Turning off the tap: stopping tuberculosis transmission through active case-finding and prompt effective treatment
Courtney M. Yuen,Farhana Amanullah,Ashwin S. Dharmadhikari,Edward A. Nardell,James A Seddon,Irina Vasilyeva,Yanlin Zhao,Salmaan Keshavjee,Mercedes C. Becerra +8 more
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The inclusion of targeted active case-finding in a comprehensive epidemic-control strategy for tuberculosis should contribute substantially to a decrease in tuberculosis incidence.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-12-05 and is currently open access. It has received 126 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tuberculosis diagnosis & Tuberculosis.read more
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Transmission of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa.
N. Sarita Shah,N. Sarita Shah,N. Sarita Shah,Sara C. Auld,James C.M. Brust,Barun Mathema,Nazir Ahmed Ismail,Pravi Moodley,Koleka Mlisana,Salim Allana,Angela Campbell,Thuli Mthiyane,Natashia Morris,Primrose Mpangase,Hermina van der Meulen,Shaheed V. Omar,Tyler S. Brown,Apurva Narechania,Elena Shaskina,Thandi Kapwata,Barry N. Kreiswirth,Neel R. Gandhi,Neel R. Gandhi +22 more
TL;DR: The majority of cases of XDR tuberculosis in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa, an area with a high tuberculosis burden, were probably due to transmission rather than to inadequate treatment of MDR tuberculosis, suggesting control of the epidemic of drug‐resistant tuberculosis requires an increased focus on interrupting transmission.
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Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis
Michael J. A. Reid,Nimalan Arinaminpathy,Amy Bloom,Barry R. Bloom,Catharina Boehme,Richard E. Chaisson,Daniel P. Chin,Gavin J. Churchyard,Helen Cox,Lucica Ditiu,Mark Dybul,Jeremy Farrar,Anthony S. Fauci,Endalkachew Fekadu,Paula I Fujiwara,Timothy B. Hallett,Christy L Hanson,Mark Harrington,Nick Herbert,Philip C. Hopewell,Chieko Ikeda,Dean T. Jamison,Aamir J. Khan,Irene Koek,Nalini Krishnan,Aaron Motsoaledi,Madhukar Pai,Mario C. Raviglione,Mario C. Raviglione,Almaz Sharman,Small Pm,Soumya Swaminathan,Zelalem Temesgen,Anna Vassall,Anna Vassall,Nandita. Venkatesan,Kitty van Weezenbeek,Gavin Yamey,Bruce D. Agins,Sofia Alexandru,Jason R. Andrews,Naomi Beyeler,Stela Bivol,Grania Brigden,Adithya Cattamanchi,Danielle Cazabon,Valeriu Crudu,Amrita Daftary,Puneet Dewan,Laurie K Doepel,Robert W Eisinger,Victoria Y. Fan,Victoria Y. Fan,Sara Fewer,Jennifer Furin,Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert,Gabriela B. Gomez,Stephen M. Graham,Stephen M. Graham,Stephen M. Graham,Devesh Gupta,Maureen Kamene,Sunil D. Khaparde,Eunice W Mailu,Enos Masini,Lorrie McHugh,Ellen M. H. Mitchell,Suerie Moon,Suerie Moon,Michael Osberg,Tripti Pande,Lea Prince,Kirankumar Rade,Raghuram Rao,Michelle Remme,James A Seddon,James A Seddon,Casey Selwyn,Priya B. Shete,Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva,Guy Stallworthy,Juan F. Vesga,Valentina Vilc,Eric Goosby +83 more
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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The Tuberculosis Cascade of Care in India's Public Sector: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Ramnath Subbaraman,Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana,Srinath Satyanarayana,Madhukar Pai,Beena E Thomas,Vineet K. Chadha,Kiran Rade,Soumya Swaminathan,Kenneth H. Mayer +8 more
TL;DR: Increasing case detection is critical to improving outcomes in India’s TB cascade of care, especially for smear-negative and MDR TB patients.
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The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tuberculosis epidemic a modelling analysis.
Lucia Cilloni,Han Fu,Juan F. Vesga,David Dowdy,Carel Pretorius,Sevim Ahmedov,Sreenivas Achuthan Nair,Andrei Mosneaga,Enos Masini,Suvanand Sahu,Nimalan Arinaminpathy +10 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated how long term increases in TB burden could be averted in the short term through supplementary “catch-up” TB case detection and treatment, once restrictions are eased.
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Mortality in children diagnosed with tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Helen E. Jenkins,Helen E. Jenkins,Courtney M. Yuen,Courtney M. Yuen,Carly A. Rodriguez,Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana,Megan M. McLaughlin,Peter R. Donald,Ben J. Marais,Mercedes C. Becerra,Mercedes C. Becerra +10 more
TL;DR: A systematic review of published work to identify studies of population-representative samples of paediatric tuberculosis cases found that the case fatality ratio is substantially higher in children with HIV receiving treatment for tuberculosis than in those without HIV.
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