Nearly a third of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. This enormous pool of latently infected individuals poses a major hurdle for global …

… , five overlapping wild-type S probes, and four … S probes give a positive signal and all of
the R probes react negatively. RIF resistance is indicated by absence of one or more wild-type S …

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s most important infectious causes of morbidity and
mortality among adults. Between 8 and 9 million develop TB disease, and approximately 2 …

… An estimated one third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
1 presenting a major impediment to tuberculosis control. Despite the importance of latent …

… Pai M, Kalantri S, Dheda K. New tools and emerging technologies for the diagnosis of … Pai
M, Kalantri S, Menzies D. Discordance between tuberculin skin test and interferon-γ assays […

… 4 Cortegiani A, Ingoglia G, Ippolito M, Giarratano A, Einav S. A systematic review on the
efficacy and safety of chloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19. J Crit Care 2020; published …

Tuberculous pleuritis is a common manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and is the
most common cause of pleural effusion in many countries. Conventional diagnostic tests, …

MC has received grants paid to her institution from the US National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH) and the South African Medical Research Council (# R01MH106600), the Fogarty …

… We used the t test for continuous, normally distributed variables and X2 or Fisher’s exact
test as appropriate for categorical variables. All tests were two sided, with a P value of 0.05 or …

Chikungunya, caused by the chikungunya virus, recently emerged as an important public
health problem in the Indian Ocean islands and India In 2006, an estimated 1 38 million …