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International collaboration among medical societies is an effective way to boos...
Migliori,Giovanni Battista; Centis,Rosella; D’Ambrosio,Lia; Silva,Denise Rossato; Rendon,AdrianABSTRACT Objective: Most studies of tuberculosis originate from high-income countries with a low incidence of tuberculosis. A review of the scientific production on tuberculosis in Latin American countries, most of which are low- or middle-income countries (some with high or intermediate tuberculosis incidence rates), would improve the understanding of public health challenges, clinical needs, and research prio...
New and repurposed drugs to treat multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tub...
Silva,Denise Rossato; Dalcolmo,Margareth; Tiberi,Simon; Arbex,Marcos Abdo; Munoz-Torrico,Marcela; Duarte,Raquel; D’Ambrosio,Lia; Visca,DinaABSTRACT Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB and XDR-TB, respectively) continue to represent a challenge for clinicians and public health authorities. Unfortunately, although there have been encouraging reports of higher success rates, the overall rate of favorable outcomes of M/XDR-TB treatment is only 54%, or much lower when the spectrum of drug resistance is beyond that of...
Is there a rationale for pulmonary rehabilitation following successful chemothe...
Muñoz-Torrico,Marcela; Rendon,Adrian; Centis,Rosella; D'Ambrosio,Lia; Fuentes,Zhenia; Torres-Duque,Carlos; Mello,Fernanda; Dalcolmo,MargarethABSTRACT The role of tuberculosis as a public health care priority and the availability of diagnostic tools to evaluate functional status (spirometry, plethysmography, and DLCO determination), arterial blood gases, capacity to perform exercise, lesions (chest X-ray and CT), and quality of life justify the effort to consider what needs to be done when patients have completed their treatment. To our knowledge, no...