Alexandru Buga
About Alexandru Buga
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Epidemiologist
Organization
- Institute of Phthisiopneumology, Moldova
Work Location(s)
- Moldova, Republic of
Language(s)
- English
- Romanian
- Russian
Alexandru's Communities
Recent Contributions
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Alexandru Buga replied to "How long are MDR-TB patients infectious onEFFECTIVE therapy?"" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear Ed, Thank you for clear explanation on GHD online. I am thinking that of course usually we help that Mycobacteria to grow and is diference between “vitro” and “vivo” - where is present the host defenses. But really we need more study’s for demonstration.
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Alexandru Buga replied to "How long are MDR-TB patients infectious onEFFECTIVE therapy?"" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear Ed thank you for answer, but how it could be explained that "...standard MDR treatment, if effective, essentially stops transmission before sputum conversion." ? If I understand right even if M.tuberculosis exist in sputum they are not infect people? Ok microscopicaly: the explanation could be that we see on ...
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Alexandru Buga started a discussion "How long are MDR-TB patients infectious onEFFECTIVE therapy?"". in the TB Infection Control community.
First of all I want to thank for this webinar training especially for Prof.Edward Nardell. Working as Infection Control specialist in TB hospital I am responsable to train HCWs in this way. As I understood "the patient who start treatment early (based on DST) they become uninfectious almost imediatelly (24 ...
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Alexandru Buga replied to "Evidence needed: surfaces are not a factor in TB transmission" in the TB Infection Control community.
Hello Susan Susan in the attached file (pages 75, 77, 78- highlighted) you can read something about disinfection of surfaces. I understand you very well because I guess you are working in former soviet union country (I also). In my country (Republic of Moldova) the TB hospital must be checked ...
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Alexandru Buga started a discussion "Epidemiological clasification". in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Dear colleagues, Does anybody know if exist an epidemiological classification of TB. For instance if the country has TB incidence 114 cases per 100 000 population, it is or not an epidemy?
