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Mikashmi Kohli, Leeberk Raja Inbaraj, Angela Salomon, Katie Scandrett, Alexei Korobitsyn, et al.
…sts widely used for simultaneous detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and rifampicin resistance in sputum. To extend our previous review on extrapulmonary tuberculosis, we performed this update to inform a WHO policy update. **OBJECTIVES:** To estimate the diagnostic …
Ana Luíza Brasileiro Nato Marques Assumpção, Flávia Correia Silva, Licia Kellen de Almeida Andrade, Quézia Rosa Ferreira, Gilberto da Cruz Leal, et al.
…men's experiences in the process of illness and care during tuberculosis treatment. A systematic review of qualitative studies was conducted based on the Joanna Briggs Institute's Manual for Evidence Synthesis and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analy…
Wagaw Abebe, Solomon Gedifie, Tadele Emagneneh
**BACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis is one of infectious disease, which caused by. It is still one of the major problems threatening public health worldwide. However, there are inadequate systematic studies and statistical assessments of tuberculosis prevalence, mainly in Ethiopia. **O…
Laura Olbrich, Bada Yang, Hayley Poore, Alia Razid, Brittney Sweetser, et al.
…ts (LC-aNAATs) are molecular assays widely used to diagnose tuberculosis disease in children. The lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay (LF-LAM) is recommended for use amongst children with HIV. Previous systematic reviews have assessed the diagnostic accuracy of LC-aNAATs a…
P Jamshidi, B Danaei, M Arbabi, B Mohammadzadeh, F Khelghati, et al.
… and may accompany the development of various diseases like tuberculosis, cancer, or autoimmune diseases. The term silico-tuberculosis describes a condition in which an individual is affected by both silicosis and tuberculosis at the same time. This systematic review and meta-ana…
Nyashadzaishe Mafirakureva, Anna Cartledge, Isobella Bradshaw, Adrie Bekker, Nicole Salazar-Austin, et al.
…spite known maternal, perinatal, and infant health risks of tuberculosis during pregnancy, global estimates of incidence remain scarce. Existing estimates are outdated, and do not include the postpartum period, HIV co-infection, age, or specific changes in risk, limiting our unde…
Sheng Liu, Tianyu Lin, Yanyu Pan
…ulation, prompting interest in its potential for preventing tuberculosis. However, clinical findings regarding its protective effects against tuberculosis infection and disease remain inconsistent. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials…
Jiahao Meng, Xi Li, Yilin Xiong, Yumei Wu, Pan Liu, et al.
… supplementing vitamin D in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis infection through a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. **METHODS:** The databases of PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, and Web of Science were systematically searched from inception to April 21,…
Lucía Carratalà-Castro, Shilzia Munguambe, Belén Saavedra-Cervera, Petra de Haas, Alexander Kay, et al.
…There has been a global pursuit to improve the diagnosis of tuberculosis in young children by applying diagnostic methods on accessible biospecimens such as stool. We aimed to conduct a systematic review on the accuracy of stool-based molecular tests for tuberculosis diagnosis in…
James Greenan-Barrett, Simon C Mendelsohn, Thomas J Scriba, Mahdad Noursadeghi, Rishi K Gupta
…ripts provide similar accuracy for detection of subclinical tuberculosis to multi-gene signatures and benchmark their accuracy and clinical utility against interferon-γ release assays (IGRAs). **METHODS:** For this individual participant data meta-analysis, we searched Pub…
Anna Starshinova, Adilya Sabirova, Igor Kudryavtsev, Artem Rubinstein, Leonid P Churilov, et al.
**INTRODUCTION:** Tuberculosis infection remains one of the most dangerous and difficult to diagnose diseases. To date, issues related to the early diagnosis of tuberculosis remain unresolved, which is particularly important for its detection in high-risk groups. The detection of…
Karthikeyan Sundaram, Leela Kagithakara Vajravelu, Ravichandiran Velayutham, Utpal Mohan
**BACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis is a contagious disease that ranks among the top ten killers of humans worldwide. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an etiological agent of tuberculosis. The prognosis of tuberculosis in patients with autoimmune diseases is high due to treatment with anti…
Sharina Ratnakumar, Sally E Hayward, Emma K Denneny, Lucy P Goldsmith, Rebecca Evans, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Although post-tuberculosis lung disease poses a substantial threat to individuals who have recovered from pulmonary tuberculosis, data showing objective functional impairment in such people are scarce. We did a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate respi…
Carlos Podalirio Borges de Almeida, Leonid Lecca, Courtney M Yuen
Private sector engagement has been shown to improve tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment outcomes in Asia and Africa, but systematic reviews in 2015 and 2017 identified only two reports from Latin America. We conducted a systematic review to identify descriptions of private secto…
Zipporah Dery, Celso Pagatpatan, Margel Bonifacio
…cilitators of the use of digital adherence technologies for tuberculosis treatment. The review will focus on the human factors that support the use of these technologies in tuberculosis treatment. **INTRODUCTION:** More than 10 million people are infected with tuberculosis every…
Robert Akpata, Anani Badjé, Jean-Baptiste Ntakpé, Cossi Angelo Attinsounon, Nathalie de Castro, et al.
**INTRODUCTION:** Tuberculosis is a leading infectious cause of death and morbidity in people with and without HIV. Better identification of severe forms could help target early interventions to reduce mortality and severe morbidity. Existing severity scores do not fully take int…
Hanxin Wu, Liangyu Zhu, Rui-An Bao, Suyi Luo, Li Peng, et al.
**OBJECTIVES:** Tuberculosis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are two diseases that have imposed the heaviest burden globally. This study aims to determine the global prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV (TB-HIV) co-infection through a systematic review and meta…
Matthew J Saunders, J Peter Cegielski, Rebecca A Clark, Rein M G J Houben, C Finn McQuaid
…CKGROUND:** The relationship between nutritional status and tuberculosis is critically important but poorly understood. We extended a 2009 review characterizing the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and tuberculosis risk. **METHODS:** We systematically searched for new …
José Nildo de Barros Silva Júnior, Gilberto da Cruz Leal, Quézia Rosa Ferreira, Licia Kellen de Almeida Andrade, Jaqueline Garcia de Almeida Ballestero, et al.
…ND:** Clinical trials have shown the protective efficacy of tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) for averting disease and death from tuberculosis among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV). TPT has been recommended for PLHIV since the 1980s. However, tuberculosis is still the f…
Dominik Zenner, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Tahreem Chaudhry, Ibrahim Abubakar, Frank Cobelens
**BACKGROUND:** Optimising tuberculosis disease testing algorithms is fundamental to ensuring the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of migrant screening programmes, including better understanding of individual and combined screening test properties. The aim of our study was to…
Xiaoli Liu, Chunmei Liu, Rong Yao, Bin Wan, Li Fu, et al.
…tic review of risk factors for drug-induced liver injury in tuberculosis patients. **METHODS:** Computerized searches were conducted in PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library databases to identify studies investigating risk factors for drug-induced liver injury…
Boya Gou, Chuyao Zhang, Zhe Song, Zhen Huang, Shuihua Lu
…ct tool endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for tuberculosis diagnosis. The study aimed to investigate the diagnostic performance of tNGS across different clinical scenarios (populations, sample and tuberculosis types, and platforms), which has not been comprehensivel…
Lucas Vinícius de Lima, Gabriel Pavinati, Anne Jaquelyne Roque Barrêto, Maria Aparecida Salci, Mayckel da Silva Barreto, et al.
…discover the experiences of people undergoing treatment for tuberculosis-HIV coinfection. Ten databases and reference lists were searched for original articles with qualitative data, published in Portuguese, English and/or Spanish up to 2022. The 11 studies included yielded a met…
Reagan Daniel Emoru, Lucy Elauteri Mrema, Nyanda Elias Ntinginya, Irene Andia Biraro, Reinout van Crevel, et al.
…ES:** Diabetes mellitus significantly increases the risk of tuberculosis, and active tuberculosis screening of people with diabetes mellitus has been advocated by WHO and other international bodies. This systematic review aimed to evaluate the accuracy of computer-assisted detect…
W S Ngowi, O O Mandizadza, Minyan Wang, W T Shao, Conghua Ji
…ple who use drugs (PWUD) are at a higher risk of developing tuberculosis (TB); however, there is no clear evidence to determine the prevalence of TB in this group accurately. This study aimed to systematically review the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) among PWUD across studies c…