… Author Contributions: Dr Arentz had full access to all of the data in the study and takes …
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Arentz, Yim, Klaff, …

In an effort to update and clarify policies on tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing (DST),
the World Health Organization (WHO) commissioned a systematic review evaluating WHO-…

The production of guidelines for the management of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) fits the
mandate of the World Health Organization (WHO) to support countries in the reinforcement of …

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the … specimens and culture isolates from humans suspected or confirmed as having M. TB. …

Introduction Use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) during treatment of drug susceptible tuberculosis
(TB) improves survival. However, data from HIV infected individuals with drug resistant …

Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of death globally. India carries the highest
share of the global TB burden. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted diagnosis of …

Background Evidence of an association between cigarette smoking and latent tuberculosis
infection (LTBI) is based on studies in special populations and/or from high prevalence …

Developers proposing new machine learning for health (ML4H) tools often pledge to match
or even surpass the performance of existing tools, yet the reality is usually more complicated. …

Humans exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) show variation in susceptibility to
infection and differences in tuberculosis (TB) disease outcome. Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) is a …