Abstract Background Drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis prevention and care is a
major challenge in Ethiopia. The World health organization has designated Ethiopia as one …

Background Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) has an increasing rate in Turkey. The
reason remains largely unknown. A better understanding of the demographic and microbial …

Background: Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) can occur in
different ways. Furthermore, drug resistant in M. tuberculosis family is a major problem that …

Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem that poses a major challenge to tuberculosis
control worldwide. Many developing countries still struggle with this infection in term of …

Background Investigation of genetic heterogeneity and spoligotype-defined lineages of drug-
resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates collected during a three-year period in …

Background: In Saudi Arabia, cross-border transmission of multidrug-resistant (MDR)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains might be particularly fostered by high …

Background Appropriate antibiotic therapy and prevention of the cross-contamination are
the most important subjects in the tuberculosis control. In this study, it was aimed to …

Bulgaria is among the 18 high-priority countries of the WHO European Region with high
rates of tuberculosis. The causative agent of tuberculosis is thought to have emerged in …

This study explored the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Iraq by
spoligotyping and 15-locus-based mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable …

Background Multidrug resistance is a critical factor in tuberculosis control. To gain better
understanding of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Brazil, a retrospective study was …