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Almost a quarter of global tuberculosis incidence in adults could be averted by eliminating undernutrition, approximately two-and-a-half times higher than current estimates. These findings highlight t...

Current efforts to reduce global tuberculosis incidence have proved insufficient, highlighting that urgent action is needed to address underlying modi…

Undernutrition is a key driver of the global tuberculosis epidemic, increasing the risk of people developing tuberculosis disease and of poor outcomes in those who do.1 Each year, WHO publishes estima...

Background Current efforts to reduce global tuberculosis incidence have proved insufficient, highlighting that urgent action is needed to address underlying modifiable risk factors such as undernutrit...

Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems for automated reading of chest x-rays (CXRs) have been developed and approved for tuberculosis triage in adults but not in children. However, CXR is frequently t...

Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of tuberculosis, causing death or disability in around half of those affected. There are no up-to-date international guidelines defining its optimal mana...

Professor Elizabeth Whittaker convinces reluctant parents to get their children jabbed — and has seen the horrors that unchecked diseases like measles inflict

As individuals progress through adolescence, their risk of tuberculosis (TB) increases and the type of disease that develops changes, with increasing cavitary formation and parenchymal tissue destruction.

Individuals exposed to a person with infectious multidrug-resistant or rifampicin-resistant (MDR-RR) tuberculosis are at risk of developing tuberculosis disease. Historically, insufficient empirical e...

AbstractBackground. As individuals progress through adolescence, their risk of tuberculosis (TB) increases and the type of disease that develops changes, w

Young children have a high risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease following infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the absence of preventive treatment.

Background: Undernutrition is the leading population-level determinant of tuberculosis, but the relationship between tuberculosis and nutritional status remains

For decades, poor treatment options and low-quality evidence plagued care for patients with rifampin-resistant tuberculosis. The advent of new drugs to treat tuberculosis and enhanced funding now p...

Tuberculous meningitis is fatal if untreated and can lead to lifelong neurological sequelae. However, to our knowledge, there are no data on the numbe…

Data from randomized trials evaluating the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment for contacts of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB are lacking. Two recently published randomized trials...

Survey of adoption of WHO paediatric TB guidelines into national policy frameworks in 14 countries