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Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Taiwan.

... In Taiwan, the implementation of 2 effective interventions might explain the decreasing rates of resistance to anti-TB ...drugs. In 1997, stricter regulation mandated that each treated TB case be ... See full document

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Drug Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Eastern Taiwan

... Isolates of 73 (94%) patients were available for genotyping using spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR (mycobacterial interspersed repetitive. unit-variable number of tandem repeats)[r] ... See full document

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Initial drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Taiwan.

... We tested Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from 1,935 newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients from January 1990 through December 1995 at the Taiwan Provincial Chronic Disease Control [r] ... See full document

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Genetic diversity of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates and identification of 11 Novel rpoB alleles in Taiwan

... Of 162 multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Taiwan, 60.5% were found to belong to the Beijing family on the basis of spoligotyping results. IS6110 restriction fr[r] ... See full document

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Drug-resistant tuberculosis in Taipei, 1996-1999

... outside Taiwan who have TB may have a high- er prevalence of drug resistance than do persons born in Taiwan because TB control programs in these countries have failed to achieve high ... See full document

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Drug resistance patterns in tuberculosis in Taiwan

... of drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Taiwan, a total of 1,091 isolates collected from patients from January 1996 through December 1996 were tested for drug ... See full document

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Quantitative diagnosis and analysis of mutations affecting drug resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Taiwan

... Shang-Tao Chien & Wen-Sheng Liu & Fu-Gong Lin & Hsiu-Ting Tsai & Chien-Fu Huang & Chi-Chiang Yang Abstract A SYBR Green I-based real-time quantitative PCR assay was utilized using senX3-regX3 and IS6110 as targets to ... See full document

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Trends in fluoroquinolone resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in a Taiwan medical center: 1995-2003.

... of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex ...strains in Taiwan and to assess whether this might be due to use of fluoroquinolones for treatment of patients with MDR or because of increased use of ... See full document

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In Vitro activities of linezolid against clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolated in Taiwan over ten years.

... Significant increases in the MIC(90)s of linezolid in multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were seen between the baseline period of 2001 to 2003 (0.5 microg/ml) and 2[r] ... See full document

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Mycobacteriun tuberculosis in Taiwan.

... of tuberculosis (TB) and the emergence of drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates are of great impact on public ...Health, Taiwan and from peer-reviewed ... See full document

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Does empirical treatment of community-acquired pneumonia with fluoroquinolones delay tuberculosis treatment and result in fluoroquinolone resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis? Controversies and solutions

... FQs in the treatment of ...M. tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Taiwan are also described. In addition, we review the controversies surrounding the empirical use of FQs to treat patients with ... See full document

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Short-course chemotherapy for isoniazid-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis.

... pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed and treated at the Taiwan Provincial Chronic Disease Control Bureau from November 1990 through December ...94.4% in patients with isoniazid-resistant ... See full document

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Comparison of the AMPLICOR MYCOBACTERIUM Test with Microscopy and Culture for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

... Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is currently one of the major public health problems of the world and has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization 1 ...increase in the number of ... See full document

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A subset of clinical status of pulmonary tuberculosis in southern Taiwan

... cases in which antituberculosis drug susceptibility was tested, 39 patients showed resistance to at least one drug, 9 patients were resistant to only one drug, 9 patients were ... See full document

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Pulmonary resection in the treatment of patients with pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Taiwan

... pulmonary tuberculosis resistant to isoniazid and rifampin (MDR-TB). DESIGN: In a retrospective cohort study, 27 MDR-TB patients who underwent pulmonary resection between December 1990[r] ... See full document

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Isolation and Characterization of km 18p, a Novel Lytic Phage with Therapeutic Potential against Extensively Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

... (XDRAB) and characterize highest lytic capability phage as a model to evaluate the potential on phage therapy. Methods and Results: Eight phages were isolated from hospital sewage and showed narrow host spectrum. Phage ... See full document

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Detectiing Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in BACTEC MGIT 960 Cultures by COBASＡＭＰＬＣＯＲMTB in Routine Clinical Practice

... 及鑑定結核菌的檢驗工具。 Abstract Introduction: The rapid, automated cultivation and detection system, BACTEC MGIT 960, is widely used in Taiwan. But the high nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolation rate is a ... See full document

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Postoperative Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection after total knee arthroplasty

... The tuberculosis prosthetic joint infection is a rare ...of tuberculosis prosthetic joint infection following total knee arthroplasty, and the infection was controlled without the removal of implant with ... See full document

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Postoperative Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection after total knee arthroplasty

... The tuberculosis prosthetic joint infection is a rare ...of tuberculosis prosthetic joint infection following total knee arthroplasty, and the infection was controlled without the removal of implant with ... See full document

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The evolutionary landscape of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome

... importance in the adaptations of MTBC to the human ...of drug targets. However, an increase in evolutionary rate does not necessarily result from positive ...increase in mutation rate or ... See full document

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