extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
Treatment outcomes of patients with multidrug-resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Hunan Province, China
... Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), de- fined as TB resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), defined as ...
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Treatment outcomes of patients with multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Hunan Province, China
... Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), de- fined as TB resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), defined as ...
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Epidemiological trends and outcomes of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Shandong, China
... 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 ...
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Multidrug and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis from a general practice perspective
... disease, tuberculosis continues to be a major threat to Indian society, with an estimated prevalence of ...multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has complicated eradication attempts in recent ...of ...
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First Use of Bedaquiline in Democratic Republic of Congo: Two Case Series of Pre Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
... second-line drug. The patients were diagnosed with pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (preXDR TB) whose prognosis was fatal in Demo- cratic Republic of Congo ...
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Second-line anti-tuberculosis drug resistance testing in Ghana identifies the first extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis case
... Isolates analyzed in this study were obtained from pulmo- nary patients attending various health facilities in the Accra Metro and the East Mamprusi District in the Greater-Accra and Northern regions of Ghana, ...
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Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in a high income country: A report of four unrelated cases
... extensive drug resistance does not diminish the contagiousness of the involved ...against Tuberculosis, low HIV-prevalence and the medical resources of a high income country may have contributed to this ...
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The Making of a Global Health Crisis: Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Global Science in Rural South Africa
... This change in terminology apparently paid off. Dr. Gandhi submitted his group’s research as a late-‐breaking abstract to the 2006 International AIDS Conference and it was selected for an oral presentation during the ...
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The Global Consortium for Drug resistant Tuberculosis Diagnostics (GCDD): design of a multi site, head to head study of three rapid tests to detect extensively drug resistant tuberculosis
... MGIT drug susceptibility test results were transcribed from the MGIT 960 instru- ment, while standardized worksheets were used to record observed data from the MODS ...
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Genotypic distribution of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in northern Thailand
... Among the 34 growing M/XDR-TB isolates, 24 (70.5%) MDR-TB, 9 (26.5%) Pre-XDR-TB, and 1 (3.0%) XDR-TB were identified. All of the isolates were resistant to both INH and RIF. The frequency and patterns of genetic ...
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The emerging threat of pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in West Africa: preparing for large-scale tuberculosis research and drug resistance surveillance
... drug resistance is multi-facetted and sub-regional, control strategies need to improve on various levels and between countries. Implementing required quality stan- dards (SOPs and GCLP) and laboratory ...
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Rapid Diagnosis of Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis by Use of a Reverse Line Blot Hybridization Assay
... M. tuberculosis and 50 pansusceptible isolates screened by the RLBH assay, 1 isolate showed RIF resistance by MGIT (phenotypic assay) but did not show any mutation by the RLBH ...M. tuberculosis complex and ...
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Pre Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (Pre XDR TB) among Pulmonary Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) Patients in Bangladesh
... XDR-TB is defined as TB resistant to RMP and INH (MDR-TB) with addi- tional resistance to second line anti-TB drugs i.e. to any FLQs, and to at least one of the three injectable second-line drugs (ISL) naming ...
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Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Mali: a case report
... specialized tuberculosis unit of the UTH for chronic tuberculosis and suspicion of drug ...M. tuberculosis complex (MTBc), and the sample was sent for second-line testing at ITM in December ...
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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: epidemiology and management
... XDR-TB may still represent a problem of reduced proportions for most high-burden countries; however, the high morbidity and mortality associated with this form of TB and its potential for expansion warrants high priority ...
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Genotyping and clinical characteristics of multidrug and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in a tertiary care tuberculosis hospital in China
... Genotyping of MDR and XDR M . tuberculosis strains We genotyped 1 isolate each from the 110 MDR TB and 13 XDR TB patients. Among them, the genetic lineage of 59 MDR strains and 10 XDR strains had been reported in ...
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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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Efficacy and safety profile of linezolid in the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... ‘multidrug resistant tuberculosis’, ‘extensively drug resistant tuberculosis’, ‘lin- ezolid’, ‘zyvox’, ‘efficacy’ and ...
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<p>Cycloserine for treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study in China</p>
... multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), defined as TB caused by a strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that was resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, have been reported, and it is ...
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Prevention of multi drug resistant,extensively drug resistant and total drug resistant tuberculosis
... anti- tuberculosis drugs (SLD's) like ethionamide / prothionamide, cycloserine, PAS, kanamycin / capreomycin ,flouroquinolones (levofloxacin, ofloxacin, moxifloxacin), clofazimine, macrolides ...suspected ...
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