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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background Emergence of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) is a major hurdle for TB control programs especially in developing countries like China. Resistance to fluoroquinolones is high among MDR-TB patients.
Jun Chen +6 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Infectious diseases caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are increasingly common. This retrospective cohort study examined factors associated with outcomes in patients from Shanghai who had NTM pulmonary disease (NTMPD) from January 2014 to ...
Li-Ping Cheng +7 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Patients with Mycobacterium intracellulare pulmonary disease are more likely to experience poor treatment outcomes if they have been observed with microbiological persistence after 6 months of treatment.
Xuejiao Luo +6 more
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European Journal of Medical Research, 2023 Objective Investigate the use of endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath (EBUS-GS) combined with Gene Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) for diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection in isolated pulmonary nodules.
Jie Cao +7 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background: A 3-year prospective study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis (pTB) on contrast -enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)-guided pleural biopsy specimens. Method: Patients suspected with
Wenwen Sun +6 more
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A deletion in the RD105 region confers resistance to multiple drugs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
BMC Biology, 2019 Background The emergence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), especially those that are multidrug resistant poses a serious threat to global tuberculosis control.
Lianhua Qin +9 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background Surgery is an important adjuvant treatment for tuberculous empyema(TE). We thus conducted a single arm-clinical retrospective study of stage II-III TE patients who underwent uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (Uni-VATS) over a 5-year ...
Wenwen Sun +6 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 With increased focus on nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD), and the improvement in detection methods, the global incidence continues to increase every year, but the diagnosis and treatment are difficult with a high misdiagnosis rate ...
Hai Lou +6 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Objectives The value of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) in the diagnosis of TB varies by population, comorbidities, and other factors. In this study, we aimed to investigate factors that influence false-negative results of QFT-GIT test in the ...
Yuanyuan Yu +5 more
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Association of IL4RA and IL-8 polymorphism in predicting susceptibility towards tuberculosis
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2023 Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease frequently affecting the lungs. With two fatalities from tuberculosis (TB) occurring every three minutes, India has the highest disease burden.
Jyotish K +8 more
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