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Chenxi Liu, Israel Cohen, Rotem Vishinkin and Hossam Haick
Tuberculosis (TB) has long been recognized as a significant health concern worldwide. Recent advancements in noninvasive wearable devices and machine learning (ML) techniques have enabled rapid and cost-effective testing for the real-time detection of TB...
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Dingani Moyo, Fungai Kavenga, Ronald Thulani Ncube, Farai Peter Macheri, Tariro Christwish Mando, Florence Moyo, Orippa Muzvidziwa, Mpokiseng Ncube, Hellen Masvingo, Blessings Chigaraza, Andrew Nyambo, Albert Mangwanya, Rosemary Ncube Mwale, Trust Mazadza, Tinashe Magidi, Gerald Benny, Chamunorwa Ndudzo, Victoria Varaidzo Kandido, Kudzaishe Mutungamiri and Collins Timire
In Zimbabwe, artisanal and small-scale miners (ASMs) have a high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and silicosis. Previous studies on ASMs utilised programme data, and it was not possible to understand reasons for the h...
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Maicon Herverton Lino Ferreira da Silva Barros, Geovanne Oliveira Alves, Lubnnia Morais Florêncio Souza, Elisson da Silva Rocha, João Fausto Lorenzato de Oliveira, Theo Lynn, Vanderson Sampaio and Patricia Takako Endo
Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease caused by organisms in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex. In many low and middle-income countries, TB remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Once a patient has been diagnosed with ...
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Carlos Martin, Nacho Aguilo, Dessislava Marinova and Jesus Gonzalo-Asensio
In addition to antibiotics, vaccination is considered among the most efficacious methods in the control and the potential eradication of infectious diseases. New safe and effective vaccines against tuberculosis (TB) could be a very important tool and are...
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Balachandra Bandodkar, Radha Krishan Shandil, Jagadeesh Bhat and Tanjore S. Balganesh
After several years of limited success, an effective regimen for the treatment of both drug-sensitive and multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis is in place. However, this success is still incomplete, as we need several more novel combinations to treat ext...
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Yiran Cui, Hui Shen, Fang Wang, Haoyu Wen, Zixin Zeng, Yafeng Wang and Chuanhua Yu
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major infectious diseases with the largest number of morbidity and mortality. Based on the comparison of high and low burden countries of tuberculosis in China, India and the United States, the influence of age-period-coho...
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Christian Lienhardt and Mario C. Raviglione
The World Health Organization (WHO) End Tuberculosis (TB) Strategy has set ambitious targets to reduce 2015 TB incidence and deaths by 80% and 90%, respectively, by the year 2030. Given the current rate of TB incidence decline (about 2% per year annually...
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Syed Mustafa Ali, Ana Filomena Curralo, Maged N. Kamel Boulos and Sara Paiva
We propose a new framework to improve the engagement of medical practitioners in a planned e-training platform for the successful identification and effective management of presumptive cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Pakistan. Our work is aligned with the ...
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Zhezhe Cui, Dingwen Lin, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Edward A. Graviss, Angkana Chaiprasert, Prasit Palittapongarnpim, Mei Lin, Jing Ou and Jinming Zhao
The aims of the study were: (1) compare sociodemographic characteristics among active tuberculosis (TB) cases and their household contacts in cold and hot spot transmission areas, and (2) quantify the influence of locality, genotype and potential determi...
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Lan Li, Yuliang Xi and Fu Ren
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease with one of the highest reported incidences in China. The detection of the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of TB is indicative of its prevention and control conditions. Trajectory similarity analysi...
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