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Osei MM, Dayie NTKD, Azaglo GSK, Tettey EY, Nartey ET, et al.

2022-09-01 • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Nasopharyngeal carriage of aerobic Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) may precede the development of invasive respiratory infections. We assessed the prevalence of nasopharyngeal carriage of ae...

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Rajapakshe W, Isaakidis P, Sagili KD, Kumar AMV, Samaraweera S, et al.

2015-06-21 • Public Health Action

Given the well-known linkage between diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB), the World Health Organization recommends bidirectional screening. Here we report the first screening ef...

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de Plecker E, Zachariah R, Kumar AMV, Trelles M, Caluwaerts C, et al.

2017-02-07 • PLOS One

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In a rural district hospital in Burundi offering Emergency Obstetric care-(EmOC), we assessed the a) characteristics of women at risk of, or with an obstetric complication...

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Joshi B, Chinnakali P, Shrestha A, Das M, Kumar AMV, et al.

2015-06-21 • Public Health Action

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Seven intervention districts with intensified childhood tuberculosis (TB) case-finding strategies implemented by a non-governmental organisation and seven control districts u...

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Zachariah R, Reid AJ, Van der Bergh R, Dahmane A, Kosgei RJ, et al.

2013-05-30 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Zachariah R, Kumar AMV, Van der Bergh R, Isaakidis P, Draguez B, et al.

2014-09-21 • Public Health Action

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Mlilo N, Sandy C, Harries AD, Kumar AMV, Masuka N, et al.

2013-06-21 • Public Health Action

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Kuchukhidze G, Kumar AMV, de Colombani P, Khogali MA, Nanava U, et al.

2014-10-21 • Public Health Action

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Georgia, a country with a high-burden of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

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To determine the proportion of loss to follow-up (LFU) among MDR-T...

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Das M, Isaakidis P, Van der Bergh R, Kumar AMV, Sharath BN, et al.

2016-06-21 • Public Health Action

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Sagili KD, Satyanarayana S, Chadha SS, Wilson NC, Kumar AMV, et al.

2018-02-01 • Global Health Action

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The Global Fund encourages operational research (OR) in all its grants; however very few reports describe this aspect. In India, Project Axshya was supported by a Global...

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Timire C, Takarinda KC, Harries AD, Mutunzi H, Manyame-Murwira B, et al.

2018-06-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

In Zimbabwe, while the Xpert MTB/RIF assay is being used for diagnosing tuberculosis and rifampicin-resistance, re-treatment tuberculosis (TB) patients are still expected to have culture...

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Bairy S, Kumar AMV, Raju MSN, Achanta S, Naik B, et al.

2016-08-17 • BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

With an estimated 65 million Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients, India ranks second in the world in terms of DM burden. The emphasis of current medical practice has been on pharmacotherapy ...

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Zachariah R, Rust S, Berger SD, Guillerm N, Bissell K, et al.

2016-08-09 • PLOS One

Research capacity is weakest in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) where operational research is highly relevant and needed. Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative ...

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Kumar AMV, Satyanarayana S, Wilson N, Chadha SS, Gupta D, et al.

2014-06-21 • Public Health Action

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Satyanarayana S, Kumar AMV, Wilson N, Kapur A, Harries AD, et al.

2013-11-04 • Public Health Action

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Reddy K, Ananthakrishnan R, Jacob AG, Das M, Isaakidis P, et al.

2015-12-21 • Public Health Action

India mainly uses passive case finding to detect tuberculosis (TB) patients through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP). An intensified case finding (ICF) interve...

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Harries AD, Satyanarayana S, Kumar AMV, Nagaraja SB, Isaakidis P, et al.

2013-11-04 • Public Health Action

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Harries AD, Kumar AMV, Satyanarayana S, Bissell K, Hinderaker SG, et al.

2013-09-21 • Public Health Action

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Rusovich V, Kumar AMV, Skrahina A, Hurevich H, Astrauko A, et al.

2014-12-21 • Public Health Action

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Belarus (Eastern Europe) is facing an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). In 2012, rapid molecular diagnostics were prioritised for sputum smear-positive p...

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Molfino L, Kumar AMV, Isaakidis P, Van der Bergh R, Khogali MA, et al.

2014-04-08 • Global Health Action

Background : In Mozambique, antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up has been successfully implemented. However, attrition in care remains a major programmatic challenge. In 2009, an interm...

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Alarming levels of multidrug resistance in aerobic gram-negative bacilli isolated from the nasopharynx of healthy under-five children in Accra, Ghana

Screening patients with tuberculosis for diabetes mellitus in Ampara, Sri Lanka

Emergency obstetric care in a rural district of Burundi: What are the surgical needs?

Impact of intensified case-finding strategies on childhood TB case registration in Nepal

Applying the ICMJE authorship criteria to operational research in low-income countries: the need to engage programme managers and policy makers [letter]

Open access for operational research publications from low- and middle-income countries: who pays?

Does the type of treatment supporter inﬂuence tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Zimbabwe?

Risk factors associated with loss to follow-up among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Georgia

Treating All Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients, Not Just Bacteriologically Confirmed Cases

Operational research within a Global Fund supported tuberculosis project in India: why, how and its contribution towards change in policy and practice

How has the Zimbabwe mycobacterial culture and drug sensitivity testing system among re-treatment tuberculosis patients functioned during the scale-up of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay?

Is adjunctive naturopathy associated with improved glycaemic control and a reduction in need for medications among Type 2 Diabetes patients? A prospective cohort study from India

Building Global Capacity for Conducting Operational Research Using the SORT IT Model: Where and Who?

Operational research leading to rapid national policy change: tuberculosis-diabetes collaboration in India

Taking on the diabetes-tuberculosis epidemic in India: paving the way through operational research

Intensified tuberculosis case finding amongst vulnerable communities in southern India

Epidemiology and interaction of diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis and challenges for care: a review [Review article]

References for scientific papers: why not standardise to one global style?

High time to use rapid tests to detect multidrug resistance in sputum smear-negative tuberculosis in Belarus

High attrition among HIV-infected patients with advanced disease treated in an intermediary referral center in Maputo, Mozambique