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A global forum for tuberculosis research

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Tuberculosis kills more people today than HIV and malaria combined. In 2015, there were an estimated 10.4 million new TB cases worldwide and 1.8 million TB deaths. Six countries account for 60 per cent of the total burden, with India accounting for 27 per cent of the global cases, followed by Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. Of the 10.4 million new cases, the WHO estimate that only 6.1 million were detected and officially notified. This left a gap of 4.3 million cases that are considered ‘missing’ – either not diagnosed, or not notified to TB control programs. Drug-resistance is a growing threat in many settings, and there is an urgent need for improved drug regimens, vaccines and diagnostics.

The Tuberculosis Channel features articles on all topics relevant to TB research. The Channel editors aim to showcase the most up to date research to assist various stakeholders in the fight against TB, including academics, healthcare workers, policy makers, implementers, patients, and civil society.

Channel Editors

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Dr Soumya Swaminathan
Deputy Director General of Programmes (DDP), World Health Organization

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Dr Madhukar Pai
Director, McGill Global Health Programs
Associate Director, McGill International TB Centre

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Sophie Huddart

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Emily MacLean

The Editors are grateful to Sophie Huddart & Emily MacLean, doctoral candidates at McGill University, Montreal, for their contributions to this Channel.

Channel Items Showing 721 – 730 of 1334 articles
  • The Lancet Psychiatry Tuberculosis: an opportunity to integrate mental health services in primary care in low-resource settings
    October 2, 2018 Annika C Sweetland, Ernesto Jaramillo, Milton L Wainberg, Neerja Chowdhary, Maria A Oquendo, Andrew Medina-Marino, Tarun Dua
  • American Journal of Infection Control Oscar-nominated movies and the epidemiology of tuberculosis in the past 90 years
    October 2, 2018 Gabriele Rovello, Adelaide Andriani, Sara Brambilla, Danae Bossi, Michele Augusto Riva.
  • NPR Life After TB: She Is Deaf, She Still Dances, She Addressed The U.N. Today
    September 26, 2018 Rachel D. Cohen
  • Stop TB Partnership United to end tuberculosis: An urgent global response to a global epidemic
    September 26, 2018 UN HLM
  • CDC TB Education and Training Network
    September 20, 2018 CDC
  • THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES Predicting tuberculosis: the blood, the skin, or the Sibyl?
    September 20, 2018 Jean-Pierre Zellweger
  • THE LANCET Treatment correlates of successful outcomes in pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: an individual patient data meta-analysis
    September 20, 2018 The Collaborative Group for the Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data in MDR-TB treatment–2017, Nafees Ahmad, PhD, Shama D Ahuja, PhD, Onno W Akkerman, PhD, Jan-Willem C Alffenaar, PhD, Laura F Anderson, PhD, Parvaneh Baghaei, PhD, Didi Bang, PhD, Pennan M Barry, MD, Mayara L Bastos, MD, Prof Digamber Behera, FCCP, Andrea Benedetti, PhD, Gregory P Bisson, MD, Martin J Boeree, FRCP. Maryline Bonnet, PhD, Sarah K Brode, MD, James C M Brust, MD, Ying Cai, MSc, Eric Caumes, MD, J Peter Cegielski, MD, Rosella Centis, BSc, EconPei-Chun Chan, PhD, Edward D Chan, MD, Kwok-Chiu Chang, MSc, Macarthur Charles, MD, Andra Cirule, MD, Margareth Pretti Dalcolmo, PhD, Lia D'Ambrosio, MA, Gerard de Vries, PhD, Keertan Dheda, PhD, Aliasgar Esmail, MD, Jennifer Flood, MD, Gregory J Fox, PhD, Mathilde Fréchet-Jachym, MD, Geisa Fregona, PhD, Regina Gayoso, MSc, Medea Gegia, MD, Maria Tarcela Gler, MD, Sue Gu, MD, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, MD, Timothy H Holtz, MD, Jennifer Hughes, MBBCh, Petros Isaakidis, PhD, Leah Jarlsberg, BA, Russell R Kempker, MD, Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, Faiz Ahmad Khan, MD, Maia Kipiani, MD, Serena P Koenig, MD, Won-Jung Koh, MD, Afranio Kritski, Ph, DLiga Kuksa, MD, Charlotte L Kvasnovsky, MD, Nakwon Kwak, MD, Zhiyi Lan, MSc, Christoph Lange, MD, Rafael Laniado-Laborín, MPH, Myungsun Lee, MD, Vaira Leimane, MD, Chi-Chiu Leung, MBBS, Eric Chung-Ching Leung, FRCP, Pei Zhi Li, MSc, Phil Lowenthal, MPH, Ethel L Maciel, PhD, Suzanne M Marks, MPH, Sundari Mase, MD, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, MD, Giovanni B Migliori, MD, Vladimir Milanov, MD, Ann C Miller, PhD, Carole D Mitnick, ScD, Chawangwa Modongo, MD, Erika Mohr, MPH, Ignacio Monedero, PhD, Payam Nahid, MD, Norbert Ndjeka, MMed, Max R O'Donnell, MD, Nesri Padayatchi, PhD, Domingo Palmero, PhD, Jean William Pape, MD, Laura J Podewils, PhD, Ian Reynolds, MD, Vija Riekstina, PhD, Jérôme Robert, MD, Maria Rodriguez, MD, Barbara Seaworth, MD, Kwonjune J Seung, MDKathryn Schnippel, PhDTae Sun Shim, MDRupak Singla, MD, Sarah E Smith, MPH, Giovanni Sotgiu, PhD, Ganzaya Sukhbaatar, MPHPayam Tabarsi, MDSimon Tiberi, MDAnete Trajman, PhDLisa Trieu, MPH, Zarir F Udwadia, MD, Tjip S van der Werf, MD, Nicolas Veziris, MD, Piret Viiklepp, MD, Stalz Charles Vilbrun, MD, Kathleen Walsh, MD, Janice Westenhouse, MPH, Wing-Wai Yew, MBBS, Jae-Joon Yim, MD, Nicola M Zetola, MD, Matteo Zignol, MD, Dick Menzies, MD
  • PLOS ONE Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF testing on various specimen types for presumptive infant TB cases for early and appropriate treatment initiation
    September 20, 2018 Neeraj Raizada, Sunil D. Khaparde, Raghuram Rao, Aakshi Kalra, Sanjay Sarin, Virender Singh Salhotra, Soumya Swaminathan, Ashwani Khanna, Kamal Kishore Chopra, M. Hanif, Varinder Singh, K. R. Umadevi, Sreenivas Achuthan Nair, Sophie Huddart, Rajneesh Tripathi, C. H. Surya Prakash, B. K. Saha, Claudia M. Denkinger, Catharina Boehme
  • PLOS ONE Tuberculosis in post-contact Native Americans of Brazil: Paleopathological and paleogenetic evidence from the Tenetehara-Guajajara
    September 20, 2018 Lucélia Guedes, Lauren Hubert Jaeger, Andersen Liryo, Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Alena Mayo Iñiguez
  • SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Macrophage mannose receptor, CD206, predict prognosis in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis
    September 20, 2018 Yuzo Suzuki, Masahiro Shirai, Kazuhiro Asada, Hideki Yasui, Masato Karayama, Hironao Hozumi, Kazuki Furuhashi, Noriyuki Enomoto, Tomoyuki Fujisawa, Yutaro Nakamura, Naoki Inui, Toshihiro Shirai, Hiroshi Hayakawa & Takafumi Suda
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