Extensively resistant tuberculosis: Four cases in the Republic of Congo.

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is currently a major public health problem in most developing countries, including the Republic of Congo, where antituberculosis agents are repeatedly unavailable. We report four cases from by the National Program for Tuberculosis Control in collaboration with its National Reference Laboratory (NRL) of the Republic of Congo. The presence of these highly resistant strains causes therapeutic problems (treatment depends on the profile of individual mutations and the unavailability of new drugs) and public health (major risk of spread of the disease in the community).

[Predictive factors of lost to follow-up status during tuberculosis treatment in Brazzaville].

Introduction: The abandonment of TB treatment has consequences both individual by increasing the risk of drug resistance and collective seeding entourage. The aim of this study is to determine the risk factors to be lost sight of during TB treatment.

Patients And Methods: He acted in a prospective cohort study of patients with microbiologically confirmed tuberculosis, beginning TB treatment and followed for six months.

[Pulmonary tuberculosis among hospitalized patients in Brazzaville: impact of late diagnosis of HIV infection on radiographic abnormalities].

The aim was to describing the different radiographic features of pulmonary tuberculosis according to the degree of immunosuppression in HIV patients. We report a retrospective study of 80 untreated HIV-positive patients with pulmonary tuberculosis hospitalized in the Pneumo-Phthisiology Department in Brazzaville from January 2013 to January 2014. Our sample consisted of 44 women (55%) and 36 men (45%), the sex ratio was 0.

[Influence of care pathways on the time of initiation of TB treatment].

Introduction: Untreated positive pulmonary TB smear has both individual implications, increasing morbidity and mortality, and collective implications, increasing the contagiousness of the disease. The present study aims to identify the course of patient care and the influence of care pathway on the time of initiation of TB treatment in Abidjan.

Methods: We conducted a prospective and comparative study between two groups with pulmonary smear-positive: 38 with a conventional course (use of only the health facilities) and 198 with mixed driving (combining health facilities, self-medication and traditional medicine).

[HIV/TB co-infection in rural settings of Benin: case of the Djougou-Ouake-Copargo sanitary district (north-west Benin)].

Aims: we measured the burden of TB/HIV co-infection in a rural setting of Benin, and assessed the outcome of tuberculosis treatment at the end of the intensive phase of TB treatment.

Methods: This is a retrospective, cross-sectional, descriptive study, covering January 2006 to December 2011.

Results: A total of 256 patients were included, 67 (26.

[HIV/TB co-infection in rural settings of benin: case of Djougou-Ouake-Copargo district (north-west Benin].

Aims: We measured the burden of HIV/tuberculosis (HIV/TB) co-infection in people infected by TB in rural settings of Benin, and assessed the outcome of TB treatment at the end of the intensive phase.

Methods: This is a retrospective, cross-sectional, descriptive study, covering January 2006 to December 2011.

Results: A total of 256 patients were gathered, 67 (26.