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Treatment quality and outcome for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in four regions of China: a cohort study

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020
Background China incurs an extremely low treatment coverage of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). This study aimed to understand the experience of MDR-TB patients on quality of health care, and the clinical impact through an up to six-year follow-
Xu-Bin Zheng, Vinod K. Diwan, Qi Zhao, Yi Hu, Judith Bruchfeld, Wei-Li Jiang, Sven Hoffner, Biao Xu   +7 more
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Adverse Events among HIV/MDR-TB Co-Infected Patients Receiving Antiretroviral and Second Line Anti-TB Treatment in Mumbai, India. [PDF]

, 2012
Significant adverse events (AE) have been reported in patients receiving medications for multidrug- and extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB & XDR-TB).
Varghese, B, Tony Reid, Paryani Roma, Mansoor Homa, Isaakidis, P, Paryani, Roma, Isaakidis, Petros, Cox, Helen S., Udwadia, Zarir, Sotgiu, Giovanni, Khan Samsuddin, Ladomirska, J, Cox, H S, Reid, Tony, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Ladomirska Joanna, Paryani, R, Da Silva Esdras, Udwadia Zarir, Petros Isaakidis, Peter Saranchuk, Joanna Ladomirska, Zarir Udwadia, Bhanumati Varghese, Roma Paryani, Ladomirska, Joanna, Varghese, Bhanumati, Sotgiu Giovanni, Khan, S, Migliori, Giovanni Battista, Isaakidis Petros, Saranchuk, Peter, Da Silva, Esdras, Mansoor, H, Homa Mansoor, Khan, Samsuddin, Saranchuk Peter, Esdras Da Silva, Migliori, G B, Migliori Giovanni Battista, Mansoor, Homa, Reid Tony, Varghese Bhanumati, Cox Helen S., Giovanni Sotgiu, Saranchuk, P, Da Silva, E, Udwadia, Z, Reid, T, Helen S Cox, Sotgiu, G, Samsuddin Khan   +51 more
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Screening and identification of differentially expressed long non-coding RNAs in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [PDF]

PeerJ, 2022
Background Efforts to eradicate tuberculosis are largely threatened by drug-resistant tuberculosis, particularly, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
Junwei Zhao, ShuHui Gao, Chunguang Chen, Hui Li, Shaohua Wang, Yongmin Yu, Liang Ming   +6 more
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Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Burden among the New Tuberculosis Patients in Zhejiang Province: An Observational Study, 2009–2013

Chinese Medical Journal, 2017
Background: Screening on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been limited to the serious TB subpopulations excluding the new TB patients. This study aimed to examine MDR-TB burden among the new TB patients.
Ying Peng, Song-Hua Chen, Le Zhang, Bin Chen, Ming-Wu Zhang, Tie-Niu He, Fei Wang, Cheng-Liang Chai, Lin Zhou, Yu Zhang, Xiao-Meng Wang, Zhongwei Jia   +11 more
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Rising challenge of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in China: a predictive study using Markov modeling

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020
Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is on the rise in China. This study used a dynamic Markov model to predict the longitudinal trends of MDR-TB in China by 2050 and to assess the effects of alternative control measures.
Bing-Ying Li, Wen-Pei Shi, Chang-Ming Zhou, Qi Zhao, Vinod K Diwan, Xu-Bin Zheng, Yang Li, Sven Hoffner, Biao Xu   +8 more
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Cost-effectiveness of bedaquiline in MDR and XDR tuberculosis in Italy

Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, 2017
Objective: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of bedaquiline plus background drug regimens (BR) for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in Italy.
Luigi R. Codecasa, Mondher Toumi, Anna D’Ausilio, Andrea Aiello, Francesco Damele, Roberta Termini, Alessia Uglietti, Robert Hettle, Giorgio Graziano, Saverio De Lorenzo   +9 more
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Programmatically selected multidrug-resistant strains drive the emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa [PDF]

, 2013
South Africa shows one of the highest global burdens of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB). Since 2002, MDR-TB in South Africa has been treated by a standardized combination therapy, which until 2010 included
Pillay, Manormoney, van Helden, Paul D., Nicolaas C. Gey van Pittius (173264), Paul D. van Helden (33594), Marlein E Bosman, Gagneux, Sebastien, Thomas C Victor, Manormoney Pillay (257769), Nicolaas C Gey van Pittius, Borna Müller (173253), Hayes, Cindy, Streicher, Elizabeth M., Andre Trollip (449922), Robin M Warren, Elizabeth M Streicher, Trollip, Andre, Violet N. Chihota (143307), Warren, Robin M., Bosman, Marlein E., Müller, Borna, Violet N Chihota, Cindy Hayes, Marisa Klopper (398815), Cindy Hayes (449923), Elizabeth M. Streicher (439727), Borna Müller, Paul D van Helden, Marlein E. Bosman (449924), Klopper, Marisa, Gerrit Coetzee, Sebastien Gagneux (149824), Chihota, Violet N., Andre Trollip, Marisa Klopper, Sebastien Gagneux, Gerrit Coetzee (296078), Victor, Thomas C., Manormoney Pillay, Coetzee, Gerrit, Gey van Pittius, Nicolaas C., Robin M. Warren (33593), Thomas C. Victor (185348)   +41 more
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MDR-TB TREATMENT UPDATE

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) accounts for an expanding proportion of incident global TB cases and is a major barrier to global tuberculosis control. Conventional therapy for RR-TB is more toxic, less effective, and much more costly than drug-susceptible TB.
openaire   +2 more sources

Evaluation of a standardized treatment regimen of anti-tuberculosis drugs for patients with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (STREAM) : study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2014
Background In contrast to drug-sensitive tuberculosis, the guidelines for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have a very poor evidence base; current recommendations, based on expert opinion, are that patients should be treated ...
Squire, Stephen Bertel, Squire, S Bertel, Patrick PJ Phillips, Madan, Jason, Rusen, I. D., Chiang, Chen-Yuan, Armand Van Deun, Chiang, Chen Yuan, Gabriela Torrea, Phillips, P. (Patrick), Van Deun, Armand, Rusen, ID, Meredith, Sarah K, Jason Madan, Meredith, Sarah K., Nunn, Andrew J, ID Rusen, Nunn, Andrew J., Squire, Bertie, Torrea, Gabriela, Chen-Yuan Chiang, Sarah K Meredith, Phillips, Patrick PJ, Andrew J Nunn, Phillips, Patrick P.J., S Bertel Squire   +25 more
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Comparison of the yield of tuberculosis among contacts of multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia using GeneXpert as a primary diagnostic test

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Objectives: This study compared the yield of tuberculosis (TB) among contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) index cases with that in drug-sensitive TB (DS-TB) index cases in a program setting.
Nebiyu Hiruy, Muluken Melese, Dereje Habte, Degu Jerene, Zewdu Gashu, Genetu Alem, Ilili Jemal, Belay Tessema, Beza Belayneh, Pedro G. Suarez   +9 more
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