High Schistosoma mansoni Co-Infection in Tuberculosis Patients with or without Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: People with Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) remain the reservoir of tuberculosis. One-third to 1/4 of the world's population is infected. Its reactivation is due to factors that disrupt the host's immune response.

Relationship between patient sex and anatomical sites of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Mali.

Background: Contribution of host factors in mediating susceptibility to extrapulmonary tuberculosis is not well understood.

Objective: To examine the influence of patient sex on anatomical localization of extrapulmonary tuberculosis.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study in Mali, West Africa.

Identifying Risk Factors for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnosis Delays in Mali a West-African Endemic Country.

Background: Tuberculosis was the deadliest infectious agent before covid-19; 1.5 million deaths in 2020. Despite, a variety, of easy and cheap diagnostic tools, detection rates still fall below 90%; diagnosis delays are long exceeding 30 days in many continents.

[Effect of the visit of the medical delegates on the prescription at the Point G Teaching Hospital].

Objective: The objective was to study the influence of the visit of medical delegates on hospital prescribing.

Materials And Methods: it was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted from October 9, 2017 to February 5, 2018 at the teaching hospital of Point G in Mali. It included 54 prescribers, 36 medical visitors and 195 prescriptions.

Clinical risk factors associated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Mali.

Background: MDR-TB is a major threat to global TB control. In 2015, 580,000 were treated for MDR-TB worldwide. The worldwide roll-out of GeneXpert MTB/RIF has improved diagnosis of MDR-TB; however, in many countries laboratories are unable to assess drug resistance and clinical predictors of MDR-TB could help target suspected patients.

Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Mali: a case report.

Background: Drug resistant tuberculosis presents a major public health challenge.

Case Presentation: We present here the first two patients diagnosed with extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Bamako, Mali. Genotypic findings suggest possible nosocomial transmission from the first patient to the second one, resulting in superinfection of the second patient.