Latest TB research publications

PLOS TB Channel
Feb. 15, 2020, 10:39 p.m.

 

EDITOR'S PICK: Prevalence and genetic profiles of isoniazid resistance in tuberculosis patients: A multicountry analysis of cross-sectional data

Anna S. Dean, Matteo Zignol, Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe, Dennis Falzon, Philippe Glaziou, Daniela Maria Cirillo, Claudio U. Köser, Lice Y. Gonzalez-Angulo, Olga Tosas-Auget, Nazir Ismail, Sabira Tahseen, Maria Cecilia G. Ama, Alena Skrahina, Natavan Alikhanova, S. M. Mostofa Kamal, Katherine Floyd

2020-01-21  //  PLOS MEDICINE  //  Research Article

Social, demographic, health care and co-morbidity predictors of tuberculosis mortality in Amazonas, Brazil: a multiple cause of death approach

Vanderson de Souza Sampaio, Maria Gabriela de Almeida Rodrigues, Leila Cristina Ferreira da Silva, Daniel Barros de Castro, Patrícia Carvalho da Silva Balieiro, Ana Alzira Cabrinha, Antonio José Leal Costa

2020-01-29  //  PLOS ONE  //  Research Article

QuantTB – a method to classify mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections within whole genome sequencing data

Christine Anyansi, Arlin Keo, Bruce J. Walker, Timothy J. Straub, Abigail L. Manson, Ashlee M. Earl & Thomas Abeel

2020-02-11  //  BMC GENOMICS  //  Research Article

Standardized framework for evaluating costs of active case-finding programs: An analysis of two programs in Cambodia and Tajikistan

Youngji Jo, Farangiz Mirzoeva, Monyrath Chry, Zhi Zhen Qin, Andrew Codlin, Oktam Bobokhojaev, Jacob Creswell, Hojoon Sohn

2020-01-27  //  PLOS ONE  //  Research Article

A phase I trial evaluating the safety and immunogenicity of a candidate tuberculosis vaccination regimen, ChAdOx1 85A prime – MVA85A boost in healthy UK adults

Morven Wilkie, Iman Satti, Alice Minhinnick, Stephanie Harris, Michael Riste, Raquel Lopez Ramon, Sharon Sheehan, Zita-Rose Manjaly Thomas, Daniel Wright, Lisa Stockdale, Ali Hamidi, Matthew K. O’Shea, Kritica Dwivedi, Hannah Michaela Behrens, Tamara Davenne, Joshua Morton, Samantha Vermaak, Alison Lawrie, Paul Moss, Helen Mc Shane

2020-02-11  //  VACCINE  //  Research Article

The effect of HIV-associated tuberculosis, tuberculosis-IRIS, and prednisone on lung function

Cari Stek, Brian Allwood, Elsa Du Bruyn, Jozefien Buyze, Charlotte Schutz, Friedrich Thienemann, Adele Lombard, Robert J. Wilkinson, Graeme Meintjes, Lutgarde Lynen

2020-02-11  //  EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL  //  Research Article

Epidemiological cut-offs for Sensititre susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis : interpretive criteria cross validated with whole genome sequencing

Nazir A. Ismail, Farzana Ismail, Lavania Joseph, Netricia Govender, Linsay Blows, Koné Kaniga & Shaheed V. Omar

2020-02-11  //  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS  //  Research Article

Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic algorithms including lateral-flow urine lipoarabinomannan for HIV-positive patients with symptoms of tuberculosis

Nadia Yakhelef, Martine Audibert, Gabriella Ferlazzo, Joseph Sitienei, Steve Wanjala, Francis Varaine, Maryline Bonnet, Helena Huerga

2020-01-30  //  PLOS ONE  //  Research Article

Non-disclosure of tuberculosis diagnosis by patients to their household members in south western Uganda

Miria Nyangoma, Francis Bajunirwe, Daniel Atwine

2020-01-24  //  PLOS ONE  //  Research Article

The molecular basis of pyrazinamide activity on Mycobacterium tuberculosis PanD

Qingan Sun, Xiaojun Li, Lisa M. Perez, Wanliang Shi, Ying Zhang & James C. Sacchettini

2020-02-11  //  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS  //  Research Article

Immune correlates of tuberculosis disease and risk translate across species

Mushtaq Ahmed, Shyamala Thirunavukkarasu, Bruce A. Rosa, Kimberly A. Thomas, Shibali Das, Javier Rangel-Moreno, Lan Lu, Smriti Mehra, Stanley Kimbung Mbandi, Larissa B. Thackray, Michael S. Diamond, Kenneth M. Murphy, Terry Means, John Martin, Deepak Kaushal, Thomas J. Scriba, Makedonka Mitreva and Shabaana A. Khader

2020-02-11  //  SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE  //  Research Article

Screening of natural compounds that targets glutamate racemase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals the anti-tubercular potential of flavonoids

Alka Pawar, Prakash Jha, Madhu Chopra, Uma Chaudhry & Daman Saluja

2020-02-11  //  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS  //  Research Article

Hydrogen sulfide stimulates Mycobacterium tuberculosis respiration, growth and pathogenesis

Vikram Saini, Krishna C. Chinta, Vineel P. Reddy, Joel N. Glasgow, Asaf Stein, Dirk A. Lamprecht, Md. Aejazur Rahman, Jared S. Mackenzie, Barry E. Truebody, John H. Adamson, Tafara T. R. Kunota, Shannon M. Bailey, Douglas R. Moellering, Jack R. Lancaster Jr. & Adrie J. C. Steyn

2020-02-11  //  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS  //  Research Article

Requiring smartphone ownership for mHealth interventions: who could be left out?

2020-02-11  //  BMC PUBLIC HEALTH   //  Research Article

Clinical and genetic markers associated with tuberculosis, HIV-1 infection, and TB/HIV-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome outcomes

Nathalia Beatriz Ramos de Sá, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves, Tatiana Pereira da Silva, Jose Henrique Pilotto, Valeria Cavalcanti Rolla, Carmem B. W. Giacoia-Gripp, Daniel Scott-Algara, Mariza Gonçalves Morgado & Sylvia Lopes Maia Teixeira

2020-02-11  //  BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES  //  Research Article

Insertion and deletion evolution reflects antibiotics selection pressure in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak

Maxime Godfroid, Tal Dagan, Matthias Merker, Thomas A. Kohl, Roland Diel, Florian P. Maurer, Stefan Niemann, Anne Kupczok

2020-02-11  //  BIORXIV  //  Research Article

Food Choice and Dietary Intake among People with Tuberculosis in Peru: Implications for Improving Practice

Gwenyth O Lee, Valerie A Paz-Soldan, Amy R Riley-Powell, Andrea Gómez, Carla Tarazona-Meza, Katerine Villaizan Paliza, Ramya Ambikapathi, Katherine Ortiz, German Comina, Gustavo Hernandez

2020-02-11  //  CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NUTRITION   //  Research Article

The age-specific burden and household and school-based predictors of child and adolescent tuberculosis infection in rural Uganda

Carina Marquez, Mucunguzi Atukunda, Laura B. Balzer, Gabriel Chamie, Joel Kironde, Emmanuel Ssemmondo, Theodore D. Ruel, Florence Mwangwa, Khai Hoan Tram, Tamara D. Clark, Dalsone Kwarisiima, Maya Petersen, Moses R. Kamya, Edwin D. Charlebois, Diane V. Havlir

2020-01-29  //  PLOS ONE  //  Research Article

New 2-Ethylthio-4-methylaminoquinazoline derivatives inhibiting two subunits of cytochrome bc1 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Andréanne Lupien, Caroline Shi-Yan Foo, Svetlana Savina, Anthony Vocat, Jérémie Piton, Natalia Monakhova, Andrej Benjak, Dirk A. Lamprecht, Adrie J. C. Steyn, Kevin Pethe, Vadim A. Makarov, Stewart T. Cole

2020-01-23  //  PLOS PATHOGENS  //  Research Article

Impact of chemorophylaxis policy for AIDS-immunocompromised patients on emergence of bacterial resistance

Ashley A. DeNegre, Kellen Myers, Nina H. Fefferman

2020-01-30  //  PLOS ONE  //  Research Article

Performance of Qure.ai automatic classifiers against a large annotated database of patients with diverse forms of tuberculosis

Eric Engle, Andrei Gabrielian, Alyssa Long, Darrell E. Hurt, Alex Rosenthal

2020-01-24  //  PLOS ONE  //  Research Article

Bayesian hierarchical modeling of joint spatiotemporal risk patterns for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Tuberculosis (TB) in Kenya

Verrah A Otiende, Thomas N. O Achia, Henry G Mwambi

2020-02-11  //  MEDRXIV  //  Research Article

Isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis: A problem we can no longer ignore

Giorgia Sulis, Madhukar Pai

2020-01-21  //  PLOS MEDICINE  //  Commentary

Implementation of digital health interventions in respiratory medicine: a call to action by the European Respiratory Society m-Health/e-Health Group

Vitalii Poberezhets, Hilary Pinnock, Ioannis Vogiatzis, Vitaliy Mishlanov

2020-02-11  //  ERJ OPEN RESEARCH  //  Commentary


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