Molecular clustering of patients with diabetes and pulmonary tuberculosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many studies have explored the relationship between diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB) demonstrating increased risk of TB among patients with DM and poor prognosis of patients suffering from the association of DM/TB. Owing to a paucity of studies addressing this question, it remains unclear whether patients with DM and TB are more likely than TB patients without DM to be grouped into molecular clusters defined according to the genotype of the infecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillus. That is, whether there is convincing molecular epidemiological evidence for TB transmission among DM patients. Objective: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantitatively evaluate the propensity for patients with DM and pulmonary TB (PTB) to cluster accor

SUBMITTER: Blanco-Guillot F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5597214 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature