multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Plasma concentrations of second-line antituberculosis drugs in relation to minimum inhibitory concentrations in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in China: a study protocol of a prospective observational cohort study
... Plasma concentrations of second- line antituberculosis drugs in relation to minimum inhibitory concentrations in multidrug- resistant tuberculosis patients in China: a study protocol[r] ...
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Determinants of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... Abstract: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been jeopardizing the global effort to prevent and control tuberculosis (TB). However, data on MDR-TB in Ethiopia in general, and in our ...
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Social support received by multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients and related factors: a cross-sectional study in Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China
... Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess the social support received by patients diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Zhejiang Province, Peop[r] ...
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Characteristics of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Namibia
... Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has become a major public health problem and obstacle to global TB con- trol [1,2]. MDR-TB is associated with higher case fatality rates, especially among ...
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The effect of early versus late treatment initiation after diagnosis on the outcomes of patients treated for multidrug resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review
... developed multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2014 and 190 000 people died from the ...of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis patients treated early ( ...
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Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Panama Is Driven by Clonal Expansion of a Multidrug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain Related to the KZN Extensively Drug Resistant M tuberculosis Strain from South Africa
... Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a significant health problem in Panama. The extent to which such cases are the result of primary or acquired resistance and the strain families involved ...
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Bedaquiline – A Novel Promising Discovery in Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
... (AIDS), tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death worldwide due to a single infectious ...mycobacterium tuberculosis reported more horrible version of ...in multidrug resistant ...
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Treatment outcomes and antiretroviral uptake in multidrug resistant tuberculosis and HIV co infected patients in Sub Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta analysis
... used; Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, MDR-TB, HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, People living with HIV, PLWH, HIV/TB co-infection, drug re- sistant tuberculosis/HIV ...
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Predictors of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Sudan
... Cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are rising, which is a growing concern across countries [4,8–11]. Although access to drug sensitivity tests (DST) for TB has increased, significant ...
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Multidrug resistant tuberculosis
... year, tuberculosis remains one of the most feared diseases on the ...Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are resistant to the major anti- tuberculosis drugs poses a deadly threat to control ...
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Comparing multidrug resistant tuberculosis patient costs under molecular diagnostic algorithms in South Africa
... Comparing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patient costs under molecular diagnostic algorithms in South ...of tuberculosis and lung disease, 19 ...
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Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB): An Overview
... Mycobacterium tuberculosis by means of luciferase reporter ...M. tuberculosis from sputum samples using luciferase reporter phage: comparison with the Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) ...
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Profile of delamanid for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
... susceptible tuberculosis (TB), the need is even more acute for multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) ...are resistant to the front-line drugs isoniazid and ...
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CURRENT STRATEGIES IN THE TREATMENT OF MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS
... Bedaquiline, a diarylquinoline compound has potent activity against drug-sensitive and drug-resistant M. tuberculosis due to the inhibition of bacterial ATP synthase. Registration was approved based on the ...
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Risk Factors Associated with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
... Although the small sample size in our study and the nature of our hospital as a referral center may have influenced the results and the definitive conclusion, this study yields several interesting findings. Based on the ...
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The Efficacy of Interferon-α in the Treatment of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis
... The authors warmly thank colleagues of the “National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease” especially Kiarash Mohajer M.D., Masood Tavassoli M.D., Mr. Mehdi Kazempour and Ms. Fereshteh Rezapour for ...
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Community-Based Therapy for Children With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
... highly resistant that the child’s regimen still contained ⬍ 5 drugs, then additional agents with known antituberculous activity (eg, amoxicillin/clavulanate or clofazimine) were ...
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Characteristics of pncA mutations in multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Taiwan
... We found a high diversity of pncA gene mutations without major hot spots in the MDRTB isolates. Among 36 PZA-resistant MDRTB isolates, 38 different muta- tions scattered along the whole pncA gene were identi- fied ...
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Drug resistance patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and risk factors associated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the upper southern part of Thailand
... Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a serious problem where the bacterium is resistant to at least two of the most powerful first-line anti-TB drugs such as Rifampicin (RIF) and Isoniazid ...
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Lineage Favors the Spread of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in the Republic of Georgia
... Using these tools, we were able to classify nearly all strains investigated (97%) to MTBC lineages described before and one lineage that was discovered in our study. In concordance with a recently published study from ...
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