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Breaking barriers for TB elimination: A novel community-led strategy revolutionizing tuberculosis case finding and treatment support in Senapati District Manipur-A quasi-experimental pre-post study protocol

Arangba S, Singh S, [ ... ], Kaur H

Facilitators, barriers, and strategies for the implementation of peer-led tuberculosis active case finding among people who use drugs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Lilian Tina Minja, Liana Monica Minja, [ ... ], Jennifer M. Belus

Nanopore-based targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS): A versatile technology specialized in detecting low bacterial load clinical specimens

Chen Yang, Weiwei Gao, Yicheng Guo, Yi Zeng

The incremental value of tuberculosis detecting African giant pouched rats over Smear microscopy and Xpert MTB/RIF for Tanzanian TB detection

Tefera B. Agizew, Joseph Soka, [ ... ], Negussie Beyene

Active case finding using mobile vans with artificial intelligence aided radiology tests and sputum collection for rapid diagnostic tests to reduce tuberculosis prevalence among high-risk population in rural China: Protocol for a pragmatic trial

Xiaolin Wei, Dabin Liang, [ ... ], Mei Lin

Prospective Analysis of urINe LAM to Eliminate NTM Sputum Screening (PAINLESS) study: Rationale and trial design for testing urine lipoarabinomannan as a marker of NTM lung infection in cystic fibrosis

Kara M. Calhoun, Emily Armantrout, [ ... ], Jerry A. Nick

Performance of three diagnostic tests for tuberculosis among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients presenting to a health facility in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya

Eunita A. Ochola, Marshal M. Mweu

The predictive value of heparin-binding protein for bacterial infections in patients with severe polytrauma

Li Li, Xiao-xi Tian, Gui-long Feng, Bing Chen

Prevalence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria among people with acid-fast positive presumptive tuberculosis in Mali

Aissata Boubakar Cisse, Anna S. Dean, [ ... ], Leen Rigouts

Laboratory validation of a simplified DNA extraction protocol followed by a portable qPCR detection of M. tuberculosis DNA suitable for point of care settings

Tainá dos Santos Soares, Graziele Lima Bello, [ ... ], Alexandre Dias Tavares Costa

stilPCR increases the effective sequencing length of Illumina targeted next-generation sequencing

Jason D. Limberis, Roland J. Nagel, [ ... ], John Z. Metcalfe

Bridging the “know-do” gap to improve active case finding for tuberculosis in India: A qualitative exploration into national tuberculosis elimination program staffs’ perspectives

Hemant Deepak Shewade, Prabhadevi Ravichandran, [ ... ], Manoj V. Murhekar

Machine learning algorithms to predict treatment success for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

Shaik Ahamed Fayaz, Lakshmanan Babu, [ ... ], Chinnaiyan Ponnuraja

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