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Constantia Voniatis

Publications -  4
Citations -  1201

Constantia Voniatis is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Population. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 1025 citations.

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Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries

Knut Lönnroth, +72 more
TL;DR: An action framework for countries with low tuberculosis (TB) incidence sets out priority interventions required for these countries to progress first towards “pre-elimination” and eventually the elimination of TB as a public health problem.
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Management of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: WHO guidelines for low tuberculosis burden countries.

Haileyesus Getahun, +71 more
TL;DR: The guidelines strongly recommend systematic testing and treatment of LTBI in people living with HIV, adult and child contacts of pulmonary TB cases, patients initiating anti-tumour necrosis factor treatment, patients receiving dialysis, patients preparing for organ or haematological transplantation and patients with silicosis.
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Tuberculosis elimination: where are we now?

TL;DR: The theoretical bases of the End TB Strategy are summarized, the available examples of countries moving towards TB elimination are described and the eight core activities recently proposed by WHO as the milestones to achieveTB elimination are discussed in detail.
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Tuberculosis elimination: dream or reality? The case of Cyprus.

TL;DR: The aim of the present study was to show the progress achieved by Cyprus towards the elimination targets and the importance of studying model countries able to demonstrate that TB elimination can be reached.