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Afghanistan

• PLoS ONE
  • An Evaluation of Passive and Active Approaches to Improve Tuberculosis Notifications in Afghanistan [2016]

Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Epidemiology of tuberculous lymphadenitis in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

• WHO Regional Office for Africa
  • Tuberculosis | African Health Observatory

Albania

• Management in Health
  • Distribution of tuberculosis cases in Albania during 2012-2013 [2014]

America

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Tuberculosis in the Americas, 2018 [2018]

Armenia

• Public Health Action
  • Performance of decentralised facilities in tuberculosis case notification and treatment success in Armenia [2014]

Australia

• Department of Health Australia
  • The epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Australia Capital Territory, 2006-2015 [2017]
  • Tuberculosis notifications in Australia annual reports

• PLoS ONE
  • Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Management of Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Low-Prevalence Country: A Four Year Retrospective Study in an Australian Tertiary Infectious Diseases Unit [2016]

Bahrain

• Journal of Tuberculosis and Therapeutics
  • Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Bahrain and Pre-employment Screening [2018]

Belize

• Ministry of Health Belize
  • Tuberculosis Statistical Report: Comparative Review 2008-2009 [2010]

Benin

• Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
  • Tuberculosis Case Finding in Benin, 2000–2014 and Beyond: A Retrospective Cohort and Time Series Study [2016]

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Materia Socio-Medica
  • Epidemiology of Tuberculosis During the Period 1703–2011: Honoring the World Tuberculosis Day [2013]

Brazil

• BMJ Open
  • Identifying socioeconomic, epidemiological and operational scenarios for tuberculosis control in Brazil: an ecological study [2018]

• PLoS ONE
  • Tuberculosis in Brazil and cash transfer programs: A longitudinal database study of the effect of cash transfer on cure rates [2019]
  • Ethnic and Racial Inequalities in Notified Cases of Tuberculosis in Brazil [2016]

Burundi

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis Incidence at the Burundi-Rwanda Border 15 Years After the Civil War [2012]

Cambodia

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Cross-sectional studies of tuberculosis prevalence in Cambodia between 2002 and 2011 [2014]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Tuberculosis case-finding in Cambodia: analysis of case notification data, 2000 to 2013 [2015]

Canada

• Journal of Public Health Research
  • Tuberculosis in Quebec: a Review of Trends [2012]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Tuberculosis in Canada - Summary 2015 [2017]
  • Tuberculosis in Canada: 2015 Supplementary data [2017]
  • Canadian Tuberculosis Standards 7th Edition: 2014 – Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Canada [2014]
  • Surveillance of tuberculosis (TB)

China

• BMC Public Health
  • Epidemiological characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis in mainland China from 2004 to 2015: a model-based analysis [2019]

• BMJ Open
  • Under-reporting of diagnosed tuberculosis to the national surveillance system in China: an inventory study in nine counties in 2015 [2019]

• Chinese Medical Journal
  • Notification Rate of Tuberculosis among Migrants in China 2005–2014: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2016]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Analysis on spatial-temporal distribution characteristics of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis in China, 2004–2015 [2019]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in western China in 2010-11: a population-based, cross-sectional survey [2016]

• Scientific Reports
  • The burden and challenges of tuberculosis in China: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 [2017]

• Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
  • Frequency of tuberculosis among diabetic patients in the People’s Republic of China [2014]

Cuba

• MEDICC Review
  • New indicators proposed to assess tuberculosis control and elimination in Cuba [2012]
  • Tuberculosis mortality trends in Cuba, 1998 to 2007 [2009]

Denmark

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The economic burden of Tuberculosis in Denmark 1998-2010. Cost analysis in patients and their spouses [2015]

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]

Ethiopia

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Spoligotyping based genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ethiopia: a systematic review [2018]

• Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
  • Tuberculosis Burden in Ethiopia from 1990 to 2016: Evidence from the Global Burden of Diseases 2016 Study [2018]

Europe

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Tuberculosis control and economic recession: longitudinal study of data from 21 European countries, 1991–2012 [2015]

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe, 2019 [2019]
  • Tuberculosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016 [2018]
  • Social determinants and risk factors in tuberculosis surveillance in the EU/EEA [2018]
  • Tuberculosis in Europe: from passive control to active elimination – high- and low-incidence countries [2015]
  • Annual epidemiological report 2014 – respiratory tract infections – tuberculosis [2015]

• European Journal of Public Health
  • Tuberculosis among migrant populations in the European Union and the European Economic Area [2014]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Will we reach the Sustainable Development Goals target for tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area by 2030? [2019]
  • Tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area: much progress, still many challenges [2019]
  • Tuberculosis notification rate decreases faster in residents of native origin than in residents of foreign origin in the EU/EEA, 2010 to 2015 [2017]
  • The effect of migration within the European Union/European Economic Area on the distribution of tuberculosis, 2007 to 2013 [2016]
  • Migration-related tuberculosis: epidemiology and characteristics of tuberculosis cases originating outside the European Union and European Economic Area, 2007 to 2013 [2016]
  • Impact of migration on tuberculosis epidemiology and control in the EU/EEA [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Determinants of site of tuberculosis disease: An analysis of European surveillance data from 2003 to 2014 [2017]

• Public Health Action
  • Social determinants and risk factors for tuberculosis in national surveillance systems in Europe [2015]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring report in Europe 2019 [2019]
  • Annual meeting of the European Network for TB surveillance in Europe: Dubrovnik, Croatia 25-26 May 2009 : report [2009]

Fiji

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis, Fiji, 2002–2013 [2016]

Finland

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Recurrent tuberculosis in Finland 1995–2013: a clinical and epidemiological cohort study [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Finland, 2008-2011 [2013]

Gambia

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • A tuberculosis nationwide prevalence survey in Gambia, 2012 [2016]

Georgia

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Analysis of the epidemiological impact of tuberculosis in Georgia (2016) [2016]

Germany

• European Journal of Microbiology & Immunology
  • Tuberculosis surveillance and control in Germany – An application of the Berlin Declaration Monitoring and Evaluation Framework [2012]

• EuroSurveillance
  • The burden of extrapulmonary and meningitis tuberculosis: an investigation of national surveillance data, Germany, 2002 to 2009 [2013]

• Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
  • Tuberculosis in healthcare workers – a narrative review from a German perspective [2014]

• Robert Koch Institute
  • Report on the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Germany - 2017 [2018]

Greenland

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Tuberculosis control in Greenland [2011]

Haiti

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Tuberculosis in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti [2015]

• International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • Evaluation of the national tuberculosis surveillance program in Haiti [2015]

High-income countries

• BMC Medicine
  • The impact of migration on tuberculosis epidemiology and control in high-income countries: a review [2016]

India

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Improving the estimation of the tuberculosis burden in India [2014]

International

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Does tuberculosis threaten our ageing populations? [2016]

• BMC Medicine
  • Methods used in the spatial analysis of tuberculosis epidemiology: a systematic review [2018]
  • Global variation in bacterial strains that cause tuberculosis disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• 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]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Global Epidemiology of Tuberculosis and Progress Toward Achieving Global Targets — 2017 [2019]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Proximate determinants of tuberculosis in Indigenous peoples worldwide: a systematic review [2019]
  • The impact of social protection and poverty elimination on global tuberculosis incidence: a statistical modelling analysis of Sustainable Development Goal 1 [2018]

• Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • The impact of social protection on tuberculosis rates: a global analysis [2015]

• Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Global Epidemiology of Tuberculosis [2018]

• TB Facts
  • TB statistics

Iran

• International Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Trend of Smear-positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Iran during 1995–2012: A Segmented Regression Model [2016]

• Iranian Journal of Public Health
  • Predicting the Incidence of Smear Positive Tuberculosis Cases in Iran Using Time Series Analysis [2015]
  • Pattern of Reported Tuberculosis Cases in Iran 2009–2010 [2013]

• Journal of Research in Health Sciences
  • Trend of some Tuberculosis Indices in Iran during 25 yr Period (1990-2014) [2016]

Ireland

• Health Protection Surveillance Centre
  • Tuberculosis (TB)

Japan

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis and non-recent immigrants in Japan – some issues for post-entry interventions [2017]

Kazakhstan

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis in Kazakhstan: analysis of risk determinants in national surveillance data [2012]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Tuberculosis epidemiological impact analysis and assessment of TB surveillance system of Kazakhstan, 2017 (2019) [2019]

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]

Kiribati

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Battling tuberculosis in an island context with a high burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases: epidemiology, progress, and lessons learned in Kiribati, 2000 to 2012 [2015]

Kosovo

• Materia Socio-Medica
  • Tuberculosis Incidence and Case Notification Rates in Kosovo and the Balkans in 2012: Cross-country Comparison [2014]

Laos

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • The first national tuberculosis prevalence survey of Lao PDR (2010–2011) [2015]

Latin America

• Genes
  • Tuberculosis Genetic Epidemiology: A Latin American Perspective [2019]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
  • Social determinants and inequalities in tuberculosis incidence in Latin America and the Caribbean [2015]

Low and middle-income countries

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Pre-treatment loss to follow-up in tuberculosis patients in low- and lower-middle-income countries and high-burden countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Sex Differences in Tuberculosis Burden and Notifications in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2016]

Mexico

• Canadian Respiratory Journal
  • Morbidity Trends and Risk of Tuberculosis: Mexico 2007–2017 [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • Association of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Diabetes in Mexico: Analysis of the National Tuberculosis Registry 2000–2012 [2015]

Mexico, United States of America

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
  • Tuberculosis in Mexico and the USA, Comparison of Trends Over Time 1990-2010 [2015]

Middle East

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Diabetes-related tuberculosis in the Middle East: an urgent need for regional research [2015]

Moldova

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Increasing tuberculosis case detection: lessons from the Republic of Moldova [2008]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Analysis of the epidemiological impact of tuberculosis in the Republic of Moldova (2017) [2017]

Myanmar

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Are current case-finding methods under-diagnosing tuberculosis among women in Myanmar? An analysis of operational data from Yangon and the nationwide prevalence survey [2016]

New Zealand

• Public Health Surveillance
  • Tuberculosis in New Zealand Annual Reports

Nigeria

• Federal Ministry of Health
  • Report first national TB prevalence survey 2012, Nigeria [2016]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Tuberculosis case detection in Nigeria, the unfinished agenda [2015]

Norway

• BMC Public Health
  • Description of the largest cluster of tuberculosis notified in Norway 1997–2011: is the Norwegian tuberculosis control programme serving its purpose for high risk groups? [2015]

Pacific Islands

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • The epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Pacific, 2000 to 2013 [2015]

Pakistan

• Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad
  • Spatial cluster analysis of new and relapsed cases of pulmonary tuberculosis by district: Pakistan 2015 [2019]

• Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
  • T.B Report

• PLoS ONE
  • Population Based National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey among Adults (>15 Years) in Pakistan, 2010–2011 [2016]

Papua New Guinea

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea: analysis of case notification and treatment-outcome data, 2008–2016 [2018]

Philippines

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Tuberculosis among children, adolescents and young adults in the Philippines: a surveillance report [2018]
  • The tuberculosis profile of the Philippines, 2003–2011: advancing DOTS and beyond [2013]

Republic of Korea

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Achievements in and Challenges of Tuberculosis Control in South Korea [2015]

• Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives
  • Tuberculosis Notification Completeness and Timeliness in the Republic of Korea During 2012–2014 [2016]

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
  • Increased Tuberculosis Burden Due to Demographic Transition in Korea from 2001 to 2010 [2013]

Russia

• Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • Insights into the Origin, Emergence, and Current Spread of a Successful Russian Clone of Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2013]

Rwanda

• Ministry of Health Rwanda
  • Tuberculosis may be underestimated in Rwandan women [2011]

Saudi Arabia

• Annals of Thoracic Medicine
  • Tuberculosis incidence trends in Saudi Arabia over 20 years: 1991-2010 [2013]

• International Journal of Mycobacteriology
  • Mapping the epidemiology and trends of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia [2015]

• Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
  • Tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia: the journey across time [2015]

Singapore

• BMC Public Health
  • Time series analysis of demographic and temporal trends of tuberculosis in Singapore [2014]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • TB control in Singapore: where do we go from here? [2012]
  • TB Control in Singapore: the high price of diagnostic delay [2012]

Solomon Islands

• Public Health Action
  • Tuberculosis notifications, characteristics and treatment outcomes: urban vs. rural Solomon Islands, 2000–2011 [2014]

South Africa

• BMC Health Services Research
  • The epidemiology of tuberculosis in health care workers in South Africa: a systematic review [2016]

• BMC Public Health
  • TB epidemiology: where are the young women? Know your tuberculosis epidemic, know your response [2018]
  • Completeness and Reliability of the Republic of South Africa National Tuberculosis (TB) Surveillance System [2015]

Turkey

• Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
  • Effect of human development index parameters on tuberculosis incidence in Turkish provinces [2016]

United Kingdom

• BMC Medicine
  • Recent household transmission of tuberculosis in England, 2010–2012: retrospective national cohort study combining epidemiological and molecular strain typing data [2017]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Creating a web-based electronic tool to aid tuberculosis (TB) cluster investigation: data integration in TB surveillance activities in the United Kingdom, 2013 to 2016 [2018]

• Health Protection Scotland
  • Tuberculosis Surveillance & Epidemiology

• HSC Public Health Agency
  • Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Northern Ireland, Annual Surveillance Report 2016 [2018]

• Lancet
  • Tuberculosis in migrants moving from high-incidence to low-incidence countries: a population-based cohort study of 519?955 migrants screened before entry to England, Wales, and Northern Ireland [2016]

• Public Health England
  • Tuberculosis: notifying cases
  • Tuberculosis (TB): national strain typing service
  • Tuberculosis (TB) in the UK: annual report
  • Tuberculosis (TB) in England: ad hoc provisional data
  • Enhanced TB surveillance strain typing module: user guide

United States of America, United Kingdom

• Thorax
  • Mind the gap: TB trends in the USA and the UK, 2000–2011 [2016]

United States of America

• American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Prospects for Tuberculosis Elimination in the United States: Results of a Transmission Dynamic Model [2018]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2018 [2019]
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2017 [2018]
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2016 [2017]
  • Leveling of Tuberculosis Incidence — United States, 2013–2015 [2016]
  • Tuberculosis Trends — United States, 2014 [2015]
  • Trends in Tuberculosis — United States, 2013 [2014]
  • Trends in Tuberculosis — United States, 2012 [2013]
  • Tuberculosis Genotyping — United States, 2004–2010 [2012]
  • Trends in Tuberculosis — United States, 2011 [2012]
  • TB | Data and Statistics

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium africanum, United States, 2004–2013 [2016]
  • Tuberculosis Outbreak Investigations in the United States, 2002–2008 [2011]

• JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
  • The US National Tuberculosis Surveillance System: A Descriptive Assessment of the Completeness and Consistency of Data Reported from 2008 to 2012 [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Recent Transmission of Tuberculosis — United States, 2011–2014 [2016]
  • Abrupt Decline in Tuberculosis among Foreign-Born Persons in the United States [2016]
  • Tuberculosis Infection in the United States: Prevalence Estimates from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2012 [2015]

Vanuatu

• Public Health Action
  • Tuberculosis case burden and treatment outcomes in children, adults and older adults, Vanuatu, 2007–2011 [2014]

Vietnam

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • National survey of tuberculosis prevalence in Viet Nam [2010]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Tuberculosis case notification data in Viet Nam, 2007 to 2012 [2015]

Western Pacific

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Epidemiology and control of tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: update with 2013 case notification data [2016]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Global tuberculosis report 2018 [2018]
  • Understanding and using tuberculosis data [2014]
  • Standards and benchmarks for tuberculosis surveillance and vital registration systems [2014]
  • Global epidemiology of tuberculosis [2013]
  • Electronic recording and reporting for tuberculosis care and control [2012]
  • Assessing tuberculosis under-reporting through inventory studies [2012]
  • Tuberculosis prevalence surveys: a handbook [2011]
  • Tuberculosis data
  • Tuberculosis country profiles
  • Tuberculosis - Global Health Observatory data repository

Zambia

• PLoS ONE
  • The Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Zambia: Results from the First National TB Prevalence Survey, 2013–2014 [2016]

Zimbabwe

• BMC Research Notes
  • Trends of sputum-smear positive tuberculosis in Zimbabwe: 2008–2011 [2015]

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