Classification of early tuberculosis states to guide research for improved care and prevention: an international Delphi consensus exercise

AK Coussens, SMA Zaidi, BW Allwood… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The current active–latent paradigm of tuberculosis largely neglects the documented
spectrum of disease. Inconsistency with regard to definitions, terminology, and diagnostic …

Implications of subclinical tuberculosis for vaccine trial design and global effect

GJ Churchyard, RMGJ Houben, K Fielding… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death from an infectious agent globally. Infectious
subclinical tuberculosis accounts for almost half of all tuberculosis cases in national …

Aerosolization of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli by tuberculosis clinic attendees independent of sputum-Xpert Ultra status

B Patterson, R Dinkele, S Gessner… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Potential Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) transmission during different pulmonary
tuberculosis (TB) disease states is poorly understood. We quantified viable aerosolized Mtb …

International consensus classification of early tuberculosis states to guide research for improved care and prevention: A Delphi exercise

AK Coussens, SMA Zaidi, BA Allwood… - The Lancet …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The current active/latent paradigm of tuberculosis (TB) largely neglects the documented
spectrum of disease. Lack of consistency on definitions, terminology and diagnostic criteria …

PET-CT outcomes from a randomised controlled trial of rosuvastatin as an adjunct to standard tuberculosis treatment

GB Cross, IP Sari, SM Burkill, CW Yap… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Adjunctive rosuvastatin for rifampicin-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis (rs-PTB) shows no
effect on microbiological or radiological outcomes in a phase IIb randomised, controlled trial …

Diagnostic Accuracy of Chest X-ray Computer-Aided Detection Software for Detection of Prevalent and Incident Tuberculosis in Household Contacts

L Macpherson, SV Kik, M Quartagno… - Clinical Infectious …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background World Health Organization (WHO) tuberculosis (TB) screening
guidelines recommend computer-aided detection (CAD) software for chest radiograph …

[HTML][HTML] Chest Radiograph Screening for Detecting Subclinical Tuberculosis in Asymptomatic Household Contacts, Peru

Q Tan, CC Huang, MC Becerra… - Emerging Infectious …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The World Health Organization's end TB strategy promotes the use of symptom and
chest radiograph screening for tuberculosis (TB) disease. However, asymptomatic early …

Implementation of a genotyped African population cohort, with virtual follow-up: A feasibility study in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

T Tamuhla, AK Coussens… - Wellcome Open …, 2025 - wellcomeopenresearch.org
Background There is limited knowledge regarding African genetic drivers of disease due to
prohibitive costs of large-scale genomic research in Africa. Methods We piloted a scalable …

[HTML][HTML] Mathematical modeling suggests heterogeneous replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in rabbits

VV Ganusov, A Kolloli, S Subbian - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tuberculosis (TB), the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), remains a
major health problem with 10.6 million cases of the disease and 1.6 million deaths in 2021. It …

Imaging in early tuberculosis

R Wilkinson - Thorax, 2024 - thorax.bmj.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is a pressing global human health problem that resulted in over 10 million
cases and 1.3 million deaths in 2022. 1 The WHO proposes to end this global epidemic by …