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A Case of Disseminated Extensively Drug Resistant Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Tuberculosis (TB) strains with drug resistance are more difficult to treat than drug susceptible ones and jeopardise global progress towards the targets set by the World Health Organisation’s End TB Strategy. Although disseminated TB is well known as an
Diti V Gandhasiri   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosis and Interim Treatment Outcomes from the First Cohort of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Kibong'oto National Tuberculosis Hospital (KNTH), Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Characterize the diagnostic process and interim treatment outcomes from patients treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Tanzania.
Kumburu Happiness H.   +39 more
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Survival of Civilian and Prisoner Drug-Sensitive, Multi- and Extensive Drug- Resistant Tuberculosis Cohorts Prospectively Followed in Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
Rutterford, CM   +34 more
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Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-168).There are few data for treatment-related outcomes in patients with XDR tuberculosis in settings with high HIV prevalence.
Shean, Karen Penelope
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Detection of extensively drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2013
Introduction: The rise in human immune virus infections (HIV) and the neglect of tuberculosis (TB) control programs have enabled a resurgence of TB. The emergence of drug-resistant strains has also contributed to this new epidemic from 2000 to 2004, with,
S.A. Hafez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extensive Drug Resistance in Malaria and Tuberculosis

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
Drug resistance in malaria and in tuberculosis (TB) are major global health problems. Although the terms multidrug-resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB are precisely defined, the term multidrug resistance is often loosely used when discussing malaria.
Chansuda Wongsrichanalai   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Exploring prospects of novel drugs for tuberculosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Tuberculosis remains a disease with an enormous impact on public health worldwide. With the continuously increasing epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis, new drugs are desperately needed. However, even for the treatment of drug-sensitive tuberculosis,
Pieters, J.   +11 more
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Second-line drug resistance among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: A laboratory-based surveillance

open access: yesJournal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
Objectives: To estimate the proportion of second-line anti-tuberculosis drug resistance among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients in Ethiopia.
Getu Diriba   +27 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drug resistance-conferring mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Madang, Papua New Guinea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
: BACKGROUND: Monitoring drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential to curb the spread of tuberculosis (TB). Unfortunately, drug susceptibility testing is currently not available in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and that impairs TB control in ...
Gagneux, S.   +35 more
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Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the UK: a cross-sectional molecular and epidemiological study of clustering and contact tracing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BACKGROUND: Between 2000 and 2012 the number of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis cases in the UK increased from 28 per year to 81 per year. We investigated the proportion of MDR tuberculosis cases arising from transmission in the UK and associated ...
Abubakar, Ibrahim   +13 more
core   +1 more source

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