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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in middle ear: A case report
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a common disease in developing countries, among which middle ear TB is rare. Furthermore, it is relatively difficult to make an early diagnosis and provide follow-up treatment for middle ear TB.
Tanze Cao +5 more
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International spread of MDR TB from Tugela Ferry, South Africa. [PDF]
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 +23 more
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Programmatically selected multidrug-resistant strains drive the emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa [PDF]
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 +69 more
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Microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility assay for the diagnosis of TB. [PDF]
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 +34 more
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SHORT-TERM CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMEN OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC
Objective: To study the clinical course of tuberculosis (TB) with multiple drug resistance (MDR) in the treatment of short-term courses recommended by the WHO.
E.V. ZHDANOVA, G.K. TURDUMAMBETOVA
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Trends in drug-resistant tuberculosis in a gold-mining workforce in South Africa, 2002-2008. [PDF]
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. +11 more
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The infectiousness of tuberculosis patients coinfected with HIV [PDF]
The current understanding of airborne tuberculosis (TB) transmission is based on classic 1950s studies in which guinea pigs were exposed to air from a tuberculosis ward.
Ticona, E. +64 more
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Drug resistance-conferring mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Madang, Papua New Guinea [PDF]
: 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. +47 more
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Purpose: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis continues to cause a public health crisis and remains a threat to health security. Drug resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs remains a major public health problem that compromises the successes in the fight ...
P.K. Yanogo, A.L. Papique, N. Meda
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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 +5 more
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