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Judith Bruchfeld

Researcher at Karolinska University Hospital

Publications -  109
Citations -  4561

Judith Bruchfeld is an academic researcher from Karolinska University Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 88 publications receiving 3495 citations. Previous affiliations of Judith Bruchfeld include Karolinska Institutet.

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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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Effectiveness and safety of bedaquiline-containing regimens in the treatment of MDR- and XDR-TB: a multicentre study

Sergey Borisov, +64 more
TL;DR: Bedaquiline-containing regimens achieved high conversion and success rates under different nonexperimental conditions, and is safe and effective in treating MDR- and XDR-TB patients.
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Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection

TL;DR: The clinical management of HIV-associated TB includes the integration of effective anti-TB treatment, use of concurrent antiretroviral therapy (ART), prevention of HIV -related comorbidities, management of drug cytotoxicity, and prevention/treatment of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS).