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http://dx.doi.org/10.4046/trd.2025.0022 | DOI Listing |
Front Public Health
September 2025
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by bacteria of the (MTC), is one of the oldest diseases in human history, and despite several global efforts to reduce case numbers, it remains one of the main causes of death worldwide due infectious agents. This study aimed to analyze the epidemiological trends of tuberculosis in Minas Gerais, Brazil, from 2013 to 2023, with emphasis on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on case notification.
Methods: Based on epidemiological data obtained from the DATASUS platform, spanning the period from 2013 to 2023, the number of cases, the distribution of confirmed cases by sex, race, education, age group, HIV co-infection and presence of comorbidities such as diabetes, and risk factors like smoking and alcoholism were evaluated.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
September 2025
State TB cell, Swasthya Bhawan, Directorate of Medical & Health Services, Rajasthan, Jaipur 302005, India.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) active case-finding (ACF) among high-risk populations is recommended to detect the missing people with TB. In Rajasthan, India, a state with a high TB prevalence:notification ratio, leveraging digital annual health survey data could enhance ACF by targeting villages with a high burden of TB risk factors.
Methods: We conducted an ecological study across 19 districts of Rajasthan using data from the digital annual health survey.
Front Public Health
September 2025
Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The Ding Li Clinical College of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou Central Hospital, Wenzhou, China.
Objective: This study aimed to analyze the epidemiological characteristics and trends of notified multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Wenzhou City, China, from 2014 to 2023, with a focus on differences between migrant and local populations among reported TB cases.
Methods: This was a facility-based retrospective cohort study that included all bacteriologically confirmed TB cases notified between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2023 in the Tuberculosis Information Management System (TBIMS) of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the hospital's laboratory information system, provided they had available phenotypic drug-susceptibility testing (pDST) results. Pearson's chi-square test was used to compare drug-resistance rates between groups, the trend chi-square test was applied to assess temporal changes, and a Sankey diagram was employed to illustrate the origins and intra-city distribution of MDR-TB among the migrant population.
Trop Med Health
September 2025
World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines.
Background: Tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) can avert progression from infection to disease, yet scale-up across the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region is patchy. To guide acceleration, we assessed progress, challenges and responses in seven high-burden countries-Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Viet Nam-drawing on 2015-2023 programme data, structured questionnaires, follow-up interviews and a regional validation workshop.
Main Body: Six of the seven countries have issued national TPT guidelines and five now offer shorter rifapentine- or rifampicin-based regimens.
Euro Surveill
August 2025
Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
The war in Ukraine has caused large population displacements. We report increasing tuberculosis (TB) notification rates among Ukrainian refugees to Norway detected through systematic screening upon arrival and driven by rates among adult males. From 2022 to 2024, there were 73 TB notifications in Ukrainians; incidence among Ukrainian men reached 248 per 100,000 in 2024.
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