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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Despite data indicating that 82% of all TB cases in California occur among individuals born in TB-endemic countries, current LTBI testing practices disproportionately under-test this high-risk ...

Assessing India’s tuberculosis burden: Data Premium. India accounted for 26% of global TB cases and 26% of global TB deaths in 2023. Updated - November 09, 2024 02:18 pm IST .

He further noted that the National Tuberculosis Programme will undergo significant transformation, with a data driven approach to tackling rising TB cases in key areas. “We now have data that shows ...

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.