Despite low infectious potential of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB), it poses significant
clinical challenges in terms of diagnosis and treatment monitoring. Understanding the main …

Tuberculosis has been a public health crisis since the 1900, which has caused the highest
mortalities due to a single bacterial infection worldwide, that was recently further …

Few studies have prospectively compared the relative transmissibility and propensity to
cause disease of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains with other human-adapted …

Introduction The epidemiological situation of tuberculosis (TB) in Poland urges for its
continuous and scrupulous monitoring. The objective of this study was to explore the genetic …

Drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) in children is a special epidemiological, clinical, and diagnostic
problem, and its global incidence remains unknown. DR-TB in children is usually of a …

Background: Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tub) is an essential step for
several purposes, including the epidemiological studies and the tuberculosis (TB) control …

Abstract Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype was associated with
tuberculosis outbreaks and increased transmissibility. To understand the variation in …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis belonging to Beijing sublineage (BL) is associated with high
tuberculosis (TB) transmission, multidrug resistance, and adverse treatment outcomes. Sri …

Genotypic variation in Beijing lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the causative
agent of tuberculosis (TB), has been associated with hyper virulence and the spread of …

Background and objectives: Although extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is a secondary
target for national TB control programs, it is considered an important health problem …