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Frequency of Pre-Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis and Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis [PDF]

open access: yesPakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, 2021
Aim: To determine the frequency of pre-extensively drug resistant tuberculosis, extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Study design: Retrospective/observational Place and duration of study: Department of Medicine, Bolan Medical College Quetta from 1st July 2019 to 31st December 2020. Methodology: One
Bashir Ullah   +5 more
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Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2006
Tuberculosis outbreaks in the developed world are newsworthy. However in the developing world where deaths from tuberculosis are common it takes something exceptional for an outbreak to attract much attention. In response to a recent report at the 16th international AIDS conference and to increasing South African media reports the World Health ...
Lawn, Stephen D, Wilkinson, Robert
openaire   +3 more sources

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis--Current Dilemmas, Unanswered Questions, Challenges and Priority Needs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Tuberculosis was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Following the declaration and the promotion in 1995 of directly observed treatment short course (DOTS), a cost-effective strategy to contain the tuberculosis ...
Abubakar, Ibrahim   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Clinical and operational value of the extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis definition. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Currently, no information is available on the effect of resistance/susceptibility to first-line drugs different from isoniazid and rifampicin in determining the outcome of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) patients, and whether being XDR ...
Besozzi, G   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Rapid culture-based methods for drug-resistance detection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Tuberculosis still represents a major public health problem, especially in low-resource countries where the burden of the disease is more important. Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug drug-resistant tuberculosis constitute serious problems for the ...
Affolabi   +79 more
core   +1 more source

EXTENSIVELY DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS (XDR TB)

open access: yesAverrous: Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan Malikussaleh, 2019
Tuberkulosis adalah penyakit infeksi kronis menular yang masih merupakan masalah kesehatan masyarakat di dunia termasuk Indonesia. Tuberkulosis (TB) sebagian besar akan mengalami penyembuhan dengan pengobatan.
Sarah Rahmayani Siregar
doaj   +1 more source

Prospects for Expanding Drug Therapy for Multiple Drug Resistant and Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

open access: yesТуберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2022
This review analyzes 64 publications on repurposed antibiotics and the prospects of their use in the treatment of multiple drug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis.
G. N. Mozhokina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

New and Improved Diagnostics for Detection of Drug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global emergency and continues to kill 1.7 million people globally each year. Drug-resistant TB is now well established throughout the world and most TB patients are not being screened for drug resistance ...
Affolabi   +41 more
core   +1 more source

Review of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB: global perspectives with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global emergency and is responsible for 1.7 million deaths annually. Widespread global misuse of isoniazid and rifampicin over three decades has resulted in emergence of the ominous spread of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB ...
Abdool Karim   +70 more
core   +1 more source

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

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