Latest TB research publications

• Urine lipoarabinomannan for tuberculosis diagnosis: evolution and prospects

April 2018  //  Clinical Chemistry  //

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• An explanation for the low proportion of tuberculosis that results from transmission between household and known social contacts

2018-03-29  //  Scientific Reports  //

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• Factors associated with linkage to HIV care and TB treatment at community-based HIV testing services in Cape Town, South Africa

2018-04-02  //  PLOS ONE  //

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• Factors associated with tuberculosis treatment delay in patients co-infected with HIV in a high prevalence area in Brazil

2018-04-06  //  PLOS ONE  //

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• Breast tuberculosis in men: A systematic review

2018-04-03  //  PLOS ONE  //

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• Epidemiological links between tuberculosis cases identified twice as efficiently by whole genome sequencing than conventional molecular typing: A population-based study

2018-04-04  //  PLOS ONE  //

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• Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus for detection of latent tuberculosis infection in pregnant women living in a tuberculosis- and HIV-endemic setting

2018-04-04  //  PLOS ONE  //

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• Data-driven model for the assessment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in evolving demographic structures

2018-04-03  //  PNAS  //

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• Predicting pulmonary tuberculosis in immigrants: a retrospective cohort study

April 2018  //  ERJ Open Research  //

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• Trends in tuberculosis in the UK

2018-04-19  //  Thorax  //

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• Genome-based transmission modeling separates imported tuberculosis from recent transmission within an immigrant population

2018-04-12  //  bioRxiv  //

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• The relationship between transmission time and clustering methods in Mycobacterium tuberculosis epidemiology

2018-04-16  //  bioRxiv  //

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• Six species of non-tuberculosis mycobacteria carry non-identical 16S rRNA gene copies

2018-04-17  //  bioRxiv  //

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