Incipient and subclinical tuberculosis: a clinical review of early stages and progression of infection

PK Drain, KL Bajema, D Dowdy, K Dheda… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018‏ - journals.asm.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of mortality worldwide, due in part to a
limited understanding of its clinical pathogenic spectrum of infection and disease …

The natural history of untreated pulmonary tuberculosis in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

B Sossen, AS Richards, T Heinsohn… - The Lancet …, 2023‏ - thelancet.com
Stages of tuberculosis disease can be delineated by radiology, microbiology, and
symptoms, but transitions between these stages remain unclear. In a systematic review and …

Latent tuberculosis: two centuries of confusion

MA Behr, E Kaufmann, J Duffin… - American journal of …, 2021‏ - atsjournals.org
The current dogma is that 2 billion individuals, making up a quarter of the world's population,
are latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (1–4). It is thought that latent …

The ongoing challenge of latent tuberculosis

H Esmail, CE Barry 3rd, DB Young… - … Transactions of the …, 2014‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The global health community has set itself the task of eliminating tuberculosis (TB) as a
public health problem by 2050. Although progress has been made in global TB control, the …

HIV infection and multidrug resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

ZZ Sultana, FU Hoque, J Beyene… - BMC infectious …, 2021‏ - Springer
Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in HIV infected individuals is a
serious threat to global efforts to combat tuberculosis. Inconsistent findings on the …

Tuberculosis screening among ambulatory people living with HIV: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

A Dhana, Y Hamada, AP Kengne… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022‏ - thelancet.com
Background The WHO-recommended tuberculosis screening and diagnostic algorithm in
ambulatory people living with HIV is a four-symptom screen (known as the WHO …

Scaling up interventions to achieve global tuberculosis control: progress and new developments

M Raviglione, B Marais, K Floyd, K Lönnroth… - The Lancet, 2012‏ - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis is still one of the most important causes of death worldwide. The 2010 Lancet
tuberculosis series provided a comprehensive overview of global control efforts and …

Characterization of progressive HIV-associated tuberculosis using 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose positron emission and computed tomography

H Esmail, RP Lai, M Lesosky, KA Wilkinson… - Nature medicine, 2016‏ - nature.com
Tuberculosis is classically divided into states of latent infection and active disease. Using
combined positron emission and computed tomography in 35 asymptomatic, antiretroviral …

Latent tuberculosis infection–revisiting and revising concepts

P Salgame, C Geadas, L Collins, E Jones-López… - Tuberculosis, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Host-and pathogen-specific factors interplay with the environment in a complex fashion to
determine the outcome of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), resulting in one …

Tuberculosis IRIS: pathogenesis, presentation, and management across the spectrum of disease

CM Quinn, V Poplin, J Kasibante, K Yuquimpo… - Life, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Antiretroviral therapy (ART), while essential in combatting tuberculosis (TB) and HIV
coinfection, is often complicated by the TB-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory …