Before the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began, antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
was among the top priorities for global public health. Already a complex challenge, AMR …

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, models predicted hundreds of thousands of additional TB
deaths as a result of health service disruption. To date, empirical evidence on the effects of …

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 …

The risk of progression from exposure to the tuberculosis bacilli to the development of active
disease is a two‐stage process governed by both exogenous and endogenous risk factors …

Measuring tuberculosis transmission is exceedingly difficult, given the remarkable variability
in the timing of clinical disease after Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; incident disease …

The annual risk of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis determines a population's
exposure level and thus the fraction of incident tuberculosis resulting from recent infection …

Tuberculosis continues to cause an unacceptably high toll of disease and death among
children worldwide, particularly in the wake of the HIV epidemic. Increased international …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization has set ambitious targets for the global
elimination of tuberculosis. However, these targets will not be achieved at the current rate of …

The individual-and population-level impact of household tuberculosis exposure on
transmission is unclear but may have implications for the effectiveness and implementation …

Unacceptable levels of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission are noted in high burden
settings and a renewed focus on reducing person-to-person transmission in these …