Tuberculosis--a missed opportunity?

Antibody mediated immunity - a missed opportunity in the fight against tuberculosis?

Missed opportunity for standardized diagnosis and treatment among adult Tuberculosis patients in hospitals involved in Public-Private Mix for Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course strategy in Indonesia: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND The engagement of hospitals in Public-Private Mix (PPM) for Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS) strategy has increased rapidly internationally - including in Indonesia. In view of the rapid global scaling-up of hospital engagement, we aimed to estimate the proportion of outpatient adult Tuberculosis patients who received standardized diagnosis and treatment at outpatients...

Bedaquiline for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: another missed opportunity?

Affiliations: Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris, France. APHP, Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux, Bactériologie-Hygiène, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière-Charles Foix, Paris, France. Sorbonne Université, UPMC Université Paris 06, CR7, INSERM, U1135, Centre d’Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses, CIMI, Team E13 (Ba...

HIV prevalence and testing practices among tuberculosis cases in London: a missed opportunity for HIV diagnosis?

BACKGROUND Universal testing for HIV in patients with tuberculosis (TB) has been advocated for over a decade. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and testing practices of HIV in TB centres in London. METHODS A cohort study was undertaken of all patients with TB in Greater London in 2003-4 (n = 1941). Logistic regression was used to assess factors affecting being offered and a...

Infraorbital Tuberculosis: A Case Report

Introduction: Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) arising in extra-oral region in head and neck are rare, and when swellings arise from other sites such as infraorbital region, cheek, etc, tuberculosis is not usually considered for the differential diagnosis (DD) and often the diagnosis is missed and appropriate treatment is delayed. Case Report: We report a rare entity of pri...

A systematic review of missed opportunities for improving tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS control in Sub-saharan Africa: what is still missed by health experts?

In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis are major public health problems. In 2010, 64% of the 34 million of people infected with HIV were reported to be living in sub-Saharan Africa. Only 41% of eligible HIV-positive people had access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Regarding tuberculosis, in 2010, the region had 12% of the world's population but reported 26% of the 8.8 million incide...