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The global burden of tuberculosis mortality in children: a mathematical modelling study.

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A global mortality burden estimate in children using a complementary approach not dependent on vital registration data is produced, implying substantial scope to reduce this burden.
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This article is published in The Lancet Global Health.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 260 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tuberculosis & Global health.

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Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis

Michael J. A. Reid, +83 more
- 30 Mar 2019 - 
TL;DR: The Commission recommends five priority investments to achieve a tuberculosis-free world within a generation, which answer the question of how countries with high-burden tuberculosis and their development partners should target their future investments.
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Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis, 1990-2016: results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2016 Study

Hmwe H Kyu, +153 more
TL;DR: If current trends in tuberculosis incidence continue, few countries are likely to meet the SDG target to end the tuberculosis epidemic by 2030, and several regions had higher rates of age-standardised incidence and mortality than expected on the basis of their SDI levels in 2016.
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Shorter Treatment for Nonsevere Tuberculosis in African and Indian Children

TL;DR: In this paper , an open-label, treatment-shortening, non-inferiority trial involving children with nonsevere, symptomatic, presumably drug-susceptible, smear-negative tuberculosis in Uganda, Zambia, South Africa, and India was conducted, where children younger than 16 years of age were randomly assigned to 4 months (16 weeks) or 6 months (24 weeks) of standard first-line antituberculosis treatment with pediatric fixed-dose combinations.
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Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assays for active tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in children

TL;DR: A systematic review on the diagnostic accuracy of Xpert MTB/RIF or Xpert Ultra in children presumed to have active tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in HIV‐positive and HIV‐negative children younger than 15 years was performed.
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The Wonder Years: What Can Primary School Children Teach Us About Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

TL;DR: Understanding why primary school children, during what the authors term the “Wonder Years,” have low TB risk has implications for vaccine development, therapeutic interventions, and diagnostics and better understand the contribution of age and sex to M. tuberculosis immunity.
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Transforming our world : The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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TL;DR: The Scoping meeting on collaboration between Regional Seas Programmes and Regional Fisheries Bodies in the Southwest Indian Ocean is described in this article, where the authors propose a framework for collaboration between regional sea programmes and regional fisheries bodies in the Indian Ocean.
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Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–15: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

TL;DR: The annual estimates of child mortality by cause to 2000–15 are updated to reflect on progress toward the MDG 4 and consider implications for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target for child survival.
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Natural History of Tuberculosis: Duration and Fatality of Untreated Pulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV Negative Patients: A Systematic Review

TL;DR: Current models of untreated tuberculosis that assume a total duration of 2 years until self-cure or death underestimate the duration of disease by about one year, but their case fatality estimates of 70% for smear-positive and 20% for culture-positive smear-negative tuberculosis appear to be satisfactory.
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of the current evidence on the duration of protection by bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination against tuberculosis

TL;DR: The main limitation of this review relates to quality of included trials, most of which were conducted before current standards for reporting were formulated, and data were lacking in some areas and the review had to rely on evidence from observational studies.
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