UNLABELLED : The emergence of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) highlights the urgent need to understand the mechanisms of resistance to the drugs and to develop a new arena of therapeutics to treat the disease. Ethambutol, isonazid, pyrazinamide, rifampicin are first line of drugs against TB, whereas aminoglycoside, polypeptides, fluoroquinolone, ethionamide are important second line of...

The World Health Organization identifies tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as a leading infectious killer. Although conventional treatments for TB exist, they come with challenges such heavy pill regimen, prolonged treatment duration, and strict schedule, to multidrug-resistant (MDR) extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains. rise of MDR strains endangers future control. D...

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...

Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium (MT). MT usually attacks the lungs and causes pulmonary-tuberculosis. cases in Indonesia keep increasing over years. The presence of Multidrug-Resistant (MDR-TB) has been one main obstacles eradicating tuberculosis because it couldn’t be cured using standard drugs. In fact, success rate MDR-TB treatment 2019 at global level was only 57 percent. Research o...

The main aims of this study were to study the patterns of mutations in rpoB, katG, and inhA genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from patients from Nepal and to evaluate the performance of genotype MTBDRplus assay, taking conventional drug susceptibility testing as gold standard for diagnosis of MDR-TB. A total of 69 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from 73 smear posi...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease with high mortality rate in the world, including Indonesia. In addition, problem of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to antibiotics getting higher. Mint leaves and garlic have been shown its ability kill M. tuberculosis. However, it has never studied how combined effect growth.Objective: The major objective this study was investigate anti-mycobact...

Early detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is of primary importance for both patient management and infection control. Optimal methods for identifying drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a timely and affordable way in resource-limited settings are not yet available. This study prospectively evaluated a low-technology but rapid drug susceptibility testing...

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have emerged worldwide. In many countries and regions, these resistant strains constitute a serious threat to the efficacy of tuberculosis control programs. An important element in gaining control of this epidemic is developing an understanding of the molecular basis of resistance to the most important antituberculosis drugs: isoni...

conclusions molecular epidemiology studies of infectious diseases have been useful when bacterial isolates have been clustered in a period of time and in different geographical regions with variable antibiotic resistance patterns. in spite of high geographical differences and different antibiotic resistant patterns, low genetic diversity among the studied tb isolates may refer to the low rate o...

Introduction. The burden of tuberculosis is high in eastern Malaysia, and rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance are poorly defined. Our objectives were to determine M. tuberculosis susceptibility and document management after receipt of susceptibility results. Methods. Prospective study of adult outpatients with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in Sabah, Malaysia. Addit...