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Moe S, Asozoda M, Aung A, Dusmatova Z, Akintore F, et al.

2024-08-01 • IJTLD OPEN

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The rate of TB in prison institutions is estimated to be 23 times higher than in the general population. Limited documentation exists regarding TB screening in Tajiki...

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Rekart ML, Aung A, Cullip T, Mulanda WK, Mun L, et al.

2023-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

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Tajikistan has a high burden of rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB), with 2,700 new cases estimated for 2021 (28/100,000 population). TB is spread among household members thro...

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Rekart ML, Mun L, Aung A, Gomez D, Mulanda WK, et al.

2023-01-09 • Microbiology Spectrum

We report the findings of a prospective laboratory diagnostic accuracy study to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assay for Mycobact...

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Letter

Rekart ML, Morshed T, Mulanda WK, Klieascikova J, Sitali N, et al.

2022-08-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

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Croft LA, Puig-García M, Silver C, Pearlman J, Stellmach DUS, et al.

2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022

INTRODUCTION
Between 2020 and 2021, MSF’s social sciences team designed and supported implementation of qualitative assessments to better understand community-level outbreak response...

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Swaminathan A, du Cros PAK, Seddon JA, Mirgayosieva S, Asladdin R, et al.

2017-06-12 • BMC Infectious Diseases

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant (MDR)-TB with additional resistance to injectable agents or fluoroquinolones are challenging to treat due to la...

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Poster

Mun L, Gomez D, Sitali N, Rajabzoda A, Azamova S, et al.

2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022

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Croft LA

2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022

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du Cros PAK, Swaminathan A, Bobokhojaev O, Sharifovna ZD, Martin C, et al.

2015-06-21 • Public Health Action

Guidelines for children with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) tend to focus on individual patient care; there is little guidance for national tuberculosis programmes (NTPs) on how to...

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England K, Masini T, Fajardo E

2019-09-21 • Public Health Action

The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends Xpert® MTB/RIF as the initial test for all people with presumptive tuberculosis (TB). A number of challenges have been reported, ...

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Swaminathan A, du Cros PAK, Seddon JA, Quinnell S, Bobokhojaev O, et al.

2016-04-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

BACKGROUND
Management of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and pre-XDR-TB is challenging, as effective drugs are lacking. Group 5 anti-tuberculosis drugs have an uncle...

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Croft LA, Puig-García M, Silver C, Pearlman J, Stellmach DUS, et al.

2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022

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Achar J, Hewison CCH, Cavalheiro AP, Skrahina A, Cajazeiro J, et al.

2017-10-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases

We describe 27 children and adolescents <18 years of age who received bedaquiline during treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. We report good treatment responses and no cessati...

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Cox V, Brigden G, Crespo RH, Lessem E, Lynch S, et al.

2018-04-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

SETTING
The World Health Organization recommended two new drugs, bedaquiline (BDQ) and delamanid (DLM), for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2013 and 201...

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Commentary

Healy S, Dietrich S, Roth T, Nyang'wa BT, du Cros PAK

2012-12-11 • European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology

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Yield of TB screening in prisons in Tajikistan

Household drug-resistant TB contact tracing in Tajikistan

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assay on the stool of pediatric patients in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Family directly observed therapy for children with drug-resistant TB

A multi-site synthesis on health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic: findings from seven countries

Peripheral Neuropathy in a Diabetic Child Treated with Linezolid for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in the stool of pediatric patients using the Xpert MTB/Rif Ultra assay

A multi-site synthesis on health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic: findings from seven countries

Challenges and solutions to implementing drug-resistant tuberculosis programmes for children in Central Asia

Detecting tuberculosis: rapid tools but slow progress

Treating children for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Tajikistan with Group 5 medications

A multi-site synthesis on health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic: findings from seven countries

Off-label use of bedaquiline in children and adolescents with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Global programmatic use of bedaquiline and delamanid for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Public health advocacy for the Berlin Declaration on tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union: the view of Médecins Sans Frontières