Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis control: an overview

KA Alene, K Wangdi, ACA Clements - Tropical medicine and infectious …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Throughout history, pandemics of viral infections such as HIV, Ebola and Influenza have
disrupted health care systems, including the prevention and control of endemic diseases …

Constructing care cascades for active tuberculosis: a strategy for program monitoring and identifying gaps in quality of care

R Subbaraman, RR Nathavitharana, KH Mayer… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The cascade of care is a model for evaluating patient retention across sequential stages of
care required to achieve a successful treatment outcome. This approach was first used to …

Global, regional, and national sex differences in the global burden of tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

JR Ledesma, J Ma, A Vongpradith… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Tuberculosis is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, causing
more than a million deaths annually. Given an emphasis on equity in access to diagnosis …

Biological foundations of successful bacteriophage therapy

C Venturini, A Petrovic Fabijan… - EMBO Molecular …, 2022 - embopress.org
Bacteriophages (phages) are selective viral predators of bacteria. Abundant and ubiquitous
in nature, phages can be used to treat bacterial infections (phage therapy), including …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence trends of latent tuberculosis infection at the global, regional, and country levels from 1990–2019

C Ding, M Hu, W Guo, W Hu, X Li, S Wang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To track the prevalence trends of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) at the global,
regional, and national levels. Methods Data on the prevalence of LTBI were extracted from …

Epidemiological features and temporal trends of the co-infection between HIV and tuberculosis, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

SX Zhang, JC Wang, J Yang, S Lv, L Duan… - Infectious Diseases of …, 2024 - mednexus.org
Background The co-infection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune
deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis (TB) poses a significant clinical challenge and …

State-of-the-art polymeric nanoparticles as promising therapeutic tools against human bacterial infections

A Cano, M Ettcheto, M Espina… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Infectious diseases kill over 17 million people a year, among which bacterial infections stand
out. From all the bacterial infections, tuberculosis, diarrhoea, meningitis, pneumonia, sexual …

Immunoinformatics and structural aided approach to develop multi-epitope based subunit vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

G Sethi, RP Varghese, AK Lakra, SS Nayak… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb),
which is one of the prominent reasons for the death of millions worldwide. The bacterium …

Prevalence and associated risk factors for tuberculosis among people living with HIV in Nepal

N Adhikari, RB Bhattarai, R Basnet, LR Joshi… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Worldwide tuberculosis (TB) takes more lives than any other infectious
diseases. WHO estimates around 68,000 incident TB cases in Nepal. However, in 2018 only …

Post-tuberculosis chronic pulmonary aspergillosis: an emerging public health concern

F Bongomin - PLoS pathogens, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex is the leading cause of
death and diseases from a single infectious agent and continues to be a major global public …