WASHINGTON -- Among patients in the U.S. with multidrug resistant tuberculosis, directly observed therapy (DOT) was associated with a 77% decrease in mortality compared with self-administered ...

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Background: Directly observed therapy (DOT) is a widely recommended and promoted strategy to manage tuberculosis (TB), however, there is still disagreement about the role of DOT in TB control and the ...

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ATS 2017, WASHINGTON, DC -- Directly observed therapy (DOT) for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) was associated with a 77 percent decrease in mortality in the United States, compared to ...

ISLAMABAD, March 24: Less than one-third of the tuberculosis patients have access to the directly observed short term treatment that represents the best chance of controlling TB epidemic, says a World ...

DOTS PLUS is a drug regimen designed by World Health Organization (WHO) for patients who develop multi-drug resistance to tuberculosis (MDR-TB) drugs. It is very hard to detect the TB symptoms in ...

Kampala — ThIs year's World TB day, March 24, focused on the theme, "People with tuberculosis' under a slogan 'DOTS cured me - it will cure you too!'" "Former patients make the best ambassadors for TB ...

B.Hanumanthu suffers from MDR-TB. He left the course of medicines in between as he found taking the medicines very difficult as he vomited every time he took the medicine. His health having been ...

India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world. TB, an age-old infectious disease, has continued to cast a long shadow over India's healthcare ...

This is the first study to combine molecular genotyping techniques and drug susceptibilities to demonstrate that DOT for tuberculosis is associated with less initial drug resistance and less ...