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Gerard De Vries
Publications - 2
Citations - 1082
Gerard De Vries is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculin & Rifapentine. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 942 citations.
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Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries
Knut Lönnroth,Giovanni Battista Migliori,Ibrahim Abubakar,Lia D'Ambrosio,Gerard De Vries,Roland Diel,Paul Douglas,Dennis Falzon,Marc Andre Gaudreau,Delia Goletti,Edilberto R. González Ochoa,Philip A. LoBue,Alberto Matteelli,Howard Njoo,Ivan Solovic,Alistair Story,Tamara Tayeb,Marieke J. van der Werf,Diana Weil,Jean-Pierre Zellweger,Mohamed Abdel Aziz,Mohamed R.M. Al Lawati,Stefano Aliberti,Wouter Arrazola de Oñate,Draurio Barreira,Vineet Bhatia,Francesco Blasi,Amy Bloom,Judith Bruchfeld,Francesco Castelli,Rosella Centis,Daniel Chemtob,Daniela Maria Cirillo,Alberto Colorado,Andrei Dadu,Ulf R Dahle,Laura De Paoli,Hannah Monica Yesudian Dias,Raquel Duarte,Lanfranco Fattorini,Mina Gaga,Haileyesus Getahun,Philippe Glaziou,Lasha Goguadze,Mirtha del Granado,Walter Haas,Asko Järvinen,Geun Yong Kwon,Davide Mosca,Payam Nahid,Nobuyuki Nishikiori,I. Noguer,Joan O'Donnell,Analita Pace-Asciak,Maria Grazia Pompa,Gilda Popescu,Carlos Robalo Cordeiro,Karin Rønning,Morten Ruhwald,Jean-Paul Sculier,Aleksandar Simunovic,Alison Smith-Palmer,Giovanni Sotgiu,Giorgia Sulis,Carlos A. Torres-Duque,Kazunori Umeki,Mukund Uplekar,Catharina Van Weezenbeek,Tuula Vasankari,Robert J. Vitillo,Constantia Voniatis,Maryse Wanlin,Mario C. Raviglione +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,Alberto Matteelli,Ibrahim Abubakar,Mohamed Abdel Aziz,Annabel Baddeley,Draurio Barreira,Saskia Den Boon,Susana Marta Borroto Gutierrez,Judith Bruchfeld,Erlina Burhan,Solange Cavalcante,Rolando Cedillos,Richard E. Chaisson,Cynthia B.E. Chee,Lucy Chesire,Elizabeth L. Corbett,Masoud Dara,Justin T Denholm,Gerard De Vries,Dennis Falzon,Nathan Ford,Margaret Gale-Rowe,Chris Gilpin,Enrico Girardi,Un Yeong Go,Darshini Govindasamy,Alison D. Grant,Malgorzata Grzemska,Ross J Harris,C. Robert Horsburgh,Asker Ismayilov,Ernesto Jaramillo,Sandra V. Kik,Katharina Kranzer,Christian Lienhardt,Philip A. LoBue,Knut Lönnroth,Guy B. Marks,Dick Menzies,Giovanni Battista Migliori,Davide Mosca,Ya Diul Mukadi,Alwyn Mwinga,Lisa J. Nelson,Nobuyuki Nishikiori,Anouk M. Oordt-Speets,Molebogeng Xheedha Rangaka,Andreas Reis,Lisa D. Rotz,Andreas Sandgren,Monica Sañé Schepisi,Holger J. Schünemann,Surender Kumar Sharma,Giovanni Sotgiu,Helen R. Stagg,Timothy R. Sterling,Tamara Tayeb,Mukund Uplekar,Marieke J. van der Werf,Wim Vandevelde,Femke van Kessel,Anna H. van’t Hoog,Jay K. Varma,Natalia Vezhnina,Constantia Voniatis,Marije Vonk Noordegraaf-Schouten,Diana Weil,Karin Weyer,Robert J. Wilkinson,Takashi Yoshiyama,Jean-Pierre Zellweger,Mario C. Raviglione +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.