BACKGROUND The yield of mycobacterial blood cultures for multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) among drug-resistant TB suspects has not been described. METHODS We performed a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis to determine the yield of mycobacterial blood cultures for MDR-TB and XDR-TB among patients suspected of drug-resistant TB from rural South...

Introduction: It is estimated that one-third of the world’s population is infected with M. tuberculosis. Also we came to know that the numbers of TB cases are on the rise in our rural based tertiary care hospital. We searched for Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen in the serum of patients with pulmonary TB by developing Sandwich ELISA. Materials & Methods: We took 50 pulmonary TB patients, 50 d...

1 Medical officer, Department of Medicine, NMCH, Govt Medical College Kota, Rajasthan, India 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, NMCH, Govt Medical College Kota, Rajasthan, India 3 Professor, Department of Medicine, NMCH, Govt Medical College Kota, Rajasthan, India 4 Senior Professor, Department of Medicine, NMCH, Govt Medical College Kota, Rajasthan, India Corresponding Author Dr Sa...

BACKGROUND Rapid and accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is crucial to facilitate early treatment of infectious cases and thus to reduce its spread. To improve the diagnosis of TB, more rapid diagnostic techniques such as antibody detection methods including enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based serological tests and immunochromatographic methods were developed. This study was des...

The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a challenge to TB control in Europe. We evaluated second-line drug susceptibility testing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients with multidrug-resistant, pre-extensively drug-resistant (pre-XDR-TB) and XDR-TB at 23 TBNET sites in 16 European countries. Over 30% of bacilli from patients with pre-XDR-TB showed resistance to any f...

INTRODUCTION The association between lung tuberculosis and lung carcinoma is still controversial. OBJECTIVE to describe the characteristics of patients with associated lung tuberculosis (TB) and lung carcinoma (LC) in patients treated in Clinic for pulmonary diseases and TB "Podhrastovi". MATERIAL AND METHODS This is the retrospective study of patients with LC associated with TB treated in ...

Disseminated tuberculosis (TB) refers to involvement of two or more non-contiguous sites. It is a common mode of presentation of tuberculosis in patients both with and without HIV/AIDS in India. However, the presence of primary drug resistance in disseminated tuberculosis involving only the extrapulmonary sites in an immunocompetent adult is rare. Extrapulmonary TB accounts for approximately 15...

background : republic of azerbaijan is considered as an area with high prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. uncontrolled travelling of azerbaijanis people to iran is the issue that needs to be considered as an important issue. methods : this study was conducted on 32 patients with tuberculosis from baku–nakhchivan and 48 patients from iran during 2012 to 2014. colonies of mycobacter...

Background This paper aims to explore the application value of tuberculosis-specific enzyme-linked immunospot assay (T-SPOT.TB) in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Methods Fifty one patients with tuberculosis (TB) admitted to Wuxi No.5 People's Hospital, Wuxi, China from June 2015 to June 2017 were selected as the TB group, and 40 patients without tuberculosis admitted in the same period were r...

Tuberculosis as a social human disease has been known since ancient times. Morbidity and mortality from multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) both in RS(Y) the Russian Federation remain high. In recent years, studies have conducted on effectiveness of chemotherapy using drug bedaquiline. State Budgetary Institution Republic Sakha (Yakutia) SPC “Phthisiology”, presc...