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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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Global patterns and correlates in the emergence of antimicrobial resistance in humans

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined correlates of AMR emergence in humans using global data on the origins of novel AMR bacteria from 2006 to 2017, human and livestock antibiotic use, country economic activity, and reporting bias indicators.
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Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis

TL;DR: The development of antimicrobial-resistant tuberculosis is a classic example of monotherapy selectively enriching resistant mutants so frequently that combinations of multiple drugs are required for successful treatment.
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Recent Developments in the Rapid Diagnosis of MDR-TB

TL;DR: The largest number (45%) of disease cases occurred in South-East Asia region with five countries accounting for ~56% of all TB cases and the incidence varies considerably around the globe and is usually low.
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Progress on diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in line with World Health Organization recommendations in six priority countries in the Western Pacific Region

TL;DR: In this paper , a descriptive analysis of the status and progress of drug-resistant tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in six priority countries in the Western Pacific Region was conducted using information from interviews with countries and the WHO TB database.
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A modified decision tree approach to improve the prediction and mutation discovery for drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

TL;DR: In this article , a modified decision tree approach, called Treesist-TB, was proposed to predict drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance by extracting and evaluating genomic variants across multiple studies.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a standardized technique which exploits variability in both the number and genomic position of IS6110 to generate strain-specific patterns for DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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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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