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James Mpunga

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Articles 20
Citations 185
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Public Health
General Medicine
Infectious Diseases
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Andreas Jahn
Hastings T Banda
Rony Zachariah
Anthony D Harries
Henry Kanyerere
Kruger Kaswaswa
Katherine Floyd
Oster Suriani
Robert Krysiak
Elizeus Rutebemberwa
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Recent Articles
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Tobacco smoking clusters in households affected by tuberculosis in an individual participant data meta-analysis of national tuberculosis prevalence surveys: Time for household-wide interventions?
Hamada Y, Quartagno M, Law I, Malik F, Bonsu F, Adetifa I, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2024 Feb; 4(2):e0002596. PMID: 38422092
Tuberculosis (TB) and non-communicable diseases (NCD) share predisposing risk factors. TB-associated NCD might cluster within households affected with TB requiring shared prevention and care strategies. We conducted an individual participant...
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Association of diabetes, smoking, and alcohol use with subclinical-to-symptomatic spectrum of tuberculosis in 16 countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis of national tuberculosis prevalence surveys
Hamada Y, Quartagno M, Law I, Malik F, Bonsu F, Adetifa I, et al.
EClinicalMedicine . 2023 Sep; 63:102191. PMID: 37680950
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and NCD risk factors, such as smoking, increase the risk for tuberculosis (TB). Data are scarce on the risk of prevalent TB associated with these factors...
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Impact of Community-Wide Tuberculosis Active Case Finding and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing on Tuberculosis Trends in Malawi
Burke R, Nliwasa M, Dodd P, Feasey H, Khundi M, Choko A, et al.
Clin Infect Dis . 2023 Apr; 77(1):94-100. PMID: 37099318
Background: Tuberculosis case-finding interventions are critical to meeting World Health Organization End TB strategy goals. We investigated the impact of community-wide tuberculosis active case finding (ACF) alongside scale-up of human...
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Effect of patient-delivered household contact tracing and prevention for tuberculosis: A household cluster-randomised trial in Malawi
Kaswaswa K, MacPherson P, Kumwenda M, Mpunga J, Thindwa D, Nliwasa M, et al.
PLoS One . 2022 Sep; 17(9):e0269219. PMID: 36074775
Background: Household contact tracing provides TB screening and TB preventive therapy (TPT) to contacts at high risk of TB disease. However, it is resource intensive, inconvenient, and often poorly implemented....
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The prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis among miners from the Karonga, Rumphi, Kasungu and Lilongwe Districts of Malawi in 2019
Rambiki E, Dimba A, Banda P, Ngambi W, Banda K, Girma B, et al.
Malawi Med J . 2021 Aug; 32(4):184-191. PMID: 34457202
Introduction: Miners in sub-Saharan Africa have a greater risk of tuberculosis (TB) than any other working population in the world. In spite of the presence of large and vulnerable population...
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Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on TB and HIV Programme Services in Selected Health Facilities in Lilongwe, Malawi: Operational Research in Real Time
Thekkur P, Tweya H, Phiri S, Mpunga J, Kalua T, Kumar A, et al.
Trop Med Infect Dis . 2021 Jun; 6(2). PMID: 34069332
When the COVID-19 pandemic was announced in March 2020, there was concern that TB and HIV programme services in Malawi would be severely affected. We set up real-time monthly surveillance...
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Urine Lipoarabinomannan Testing for All HIV Patients Hospitalized in Medical Wards Identifies a Large Proportion of Patients With Tuberculosis at Risk of Death
Huerga H, Rucker S, Bastard M, Mpunga J, Amoros Quiles I, Kabaghe C, et al.
Open Forum Infect Dis . 2021 Feb; 8(2):ofaa639. PMID: 33575422
Background: Diagnosing tuberculosis (TB), the leading cause of death in people with HIV, remains a challenge in resource-limited countries. We assessed TB diagnosis using a strategy that included systematic urine...
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Protocol for a Case-Control Study to Investigate the Association of Pellagra With Isoniazid Exposure During Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment Scale-Up in Malawi
Nabity S, Mponda K, Gutreuter S, Surie D, Williams A, Sharma A, et al.
Front Public Health . 2020 Dec; 8:551308. PMID: 33324593
Pellagra is caused by niacin (vitamin B3) deficiency and manifested by a distinctive dermatitis. Isoniazid is critical for treating tuberculosis globally and is a component of most regimens to prevent...
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Feasibility of using Determine TB-LAM to diagnose tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients in programmatic conditions: a multisite study
Rucker S, Cossa L, Harrison R, Mpunga J, Lobo S, Kisaka Kimupelenge P, et al.
Glob Health Action . 2019 Oct; 12(1):1672366. PMID: 31610754
: Determine TB-LAM is a urine-based point-of-care assay for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). : To assess the feasibility of using LAM to diagnose TB in adult HIV-positive patients in resource-limited...
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The shift in tuberculosis timing among people living with HIV in the course of antiretroviral therapy scale-up in Malawi
Tweya H, Feldacker C, Mpunga J, Kanyerere H, Heller T, Ganesh P, et al.
J Int AIDS Soc . 2019 May; 22(4):e25240. PMID: 31038836
Introduction: Although the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB), patients living with HIV receiving ART remain at a higher risk of developing TB compared to those without...