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The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis

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Several lines of evidence suggest that alternative mechanisms-including pharmacokinetic variability, induction of efflux pumps that transport the drug out of cells, and suboptimal drug penetration into tuberculosis lesions-are likely crucial to the pathogenesis of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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This article is published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 461 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bedaquiline & Delamanid.

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Case Report: Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Coinfection in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

TL;DR: A patient with pulmonary MDR-TB and COVID-19 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is described, and the challenges and approach to managing a patient with both diseases are highlighted.
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Prevalence of tuberculosis and multidrug resistant tuberculosis in the Middle East Region

TL;DR: This study analyzes data for 17 countries comprising the Middle East for estimated incidence of TB, number of notified TB cases, mortality rate, and rate of MDR-TB in new and previously treated TB cases as reported by WHO.
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Trends in burden of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in countries, regions, and worldwide from 1990 to 2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease study.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the trends of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which can be used to inform health strategies, and the estimated annual percentage changes (EAPCs) were calculated to assess the trends at global, regional, and national level using the linear regression model.
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Insecticide use pattern and phenotypic susceptibility of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato to commonly used insecticides in Lower Moshi, northern Tanzania

TL;DR: Education on integrated vector management should be instituted and a policy change on insecticide of choice for malaria vector control from pyrethroids to carbamates (bendiocarb) is recommended.
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Developmental Pharmacology — Drug Disposition, Action, and Therapy in Infants and Children

TL;DR: This review examines the developmental changes that profoundly affect the responses of children to medications and related therapies in the very young.
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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis as a cause of death in patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in a rural area of South Africa

TL;DR: MDR tuberculosis is more prevalent than previously realised in a rural area in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa and has been transmitted to HIV co-infected patients and is associated with high mortality.
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Detection of rifampicin-resistance mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

TL;DR: Substitution of a limited number of highly conserved aminoacids encoded by the rpoB gene appears to be the molecular mechanism responsible for "single step" high-level resistance to rifampicin in M tuberculosis, a marker of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
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