Puducherry’s ten medical colleges are emerging as the driving force behind the Union Territory’s TB elimination fight, contributing to more than 50 per cent of TB notifications and participating in ...

While tuberculosis is largely curable when detected early and effectively treated, around 1.2 million people died of tuberculosis in 2019. Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert Ultra (the newest version) are World ...

Lack of testing accounts for the highest number of patients lost in the TB care cascade, and stigma keeps many patients from ...

Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and determinants of post-tuberculosis chronic respiratory signs, as well as the clinical impact of a low forced expiratory flow between 25 ...

Because the tuberculosis is increasingly threatening the health and life of patients, this paper does the research on classification of pulmonary tuberculosis based on CT images. We proposed a new ...

This article is authored by Dr Ashok Bhardwaj and Dr Bhupendra Tripathi, deputy director, Infectious Diseases and Vaccine ...

It mainly attacks the lungs (pulmonary TB), but it can also occur in other areas of the body (extrapulmonary TB) such as the kidneys, spine, or brain.

Background There is good evidence that diabetes is a risk factor for pulmonary tuberculosis. In England, the rates of both diabetes and tuberculosis vary markedly by ethnic group. Objective To ...

The research team tested the system’s performance using cell-free DNA isolated from sera of a pediatric cohort with pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB. The LIT device demonstrated high sensitivity ...

AI accelerates TB drug discovery and treatment monitoring Despite longstanding reliance on sputum smear microscopy, culture methods, and chest X-rays, conventional TB diagnostics remain plagued by ...

**Summary:** This review addresses the importance of quantitative computed tomography (QCT) in evaluating extrapulmonary comorbidities in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...

Characteristics of various subgroups were described based on TB epidemiological indicators and the interval between arrival and notification. The results showed migrants with TB from very high TB ...