Hamada Y, Gupta RS, Quartagno M, Izzard A, Acuna-Villaorduna C, et al.
2023-02-01 • eClinicalMedicine
2023-02-01 • eClinicalMedicine
BACKGROUND Evidence on the comparative performance of purified protein derivative tuberculin skin tests (TST) and interferon-gamma release assays (IGRA) for predicting incident activ...
Cox V, De Azevedo V, Stinson K, Wilkinson LS, Rangaka MX, et al.
2015-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2015-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
BACKGROUND The World Health Organization recommends tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) where feasible to identify individuals most likely to benefit from isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT)...
Rangaka MX, Wilkinson KA, Seldon R, van Cutsem G, Meintjes GA, et al.
2007-12-07 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2007-12-07 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
RATIONALE: Two forms of the IFN-gamma release assay (IFNGRA) to detect tuberculosis infection are available, but neither has been evaluated in comparable HIV-infected and uninfected pers...
Antiretroviral therapy reduces the risk of tuberculosis, but tuberculosis is more common in people with HIV than in people without HIV. We aimed to assess the effect of isoniazid prevent...
Wilkinson RJ,
Glynn JR,
Boulle AM,
van Cutsem G,
et al.
2012-09-05 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2012-09-05 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
Current symptom screening algorithms for intensified tuberculosis case finding or prior to isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...
Dhana A, Hamada Y, Kengne AP, Kerkhoff AD, Broger T, et al.
2022-05-16 • Journal of Infection
2022-05-16 • Journal of Infection
BACKGROUND WHO recommends urine lateral-flow lipoarabinomannan (LF-LAM) testing with AlereLAM in HIV-positive inpatients only if screening criteria are met. We assessed the performan...
Dhana A, Hamada Y, Kengne AP, Kerkhoff AD, Rangaka MX, et al.
2022-04-01 • Lancet HIV
2022-04-01 • Lancet HIV
BACKGROUND Since 2011, WHO has recommended that HIV-positive inpatients be routinely screened for tuberculosis with the WHO four-symptom screen (W4SS) and, if screened positive, rece...