Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Tuberculosis

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

Latent tuberculosis

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
    • Management of Latent Tuberculosis Infections in Australia and New Zealand: A Review of Current Practice [2010]
• Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Recommendations on interferon gamma release assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection - 2010 update [2010]
    • Updated Recommendations on Interferon Gamma Release Assays for Latent Tuberculosis Infection [2008]
• Europe
  • TBNET
    • LTBI: latent tuberculosis infection or lasting immune responses to M. tuberculosis? A TBNET consensus statement [2009]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Annals of Saudi Medicine
    • Saudi guidelines for testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection [2010]
  • Saudi Thoracic Society
    • Saudi guidelines for testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection [2010]
• United States of America
  • American Thoracic Society
    • Update: Fatal and Severe Liver Injuries Associated With Rifampin and Pyrazinamide for Latent Tuberculosis Infection, and Revisions in American Thoracic Society/CDC Recommendations --- United States, 2001 (American Thoracic Society and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) [2001]
    • Targeted Tuberculin Testing and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (American Thoracic Society and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) [2000]
  • University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
    • Shorter regimens of 2-drug therapy may be as effective as 9-month INH monotherapy for latent TB infection (LTBI) [2008]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Identification and Management of Latent Tuberculosis Infection [2009]
  • Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
    • Investigation of latent tuberculosis infection in patients with psoriasis who are candidate for receiving immunobiological drugs [2011]
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
    • Latent tuberculosis: revised treatment guidelines [2003]
  • Clinical and Developmental Immunology
    • Pathogenesis, Immunology, and Diagnosis of Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection [2011]
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Risk of Progression to Active Tuberculosis Following Reinfection With Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2012]
    • Clinical Application and Limitations of Interferon-gamma Release Assays for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection [2011]
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Tuberculosis among Health Care Workers [2011]
  • Expert Reviews
    • New tools and emerging technologies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Part I. Latent tuberculosis [2006]
  • Future Microbiology
    • How Mycobacterium tuberculosis goes to sleep: the dormancy survival regulator DosR a decade later [2012]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Recent developments in treatment of latent tuberculosis infection [2011]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Incipient and Subclinical Tuberculosis: Defining Early Disease States in the Context of Host Immune Response [2011]
    • Diagnosing Latent Tuberculosis in High-Risk Individuals: Rising to the Challenge in High-Burden Areas [2011]
  • Polish Journal of Microbiology
    • Latent M. tuberculosis infection--pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention strategies [2012]
  • Respiratory Research
    • New approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection [2010]
  • Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
    • Screening for latent tuberculosis in refugees with renal failure [2012]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

• Afghanistan
  • Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan
    • Annual report of the National TB Programme (NTP) for the year 2007 [2008]
• Australia
  • NSW Ministry of Health
    • Tuberculosis [2010]
• Belize
  • Ministry of Health Belize
    • Tuberculosis Guidelines
• Brazil
  • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
    • III Brazilian Thoracic Association Guidelines on Tuberculosis [2009]
• Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Canadian Tuberculosis Standards - 6th Edition 2007 [2007]
    • Tuberculosis in Canada 2002 [2004]
    • Guidelines for the investigation and follow-up of individuals under medical surveillance for tuberculosis after arriving in Canada: a summary [2003]
    • Tuberculosis Prevention and Control
• China
  • BMC Public Health
    • Review of cigarette smoking and tuberculosis in China: intervention is needed for smoking cessation among tuberculosis patients [2009]
• Dominican Republic
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Tuberculosis in the Dominican Republic: addressing the barriers to sustain the achievements [2007]
• Europe
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care [2012]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Medical Journal
    • Occupational tuberculosis: a review of the literature and the local situation [2006]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • New Vision for Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP): Universal access - “Reaching the un-reached” [2012]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • World Tuberculosis Day 24 March 2010 - Special Collection
    • Reminder systems and late patient tracers in the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Improving the TB case management: the International Standards for Tuberculosis care [2006]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Tuberculosis
  • World Care Council
    • Patients’ Charter for Tuberculosis Care [2006]
• Kenya
  • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation
    • A National Communication Strategy for Fighting Tuberculosis in Kenya [2006]
    • National NLTP Guideline [2005]
    • Division of Leprosy, Tuberculosis & Lung Disease - Documents
• Malaysia
  • Ministry of Health Malaysia
    • Practice Guidelines for the Control and Management of Tuberculosis [2002]
• Namibia
  • Ministry of Health and Social Services
    • TB
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Tuberculosis Case Management in Prisoners [2010]
    • Guidelines for Tuberculosis Control in New Zealand 2010 [2010]
• South Africa
  • Department of Health South Africa
    • The National Infection Prevention and Control Policy for TB, MDRTB and XDRTB - Part 2 [2007]
    • The National Infection Prevention and Control Policy for TB, MDRTB and XDRTB - Part 1 [2007]
    • Report on TB, including XDR-TB in South Africa [2006]
    • Tuberculosis
  • Health Systems Trust
    • The implementation of the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTCP) at a regional/district hospital and three of its feeder clinics: A Case Study [2007]
• Spain
  • Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica
    • Tuberculosis in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients: Consensus Statement of the Group for the Study of Infection in Transplant Recipients (GESITRA) of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology [2009]
• Timor-Leste
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Reconstructing Tuberculosis Services after Major Conflict: Experiences and Lessons Learned in East Timor [2006]
• Turkey
  • Tuberculosis and Thorax
    • The importance of associations in the struggle against tuberculosis in Turkey [2012]
• United Kingdom
  • British Thoracic Society
    • Guidelines for the prevention and management of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease in adult patients with chronic kidney disease [2010]
  • Health Protection Agency
    • Tuberculosis
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Tuberculosis: clinical diagnosis and management of tuberculosis, and measures for its prevention and control. National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions [2011]
  • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
    • Tuberculosis - hard-to-reach groups [2012]
    • Tuberculosis [2011]
  • Royal College of Physicians
    • Tuberculosis. Clinical diagnosis and management [2006]
• United States of America
  • CDC National Prevention Information Network - TB
    • CDC National Prevention Information Network - TB
  • CDC Travelers' Health
    • Tuberculosis (TB) [2009]
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Madigan Army Medical Center
    • Suspected Tuberculosis Infection in Adults Referral Guideline [2008]
  • Mass.Gov
    • Tuberculosis Prevention and Control
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    • Tuberculosis
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    • Tuberculosis
• WHO
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Tuberculosis
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Tuberculosis
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Review of the national tuberculosis programme in Belarus, 10-21 October 2011 [2012]
    • Extensive review of TB prevention, care and control services Tuberculosis programme in Armenia, 21 April - 4 May 2011 [2012]
    • Review of the national tuberculosis programme in Ukraine, 1-22 October 2010 [2011]
    • How health systems can address inequities in priority public health conditions : the example of tuberculosis : briefing on policy issues produced through the WHO/European Commission equity project [2010]
    • Addressing ethical issues in tuberculosis programmes with a special focus on social determinants : Meeting report, Athens, Greece 10-12 may 2010 [2010]
    • WHO European Ministerial Forum : "All against Tuberculosis" - Berlin Declaration on Tuberculosis [2008]
    • Evaluation of fighting HIV/AIDS in Estonia [2008]
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Reaching the Poor Challenges for TB Programme in the Western Pacific Region [2004]
    • Fighting TB-Forging ahead [2002]
  • World Health Organization
    • Manual on use of routine data quality assessment (RDQA) tool for TB monitoring [2011]
    • Collaborative framework for care and control of tuberculosis and diabetes [2011]
    • The global plan to stop TB 2011-2015: transforming the fight towards elimination of tuberculosis [2010]
    • Public-Private Mix for TB Care and Control: report of the sixth meeting of the Subgroup on Public-Private Mix for TB Care and Control, Istanbul, Turkey, 16-18 February 2010 [2010]
    • A brief history of tuberculosis control in India [2010]
    • Stop TB Partnership annual report 2008 [2009]
    • Stop TB Partnership annual report 2007 : gaining global momentum [2008]
    • Community involvement in tuberculosis care and prevention : towards partnerships for health : guiding principles and recommendations based on a WHO review [2008]
    • Stop TB coordination of technical assistance to countries : TBTEAM (TB Technical Assistance Mecanism) [2007]
    • Public-Private Mix for TB Care and Control: report of the Inter-Regional Planning Workshop on Public-private mix for tuberculosis control [2007]
    • Public-Private Mix for TB Care and Control : a tool for national situation assessment [2007]
    • Stop TB Partnership – Annual Report 2005 [2006]
    • Tuberculosis
    • A world free of TB
• Articles in journals
  • Acta Medica Indonesiana
    • Clinical Tuberculosis Problems and Management [2006]
  • African Health Sciences
    • Central nervous system tuberculosis [2011]
  • American Family Physician
    • Management of Active Tuberculosis [2005]
    • Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: An Overview [2005]
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
    • Update in Tuberculosis 2008 [2009]
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Critical reflections on evidence, ethics and effectiveness in the management of tuberculosis: public health and global perspectives [2004]
  • BMC Public Health
    • The association between alcohol use, alcohol use disorders and tuberculosis (TB). A systematic review [2009]
    • A systematic review of delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis [2008]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Managing tuberculosis in people who use and inject illicit drugs [2013]
    • Transforming the global tuberculosis response through effective engagement of civil society organizations: the role of the World Health Organization [2011]
  • Circulation
    • Tuberculous Pericarditis [2005]
  • Clinical and Developmental Immunology
    • The Tuberculous Granuloma: An Unsuccessful Host Defence Mechanism Providing a Safety Shelter for the Bacteria? [2012]
    • Psoriatic Disease and Tuberculosis Nowadays [2012]
    • Cellular and Humoral Mechanisms Involved in the Control of Tuberculosis [2012]
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Current Diagnosis and Management of Peripheral Tuberculous Lymphadenitis [2011]
    • Tuberculosis into the 2010s: Is the Glass Half Full? [2009]
  • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    • Pathway to Synthesis and Processing of Mycolic Acids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2005]
    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Pathogenesis and Molecular Determinants of Virulence [2003]
  • Current Opinion in Microbiology
    • To catch a killer. What can mycobacterial models teach us about Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis? [2009]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis control strategies among immigrants and refugees [2005]
  • Future Microbiology
    • Tuberculous meningitis in adults: a review of a decade of developments focusing on prognostic factors for outcome [2012]
  • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
    • Measuring health-related quality of life in tuberculosis: a systematic review [2009]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Challenges in the diagnosis & treatment of miliary tuberculosis [2012]
    • Immunology of tuberculosis [2004]
    • Extrapulmonary tuberculosis [2004]
    • Abdominal tuberculosis [2004]
  • Infection and Immunity
    • Innate Immune Gene Polymorphisms in Tuberculosis [2012]
    • Do CD1-Restricted T Cells Contribute to Antibody-Mediated Immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis? [2006]
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
    • A consistent log-linear relationship between tuberculosis incidence and body mass index [2009]
  • International Orthopaedics
    • Kyphotic deformity in spinal tuberculosis and its management [2012]
  • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
    • Tuberculosis in health professionals: a new perspective on an old problem [2009]
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
    • Genomics and the evolution, pathogenesis, and diagnosis of tuberculosis [2007]
  • Journal of Experimental Medicine
    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the host response [2005]
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Nodal tuberculosis revisited: a review [2012]
  • Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
    • Systemic lupus erythematosus and tuberculosis: A review of complex interactions of complicated diseases [2010]
  • Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine
    • Spinal tuberculosis: A review [2011]
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • Priorities for tuberculosis research: a systematic review [2010]
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings
    • Current Concepts in the Management of Tuberculosis [2011]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Tuberculosis: the dis-ease that didn’t dis-appear [2008]
    • Detention for tuberculosis: public health and the law [2004]
  • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
    • Patterns of tuberculosis in the Americas: how can modern biomedicine inform the ancient past? [2007]
  • Nature Immunology
    • Foamy macrophages and the progression of the human TB granuloma [2009]
  • Neurology India
    • Management of hydrocephalus in patients with tuberculous meningitis [2009]
  • Peritoneal Dialysis International
    • Tuberculous peritonitis [2009]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • The Co-Management of Tuberculosis and Diabetes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Developing World [2012]
    • What Research Is Needed to Stop TB? Introducing the TB Research Movement [2011]
  • Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society
    • Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis [2006]
  • Public Health Reports
    • Tuberculosis and Stigmatization: Pathways and Interventions [2010]
  • Respirology
    • The immunology of tuberculosis: From bench to bedside [2010]
  • Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
    • Nursing's role in tuberculosis control: a discussion from the perspective of equity [2010]
  • Science
    • Tuberculosis: What We Don't Know Can, and Does, Hurt Us [2010]
  • Singapore Medical Journal
    • Manifestations of cerebral tuberculosis [2011]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Global Fund financing of public–private mix approaches for delivery of tuberculosis care [2011]
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  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis: treatment
    • Tuberculosis: screening, diagnosis
    • Tuberculosis: prevention, vaccine
    • Tuberculosis: epidemiology
    • Tuberculosis in children
    • Latent tuberculosis
    • HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis

Tuberculosis in children

• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Tuberculosis in children: New diagnostic blood tests [2010]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Pediatric tuberculosis in Canada [2003]
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Consensus statement of IAP Working Group: status report on diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis [2004]
  • Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
    • Cutaneous tuberculosis in children: The Indian perspective [2010]
• Pakistan
  • BMC Research Notes
    • Are children with tuberculosis in Pakistan managed according to National programme policy guidelines? A study from 3 districts in Punjab [2010]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
    • Molecular diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis and infection with Bacilli Calmette-Guerin in Taiwan [2011]
    • Clinical perspectives of childhood tuberculosis in Taiwan [2011]
• United States of America
  • Madigan Army Medical Center
    • Tuberculosis in Children Referral Guidelines [2009]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Rapid advice: treatment of tuberculosis in children [2010]
• Articles in journals
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Pediatric Tuberculosis: Global Overview and Challenges [2010]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Some current concepts on childhood tuberculosis [2004]
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • Paediatric Tuberculosis [2008]
  • Paediatric Respiratory Reviews
    • New specimens and laboratory diagnostics for childhood pulmonary TB: progress and prospects [2011]
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Gastric lavage in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children: a systematic review [2010]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Toxicity of first-line drugs for treatment of tuberculosis in children: review [2009]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis: drug resistance

• Australia
  • Department of Health and Ageing
    • National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - Information Paper (October 2007) [2007]
• Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Tuberculosis: Drug resistance in Canada-2007 [2008]
    • Tuberculosis Drug Resistance: Summary Report for 2003 [2004]
• China
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Mainland China: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2011]
• Europe
  • TBNET
    • Epidemiology and clinical management of XDR-TB: a systematic review by TBNET [2009]
• India
  • Expert Reviews
    • Managing drug-resistant tuberculosis: experiences from India [2010]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Drug resistance in tuberculosis in India [2004]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Drugs for preventing tuberculosis in people at risk of multiple-drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
  • International Council of Nurses
    • TB Guidelines for Nurses in the Care and Control of Tuberculosis and Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis [2008]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • MDR/XDR-TB Assessment and Monitoring Tool [2009]
• Latvia
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Treatment and management of MDR-TB in Latvia [2007]
• Mexico
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mexico [2009]
• South Africa
  • Department of Health South Africa
    • Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - Policy framework on decentralised and deinstitutionalised management for South Africa [2011]
    • Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Policy Guidelines [2011]
  • South African Medical Research Council
    • Managing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Legal implications [2006]
• United States of America
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • Drug-Resistant TB
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Interruptions in Supplies of Second-Line Antituberculosis Drugs — United States, 2005–2012 [2013]
• WHO
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis: 2011 update. World Health Organization [2011]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Roadmap to prevent and combat drug-resistant tuberculosis : the consolidated action plan to prevent and combat multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO European Region 2011-2015 [2011]
    • Expert consultation on antimicrobial resistance: report on a meeting 25 August 2010 [2011]
    • Eighth meeting of national tuberculosis programme managers and thirteenth Wolfheze workshop : Wolfheze 2008 : tuberculosis management, surveillance and evaluation in Europe with high rates or threat of multidrug resistant tuberculosis [2008]
    • European recommendations on surveillance of antituberculosis drug resistance [2000]
  • World Health Organization
    • Towards universal access to diagnosis and treatment of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis by 2015 : WHO progress report 2011 [2011]
    • Rapid implementation of the Xpert MTB/RIF diagnostic test: technical and operational 'How-to'; practical considerations [2011]
    • Policy statement: automated real-time nucleic acid amplification technology for rapid and simultaneous detection of tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance: Xpert MTB/RIF system [2011]
    • Noncommercial culture and drug-susceptibility testing methods for screening patients at risk for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: policy statement [2011]
    • Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis - 2011 update [2011]
    • Checklist of prerequisites to country implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF and key action points at country level [2011]
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) indicators: a minimum set of indicators for the programmatic management of MDR-TB in national tuberculosis control programmes [2010]
    • Multidrug and extensively drug-resistant TB (M/XDR-TB) : 2010 global report on surveillance and response [2010]
    • Green light committee initiative of the working group on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis of the Stop TB partnership: annual report 2009 [2010]
    • Management of MDR-TB: A field guide [2009]
    • Guidelines for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis [2009]
    • Green light committee initiative of the working group on MDR-TB of the Stop TB partnership: annual report 2008 [2009]
    • Global tuberculosis control and patient care : meeting report : a ministerial meeting of high M/XDR-TB burden countries [2009]
    • Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis [2008]
    • Green light committee initiative of the working group on MDR-TB of the Stop TB partnership: annual report 2007 [2008]
    • Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world : fourth global report [2008]
    • The global MDR-TB & XDR-TB response plan 2007-2008 [2007]
• Articles in journals
  • Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità
    • The potential role of garlic (Allium sativum) against the multi-drug resistant tuberculosis pandemic: a review [2011]
  • Annual Reviews
    • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A New Face to an Old Pathogen [2009]
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Pyrazinamide Susceptibility Testing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a Systematic Review with Meta-Analyses [2011]
    • A Balancing Act: Efflux/Influx in Mycobacterial Drug Resistance [2009]
    • Treatment of Chronic Infections with Rifamycins: Is Resistance Likely To Follow? [2003]
  • BioScience Trends
    • Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: an iatrogenic problem [2010]
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Direct susceptibility testing for multi drug resistant tuberculosis: A meta-analysis [2009]
    • A commercial line probe assay for the rapid detection of rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2005]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Surveillance of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world: an updated analysis, 2007–2010 [2012]
    • Challenging a dogma: antimicrobial susceptibility testing breakpoints for Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2012]
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Recent Advances in the Laboratory Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex and Drug Resistance [2011]
    • Treatment Outcomes among Patients with Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2010]
    • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: “There must be some kind of way out of here” [2010]
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
    • Strain diversity, epistasis and the evolution of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2011]
  • Current Opinion in Pharmacology
    • A new evolutionary and pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic scenario for rapid emergence of resistance to single and multiple anti-tuberculosis drugs [2011]
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Drug-resistant tuberculosis: a worldwide epidemic poses a new challenge [2010]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Protecting the tuberculosis drug pipeline: stating the case for the rational use of fluoroquinolones [2012]
    • Prevalence of inappropriate tuberculosis treatment regimens: a systematic review [2012]
    • Multidrug resistance after inappropriate tuberculosis treatment: a meta-analysis [2012]
    • Management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and patients in retreatment [2005]
    • Drug resistance in tuberculosis [2005]
  • Expert Reviews
    • WhiB7, a transcriptional activator that coordinates physiology with intrinsic drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2012]
  • Future Microbiology
    • Xpert® MTB/RIF assay: development, evaluation and implementation of a new rapid molecular diagnostic for tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance [2011]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2004]
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Fluoroquinolones are associated with delayed treatment and resistance in tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2011]
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
    • A systematic review of gyrase mutations associated with fluoroquinolone-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a proposed gyrase numbering system [2012]
    • Pulmonary resection for patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis [2011]
    • Molecular basis and mechanisms of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: classical and new drugs [2011]
  • Journal of Biosciences
    • Multidrug-resistant to extensively drug resistant tuberculosis: what is next? [2008]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Randomized Trials to Optimize Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2007]
    • Cost-Effectiveness of Treating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2006]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Evaluation of Genetic Mutations Associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Resistance to Amikacin, Kanamycin and Capreomycin: A Systematic Review [2012]
    • Treatment Outcomes of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2009]
  • Respirology
    • Translating basic science insight into public health action for multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis [2012]
  • Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
    • Nanoparticle Delivery of Anti-Tuberculosis Chemotherapy as a Potential Mediator Against Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2011]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis: treatment

Tuberculosis: epidemiology

• Albania
  • Institute of Public Health
    • Scaling-up the National Response to Tuberculosis [2008]
• Australia
  • Department of Health and Ageing
    • Tuberculosis notifications in Australia annual reports
• Bhutan
  • Ministry of Health Bhutan
    • Case Notification of TB year wise at the National Level [2009]
• Canada
  • Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health
    • Tuberculosis: evidence review for newly arriving immigrants and refugees [2010]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Housing conditions that serve as risk factors for tuberculosis infection and disease [2007]
• Eritrea
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Determining the burden of tuberculosis in Eritrea: a new approach [2007]
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Evaluating Tuberculosis Case Detection in Eritrea [2007]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Epidemiology of tuberculosis: current status in India [2004]
• International
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Diabetes Mellitus Increases the Risk of Active Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of 13 Observational Studies [2008]
• Kenya
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • New methods for estimating the tuberculosis case detection rate in high-HIV prevalence countries: the example of Kenya [2009]
• Moldova
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Increasing tuberculosis case detection: lessons from the Republic of Moldova [2008]
• South Africa
  • PLoS Medicine
    • XDR-TB in South Africa: No Time for Denial or Complacency [2007]
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Trends in Tuberculosis — United States, 2012 [2013]
    • Tuberculosis Genotyping — United States, 2004–2010 [2012]
    • Trends in Tuberculosis — United States, 2011 [2012]
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Tuberculosis Outbreak Investigations in the United States, 2002–2008 [2011]
• Vietnam
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • National survey of tuberculosis prevalence in Viet Nam [2010]
• WHO
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Annual Tuberculosis Surveillance Report WHO African Region, 2007 [2008]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Tuberculosis control in Greenland : report on a country visit, 30 April - 6 May 2010 [2011]
    • Tuberculosis surveillance in Europe 2008 : surveillance report [2010]
    • Annual meeting of the European Network for TB surveillance in Europe: Dubrovnik, Croatia 25-26 May 2009 : report [2009]
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Programme areas - Stop TB - About TB in Afghanistan
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Tuberculosis Control in the Western Pacific Region 2009 Report [2009]
    • Assessing tuberculosis prevalence through population-based surveys [2007]
    • Tuberculosis Control In the WHO Western Pacific Region [2002]
  • World Health Organization
    • Global tuberculosis control 2011 [2012]
    • Electronic recording and reporting for tuberculosis care and control [2012]
    • Tuberculosis prevalence surveys: a handbook [2011]
    • Global tuberculosis control : epidemiology, planning, financing : WHO report 2009 [2009]
    • Global TB database
• Articles in journals
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Lives saved by tuberculosis control and prospects for achieving the 2015 global target for reducing tuberculosis mortality [2011]
    • Tuberculosis in the WHO South-East Asia Region [2010]
    • Trends in tuberculosis incidence and their determinants in 134 countries [2009]
    • The persistence of tuberculosis in the age of DOTS: reassessing the effect of case detection [2009]
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Epidemiology and Challenges to the Elimination of Global Tuberculosis [2010]
  • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    • Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis: Current Insights [2006]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Annual risk of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2005]
  • European Respiratory Review
    • Update on tuberculosis: TB in the early 21st century [2011]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Effectiveness of tuberculosis contact tracing among migrants and the foreign-born population [2009]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis [2004]
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • Tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus: convergence of two epidemics [2009]
  • Mammalian Genome
    • Tuberculosis as a complex trait: impact of genetic epidemiological study design [2011]
  • Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
    • Host–pathogen coevolution in human tuberculosis [2012]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Tuberculosis Incidence in Prisons: A Systematic Review [2010]
    • Sexual Inequality in Tuberculosis [2009]
    • Tuberculosis among Health-Care Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2006]
  • PLOS Pathogens
    • Genetic Epidemiology of Tuberculosis Susceptibility: Impact of Study Design [2011]
  • Trends in Microbiology
    • A role for systems epidemiology in tuberculosis research [2011]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of molecular epidemiological studies of tuberculosis: development of a new tool to aid interpretation [2009]
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    • Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis: prevention, vaccine

• Australia
  • Australian Prescriber
    • BCG vaccine in Australia [2003]
  • Department of Health and Ageing
    • The BCG vaccine: information and recommendations for use in Australia [2005]
• Canada
  • Alberta Health
    • Tuberculosis prevention and control guidelines for Alberta [2010]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Statement on Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) Vaccine [2004]
• International
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Consensus Statement on Diagnostic End Points for Infant Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials [2012]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Development of New Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Global Perspective on Regulatory Issues [2007]
• Malawi
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Preventing tuberculosis among health workers in Malawi [2002]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Review of Neonatal BCG Immunisation Services in New Zealand [2007]
• United Kingdom
  • Scottish Government Health Directorates
    • Health Clearance for Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV for New Healthcare Workers with Direct Clinical Contact with Patient [2008]
• United States of America
  • American Thoracic Society
    • Controlling Tuberculosis in the United States. Recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America [2005]
  • CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    • Tuberculosis
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • TB | Vaccine and Immunizations
    • TB | Infection Control and Prevention
  • CDC Vaccines
    • Tuberculosis (TB) Vaccination
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional and Detention Facilities: Recommendations from CDC [2006]
    • Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005 [2005]
• WHO
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Stop Tuberculosis Programme
  • World Health Organization
    • Tuberculosis prevention, care and control: a practical directory of new advances [2011]
    • The immunological basis for immunization series: module 5: tuberculosis - update 2011 [2011]
    • Report of a WHO consultation on strengthening the active engagement of civil society organizations in the global TB prevention, care and control efforts, September 30 - 1 October 2010, Geneva, Switzerland [2010]
    • Guidance on ethics of tuberculosis prevention, care and control [2010]
    • International collaborative study to evaluate and establish WHO reference reagents for BCG vaccine of three different substrains [2009]
    • Updated guidelines on tuberculosis and air travel [2008]
    • Tuberculosis and air travel. Guidelines for prevention and control [2008]
    • Guidelines for Workplace TB Control Activities [2003]
• Articles in journals
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Tuberculosis – prevention in travellers [2010]
  • Bioengineered
    • Recombinant BCG as a vaccine vehicle to protect against tuberculosis [2010]
  • British Medical Journal
    • Should interventions to reduce respirable pollutants be linked to tuberculosis control programmes? [2004]
    • Tuberculin testing before BCG vaccination [2003]
  • Clinical and Developmental Immunology
    • Vitamin D in Early Childhood and the Effect on Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2012]
    • Understanding Delayed T-Cell Priming, Lung Recruitment, and Airway Luminal T-Cell Responses in Host Defense against Pulmonary Tuberculosis [2012]
    • The Impact of Transcriptomics on the Fight against Tuberculosis: Focus on Biomarkers, BCG Vaccination, and Immunotherapy [2011]
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Update on Research and Development Pipeline: Tuberculosis Vaccines [2010]
    • Decrease in the Effectiveness of Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccine against Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Consequence of Increased Immune Suppression by Microbial Antioxidants, Not Overattenuation [2010]
  • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    • Perspectives on Clinical and Preclinical Testing of New Tuberculosis Vaccines [2010]
    • Vaccines for Tuberculosis: Novel Concepts and Recent Progress [2005]
  • Expert Reviews
    • Tuberculosis vaccines in clinical trials [2011]
  • Future Microbiology
    • Development of new vaccines and drugs for TB: limitations and potential strategic errors [2011]
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Tuberculosis vaccine development: The development of novel (preclinical) DNA vaccine [2010]
    • Towards new tuberculosis vaccines [2010]
    • First in humans: a new molecularly defined vaccine shows excellent safety and strong induction of long-lived Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific Th1-cell like responses [2010]
    • Clinical studies of TB vaccines [2009]
  • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • Cash transfer and microfinance interventions for tuberculosis control: review of the impact evidence and policy implications [2011]
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • The quest for a new vaccine against tuberculosis [2009]
  • Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
    • Tuberculosis: looking beyond BCG vaccines [2003]
  • Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
    • Tuberculosis vaccines: beyond bacille Calmette–Guérin [2011]
  • PLOS Pathogens
    • Vaccines against Tuberculosis: Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go? [2012]
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    • Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis: screening, diagnosis

• Australia
  • Department of Health and Ageing
    • Guidelines for Australian Mycobacteriology Laboratories [2006]
• Botswana
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
    • Costs and Consequences of Additional Chest X-Ray in a Tuberculosis Prevention Program in Botswana [2011]
• Brazil
  • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
    • Evaluation of the clinical utility of new diagnostic tests for tuberculosis: the role of pragmatic clinical trials [2012]
    • Evaluation of adenosine deaminase in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis: a Brazilian meta-analysis [2008]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Why India should become a global leader in high-quality, affordable TB diagnostics [2012]
    • Serological tests for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis: relevance for India [2012]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Active case finding in contacts of people with tuberculosis
• South Africa
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Against All Odds: Diagnosing Tuberculosis in South Africa [2011]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Annals of African Medicine
    • Advances in the laboratory diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2008]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • A systematic review of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of tuberculosis infection [2007]
• United States of America
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • TB | Testing & Diagnosis
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Updated Guidelines for Using Interferon Gamma Release Assays to Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection --- United States, 2010 [2010]
    • Recommendations for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis (TB) [2005]
    • Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis: Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC [2005]
  • Lab Tests Online - American Association for Clinical Chemistry
    • Tuberculosis
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Updated guidelines for using interferon gamma release assays to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: United States 2010. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [2010]
• WHO
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Quality assurance of sputum microscopy in DOTS Programmes - Guidelines for Pacific Island [2003]
  • World Health Organization
    • Use of tuberculosis interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) in low- and middle-income countries : policy statement [2011]
    • Use of interferon-y release assays (IGRAs) in tuberculosis control in low- and middle-income settngs: expert group meeting report 20-21 July 2010 [2011]
    • Same-day diagnosis of tuberculosis: policy statement [2011]
    • Guidance for countries on the specifications for managing TB laboratory equipment and supplies [2011]
    • Fluorescent light-emitting diode (LED) microscopy for diagnosis of tuberculosis: policy statement [2011]
    • Commercial serodiagnostic tests for diagnosis of tuberculosis: policy statement [2011]
    • Commercial serodiagnostic tests for diagnosis of tuberculosis: expert group meeting report 22 July 2010 [2011]
• Articles in journals
  • American Journal of Roentgenology
    • Tuberculosis: A Benign Impostor [2010]
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Tuberculosis testing [2012]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Systematic review of cost and cost-effectiveness of different TB-screening strategies [2011]
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Time delays in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review of literature [2009]
    • Bacteriophage- based tests for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosisin clinical specimens: a systematic review and meta- analysis [2005]
    • Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2004]
  • BMC Microbiology
    • In-house nucleic acid amplification tests for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosisin sputum specimens: meta-analysis and meta-regression [2005]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The impact of new tuberculosis diagnostics on transmission: why context matters [2012]
    • Can public-private collaboration promote tuberculosis case detection among the poor and vulnerable? [2006]
  • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
    • Interferon-gamma-release assays: Better than tuberculin skin testing? [2010]
  • Clinical and Developmental Immunology
    • Biosensing Technologies for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Detection: Status and New Developments [2011]
  • Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
    • Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Antigen Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis [2011]
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • New Diagnostic Tests for Tuberculosis: Bench, Bedside, and Beyond [2010]
  • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    • Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Resource-Poor Countries: Challenges and Opportunities [2011]
    • Immunodiagnosis of Tuberculosis: a Dynamic View of Biomarker Discovery [2011]
  • Expert Reviews
    • IP-10 release assays in the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection: current status and future directions [2012]
    • TB diagnostic tests: how do we figure out their costs? [2009]
    • Light-emitting diode technologies for TB diagnosis: what is on the market? [2009]
    • Comprehensive new resource for evidence-based TB diagnosis [2009]
    • Tuberculosis diagnostics trials: do they lack methodological rigor? [2006]
    • New tools and emerging technologies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Part II. Active tuberculosis and drug resistance [2006]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Current tuberculosis diagnostic tools & role of urease breath test [2012]
    • Newer diagnostic techniques for tuberculosis [2004]
  • International Orthopaedics
    • Microbiological diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis [2012]
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    • Role of the Clinical Mycobacteriology Laboratory in Diagnosis and Management of Tuberculosis in Low-Prevalence Settings [2011]
    • Does Bleach Processing Increase the Accuracy of Sputum Smear Microscopy for Diagnosing Pulmonary Tuberculosis? [2010]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Reporter Phage and Breath Tests: Emerging Phenotypic Assays for Diagnosing Active Tuberculosis, Antibiotic Resistance, and Treatment Efficacy [2011]
    • Interferon-gamma Release Assays for Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Adults in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2011]
    • Evaluation of Tuberculosis Diagnostics: Establishing an Evidence Base Around the Public Health Impact [2011]
    • Adjunctive Tests for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: Serology, ELISPOT for Site-Specific Lymphocytes, Urinary Lipoarabinomannan, String Test, and Fine Needle Aspiration [2011]
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • Predictive value of interferon-gamma release assays for incident active tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2012]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Tumour necrosis factor a inhibitors: screening for tuberculosis infection in inflammatory bowel disease [2008]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Commercial Serological Tests for the Diagnosis of Active Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2011]
    • Serial Testing for Tuberculosis: Can We Make Sense of T Cell Assay Conversions and Reversions? [2007]
    • Commercial Serological Antibody Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review [2007]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Interferon-gamma Release Assays for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis Infection in HIV-Infected Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2012]
    • Within-Subject Variability of Interferon-g Assay Results for Tuberculosis and Boosting Effect of Tuberculin Skin Testing: A Systematic Review [2009]
  • QJM
    • Diagnosing tuberculous pericarditis [2006]
  • Respirology
    • Advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis [2010]
  • Singapore Medical Journal
    • Imaging of tuberculosis of the spine [2004]
  • Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology
    • What is the most accurate method for the diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis? [2010]
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    • Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis: treatment

• Armenia
  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases
    • Reasons for Delay in Seeking Care for Tuberculosis, Republic of Armenia, 2006–2007 [2010]
• Brazil
  • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
    • Antituberculosis drugs: drug interactions, adverse effects, and use in special situations - part 2: second line drugs [2010]
    • Antituberculosis drugs: drug interactions, adverse effects, and use in special situations - part 1: first-line drugs [2010]
• China
  • BMC Public Health
    • Patient medical costs for tuberculosis treatment and impact on adherence in China: a systematic review [2011]
• Colombia
  • Revista Española de Quimioterapia
    • Antimycobacterial natural products--an opportunity for the Colombian biodiversity [2011]
• India
  • PLoS ONE
    • Are Tuberculosis Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Hyderabad, India Being Managed According to National Guidelines? [2012]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Routine surgery in addition to chemotherapy for treating spinal tuberculosis
    • Regimens of less than six months for treating tuberculosis
    • Nutritional supplements for people being treated for active tuberculosis
    • Mycobacterium vaccae immunotherapy for treating tuberculosis
    • Material incentives and enablers in the management of tuberculosis
    • Low level laser therapy for treating tuberculosis
    • Isoniazid for preventing tuberculosis in non-HIV infected persons
    • Interventions for treating tuberculous pericarditis
    • Fully intermittent dosing with drugs for treating tuberculosis in adults
    • Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis
    • Corticosteroids for tuberculous pleurisy
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • An Advocacy Strategy for Adoption and Dissemination of the WHO Policy on TB Infection Control in Health Care Facilities, Congregate Settings, and Households [2010]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • African Health Sciences
    • A review of compliance to anti tuberculosis treatment and risk factors for defaulting treatment in Sub Saharan Africa [2010]
• United Kingdom
  • British Thoracic Society
    • BTS recommendations for assessing risk and for managing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease in patients due to start anti-TNF-{alpha} treatment [2005]
• United States of America
  • American Thoracic Society
    • An Official ATS Statement: Hepatotoxicity of Antituberculosis Therapy [2006]
    • Treatment of Tuberculosis. American Thoracic Society, CDC, and Infectious Diseases Society of America [2003]
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • TB | Treatment
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Recommendations for Use of an Isoniazid-Rifapentine Regimen with Direct Observation to Treat Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection [2011]
  • National Institutes of Health
    • Tuberculosis Biomarker and Surrogate Endpoint Research Roadmap [2011]
  • Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists
    • Treatment of active pulmonary tuberculosis in adults: current standards and recent advances. Insights from the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists [2009]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Treatment of tuberculosis: guidelines [2010]
    • Green Light Committee application instructions [2010]
    • WHO policy on TB infection control in health-care facilities, congregate settings and households [2009]
    • Assessment of human resources and time needed to implement the DOTS strategy for TB control in health facilities : survey instrument and guide to implementation [2008]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Update on the Treatment of Tuberculosis [2008]
  • Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
    • Roles of rifampicin in drug-drug interactions: underlying molecular mechanisms involving the nuclear pregnane X receptor [2006]
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Targeting Persisters for Tuberculosis Control [2012]
    • Current Prospects for the Fluoroquinolones as First-Line Tuberculosis Therapy [2011]
    • New Small-Molecule Synthetic Antimycobacterials [2005]
    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Extracellular Compartment: an Underestimated Adversary [2003]
  • British Medical Journal
    • Long term efficacy of DOTS regimens for tuberculosis: systematic review [2008]
    • Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for tuberculosis control in developing countries [2005]
    • Treatment of tuberculosis [2003]
    • Directly observed treatment for tuberculosis [2003]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Eliminating the category II retreatment regimen from national tuberculosis programme guidelines: the Georgian experience [2012]
    • Treatment of tuberculosis: present status and future prospects [2005]
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Why Do We Use 600 mg of Rifampicin in Tuberculosis Treatment? [2011]
    • Rip Van Winkle Wakes Up: Development of Tuberculosis Treatment in the 21st Century [2010]
  • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    • Tuberculosis Chemotherapy: the Influence of Bacillary Stress and Damage Response Pathways on Drug Efficacy [2006]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Knowledge of tuberculosis-treatment prescription of health workers: a systematic review [2012]
    • Drug-susceptibility testing in tuberculosis: methods and reliability of results [2005]
  • Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
    • Tuberculosis pharmacotherapy: strategies to optimize patient care [2009]
  • Future Medicinal Chemistry
    • Nitroimidazoles for the treatment of TB: past, present and future [2011]
    • In vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic models in anti-infective drug development: focus on TB [2010]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Current trends in chemotherapy of tuberculosis [2004]
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Adjunctive therapy with interferon-gamma for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review [2011]
  • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
    • Severe tuberculosis requiring ICU admission [2012]
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
    • Antitubercular inhaled therapy: opportunities, progress and challenges [2005]
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    • Current Perspectives on Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex: the Automated Nonradiometric Systems [2006]
  • Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
    • Present status of nanoparticle research for treatment of Tuberculosis [2011]
    • An Overview of Tuberculosis Chemotherapy – A Literature Review [2011]
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • Sputum Monitoring during Tuberculosis Treatment for Predicting Outcome: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2010]
  • Liver Transplantation
    • Tuberculosis in liver transplant recipients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data [2009]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Effect of Duration and Intermittency of Rifampin on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2009]
    • Patient Adherence to Tuberculosis Treatment: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research [2007]
    • New Approaches to Filling the Gap in Tuberculosis Drug Discovery [2007]
    • Building Clinical Trials Capacity for Tuberculosis Drugs in High-Burden Countries [2007]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Assessing Tuberculosis Case Fatality Ratio: A Meta-Analysis [2011]
  • Proteomics
    • The progress made in determining the Mycobacterium tuberculosis structural proteome [2011]
  • Respiratory Research
    • Tuberculosis chemotherapy: current drug delivery approaches [2006]
  • Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
    • Development of new anti-tuberculosis drug candidates [2010]
  • Trends in Microbiology
    • Computational databases, pathway and cheminformatics tools for tuberculosis drug discovery [2011]
    • Cholesterol catabolism as a therapeutic target in Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2011]
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    • Tuberculosis: drug resistance
    • Tuberculosis