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Published: 2008Scaling Up Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Prioritized Research AgendaFrank G.J. Cobelens, et alPublished: 2008Getting Diagnostics Into CountriesVinand NantulyaArticle [pdf 560kb] More Health Partnerships Review articles on the debate about the future role of PDPs Published: 2008Commercial Nucleic-Acid Amplification Tests for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Respiratory Specimens: Meta-Analysis and Meta-RegressionLing DI, Flores LL, Riley LW, Pai MPLoS ONE (2008) 3(2): e1536 Published: 2008Analytical Sensitivity Limits for Lateral Flow ImmunoassaysGordon J and Michel GJuly 1 2008 Clin Chem;54:1248 Supplementary data file [pdf 137kb] A Database of Publications on Lateral Flow Immunoassays and Review of Limits of DetectionAbstract Clinical Chemistry, Vol. 54, No. 6, Supplement, 2008 Published: 2007Nucleic acid amplification tests for the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis: a systematic reviewDaley P, Thomas S, Pai MInt J Tuberc Lung Dis 2007; 11(11): 1166-1176 Published: 2007Facing the crisis: improving the diagnosis of tuberculosis in the HIV eraPerkins MD, Cunningham JJ Infect Dis. 2007 Aug 15;196 Suppl 1:S15-27 Published: 2007A systematic review of commercial serological antibody detection tests for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosisKaren R Steingart, Megan Henry, Suman Laal, Philip C Hopewell, Andrew Ramsay, Richard Menzies, Jane Cunningham, Karin Weldingh, and Madhukar PaiThorax 2007 Aug 10.1136/thx.2006.075754 Published: 2007Diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in people with HIV infection or AIDS in resource-constrained settings: informing urgent policy changesGetahun H, Harrington M, O'Brien R, Nunn P.Lancet 2007 Jun 16;369(9578):2042-9 Published: 2007Recent advances in the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosisMarais, BJ & Pai, MArch. Dis. Child. 2007; 92:446-452 Published: 2007Biomarkers of treatment response in clinical trials of novel antituberculosis agentsFelicity MR Perrin, Marc CI Lipman, Timothy D McHugh, Stephen H GillespieLancet Infect Dis 2007 Published: 2007Serial Testing for Tuberculosis: Can We Make Sense of T Cell Assay Conversions and Reversions?Madhukar Pai, Richard O'BrienPLoS Medicine Published: 2007Commercial Serological Antibody Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic ReviewKaren R. Steingart, Megan Henry, Suman Laal, Philip C. Hopewell, Andrew Ramsay, Dick Menzies, Jane Cunningham, Karin Weldingh, Madhukar PaiPLoS Medicine Published: 2007Yield of serial sputum specimen examinations in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic reviewMase S, Ramsay A, Ng N, Henry M, Hopewell PC, Cunningham J, Urbanczik R, Perkins M, Aziz MA, Pai MInt J Tuberc Lung Dis 2007;11(5):485-95 Published:2007The prognosis of latent tuberculosis: can disease be predicted?Peter Andersen, Mark Doherty, Madhukar Pai, Karin WeldinghTrends Mol Med 2007 Published:2007Meta-analysis: New Tests for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Areas of Uncertainty and Recommendations for ResearchDick Menzies, Madhukar Pai and George ComstockAnnals of Internal Medicine Published:2007Low Sensitivity of a Whole-Blood Interferon-γ Release Assay for Detection of Active TuberculosisPuneet K. Dewan, Jennifer Grinsdale, and L. Masae KawamuraClin Infect Dis 2007;44:69-73 Published:2007Interferon-γ Release Assays: What Is Their Role in the Diagnosis of Active TuberculosisMadhukar Pai and Dick MenziesClin Infect Dis 2007;44:74-77 Published: August 2007A systematic review of commercial serological antibody detection tests for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosisKaren R Steingart, Megan Henry, Suman Laal, Philip C Hopewell, Andrew Ramsay, Richard Menzies, Jane Cunningham, Karin Weldingh, and Madhukar PaiThorax 2007 - published ahead of print on 3 August 2007, 10.1136/thx.2006.075754 [download abstract] [requests for pdf] Published: June 2007Longitudinal Assessment of an ELISPOT Test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis InfectionPublished: May 2007New TB textbookPublished: May 2007Pathway to Patients: Charting the Dynamics of the Global TB Drug Marketby the Global Alliance for TB Drug DevelopmentPublished: Apr 2007Fluorescence microscopy for tuberculosis diagnosisNguyen VH, Dinh NS, Anthony RM, Cobelens FG, van Soolingen DLancet Infect Dis. 2007 Apr;7(4):238-9 Published: 2007Reducing the global burden of tuberculosis: the contribution of improved diagnosticsEmmett Keeler, Mark D. Perkins, Peter Small et al.Nature Microbiology Published: March 2007From TB tests, just a 'yes or no' answer, pleaseEmma MarrisNature Medicine - 13, 267 (2007) Published online: 28 February 2007; | doi:10.1038/nm0307-267 Published: March 2007From magic bullets back to the Magic Mountain: the rise of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosisSusan E Dorman & Richard E ChaissonNature Medicine - 13, 295 - 298 (2007) doi:10.1038/nm0307-295 Published: March 2007Changing funding patterns in tuberculosisStefan H E Kaufmann & Shreemanta K ParidaNature Medicine - 13, 299 - 303 (2007) doi:10.1038/nm0307-299 Published: 2006Sputum processing methods to improve the sensitivity of smear microscopy for tuberculosis: a systematic reviewSteingart KR, Ng V, Henry M, Hopewell PC, Ramsay A, Cunningham J, Urbanczik R, Perkins MD, Aziz MA, Pai M.Lancet Infect Dis 2006;6:664-74 [download abstract] [requests for pdf] [about systematic reviews] Published: 2006Fluorescence versus conventional sputum smear microscopy for tuberculosis: a systematic reviewby Steingart KR, Henry M, Ng V, Hopewell PC, Ramsay A, Cunningham J, Urbanczik R, Perkins M, Aziz MA, Pai M.Lancet Infect Dis 2006;6:570-81 [download abstract] [requests for pdf] Published: November 2006Colorimetric redox-indicator methods for the rapid detection of multidrug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysisAnandi Martin, Francoise Portaels, and Juan Carlos PalominoJ. Antimicrob. Chemother. - 10.1093/jac/dkl477 Published: October 2006Diagnostics for Tuberculosis: Global Demand and Market PotentialPublished: October 2006
Published: October 2006Tuberculosis Research & Development: A Critical Analysisby Cindra FeuerThe Treatment Action Group has recently completed a detailed analysis of global funding flows for tuberculosis research and development. The sources and destinations of nearly 200 millionUS$ of funds is described, and a call made for dramatic increases in funding to address critical research needs. Published: October 2006FIND Annual Report 2005Published: July 2006Tuberculosis diagnostics trials: do they lack methodological rigor?by Madhukar Pai & Richard O'BrienExpert Review of Molecular Diagnostics, July 2006, Vol. 6, No. 4, Pages 509-514 Published: June 2006Controlling Infectious Diseasesby Mary M. Kent and Sandra YinIncluding Special Sections on Diarrheal Diseases, Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Pandemics The Population Bulletin - Population Reference Bureau (PRB) June 2006 Published: May 2006
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Published: May 2006State-of-the-art reviews on new TB diagnosticsby Madhukar Pai, Shriprakash Kalantri and Keertan DhedaNew tools and emerging technologies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Part I. Latent tuberculosis Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn. 6(3), 413-422 (2006) [download pdf 315kb] New tools and emerging technologies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Part II. Active tuberculosis and drug resistance Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn. 6(3), 423-432 (2006) [download pdf 821kb] © Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics 2008. Click here to see the copyright notice | |||||||||||||||||
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Healthcare worker in rural India undergoing blood draw for QuantiFERON-TB Gold In Tube
Tsetse fly of the genus Glossina transmits trypanosome - the parasite that causes sleeping sickness
Screening of household childhood contacts for TB infection, India 
