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Cough dynamics in adults receiving tuberculosis treatment
(Public Library of Science, 2020)
Cough is a characteristic symptom of tuberculosis, is the main cause of transmission, and is used to assess treatment response. We aimed to identify the best measure of cough severity and characterize changes during initial ...
Low-cost diagnostic test for susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis in rural Malawi
(African Online Scientific Information Systems, 2018)
Background: Rural settings where molecular tuberculosis diagnostics are not currently available need easy-to-use tests that do not require additional processing or equipment. While acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear is the most ...
Evaluation of the tuberculosis culture color plate test for rapid detection of drug susceptible and drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a resource-limited setting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(Public Library of Science, 2019)
Timely diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is limited in Ethiopia. We evaluated the performance of a low technology, thin layer agar, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) culture color plate (TB-CX) test with concurrent drug ...
GeneXpert--a game-changer for tuberculosis control?
(Public Library of Science, 2011)
Carlton Evans considers whether the new tuberculosis diagnostic test, GeneXpert, is the solution for TB control that it's said to be.
Perinatal Tuberculosis: A Diagnostic Challenge
(2006)
Despite the high prevalence of tuberculosis in adults and children, the congenital and perinatal forms of tuberculosis are rare. In Brazil, there has been only one published case of congenital tuberculosis and two cases ...
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
(The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2013)
Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility Assay for Rapid Diagnosis of Lymph Node Tuberculosis and Detection of Drug Resistance
(American Society for Microbiology, 2015)
In this study, 132 patients with lymphadenopathy were investigated. Fifty-two (39.4%) were diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB). The microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay provided rapid (13 days), accurate ...
Indicaciones para la realización del cultivo de mycobacterium tuberculosis como método diagnóstico de tuberculosis pulmonar y extra pulmonar.
(Machala : Universidad Técnica de Machala, 2015)
Tuberculosis, contagious disease caused by mycobacteria of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (M. hominis , M. bovis , M. africanum) It is estimated that in 2014 contracted the disease 9 million people , the diagnosis of ...