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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Peer-Reviewed Publications

• When it comes to stopping tuberculosis, what is actually “missing”?
• Homeless Shelters: HIV Testing During the Atlanta Tuberculosis Outbreak (2008–2018)
  
• Intestinal Perforation as a Paradoxical Reaction to Tuberculosis
  
• atpE Mutation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Not Always Predictive of Bedaquiline Treatment Failure
  
• ​Early alveolar macrophage response and IL-1R-dependent T cell priming determine transmissibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains
  
• Evaluation of the latent tuberculosis care cascade among public health clinics in the United States 
  
• Recently developed drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a research and development case study
  
• Tuberculosis screening among HIV-positive inpatients: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis
  
• An influence of dew point temperature on the occurrence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in Chennai, India
  
• ​Minnesota refugees diagnosed with tuberculosis disease, January 1993–August 2019
  
• Gene expression signatures identify biologically and clinically distinct tuberculosis endotypes
  
• Sputum lipoarabinomannan (LAM) as a biomarker to determine sputum mycobacterial load: exploratory and model-based analyses of integrated data from four cohorts
  
• Enteropathogen spectrum and effect on antimycobacterial pharmacokinetics among children with tuberculosis in rural Tanzania: a prospective cohort study
  
• Performance of Xpert® MTB/RIF and Xpert® Ultra for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis in children
  
• Low BMI increases all-cause mortality rates in patients with drug-resistant TB
  
• Concomitant pulmonary disease is common among patients with extrapulmonary TB
  
• High mortality due to gastrointestinal TB in HIV and non-HIV patients
  
• Finding gaps in routine TB surveillance activities in Bangladesh
  
• Clinical effects of TB sequelae in patients with COPD
  
• ​High-dose rifampin improves bactericidal activity without increased intracerebral inflammation in animal models of tuberculous meningitis
  
• Recurrent subclinical tuberculosis among ART accessing participants: Incidence, clinical course, and outcomes 
  
• Mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis are resistant to acute disease caused by secondary infection with SARS-CoV-2
  
• Reactivation of Tuberculosis in the Setting of COVID-19 Infection
  
• Monitoring IgG against Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins in an Asian elephant cured of tuberculosis that developed from long-term latency
  
• ​Decrease in Tuberculosis Cases during COVID-19 Pandemic as Reflected by Outpatient Pharmacy Data, United States, 2020   ​
  
• Missed opportunities for diagnosis and treatment in patients with TB symptoms: a systematic review
  
• A structured community engagement strategy to support uptake of TB active case-finding
  
• Prevalence and interpretation of Xpert® Ultra trace results among presumptive TB patients
  
• TB training in Kenya: building capacity for care and prevention
  
• Shorter Treatment for Nonsevere Tuberculosis in African and Indian Children
  
• Geographically dispersed zoonotic tuberculosis in pre-contact South American human populations
  
• IL-10 Receptor Blockade Delivered Simultaneously with Bacillus Calmette–Guérin Vaccination Sustains Long-Term Protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Mice
  
• The Radiographic and Mycobacteriologic Correlates of Subclinical Pulmonary TB in Canada
  
• ​Feasibility of a “Salvage Regimen” Using Home-based Intravenous Meropenem Therapy With a Delamanid/Bedaquilline Containing Regimen in the Management of MDR/XDR Pediatric Tuberculosis
  
• An All-Oral 6-Month Regimen for Multidrug-Resistant TB (the NExT Study): A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial   
  
• Increased Moxifloxacin Dosing Among Patients With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis With Low-Level Resistance to Moxifloxacin Did Not Improve Treatment Outcomes in a Tertiary Care Center in Mumbai, India
  
• Model-Based Efficacy and Toxicity Comparisons of Moxifloxacin for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
  
• Macrophage global metabolomics identifies cholestenone as host/pathogen cometabolite present in human Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
  
• Detecting Tuberculosis-Consistent Findings in Lateral Chest X-Rays Using an Ensemble of CNNs and Vision Transformers
  
• ​Antiretroviral therapy timing impacts latent tuberculosis infection reactivation in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis/SIV coinfection model
  
• Kupyaphores are zinc homeostatic metallophores required for colonization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  
• Telehealth Reduces Missed Appointments in Pediatric Patients with Tuberculosis Infection
  
• Treatment Outcomes of Childhood Tuberculous Meningitis in a Real-World Retrospective Cohort, Bandung, Indonesia
  
• Overseas Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in US–Bound Immigrants
  
• ​Time to care-seeking for TB symptoms
  
• Correlation between lung function tests and peak oxygen consumption in post-TB lung disease
  
• The effect of incarceration on TB treatment outcomes
  
• Knowledge, attitudes and practices on childhood TB among healthcare workers
  
• TB testing in HIV-positive patients prior to antiretroviral treatment
  
• Paediatric admissions to a TB hospital: reasons for admission, clinical profile and outcomes
  
• Antiretroviral therapy timing impacts latent tuberculosis infection reactivation in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis/SIV coinfection model
  
• Histone acetylome-wide associations in immune cells from individuals with active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
  
• Accurate and rapid prediction of tuberculosis drug resistance from genome sequence data using traditional machine learning algorithms and CNN
  
• Safety and efficacy of non-fluoroscopic endoscopic dilatation of gastrointestinal tuberculosis related strictures
  
• Biomarkers That Correlate with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment Response: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
  
• Development of a Highly Specific, Selective, and Sensitive Fluorescent Probe for Detection of Mycobacteria in Human Tissues
  
• A Phase I/II randomized trial of H56:IC31 vaccination and adjunctive cyclooxygenase-2-inhibitor treatment in tuberculosis patients
  
• A self-rated health score predicts severe disease and high mortality in patients with pulmonary TB
  
• Treatment outcomes and safety in children with rifampicin-resistant TB
  
• Determinants of treatment outcomes in patients with multidrug-resistant TB
  
• Incomplete contact investigation and risk of developing TB among healthcare professionals
  
• The risk factors of the postoperative poor wound healing in spinal tuberculosis patients: A single centre retrospective cohort study
  
• Safety of treatment regimens containing bedaquiline and delamanid in the endTB cohort 
  
• The role of prisons in disseminating tuberculosis in Brazil: A genomic epidemiology study
  
• Cost-effectiveness of routine adolescent vaccination with an M72/AS01E-like tuberculosis vaccine in South Africa and India
  
• Efavirenz Pharmacokinetics and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Viral Suppression Among Patients Receiving Tuberculosis Treatment Containing Daily High-Dose Rifapentine
  
• Central Nervous System Tuberculosis Presenting With Multiple Ring-Enhancing Lesions: A Diagnostic Challenge
  
• Macrophage global metabolomics identifies cholestenone as host/pathogen cometabolite present in human Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
  
• A modular and reconfigurable open-channel gated device for the electrokinetic extraction of cell-free DNA assays
  
• ​High-dose rifamycins in the treatment of TB: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  
• Building the Evidence for a Rights-Based, People-Centered, Gender-Transformative Tuberculosis Response: An Analysis of the Stop TB Partnership Community, Rights, and Gender Tuberculosis Assessment
  
• BCG vaccination history associates with decreased SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence across a diverse cohort of health care workers
  
• ​BCG vaccination in health care providers and the protection against COVID-19
  
• COVID-19 Pandemic Disruption on the Management of Tuberculosis Treatment in Indonesia
  
• ​Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19 
  
• Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents: Testing and Treatment 
  
• Disease Surveillance Among U.S.-Bound Immigrants and Refugees — Electronic Disease Notification System, United States, 2014–2019
  
• Effect of Mixed Infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria on Diagnosis of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Multicentre Study in China
  
• Multicomponent Strategy with Decentralized Molecular Testing for Tuberculosis
  
• Integrating tuberculosis and noncommunicable diseases care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): A systematic review
  
• ​Drug resistant tuberculosis in Afghanistan: We must continue to put people at the centre of treatment
  
• Measles, Tuberculosis Vaccines Could ‘Flatten the COVID-19 Curve’
  
• Association of TyG Index with CT Features in Patients with Tuberculosis and Diabetes Mellitus
  
• Exposure–­safety analysis of QTc interval and transaminase levels following bedaquiline administration in patients with drug-­resistant tuberculosis
  
• Evaluation of the performance of the BD MAX MDR-TB test in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in extrapulmonary and pulmonary samples
  
• A Semimechanistic Model of the Bactericidal Activity of High-Dose Isoniazid against Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial
  
• Value of routine whole genome sequencing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance detection
  
• Effectiveness and Cardiac Safety of Bedaquiline-Based Therapy for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Prospective Cohort Study
  
• Emergence of additional drug resistance during treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in China: a prospective cohort study
  
• Between Curing and Torturing: Burden of Adverse Reaction in Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Therapy
  
• Genomic signatures of pre-resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  
• Early TB case detection by community-based mobile X-ray screening and Xpert testing in Balochistan
  
• Isoniazid preventive therapy in child household contacts of adults with active TB in Bamako, Mali
  
• Educational counselling of patients with combined TB and diabetes mellitus: a randomised trial
  
• Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in U.S.-bound Immigrants and Refugees
  
• Neutrophil Dynamics Affect Mycobacterium tuberculosis Granuloma Outcomes and Dissemination
  
• A Framework for Assessing the Impact of Disease Treatment
  
• Why has the incidence of tuberculosis not reduced in London during the COVID-19 pandemic?
  
• Ferroptosis-related gene SOCS1, a marker for tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment, involves in macrophage polarization and facilitates bone destruction in tuberculosis
  
• Avoiding pitfalls in calculating the population attributable fraction of undernutrition for TB
  
• Low serum levels of anti-TB drugs in a high TB setting
  
• Current state of national TB laboratory networks in Europe: achievements and challenges
  
• Tuberculous mastitis in a low-incidence setting: should respiratory physicians be concerned?
  
• VIDAS® TB-IGRA reagents induce a CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell IFN-γ response for both TB infection and active TB
  
• ​A randomised controlled trial to evaluate a medication monitoring system for TB treatment
  
• ​How much does TB screening cost? A systematic review of economic evaluations
  
• Demographic and socio-economic risk factors associated with self-reported TB
  
• Use of interactive messaging to reduce pre-diagnosis loss to follow-up for TB care
  
• Effectiveness of two tobacco cessation methods among TB patients
  
• Opportunities to prevent and manage undernutrition to amplify efforts to end TB
  
• ​National TB prevalence surveys in the COVID-19 era
  
• An Inca trail to the Holy Grail: digital medication adherence support for TB care
  
• ​Treatment Outcome of Tubercular Uveitis in a High TB and HIV Setting: A Prospective Cohort Study   
  
• Sputum microbiota profiles of treatment-naïve TB patients in Uganda before and during first-line therapy
  
• CD4+CCR6+ T cells dominate the BCG-induced transcriptional signature
  
• ​Global estimates of paediatric tuberculosis incidence in 2013–19: a mathematical modelling analysis
  
• Building the Evidence for a Rights-Based, People-Centered, Gender-Transformative Tuberculosis Response: An Analysis of the Stop TB Partnership Community, Rights, and Gender Tuberculosis Assessment
  
• Cut-off Points of Treatment Delay to Predict Poor Outcomes Among New Pulmonary Tuberculosis Cases in Dalian, China: A Cohort Study
  
• Evidence and research gaps identified during development of policy guidelines for tuberculosis
  
• Risk Factors for Poor Outcomes Among Patients with Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB): A Scoping Review
  
• Genomic signatures of pre-resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  
• Population pharmacokinetics of bedaquiline in patients with drug-resistant TB
  
• The effect of new Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection on the sensitivity of prognostic TB signatures
  
• Whole-genome sequencing differentiates relapse from re-infection in TB
  
• The effect of systematic screening of the general population on TB case notification rates
  
• Latent Tuberculosis Infection
  
• ​​Tuberculosis screening among ambulatory people living with HIV: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis
  
• Sociodemographic Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Mortality Among Persons Diagnosed With Tuberculosis and COVID-19 in Close Succession in California, 2020
  
• Meningitis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a recent immigrant to Canada
  
• An allosteric inhibitor of bacterial Hsp70 chaperone potentiates antibiotics and mitigates resistance   
  
• Lifetime burden of disease due to incident tuberculosis: a global reappraisal including post-tuberculosis sequelae
  
• Toxin secretion and trafficking by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  
• ​​U.S. medical resident familiarity with national tuberculosis guidelines​
• Cytomegalovirus acquisition in infancy and the risk of tuberculosis disease in childhood: a longitudinal birth cohort study in Cape Town, South Africa
  
• Tuberculosis screening among ambulatory people living with HIV: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis
  
• ​Morbidity and Mortality Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness Hospitalized With COVID-19 
  
• Incidence and Clinical Characteristics of and Risk Factors for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection Among Pregnant Individuals in the United States 
  
• Longitudinal Model-Based Biomarker Analysis of Exposure-Response Relationships in Adults with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
  
• Practical approach to detection and surveillance of emerging highly resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing 1071-32-cluster
  
• Tuberculosis Pathways to Care and Transmission of Multidrug-Resistance in India
  
• ​A Rare Case of Sternoclavicular Tuberculosis Diagnosed Using Microchip-Based Polymerase Chain Reaction in a Diabetic Female
• Genomic Profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains, Myanmar
  
• Isolation of Novel Mycobacterium Species from Skin Infection in an Immunocompromised Person
  
• Co-Infection with 4 Species of Mycobacteria Identified by Using Next-Generation Sequencing
  
• Population Genomics and Inference of Mycobacterium avium Complex Clusters in Cystic Fibrosis Care Centers, United States
  
• Is a high dose sufficient to achieve high isoniazid exposure in children affected by multidrug-resistant TB?
  
• Impact of the bacillary load on the accuracy of rifampicin resistance results by Xpert® MTB/RIF
  
• UNITE4TB: a new consortium for clinical drug and regimen development for TB
  
• Advancing TB research using digitized programmatic data
  
• ​Pharmacokinetics of high-dose isoniazid in children affected by multidrug-resistant TB
  
• Screening for active and latent TB among migrants in France
  
• ​Need for caution when interpreting Xpert® MTB/RIF results for rifampin resistance among children
  
• Evaluation of a lateral-flow nanoparticle fluorescence assay for TB infection diagnosis
  
• Monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of TB among people living with HIV
  
• Incremental yield of Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra over Xpert® MTB/RIF in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB
  
• Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts
  
• Clinical standards for the assessment, management and rehabilitation of post-TB lung disease
  
• Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis and HIV services: A cross-sectional survey of 669 health professionals in 64 low and middle-income countries
  
• Implications of COVID-19 in high burden countries for HIV/TB: A systematic review of evidence
  
• The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tuberculosis epidemic a modelling analysis
  
• Prevalence of comorbid tuberculosis amongst COVID-19 patients: A rapid review and meta-analysis   
  
• ​Public Health Action - September 2021​
  
• The impact of COVID-19 on HIV, TB and malaria services and systems for health
  
• The impact of COVID-19 on TB: a review of the data
  
• One year of COVID-19 and its impact on private provider engagement for TB: A rapid assessment of intermediary NGOs in seven high TB burden countries - ScienceDirect
  
• COVID-19 and Pulmonary Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Coinfection
  
• Genetic Profile of Linezolid-Resistant M. tuberculosis Clinical Strains from Moscow
  
• Hear us! Accounts of people treated with injectables for drug-resistant TB
  
• Headway made towards biosignatures for incipient tuberculosis
  
• ​​rpoB Mutations and Effects on Rifampin Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  
• Development and Psychometric Testing of the Supportive Care Needs Scale for Patients with Tuberculosis (SCN-TB)
  
• ​Infliximab for Paradoxical Reactions in Pediatric Central Nervous System Tuberculosis
  
• NEOPTERIN EVALUATION IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
  
• Assessment of prevalence of depression and its associated factors among tuberculosis patients in Ernakulam district, Kerala
  
• Detection of isoniazid, fluoroquinolone, ethionamide, amikacin, kanamycin, and capreomycin resistance by the Xpert MTB/XDR assay: a cross-sectional multicentre diagnostic accuracy study
  
• Spatio-temporal variation in tuberculosis incidence and risk factors for the disease in a region of unbalanced socio-economic development   
  
• The diagnostic performance of novel skin-based in-vivo tests for tuberculosis infection compared with purified protein derivative tuberculin skin tests and blood-based in vitro interferon-γ release assays: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  
• Causes of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis from the perspectives of health providers: challenges and strategies for adherence to treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
  
• Concomitant Pulmonary Tuberculosis Impair Survival in Advanced Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients Receiving EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor
  
• Airborne Immunization against Tuberculosis
  
• Detection and quantification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen CFP10 in serum and urine for the rapid diagnosis of active tuberculosis disease
  
• Treatment of spinal tuberculosis in rabbits using bovine serum albumin nanoparticles loaded with isoniazid and rifampicin
  
• Host- and age-dependent transcriptional changes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope biosynthesis genes after exposure to human alveolar lining fluid
  
• Cross-sectional assessment of tuberculosis and HIV prevalence in 13 correctional facilities in Zambia
  
• ​Is the tuberculosis response another casualty of COVID-19?
  
• Effect of HIV-1 infection on T-Cell-based and skin test detection of tuberculosis infection
  
• A qualitative study of perspectives on access to tuberculosis health services in Xigaze, China
  
• Derivation and external validation of a risk score for predicting HIV-associated tuberculosis to support case finding and preventive therapy scale-up: A cohort study
  
• Notes from the Field: Tuberculosis Outbreak Linked to a Contaminated Bone Graft Product Used in Spinal Surgery — Delaware, March–June 2021
• Capturing patient-reported and quality of life outcomes with use of shorter regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis: mixed-methods substudy protocol, TB PRACTECAL-PRO​
• Molecular basis for DarT ADP-ribosylation of a DNA base 
  
• Blood transcriptomics reveal the evolution and resolution of the immune response in tuberculosis 
  
• Research Spotlights Significance of Social Support in TB Treatment 
  
• Computer-aided X-ray screening for tuberculosis and HIV testing among adults with cough in Malawi (the PROSPECT study): A randomised trial and cost-effectiveness analysis 
  
• In Vitro Miniaturized Tuberculosis Spheroid Model
  
• 100 years of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin
  
• Immune Control of Tuberculosis by IFN-γ-Inducible LRG-47
  
• ‘If not for this support, I would have left the treatment!': Qualitative study exploring the role of social support on medication adherence among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Western India 
  
• BCG re-vaccination in Malawi: 30-year follow-up of a large, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
  
• Follow-up of a BCG trial after 30 years: what lessons have we learned?
  
• ​Molecular Epidemiology Study of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex
  
• A data compendium of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antibiotic resistance
  
• Tuberculosis Death Epidemiology and Its Associated Risk Factors in Sabah, Malaysia
  
• Ang II-Induced Hypertension Exacerbates the Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis
  
• Easier cure for resistant TB
  
• ​Mycobacteriophage–antibiotic therapy promotes enhanced clearance of drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus
  
• Social and health factors associated with unfavourable treatment outcome in adolescents and young adults with tuberculosis in Brazil: a national retrospective cohort study
  
• Tuberculosis preventive treatment in people living with HIV—Is the glass half empty or half full?
  
• Tuberculosis preventive therapy for people living with HIV: A systematic review and network meta-analysis
  
• Economic and modeling evidence for tuberculosis preventive therapy among people living with HIV: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  
• ​The long-running issues of tuberculosis
  
• Economic impact of tuberculosis mortality in 120 countries and the cost of not achieving the Sustainable Development Goals tuberculosis targets: a full-income analysis
  
• The incalculable costs of tuberculosis
  
• Combined Pulmonary Tuberculosis with Pulmonary and Pleural Cryptococcosis in a Patient Receiving Ruxolitinib Therapy
  
• Relational Dynamics of Treatment Behavior Among Individuals with Tuberculosis in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review
  
• Linezolid-induced black hairy tongue in a patient with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: A case report
  
• Willingness to seek medical care for tuberculosis and associated factors among the elderly population in Shenzhen: a cross-sectional study
  
• ​​Economic impact of tuberculosis mortality in 120 countries and the cost of not achieving the Sustainable Development Goals tuberculosis targets: A full-income analysis
  
• ​Tuberculosis in an infant with Hirschsprung-associated enterocolitis: a case report
  
• The Transcription Factor Rv1453 Regulates the Expression of qor and Confers Resistant to Clofazimine in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  
• Profiles of Volatile Biomarkers Detect Tuberculosis from Skin
  
• Rapid discrimination between tuberculosis and sarcoidosis using next-generation sequencing
  
• The Magnitude of MTB and Rifampicin Resistance MTB Using Xpert-MTB/RIF Assay Among Tuberculosis Suspected Patients in Gedeo Zone, Southern Ethiopia
  
• Global, regional, and national sex differences in the global burden of tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
  
• Responding to Market Failures in Tuberculosis Control
  
• Predictors of unfavorable responses to therapy in rifampicin-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis using an integrated approach of radiological presentation and sputum mycobacterial burden
  
• Diabetes and Tuberculosis Link Quantified​