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Editorial - Technical Assistance to Tuberculosis Control Programmes as a Platform forInfectious Disease Research
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§rather than one-off contractual assignments, to ensure adequate knowledge of the local context and differential needs of the NTP over time. To complement the work of the general TA consultants, KNCV instituted a research unit to accomm...
Publication · September 01, 2025
Entry screening of immigrants in the Netherlands for latent tuberculosis : a cost-effectiveness analysis
Publication · September 01, 2025
Predictive Value of the Tuberculin Skin Test among Newly Arriving Immigrants
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Rationale Screening and treating newly arriving immigrants for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in low-incidence countries could be promising to reduce the tuberculosis incidence among this population. The effectiveness of screening...
Publication · September 01, 2025
Health workers’ performance in the implementation of Patient Centred Tuberculosis Treatment (PCT) strategy under programmatic conditions in Tanzania: a cross sectional study
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BackgroundPatient Centred Tuberculosis Treatment (PCT) is a promising treatment delivery strategy for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB). It aims to improve adherence to treatment by giving patients the choice of having drug intake supervi...
Publication · September 01, 2025
Antimicrobial drug resistance among clinically relevant bacterial isolates in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.
Abstract
BACKGROUND
Little is known about the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) amongst bacterial pathogens in sub-Saharan Africa (sSA), despite calls for continent-wide surveillance to inform empirical treatment guidelines.
METHODS
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Publication · September 01, 2025
Care seeking in tuberculosis: results from a countrywide cluster randomised survey in Bangladesh
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Objectives To explore systematically the care seeking trajectories of tuberculosis (TB) cases up to four subsequent places of care and to assess the type of services provided at each place. Methods TB cases detected actively during the ...
Publication · September 01, 2025
Risk assessment of tuberculosis in immunocompromised patients. A TBNET study.
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RATIONALE
In the absence of active tuberculosis, a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) or interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) result defines latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, although test results may vary depending on imm...
Publication · September 01, 2025
Healthcare Workers' Challenges in the Implementation of Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control Measures in Mozambique
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Objective Healthcare Workers (HCWs) have a higher frequency of TB exposure than the general population and have therefore an occupational TB risk that infection prevention and control (IPC) measures aim to reduce. HCWs are crucial in th...
Publication · September 01, 2025
Availability, price and affordability of anti-tuberculosis drugs in Europe: a TBNET survey
Publication · September 01, 2025
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