Multidrug Resistant-Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
Collaborative public–private initiatives targeting multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) supported by the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership: experiences in 2012–2016
... Lilly MDR-TB Partnership, which involves more than 45 local, national, global, and nongovernmental organizations and ...Lilly MDR-TB Partnership is to achieve significant global impact on ...
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Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB): A lethal risk in Benghazi City, Libya
... threatens TB treatment progress made in the inhabitants of countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the ...pulmonary TB cases admitted to Quefia Chest Hospital Benghazi, Libya, from 1/1/2009 till 1/6/2010 ...
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Predictors of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Sudan
... Abstract: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a global public health threat and burden on the health ...high tuberculosis (TB) prevalence countries, such as ...of ...
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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 ...
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Treatment Outcomes of Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR- TB) Compared with Non-MDR-TB Infections in Peninsular Malaysia
... Data were analysed using SPSS windows (version 20.0) and double-checked and cleaned to screen for missing values or errors. Pearson chi-square and Fisher exact tests were performed to compare MDR-TB and non ...
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Assessing the impact of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in children: an exploratory qualitative study
... global MDR-TB community described a number of psychosocial challenges faced by these children worldwide, including persisting stigma, abandonment, mental illness, and lack of financial, emotional and ...
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Factors affecting time to sputum culture conversion and treatment outcome of patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in China
... All MDR-TB patients were consecutively enrolled in the study between December 2011 and March ...2014. MDR-TB pa- tients were identified at the time of diagnosis by regional reference ...
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<p>Efficacy and safety of cycloserine-containing regimens in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a nationwide retrospective cohort study in China</p>
... of MDR-TB patients in China, indicating that CS promoted culture con- versation in many MDR-TB ...for MDR-TB patients 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
... that MDR-TB patients in Zhejiang Prov- ince lack sufficient social ...The MDR-TB patients should be considered a part of the population requiring social ...retired MDR-TB ...
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Lineage Favors the Spread of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in the Republic of Georgia
... to MDR TB, points to a higher capacity of Beijing strains to escape TB treatment in the case of underlying monoresistance (or in combination with ...with MDR or even XDR strains is a frequent ...
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Epidemic Spread of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Johannesburg, South Africa
... with MDR-TB are likely to have been underrepresented, given the need for admis- sion to a referral hospital for adequate diagnostic work-up, which limits diagnostic access in most resource-limited settings ...
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Adverse events and patients’ perceived health-related quality of life at the end of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in Namibia
... of MDR-TB ...by TB clinic nurses administering the questionnaire to the patients because they were the same nurses who provided care to the ...patients’ MDR-TB treatment ...
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Lab on Chip Based Platform for Fast Molecular Diagnosis of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis
... In the current study, we developed and evaluated a LoC-based assay for the diagnosis of MDR-TB. LoC devices represent prom- ising tools to fill the diagnostic gap in low-income countries: they integrate ...
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The value of effective public tuberculosis treatment: an analysis of opportunity costs associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Latvia
... point estimates. We did not have sufficient sample size to allow a robust stratified analysis. It is likely that we under- estimate the actual value of successful control of MDR-TB, and may undervalue the ...
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Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB): An Overview
... causing TB was described only a century ago by Robert Koch on March ...for TB became a reality. TB is basically a disease of poverty,with95% of cases and 98% of deaths occurring in developing ...
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Pre Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (Pre XDR TB) among Pulmonary Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) Patients in Bangladesh
... FLQ resistant pre-XDR-TB (13.24%) cases, than ISL resistant pre-XDR-TB ...FLQ resistant MDR-TB (pre-XDR-TB) is increasing worldwide ...FLQ resistant ...
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Formulation development and evaluation of Rifampicin niosomes for anti-tubercular treatment with isoniazid.
... with tuberculosis caused by organisms that are resistant to isoniazid, four drugs are necessary in the initial phase for the 6-month regimen to be maximally ...untreated tuberculosis should consist ...
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Infection control and tuberculosis among health care workers in Viet Nam, 2009 2013: a cross sectional survey
... in TB disease. One cross-sectional study only reported about TB disease ...and TB dis- ease incidence, but it disappeared in the multivariable ana- ...any TB cases (ad- justed Odds Ratio = ...
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Factors influencing specialist care referral of multidrug and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Gauteng/South Africa: a descriptive questionnaire based study
... of MDR-TB can result in patients developing persistent disease, progressive par- enchymal destruction, higher bacillary loads, continu- ing transmission and increased ...drug resistant TB ...
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Pyrazinamide resistance conferring mutations in pncA and the transmission of multidrug resistant TB in Georgia
... in MDR-TB isolates in ...pncA resistant strains as well as the acquisition of PZA resistance in the ...among MDR-TB isolates. Health authorities and TB con- trol programs should ...
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