Browsing by Author "Panesso Mera, Isabella"
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Item Factores de riesgo en resistencia a los medicamentos de TBC pulmonar en adultos(2023) Panesso Mera, Isabella; Montero Gómez, Karen Alejandra; Cerquera Gómez, Maria Natalia; Rojas Peláez, Luis EstebanBackground: Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic granulomatous infectious disease produced by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis or Koch's bacillus, which is generally located in the lung, although it can affect other organs. Main objective: To identify the risk factors for drug resistance for pulmonary TB in adults, to achieve this purpose, each of the risk factors for drug resistance for pulmonary TB in adults was described according to the specialized literature and, Finally, the factors related to the programmatic outcome of patients with drug resistance to pulmonary TB were determined according to the specialized literature. Methodology: it corresponds to a documentary, descriptive, retrospective investigation, of a critical review of the literature type. The search was carried out in databases and engines such as: Medline, Ebsco, Lilacs, Cocrhane, PubMed, Scielo and the Google Scholar search engine. Results: pulmonary tuberculosis generates resistance to drugs due to factors such as poverty, lack of adherence to treatment, also barriers to health services and their use become factors that increase the risk of resistance. Conclusion: the risk factors for drug resistance are several, but the lack of adherence to treatment is the one that most generates resistance.