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Household screening and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [PDF]

, 2010
Of the estimated half a million people who develop multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis each year, less than 7% are diagnosed and only 1 in 5 of these have access to eff ective treatment.1 To control this epidemic, dramatically increased efforts are ...
Becerra, Gilles van Cutsem, Helen Cox, Keshavjee, Lin, London, Mitnick, Mitnick, Morán-Mendoza, Rieder   +9 more
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Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis--Current Dilemmas, Unanswered Questions, Challenges and Priority Needs [PDF]

, 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, Atun, Rifat, Chakaya, Jeremiah, Cox, Helen, Ditiu, Lucica, Ford, Nathan, Grobusch, Martin, Hoelscher, Michael, Lawn, Stephen D., Maeurer, Markus, Marais, Ben, Mchugh, Timothy D., McNerney, Ruth, Memish, Ziad, Migliori, Giovanni-Battista, Mwaba, Peter, O'Grady, Justin, Pletschette, Michel, Ramsay, Andrew, Raviglione, Mario, Schito, Marco, Squire, S. Bertel, Swaminathan, Soumya, Zumla, Alimuddin   +23 more
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Amplification of Aminoglycoside Resistance Gene aphA1 in Acinetobacter baumannii Results in Tobramycin Therapy Failure

mBio, 2014
Gene amplification is believed to play an important role in antibiotic resistance but has been rarely documented in clinical settings because of its unstable nature.
Patrick McGann, Patrice Courvalin, Erik Snesrud, Robert J. Clifford, Eun-Jeong Yoon, Fatma Onmus-Leone, Ana C. Ong, Yoon I. Kwak, Catherine Grillot-Courvalin, Emil Lesho, Paige E. Waterman   +10 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 ...
Caviedes, Luz, Coronel, Jorge, Escombe, A Roderick, Evans, Carlton AW, Friedland, Jon S, Gilman, Robert H, Hollm-Delgado, Maria-Graciela, LaChira, Doris, Moore, David AJ, Oberhelman, Richard, Piñedo, Yvette, Salazar, Cayo, Sanchez, Eduardo, Saravia, Juan Carlos, Vivar, Aldo   +14 more
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Risk of acquired drug resistance during short-course directly observed treatment of tuberculosis in an area with high levels of drug resistance. [PDF]

, 2007
BACKGROUND: Data on the performance of standardized short-course directly observed treatment (DOTS) of tuberculosis (TB) in areas with high levels of drug resistance and on the potential impact of DOTS on amplification of resistance are limited ...
Cox, Cox, Cox, Crofton, D. Doshetov, Das, Dewan, Drobniewski, Espinal, Farmer, G. Ismailov, Glynn, H. S. Cox, Heifets, J. D. Orozco, Kamerbeek, Kubica, L. Blok, Laszlo, Madison, McNabb, Mitchison, Niemann, Pardini, Quy, Reeler, S. Niemann, S. R. Gerdes, Shamputa, van Embden, van Rie, Wilkinson, Y. Kebede, Yoshiyama   +33 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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Genome-based analysis of Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from German hospital patients, 2008-2014

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2018
Background By using whole genome sequence data we aimed at describing a population snapshot of carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae isolated from hospitalized patients in Germany between 2008 and 2014.
Laura Becker, Martin Kaase, Yvonne Pfeifer, Stephan Fuchs, Annicka Reuss, Anja von Laer, Muna Abu Sin, Miriam Korte-Berwanger, Sören Gatermann, Guido Werner   +9 more
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Antibiotic-resistant Escherichia Coli from Retail Poultry Meat with Different Antibiotic Use Claims [PDF]

, 2018
Background We sought to determine if the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli differed across retail poultry products and among major production categories, including organic, “raised without antibiotics”, and conventional.
Davis, Gregg S., Grande, Heidi, Horwinski, Joseph, Hungate, Bruce A., Koch, Benjamin, Liu, Cindy M., Nordstrom, Lora, Papp, Katerina, Price, Lance B., Waits, Kara, Weaver, Brett   +10 more
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When good bugs go bad: Epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Corynebacterium striatum, an emerging multidrug-resistant, opportunistic pathogen [PDF]

, 2017
Infections with Corynebacterium striatum have been described in the literature over the last 2 decades, with the majority being bacteremia, central line infections, and occasionally, endocarditis.
Anderson, Neil, Burnham, Carey-Ann D, McMullen, Allison R, Shupe, Angela, Wallace, Meghan A   +4 more
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Geographical differences of carbapenem non-susceptible Enterobacterales and Acinetobacter spp. in Germany from 2017 to 2019

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2022
Background Since May 2016, infection and colonisation with carbapenem non-susceptible Acinetobacter spp. (CRA) and Enterobacterales (CRE) have to be notified to health authorities in Germany. The aim of our study was to assess the epidemiology of CRA and
Anja von Laer, Tim Eckmanns, Benedikt Zacher, Niels Pfennigwerth, Sören G. Gatermann, Felix Reichert, Michaela Diercke, Gyde Steffen, Doris Altmann, Annicka Reuss   +9 more
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