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Ann Acad Med Singap
December 2024
National Tuberculosis Care Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
PLoS Comput Biol
December 2024
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Effectively responding to drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) requires accurate and timely information on resistance levels and trends. In contexts where use of drug susceptibility testing has not been universal (i.e.
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December 2024
Pulmonology Service, Cruces University Hospital (OSI EEC), Barakaldo, Spain; BioBizkaia Health Research Institute, Spain.
The Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) and the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC) have developed together Clinical Practice Guidelines (GPC) on the management of people affected by tuberculosis (TB) resistant to drugs with activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These clinical practice guidelines include the latest updates of the SEPAR regulations for the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB from 2017 to 2020 as the starting point. The methodology included asking relevant clinical questions based on PICO methodology, a literature search focusing on each question, and a systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the evidence, with a summary of this evidence for each question.
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October 2024
Clinical Epidemiology (Division of Health Sciences), ICMR - National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), Indian Council of Medical Research, Meghaninagar, Ahmedabad City, Gujarat, 380016, India.
Background: India, with the highest global burden of tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistant TB, aims to eliminate TB by 2025. Yet, limited evidence exists on drug resistance patterns and retreatment among patients with silico-tuberculosis. This study explores these patterns and assesses the impact of silicosis on TB retreatment in India.
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October 2024
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
Background: Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing public health threat, and early characterization of the resistance phenotype is essential for guiding treatment and mitigating the high mortality associated with the disease. However, the slow growth rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, necessitates several weeks for conventional culture-dependent drug susceptibility testing (DST). In addition, there are no widely available molecular diagnostic assays for evaluating resistance to newer tuberculosis drugs or drugs with complex resistance mechanisms.
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