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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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Agata Gierlotka, Ryszard Sordyl, Ireneusz Bielecki, Marek Mandera
… identify and evaluate the management options for pituitary tuberculosis in the pediatric population. **METHODS:** The study was conducted based on a comprehensive literature review using the PubMed, Cochrane Library, and ScienceDirect electronic databases. The following keyword…
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…
Mohan Balakrishnan, R Varadharajan, G Gajendran
…imal value for money and catalyse the effort of eliminating tuberculosis burden. Our objective is to evaluate and identify the cost-effectiveness of diagnostics and treatments for tuberculosis practiced in India from costing studies. **METHODS:** Electronic databases like PubMed…
Ruan Spies, Derrick W Crook, Timothy E A Peto, Philip W Fowler, Robert Turner, et al.
…mentation of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in high-burden settings in some low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Automated analysis pipelines could address this inequity in access to WGS-based diagnostics and surveillance. This study aimed …
Derrick Semugenze, George William Kasule, Achilles Katamba, Moses L Joloba, Alberto García-Basteiro, et al.
…ct the outcome of bacterial infections, but for the case of tuberculosis, much emphasis has been on HIV and less attention has been given to other viruses. We conducted a systematic review to identify studies that investigated the association of viral infection other than HIV and…
Omar Oliveira Meira, Luiz Gustavo Ribeiro Silva, Raquel Fonseca Sales, Renata Maria Colodette, Lucas Borges Gomes Ferreira Pinto, et al.
**INTRODUCTION:** Tuberculosis, although curable, presents challenges related to treatment adherence, which compromises treatment effectiveness. Individual, social and structural barriers interfere with patients' ability to properly follow the therapeutic regimen, thereby impacti…
Vinod Raj, Shilpa Sharma
**AIM:** To study the published literature on abdominal tuberculosis in children in the last 10 years. **METHOD:** A PubMed search was done on 27th March 2025 with keywords "pediatric abdominal tuberculosis", using the filter of last 10 years. The articles were screene…
Rosiane Davina da Silva, Erica Rayane Galvão de Farias, José Mateus Bezerra da Graça, Eslia Maria Nunes Pinheiro, Elisângela Franco de Oliveira Cavalcante
**BACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis is a neglected disease with a wide global scope that overcomes public health challenges, also constituting an obstacle to social development. In the effort to control the disease, Tuberculosis Control Programs around the world have aligned their actio…
Diana Dalisay A Orolfo, Fredyrose Ivan L Pinar, Alely S Reyes
…n adherence and clinical outcomes among adult patients with tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries. **INTRODUCTION:** Tuberculosis remains a major public health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where health care access is limited and treatme…
Fizza Manzoor, Chanu Rhee, Meghan A Baker, Michael Klompas
…:** Uncertainty regarding factors that govern Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in healthcare settings leads to broad and variable exposure definitions and low-yield contact investigations. We systematically reviewed data on M. tuberculosis transmission in healthcare to inf…
Nuha Al-Aghbari, Vitri Widyaningsih, Ari Probandari
… public health concern, particularly among individuals with tuberculosis (TB). Smoking delays the recovery from tuberculosis (TB) and it has also been associated with depression in those who have been diagnosed with the disease. The review aimed to find out the association betwee…
Chayanika Biswas, A S Supriya, Aravind Gandhi, Geeta Pardeshi
… add-on corticosteroids on treatment outcomes in lymph node tuberculosis. **METHODS:** After registering the protocol on PROSPERO (CRD420251104064), we systematically searched Cochrane, MEDLINE, Embase and Web of Science for randomised controlled trials on adjunct corticosteroid…
Thomas Santo, Matthew Hickman, Frederick L Altice, Jason Grebely, Sophia Taylor, et al.
… and infectious disease, including HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis. However, comprehensive global data regarding the availability of services that prevent and manage infectious disease, injecting drug use and related harms remain limited and outdated. We provide the first s…
Louisa Degenhardt, Matthew Hickman, Frederick L Altice, Jason Grebely, Sophia Taylor, et al.
… and key infectious diseases (HIV, hepatitis C virus [HCV], tuberculosis and hepatitis B virus [HBV]) among people who are incarcerated. **METHODS:** We conducted a systematic search of peer-reviewed (Medline, Embase, PsycINFO), internet, and grey literature databases, from Janu…