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Proceedings from the CIHLMU 5th Infectious Diseases Symposium 2016 “Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: Old Disease - New Challenge”

BMC Proceedings, 2017
The 5th CIHLMU Infectious Disease Symposium, Munich, Germany, March 12, 2016 brought together Tuberculosis Experts from developed and low middle-income countries to discuss the control of drug resistance Tuberculosis. The meeting featured 9 presentations:
Celso Khosa, Krutarth Patel, Karlygash Abdiyeva, Nurkeldi Turebekov, Bettina Prüller, Norbert Heinrich   +5 more
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Sequence analyses of just four genes to detect extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients undergoing treatment [PDF]

, 2009
The rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates resistant to second-line drugs is crucial for the institution of appropriate treatment regimens as early as possible.
Feuerriegel, S, Cox, H S, Zarkua, N, Karimovich, H A, Braker, K, Rüsch-Gerdes, S, Niemann, S   +6 more
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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis case in the Thames Valley, UK and public health interventions

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2011
Summary: This study describes the first case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in the Thames Valley and South East Region and discuss the public health implications, highlighting the need to integrate current epidemiological knowledge ...
Muhammad Abid, Noel McCarthy, Luisa Saldaña, Tracey Langham, Anne McGown, Christopher Conlon, Pablo de Vena Franks   +6 more
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Fluoroquinolone Efficacy against Tuberculosis Is Driven by Penetration into Lesions and Activity against Resident Bacterial Populations. [PDF]

, 2019
Fluoroquinolones represent the pillar of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment, with moxifloxacin, levofloxacin, or gatifloxacin being prescribed to MDR-TB patients.
Alvarez-Cabrera, Nadine, Blanc, Landry, Dartois, Véronique, Dias-Freedman, Isabela, Dietzold, Jillian, Ho Liang, Hsin-Pin, Kaya, Firat, Kirschner, Denise, Linderman, Jennifer, Mina, Marizel, O'Brien, Paul, Pienaar, Elsje, Prideaux, Brendan, Salgame, Padmini, Sarathy, Jansy, Savic, Radojka M, Zimmerman, Matthew   +16 more
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Treatment outcomes for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Paediatric multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis is a public health challenge of growing concern, accounting for an estimated 15% of all global cases of MDR tuberculosis. Clinical management is especially challenging, and recommendations are
Abubakar, Al-Dabbagh, Borenstien, Caminero, Dena Ettehad, Drobac, du Cros, Fairlie, Falzon, Feja, Furin, Furin, Golder, Graham S Cooke, Granich, Guyatt, H Simon Schaaf, Hesseling, Hesseling, Houwert, James A Seddon, Johnston, Laserson, Leung, Mendez Echevarria, Mitnick, Munsiff, Nathan Ford, Nelson, Newcombe, Nicol, Orenstein, Padayatchi, Riley, Rucker, Schaaf, Schaaf, Schaaf, Schaaf, Schaaf, Seddon, Smith, Swanson   +42 more
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Outbreak Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis with Unusual Combination of Resistance Mutations, Northern Argentina, 2006–2022

Emerging Infectious Diseases
To reconstruct transmission chains of the multidrug-resistant tuberculosis Ch strain, which harbors a unique combination of resistance mutations, we analyzed genomes of 25 isolates from 12 patients with diagnosis during 2006–2022 in Chaco Province ...
Roxana Paul, Federico Lorenzo, Beatriz López, María Gabriela Alegre, David Couvin, Nalin Rastogi, Laura Pérez-Lago, Darío García de Viedma, Ana Gamberale, Norma González, Domingo Palmero, Silvia Altabe, Norberto Simboli, Noemí Kaoru Yokobori   +13 more
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Resistance patterns and trends of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: 5-year experience [PDF]

Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2013
Objective:Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) strains were emerged when multidrug-resistant TB (MDR- TB) was inadequately treated. Inadequate treatment of MDR-TB cases may result in additional resistance especially non-XDR-TB and then XDR ...
Amresh Kumar Singh, Anand Kumar Maurya , Manoj Kumar , Surya Kant , Ram Awadh Singh Kushwaha , Vijaya Lakshmi Nag , Tapan N. Dhole   +6 more
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Challenges and Controversies in Defining Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012
In March 2012, in response to reports of tuberculosis (TB) resistant to all anti-TB drugs, the World Health Organization convened an expert consultation that identified issues to be resolved before defining a new category of highly drug-resistant TB ...
Peter Cegielski, Paul Nunn, Ekaterina V. Kurbatova, Karin Weyer, Tracy L. Dalton, Douglas F. Wares, Michael F. Iademarco, Kenneth G. Castro, Mario Raviglione   +8 more
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Resistance to Second-Line Anti-TB Drugs in Cambodia: A Phenotypic and Genetic Study

Infection and Drug Resistance, 2021
Sokleaph Cheng,1– 3 Mallorie Hide,3– 5 Sok Heng Pheng,6 Alexandra Kerléguer,2 Gauthier Delvallez,2 Sophan Sam,7 Tan Eang Mao,6 Thi Van Anh Nguyen,3,8 Anne-Laure Bañuls3– 5 1Institut Pasteur du Cambodge and Ministry of ...
Cheng S, Hide M, Pheng SH, Kerléguer A, Delvallez G, Sam S, Mao TE, Nguyen TVA, Bañuls AL   +8 more
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Rationing tests for drug-resistant tuberculosis - who are we prepared to miss? [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Early identification of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) increases the likelihood of treatment success and interrupts transmission.
A Faustini, A Pantoja, A Pooran, A Vassall, C Fitzpatrick, D Martínez, D Menzies, DAJ Moore, DAJ Moore, David A. J. Moore, E Tortoli, EA Kendall, EL Corbett, GJ Churchyard, JC Feres, Jon S. Friedland, Jorge Coronel, K Kliiman, KAK Angeby, L Caviedes, Laura J. Martin, Louis Grandjean, Luz Caviedes, MA Espinal, Martha H. Roper, O Oxlade, P Miotto, PG Suárez, PT Kent, Robert H. Gilman, SS Shin, V Boonsarngsuk, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization   +35 more
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