Latest TB research publications

• Empiric tuberculosis treatment in South African primary health care facilities - for whom, where, when and why: Implications for the development of tuberculosis diagnostic tests

2018-01-24  //  PLOS ONE  //

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• Mind the gap! Risk factors for poor continuity of care of TB patients discharged from a hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa

2018-01-25  //  PLOS ONE  //

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• Immunological non-response and low hemoglobin levels are predictors of incident tuberculosis among HIV-infected individuals on Truvada-based therapy in Botswana

2018-01-31  //  PLOS ONE  //

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• Determinants of non-adherence to treatment for tuberculosis in high-income and middle-income settings: a systematic review protocol

2018-01-21  //  BMJ Open  //

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• Measuring management’s perspective of data quality in Pakistan’s Tuberculosis control programme: a test-based approach to identify data quality dimensions

2018-01-16  //  BMC Research Notes  //

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• Effectiveness of comprehensive social support interventions among elderly patients with tuberculosis in communities in China: a community-based trial

2018-01-19  //  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health  //

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• Occupational exposure to human Mycobacterium bovis infection: A systematic review

2018-01-16  //  PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases  //

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• Multi-clonal evolution of multi-drug-resistant/extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a high-prevalence setting of Papua New Guinea for over three decades

2018-01-04  //  Microbial Genomics  //

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• Genotyping multi-drug resistant M. tuberculosis from primary sputum and decontaminated sediment with an integrated microfluidic amplification microarray

2018-01-05  //  Journal of Clinical Microbiology  //

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• High rates of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolation from patients with presumptive tuberculosis in Iran

January 2018  //  New Microbes and New Infections  //

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• Low cost automated whole smear microscopy screening system for detection of acid fast bacilli

2018-01-22  //  PLOS ONE  //

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• Proteasome Substrate Capture and Gate Activation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis PafE

2018-01-16  //  bioRxiv  //

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• Cytokinin signaling in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

2018-01-18  //  bioRxiv  //

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• Schistosomiasis Induces Persistent DNA Methylation and Tuberculosis-specific Immune Changes

2018-01-27  //  bioRxiv  //

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• A complete nanonpore-only assembly of an XDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage strain identifies novel genetic variation in repetitive PE/PPE gene regions

2018-01-30  //  bioRxiv  //

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• A human xenobiotic nuclear receptor contributes to nonresponsiveness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the antituberculosis drug rifampicin

2018-01-22  //  Journal of Biological Chemistry   //

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• Sputum bacteriology conversion and treatment outcome of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

2018-01-23  //  Infection and Drug Resistance   //

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• Regulation of Three Virulence Strategies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A Success Story

2018-01-24  //  International Journal of Molecular Sciences  //

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• Influenza Vaccination and Incident Tuberculosis among Elderly Persons, Taiwan

March 2018  //  Emerging Infectious Diseases  //

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• Whole-Genome Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Patients with Tuberculous Spondylitis, Russia

March 2018  //  Emerging Infectious Diseases  //

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• Lipid droplet formation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected macrophages requires IFN-γ/HIF-1α signaling and supports host defense

2018-01-25  //  PLOS Pathogens  //