The Evolution of Mycobacterial Disease in Human Populations: A Reevaluation [and Comments and Reply]

Clark, Gregory; Kelley, Marc A.; Grange, John M.; Hill, Matt; Katzenberg, M. Anne; Klepinger, Linda L.; Lovell, Nancy C.; McGrath, Janet W.; Micozzi, Marc S.; Steinbock, R. Ted

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“…Mycobacterial disease due to either Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium bovis -or both -existed in North and South American populations prior to European contact (65). However, the epidemics that occurred post contact were fuelled by the interaction of risk factors that included relative genetic susceptibility; facilitated transmission in crowded circumstances within newly created reserve and non-reserve communities and institutions (residential schools, hospitals, sanitaria, etc.…”

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Adherence to tuberculosis care in Canadian Aboriginal populations Part 1: definition, measurement, responsibility, barriers

Orr

2011

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Objectives. In a 2-part series, the current literature with respect to adherence to tuberculosis care among Canadian Aboriginal populations is reviewed. In the current paper, which comprises part 1 of this review, adherence is defined, and methods of measurement, issues of responsibility and potential barriers to adherence are explored. Study design. Literature review. Methods. A systematic search and analytic review of relevant studies was undertaken, including an online search of electronic databases (PubMed, PsychINFO, MEDLINE, Native Health Database, Scopus, Social Science Citation Index) and publications by governmental and non-governmental agencies. Results. Poor adherence to therapy for TB disease is the most common cause of initial treatment failure and of disease relapse worldwide. Adherence to care for TB disease is necessary for the health of both the affected individual and society as a whole. Adherence is a task-specific behaviour that is not inherent to ethnic identity. The term applies only when common agreement over a care plan has been reached between patient and provider. The International Standards for Tuberculosis Care and the Patients Charter outline the responsibilities for adherence on the part of both patients and providers. For Canadian Aboriginals, barriers to adherence may derive from a complex interaction between the health system, personal factors and social factors, which may include dysfunctional acute and public health systems, dissonant (between health care provider and patient) belief systems, concurrent co-morbidities and life stressors, poverty and social stigma. Conclusions. Adherence is a task-specific behaviour, not a personality trait. It is influenced by the interaction of systemic, personal and societal factors. These factors must be understood within the historical experience of TB and the cultural meaning of health and illness among Indigenous Canadians.

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Adherence to tuberculosis care in Canadian Aboriginal populations Part 1: definition, measurement, responsibility, barriers

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2011

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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“…6 The historical experience of the First Nations in western Canada was not only consistent with this observation, it was singled out by the authors as a case study in the interrelationship between the social and economic dislocation and the emergence of the disease. Certainly the tuberculosis bacillus was present, if not widespread, in the west prior to the late 19th century, and there may have been localized outbreaks of tuberculosis among certain groups prior to the mid-1800s.…”

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Treaties and Tuberculosis: First NationsPeople in late 19th-Century WesternCanada, a Political and Economic Transformation

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Hackett²,

MacNeil³

2006

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

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“…Erosive lesions suggestive of tuberculosis have been found on fossil fauna from the natural Trap Cave in Wyoming, dated from the 17,000 to 20,000 year level (Rothschild and Martin 2003). Initially, it was believed that humans acquired tuberculosis from animals, especially after domestication (Steinbock 1976;Manchester 1984;Clark et al 1987), but now we know that human tuberculosis is more ancestral (Armelagos and Harper 2005). Animal domestication is likely to have been important in sustaining a denser human population, enabling M. tuberculosis to become endemic (Weiss and McMichael 2004;).…”

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Palaeomicrobiology of Tuberculosis

Donoghue¹

2008

Paleomicrobiology

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The study of tuberculosis palaeomicrobiology has proved to be most rewarding. Due to the characteristic palaeopathological lesions, tuberculosis was recognised in archaeological material and was the first infectious disease to be studied by modern biomolecular methods. The combination of a tough bacterial cell wall and GC-rich DNA has resulted in excellent DNA preservation in some specimens. A wide range of specific molecular diagnostic and typing methods, developed by clinical microbiologists, are available. These have been applied successfully to archaeological material, resulting in the genotyping of the infecting organisms.

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The Evolution of Mycobacterial Disease in Human Populations: A Reevaluation [and Comments and Reply]

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Adherence to tuberculosis care in Canadian Aboriginal populations Part 1: definition, measurement, responsibility, barriers

Adherence to tuberculosis care in Canadian Aboriginal populations Part 1: definition, measurement, responsibility, barriers

Treaties and Tuberculosis: First NationsPeople in late 19th-Century WesternCanada, a Political and Economic Transformation

Palaeomicrobiology of Tuberculosis

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