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Xpert Ultra versus Xpert MTB/RIF for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults with presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis.

open access: yesCochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021
BACKGROUND Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Xpert Ultra) are World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended rapid tests that simultaneously detect tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in people with signs and symptoms of tuberculosis.
J. S. Zifodya   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Open decortication for patients presenting with stage III tuberculous empyema with low density lines on CT imaging

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
To explore the influence of CT findings on the optimal timing of open decorticationin patients with stage III tuberculous empyema. A total of 80 patients with stage III tuberculous empyema who had undergone open decortications were recruited; 44 patients
Xiaoyu Liu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Active pulmonary tuberculosis and coronavirus disease 2019: A systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Objective The proportion of COVID-19 patients having active pulmonary tuberculosis, and its impact on COVID-19 related patient outcomes, is not clear.
A. Aggarwal   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis within family households by DTM-PCR and MIRU-VNTR genotyping

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a public health threat. There are few studies on transmission and genotyping of MDR-TB family households in China.
Jun Chen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

TBDLNet: a network for classifying multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis [PDF]

open access: yesEngineering Reports (2023), 2023
This paper proposes applying a novel deep-learning model, TBDLNet, to recognize CT images to classify multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis automatically. The pre-trained ResNet50 is selected to extract features. Three randomized neural networks are used to alleviate the overfitting problem.
arxiv   +1 more source

Effectiveness and safety of bedaquiline-containing regimens for treatment on patients with refractory RR/MDR/XDR-tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study in East China

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Objective Refractory rifampicin-resistant/multidrug resistant/extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (RR/MDR/XDR-TB) were defined as patients infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) resistant to rifampicin(RR-TB), or at least resistant to ...
Shao-Jun Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of Bronchoscopic TransParenchymal Nodule Access in tuberculous bronchial occlusion

open access: yesThe Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2022
Bronchoscopic TransParenchymal Nodule Access (BTPNA) technology is mainly used for sampling or ablative treatment of lung parenchymal lesions that cannot be reached by bronchoscopy and its appendages, generally for palliative treatment of some lung ...
Qiusheng Jing   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treatment of Highly Drug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2020
BACKGROUND Patients with highly drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis have limited treatment options and historically have had poor outcomes. METHODS In an open-label, single-group study in which follow-up is ongoing at three South African sites, we ...
M. Bolhuis   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Diagnostic Value of Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation in the Bronchial Tuberculosis Induced Central Airway Stenosis

open access: yesInfectious Diseases and Therapy, 2020
Introduction Electronic bronchoscopy is invasive and may cause pain. This study aimed to explore the clinical value of virtual bronchoscopic navigation (VBN) in the diagnosis of benign central airway stenosis (CAS) secondary to tracheobronchial ...
Li-Ping Cheng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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