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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…
Asamblea Mundial de la Salud, 62
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…
Cox H, Salaam-Dreyer Z, Goig GA, Nicol MP, Menardo F, et al.
…ound South Africa has a high burden of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant [MDR] tuberculosis), with increasing rifampicin-monoresistant (RMR) tuberculosis over time. Resistance acquisition during first-line tuberculosis treatment could be a key contr…
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…
Andarge DB, Anticho TL, Jara GM, Ali MM
Objective Multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a public health threat in resource-limited countries where it is easily disseminated and difficult to control. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of tuberculosis, rifampicin-resistant/multidrug-resista…
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…
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…
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…
Organización Mundial de la Salud
…ía consolidada de la OMS sobre generación y uso de datos de tuberculosis presenta la segunda edición de la lista de verificación para evaluar los sistemas de vigilancia de la tuberculosis (TB) y los sistemas de registro civil y estadísticas vitales. El documento tiene como objeti…
Wubu B, Jemal M, Million Y, Gizachew M
…r areas are important sites for disseminating Mycobacterium tuberculosis among individuals living in such areas. This study examined patients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) visiting the Abrihajira and Metema hospitals in northwest Ethiopia to investigate the prevalen…
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…
Dejene TA, Hailu GG, Kahsay AG, Wasihun AG
Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading cause of mortality from an infectious disease worldwide. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), where rifampicin-resistant TB is the biggest contributor, remains a global health threat. There is scant data on MTB and rifamp…
Jorwal P, Singh BK, Anand A, Khan F, Khandelwal K, et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is still the second causative agent of death worldwide after COVID-19. It is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection. Objective The aim of the current study was to compare the performance of GeneNAT real-time polymerase chain reaction ana…
Téllez-Navarrete NA, Ramon-Luing LA, Muñoz-Torrico M, Preciado-García M, Medina-Quero K, et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease. During TB, regulatory T cells (Treg) are related to poor prognosis. However, information about conventional and unconventional Treg (cTreg and uTreg, respectively) is limited. The tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and its receptor…
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…
Sulistijawati RS, Icksan AG, Lolong DB, Nurwidya F
Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a burden globally, including Indonesia. The primary objective of this study is to reveal the chest radiography characteristic of drug-sensitive TB (DS-TB) and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in the Indonesian national tuberculosis prevalence …
Sinshaw W, Kebede A, Bitew A, Tesfaye E, Tadesse M, et al.
…ted risk factors among presumptive smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods Analytic cross sectional study design was used. A total of 418 smear negative presumptive pulmonary TB patients were enrolled from selected health facilities since …
Erkihun M, Kiros T, Berhan A, Ayele B
Introduction. Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an emerging global challenge. Ethiopia is one of the 20 top countries with the highest estimated numbers of incidents of MDR-TB. Recently, the World Health Organization warned that drug-resistant TB is escalating and cal…
Nalunjogi J, Mucching-Toscano S, Sibomana JP, Centis R, D'Ambrosio L, et al.
…s growing on the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis (TB) services, global studies based on national data are needed to better quantify the extent of the impact and the countries' preparedness to tackle the two diseases. The aim of this study was to compare th…