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Woodruff R, Pratt R, Kolasa M
Problem/condition Elimination of tuberculosis (TB) is defined as reducing TB disease incidence in the United States to less than 1 case per million persons per year. In 2022, TB incidence in the United States was 2.5 TB cases per 100,000 persons. CDC's TB program developed a set …
Yusup Subagio Sutanto, Magdalena Sutanto, Agnes Sri Harti, Nony Puspawati
… this research is to study the sensitivity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates from suspect TB patients to seromucous of snail and chitosan as an alternative to anti-TB drugs.
 Methods: The research methods include management specimen, freeze-drying of snail seromuc…
Ricvan Dana Nindrea, Milya Novera, Armaita, Long Chiau Ming, Lemmuel Tayo, et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) treatment adherence remained a major challenge in high-burden settings, and psychosocial factors such as TB-related stigma and patient motivation may be associated with whether patients completed therapy. This study examined the relationships between TB-related …
Kay AW, DiNardo AR, Dlamini Q, Kahari J, Mndzebele T, et al.
… are increasingly used in children to establish evidence of tuberculosis (TB) infection and to assist in the diagnosis of TB disease. The QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assay is being phased out in favor of a next-generation test, the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) assay. The Q…
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…
Dickens Odongo
Tuberculosis from a TB hotspots map (Appendix 1) in 3 parishes of Kitwe Central, Rukoni, and Kafunjo between December 2020 to September 2021. Areas with more than 31.8 cases of TB as per the hotspot map guided the team on where to put outreach posts. The team mobilized those with…
Linda B.K.
Tuberculosis (TB), despite availability of preventive and curative measures, remains a public health challenge, ranked among leading contributors of mortality globally, even with enactment of global and national control statergies.
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…
T. Anupama, Megha Priyadarshini, Swaraj Sinha, Smiti Narain, Pritam Ghosh, et al.
Background: To increase community participation in tuberculosis (TB) elimination efforts, the government of India has launched ‘Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharath Abhiyan’ (PMTBMBA) under the national TB elimination programme. The scheme allows interested parties (Ni-kshay mitras) to…
Nababan B, Triasih R, Chan G, Dwihardiani B, Hidayat A, et al.
In Indonesia, the implementation of tuberculosis (TB) contact investigation is limited, with low detection rates. We report the yield of and risk factors for TB disease and infection for household contacts (HHCs) investigated using chest X-ray (CXR) screening. We identified HHCs …
Utpat KV, Rajpurohit R, Desai U
Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is the most exigent and calamitous challenge encountered in treatment of TB. Extra pulmonary (EP) DR-TB poses a complex diagnostic and therapeutic challenge owing to myriad of presentations and paucibacillary nature. Data available o…
Plans-Rubió P, Godoy S, Toledo D, Domínguez A, Caylà J, et al.
…dy was to identify factors associated with non-adherence to tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment among contacts with latent TB infection for new cases of pulmonary TB cases reported in Catalonia in 2019-2021. All contacts aged 18 years or older with a latent TB infection who re…
Massi MN, Hidayah N, Handayani I, Iskandar IW, Djannah F, et al.
…ificance as an immunomarker for several diseases, including tuberculosis. This study aimed to determine the difference between miR-425-5p and miR-4523 expressions in patients with active pulmonary TB (PTB), latent TB infection (LTBI), and lymph node TB (LNTB), whose diagnosis rem…
Alemu A, Diriba G, Seid G, Wondimu A, Moga S, et al.
Objectives To assess tuberculosis (TB) and associated factors among patients with presumptive TB with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Methods A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted from January to December 2023 among 381 patients with CKD attending six hospitals found in…
Yao S, Yan J, Li L, Ma D, Liu J, et al.
Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is currently a major problem in China. The prevention and treatment work for MDR-TB patients started late in Anhui province. To determine the prevalence of MDR-TB in sputum smear-positive TB patients (SSPTBPs) and analyze the r…
Lynn Sosa, Gibril J. Njie, Mark N. Lobato, Sapna Bamrah Morris, William G. Buchta, et al.
…dated recommendations for screening health care workers for tuberculosis, including eliminating serial screening in the absence of exposure or ongoing transmission. This article presents updated recommendations for screening health care workers for tuberculosis, including elimina…
Delia Goletti, Seif Al-Abri, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Cecilia S. Lindestam Arlehamn, Pranabashis Haldar, et al.
Every year, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is commemorated on March 24 and is targeted at raising public and political awareness of TB, a preventable and treatable disease. World TB Day commemorates the day in 1882 when Professor Robert Koch announced his discovery of the microbial …
Michael Lauzardo, Meghan Nodurft-Froman
Until recently, tuberculosis in children has received little attention from the international public health community, despite it being a key sentinel event indicating recent transmission and hence a window into efforts to control transmission.1Shingadia D Novelli V Diagnosis and…
Eskild Petersen, Martin Rao, Giuseppe Ippolito, Gina Gualano, Jeremiah Chakaya, et al.
Tuberculosis today remains the world's number one cause of death from an infectious disease (WHO, 2018aWHO World Health Organization. Global tuberculosis report.2018Google Scholar). According to data from the World Health Organization Global Tuberculosis Report (WHO, 2018aWHO Wor…
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…
MV Smilianska, AY Volianskyi, LA Sukhanova, NV Kashpur
…ades, great changes have taken place in the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB), which are reflected in the change in the statistical indicators of the spread of tuberculosis, due to both the infectious and social nature of the disease. At the end of the 20th century, after a long …
Takele Teklu, Biniam Wondale, Biruhalem Taye, Milkessa Hailemariam, Shiferaw Bekele, et al.
Additional file 2: Supplemental dataset S2. Differentially abundance values of proteins comparing four groups (HC, LTBI, NTM and active TB) to each other’s measured from analyzed in two technical replicates computing the abundances with the MaxLFQ software tool. The analytes were…
Takele Teklu, Biniam Wondale, Biruhalem Taye, Milkessa Hailemariam, Shiferaw Bekele, et al.
Additional file 3: Supplemental database 3. Global ANOVA analysis to identify the proteins that showed significant differences among the eight groups (HC, LTBI, NTM, and TB) in plasma samples with and without stimulation. To perform the quantization analysis, the LFQ values of ea…