosis health effects might not fully capture these mechanisms. We evaluated how tuberculosis-associated lung dama…
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…
Simon C Mendelsohn, Humphrey Mulenga, Michele Tameris, Tumelo Moloantoa, Stephanus T Malherbe, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** More than half of tuberculosis cases detected by community prevalence surveys are classified as asymptomatic. We evaluated yield of symptom and chest radiograph screening of tuberculosis-exposed household contacts in South Africa. **METHODS:** For this prospectiv…
da Costa FBP, Nicol MP, Botha M, Workman L, Arcêncio RA, 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 i…
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 …
Saunders MJ, Wingfield T, Datta S, Montoya R, Ramos E, et al.
…eness of social protection and biomedical interventions for tuberculosis-affected households might be improved by risk stratification. We therefore derived and externally validated a household-level risk score to predict tuberculosis among contacts of patients with tuberculosis. …
Marcy O, Goyet S, Borand L, Msellati P, Ung V, et al.
Background There is no gold standard for tuberculosis diagnosis in children. Clinical Case Definitions for Classification of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children were proposed by international experts in 2012 and updated in 2015. We aimed to compare the 2012 and 2015 Clinical C…
Oo MM, Tassanakijpanich N, Phyu MH, Safira N, Kandel S, et al.
Background The comorbid presence of tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus has become an increasingly important public health threat to the prevention and control of both diseases. Thus, household contact investigation may serve a dual purpose of screening for both tuberculosis and d…
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…
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…
Alrajhi AA, Alotaibi J, Alghamdi AM, Almanea H, AlSebayel M, et al.
Objectives Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA has been detected in multiple organs in people without active tuberculosis or a history of tuberculosis. Molecular testing for metabolic activity has suggested that M tuberculosis DNA represents viable bacilli. Whether transplanted organs…
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…
Chen J, Xu Z, Xu H, Bai L
Objectives Reducing mortality during anti-tuberculosis treatment is crucial for completing full-course standardized therapy and achieving tuberculosis cure. The study aims to analyze the mortality and its influencing factors among pulmonary tuberculosis patients undergoing anti-t…
Onah CK, Azuogu BN, Ossai EN, Agu AP, Azuogu VC, et al.
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 clients to …
Hao X, Bai J, Ding Y, Wang J, Liu Y, et al.
…ty of traditional etiological methods to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis rapidly and effectively, the antibody responses against 38kD and 16kD-antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( M. tuberculosis ) were both detected in order to obtain a better serological detection method fo…
Expert Group on TB Recording and Reporting Forms and Registers, World Health Organization, World Health Organization
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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…
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 …
Gemechu Gelana Ararame, Birbirsa Sefera Senbeta, Tesfaye Negesa Liche, Elias Zewdu Sileshi
Comorbid diseases are complex diseases associated with tuberculosis that may affect tuberculosis treatment outcomes and mortality. The impact of comorbid diseases on tuberculosis treatment outcomes and mortality is not well known in Ethiopia. To assess the impact of comorbid dise…
Menzies NA, Swartwood NA, Cohen T, Marks SM, Maloney SA, et al.
Background For settings with low tuberculosis incidence, disease elimination is a long-term goal. We investigated pathways to tuberculosis pre-elimination (incidence Methods Using a mathematical modelling framework, we simulated how US tuberculosis incidence could be affected by …