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...
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 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...
Giovanni Battista Migliori, Pei Min Thong, Jan‐Willem C. Alffenaar, Justin T. Denholm et al.
The objective of this study was to describe country-specific lockdown measures and tuberculosis indicators collected during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data on lockdown/social restrictions (compulsory face masks and hand hygiene; international and local travel restrictions; restrictions...
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...
Simon Tiberi, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Jeremiah Chakaya, Tereza Kaesava et al.
World TB Day falls on March 24th each year, and it commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the microbial cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (WHO, 2020aWHO World tuberculosis day.2020https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2020/03/24/defaul...