The emergence of strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are resistant to
antimycobacterial agents is a worldwide problem whose global magnitude is not well …

Background: Tuberculosis is still a major cause of serious illness in developing countries.
The objective of this study was to assess the clinical, laboratory, radiological and prognostic …

Background We evaluated the results of treatment in 158 consecutive patients with multidrug-
resistant tuberculosis who were treated at our center in Istanbul, Turkey. Methods A total of …

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the clinical, radiographic and laboratory
characteristics, diagnostic methods, and prognostic variables in patients with miliary …

Background Investigation of genetic heterogeneity and spoligotype-defined lineages of drug-
resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates collected during a three-year period in …

The incidence of tuberculosis was found to be 5.8%(16/274) in 274 kidney graft recipients in
our centre between 1986 and 1998. The kidney recipients were evaluated retrospectively. A …

This investigation describes drug resistance patterns and genotyping data on a total of 145
Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated between 2000 and 2004 in Malatya, Turkey …

Turkey has significant geographical and socio-economic differences throughout a vast area
of the country. These characteristics affect the epidemiology of infectious diseases, some of …

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused mainly by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(MTB). The development of paleopathology and paleoepidemiology in infectious diseases …

Tuberculosis Section of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease,
Paris, France 30 years ago, Canetti warned implicitly '... Since optimal chemotherapy of …