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Jaswal M, Martinez L, Brooks M, Farooq S, Safdar N, Shah J, et al.
Clin Infect Dis . 2025 Mar; PMID: 40036384
We assessed incremental completion of tuberculosis preventive treatment cascade in household contacts by offering services in community settings. This improved clinical evaluation by 12.4 (95% CI:11.7-13.0) percentage points (pp), treatment...
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Ramirez D, Brumwell A, Rahman M, Hossain F, Kulkarni S, Malik A, et al.
J Glob Health . 2025 Jan; 15:04024. PMID: 39849939
Background: Programmatic interventions to increase the detection of children with tuberculosis (TB) are rarely evaluated to understand age- and sex-specific completion rates. We applied modified TB screening and treatment cascade...
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White Y, P Solans B, Denti P, van der Laan L, Schaaf H, Vonasek B, et al.
Clin Infect Dis . 2024 Feb; 78(3):756-764. PMID: 38340060
Background: Each year 25 000-32 000 children develop rifampicin- or multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (RR/MDR-TB), and many more require preventive treatment. Levofloxacin is a key component of RR/MDR-TB treatment and prevention, but...
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Rahman M, Hossain F, Banu R, Islam M, Alam S, Faisel A, et al.
Trop Med Infect Dis . 2024 Jan; 9(1). PMID: 38276634
Background: The United Nations high-level meeting (UNHLM) pledged to enroll 30 million in tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) by 2022, necessitating TPT expansion to all at tuberculosis (TB) risk. We assessed...
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Brooks M, Hussain H, Siddiqui S, Ahmed J, Jaswal M, Amanullah F, et al.
Open Forum Infect Dis . 2023 Jun; 10(6):ofad245. PMID: 37351457
Background: In the absence of bacteriologic confirmation to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) in children, it is suggested that treatment should be initiated when sufficient clinical evidence of disease is available. However,...
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Hussain H, Jaswal M, Farooq S, Safdar N, Madhani F, Noorani S, et al.
Clin Infect Dis . 2023 Apr; 77(4):638-644. PMID: 37083926
Background: Scaling up a shorter preventive regimen such as weekly isoniazid and rifapentine (3HP) for 3 months is a priority for tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment (TPT). However, there are limited...
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Bashir S, Kik S, Ruhwald M, Khan A, Tariq M, Hussain H, et al.
PLoS One . 2022 Dec; 17(12):e0277393. PMID: 36584194
Background: Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have demonstrated potential in detecting tuberculosis (TB) associated abnormalities from chest X-ray (CXR) images. Thus, they might provide a solution to radiologist shortages in high...
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Malik A, Khan U, Khan P, Anwar A, Salahuddin N, Khowaja S, et al.
Trop Med Infect Dis . 2022 Dec; 7(12). PMID: 36548673
Background: Significant data gaps exist for children and adolescents with drug-resistant (DR) TB, particularly from high TB incidence settings. This report provides a descriptive analysis of programmatic outcomes among children...
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Yuen C, Szkwarko D, Dubois M, Shahbaz S, Yuengling K, Urbanowski M, et al.
Bull World Health Organ . 2022 Dec; 100(12):777-788L. PMID: 36466210
Objective: To map which tuberculosis care models are best suited for children and adolescents. Methods: We conducted a scoping review to assess the impact of decentralized, integrated and family-centred care...
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Malik A, Hussain H, Maniar R, Safdar N, Mohiuddin A, Riaz N, et al.
Trop Med Infect Dis . 2022 May; 7(5). PMID: 35622709
The authors wish to revise the second citation of reference [26] to [27] in the original article main text [...].