Browsing School of Health Sciences (Health-Sciences) by Subject "Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
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Influence of M. tuberculosis lineage variability within a clinical trial for pulmonary tuberculosis
(PLoS ONE, 2010)Abstract Recent studies suggest that M. tuberculosis lineage and host genetics interact to impact how active tuberculosis presents clinically. We determined the phylogenetic lineages of M. tuberculosis isolates from ... -
Time to tuberculosis treatment default and its determinants among adult TB patients in Jinja District, A retrospective cohort study
(Makerere University, 2015-10)Introduction: Whereas Tuberculosis is both preventable and curable, the disease remains a global health problem causing ill-health among millions of people each year and ranks as the second leading cause of death from an ... -
The use of Genotype MTBDRplus assay to assess drug resistance of microbacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients in rural Uganda
(BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Drug resistance levels and patterns among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from newly diagnosed and previously treated tuberculosis patients in Mbarara Uganda were investigated. Methods: We enrolled, ...