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Angelo Iacobino, Lanfranco Fattorini and Federico Giannoni
This comprehensive overview of drug-resistant tuberculosis will be useful for researchers to expand their knowledge beyond mechanisms other than chromosomal mutations, and for the development of novel drugs/drug combinations, hoping to shorten the therap...
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Tahira Kootbodien, Samantha Iyaloo, Kerry Wilson, Nisha Naicker, Spo Kgalamono, Tanya Haman, Angela Mathee and David Rees
Background: Occupational crystalline silica dust exposure is associated with an elevated risk of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). However, there is less evidence for an association with environmental silica dust exposure. Methods: A cross-sectional study of...
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Louise Cilliers, François Retief
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In spite of an array of effective antibiotics, tuberculosis is still very common in developing countries where overcrowding, malnutrition and poor hygienic conditions prevail. Over the past 30 years associated HIV infection has worsened the situat...
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Louise Cilliers, François Retief
Pág. 229 - 239
In spite of an array of effective antibiotics, tuberculosis is still very common in developing countries where overcrowding, malnutrition and poor hygienic conditions prevail. Over the past 30 years associated HIV infection has worsened the situat...
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Yiran Cui, Hui Shen, Fang Wang, Haoyu Wen, Zixin Zeng, Yafeng Wang and Chuanhua Yu
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major infectious diseases with the largest number of morbidity and mortality. Based on the comparison of high and low burden countries of tuberculosis in China, India and the United States, the influence of age-period-coho...
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Jiyang Wang, Chen Wang and Wenyu Zhang
In recent years, healthcare has attracted much attention, which is looking for more and more data analytics in healthcare to relieve medical problems in medical staff shortage, ageing population, people living alone, and quality of life. Data mining, ana...
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Dingani Moyo, Fungai Kavenga, Ronald Thulani Ncube, Farai Peter Macheri, Tariro Christwish Mando, Florence Moyo, Orippa Muzvidziwa, Mpokiseng Ncube, Hellen Masvingo, Blessings Chigaraza, Andrew Nyambo, Albert Mangwanya, Rosemary Ncube Mwale, Trust Mazadza, Tinashe Magidi, Gerald Benny, Chamunorwa Ndudzo, Victoria Varaidzo Kandido, Kudzaishe Mutungamiri and Collins Timire
In Zimbabwe, artisanal and small-scale miners (ASMs) have a high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and silicosis. Previous studies on ASMs utilised programme data, and it was not possible to understand reasons for the h...
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Chenxi Liu, Israel Cohen, Rotem Vishinkin and Hossam Haick
Tuberculosis (TB) has long been recognized as a significant health concern worldwide. Recent advancements in noninvasive wearable devices and machine learning (ML) techniques have enabled rapid and cost-effective testing for the real-time detection of TB...
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Ahmed Hadef, Souad Righi, Mehdi Boucheikhchoukh and Chams Eddine Bouzid
Bovine red offal is one of the main sources of animal proteins. The monitoring of the sanitary status of these foods is mandatory to protect human and animal health against transmitted diseases. The aim of this study was to establish an epidemiological s...
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Carlos Martin, Nacho Aguilo, Dessislava Marinova and Jesus Gonzalo-Asensio
In addition to antibiotics, vaccination is considered among the most efficacious methods in the control and the potential eradication of infectious diseases. New safe and effective vaccines against tuberculosis (TB) could be a very important tool and are...
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Christian Lienhardt and Mario C. Raviglione
The World Health Organization (WHO) End Tuberculosis (TB) Strategy has set ambitious targets to reduce 2015 TB incidence and deaths by 80% and 90%, respectively, by the year 2030. Given the current rate of TB incidence decline (about 2% per year annually...
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Balachandra Bandodkar, Radha Krishan Shandil, Jagadeesh Bhat and Tanjore S. Balganesh
After several years of limited success, an effective regimen for the treatment of both drug-sensitive and multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis is in place. However, this success is still incomplete, as we need several more novel combinations to treat ext...
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Giulia Degiacomi, Juan Manuel Belardinelli, Maria Rosalia Pasca, Edda De Rossi, Giovanna Riccardi and Laurent Roberto Chiarelli
The development and spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis multi-drug resistant strains still represent a great global health threat, leading to an urgent need for novel anti-tuberculosis drugs. Indeed, in the last years, several efforts have been made in ...
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Sunny Ibeneme, Frances Lee Revere, Lu-Yu Hwang, Suja Rajan, Joseph Okeibunor, Derrick Muneene and James Langabeer
Debate regarding the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on health outcomes has prompted researchers to conduct analyses across many parts of the globe, yet, still little is known about the ICT impact in the African continent. Using ...
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Syed Mustafa Ali, Ana Filomena Curralo, Maged N. Kamel Boulos and Sara Paiva
We propose a new framework to improve the engagement of medical practitioners in a planned e-training platform for the successful identification and effective management of presumptive cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Pakistan. Our work is aligned with the ...
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Jonathan Leonardo,Julio Christian Young,Seng Hansun
The development of information technology provides information that is relevant, accurate, on time, and provides information that can be used to assist in making a decision. Pulmonary Tuberculosis disease is one of the fatal and most common diseases in t...
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Zhezhe Cui, Dingwen Lin, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Edward A. Graviss, Angkana Chaiprasert, Prasit Palittapongarnpim, Mei Lin, Jing Ou and Jinming Zhao
The aims of the study were: (1) compare sociodemographic characteristics among active tuberculosis (TB) cases and their household contacts in cold and hot spot transmission areas, and (2) quantify the influence of locality, genotype and potential determi...
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Hao Xue, Jennifer Hager, Qi An, Kai Liu, Jing Zhang, Emma Auden, Bingyan Yang, Jie Yang, Hongyan Liu, Jingchun Nie, Aiqin Wang, Chengchao Zhou, Yaojiang Shi and Sean Sylvia
Large and increasing numbers of rural-to-urban migrants provided new challenges for tuberculosis control in large cities in China and increased the need for high quality tuberculosis care delivered by clinics in urban migrant communities. Based on a hous...
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Itumeleng H. Mabusa, Rachmond Howard, Peter Masoko
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Sutherlandia frutescens (L) R. Br. contains several essential, bioactive compounds with clinically proven pharmacological activities. Sutherlandia is prescribed for people with tuberculosis but it is still not known what compounds in this plant...
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Simeone Marino and Denise E. Kirschner
Tuberculosis (TB) is a world-wide health problem with approximately 2 billion people infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb, the causative bacterium of TB). The pathologic hallmark of Mtb infection in humans and Non-Human Primates (NHPs) is the fo...
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