2020
DOI: 10.5123/s1679-49742019000300014
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Caracterização da tuberculose drogarresistente no Brasil, 2014*

Abstract: Objective: to describe drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) notifications in Brazil. Methods: this is a descriptive study of clinical and epidemiological characteristics of DR-TB notifications in 2014 on SITETB and TBWeb, these being information systems on which cases involving special treatment regimens are registered. Results: there were 1,574 cases, 94.8% of which had the pulmonary form, 27.6% involved primary resistance, and 50.9% were multidrug-resistant; 70.6% of cases were male, 87.0% were between 20 and… Show more

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“…The strategy aimed at reaching 90% case detection and treatment success by 2025 [5]. According to the 2020 globally milestones of the 'End TB Strategy', the annual reduction of TB prevalence should be by a rate of 4-5% [6,7]. However, Ethiopia is still one among the 30 high burdens TB countries and The TB case detection rate is very low compared to the World Health Organization (WHO) target of detecting all infectious TB cases [8].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The strategy aimed at reaching 90% case detection and treatment success by 2025 [5]. According to the 2020 globally milestones of the 'End TB Strategy', the annual reduction of TB prevalence should be by a rate of 4-5% [6,7]. However, Ethiopia is still one among the 30 high burdens TB countries and The TB case detection rate is very low compared to the World Health Organization (WHO) target of detecting all infectious TB cases [8].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The main tool of the SINAN database is the notification/investigation form that includes both individual data of the patients as well as epidemiological and follow-up data until the end of treatment, on average 6 to 9 months. This information must be sent regularly from the local health units, since the municipality level, to the Ministry of Health, in order to produce the TB monitoring bulletin [21,22].…”
Section: Study Definitionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Segundo Giergowicz & Mahmud (2020) no Brasil em 2014, o Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (SINAN) registrou 88.450 casos, dos quais 73.835 na forma pulmonar, 11.844 na forma extrapulmonar, e 2.720 pulmonar e extrapulmonar simultaneamente. O índice de mortalidade de 2013 foi por volta de 2,3 óbitos por 100 mil habitantes, inferior aos 2,9 óbitos por 100 mil habitantes apontados em 2003 (Jacobs & Pinto Junior, 2020). Ainda neste contexto, segundo a Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, em 2013 no Brasil, a tuberculose permanece como quarta causa de morte por doenças infectocontagiosas e a primeira causa quando relacionado à infecção pelo Vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana (HIV) (Oliveira, et al, 2021).…”
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