Drug resistant tuberculosis: Implications for transmission, diagnosis, and disease management

D Liebenberg, BG Gordhan, BD Kana - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Drug resistant tuberculosis contributes significantly to the global burden of antimicrobial
resistance, often consuming a large proportion of the healthcare budget and associated …

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: a persistent global health concern

M Farhat, H Cox, M Ghanem, CM Denkinger… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is estimated to cause 13% of all antimicrobial resistance-
attributable deaths worldwide and is driven by both ongoing resistance acquisition and …

Why and where?—Delay in Tuberculosis care cascade: A cross-sectional assessment in two Indian states, Jharkhand, Gujarat

S Yasobant, H Shah, P Bhavsar, J Patel… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading cause of death due to infectious diseases globally,
and delay in the TB care cascade is reported as one of the major challenges in achieving …

Addressing patients' unmet needs related to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) care: A qualitative research study from Pune city, India

S Atre, J Jagtap, M Faqih, Y Dumbare, T Sawant… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Aim We aimed to identify and describe the unmet needs of patients with multidrug-resistant
tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Methods As a part of larger cross-sectional mixed-methods …

Opinion review of drug resistance tuberculosis in West Africa: tackling the challenges for effective control

ID Otchere, A Asante-Poku, KF Akpadja… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern globally, complicating
TB control and management efforts. West Africa has historically faced difficulty in combating …

Drug resistance and epidemiological success of modern Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages in western India

A Dixit, Y Ektefaie, A Kagal, L Freschi… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Transmission is contributing to the slow decline of tuberculosis (TB) incidence
globally. Drivers of TB transmission in India, the country estimated to carry a quarter of the …

Cost of TB care and equity in distribution of catastrophic TB care costs across income quintiles in India

K Jeyashree, JWV Thangaraj… - Global Health Research …, 2024 - Springer
Tuberculosis (TB) poses a significant social and economic burden to households of persons
with TB (PwTB). Despite free diagnosis and care under the National TB Elimination …

Whole-genome sequencing of clinical isolates from tuberculosis patients in India: real-world data indicates a high proportion of pre-XDR cases

A Bhanushali, S Atre, P Nair… - Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Treatment decisions for tuberculosis (TB) in the absence of full drug-susceptibility data can
result in amplifying resistance and may compromise treatment outcomes. Genomics of …

COVID-19 and global childhood tuberculosis notifications

S Atre, A Chatterjee, M Farhat - The Lancet Global Health, 2022 - thelancet.com
Globally, an estimated 1· 2 million cases of tuberculosis disease each year occur in children
younger than 15 years, and around 67 million children have tuberculosis infection, putting …

Genomic markers of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis populations with minority variants

X Zhang, C Lam, E Martinez, E Sim… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Minority variants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis harboring mutations conferring resistance
can become dominant populations during tuberculosis (TB) treatment, leading to treatment …