… Mayara Lisboa Bastos,1,2 Gamuchirai Tavaziva,1 Syed Kunal Abidi,1 Jonathon R
Campbell,1,6 Louis-Patrick Haraoui,3 James C Johnston,4 Zhiyi Lan,1 Stephanie Law,5 Emily …

Background The study objective was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on
the proportion of asymptomatic infection among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Background: Nasopharyngeal swabs are the primary sampling method used for detection of
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), but they require a trained …

Background Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis requires long-term therapy with a
combination of multiple second-line drugs. These drugs are associated with numerous …

Background There is a need for short and safe all-oral treatment of rifampicin-resistant
tuberculosis. We compared outcomes up to 24 months after treatment initiation for patients with …

Background Automated radiologic analysis using computer-aided detection software (CAD)
could facilitate chest X-ray (CXR) use in tuberculosis diagnosis. There is little to no evidence …

Little is known about the impact of comorbidities on multidrug resistant (MDR) and extensively
drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes. We aimed to examine the …

Background HIV-infection is associated with increased mortality during multidrug-resistant
tuberculosis treatment, but the extent to which the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and anti-…

Objective To determine the annual rate of tuberculosis development after a positive tuberculin
skin test (TST) or interferon-gamma release assay result (IGRA), or both, among untreated …

We sought to compare the effectiveness of two World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended
regimens for the treatment of rifampin- or multidrug-resistant (RR/MDR) tuberculosis (TB…