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
    • 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
  • 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]
• 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
    • Tuberculosis Contact Investigations — United States, 2003–2012 [2016]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Screening for latent tuberculosis infection in adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement [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
• 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
    • 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
  • Alberta Health
    • Tuberculosis [2013]
  • Government of Canada
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Tuberculosis (TB) [2017]
    • Canadian Tuberculosis Standards, 7th Edition 2013 [2013]
  • Toward Optimized Practice
    • Tuberculosis [2011]
• 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]
• 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
    • 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]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Medical Journal
    • Occupational tuberculosis: a review of the literature and the local situation [2006]
• 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]
• 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
• Peru
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • The economic effects of supporting tuberculosis-affected households in Peru [2016]
• Philippines
  • Department of Health Philippines
    • Research Monograph of the Updated 2010-2016 Philippine Plan of Action to Control Tubercolosis [2014]
    • National Tuberculosis Control Program Manual of Procedures [2014]
  • 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]
• South-East Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • 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 Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Tuberculosis. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) [2016]
  • 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
  • CDC National Prevention Information Network - Tuberculosis
    • Tuberculosis
  • CDC Travelers' Health
    • Tuberculosis [2016]
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Mass.Gov
    • Tuberculosis Prevention and Control
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
• Western Pacific
  • 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]
• 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 [2015]
    • 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
  • Health Systems Trust
    • A review of TB in children and adolescents in South Africa 2008–2012 [2015]
  • 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]
  • 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
  • Drug Resistance Updates
    • Drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO European Region: An analysis of surveillance data [2013]
  • 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
  • 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]
    • Drug resistance in tuberculosis in India [2004]
• 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]
• 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
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • Drug-Resistant TB
  • 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]
• 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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Tuberculosis: epidemiology

• Afghanistan
  • PLoS ONE
    • An Evaluation of Passive and Active Approaches to Improve Tuberculosis Notifications in Afghanistan [2016]
• Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Annual Tuberculosis Surveillance Report WHO African Region, 2007 [2008]
• 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
    • 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 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]
  • 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
  • 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]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Epidemiology of tuberculosis: current status in India [2004]
• 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]
• Poland
  • Epidemiological Review
    • Tuberculosis in Poland in 2013 [2015]
• 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]
  • Health Systems Trust
    • Knowing our TB epidemic: key challenges facing the TB Programme in South Africa [2015]
• Turkey
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Effect of human development index parameters on tuberculosis incidence in Turkish provinces [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • 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
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • TB | Data and Statistics
  • 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]
  • 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
  • Alberta Health
    • Tuberculosis prevention and control guidelines for Alberta [2010]
  • 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
  • CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    • Tuberculosis
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • TB | Vaccine and Immunizations
    • TB | Infection Control and Prevention
  • CDC Vaccines
    • Tuberculosis (TB) Vaccination
• 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
    • 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]
• Philippines
  • Department of Health Philippines
    • National Tuberculosis Control Program laboratory Network Strategic Plan 2013-2016 [2013]
• 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
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • TB | Testing & Diagnosis
  • 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]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® imaging of possible tuberculosis [2016]
• 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
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Systematic screening for active tuberculosis: principles and recommendations. World Health Organization [2013]
  • 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]
• {Related topics}
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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]
• 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]
  • 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]
  • CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
    • TB | Treatment
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Recommendations for Use of an Isoniazid-Rifapentine Regimen with Direct Observation to Treat Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection [2011]
  • 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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  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis: drug resistance
    • Tuberculosis