Jeremiah Chakaya, Mishal Khan, Francine Ntoumi, Eleni Aklillu et al.
The October 2020 Global TB report reviews TB control strategies and United Nations (UN) targets set in the political declaration at the September 2018 UN General Assembly high-level meeting on TB held in New York. Progress in TB care and prevention has been very slow. In 2019, TB remained the most c...
Giovanni Battista Migliori, Simon Tiberi, Alimuddin Zumla, Eskild Petersen et al.
The continuous flow of new research articles on MDR-TB diagnosis, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation requires frequent update of existing guidelines. This review is aimed at providing clinicians and public health staff with an updated and easy-to-consult document arising from consensus of Glob...
Najmul Haider, Alexei Yavlinsky, Yu‐Mei Chang, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan et al.
Global Health Security Index (GHSI) and Joint External Evaluation (JEE) are two well-known health security and related capability indices. We hypothesised that countries with higher GHSI or JEE scores would have detected their first COVID-19 case earlier, and would experience lower mortality outcome...
Richard Kock, Anita L. Michel, Dorothy Yeboah‐Manu, Esam I. Azhar et al.
Despite slow reductions in the annual burden of active human tuberculosis (TB) cases, zoonotic TB (zTB) remains a poorly monitored and an important unaddressed global problem. There is a higher incidence in some regions and countries, especially where close association exists between growing numbers...
Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Najmul Haider, Florian Stigler, Rumi Ahmed Khan et al.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the trend of reported case fatality rate (rCFR) of COVID-19 over time, using globally reported COVID-19 cases and mortality data. We collected daily COVID-19 diagnoses and mortality data from the WHO's daily situation reports dated January 1 to December 31...
Mohammad Javad Nasiri, Moein Zangiabadian, Erfan Arabpour, S. Amini et al.
INTRODUCTION: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a life-threatening condition needing long poly-chemotherapy regimens. As no systematic reviews/meta-analysis is available to comprehensively evaluate the role of delamanid (DLM), we evaluated its effectiveness and safety. METHODS: We reviewe...
Angella Magdalene George, Rashid Ansumana, Dziedzom K. de Souza, Vettakkara Kandy Muhammed Niyas et al.
As the world experiences warmer weather, heat waves and flooding, the climate change is leading to the geographical expansion of mosquitos, which are known vectors of a range of infectious diseases like dengue, malaria, chikungunya, yellow fever, rift valley fever, West Nile fever, Japanese encephal...
Giovanni Sotgiu, Simon Tiberi, Rosella Centis, Lia D’Ambrosio et al.
In spite of the recent introduction of two new drugs (delamanid and bedaquiline) and a few repurposed compounds to treat multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR- and XDR-TB), clinicians are facing increasing problems in designing effective regimens in severe cases. Recen...
Najmul Haider, Md Asaduzzaman, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Mahbubur Rahman et al.
Bangladesh is currently grappling to control its most devastating dengue fever outbreak recorded since the dengue virus (DENV) reappeared in the country in 2000 [1–3]. Although dengue is endemic in Bangladesh, the current dengue surge is unusual in terms of case burden and mortality, seasonality, an...
Jamshed Bomanji, Rajnish Sharma, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Sanjay Gambhir et al.
Background A large proportion of the huge global burden of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases are treated empirically without accurate definition of disease sites and extent of multi-organ disease involvement. Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging using 2-deoxy-2-(fluorine-18) fluoro- d -...
Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Ibrahim Khalil, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury, Mahbubur Rahman et al.
The objectives of this study were to compare dengue virus (DENV) cases, deaths, case-fatality ratio [CFR], and meteorological parameters between the first and the recent decades of this century (2000-2010 vs. 2011-2022) and to describe the trends, seasonality, and impact of change of temperature and...
Najmul Haider, Yu‐Mei Chang, Mahbubur Rahman, Alimuddin Zumla et al.
Dengue is endemic in Bangladesh and is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Suppressing the mosquito vector activity at the optimal time annually is a practical strategy to control dengue outbreaks. The objective of this study was to estimate the monthly growth factor (GF) of dengue cases ...
Saber Yezli, Alimuddin Zumla, Yara Yassin, Ali M. Al-Shangiti et al.
Mass gatherings pose a risk for tuberculosis (TB) transmission and reactivation of latent TB infection. The annual Hajj pilgrimage attracts 2 million pilgrims many from high TB-endemic countries. We evaluated the burden of undiagnosed active pulmonary TB in pilgrims attending the 2015 Hajj mass gath...
Eskild Petersen, Seif Al-Abri, Jeremiah Chakaya, Delia Goletti et al.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and STOP TB Partnership theme for World TB Day 24th March, 2022 is “Invest to End TB. Save Lives” (WHO, 2022a). Global political and scientific attention continues to be focussed on the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. There have been over 416 million case...
Najmul Haider, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Ibrahim Khalil, Daniel Tonge et al.
Bangladesh reported the highest number of annual deaths (n = 281) related to dengue virus infection in 2022 since the virus reappeared in the country in 2000. Earlier studies showed that >92% of the annual cases occurred between the months of August and September. The 2022 outbreak is characterized ...