Incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis in incarcerated populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis

O Cords, L Martinez, JL Warren, JM O'Marr… - The Lancet Public …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Prisons are recognised as high-risk environments for tuberculosis, but there
has been little systematic investigation of the global and regional incidence and prevalence …

[HTML][HTML] Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Opportunities for interventions and control

BM Althouse, EA Wenger, JC Miller, SV Scarpino… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of
the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease, has moved rapidly around the globe …

The escalating tuberculosis crisis in central and South American prisons

KS Walter, L Martinez, D Arakaki-Sanchez… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
In the past decade, tuberculosis incidence has declined in much of the world, but has risen
in central and South America. It is not yet clear what is driving this reversal of progress in …

Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence and case detection among incarcerated individuals from 2000 to 2019: a systematic analysis

L Martinez, JL Warren, AD Harries, J Croda… - The Lancet Public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background People who are incarcerated are at high risk of developing tuberculosis. We
aimed to estimate the annual global, regional, and national incidence of tuberculosis among …

Genomic signatures of pre-resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

A Torres Ortiz, J Coronel, JR Vidal, C Bonilla… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in bacterial whole-genome sequencing have resulted in a comprehensive
catalog of antibiotic resistance genomic signatures in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. With a …

Stochasticity and heterogeneity in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2

BM Althouse, EA Wenger, JC Miller… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
SARS-CoV-2 causing COVID-19 disease has moved rapidly around the globe, infecting
millions and killing hundreds of thousands. The basic reproduction number, which has been …

The role of prisons in disseminating tuberculosis in Brazil: a genomic epidemiology study

KS Walter, PCP Dos Santos, TO Gonçalves… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Globally, prisons are high-incidence settings for tuberculosis. Yet the role of
prisons as reservoirs of M. tuberculosis, propagating epidemics through spillover to …

Spatial infectious disease epidemiology: on the cusp

G Chowell, R Rothenberg - BMC medicine, 2018 - Springer
Abstract<? show [? A3B2 twb=. 4w?]?><? show [? A3B2 tlsb=. 09pt?]?> Infectious diseases
continue to pose a significant public health burden despite the great progress achieved in …

Who transmits tuberculosis to whom: a cross-sectional analysis of a cohort study in Lima, Peru

L Trevisi, MB Brooks, MC Becerra… - American Journal of …, 2024 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: The persistent burden of tuberculosis (TB) disease emphasizes the need to
identify individuals with TB for treatment and those at a high risk of incident TB for …

Prioritizing persons deprived of liberty in global guidelines for tuberculosis preventive treatment

A Narayan, AD Salindri, S Keshavjee… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
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