HIV infection—associated tuberculosis: the epidemiology and the response

H Getahun, C Gunneberg, R Granich… - Clinical Infectious …, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
Of the 33.2 million persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), one-third are
estimated to also be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2008, there were an …

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis

SK Sharma, A Mohan - Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2004‏ - search.proquest.com
Extrapulmonary involvement can occur in isolation or along with a pulmonary focus as in the
case of patients with disseminated tuberculosis (TB). The recent human immunodeficiency …

Official American thoracic society/centers for disease control and prevention/infectious diseases society of America clinical practice guidelines: treatment of drug …

P Nahid, SE Dorman, N Alipanah… - Clinical infectious …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and
Infectious Diseases Society of America jointly sponsored the development of this guideline …

[ספר][B] WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 5: management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents

World Health Organization - 2022‏ - books.google.com
The aim of this operational handbook is to provide practical guidance on the implementation
of the World Health Organization (WHO) policy recommendations on the prevention and …

Simultaneous detection and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for diagnosis and epidemiology

J Kamerbeek, LEO Schouls, A Kolk… - Journal of clinical …, 1997‏ - journals.asm.org
Widespread use of DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) to differentiate
strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to monitor the transmission of tuberculosis has been …

Human T cell epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are evolutionarily hyperconserved

I Comas, J Chakravartti, PM Small, J Galagan… - Nature …, 2010‏ - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an obligate human pathogen capable of persisting in
individual hosts for decades. We sequenced the genomes of 21 strains representative of the …

Molecular genetic basis of antimicrobial agent resistance inMycobacterium tuberculosis: 1998 update

S Ramaswamy, JM Musser - Tubercle and Lung disease, 1998‏ - Elsevier
Knowledge of the molecular genetic basis of resistance to antituberculous agents has
advanced rapidly since we reviewed this topic 3 years ago. Virtually all isolates resistant to …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines for preventing the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in health-care settings, 2005

PA Jensen, LA Lambert, MF Iademarco, R Ridzon… - 2005‏ - cdc.gov
In 1994, CDC published the Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis in Health-Care Facilities, 1994. The guidelines were issued in response to 1) a …

[ספר][B] WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 1: prevention-tuberculosis preventive treatment

World Health Organization - 2024‏ - books.google.com
This handbook provides practical advice on how to implement the WHO recommendations
on TPT at the scale needed to achieve national and global impact, and complements the …

The epidemiology of tuberculosis in San Francisco--a population-based study using conventional and molecular methods

PM Small, PC Hopewell, SP Singh, A Paz… - … England Journal of …, 1994‏ - Mass Medical Soc
Background The epidemiology of tuberculosis in urban populations is changing. Combining
conventional epidemiologic techniques with DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium …