While tuberculosis (TB) disease was discovered more than a century ago, it has not been eradicated yet. Quite contrary, at present, TB constitutes one of the top 10 causes of death and has shown signs of increasing. To complement the conventional dia...
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Sep 23, 2016
Aminoglycosides such as amikacin continue to be part of the backbone of treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). We measured amikacin concentrations in 28 MDR-TB patients in Botswana receiving amikacin therapy together with oral levofl...
As a man-made disease, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is mainly caused by improper treatment programs and poor patient supervision, most of which could be prevented. According to the daily treatment and inspection records of tuberculosis (...
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and it has been one of the top 10 causes of death globally. Drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), extensively resistant to the commonly used first-line drugs, has e...
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacteria. One of the main causes of mortality from TB is the problem of Mtb resistance to known drugs.
MOTIVATION: Correct and rapid determination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) resistance against available tuberculosis (TB) drugs is essential for the control and management of TB. Conventional molecular diagnostic test assumes that the presence o...
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