The global pandemic of COVID-19 has been associated with infections and deaths among
health-care workers. This Viewpoint of infectious aerosols is intended to inform appropriate …

Knowing the physicochemical properties of exhaled droplets and aerosol particles is a
prerequisite for a detailed mechanistic understanding and effective prevention of the …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a leading cause of mortality worldwide and establishes a
long-lived latent infection in a substantial proportion of the human population. Multiple lines …

Rapid diagnosis is one key pillar to end tuberculosis (TB). Point-of-care tests (POCTs)
facilitate early detection, immediate treatment, and reduced transmission of TB disease. This …

Background Tuberculosis remains a global health challenge, with early diagnosis key to its
reduction. Face-mask sampling detects exhaled Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We aimed to …

Cough has long been implicated in the production of infectious aerosol leading to
transmission of tuberculosis (TB). However, prevalence studies frequently identify …

Tuberculosis has affected humankind for thousands of years, but a deeper understanding of
its cause and transmission only arose after Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium …

Rationale: Interrupting tuberculosis (TB) transmission requires an improved understanding
of how and when the causative organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is aerosolized …

An estimated one-third of tuberculosis (TB) cases go undiagnosed or unreported. Sputum
samples, widely used for TB diagnosis, are inefficient at detecting infection in children and …

Droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) is a third generation of polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) that enables the exact quantification of nucleic acid targets within a sample …