[HTML][HTML] Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests

O Vandenberg, D Martiny, O Rochas… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
During the early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, design,
development, validation, verification and implementation of diagnostic tests were actively …

The syndemics and structural violence of the COVID pandemic: anthropological insights on a crisis

M Singer, B Rylko-Bauer - Open Anthropological Research, 2021 - degruyter.com
This paper examines the COVID-19 pandemic in light of two key concepts in medical
anthropology: syndemics and structural violence. Following a discussion of the nature of …

Tuberculosis in the era of COVID-19 in India

VK Jain, KP Iyengar, DA Samy, R Vaishya - Diabetes & Metabolic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and aims Tuberculosis (TB) still continues to be endemic in various regions of
the world, including in India and needs surveillance, clinical assessment, testing, contact …

Pathology of TB/COVID-19 co-infection: the phantom menace

GT Mousquer, A Peres, M Fiegenbaum - Tuberculosis, 2021 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are currently the two main
causes of death among infectious diseases. There is an increasing number of studies trying …

Bacterial coinfections in COVID-19: an underestimated adversary

L Fattorini, R Creti, C Palma, A Pantosti - Annali dell'Istituto superiore di …, 2020 - annali.iss.it
Current literature shows that secondary bacterial infections, although less frequent than in
previous influenza pandemics, affect COVID-19 patients. Mycoplasma pneumoniae …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis management in Spain

ML Aznar, J Espinosa-Pereiro, N Saborit, N Jové… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The impact of COVID-19 on the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis
(TB) patients is unknown. Methods Participating centres completed a structured web-based …

Corticosteroids for COVID-19 therapy: potential implications on tuberculosis

R Gopalaswamy, S Subbian - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization announced the Corona Virus Disease-
2019 (COVID-19) as a global pandemic, which originated in China. At the host level, COVID …

Containment of COVID-19 in Ethiopia and implications for tuberculosis care and research

H Mohammed, L Oljira, KT Roba, G Yimer… - Infectious diseases of …, 2020 - Springer
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a global health and
economic security threat with staggering cumulative incidence worldwide. Given the severity …

[HTML][HTML] Key recent advances in TB vaccine development and understanding of protective immune responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

TJ Scriba, MG Netea, AM Ginsberg - Seminars in immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis is the leading infectious disease killer globally due to a single pathogen.
Despite wide deployment of standard drug regimens, modern diagnostics and a vaccine …

Transcriptomics for child and adolescent tuberculosis

M Kaforou, C Broderick, O Vito, M Levin… - Immunological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) in humans is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). It is estimated
that 70 million children (< 15 years) are currently infected with Mtb, with 1.2 million each year …