The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a new zoonotic human
viral pathogen endemic to the Middle East. 1–3 It was identified in 2012 in a lung sample of …

Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a substantial health-care concern worldwide. Despite culture-
based methods being considered the gold standard for drug susceptibility testing, molecular …

Rationale: In the absence of active tuberculosis, a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) or
interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) result defines latent infection with Mycobacterium …

New approaches to control the spread of tuberculosis (TB) are needed, including tools to
predict development of active TB from latent TB infection (LTBI). Recent studies have …

Tuberculosis (TB) still represents an important issue for public health in underdeveloped
countries, but the use of antitumor necrosis factor agents (anti‐TNF) for the treatment of …

These updated guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Community of Practice of the
American Society of Transplantation will review the current state of the art of donor‐derived …

Protective immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains poorly understood and the
role of Mtb‐specific CD8+ T cells is controversial. Here we performed a broad phenotypic …

The introduction of new rapid diagnostic tools for tuberculosis (TB) and the promising TB
drugs pipeline together with the development of a new World Health Organization Strategy …

Objective Immunosuppressed individuals are at a high risk of latent tuberculosis infection
(LTBI) and clinical practice guidelines for the screening and management of LTBI in at-risk …

Since the first transplant was performed in 1954, transplants have become increasingly
common with excellent patient and graft outcomes in large part owing to advances in …