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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis"”.
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Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa
… treatment-related outcomes in patients with XDR tuberculosis in settings with high HIV prevalence. We reviewed the case records of 227 consecutively diagnosed South African patients with XDR-TB between 2002 and 2008, and analysed the records of another 115 patients, retrospectively, for adverse …
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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Africa: prevalence and factors associated: a systematic review and meta-analysis
… a dearth of information regarding prevalence of extensively drugresistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in Africa. Although countries in Africa conduct national tuberculosis surveys on a regular basis, this information has not been systematically reviewed to ascertain the overall prevalence of XDR-TB in …
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Development of an Autologous Human Dendritic Cell Vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Patients with Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Introduction: Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), and resistance beyond XDR-TB (often untreatable), is an increasing public health concern globally. Drug resistance has outpaced the drug development pipeline. Therefore, alternative immunotherapeutic approaches are urgently needed. In …
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Molecular epidemiology, susceptibility profiles, outcomes and transmission dynamics in patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in two provinces of South Africa
… TB control in South Africa are being reversed by drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB and XDR-TB), which has a high mortality, is a threat to health care workers, and is prohibitively costly to treat. MDR-TB has been supplanted by XDR-TB, resistance beyond XDR-TB, and programmatically incurable TB. …
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The Consumer of Humans
… have slowed progress in the fight to control tuberculosis globally. Scientists have developed important drugs, such as isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide, against the disease. But these drugs must be taken for several months, are sometimes ineffective, and can cause debilitating side …
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The relationship between chest X-ray findings, bacterial load and treatment-related outcomes in persons with extensively drug resistant TB
Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was first recognized in the 1990s with an increase in caseload of eighty-two percent between 2000 and 2007. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), a more difficult and more expensive form of TB to treat with poorer outcomes, emerged in South …