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Manual de Recomendações para o Controle da Tuberculose no Brasil
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Successes and failures in the control of infectious diseases in Brazil: social and environmental context, policies, interventions, and research needs
Mauricio Lima Barreto,M Gloria Teixeira,Francisco Inácio Bastos,Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes,Rita Barradas Barata,Laura C. Rodrigues +5 more
TL;DR: The major successes and failures in the control of infectious diseases in Brazil are discussed, and research needs and policies to further improve control or interrupt transmission are identified.
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Guidelines on interferon-γ release assays for tuberculosis infection: concordance, discordance or confusion?
TL;DR: Overall, the use of IGRAs is increasingly recommended, but most of the current guidelines do not use objective, transparent methods to grade evidence and recommendations, and do not disclose conflicts of interests.
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Impact of replacing smear microscopy with Xpert MTB/RIF for diagnosing tuberculosis in Brazil: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial.
Betina Durovni,Valeria Saraceni,Susan van den Hof,Anete Trajman,Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos,Solange Cavalcante,Alexandre Menezes,Frank Cobelens +7 more
TL;DR: Whether implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF increased the notification rate of laboratory-confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis and reduced the time to tuberculosis treatment initiation in 14 Brazilian primary care laboratories is evaluated.
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Renal Tuberculosis in the Modern Era
TL;DR: awareness of renal TB is urgently needed by physicians for suspecting this disease in patients with unexplained urinary tract abnormalities, mainly in those with any immunosuppression and those coming from TB-endemic areas.
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Epidemiology of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Brazil: a hierarchical model
Teresa Gomes,Barbara Reis-Santos,Adelmo Inácio Bertolde,John L. Johnson,Lee W. Riley,Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel +5 more
TL;DR: Thirteen percent of patients diagnosed with TB in Brazil have only EPTB, and more effective diagnostic strategies and control measures are needed to reduce the number of cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Brazil.
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