The Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Mycobacteria Infection (including TB and NTM)
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 June 2024) | Viewed by 12403
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mycobacterium tuberculosis; nontuberculous mycobacteria; diagnosis; treatment; pathogenesis
Interests: nontuberculous mycobacteria; tuberculosis; pulmonary; immunotherapy; diagnosis; treatment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease with a history of 4000 years. In 1882, Robert Koch, a scientist from Germany, discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) for the first time. For more than a century since then, attempts have been made to eliminate this disease. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the control of tuberculosis, which may lead to a 5–8 years of retrogression. Meanwhile, the detection of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has increased because of the increased prevalence of diseases that cause immunodeficiency, such as HIV/AIDS; the increased use of immunosuppressive agents or hormones; and improvements in bacterial identification, such as genetic sequencing. NTM diseases have become one of the important public health problems threatening human health in many geographical regions. In the face of these new challenges from mycobacterium, it is an urgent need for us to have a deeper understanding of mycobacterial diseases, cut off the source of infection, improve diagnostic accuracy, develop more reasonable and effective treatment, reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistance, and so on. To achieve these goals, however, it is pivotal that we all work together.
In this Special Issue, we invite colleagues to submit original research articles and scientific reviews related to diseases caused by mycobacterium including (but not limited to): a. epidemiological characteristics of TB or NTM infection; b. novel diagnostic methods or technologies of TB or NTM; c. new treatment for TB or NTM.
Dr. Qin Sun
Prof. Dr. Wei Sha
Dr. Jing Bao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
• nontuberculous mycobacteria
• diagnosis
• treatment
• epidemiology
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