DR-TB
“Who has to do it at the end of the day? Programme officials or hospital authorities?” Airborne infection control at drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) centres of Karnataka, India: a mixed-methods study
... Second, the IC committees were either non-existent or non-functional. Similar findings were observed in studies from India, South Africa and Pakistan [11, 19, 20]. How- ever, another South African study reported that ...
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Research Article Active Case Finding For TB / DR- TB in Health Care Workers
... and TB conti- nues to claim about 2 million lives ...of TB is currently based on three strategies: Case finding and treatment of active disease, treatment of latent TB infection and vaccinating with ...
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Impact of Xpert MTB/RIF and decentralized care on linkage to care and drug resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Johannesburg, South Africa
... initiated DR-TB treatment at one of the three decentralized outpatient DR-TB cen- ters, thus potentially excluding those more likely to have worse outcomes ...
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Do specialist pulmonologists appropriately utilise thoracic surgery for drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis? A survey
... Despite excellent results with adjuvant lung resection, albeit in selected patients, medical therapy still remains a virtually exclusive form of management among most of the physicians who participated in this survey. ...
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Results from early programmatic implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF testing in nine countries
... of TB and rifampicin resis- tance ...a DR-TB or in settings with high HIV prevalence and, where resources permit, as a second test for those with an abnor- mal chest x-ray (CXR) and/or negative smear ...
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Epidemiological trends and outcomes of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Shandong, China
... therapy; DR-TB: Drug-resistant tuberculosis; DST: Drug susceptibility testing; FEV1: Forced expired volume in 1 s; FVC: Forced vital capacity; GOLD: Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease; ...
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<p>Primary drug resistance among tuberculosis patients with diabetes mellitus: a retrospective study among 7223 cases in China</p>
... pulmonary TB/pulmonary TB) were compared by DM sta- tus using Fisher ’ s exact or Pearson Chi-square ...instance, DR-TB, MDR-TB, PDR-TB, SM-resistant TB, and SM+INH resis- ...
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Treating drug-resistant tuberculosis in a low-intensity chronic conflict setting in India
... managing DR-TB in conflict ...to DR-TB management in conflict settings could do more harm than good including leading to the amplification of ...manage DR-TB patients in an ...
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Cost of three models of care for drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Nigeria
... of DR-TB ...all DR-TB related management costs such as diagnostic and monitoring tests, hospitalization, clinic visits, home visits, treatment supervision and ...of DR-TB ...
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Spatial epidemiology and spatial ecology study of worldwide drug-resistant tuberculosis
... factors, TB epidemiological factors and socioeconomic factors, ...between DR-TB and its risk fac- ...synthetic DR-TB factors from the DR- TB vector, and latent synthetic ...
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<p>Determinants of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Southern Ethiopia: A Case–Control Study</p>
... smear-negative TB patients in the fi fth month of initiating ...detecting DR-TB cases. Involving TB patients as controls after they have fi nished their DOTS (completed seventh month) would have ...
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Improvement in tuberculosis infection control practice via technical support in two regions of Ethiopia
... of TB disease, as this study showed. Sixty-one HCWs acquired TB in 1 ...active TB disease than the general population. Reports of TB among HCWs from sub-Saharan African countries [24] and ...
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Incidence and predictors of lost to follow up among drug resistant tuberculosis patients at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: a retrospective follow up study
... total DR-TB cohort size ...of DR-TB services, and pa- tients were linked to the newly established treatment initiating centers in the ...new DR-TB TICs and communi- cating with ...
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The impact of adverse events on health-related quality of life among patients receiving treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Johannesburg, South Africa
... with TB is associated with worse treatment outcomes, poor quality of life and greater disability ...with TB and HIV and disproportionately affects those in lower socio-economic groups ...among ...
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Diagnosing Drug Resistant Tuberculosis with the Xpert®MTB/RIF The Risk for Rifampin Susceptible Cases
... of DR-TB do not have access to other drug-susceptibility testing (DST) in-country, either by phenotypic or genotypic ...WHO TB guideline, stating that due to the fact that the Xpert®MTB/RIF lacks the ...
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Drug resistant tuberculosis in Central Mozambique: the role of a rapid genotypic susceptibility testing
... frequency DR-TB, coinfection DR-TB/ HIV and the magnitude of resistance to ...resistant TB was mainly acquired as shown previ- ously [6, ...of DR-TB ...
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Treatment outcomes of drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Morocco: multi centric prospective study
... 101 DR-TB patients included in the study, 49 had adverse drug reactions constituting a total of 98 events; 94% of them occurred in the intensive phase of ...
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Addressing challenges in tuberculosis adherence via performance based payments for integrated case management: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial in Georgia
... and DR-TB patients and to improve TB treatment suc- cess in patients with pulmonary ...with TB and providers by adopting a patient-centred care ap- ...of TB medication, which in turn ...
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Rationing tests for drug-resistant tuberculosis – who are we prepared to miss?
... previous TB treatment in the private sector or previous use of TB drugs of poor or unknown quality, as is detailed in the WHO risk factor criteria; however, these patients were likely to form a subset of ...
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Treatment outcomes of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Netherlands, 2005–2015
... incidence TB coun- tries ...for TB elimination by 2035 ...resistant TB nor identified predictors for poor outcome of TB ...overall DR-TB types in the Netherlands as well as to ...
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