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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2008
Background With almost 9 million new cases each year, tuberculosis remains one of the most feared diseases on the planet. Led by the STOP-TB Partnership and WHO, recent efforts to combat the disease have made considerable progress in a number of ...
McNerney Ruth, Zager Ellen M
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Explaining risk factors for drug-resistant tuberculosis in England and Wales: contribution of primary and secondary drug resistance [PDF]

, 2004
Drug-resistant tuberculosis can be transmitted (primary) or develop during the course of treatment (secondary). We investigated risk factors for each type of resistance.
Glynn, JR, Story, A, Hayward, AC, Watson, JM, Conaty, SJ, Drobniewski, FA   +5 more
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Diagnosis and Interim Treatment Outcomes from the First Cohort of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 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., Ndusilo, N.D., Boeree, M.J., Kibiki, Gibson S, Mpagama Stellah G., Kumburu, Happiness H, Houpt, Eric R, Heysell, Scott K, Eric R Houpt, Boeree Martin J., Kisonga, Riziki M, Kibiki, G.S., Nora D Ndusilo, Jean Gratz, Ndusilo Nora D., Riziki M Kisonga, Boeree, Martin J, Lekule Isack A., Stellah G Mpagama, Martin J Boeree, Heysell, S.K., Kisonga Riziki M., Mpagama, Stellah G, Ndusilo, Nora D, Kumburu, H.H., Scott K Heysell, Lekule, Isack A, Gratz, J., Kisonga, R.M., Gratz, Jean, Kibiki Gibson S., Houpt, E.R., Gibson S Kibiki, Heysell Scott K., Mpagama, S.G., Lekule, I.A., Houpt Eric R., Isack A Lekule, Gratz Jean, Happiness H Kumburu   +39 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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Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the UK: a cross-sectional molecular and epidemiological study of clustering and contact tracing [PDF]

, 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, Anderson, Laura F, Brown, Timothy, Watson, JP, Abubakar, I, Tamne, Surinder, Mullarkey, C, Anderson, LF, Tamne, S, Zenner, D, Brown, T, Mullarkey, Catherine, Watson, John P, Zenner, Dominik   +13 more
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Trends in drug-resistant tuberculosis in a gold-mining workforce in South Africa, 2002-2008. [PDF]

, 2012
SETTING AND OBJECTIVE: To describe trends in drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in two gold-mining workforces, South Africa, 2002-2008. DESIGN: TB programme data analysis.
Fielding, K. L., van Halsema, CL, Churchyard, GJ, Churchyard, G. J., Chihota, VN, Grant, AD, Chihota, V. N., Grant, A. D., Fielding, KL, van Halsema, C. L., Lewis, J. J., Lewis, JJ   +11 more
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Microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility assay for the diagnosis of TB. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: New diagnostic tools are urgently needed to interrupt the transmission of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Rapid, sensitive detection of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in sputum has been demonstrated in ...
Doris LaChira, Sanchez, Eduardo, Jorge Coronel, Luz Caviedes, Friedland, Jon S, Maria-Graciela Hollm-Delgado, Coronel, Jorge, Robert H. Gilman, Juan Carlos Saravia, Moore, David AJ, Yvette Piñedo, Caviedes, Luz, Oberhelman, Richard, Piñedo, Yvette, A. Roderick Escombe, Saravia, Juan Carlos, Cayo Salazar, Jon S. Friedland, Gilman, Robert H, Hollm-Delgado, Maria-Graciela, Vivar, Aldo, LaChira, Doris, David A.J. Moore, Eduardo Sanchez, Salazar, Cayo, Richard Oberhelman, Evans, Carlton AW, Aldo Vivar, Carlton A.W. Evans, Escombe, A Roderick   +29 more
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International spread of MDR TB from Tugela Ferry, South Africa. [PDF]

, 2011
We describe a death associated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV infection outside Africa that can be linked to Tugela Ferry (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), the town most closely associated with the regional epidemic of drug-resistant ...
Beaton, R Kate, John, Laurence, Simon Ashworth, Onn Kon, Alexander Pym, O. Martin Williams, Kon, Onn Min, Richard J. Lessells, Alexander S. Pym, Williams, O Martin, Graham Cooke, Pym, Alexander S, Onn Min Kon, Graham S. Cooke, Cooke, Graham S, Moodley, P, Supply, P, R. Kate Beaton, P. Supply, Laurence John, Lessells, Richard J, Ashworth, Simon, Richard Lessells, P. Moodley   +23 more
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Detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated in Brazil using a multimarker genetic assay for katG and rpoB genes

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) is a serious world health problem that limits public actions to control tuberculosis, because the most used anti-tuberculosis first-line drugs fail to stop mycobacterium spread.
Luita Nice Café Oliveira, Jairo da Silva Muniz-Sobrinho, Luiz Alexandre Viana-Magno, Sônia Cristina Oliveira Melo, Antonio Macho, Fabrício Rios-Santos   +5 more
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Drug resistance-conferring mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Madang, Papua New Guinea [PDF]

, 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., Siba Peter, Beck, H. P., Hans-Peter Beck, Beck Hans-Peter, Carter Robyn, Paul Harino, Harino, P., Carter, R., Serej Ley, Ley Serej, Siba, P., Gagneux Sebastien, Borrell Sonia, Coscolla Mireia, Mireia Coscolla, Ballif Marie, Stefan Niemann, Ley, S., Marie Ballif, Coulter, C., Robyn Carter, Coulter Christopher, Christopher Coulter, Ballif, M., Peter Siba, Niemann, S., Harino Paul, Niemann Stefan, Sebastien Gagneux, Phuanukoonnon, S., Borrell, S., Coscolla, M., Sonia Borrell, Suparat Phuanukoonnon, Phuanukoonnon Suparat   +35 more
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