A five-item tool using spirometry and basic clinical data may predict recurrent tuberculosis with moderate accuracy, helping ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an important public health lesson.

Methods: We estimated the prevalence of tuberculosis infection by age and year of migration to Canada for people from each of 168 countries by constructing country-specific and calendar year–specific ...

Data sources: Canadian Tuberculosis Reporting System; Statistics Canada; Tuberculosis drug resistance. In 2023, 1,660 (89%) samples tested showed no resistance to first-line Footnote 1 TB drugs, while ...

How Canada monitors tuberculosis. Provincial and territorial public health authorities voluntarily submit data on all new and re-treatment cases of active tuberculosis disease in Canada. The federal ...

Also, they helped us to highlight specific trends and patterns, making it easier to understand and analyze the data. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a widespread issue, with several well-known contributing ...

Objective In Ethiopia, one-third of the estimated tuberculosis cases are not detected or reported. Incidence estimates are inaccurate and rarely measured directly. Assessing the ‘real’ incidence under ...

Global TB data . In 2022, worldwide, approximately 10.6 million people suffered from TB; the number spiked from 10.3 million in 2021. Also, in 2022, ...

This project is an interactive web-based dashboard that provides advanced data visualization capabilities for Tuberculosis (TB) epidemiological data. The dashboard features multiple visualization ...

Another study presented at the same session, conducted in Vietnam, showed that 6 months of levofloxacin reduced active MDR-TB by 45% in 2,041 children and adults living with a person with MDR-TB in ...

Most TB elimination programs throughout the US have made improvements in identifying patients with TB and latent TB and ensuring they complete treatment. ... (NTIP), a web-based performance monitoring ...

Receiving additional nutritional support from Mitras is conditional to TB patients sharing their data, as the consent form clearly spells out; TB patients can revoke consent at any point of time.