Publications by authors named "Elena Ferran"
Article Synopsis
- Fluoroquinolones play a crucial role in treating tuberculosis, so it's important to detect any resistance to these drugs.
- A comprehensive survey in England examined over 16,000 tuberculosis isolates and found an overall fluoroquinolone resistance rate of 1.4%, with 23.9% in multidrug-resistant TB cases.
- Implementing routine sequencing for resistance detection is recommended as a necessary strategy for monitoring and managing tuberculosis treatment.
Background: WGS has significant potential to help tackle the major public health problem of TB. The Republic of Korea has the third highest rates of TB of all Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries but there has been very limited use of WGS in TB to date.
Objectives: A retrospective comparison of (MTB) clinical isolates from 2015 to 2017 from two centres in the Republic of Korea using WGS to compare phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (pDST) and WGS drug susceptibility predictions (WGS-DSP).
Medical ethics and law education in the UK is undergoing continuous transformation. In parallel, human rights teaching with respect to health is expanding as a distinct field. Yet a resistance to the inclusion of human rights in the medical ethics and law curriculum persists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hepatoportal sclerosis (HPS) is a cause of noncirrhotic portal hypertension, with patients typically presenting with variceal bleeding. It is idiopathic in nature but is felt to be due to an abnormality of the intrahepatic vasculature. HPS is characterized by varying degrees of portal fibrosis, sclerosis of portal vein branches and dilatation of sinusoidal spaces.
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