Tuberculosis: advances and challenges in development of new diagnostics and biomarkers

G Walzl, R McNerney, N du Plessis, M Bates… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide.
Early and accurate diagnosis and detection of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant tuberculosis …

A systematic review of biomarkers to detect active tuberculosis

E MacLean, T Broger, S Yerlikaya… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Millions of cases of tuberculosis (TB) go undiagnosed each year. Better diagnostic tools are
urgently needed. Biomarker-based or multiple marker biosignature-based tests, ideally …

Genome-wide expression for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a multicohort analysis

TE Sweeney, L Braviak, CM Tato… - The Lancet Respiratory …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Active pulmonary tuberculosis is difficult to diagnose and treatment response is
difficult to effectively monitor. A WHO consensus statement has called for new non-sputum …

Integrating central nervous system metagenomics and host response for diagnosis of tuberculosis meningitis and its mimics

PS Ramachandran, A Ramesh, FV Creswell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The epidemiology of infectious causes of meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa is not well
understood, and a common cause of meningitis in this region, Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Host-response-based gene signatures for tuberculosis diagnosis: A systematic comparison of 16 signatures

H Warsinske, R Vashisht, P Khatri - PLoS medicine, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) and Foundation for Innovative New
Diagnostics (FIND) have published target product profiles (TPPs) calling for non-sputum …

Human immunology of tuberculosis

TJ Scriba, AK Coussens, HA Fletcher - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - journals.asm.org
Immunology is a central theme when it comes to tuberculosis (TB). The outcome of human
infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is dependent on the ability of the immune …

Performance of diagnostic and predictive host blood transcriptomic signatures for Tuberculosis disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

H Mulenga, CZ Zauchenberger, EW Bunyasi… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Host blood transcriptomic biomarkers have potential as rapid point-of-care
triage, diagnostic, and predictive tests for Tuberculosis disease. We aimed to summarise the …

Prediction of anti-tuberculosis treatment duration based on a 22-gene transcriptomic model

J Heyckendorf, S Marwitz, M Reimann… - European …, 2021 - publications.ersnet.org
Background The World Health Organization recommends standardised treatment durations
for patients with tuberculosis (TB). We identified and validated a host-RNA signature as a …

Blood transcriptomic signatures for symptomatic tuberculosis in an African multicohort study

VM Muwanga, SC Mendelsohn… - European …, 2024 - publications.ersnet.org
Background Multiple host blood transcriptional signatures have been developed as non-
sputum triage tests for tuberculosis (TB). We aimed to compare the diagnostic performance …

Blood transcriptional biomarkers for active tuberculosis among patients in the United States: a case-control study with systematic cross-classifier evaluation

ND Walter, MA Miller, J Vasquez… - Journal of clinical …, 2016 - journals.asm.org
Blood transcriptional signatures are promising for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis but have not
been evaluated among US patients. To be used clinically, transcriptional classifiers need …