Drug resistant TB
When Does Drug Resistant TB Strike HIV/TB Patients?—A South India Experience
... of TB patients are found to HIV positive while it varies across the ...of TB-HIV patients in these states varies from 10% - 30% of total TB patients ...of drug resistant TB is ...
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A Comparative Study of Drug Susceptibility Testing Techniques for Identification of Drug Resistant TB in a Tertiary Care Centre, South India
... Clinical outcomes of the patients with MDR were also observed in our study through chart reviews and telephone calls, but only a few could be followed up. Among those patients, the presence of high risk factors- diabetes ...
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Low Serum Concentrations of Moxifloxacin, Prothionamide, and Cycloserine on Sputum Conversion in Multi Drug Resistant TB
... of TB drugs used during the initial 2 months of therapy did not differ between the sputum conversion ...Furthermore, drug toxicity rates were not significantly different between the two groups [8% (2/25) ...
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Later emergence of acquired drug resistance and its effect on treatment outcome in patients treated with Standard Short-Course Chemotherapy for tuberculosis
... anti- TB treatment on cases with drug resistant TB pretreatment have greater likelihood to get relapse, treatment failure and acquired drug resistance [12, ...any drug resistance ...
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Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB): An Overview
... causing TB was described only a century ago by Robert Koch on March ...Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is caused by an organism that is resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampin, the ...
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Counting the lives saved by DOTS in India: a model-based approach
... coordinate TB services on a national level, in line with DOTS standards of TB ...of TB treatment in- volved enhanced adherence support amongst patients taking treatment; strengthened patient ...
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Blood cultures for the diagnosis of multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis among HIV infected patients from rural South Africa: a cross sectional study
... of TB and HIV co-infected patients ...for TB may have actually presented with IRIS, a condition which may share signs and symptoms with TB and drug-resistant TB; however complete ...
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Integration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Susceptibility Testing and Genotyping with Epidemiological Data Analysis To Gain Insight into the Epidemiology of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in Malatya, Turkey
... and drug resistance (2, 27), and some showed that the Beijing, LAM, and Haarlem families were associated with drug-resistant TB (13, ...the drug-resistant isolates collected from ...
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Frequency and patterns of second-line resistance conferring mutations among MDR-TB isolates resistant to a second-line drug from eSwatini, Somalia and Uganda (2014–2016)
... The drug-resistant forms of the disease especially multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) pose signifi- cant challenges ...
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Treatment outcomes of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Netherlands, 2005–2015
... incidence TB coun- tries ...for TB elimination by 2035 ...of drug- resistant TB nor identified predictors for poor outcome of TB ...poly-resistant TB can ...
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Predicting Extensively Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phenotypes with Genetic Mutations
... conferring drug resistance are promising technologies for rapidly detecting multidrug-/extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR TB), but large studies of mutations as markers of ...
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Drug resistant tuberculosis in Central Mozambique: the role of a rapid genotypic susceptibility testing
... and drug resistant TB ...of drug resistance and guided treatment is important both for improved outcomes and to avoid progression to XDR-TB or ...of drug resistance have been ...
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Drug susceptibility patterns of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from previously treated and new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis at German-Nepal tuberculosis project laboratory, Kathmandu, Nepal
... treated TB patients to be 15.9 %, however they showed lower rate of MDR-TB (in comparison to our study) among newly diagnosed cases ...recent drug resistance surveillance of 2011 in Nepal, re- ported ...
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<p>Primary drug resistance among tuberculosis patients with diabetes mellitus: a retrospective study among 7223 cases in China</p>
... DR- TB cases separately, and to some extent, it made up the scarcity of former researches 4,10,11 in this ...that drug-resistant TB strains were often associated with a fi tness cost (refers to ...
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The Prevalence of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis among People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in Abia State
... and drug-resistant ...declared TB a glob- al emergency ...National TB control programs, adoption and imple- mentation of Stop TB strategy [3], TB has remained a major public ...
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Epidemic Spread of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Johannesburg, South Africa
... that drug-resistant strains with reduced fitness may be more readily transmitted in settings with a high HIV prevalence ...with drug-resistant TB in Cape Town, suggests increasing ...
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Decision Making Amplification Under Uncertainty: An Exploratory Study of Behavioral Similarity and Intelligent Decision Support Systems
... of drug- resistant TB among patients and HCWs and recommending improvement or introduction of TB IPC measures, the results of this review show a paucity of published evidence on infection ...
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Isoniazid and Rifampicin as Therapeutic Regimen in the Current Era: A Review
... Drug-resistant TB poses a significant threat to humans and is a global cause for ...develops TB when the bacteria are no longer ...the TB cases) and countries in Africa. MDR-TB ...
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Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and its drug Treatment
... of TB as a “ Global Emergency” in 1993 was prompted by the emergence of ...of TB is getting even more complicated with the emergence of Extremely Drug Resistant TB (XDR-TB), a ...
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A REVIEW ON TUBERCULOSIS AND ITS PRESENT SCENARIO
... high TB burden country contributing to 26 per cent of global TB ...1944-1980, TB became treatable and short-course chemotherapy emerged as the standard of ...When TB elimination seemed ...
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