Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Tuberculosis

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

 

Latent tuberculosis

• Asia
  • Respirology
    • Tumour necrosis factor antagonist and tuberculosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: An Asian perspective [2013]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Position statement on interferon-gamma release assays for the detection of latent tuberculosis infection [2018]
    • National position statement for the management of latent tuberculosis infection [2017]
    • Treatment of latent tuberculosis in migrants to Victoria [2015]
    • Policy recommendation: latent tuberculosis infection screening and treatment in children in immigration detention [2015]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
    • Management of Latent Tuberculosis Infections in Australia and New Zealand: A Review of Current Practice [2010]
• Canada
  • BMJ Open
    • Burden of non-adherence to latent tuberculosis infection drug therapy and the potential cost-effectiveness of adherence interventions in Canada: a simulation study [2017]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Latent tuberculosis infection: An overview [2017]
    • 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]
• China
  • PLoS ONE
    • Latent Tuberculosis Infection and Occupational Protection among Health Care Workers in Two Types of Public Hospitals in China [2014]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Mathematical modelling of programmatic screening strategies for latent tuberculosis infection in countries with low tuberculosis incidence [2018]
    • Cost-effectiveness analysis of programmatic screening strategies for latent tuberculosis infection in the EU/EEA [2018]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for latent tuberculosis among migrants in the EU/EEA: a systematic review [2018]
    • Identifying components for programmatic latent tuberculosis infection control in the European Union [2016]
  • TBNET
    • The risk of tuberculosis in transplant candidates and recipients: a TBNET consensus statement [2012]
    • Interferon-gamma release assays for the diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2011]
    • Tuberculosis contact investigation in low prevalence countries: a European consensus [2010]
    • The risk of tuberculosis related to tumour necrosis factor antagonist therapies: a TBNET consensus statement [2010]
    • LTBI: latent tuberculosis infection or lasting immune responses to M. tuberculosis? A TBNET consensus statement [2009]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • National policies on the management of latent tuberculosis infection: review of 98 countries [2018]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Management of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: WHO guidelines for low tuberculosis burden countries [2015]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • The Global Burden of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Re-estimation Using Mathematical Modelling [2016]
• Israel
  • Israel Medical Association Journal
    • Interferon Gamma Release Assay-Guided Latent Tuberculosis Prophylaxis in Israel [2015]
• Japan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Trend and treatment status of latent tuberculosis infection patients in Japan – Analysis of Japan TB Surveillance data [2017]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis among Health Care Workers in High Burden Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2016]
• Netherlands
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Yield of tuberculosis contact investigations in Amsterdam: opportunities for improvement [2014]
• Republic of Korea
  • Epidemiology and Health
    • An opposing view on including high school students in a latent tuberculosis infection control program in Korea [2017]
  • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
    • Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection and Its Clinical Efficacy [2018]
    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Healthcare Workers [2016]
    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection [2015]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Thoracic Society
    • Saudi guidelines for testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection [2010]
• Singapore
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Prevalence of and risk factors associated with latent tuberculosis in Singapore: A cross-sectional survey [2018]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Accurate diagnosis of latent tuberculosis in children, people who are immunocompromised or at risk from immunosuppression and recent arrivals from countries with a high incidence of tuberculosis: systematic review and economic evaluation [2016]
  • Public Health England
    • Latent TB infection (LTBI): testing and treatment
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults [2016]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Update of Recommendations for Use of Once-Weekly Isoniazid-Rifapentine Regimen to Treat Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection [2018]
    • Tuberculosis Contact Investigations — United States, 2003–2012 [2016]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Screening [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection [2015]
• Articles in journals
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Monitoring toxicity in individuals receiving treatment for latent tuberculosis infection: a systematic review versus expert opinion [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

• Afghanistan
  • Conflict and Health
    • Implementing a successful tuberculosis programme within primary care services in a conflict area using the stop TB strategy: Afghanistan case study [2014]
  • Public Health Action
    • Food assistance to tuberculosis patients: lessons from Afghanistan [2016]
• Africa
  • Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Endocrine dysfunction among adult patients with tuberculosis: An African experience [2014]
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty
    • Productivity losses associated with tuberculosis deaths in the World Health Organization African region [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
• Armenia
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • TB financing in East Europe promotes unnecessary hospital admissions: the case of Armenia [2013]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Extensive review of TB prevention, care and control services in Armenia [2012]
    • Tuberculosis assessment mission to Armenia [2005]
• Asia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Factors Associated with Patient and Provider Delays for Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment in Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2015]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • How much does tuberculosis cost? An Australian healthcare perspective analysis [2017]
    • Essential components of a tuberculosis control program within Australia [2014]
  • NSW Ministry of Health
    • Principles for the Management of Tuberculosis in New South Wales [2014]
    • Tuberculosis
• Azerbaijan
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Review of Tuberculosis Prevention, Control and Care in Azerbaijan [2013]
• Bangladesh
  • Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Bangladesh national guidelines on the management of tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus co-morbidity [2016]
• Belarus
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Review of the national tuberculosis programme in Belarus. 8–18 December 2015 (2016) [2016]
    • Review of the National Tuberculosis Programme in Belarus [2012]
• Belize
  • Ministry of Health Belize
    • Tuberculosis Guidelines
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Review of the Tuberculosis Programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina [2014]
• Brazil
  • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
    • III Brazilian Thoracic Association Guidelines on Tuberculosis [2009]
  • Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
    • Brazilian Response to Global End TB Strategy : The National Tuberculosis Research Agenda [2016]
• Cambodia
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Cost-Effectiveness of a Tuberculosis Active Case Finding Program Targeting Household and Neighborhood Contacts in Cambodia [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Mitigating Financial Burden of Tuberculosis through Active Case Finding Targeting Household and Neighbourhood Contacts in Cambodia [2016]
• Canada
  • Government of Canada
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Tuberculosis (TB) [2017]
    • Canadian Tuberculosis Standards 7th Edition: 2014 [2014]
  • Toward Optimized Practice
    • Tuberculosis [2014]
• China
  • BMC Public Health
    • Review of cigarette smoking and tuberculosis in China: intervention is needed for smoking cessation among tuberculosis patients [2009]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Tuberculosis control in China: use of modelling to develop targets and policies [2015]
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty
    • Factors that associated with TB patient admission rate and TB inpatient service cost: a cross-sectional study in China [2016]
    • Access to and affordability of healthcare for TB patients in China: issues and challenges [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • China Tuberculosis Policy at Crucial Crossroads: Comparing the Practice of Different Hospital and Tuberculosis Control Collaboration Models Using Survey Data [2014]
• China, India, South Africa
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Feasibility of achieving the 2025 WHO global tuberculosis targets in South Africa, China, and India: a combined analysis of 11 mathematical models [2016]
    • Cost-effectiveness and resource implications of aggressive action on tuberculosis in China, India, and South Africa: a combined analysis of nine models [2016]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Reminder systems to improve patient adherence to tuberculosis clinic appointments for diagnosis and treatment
• Cuba
  • MEDICC Review
    • Impact of the 1970 Reforms to Cuba's National Tuberculosis Control Program [2015]
• Developing countries
  • PLoS Medicine
    • The Co-Management of Tuberculosis and Diabetes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Developing World [2012]
• Dominican Republic
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Tuberculosis in the Dominican Republic: addressing the barriers to sustain the achievements [2007]
• Eastern Europe, Central Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • A people-centred model of TB care (2017) [2017]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Tuberculosis control in complex emergencies [2015]
• Estonia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Collaborative action on tuberculosis and alcohol abuse in Estonia [2013]
    • Evaluation of fighting HIV/AIDS in Estonia [2008]
• Ethiopia
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
    • An audit of diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in Ethiopia [2014]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Increasing Access to Tuberculosis Services in Ethiopia: Findings From a Patient-Pathway Analysis [2017]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Systematic review on the diagnosis, treatment, care and prevention of tuberculosis in prison settings [2017]
    • Interventions in vulnerable groups are the key to eliminating tuberculosis in Europe [2016]
    • Guidance on tuberculosis control in vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations [2016]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Tuberculosis elimination: theory and practice in Europe [2014]
    • The European Union standards for tuberculosis care: do they need an update? [2014]
    • European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care [2012]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Ending tuberculosis in risk groups in Europe: challenges from travel and population movement [2017]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • What constitutes an effective and efficient package of services for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care of tuberculosis among refugees and migrants in the WHO European Region? Themed issues on migration and health, VIII (2018) [2018]
    • Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis for The WHO European Region. Report of the Eleventh Meeting (2017) [2017]
    • Roadmap to implement the tuberculosis action plan for the WHO European Region 2016–2020. Towards ending tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (2016) [2016]
    • Regional workshop on tuberculosis, ethics and human rights [2014]
    • 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]
    • Plan to Stop TB in 18 High-priority Countries in the WHO European Region, 2007–2015 [2007]
    • Tuberculosis
• Greenland
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Tuberculosis prevention, control and care in Greenland. Report of a review mission (2016) [2016]
• Hungary
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Extensive review of TB prevention, care and control services in Hungary [2013]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Index-TB guidelines: Guidelines on extrapulmonary tuberculosis for India [2017]
    • Undernutrition & tuberculosis in India: Situation analysis & the way forward [2016]
    • Tuberculosis: From an incurable scourge to a curable disease - journey over a millennium [2013]
    • New Vision for Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP): Universal access - “Reaching the un-reached” [2012]
  • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • Delays in diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in India: a systematic review [2014]
  • Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
    • Health Seeking Behaviour among Tuberculosis Patients in India: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Index-TB Guidelines: guidelines on extra-pulmonary tuberculosis for India [2016]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • The Tuberculosis Cascade of Care in India’s Public Sector: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2016]
  • World Health Organization
    • A brief history of tuberculosis control in India [2010]
• Indonesia
  • BMC Research Notes
    • How do private general practitioners manage tuberculosis cases? A survey in eight cities in Indonesia [2015]
  • Global Health Action
    • The path to impact of operational research on tuberculosis control policies and practices in Indonesia [2016]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Quality Tuberculosis Care in Indonesia: Using Patient Pathway Analysis to Optimize Public–Private Collaboration [2017]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Tuberculosis in BRICS: challenges and opportunities for leadership within the post-2015 agenda [2014]
    • 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]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries [2015]
  • Infectious Disease Reports
    • Tuberculosis 2015: Burden, Challenges and Strategy for Control and Elimination [2016]
  • International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • Smoking cessation and smokefree environments for tuberculosis patients [2010]
    • Management of Tuberculosis: A Guide to the Essentials of Good Clinical Practice [2010]
    • Tuberculosis and public health: policy and principles in tuberculosis control [2009]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Translational Research for Tuberculosis Elimination: Priorities, Challenges, and Actions [2016]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Tuberculosis
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • The WHO's new End TB Strategy in the post-2015 era of the Sustainable Development Goals [2016]
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    • U.S. Government global tuberculosis strategy 2015-2019 [2015]
    • Tuberculosis
  • Virulence
    • Tackling tuberculosis: Insights from an international TB Summit in London [2015]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Guidelines on the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Ireland, 2010  [2014]
• Japan
  • Nagoya Journal of Medical Science
    • Roles of public health centers (hokenjo) in tuberculosis control in Japan [2015]
• Kazakhstan
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Extensive review of tuberculosis prevention, control and care in Kazakhstan [2014]
• Kosovo
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Review of the Tuberculosis Programme in Kosovo [2014]
• Kyrgyzstan
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Review of tuberculosis prevention and care services in Kyrgyzstan, 30 June – 5 July 2014. Mission report [2015]
    • Review of the National TB Programme in Kyrgyzstan [2006]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Determinants of tuberculosis in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean [2016]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Research on Implementation of Interventions in Tuberculosis Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2012]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Comparison of two cash transfer strategies to prevent catastrophic costs for poor tuberculosis-affected households in low- and middle-income countries: An economic modelling study [2017]
• Macedonia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Review of the national tuberculosis programme in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 29 August–5 September 2016 [2016]
• Malaysia
  • Malaysian Family Physician
    • Management of pulmonary tuberculosis in health clinics in the Gombak district: How are we doing so far? [2015]
• Middle-income countries
  • Globalization and Health
    • Migration to middle-income countries and tuberculosis—global policies for global economies [2017]
• Moldova
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Review of the National Tuberculosis Programme in the Republic of Moldova [2013]
    • Joint tuberculosis control programme review mission to the Republic of Moldova [2012]
• Netherlands
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Report of the joint WHO and ECDC programme review of the national TB control programme in the Netherlands [2014]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Tuberculosis Case Management in Prisoners [2010]
    • Guidelines for Tuberculosis Control in New Zealand 2010 [2010]
• North Korea
  • Epidemiology and Health
    • A new strategy for tuberculosis control in North Korea [2015]
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Rights-Based TB Programs for Migrants and Prisoners Needed in North Korea [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • National tuberculosis control programme: Democratic People's Republic of Korea [2015]
• PAHO
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Tuberculosis
• Pakistan
  • National TB Control Program
    • Online Resource Center
  • PLoS ONE
    • Management of tuberculosis by healthcare practitioners in Pakistan: A systematic review [2018]
• Peru
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • The economic effects of supporting tuberculosis-affected households in Peru [2016]
• Philippines
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Using Patient Pathway Analysis to Design Patient-centered Referral Networks for Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis: The Case of the Philippines [2017]
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • Restarting the tuberculosis programme post-Haiyan [2015]
• Republic of Korea
  • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
    • Issues Related to the Updated 2014 Korean Guidelines for Tuberculosis [2015]
• Romania
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Improving payment mechanisms to support a new delivery model for TB care in Romania (2017) [2017]
    • Review of the national tuberculosis programme in Romania, 10–21 March 2014 [2015]
• Singapore
  • Ministry of Health Singapore
    • Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Tuberculosis [2016]
• South Africa
  • Department of Health South Africa
    • National Tuberculosis Management Guidelines [2009]
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • Setting priorities in health research using the model proposed by the World Health Organization: development of a quantitative methodology using tuberculosis in South Africa as a worked example [2016]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • The South African Tuberculosis Care Cascade: Estimated Losses and Methodological Challenges [2017]
• South-East Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • Ending TB: Invest Now or Pay Later [2018]
    • Tuberculosis control in the South-East Asia Region: annual report 2016 [2016]
    • Ending TB in the South-East Asia Region: Regional Strategic Plan 2016-2020 [2016]
    • Tuberculosis control: Report of a meeting of national programme managers and partners, New Delhi, India, 10-14 November 2014 [2015]
    • South-East Asia Regional Technical Working Group on Tuberculosis, Report of the fifth meeting, New Delhi, India, 28-29 April 2014 [2014]
    • Promoting the role of NGOs and CSOs in community-based TB care and control: Report of a regional workshop Jakarta, Indonesia, 18-20 Nov 2013 [2014]
    • Tuberculosis
• 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]
• Sweden
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • The History of Tuberculosis Management in Sweden [2015]
• Taiwan
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Health system delay among patients with tuberculosis in Taiwan: 2003–2010 [2015]
• Tajikistan
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Extensive review of tuberculosis prevention, control and care in Tajikistan, 15-24 July 2013 [2014]
    • Review of tuberculosis control in the Republic of Tajikistan [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
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Tuberculosis (Quality standard) [2017]
    • Tuberculosis [2016]
    • Tuberculosis in vulnerable groups [2013]
    • Identifying and managing tuberculosis among hard-to-reach groups [2012]
    • Tuberculosis
  • Public Health England
    • Tuberculosis in prisons: the role of Public Health England
    • Tuberculosis (TB) and other mycobacterial diseases: diagnosis, screening, management and data
    • Tuberculosis (TB) and homelessness
    • Tackling tuberculosis in under-served populations
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • Tuberculosis case management and cohort review. Guidance for health professionals [2013]
  • Scottish Government
    • A TB action plan for Scotland [2011]
• Ukraine
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Review of the National Tuberculosis Programme in Ukraine (2011) [2012]
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Tuberculosis | National Prevention Information Network
    • Tuberculosis - Travelers' Health
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Mass.gov
    • Tuberculosis
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
• Western Pacific
  • Respirology
    • Implementing the End TB Strategy in the Western Pacific Region: Translating vision into reality [2018]
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Tuberculosis control in migrant populations : guiding principles and proposed actions [2016]
    • Regional action plan for viral hepatitis in the Western Pacific 2016-2020 : a priority action plan for awareness, surveillance, prevention and treatment of viral hepatitis in the Western Pacific Region [2016]
    • Regional Strategy to Stop Tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region 2011-2015 [2011]
    • Stop TB
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Tuberculosis [2018]
    • On the road to ending TB: Highlights from the 30 highest TB burden countries [2016]
    • A Toolkit for Developing A National TB Research Plan, in support of the third pillar of the End TB Strategy [2016]
    • Training of community health workers and community volunteers - ENGAGE-TB: integrating community-based tuberculosis activities into the work of nongovernmental and other civil society organizations [2015]
    • Toolkit to develop a National Strategic Plan for TB prevention, care and control [2015]
    • Implementing the end TB strategy: the essentials [2015]
    • Empowering communities to end TB with the ENGAGE-TB approach [2015]
    • ENGAGE-TB: Training of community health workers and community volunteers [2015]
    • Digital health for the End TB Strategy - an agenda for action [2015]
    • A global action framework for TB research in support of the third pillar of WHO’s end TB strategy [2015]
    • International standards for tuberculosis care [2014]
    • Framework towards tuberculosis elimination in low-incidence countries [2014]
    • Framework for conducting reviews of tuberculosis programmes [2014]
    • Definitions and reporting framework for tuberculosis [2014]
    • Nutritional care and support for patients with tuberculosis [2013]
    • 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]
    • Stop TB Partnership annual report 2008 [2009]
    • Stop TB policy paper: contributing to health system strengthening: guiding principles for national tuberculosis programmes [2008]
    • Stop TB Partnership annual report 2007 : gaining global momentum [2008]
    • Implementing the Stop TB Strategy: A handbook for national tuberculosis control programmes [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 (TB)
• Zambia
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
    • A survey to assess the extent of public-private mix DOTS in the management of tuberculosis in Zambia [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis: treatment
    • Tuberculosis: screening, diagnosis
    • Tuberculosis: prevention, vaccine
    • Tuberculosis: epidemiology
    • Tuberculosis in children
    • Latent tuberculosis
    • HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis

Tuberculosis in children

• Bangladesh
  • BMC Public Health
    • Improving case detection of tuberculosis among children in Bangladesh: lessons learned through an implementation research [2017]
• Burkina Faso
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Implementation of tuberculosis prevention for exposed children, Burkina Faso [2018]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Tuberculosis in children: New diagnostic blood tests [2015]
  • Paediatrics & Child Health
    • Epidemiology and clinical management of tuberculosis in children in Canada [2015]
• Denmark
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • A review of paediatric tuberculosis in Denmark: 10-year trend, 2000–2009 [2014]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Guidance: Investigation and control of tuberculosis incidents affecting children in congregate settings [2013]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Regional workshop on child and adolescent Tuberculosis in the WHO European Region (2018) [2018]
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Updated national guidelines for paediatric tuberculosis in India, 2012 [2013]
  • Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
    • Cutaneous tuberculosis in children: The Indian perspective [2010]
• International
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Clinical Case Definitions for Classification of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children: An Update [2015]
    • A Blueprint to Address Research Gaps in the Development of Biomarkers for Pediatric Tuberculosis [2015]
  • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • Counting Children with Tuberculosis: Why Numbers Matter [2015]
  • International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • Desk-guide for diagnosis and management of TB in children [2016]
    • A Framework for Integrating Childhood Tuberculosis into Community-based Health Care [2013]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • A new roadmap for childhood tuberculosis [2014]
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • Towards earlier inclusion of Children in Tuberculosis (TB) drugs trials: Consensus statements from an Expert Panel [2015]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Interventions to improve adherence to treatment for paediatric tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
• Malawi
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
    • Pharmacokinetics of anti-TB drugs in Malawian children: reconsidering the role of ethambutol [2015]
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
    • Use of Xpert® for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Severely Malnourished Hospitalized Malawian Children [2014]
• 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]
• South Africa
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
    • Subtherapeutic concentrations of first-line anti-TB drugs in South African children treated according to current guidelines: the PHATISA study [2014]
• 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
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Interferon-gamma Release Assays for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Children [2014]
  • American College of Rheumatology
    • 2013 Update of the 2011 American College of Rheumatology Recommendations for the Treatment of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Recommendations for the Medical Therapy of Children With Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Tuberculosis Screening Among C [2013]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Statement on the use of child-friendly fixed-dose combinations for the treatment of TB in children [2017]
    • Technical step process to switch to new paediatric tuberculosis formulations [2016]
    • Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children [2014]
    • Childhood TB: Training Toolkit [2014]
    • Roadmap for Childhood TB: Toward zero deaths [2013]
    • Rapid advice: treatment of tuberculosis in children [2010]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis: drug resistance

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Tuberculosis in Australia: bacteriologically-confirmed cases and drug resistance, 2011: A report of the Australian Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory Network [2014]
    • National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - Information Paper (October 2007) [2007]
• Azerbaijan
  • Public Health Action
    • First national survey of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in Azerbaijan and risk factors analysis [2014]
• Bangladesh
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • First Bangladesh National Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Survey, 2010-2011 [2013]
• Belarus
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Belarus: the size of the problem and associated risk factors [2013]
• Brazil
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Operational lessons drawn from pilot implementation of Xpert MTB/Rif in Brazil [2014]
• Central Asia
  • Public Health Action
    • Challenges and solutions to implementing drug-resistant tuberculosis programmes for children in Central Asia [2015]
• China
  • Biomedical and Environmental Sciences
    • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Primary Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in China [2016]
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) disease burden in China: a systematic review and spatio-temporal analysis [2017]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Cost–effectiveness of a comprehensive programme for drug-resistant tuberculosis in China [2015]
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis among Children, China, 2006–2015 [2017]
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty
    • Drug-resistant tuberculosis control in China: progress and challenges [2016]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Effect of a comprehensive programme to provide universal access to care for sputum-smear-positive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in China: a before-and-after study [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Prevalence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Mainland China: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2016]
    • Prevalence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Mainland China: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2011]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Xpert® MTB/RIF assay for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults
    • GenoType® MTBDRsl assay for resistance to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs
    • Drugs for preventing tuberculosis in people at risk of multiple-drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
• Côte d'Ivoire
  • BioMed Research International
    • Emergence in Western African Countries of MDR-TB, Focus on Côte d'Ivoire [2013]
• Dominican Republic
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Culture and drug susceptibility testing among previously treated tuberculosis patients in the Dominican Republic, 2014 [2016]
• Eastern Africa
  • Tuberculosis
    • Epidemiology and genetic diversity of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in East Africa [2014]
• Eastern Europe
  • Public Health Action
    • Drug-resistant tuberculosis in Eastern Europe: challenges and ways forward [2014]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Strategic plan for the prevention and control of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [2010]
• Estonia
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Cost and cost-effectiveness of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in Estonia and Russia [2012]
  • Public Health Action
    • A four-year nationwide molecular epidemiological study in Estonia: risk factors for tuberculosis transmission [2014]
• Ethiopia
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia: efforts to expand diagnostic services, treatment and care [2014]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Molecular typing for surveillance of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the EU/EEA [2017]
    • Healthcare system factors influencing treatment results of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2014]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Childhood multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the European Union and European Economic Area: an analysis of tuberculosis surveillance data from 2007 to 2015 [2017]
  • Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia
    • Team approach to manage difficult-to-treat TB cases: Experiences in Europe and beyond [2017]
  • TBNET
    • Clinical implications of molecular drug resistance testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a TBNET/RESIST-TB consensus statement [2016]
    • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Europe, 2010–2011 [2015]
    • Management of patients with multidrug-resistant/extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET consensus statement [2014]
    • Epidemiology and clinical management of XDR-TB: a systematic review by TBNET [2009]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Good practices in the prevention and care of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis in correctional facilities (2018) [2018]
    • Regional Green Light Committee for the WHO European Region workshop and face-to-face meeting: Introduction of new medicines for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO European Region (2017) [2017]
    • European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative - Regional TB and MDR-TB Diagnosis Workshop Report (2017) [2017]
    • Algorithm for laboratory diagnosis and treatment-monitoring of pulmonary tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis using state-of-the-art rapid molecular diagnostic technologies (2017) [2017]
    • Good practices in strengthening health systems for the prevention and care of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis (2015) [2015]
    • The role of surgery in the treatment of pulmonary TB and multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant TB [2014]
    • Regional workshop on models of care for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2014]
    • Best practices in prevention, control and care for drug-resistant tuberculosis. A resource for the continued implementation of the Consolidated Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Multidrug- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the WHO European Region, 2011–2015 [2013]
    • 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]
• Germany
  • Respiratory Medicine
    • Cost of multi drug resistance tuberculosis in Germany [2014]
• Guatemala
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Implementation of the national tuberculosis guidelines on culture and drug sensitivity testing in Guatemala, 2013 [2016]
• Guinea
  • Infection, Genetics and Evolution
    • First insights into circulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineages and drug resistance in Guinea [2015]
• India
  • BMC Public Health
    • Prevalence of drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in India: systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
  • Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy
    • Managing drug-resistant tuberculosis: experiences from India [2010]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in India: A review [2012]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Integrating tuberculosis and antimicrobial resistance control programmes [2018]
    • Decentralized care for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
    • Building clinical trial capacity to develop a new treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2016]
    • The need to accelerate access to new drugs for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2015]
    • Reducing the price of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis through the Global Drug Facility [2015]
    • Principles for designing future regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [2014]
    • 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]
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Global Progress and Challenges in Implementing New Medications for Treating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2016]
    • Global Introduction of New Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Drugs—Balancing Regulation with Urgent Patient Needs [2016]
    • Additional Drug Resistance of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Patients in 9 Countries [2015]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis around the world: what progress has been made? [2014]
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Double Standards in Global Health: Medicine, Human Rights Law and Multidrug-Resistant TB Treatment Policy [2016]
  • International Council of Nurses
    • TB Guidelines for Nurses in the Care and Control of Tuberculosis and Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis [2015]
  • International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • Guidelines for the Clinical and Operational Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2013]
    • DR-TB drugs under the microscope: the sources and prices of medicines [2013]
  • Lancet
    • Incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis disease in children: systematic review and global estimates [2014]
  • Médecins Sans Frontières
    • New developments in the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: clinical utility of bedaquiline and delamanid [2015]
    • Implementing the Xpert® MTB/RIF Diagnostic Test for Tuberculosis and Rifampicin Resistance: Outcomes and Lessons Learned in 18 Countries [2015]
  • Pediatrics
    • Global and Regional Burden of Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis [2015]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Association between Regimen Composition and Treatment Response in Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Prospective Cohort Study [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: An Updated Research Agenda [2016]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • MDR-TB Planning Toolkit [2012]
• Iran
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
    • First-Line Anti-Tubercular Drug Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in IRAN: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • Tanaffos
    • Management of MDR-TB: Review of Iran's Experience [2013]
• Latvia
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Treatment and management of MDR-TB in Latvia [2007]
  • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
    • The value of effective public tuberculosis treatment: an analysis of opportunity costs associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Latvia [2013]
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Decreased Time to Treatment Initiation for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients after Use of Xpert MTB/RIF Test, Latvia [2016]
  • Public Health Action
    • Multi- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Latvia: trends, characteristics and treatment outcomes [2014]
• Lesotho
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
    • Knowledge and practices about multidrug-resistant tuberculosis amongst healthcare workers in Maseru [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Antituberculosis Drug Resistance Survey in Lesotho, 2008-2009: Lessons Learned [2015]
• Lithuania
  • Medicina
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lithuania – Still a long way ahead [2016]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Management of multidrug-resistant TB: novel treatments and their expansion to low resource settings [2016]
• Malawi
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey [2014]
• Mexico
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mexico [2009]
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Culture and drug sensitivity testing among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Mexico: national data for 2009–2013 [2016]
  • Salud Pública de México
    • Drug resistance and molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mexico: a systematic review [2014]
• Middle East
  • International Journal of Mycobacteriology
    • Epidemiology of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug resistant, and totally drug resistant tuberculosis in Middle East countries [2016]
• Moldova
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • High risk and rapid appearance of multidrug resistance during tuberculosis treatment in Moldova [2014]
• Mongolia
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Patients for Whom First-Line Treatment Failed, Mongolia, 2010–2011 [2015]
• Nigeria
  • PLoS ONE
    • Procurement and Supply Management System for MDR-TB in Nigeria: Are the Early Warning Targets for Drug Stock Outs and Over Stock of Drugs Being Achieved? [2015]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Cost-optimization in the treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Nigeria [2015]
• North Korea
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment in North Korea: Is Scale-Up Possible? [2016]
    • The Growing Problem of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in North Korea [2013]
• Pakistan
  • Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
    • Prevalence and drug resistance pattern of MDR TB in retreatment cases of Punjab, Pakistan [2016]
  • Public Health Action
    • Infection control in hospitals managing drug-resistant tuberculosis in Pakistan: how are we doing? [2017]
• Papua New Guinea
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Burden of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea: Results of a Large Population-Based Survey [2016]
• Republic of Korea
  • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
    • WHO Treatment Guidelines for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, 2016 Update: Applicability in South Korea [2017]
    • Medical Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2015]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Epidemiology of Antituberculosis Drug Resistance in Saudi Arabia: Findings of the First National Survey [2013]
• Singapore
  • Singapore Medical Journal
    • The imminent threat of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Singapore [2012]
• Somalia
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Somalia, 2010–2011 [2013]
• South Africa
  • Department of Health South Africa
    • Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Policy Guidelines [2013]
    • Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - Policy framework on decentralised and deinstitutionalised management for South Africa [2011]
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Predictors of mortality and treatment success during treatment for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis within the South African National TB Programme, 2009 to 2011: a cohort analysis of the national case register [2015]
  • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • Epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis among children and adolescents in South Africa, 2005–2010 [2015]
    • A national infection control evaluation of drug-resistant tuberculosis hospitals in South Africa [2012]
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    • Molecular Epidemiological Interpretation of the Epidemic of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • What is the Cost of Diagnosis and Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa? [2013]
• South-East Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: Report of the 5th meeting of Regional Advisory Committee (r-GLC SEAR) on MDR-TB, Mumbai, 29-31 May 14 [2014]
    • Programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis: Report of a regional workshop, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 17-21 September 2012 [2013]
    • Combating drug-resistant tuberculosis [2013]
    • The South East Asia Regional Response Plan for Drug Resistant TB care and control 2011-2015 [2011]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Trends in prevalence of multi drug resistant tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
• Swaziland
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • High Prevalence of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Swaziland, 2009–2010 [2012]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Treatment outcomes of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Switzerland [2014]
• Taiwan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Population-Based Drug Resistance Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Taiwan, 2007-2014 [2016]
• Turkmenistan
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Turkmenistan: results of a nationwide survey, 2012 to 2013 (2015) [2015]
• Uganda
  • PLoS ONE
    • Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance among New and Previously Treated Sputum Smear-Positive Tuberculosis Patients in Uganda: Results of the First National Survey [2013]
• United Kingdom
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Acquired Resistance to Antituberculosis Drugs in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, 2000–2015 [2018]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Twenty years and counting: epidemiology of an outbreak of isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis in England and Wales, 1995 to 2014 [2017]
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Systematic review, meta-analysis and economic modelling of molecular diagnostic tests for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis [2015]
  • NHS England
    • Bedaquiline and Delamanid for defined patients with MDR-TB and XDR-TB [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost-Effectiveness of Adding Bedaquiline to Drug Regimens for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the UK [2015]
  • QJM
    • Isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis in Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1999–2010 [2015]
• Ukraine
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance among tuberculosis patients in Ukraine and risk factors for MDR-TB (2016) [2016]
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Provisional CDC Guidelines for the Use and Safety Monitoring of Bedaquiline Fumarate (Sirturo) for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis [2013]
    • Interruptions in Supplies of Second-Line Antituberculosis Drugs — United States, 2005–2012 [2013]
    • Availability of an Assay for Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Including Rifampin-Resistant Strains, and Considerations for Its Use — United States, 2013 [2013]
    • Drug-Resistant TB
• Uzbekistan
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Uzbekistan: results of a nationwide survey, 2010 to 2011 [2013]
• Vietnam
  • BMC Public Health
    • Challenges in detection and treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients in Vietnam [2015]
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • Prevalence of resistance to second-line tuberculosis drug among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Viet Nam, 2011 [2016]
• West Africa
  • BMC Medicine
    • The emerging threat of pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in West Africa: preparing for large-scale tuberculosis research and drug resistance surveillance [2016]
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO Western Pacific Region [2014]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO Treatment Guidelines for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, 2016 Update [2016]
    • The use of molecular line probe assays for the detection of resistance to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs [2016]
    • The use of molecular line probe assays for the detection of resistance to isoniazid and rifampicin [2016]
    • The use of delamanid in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children and adolescents: Interim policy guidance [2016]
    • Guidelines for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis - 5th edition [2015]
    • Framework for the engagement of all health care providers in the management of drug resistant tuberculosis [2015]
    • Best practices in engagement of all health care providers in the management of drug resistant tuberculosis [2015]
    • A situation assessment tool to engage all relevant care providers in drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) management at country level [2015]
    • Xpert MTB/RIF implementation manual [2014]
    • Xpert MTB/RIF assay for the diagnosis of pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB in adults and children [2014]
    • The use of delamanid in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: interim policy guidance [2014]
    • Management of drug-resistant tuberculosis - Training for staff working at DR-TB management centres [2014]
    • Companion handbook to the WHO guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis [2014]
    • Interim guidance on the use of bedaquiline to treat MDR-TB [2013]
    • Automated Real-Time Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology for Rapid and Simultaneous Detection of Tuberculosis and Rifampicin Resistance: Xpert MTB/RIF Assay for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary TB in Adults and Children: Policy Update [2013]
    • 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]
    • 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]
    • Policy guidance on drug-susceptibility testing (DST) of second-line antituberculosis drugs [2008]
    • 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]
• Zambia
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • The Second Zambian National Tuberculosis Drug Resistance survey – a comparison of conventional and molecular methods [2015]
    • Multidrug-resistant TB in Zambia: review of national data from 2000 to 2011 [2013]
• Articles in journals
  • Thorax
    • What are the most efficacious treatment regimens for isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis? A systematic review and network meta-analysis [2016]
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• Afghanistan
  • PLoS ONE
    • An Evaluation of Passive and Active Approaches to Improve Tuberculosis Notifications in Afghanistan [2016]
• Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Tuberculosis | African Health Observatory
• Albania
  • Management in Health
    • Distribution of tuberculosis cases in Albania during 2012-2013 [2014]
• 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]
• 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
  • PLoS ONE
    • 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]
• China
  • Chinese Medical Journal
    • Notification Rate of Tuberculosis among Migrants in China 2005–2014: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2016]
  • 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]
• 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, 2018 [2018]
    • 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
    • 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 2018 [2018]
    • 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]
• 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]
  • 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]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • 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]
• 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]
• 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 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
  • 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]
• Nigeria
  • 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
  • PLoS ONE
    • Population Based National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey among Adults (>15 Years) in Pakistan, 2010–2011 [2016]
• Philippines
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • 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
    • 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]
  • 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
    • 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
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • 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
  • Current Epidemiology Reports
    • Getting to Zero: Tuberculosis Elimination in California [2016]
  • 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]
    • Tuberculosis Control in the Western Pacific Region - 2010 Report [2011]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Global tuberculosis report 2015 [2015]
    • 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]
    • Tuberculosis prevalence surveys: a handbook [2011]
    • Tuberculosis data
    • Tuberculosis country profiles
• 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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    • Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis: prevention, vaccine

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Tuberculosis – prevention in travellers [2010]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Evaluation of bacille Calmette-Guérin immunisation programs in Australia [2017]
    • Adverse events following immunisation with BCG vaccination: baseline data to inform monitoring in Australia following introduction of new unregistered BCG vaccine [2016]
    • The BCG vaccine: information and recommendations for use in Australia [2013]
  • NSW Ministry of Health
    • Tuberculosis Management of People Knowingly Placing Others at Risk of Infection [2015]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Home Isolation to Prevent Tuberculosis Transmission: A Review of the Clinical Evidence and Guidelines [2014]
  • Vaccine
    • Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination patterns in the province of Québec, Canada, 1956–1974 [2017]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Treating BCG-induced disease in children
    • Rifamycins (rifampicin, rifabutin and rifapentine) compared to isoniazid for preventing tuberculosis in HIV-negative people at risk of active TB
    • Isoniazid for preventing tuberculosis in non-HIV infected persons
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Stop tuberculosis
• Europe
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Systematic review on tuberculosis transmission on aircraft and update of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control risk assessment guidelines for tuberculosis transmitted on aircraft (RAGIDA-TB) [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Regional workshop on results-based management for tuberculosis prevention, care and control [2014]
• France
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Impact of the BCG vaccination policy on tuberculous meningitis in children under 6 years in metropolitan France between 2000 and 2011 [2015]
• International
  • BMC Medicine
    • The potential impact of BCG vaccine supply shortages on global paediatric tuberculosis mortality [2016]
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Consensus Statement on Diagnostic End Points for Infant Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials [2012]
• Iran
  • Advanced Biomedical Research
    • Adverse effects of BCG vaccine 1173 P2 in Iran: A meta-analysis [2016]
• Ireland
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Evaluating the neonatal BCG vaccination programme in Ireland [2016]
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • BCG Vaccination: Protection against TB
• Italy
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Recommendations for pediatric tuberculosis vaccination in Italy [2015]
  • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
    • Current preventive policies and practices against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and tuberculosis targeted for workers from hospitals of the Sardinia Region, Italy [2016]
• Malawi
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Preventing tuberculosis among health workers in Malawi [2002]
• Mozambique
  • PLoS ONE
    • Healthcare Workers' Challenges in the Implementation of Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control Measures in Mozambique [2014]
• Netherlands
  • Health Council of the Netherlands
    • Vaccination of young children against tuberculosis [2011]
• Nigeria
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Tuberculosis infection control measures in health care facilities offering tb services in Ikeja local government area, Lagos, South West, Nigeria [2016]
• Republic of Korea
  • Clinical and Experimental Vaccine Research
    • BCG vaccine in Korea [2013]
• Saudi Arabia
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Tuberculosis and mass gatherings—opportunities for defining burden, transmission risk, and the optimal surveillance, prevention, and control measures at the annual Hajj pilgrimage [2016]
• South Africa
  • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
    • Modelling the cost-effectiveness of a new infant vaccine to prevent tuberculosis disease in children in South Africa [2014]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The role of the law in reducing tuberculosis transmission in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Observational study to estimate the changes in the effectiveness of bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccination with time since vaccination for preventing tuberculosis in the UK [2017]
    • Systematic review and meta-analysis of the current evidence on the duration of protection by bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination against tuberculosis [2013]
  • Public Health England
    • Intervax BCG vaccine: training material for healthcare professionals
  • Scottish Government
    • Health Clearance for Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV for New Healthcare Workers with Direct Clinical Contact with Patient [2008]
  • Thorax
    • The impact of BCG vaccination on tuberculin skin test responses in children is age dependent: evidence to be considered when screening children for tuberculosis infection [2016]
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Tuberculosis - NIOSH Workplace Safety and Health Topic
    • TB | Infection Control
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • BCG vaccines: WHO position paper [2018]
    • 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]
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    • Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis: screening, diagnosis

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Tuberculosis testing [2012]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee Guideline: Management of Tuberculosis Risk in Healthcare Workers in Australia [2017]
    • Supplemental use of an interferon-gamma release assay in a state-wide tuberculosis contact tracing program in Victoria: a six-year review [2015]
    • Guidelines for Australian Mycobacteriology Laboratories [2006]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Tumour necrosis factor a inhibitors: screening for tuberculosis infection in inflammatory bowel disease [2008]
  • Medical Services Advisory Committee
    • Pathology tests for active mycobacterial infection [2015]
• Belgium
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Cost–effectiveness of screening for active cases of tuberculosis in Flanders, Belgium [2017]
• 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
    • Cost analysis of nucleic acid amplification for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis, within the context of the Brazilian Unified Health Care System [2015]
    • 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]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Market Assessment of Tuberculosis Diagnostics in Brazil in 2012 [2014]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Contact Investigations following Patient and Staff Exposure to Active Tuberculosis Infections: A Review of the Clinical Evidence and Guidelines [2014]
• China
  • BMC Medicine
    • Factors Associated with Patient, and Diagnostic Delays in Chinese TB Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2013]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Interventions to increase tuberculosis case detection at primary healthcare or community-level services
    • Active case finding in contacts of people with tuberculosis
• Côte d'Ivoire
  • PLoS ONE
    • Wide Variations in Compliance with Tuberculosis Screening Guidelines and Tuberculosis Incidence between Antiretroviral Therapy Facilities — Côte d’Ivoire [2016]
• Developing countries
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Cost-effectiveness in the diagnosis of tuberculosis: choices in developing countries [2014]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Evaluation of the 2007 WHO guideline to diagnose smear negative tuberculosis in an urban hospital in Ethiopia [2013]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Handbook on TB laboratory diagnostic methods for the European Union [2016]
    • Mastering the basics of TB control – Development of a handbook on TB diagnostic methods [2011]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for active tuberculosis among migrants in the EU/EEA: a systematic review [2018]
  • TBNET
    • Availability and Use of Molecular Microbiological and Immunological Tests for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Europe [2014]
    • Interferon-gamma release assays for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2011]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Tuberculosis Laboratory Maintenance Plan (LMP) for preventive and routine maintenance of laboratory equipment (2017) [2017]
• Germany
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Yield of active screening for tuberculosis among asylum seekers in Germany: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
• 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]
  • Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging
    • Chest tuberculosis: Radiological review and imaging recommendations [2015]
• International
  • African Health Sciences
    • Effectiveness and costeffectiveness of screening immigrants schemes for tuberculosis (TB) on arrival from high TB endemic countries to low TB prevalent countries [2014]
  • 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]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Rapid molecular TB diagnosis: evidence, policy making and global implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF [2013]
  • International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis by Sputum Microscopy: The Handbook [2013]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Costs of Novel Tuberculosis Diagnostics—Will Countries Be Able to Afford It? [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Modeling of Novel Diagnostic Strategies for Active Tuberculosis – A Systematic Review: Current Practices and Recommendations [2014]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    • Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Resource-Poor Countries: Challenges and Opportunities [2011]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Interferon-gamma Release Assays for Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Adults in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2011]
  • World Health Organization
    • Recommendations for investigating contacts of persons with infectious tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries [2012]
    • 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]
• Malawi
  • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
    • Impact of changing diagnostic criteria for smear-positive tuberculosis: a cohort study in Malawi [2014]
• Mozambique
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Implementing rapid testing for tuberculosis in Mozambique [2015]
• Netherlands
  • Health Council of the Netherlands
    • Screening Act: tuberculosis screening [2017]
    • Population Screening Act: tuberculosis screening [2012]
• Republic of Korea
  • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
    • Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Recent Advances and Diagnostic Algorithms [2015]
    • Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease in Korea [2014]
• Russia
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [2012]
• South Africa
  • BMC Medicine
    • How much is tuberculosis screening worth? Estimating the value of active case finding for tuberculosis in South Africa, China, and India [2014]
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    • Diagnostic Accuracy of Xpert MTB/RIF for Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Specimens: Establishing a Laboratory Testing Algorithm for South Africa [2014]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Against All Odds: Diagnosing Tuberculosis in South Africa [2011]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Impact and Cost of Scaling up GeneXpert MTB/RIF in South Africa [2012]
  • Public Health Action
    • Reasons for the low bacteriological coverage of tuberculosis reported in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa [2015]
• Spain
  • Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica
    • Guidelines for the use of interferon-gamma release assays in the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection [2016]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Annals of African Medicine
    • Advances in the laboratory diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2008]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
    • Early diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis [2016]
• Tonga
  • Public Health Action
    • Sputum smear microscopy referral rates and turnaround time in the Tonga Islands [2014]
• Uganda
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Health worker perspectives on barriers to delivery of routine tuberculosis diagnostic evaluation services in Uganda: a qualitative study to guide clinic-based interventions [2015]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Evaluation of Automated Molecular Testing Rollout for Tuberculosis Diagnosis Using Routinely Collected Surveillance Data — Uganda, 2012–2015 [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Theory-Informed Interventions to Improve the Quality of Tuberculosis Evaluation at Ugandan Health Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Public Health England
    • Tuberculosis: pre-entry screening in the UK
    • Tuberculosis: pre-entry screening in the UK
    • Tuberculosis (TB): molecular diagnosis
    • Tuberculosis (TB) in the workplace
    • SMI B 40: Investigation of specimens for Mycobacterium species
    • National mycobacterium reference laboratory: user manual
• United States of America
  • American College of Radiology
    • Imaging of Possible Tuberculosis
  • American Thoracic Society
    • Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children [2017]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Implementation of New TB Screening Requirements for U.S.-Bound Immigrants and Refugees — 2007–2014 [2014]
    • Updated Guidelines for Using Interferon Gamma Release Assays to Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection --- United States, 2010 [2010]
    • TB | Testing & Diagnosis
• Vietnam
  • BMC Public Health
    • A household survey on screening practices of household contacts of smear positive tuberculosis patients in Vietnam [2014]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Barriers to Access and Use of Public TB Diagnostic Services in Vietnam [2013]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • The Use of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (TB-LAMP) for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Policy Guidance [2016]
    • Framework of indicators and targets for laboratory strengthening under the End TB Strategy [2016]
    • Chest radiography in tuberculosis detection: Summary of current WHO recommendations and guidance on programmatic approaches [2016]
    • Systematic screening for active tuberculosis: an operational guide [2015]
    • Operational guidance on systematic screening for active tuberculosis [2015]
    • Implementing tuberculosis diagnostics: A policy framework [2015]
    • High-priority target product profiles for new tuberculosis diagnostics: report of a consensus meeting [2014]
    • Systematic screening for active tuberculosis: principles and recommendations [2013]
    • Tuberculosis Laboratory Biosafety Manual [2012]
    • 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]
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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
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Shortened first-line TB treatment in Brazil: potential cost savings for patients and health services [2016]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Factors associated with the rapid implementation process of the fixed-dose combination RHZE tuberculosis regimen in Brazil: an ecological study [2013]
  • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
    • Evaluation of the impact that the changes in tuberculosis treatment implemented in Brazil in 2009 have had on disease control in the country [2017]
    • 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]
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty
    • Use of anti-tuberculosis drugs among newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis inpatients in China: a retrospective study [2016]
    • The production and sales of anti-tuberculosis drugs in China [2016]
    • Implementing a “free” tuberculosis (TB) care policy under the integrated model in Jiangsu, China: practices and costs in the real world [2016]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Smoking cessation interventions for pulmonary tuberculosis treatment outcomes
    • Six-month therapy for abdominal tuberculosis
    • Six months therapy for tuberculous meningitis
    • Routine surgery in addition to chemotherapy for treating spinal tuberculosis
    • Rifabutin for treating pulmonary tuberculosis
    • Regimens of less than six months for treating tuberculosis
    • Patient education and counselling for promoting adherence to treatment for 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
    • Interventions for treating tuberculous pericarditis
    • Incentives and enablers to improve adherence in tuberculosis
    • Fully intermittent dosing with drugs for treating tuberculosis in adults
    • Fluoroquinolones for treating tuberculosis (presumed drug-sensitive)
    • Fixed-dose combinations of drugs versus single-drug formulations for treating pulmonary tuberculosis
    • Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis
    • Corticosteroids for tuberculous pleurisy
    • Corticosteroids for managing tuberculous meningitis
    • Adjunctive steroid therapy for managing pulmonary tuberculosis
• Colombia
  • Revista Española de Quimioterapia
    • Antimycobacterial natural products--an opportunity for the Colombian biodiversity [2011]
• Dominican Republic
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Tuberculosis patients in the Dominican Republic face severe direct and indirect costs and need social protection [2013]
• Ethiopia
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Untreated depression and tuberculosis treatment outcomes, quality of life and disability, Ethiopia [2018]
  • Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
    • Treatment Outcome of Tuberculosis Patients at Enfraz Health Center, Northwest Ethiopia: A Five-Year Retrospective Study [2014]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Expert Opinion on the introduction of new drugs for tuberculosis control in the EU/EEA [2015]
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • Tuberculosis treatment outcome monitoring in European Union countries: systematic review [2013]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Tuberculosis treatment outcome in the European Union and European Economic Area: an analysis of surveillance data from 2002-2011 [2015]
• Georgia
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Eliminating the category II retreatment regimen from national tuberculosis programme guidelines: the Georgian experience [2012]
• Germany
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Find and treat or find and lose? Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among screened newly arrived asylum seekers in Germany 2002 to 2014 [2018]
• Ghana
  • International Journal of Mycobacteriology
    • Medicinal plants used to treat TB in Ghana [2015]
• India
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • The number of privately treated tuberculosis cases in India: an estimation from drug sales data [2016]
  • Lung India
    • DOTS for TB relapse in India: A systematic review [2012]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Are Tuberculosis Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Hyderabad, India Being Managed According to National Guidelines? [2012]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The Global Drug Facility as an intervention in the market for tuberculosis drugs [2015]
    • Pharmacovigilance and tuberculosis: applying the lessons of thioacetazone [2014]
    • Treatment of tuberculosis: present status and future prospects [2005]
  • 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]
  • Treatment Action Group
    • An Activist’s Guide to Regulatory Issues: Ensuring Fair Evaluation of and Access to Tuberculosis Treatment [2015]
• Kenya
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Detention of People Lost to Follow-Up on TB Treatment in Kenya [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Using Survival Analysis to Identify Risk Factors for Treatment Interruption among New and Retreatment Tuberculosis Patients in Kenya [2016]
• Latvia
  • Public Health Action
    • Treatment outcomes among drug-susceptible tuberculosis patients in Latvia, 2006–2010 [2014]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Cash interventions to improve clinical outcomes for pulmonary tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
• Moldova
  • Public Health Action
    • Do incentives improve tuberculosis treatment outcomes in the Republic of Moldova? [2014]
• Mozambique
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Poor tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Southern Mozambique (2011–2012) [2016]
• Nigeria
  • World Journal of Methodology
    • Profile and determinants of unsuccessful tuberculosis outcome in rural Nigeria: Implications for tuberculosis control [2016]
• Pakistan
  • Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
    • Comparison of British Thoracic Society and American Thoracic Society reintroduction guidelines for anti-tuberculous therapy induced liver injury [2014]
• Republic of Korea
  • Annals of Laboratory Medicine
    • Recommendations for Optimizing Tuberculosis Treatment: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Pharmacogenetics, and Nutritional Status Considerations [2017]
• South Africa
  • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
    • Health-related quality of life and its association with medication adherence in active pulmonary tuberculosis– a systematic review of global literature with focus on South Africa [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of a Four-Month Regimen for First-Line Treatment of Active Tuberculosis in South Africa [2015]
  • South African Medical Journal
    • Evaluation of adherence to national treatment guidelines among tuberculosis patients in three provinces of South Africa [2014]
• 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]
  • Global Health Action
    • Barriers to initiating tuberculosis treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review focused on children and youth [2017]
  • Patient preference and adherence
    • An ontology for factors affecting tuberculosis treatment adherence behavior in sub-Saharan Africa [2016]
  • Pharmacogenomics
    • Is there a need to increase the dose of efavirenz during concomitant rifampicin-based antituberculosis therapy in sub-Saharan Africa? The HIV-TB pharmagene study [2015]
• Taiwan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Improved Consistency in Dosing Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in Taipei, Taiwan [2012]
• Turkey
  • Tuberculosis and Thorax
    • Treatment of tuberculosis in Turkey in terms of medical ethics [2015]
• United States of America
  • American Thoracic Society
    • Official American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America Clinical Practice Guidelines: Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis [2016]
    • An Official ATS Statement: Hepatotoxicity of Antituberculosis Therapy [2006]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Recommendations for Use of an Isoniazid-Rifapentine Regimen with Direct Observation to Treat Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection [2011]
    • TB | Treatment
  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
    • Under-reporting and Poor Adherence to Monitoring Guidelines for Severe Cases of Isoniazid Hepatotoxicity [2015]
  • 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]
• Uzbekistan
  • Health Economics Review
    • Health system support and health system strengthening: two key facilitators to the implementation of ambulatory tuberculosis treatment in Uzbekistan [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Factors Associated with Unfavorable Treatment Outcomes in New and Previously Treated TB Patients in Uzbekistan: A Five Year Countrywide Study [2015]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Target Regimen Profiles for TB Treatment [2016]
    • Policy Implementation Package for new TB drug introduction [2014]
    • Guidelines for treatment of tuberculosis, fourth edition [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]
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    • Tuberculosis: drug resistance
    • Tuberculosis