Kerschberger B, Vambe D, Schomaker M, Mabhena E, Daka M, et al.
2024-03-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2024-03-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
OBJECTIVES Despite declining TB notifications in Southern Africa, TB‐related deaths remain high. We describe patient‐ and population‐level trends in TB‐related deaths in Eswatini ove...
Kerschberger B, Daka M, Shongwe B, Dlamini T, Ngwenya SM, et al.
2023-08-09 • BMC Health Services Research
2023-08-09 • BMC Health Services Research
BACKGROUND Video-enabled directly observed therapy (video-DOT) has been proposed as an additional option for treatment provision besides in-person DOT for patients with drug-resistan...
Hayrapetyan A,
et al.
2015-02-01 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2015-02-01 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Sanchez-Padilla E, Dlamini T, Ascorra A, Rusch-Gerdes S, Tefera ZD, et al.
2012-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2012-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
In Africa, although emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) represents a serious threat in countries severely affected by the HIV epidemic, most countries lack drug-resi...
Bastard M, Sanchez-Padilla E, du Cros PAK, Khamraev AK, Parpieva N, et al.
2018-03-08 • PLOS One
2018-03-08 • PLOS One
The emergence of resistance to anti-tuberculosis (DR-TB) drugs and the HIV epidemic represent a serious threat for reducing the global burden of TB. Although data on HIV-negative DR-TB t...
Bastard M, Sanchez-Padilla E, Hayrapetyan A, Kimenye K, Khurkhumal S, et al.
2019-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2019-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
INTRODUCTION Identification of good prognostic marker for tuberculosis (TB) treatment response is a necessary step on the path towards a surrogate marker to reduce TB trial duration....
Vambe D, Kay AW, Furin J, Howard AA, Dlamini T, et al.
2020-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2020-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
SETTING: Since 2015, Eswatini has been scaling up bedaquiline (BDQ) and delamanid (DLM) based drug-resistant TB treatment regimens under programmatic conditions.
SETTING All 19 public health laboratories in Swaziland that had Xpert(®) MTB/RIF machines installed as part of a countrywide roll-out between June 2011 and June 2014.