Health Challenges Tuberculosis

Book Reviews

• Textbook of tuberculosis & non-tuberculous mycobacterial diseases Edited by S. K. Sharma and A. Mohan Reviewed by Surya Kant Indian J Med Res. 2021 Nov;

General Articles/Commentaries

• London project offers hope to rough sleepers with TB by Pawel Zabielski Independent Catholic News

• Tuberculosis case identified at Dartmouth by Abby Patkin Boston.com

• Tuberculosis by World Health Organization

• WHO releases updated guidance on national strategic planning for tuberculosis by WHO

• Preliminary study suggests tuberculosis vaccine may be limiting COVID-19 deaths by ScienceDaily

• Tuberculosis and HIV by Winnie Byanyima UNAIDS

• Juanita High School students create diagnostic test for tuberculosis by Chris Cashman King5

• Prediction Tool to Identify Children at Highest Risk of Tuberculosis Disease Progression Among Those Exposed at Home by Meredith B Brooks, Leonid Lecca, Carmen Contreras, et al Open Forum Infectious Diseases

• A Week Of Tuberculosis Screening From Zero TB At Realino SPM by Jesuits Indonesia

• Vietnam nuns give tuberculosis patients fresh start in life by Joachim Pham Catholic News Service/UCA News

• Global Fund COVID-19 Report: Deaths from HIV, TB and Malaria Could Almost Double in 12 Months Unless Urgent Action is Taken by Global Fund

• Catholic aid workers urge Trump to release funds for Central America during pandemic by Christopher WhiteCrux

• In southern Nigeria, nuns put TB, leprosy patients on road to recovery by Valentine Iwenwanne Catholic News Service/Catholic World Report

• Shunned TB sufferers trapped in poverty in Vietnam by UCANews reporter UCANews,com/La Croix International

Medical Journal Articles

• Shortened TB Regimen Not Effective by Emily Harris JAMA July 19, 2023

• USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults by AMA JN Learning

• Management of Latent Tuberculosis Infection by Steven Kim, MD; Rebecca Tha, MSN, NP; Daria Szkwarko, DO, MPH JAMA January 19, 2023

• Factors contributing to pre-treatment loss to follow-up in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis: a qualitative evidence synthesis of patient and healthcare worker perspectives' by Mercy Namuma Mulaku, Bruce Nyagol , Eddy Johnson Owino, et al Glob Health Action . 2023 Dec 31;16(1):2148355

• Assessment of tuberculosis disease activity in people infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and living with HIV: A longitudinal cohort study by Inge Kroidl, Mohamed I M Ahmed, Sacha Horn et al EClinicalMedicine 2022.101470.

• World Tuberculosis Day 2022: aligning COVID-19 and tuberculosis innovations to save lives and to end tuberculosis by Francine Ntoumi , Jean B Nachega , Eleni Aklillu, et al Lancet Infect Dis.2022 Apr;22(4):442-444

• An Update on Tuberculosis Vaccines by Radha Gopalaswamy and Selvakumar Subbian Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2410:387-409.

• Covid-19's Devastating Effect on Tuberculosis Care - A Path to Recovery by Madhukar Pai, Tereza Kasaeva, and Soumya Swaminatha N Engl J Med. 2022 Apr 21;386(16):1490-1493.

• HIV-associated tuberculosis 2012 by K A Wilkinson, M E Torok, S Schwander, G Meintjes Clin Dev Immunol. 2012;2012:950964.

• Management of difficult multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: update 2012 by Kwok-Chiu Chang, Wing-Wai Yew Respirology . 2013 Jan;18(1):8-21