Differences in pulmonary nodular consolidation features among drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis and multidrug/extensively-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis: a multi-national multi-center study
MDR/XDR patients exhibit significantly higher PN prevalence and more extensive pulmonary involvement compared to DS patients and which is not totally determined by disease history length, suggesting that PN characteristics could serve as imaging biomarkers for drug resistance assessment.
Authors
- Aleh Tarasau
- Alexander V. Tuzikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5970-4852)
- Andrei-Alexandru Muntean (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4124-2909)
- Guangping Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3445-0547)
- Alena Skrahina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1460-0272)
- Zaza Avaliani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8790-3282)
- Irina Strâmbu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7303-4418)
- Sheng-Nan Tang
- Sergo A. Vashakidze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5907-4870)
- Michael A. Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8789-0912)
- Sofia Alexandru
- Vassili Kovalev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8154-5875)
- Alexandra I. Cristea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-8822)
- Darrell E. Hurt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9829-8567)
- Alex Rosenthal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-9045)
- Natalia Shubladze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0580-9629)
- Cătălina Ene
- Dzmitri Klimuk
- Valeriu Crudu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5059-8002)
- Aliaksandr Skrahin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7028-3785)
- Xiaoguang Bao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7190-8866)
- Eugenia Ghita
- İrada Akhundova
- Eduard Snezhko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-0839)
- Andrei Gabrielian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8392-924X)
- Qiuting Zheng
- Valery Kirichenko
- Yi-Xiang Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4021-4228)
- Miron Alexandru Bogdan
- Xi-Ling Huang
- Dragoș-Cosmin Zaharia
- Victor Spînu
- Pu-Xuan Lu
- Roxana Munteanu
Institutions
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (BY)
- Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy (RO)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Sichuan University (CN)
- Ministerul Sanatatii (RO)
- West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University (CN)
- United Institute of Informatics Problems (BY)
- National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (GE)
- Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy (MD)
- University of Georgia (GE)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (US)
- Ministry of Healthcare (AZ)
- Shenzhen Nanshan Center for Chronic Disease Control (CN)
- Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital (CN)
- Belarusian State Medical University (BY)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Thoracic Disease
- Published
- 2025-09-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd-2025-832
- Primary Topic
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00