Background A crucial impediment to global tuberculosis control is the lack of an accurate,
rapid diagnostic test for detection of patients with active TB. A new, rapid diagnostic method, (…

Background. Diagnosis and timely treatment of tuberculosis in children is hampered by the
absence of fast and reliable tests, especially in the era of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV…

Several studies showed that assessing levels of specific circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) is
a non-invasive, rapid, and accurate method for diagnosing diseases or detecting alterations …

In this comparative biomarker study, we analysed 1768 serial sputum samples from 178
patients at 4 sites in Southeast Africa. We show that tuberculosis Molecular Bacterial Load …

Background The development and evaluation of rapid and accurate new diagnostic tools is
essential to improve tuberculosis (TB) control in developing countries. In a previous study, …

We evaluated the use of the molecular bacterial load (MBL) assay, for measuring viable
Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum, in comparison with solid agar and liquid culture. The …

We evaluated the diagnostic performance of two tests based on the release of
lipoarabinomannan (LAM) into the urine, the MTB-LAM-ELISA assay and the Determine TB-LAM-strip …

Background As access to Xpert expands in high TB-burden settings, its performance against
clinically diagnosed TB as a reference standard provides important insight as the majority of …

Objective The objective of this scoping review was to map the current situation and
available evidence and gaps on rabies morbidity, mortality, integrated rabies surveillance …

Diabetes mellitus (DM) increases the risk of developing tuberculosis infection (TBI). However,
the evidence on the burden and phenotypic characteristics of TBI in African patients with …