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Havumaki J, Warren JL, Zelner J, Menzies NA, Calderon R, Contreras C, Lecca L, Becerra MC, Murray M, Cohen T. Spatially-targeted tuberculosis screening has limited impact beyond household contact tracing in Lima, Peru: A model-based analysis. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0293519. [PMID: 37903091 PMCID: PMC10615320 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/15/2023] [Indexed: 11/01/2023] Open
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Mathematical models have suggested that spatially-targeted screening interventions for tuberculosis may efficiently accelerate disease control, but empirical data supporting these findings are limited. Previous models demonstrating substantial impacts of these interventions have typically simulated large-scale screening efforts and have not attempted to capture the spatial distribution of tuberculosis in households and communities at a high resolution. Here, we calibrate an individual-based model to the locations of case notifications in one district of Lima, Peru. We estimate the incremental efficiency and impact of a spatially-targeted interventions used in combination with household contact tracing (HHCT). Our analysis reveals that HHCT is relatively efficient with a median of 40 (Interquartile Range: 31.7 to 49.9) household contacts required to be screened to detect a single case of active tuberculosis. However, HHCT has limited population impact, producing a median incidence reduction of only 3.7% (Interquartile Range: 5.8% to 1.9%) over 5 years. In comparison, spatially targeted screening (which we modeled as active case finding within high tuberculosis prevalence areas 100 m2 grid cell) is far less efficient, requiring evaluation of ≈12 times the number of individuals as HHCT to find a single individual with active tuberculosis. Furthermore, the addition of the spatially targeted screening effort produced only modest additional reductions in tuberculosis incidence over the 5 year period (≈1.3%) in tuberculosis incidence. In summary, we found that HHCT is an efficient approach for tuberculosis case finding, but has limited population impact. Other screening approaches which target areas of high tuberculosis prevalence are less efficient, and may have limited impact unless very large numbers of individuals can be screened.
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- Joshua Havumaki
- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
- Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan, School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Socios en Salud Sucursal Peru, Lima, Peru
- Programa Acadêmico de Tuberculose, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan, School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Socios en Salud Sucursal Peru, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan, School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan, School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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Amoori N, Amini P, Cheraghian B, Alavi SM. Investigating the intensity of social contacts associated with tuberculosis: a weighted networks model. BMC Pulm Med 2023; 23:226. [PMID: 37365556 DOI: 10.1186/s12890-023-02519-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is known as one of the principal health problems, especially in developing countries. This study aimed to visualize, statistically model, and describe the weighted networks to investigate the intensity of social contacts associated with tuberculosis. METHODS In this case-control study, we applied weighted network analysis to assess the network of person-time spent in stores, workplaces, restaurants, mosques, Police bases, homes, hospitals, colleges, hairdressers, schools, contact homes, health centers, cinemas, parks, and markets. Modules will be determined based on the similarities between the variables in a topology overlap matrix. The most important variables will be found considering the association between each variable and module eigenvalues. RESULTS The result shows the extracted modules of locations based on the connectivity followed by the person-time at each place. The correlation (p-value) between TB and the turquoise, blue, and brown modules was 0.058 (0.351), 0.004 (0.943), and 0.117 (0.039), respectively. The brown module is the most important one, demonstrating a significant connection between homes, contact homes, health centers, and hospitals. Therefore, an association was found between person-time in four places and the occurrence of TB. CONCLUSION The finding of this study showed that most transmission of tuberculosis infection occurs in homes, contact homes, health centers, and hospitals. These place evaluations allow the identification of people with more contact and in need of screening, so critically leading to the identification of more patients with active TB.
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- Neda Amoori
- Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Health Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Health Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
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Kim HW, Min J, Choi JY, Shin AY, Myong JP, Lee Y, Yim HW, Jeong H, Bae S, Choi H, In H, Park A, Jang M, Koo HK, Lee SS, Park JS, Kim JS. Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among participants of the national LTBI screening program in South Korea - A problem of low coverage rate with current LTBI strategy. Front Public Health 2023; 10:1066269. [PMID: 36743163 PMCID: PMC9892646 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1066269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Background The Government of South Korea launched a national preemptive latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening program in 2016, including more than 1. 6 million population in congregate settings. The objective of this study was to analyze LTBI prevalence and its risk factors in each setting. Additionally, the proportion of LTBI pool covered by the current national LTBI strategy was investigated. Methods Database for results of interferon gamma release assay (IGRA), X-ray, and baseline demographic information was linked with National Health Information Database, national tuberculosis (TB) surveillance database, and national contact investigation database. Participants were categorized into three groups: Group A, workers of postpartum care centers, social welfare facilities and educational institutions; Group B, first year students in high school and out-of-school youths; and Group C, inmates of correctional facilities. Relative risks of LTBI by sex, age, place of living, income level, and comorbidities were calculated. Results A total of 444,394 participants in Group A, 272,224 participants in Group B, and 11,511 participants in Group C who participated in the national LTBI screening program between 2017 and 2018 were included, with LTBI prevalence of 20.7, 2.0, and 33.2%, respectively. Age was the single most important risk factor in Group A and Group C. Low-income level was another risk factor commonly identified in all groups. Among participants with positive IGRA results, 2.7, 4.4, and 3.3% in Groups A, B and C, respectively, had past TB exposure history since 2013. Current LTBI guideline targeting high or moderate TB risk disease covered 6.5, 0.6, and 1.1% of participants with positive IGRA results in Groups A, B and C, respectively. Conclusion Only a small proportion of participants with positive IGRA results could be covered by the current LTBI strategy. Expansion of LTBI strategy by identifying further high-TB risk group in the general population is required.
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- Hyung Woo Kim
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea,*Correspondence: Ju Sang Kim ✉
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Afshari M, Dehmardeh A, Hoseini A, Moosazadeh M. Tuberculosis infection among children under six in contact with smear positive cases: A study in a hyper endemic area of Iran. J Clin Tuberc Other Mycobact Dis 2023; 30:100347. [PMID: 36713330 PMCID: PMC9874550 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctube.2023.100347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Introduction Annually, tens of millions of children are being exposed to tuberculosisinfection. Note that children are in higher risk of getting infection and sever types of the disease, detecting the factors associated with transmission of the tuberculosis infection and disease to the exposed children is necessary for disease prevention within the community. Methods In this retrospective cohort study, 50 children under 6 who were in close contact with 25 smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Sistan-Baloochistanprovine, Iran, were investigated. Demographic, behavioral and clinical characteristics of children and index cases were collected and tuberculosis infection and disease was assessed using the WHO guidelines. Results Of 50 children exposed to the active cases, 12 (24 %) were infected to tuberculosis but none of them had active disease. We also found significant associations of the history of diabetes mellitus in the index cases (p = 0.043) and large family size (p = 0.026) with the increased risk of infection among the exposed children. Conclusion Children under six which are in close contact with diabetic tuberculosis cases in large families are in higher risk of getting infection.
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- Mahdi Afshari
- Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research Center, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran
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- Health Policy Research Center, Institute of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran,Corresponding author.
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Wada PY, Costa AG, Araújo-Pereira M, Barreto-Duarte B, Souza AB, Rocha MS, Figueiredo MC, Turner MM, Rolla VC, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Andrade BB, Sterling TR, Rebeiro PF. Possible sex difference in latent tuberculosis infection risk among close tuberculosis contacts. Int J Infect Dis 2022; 122:685-692. [PMID: 35843494 PMCID: PMC10041676 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.07.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2022] [Accepted: 07/09/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES More men than women develop and die of tuberculosis (TB). Fewer data exist on sex differences in latent TB infection (LTBI). We assessed for potential sex differences in LTBI acquisition among close TB contacts. METHODS Regional Prospective Observational Research for TB-Brazil is an observational multi-center cohort of individuals with culture-confirmed pulmonary TB and their close contacts. Participants were enrolled from five sites in Brazil from June 2015 - June 2019. Close contacts were followed for 24 months after enrollment, with LTBI defined as a positive interferon-γ release assay (IGRA; QuantiFERON 3rd or 4th generation) at baseline or 6 months. We performed univariate, bivariate, and multivariable logistic regression and propensity-score weighted models to assess odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for LTBI acquisition by birth sex among close contacts. RESULTS Of 1093, 504 (46%) female close contacts were IGRA positive compared to 295 of 745 (40%) men. The unadjusted OR for IGRA positivity among women vs men was 1.31 (95% CI: 1.08-1.58). Bivariate adjustments yielded ORs in women vs men ranging from 1.19 to 1.33 (P-value range: <0.01-0.07). Multivariable regression and weighted models yielded similar ORs in women vs men, of 1.14 (95% CI: 0.92-1.41) and 1.15 (95% CI: 0.94-1.40), respectively. CONCLUSION The point estimate for LTBI among close TB contacts in Brazil was higher in women, though less pronounced in multivariable models. If the sex difference in LTBI is confirmed in additional settings, studies of possible underlying differences in socio-behavioral factors or TB pathogenesis are warranted.
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- Paul Y Wada
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA.
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- Fundação Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Inflamação e Biomarcadores, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Inflamação e Biomarcadores, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
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- Fundação Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina Tropical, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Multinational Organization Network Sponsoring Translational and Epidemiological Research (MONSTER) Initiative, Instituto Brasileiro para Investigação da Tuberculose, Fundação José Silveira, Salvador, Brazil
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- Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA
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- Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA
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- Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Micobacteriose, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Fundação Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina Tropical, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA), Manaus, Brazil; Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Nilton Lins, Manaus, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Inflamação e Biomarcadores, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil; Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA; Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Micobacteriose, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Curso de Medicina, Universidade Salvador (UNIFACS), Laureate Universities, Salvador, Brazil; Curso de Medicina, Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública (EBMSP), Salvador, Brazil; Curso de Medicina, Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências (FTC), Salvador, Brazil; Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA; Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA.
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA
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Sobral L, Arriaga MB, Souza AB, Araújo-Pereira M, Barreto-Duarte B, Sales C, Rocha MS, Benjamin A, Moreira AS, de Oliveira JG, Carvalho AC, Spener-Gomes R, Figueiredo MC, Cavalcante S, Durovni B, Lapa-e-Silva JR, Kritski AL, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Cordeiro-Santos M, Andrade BB. Determinants of losses in the tuberculosis infection cascade of care among children and adolescent contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis cases: A Brazilian multi-centre longitudinal study. LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH. AMERICAS 2022; 15:100358. [PMID: 36438860 PMCID: PMC9696515 DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Background Approximately 10% of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden is in children. Identification, diagnosis, and early treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (TBI) is critical to prevent progression to TB in children. The risk of TB, including severe disease, is highest in children <5 years old. We evaluated the cascade of TBI care among child and adolescent TB contacts to identify factors associated with losses in the cascade. Methods Close contacts ≤ 18 years old of pulmonary TB patients enrolled between 2015 and 2019 in a multi-centre Brazilian cohort were followed for up to 24 months and classified according to age groups: <5 years, 5-9 years, 10-14 years and 15-18 years. Data on clinical investigation, radiographic examination, IGRA testing at baseline and 6 months, initiation and completion of TB preventive treatment (TPT) were collected. Multivariable regression analyses identified factors associated with TBI and losses in the cascade of care in children and adolescents. Findings Among 1795 TB contacts initially identified, 530 (29·5%) were ≤18 years old. Losses for all steps in the cascade were especially high in children <5 years old (88%) because at this age all contacts are recommended to initiate TPT. As a proportion of all children, completion of TPT was low (between 10% and 13%) in all age-groups. Furthermore, multivariable regression revealed that younger age of contacts and TB index cases who were female, had pulmonary cavities, and persistent cough were independently associated with losses in the cascade of care among persons ≤18 years old. Interpretation Losses in the TBI cascade were the highest among children <5 years, which was the group at highest risk for TB among the four age groups. The findings highlight the need to improve screening, initiation, and completion of TPT of young children who are close contacts of people with TB in Brazil. Funding National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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- Luciana Sobral
- Curso de Medicina, Centro Universitário Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências (UniFTC), Salvador, Brazil
- Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública (EBMSP), Salvador, Brazil
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- Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Multinational Organization Network Sponsoring Translational and Epidemiological Research (MONSTER) Initiative, Salvador, Brazil
- Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
- Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Fundação Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina Tropical, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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- Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Multinational Organization Network Sponsoring Translational and Epidemiological Research (MONSTER) Initiative, Salvador, Brazil
- Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Multinational Organization Network Sponsoring Translational and Epidemiological Research (MONSTER) Initiative, Salvador, Brazil
- Curso de Medicina, Universidade Salvador (UNIFACS), Salvador, Brazil
- Programa Acadêmico de Tuberculose. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Multinational Organization Network Sponsoring Translational and Epidemiological Research (MONSTER) Initiative, Salvador, Brazil
- Curso de Medicina, Universidade Salvador (UNIFACS), Salvador, Brazil
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- Multinational Organization Network Sponsoring Translational and Epidemiological Research (MONSTER) Initiative, Salvador, Brazil
- Instituto Brasileiro para Investigação da Tuberculose, Fundação José Silveira, Salvador, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Programa Acadêmico de Tuberculose. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Programa Acadêmico de Tuberculose. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias, Ensino e Bioprodutos (LITEB), Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Fundação Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina Tropical, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
- Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Secretaria Municipal de Saúde do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Programa Acadêmico de Tuberculose. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Secretaria Municipal de Saúde do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Programa Acadêmico de Tuberculose. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Programa Acadêmico de Tuberculose. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Fundação Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina Tropical, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
- Universidade Nilton Lins, Manaus, Brazil
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- Curso de Medicina, Centro Universitário Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências (UniFTC), Salvador, Brazil
- Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública (EBMSP), Salvador, Brazil
- Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Multinational Organization Network Sponsoring Translational and Epidemiological Research (MONSTER) Initiative, Salvador, Brazil
- Curso de Medicina, Universidade Salvador (UNIFACS), Salvador, Brazil
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
- Corresponding author at: Laboratório de Inflamação e Biomarcadores, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rua Waldemar Falcão, 121, Candeal, Salvador, Bahia 40296-710, Brazil.
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Laycock KM, Enane LA, Steenhoff AP. Tuberculosis in Adolescents and Young Adults: Emerging Data on TB Transmission and Prevention among Vulnerable Young People. Trop Med Infect Dis 2021; 6:148. [PMID: 34449722 PMCID: PMC8396328 DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed6030148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Revised: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/31/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Adolescents and young adults (AYA, ages 10-24 years) comprise a uniquely important but understudied population in global efforts to end tuberculosis (TB), the leading infectious cause of death by a single agent worldwide prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. While TB prevention and care strategies often overlook AYA by grouping them with either children or adults, AYA have particular physiologic, developmental, and social characteristics that require dedicated approaches. This review describes current evidence on the prevention and control of TB among AYA, including approaches to TB screening, dynamics of TB transmission among AYA, and management challenges within the context of unique developmental needs. Challenges are considered for vulnerable groups of AYA such as migrants and refugees; AYA experiencing homelessness, incarceration, or substance use; and AYA living with HIV. We outline areas for needed research and implementation strategies to address TB among AYA globally.
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- Katherine M. Laycock
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;
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- The Ryan White Center for Pediatric Infectious Disease and Global Health, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA;
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Global Health Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA
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Devalraju KP, Tripathi D, Neela VSK, Paidipally P, Radhakrishnan RK, Singh KP, Ansari MS, Jaeger M, Netea-Maier RT, Netea MG, Park S, Cheng SY, Valluri VL, Vankayalapati R. Reduced thyroxine production in young household contacts of tuberculosis patients increases active tuberculosis disease risk. JCI Insight 2021; 6:e148271. [PMID: 34236051 PMCID: PMC8410087 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.148271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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In the current study, we followed 839 household contacts (HHCs) of tuberculosis (TB) patients for 2 years and identified the factors that enhanced the development of TB. Fourteen of the 17 HHCs who progressed to TB were in the 15- to 30-year-old age group. At baseline (the “0“ time point, when all the individuals were healthy), the concentration of the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4) was lower, and there were increased numbers of Tregs in PBMCs of TB progressors. At baseline, PBMCs from TB progressors stimulated with early secretory antigenic target 6 (ESAT-6) and 10 kDa culture filtrate antigen (CFP-10) produced less IL-1α. Thyroid hormones inhibited Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) growth in macrophages in an IL-1α–dependent manner. Mtb-infected Thra1PV/+ (mutant thyroid hormone receptor) mice had increased mortality and reduced IL-1α production. Our findings suggest that young HHCs who exhibit decreased production of thyroid hormones are at high risk of developing active TB disease.
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- Kamakshi Prudhula Devalraju
- Immunology and Molecular Biology Department, Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, USA
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- Immunology and Molecular Biology Department, Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, USA
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- Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Community and Rural Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, USA
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- Immunology and Molecular Biology Department, Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, and.,Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Immunology and Molecular Biology Department, Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, USA
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McQuaid CF, Vassall A, Cohen T, Fiekert K, White RG. The impact of COVID-19 on TB: a review of the data. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2021; 25:436-446. [PMID: 34049605 PMCID: PMC8171247 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.21.0148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, models predicted hundreds of thousands of additional TB deaths as a result of health service disruption. To date, empirical evidence on the effects of COVID-19 on TB outcomes has been limited. Here we summarise the evidence available at a country level, identifying broad mechanisms by which COVID-19 may modify TB burden and mitigation efforts. From the data, it is clear that there have been substantial disruptions to TB health services and an increase in vulnerability to TB. Evidence for changes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission is limited, and it remains unclear how the resources required and available for the TB response have changed. To advocate for additional funding to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the global TB burden, and to efficiently allocate resources for the TB response, requires a significant improvement in the TB data available.
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- C F McQuaid
- TB Modelling Group, TB Centre and Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK
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- Department of Global Health Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, London, UK
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- Yale School of Public Health, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- KNCV Tuberculosefonds, The Hague, the Netherlands
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- TB Modelling Group, TB Centre and Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK
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Transmission Modeling with Regression Adjustment for Analyzing Household-based Studies of Infectious Disease: Application to Tuberculosis. Epidemiology 2021; 31:238-247. [PMID: 31764276 DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000001143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Household contacts of people infected with a transmissible disease may be at risk due to this proximate exposure, or from other unobserved sources. Understanding variation in infection risk is essential for targeting interventions. METHODS We develop an analytical approach to estimate household and exogenous forces of infection, while accounting for individual-level characteristics that affect susceptibility to disease and transmissibility. We apply this approach to a cohort study conducted in Lima, Peru, of 18,544 subjects in 4,500 households with at least one active tuberculosis (TB) case and compare the results to those obtained by Poisson and logistic regression. RESULTS HIV-coinfected (susceptibility hazard ratio [SHR] = 3.80, 1.56-9.29), child (SHR = 1.72, 1.32-2.23), and teenage (SHR = 2.00, 1.49-2.68) household contacts of TB cases experience a higher hazard of TB than do adult contacts. Isoniazid preventive therapy (SHR = 0.30, 0.21-0.42) and Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination (SHR = 0.66, 0.51-0.86) reduce the risk of disease among household contacts. TB cases without microbiological confirmation exert a smaller hazard of TB among their close contacts compared with smear- or culture-positive cases (excess hazard ratio = 0.88, 0.82-0.93 for HIV- cases and 0.82, 0.57-0.94 for HIV+ cases). The extra household force of infection results in 0.01 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.004, 0.028) TB cases per susceptible household contact per year and the rate of transmission between a microbiologically confirmed TB case and susceptible household contact at 0.08 (95% CI = 0.045, 0.129) TB cases per pair per year. CONCLUSIONS Accounting for exposure to infected household contacts permits estimation of risk factors for disease susceptibility and transmissibility and comparison of within-household and exogenous forces of infection.
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Gutierrez J, Kroon EE, Möller M, Stein CM. Phenotype Definition for "Resisters" to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in the Literature-A Review and Recommendations. Front Immunol 2021; 12:619988. [PMID: 33717116 PMCID: PMC7946835 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.619988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a worldwide problem. Despite the high disease rate, not all who are infected with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (Mtb) develop disease. Interferon-γ (IFN-γ) specific T cell immune assays such as Quantiferon and Elispot, as well as a skin hypersensitivity test, known as a tuberculin skin test, are widely used to infer infection. These assays measure immune conversion in response to Mtb. Some individuals measure persistently negative to immune conversion, despite high and prolonged exposure to Mtb. Increasing interest into this phenotype has led to multiple publications describing various aspects of these responses. However, there is a lack of a unified "resister" definition. A universal definition will improve cross study data comparisons and assist with future study design and planning. We review the current literature describing this phenotype and make recommendations for future studies.
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- Jesús Gutierrez
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Science, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Science, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States
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Protective impacts of household-based tuberculosis contact tracing are robust across endemic incidence levels and community contact patterns. PLoS Comput Biol 2021; 17:e1008713. [PMID: 33556077 PMCID: PMC7895355 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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There is an emerging consensus that achieving global tuberculosis control targets will require more proactive case finding approaches than are currently used in high-incidence settings. Household contact tracing (HHCT), for which households of newly diagnosed cases are actively screened for additional infected individuals is a potentially efficient approach to finding new cases of tuberculosis, however randomized trials assessing the population-level effects of such interventions in settings with sustained community transmission have shown mixed results. One potential explanation for this is that household transmission is responsible for a variable proportion of population-level tuberculosis burden between settings. For example, transmission is more likely to occur in households in settings with a lower tuberculosis burden and where individuals mix preferentially in local areas, compared with settings with higher disease burden and more dispersed mixing. To better understand the relationship between endemic incidence levels, social mixing, and the impact of HHCT, we developed a spatially explicit model of coupled household and community transmission. We found that the impact of HHCT was robust across settings of varied incidence and community contact patterns. In contrast, we found that the effects of community contact tracing interventions were sensitive to community contact patterns. Our results suggest that the protective benefits of HHCT are robust and the benefits of this intervention are likely to be maintained across epidemiological settings.
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Farsida, Hatta M, Patellongi I, Prihantono, Shabariyah R, Larasati Laras RA, Islam AA, Natzir R, Massi MN, Hamid F, Bahagia AD. The correlation of Foxp3 + gene and regulatory T cells with scar BCG formation among children with Tuberculosis. J Clin Tuberc Other Mycobact Dis 2020; 21:100202. [PMID: 33319069 PMCID: PMC7725952 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctube.2020.100202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis infection causes a complex immunological response, where interactions between the pathogen and the host are unique, making it difficult to treat and control this disease. According to WHO, an estimated 1 million children became ill with TB, and 233,000 children died of TB in 2017. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccines continue to be the only vaccines to prevent Tuberculosis (TB). Studies suggesting the association of BCG scar with decreased childhood mortality in developing countries have rekindled the interest in BCG scar. However, the direct effect of the BCG scar remains unknown. We examined 76 cases in this study. All Subjects were diagnosed with Tuberculosis. BCG scars were examined directly when physical examination at the BCG vaccination site was performed. Tuberculin Skin Test was performed with 0.1 ml purified protein derivative (PPD) solution (5TU PPD/0.1 ml) injected intradermally. We examined the FOXP3 gene by real-time PCR and the level of Treg byELISA. The comparison of the mean Treg gene expression and the Treg protein content was higher in the positive scar group than in the negative scar group. It shows that Treg plays a role in the Tuberculosis during its active phase development. Treg protein levels were higher in the combination of positive TST and scar. It shows that BCG scarring is an essential marker of a well-functioning immune system. Cheap and straightforward initiatives like early BCG vaccinations, monitoring BCG scarring, and revaccinating scar-negative children could have an enormous immediate impact on global child survival.
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- Farsida
- Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Hasanuddin Makassar, Indonesia
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- Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Hasanuddin Makassar, Indonesia
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- Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Hasanuddin Makassar, Indonesia
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- Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Hasanuddin Makassar, Indonesia
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Gatchalian SR, Agathis NT, Castillo-Carandang NT, Gunter SM, Murray KO, Mandalakas AM. Design and Evaluation of Risk Assessment Tools to Identify Pediatric Tuberculosis Infection in Bohol, the Philippines, a Low-HIV- and High-TB-Burden Setting. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2020; 103:1818-1826. [PMID: 32975174 PMCID: PMC7646812 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Identifying children with, or at substantial risk of, Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (TBI) and providing TB preventive therapy (TPT) represent an important, yet challenging, strategy in curbing the global burden of childhood TB. Risk assessment scoring tools, which quantify risks associated with unique factors characterizing an individual, could act as a surrogate measure of TBI risk and guide effective and efficient TPT delivery. We assessed important risk factors of childhood TBI and created risk assessment tools through secondary analysis of data from a large, community-based childhood TB prevalence study in the island province of Bohol in the Philippines, a low–HIV- and high–TB-burden, post-disaster setting. We identified four factors that were statistically associated with acquiring TBI—being 5 years or older, having a known TB contact, having a known TB contact who was either the mother or another primary caregiver, and living in a high–TB-burden municipality. We created 2-item, 4-item, and 9-item scores intended to identify child TBI in this low-resource, low–HIV-, and high–TB-burden setting. In addition to the design, evaluation, and impact analysis of these generalizable and valuable risk assessment tools, our study findings emphasize the necessity of targeting both household and community-associated transmissions of childhood TBI to achieve the global goal to end TB.
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- Salvacion R Gatchalian
- Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines.,Department of Clinical Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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Gunasekera KS, Zelner J, Becerra MC, Contreras C, Franke MF, Lecca L, Murray MB, Warren JL, Cohen T. Children as sentinels of tuberculosis transmission: disease mapping of programmatic data. BMC Med 2020; 18:234. [PMID: 32873309 PMCID: PMC7466499 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01702-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Identifying hotspots of tuberculosis transmission can inform spatially targeted active case-finding interventions. While national tuberculosis programs maintain notification registers which represent a potential source of data to investigate transmission patterns, high local tuberculosis incidence may not provide a reliable signal for transmission because the population distribution of covariates affecting susceptibility and disease progression may confound the relationship between tuberculosis incidence and transmission. Child cases of tuberculosis and other endemic infectious disease have been observed to provide a signal of their transmission intensity. We assessed whether local overrepresentation of child cases in tuberculosis notification data corresponds to areas where recent transmission events are concentrated. METHODS We visualized spatial clustering of children < 5 years old notified to Peru's National Tuberculosis Program from two districts of Lima, Peru, from 2005 to 2007 using a log-Gaussian Cox process to model the intensity of the point-referenced child cases. To identify where clustering of child cases was more extreme than expected by chance alone, we mapped all cases from the notification data onto a grid and used a hierarchical Bayesian spatial model to identify grid cells where the proportion of cases among children < 5 years old is greater than expected. Modeling the proportion of child cases allowed us to use the spatial distribution of adult cases to control for unobserved factors that may explain the spatial variability in the distribution of child cases. We compare where young children are overrepresented in case notification data to areas identified as transmission hotspots using molecular epidemiological methods during a prospective study of tuberculosis transmission conducted from 2009 to 2012 in the same setting. RESULTS Areas in which childhood tuberculosis cases are overrepresented align with areas of spatial concentration of transmission revealed by molecular epidemiologic methods. CONCLUSIONS Age-disaggregated notification data can be used to identify hotspots of tuberculosis transmission and suggest local force of infection, providing an easily accessible source of data to target active case-finding intervention.
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- Kenneth S Gunasekera
- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 267 SPH Tower, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Socios En Salud, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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Basu Roy R, Sambou B, Sissoko M, Holder B, Gomez MP, Egere U, Sillah AK, Koukounari A, Kampmann B. Protection against mycobacterial infection: A case-control study of mycobacterial immune responses in pairs of Gambian children with discordant infection status despite matched TB exposure. EBioMedicine 2020; 59:102891. [PMID: 32675024 PMCID: PMC7502674 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.102891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2020] [Revised: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Children are particularly susceptible to tuberculosis. However, most children exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis are able to control the pathogen without evidence of infection. Correlates of human protective immunity against tuberculosis infection are lacking, and their identification would aid vaccine design. METHODS We recruited pairs of asymptomatic children with discordant tuberculin skin test status but the same sleeping proximity to the same adult with sputum smear-positive tuberculosis in a matched case-control study in The Gambia. Participants were classified as either Highly TB-Exposed Uninfected or Highly TB-Exposed Infected children. Serial luminescence measurements using an in vitro functional auto-luminescent Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) whole blood assay quantified the dynamics of host control of mycobacterial growth. Assay supernatants were analysed with a multiplex cytokine assay to measure associated inflammatory responses. FINDINGS 29 pairs of matched Highly TB-Exposed Uninfected and Highly TB-Exposed Infected children aged 5 to 15 years old were enroled. Samples from Highly TB-Exposed Uninfected children had higher levels of mycobacterial luminescence at 96 hours than Highly TB-Exposed Infected children. Highly TB-Exposed Uninfected children also produced less BCG-specific interferon-γ than Highly TB-Exposed Infected children at 24 hours and at 96 hours. INTERPRETATION Highly TB-Exposed Uninfected children showed less control of mycobacterial growth compared to Highly TB-Exposed Infected children in a functional assay, whilst cytokine responses mirrored infection status. FUNDING Clinical Research Training Fellowship funded under UK Medical Research Council/Department for International Development Concordat agreement and part of EDCTP2 programme supported by European Union (MR/K023446/1). Also MRC Program Grants (MR/K007602/1, MR/K011944/1, MC_UP_A900/1122).
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- Robindra Basu Roy
- Department of Academic Paediatrics, Section of Paediatric Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London W2 1NY, United Kingdom; Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Atlantic Road, Fajara, The Gambia; Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
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- Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Atlantic Road, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Atlantic Road, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Department of Academic Paediatrics, Section of Paediatric Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London W2 1NY, United Kingdom; Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, W12 0HS, United Kingdom
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- Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Atlantic Road, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Atlantic Road, Fajara, The Gambia; Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place L3 5QA, United Kingdom
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- Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Atlantic Road, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
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- Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Atlantic Road, Fajara, The Gambia; Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom; The Vaccine Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom.
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Dolla CK, Padmapriyadarsini C, Thiruvengadam K, Lokhande R, Kinikar A, Paradkar M, BM S, Murali L, Gupte A, Gaikwad S, Selvaraju S, Padmanaban Y, Pattabiraman S, Pradhan N, Kulkarni V, Shivakumar SVBY, Prithivi M, Kagal A, Karthavarayan BT, Suryavanshi N, Gupte N, Kumaran P, Mave V, Gupta A. Age-specific prevalence of TB infection among household contacts of pulmonary TB: Is it time for TB preventive therapy? Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2019; 113:632-640. [PMID: 31225622 PMCID: PMC6792162 DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trz049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Revised: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Household contacts (HHCs) of TB patients are at high risk of developing evidence of latent TB infection (LTBI) and active disease from the index patient. We estimated the age-specific prevalence of LTBI and the force of infection (FI), as a measure of recent transmission, among HHCs of active TB patients. METHODS A cross-sectional analysis of HHCs of pulmonary TB patients enrolled in a prospective study, 'CTRIUMPh', was conducted at two sites in India. LTBI was defined as either a positive tuberculin skin test (induration ≥5 mm) or QuantiFERON-Gold in tube test (value ≥0.35 IU/ml) and was stratified by age. FI, which is a measure of recent transmission of infection and calculated using changes in age-specific prevalence rates at specific ages, was calculated. Factors associated with LTBI were determined by logistic regression models. RESULTS Of 1020 HHCs of 441 adult pulmonary TB cases, there were 566 (55%) females and 289 (28%) children aged ≤15 y. While screening for the study 3% of HHC were diagnosed with active TB. LTBI prevalence among HHCs of pulmonary TB was 47% at <6 y, 53% between 6-14 y and 78% between 15-45 y. FI increased significantly with age, from 0.4 to 1.15 in the HHCs cohort (p=0.05). CONCLUSION This study observed an increased prevalence of LTBI and FI among older children and young adults recently exposed to infectious TB in the household. In addition to awareness of coughing etiquette and general hygiene, expanding access to TB preventive therapy to all HHCs, including older children, may be beneficial to achieve TB elimination by 2035.
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- Chandra Kumar Dolla
- Epidemiology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Clinical Research, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Epidemiology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Pulmonary Medicine, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Paediatrics, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Clinical Trial Unit, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Clinical Research, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Pulmonary Medicine, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Epidemiology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Clinical Research, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Clinical Research, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Clinical Trial Unit, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Clinical Trial Unit, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Epidemiology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Microbiology, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Epidemiology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Clinical Trial Unit, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Clinical Trial Unit, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Epidemiology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, 1, Mayor Sathyamoorthy Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Clinical Trial Unit, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Tilahun M, Shibabaw A, Kiflie A, Bewket G, Abate E, Gelaw B. Latent tuberculosis infection and associated risk factors among people living with HIV and apparently healthy blood donors at the University of Gondar referral hospital, Northwest Ethiopia. BMC Res Notes 2019; 12:515. [PMID: 31420007 PMCID: PMC6698024 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4548-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 08/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Objective Immuno-compromised individuals with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) are at an increased risk for tuberculosis reactivation compared with the general population. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) and apparently healthy blood donors. Human Immunodeficiency Virus positive individuals and for the purpose of comparison apparently healthy blood donors were enrolled. Blood sample was collected and tested for LTBI using QuantiFeron-TB Gold In-Tube assay (QFT-GIT) and CD4+ T cell count was determined by using BD FACS count. Results The overall prevalence of LTBI regardless of HIV status was 46%. The prevalence of LTBI among PLWH was 44% and that of blood donors 48%. ART naïve HIV positive patients were three times more likely to have LTBI than patients under ART treatment (P = 0.04). Data also showed statistically significant negative association between previous or current preventive INH therapy and LTBI among HIV positive cases (P = 0.005). The proportion of LTBI was slightly lower among HIV positive individuals than apparently healthy blood donors. Nevertheless, HIV positive individuals should be screened for LTBI and take INH prophylaxis.
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- Mekdes Tilahun
- Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS), The University of Gondar (UOG), P.O. box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS), The University of Gondar (UOG), P.O. box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia
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- Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS), The University of Gondar (UOG), P.O. box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia
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- Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS), The University of Gondar (UOG), P.O. box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), P.O. box 1242, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS), The University of Gondar (UOG), P.O. box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia.
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Mave V, Chandrasekaran P, Chavan A, Shivakumar SVBY, Danasekaran K, Paradkar M, Thiruvengadam K, Kinikar A, Murali L, Gaikwad S, Hanna LE, Kulkarni V, Pattabiraman S, Suryavanshi N, Thomas B, Kohli R, Sivaramakrishnan GN, Pradhan N, Bhanu B, Kagal A, Golub J, Gandhi N, Gupte A, Gupte N, Swaminathan S, Gupta A. Infection free "resisters" among household contacts of adult pulmonary tuberculosis. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0218034. [PMID: 31318864 PMCID: PMC6638997 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Despite substantial exposure to infectious pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases, some household contacts (HHC) never acquire latent TB infection (LTBI). Characterizing these “resisters” can inform who to study immunologically for the development of TB vaccines. We enrolled HHCs of culture-confirmed adult pulmonary TB in India who underwent LTBI testing using tuberculin skin test (TST) and QuantiFERON TB Gold Test-in-tube (QFT-GIT) at baseline and, if negative by both (<5mm TST and <0.35IU/mL QFT-GIT), underwent follow-up testing at 4–6 and/or 12 months. We defined persons with persistently negative LTBI tests at both baseline and followup as pLTBI- and resisters as those who had a high exposure to TB using a published score and remained pLTBI-. We calculated the proportion of resisters overall and resisters with complete absence of response to LTBI tests (0mm TST and/or QFT-GIT <0.01 IU/ml). Using random effects Poisson regression, we assessed factors associated with pLTBI-. Of 799 HHCs in 355 households, 67 (8%) were pLTBI- at 12 months; 52 (6.5%) pLTBI- in 39 households were resisters. Complete absence of response to LTBI tests was found in 27 (53%) resisters. No epidemiological characteristics were associated with the pLTBI- phenotype. LTBI free resisters among HHC exist but are uncommon and are without distinguishing epidemiologic characteristics. Assessing the genetic and immunologic features of such resister individuals is likely to elucidate mechanisms of protective immunity to TB.
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- Vidya Mave
- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College- Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College- Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College- Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- District Tuberculosis Officer, State Tuberculosis Office, Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College- Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College- Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College- Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College- Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College- Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Gianella C, Pesantes MA, Ugarte-Gil C, Moore DA, Lema C. Vulnerable populations and the right to health: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon around tuberculosis control. Int J Equity Health 2019; 18:28. [PMID: 31155000 PMCID: PMC6545700 DOI: 10.1186/s12939-019-0928-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 02/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the "End TB Strategy", setting new ambitious goals for elimination of tuberculosis (TB). In contrast with previous efforts to control TB, the new strategy adopted the protection and promotion of human rights in TB prevention and care as a core pillar. This mandated the development of national programmes that are sensitive to the characteristics of populations and responsive to structural factors that put people at increased risk of exposure to TB, limit access to good quality health services and make people more vulnerable to TB infection. Indigenous people living in the Peruvian Amazon have been identified as a TB vulnerable group by Peruvian health authorities. This article examines the barriers faced by indigenous people and rural settlers from the Peruvian Amazon in obtaining a TB diagnosis and appropriate TB treatment, through the principles of the human rights based approach of accessibility, availability, affordability, adaptability and quality, and thus provides evidence of the utility of such approach in Peru. METHODS This is a qualitative study. We combined information from policy documents and legal regulations and in-depth interviews with health workers and health authorities. We used Atlas-ti to conduct a thematic analysis and identify interviewees responses to pre-defined topics. RESULTS Despite having a strong legal framework to protect the right to health of indigenous people and people affected by TB, there are underlying structural factors contributing to delays in detection, diagnosis and TB treatment, which are mostly related to having a health system poorly prepared to provide care for people living in dispersed rural communities. This article shows the limited level of integration of the "End TB Strategy" principles in the Peruvian National TB Programme and identifies the weakness of the health system to improve health care provision for indigenous people and rural settlers from the Peruvian Amazon. CONCLUSIONS Our study shows the need to go beyond developing a strong legal framework to ensure vulnerable populations such as indigenous people are able to realize their right to health. Governments need to allocate funds, improve training and adapt healthcare provision to the cultural, geographical, and social context of indigenous people.
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
- Tuberculosis (TB) Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Tuberculosis (TB) Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Basu Roy R, Whittaker E, Seddon JA, Kampmann B. Tuberculosis susceptibility and protection in children. THE LANCET. INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2019; 19:e96-e108. [PMID: 30322790 PMCID: PMC6464092 DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(18)30157-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2017] [Revised: 01/27/2018] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Children represent both a clinically important population susceptible to tuberculosis and a key group in whom to study intrinsic and vaccine-induced mechanisms of protection. After exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, children aged under 5 years are at high risk of progressing first to tuberculosis infection, then to tuberculosis disease and possibly disseminated forms of tuberculosis, with accompanying high risks of morbidity and mortality. Children aged 5-10 years are somewhat protected, until risk increases again in adolescence. Furthermore, neonatal BCG programmes show the clearest proven benefit of vaccination against tuberculosis. Case-control comparisons from key cohorts, which recruited more than 15 000 children and adolescents in total, have identified that the ratio of monocytes to lymphocytes, activated CD4 T cell count, and a blood RNA signature could be correlates of risk for developing tuberculosis. Further studies of protected and susceptible populations are necessary to guide development of novel tuberculosis vaccines that could facilitate the achievement of WHO's goal to eliminate deaths from tuberculosis in childhood.
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- Robindra Basu Roy
- Centre for International Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK; Vaccines and Immunity Theme MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Centre for International Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Centre for International Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Centre for International Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK; Vaccines and Immunity Theme MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia.
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Zelner J, Murray M, Becerra M, Galea J, Lecca L, Calderon R, Yataco R, Zhang Z, Cohen T. Protective effects of household-based TB interventions are robust to neighbourhood-level variation in exposure risk in Lima, Peru: a model-based analysis. Int J Epidemiol 2019; 47:185-192. [PMID: 29025111 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background Untargeted active screening and treatment programmes for tuberculosis (TB) have not been shown to be more effective than passive screening and isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) for reducing TB incidence. In this manuscript, we compare the efficacy of targeting screening and IPT on high-risk household contacts of diagnosed TB cases, with less-targeted active screening approaches in Lima, Peru. Methods We conducted a population-based prospective cohort study within households of TB cases in Lima. We identified all adults diagnosed with incident pulmonary TB from 2009 through 2012 at 106 participating public health centres (HC) within our catchment area of ∼3.3 million inhabitants. We estimated combined effects of community and household exposure on the risk of latent TB infection (LTBI) and incident TB disease. We used simulation modelling to assess the efficacy of TB screening programmes for reducing the risk of incident TB in these contacts. Results Individuals with household exposure to TB are more likely to present with LTBI and TB disease than those without this exposure, despite wide variation in community exposure. Simulations suggest that more cases are prevented by 1000 administrations of IPT to tuberculin skin test (TST)-positive household contacts of identified TB cases (30, 95% CI = 16,47) than from blanket screening and treatment in the community (7, 95% CI = 2,17). Conclusions Household exposure remains a major driver of incident TB risk among household contacts of identified TB cases. Targeting interventions on these individuals is likely to prevent more cases of TB than blanket screening of individuals in the community.
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- Jon Zelner
- Department of Epidemiology.,Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology.,Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Partners In Health/Socios En Salud, Boston, MA, USA/Lima, Peru.,Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Partners In Health/Socios En Salud, Boston, MA, USA/Lima, Peru
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- Partners In Health/Socios En Salud, Boston, MA, USA/Lima, Peru
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- Partners In Health/Socios En Salud, Boston, MA, USA/Lima, Peru
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- Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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Zhu M, Han G, Takiff HE, Wang J, Ma J, Zhang M, Liu S. Times series analysis of age-specific tuberculosis at a rapid developing region in China, 2011-2016. Sci Rep 2018; 8:8727. [PMID: 29880836 PMCID: PMC5992177 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27024-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Accepted: 05/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The city of Shenzhen has recently experienced extraordinary economic growth accompanied by a huge internal migrant influx. We investigated the local dynamics of tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen to provide insights for TB control strategies for this district and other rapidly developing regions in China. We analyzed the age-specific incidence and number of TB cases in the Nanshan District from 2011 to 2016. Over all, the age-standardized incidence of TB decreased at an annual rate of 3.4%. The incidence was lowest amongst the age group 0-14 and showed no increase in this group over the six-year period (P = 0.587). The fastest decreasing incidence was among the 15-24 age group, with a yearly decrease of 13.3% (β = 0.867, P < 0.001). In contrast, the TB incidence increased in the age groups 45-54, 55-54, and especially in those aged ≥65, whose yearly increase was 13.1% (β = 1.131, P < 0.001). The peak time of TB case presentation was in April, May, and June for all age groups, except in August for the 45-54 cohort. In the rapidly developing Nanshan District, TB control policies targeted to those aged 45 years and older should be considered. The presentation of TB cases appears to peak in the spring months.
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- Minmin Zhu
- Shenzhen Nanshan Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, 518054, China.
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- Shenzhen Nanshan Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, 518054, China
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- Shenzhen Nanshan Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, 518054, China.,Institut Pasteur, Unité de Génétique Mycobacterienne, Paris, 75015, France.,Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Shenzhen Nanshan Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, 518054, China
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- Shenzhen Nanshan Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, 518054, China
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- Shenzhen Nanshan Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, 518054, China
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- Shenzhen Nanshan Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, 518054, China.
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Churchyard G, Kim P, Shah NS, Rustomjee R, Gandhi N, Mathema B, Dowdy D, Kasmar A, Cardenas V. What We Know About Tuberculosis Transmission: An Overview. J Infect Dis 2017; 216:S629-S635. [PMID: 29112747 PMCID: PMC5791742 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis remains a global health problem with an enormous burden of disease, estimated at 10.4 million new cases in 2015. To stop the tuberculosis epidemic, it is critical that we interrupt tuberculosis transmission. Further, the interventions required to interrupt tuberculosis transmission must be targeted to high-risk groups and settings. A simple cascade for tuberculosis transmission has been proposed in which (1) a source case of tuberculosis (2) generates infectious particles (3) that survive in the air and (4) are inhaled by a susceptible individual (5) who may become infected and (6) then has the potential to develop tuberculosis. Interventions that target these events will interrupt tuberculosis transmission and accelerate the decline in tuberculosis incidence and mortality. The purpose of this article is to provide a high-level overview of what is known about tuberculosis transmission, using the tuberculosis transmission cascade as a framework, and to set the scene for the articles in this series, which address specific aspects of tuberculosis transmission.
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- Gavin Churchyard
- Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa
- School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,
- Advancing Care & Treatment for TB/HIV, Johannesburg, South Africa, and
- South African Medical Research Council, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Division of AIDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and
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- Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and
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- Division of AIDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, and
- Emory School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York; and
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- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington
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Ncayiyana JR, Bassett J, West N, Westreich D, Musenge E, Emch M, Pettifor A, Hanrahan CF, Schwartz SR, Sanne I, van Rie A. Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection and predictive factors in an urban informal settlement in Johannesburg, South Africa: a cross-sectional study. BMC Infect Dis 2016; 16:661. [PMID: 27825307 PMCID: PMC5101651 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-1989-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2016] [Accepted: 10/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Background South Africa has one of the highest burdens of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in high-risk populations such as young children, adolescents, household contacts of TB cases, people living with HIV, gold miners and health care workers, but little is known about the burden of LTBI in its general population. Methods Using a community-based survey with random sampling, we examined the burden of LTBI in an urban township of Johannesburg and investigated factors associated with LTBI. The outcome of LTBI was based on TST positivity, with a TST considered positive if the induration was ≥5 mm in people living with HIV or ≥10 mm in those with unknown or HIV negative status. We used bivariate and multivariable logistic regression to identify factors associated with LTBI Results The overall prevalence of LTBI was 34.3 (95 % CI 30.0, 38.8 %), the annual risk of infection among children age 0–14 years was 3.1 % (95 % CI 2.1, 5.2). LTBI was not associated with HIV status. In multivariable logistic regression analysis, LTBI was associated with age (OR = 1.03 for every year increase in age, 95 % CI = 1.01–1.05), male gender (OR = 2.70, 95 % CI = 1.55–4.70), marital status (OR = 2.00, 95 % CI = 1.31–3.54), and higher socio-economic status (OR = 2.11, 95 % CI = 1.04–4.31). Conclusions The prevalence of LTBI and the annual risk of infection with M. tuberculosis is high in urban populations, especially in men, but independent of HIV infection status. This study suggests that LTBI may be associated with higher SES, in contrast to the well-established association between TB disease and poverty.
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- Jabulani R Ncayiyana
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. .,Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 29 Princess of Wales Terrace, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa.
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- Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre, 105 William Nicol Drive, Fourways, Johannesburg, 2055, South Africa
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- Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre, 105 William Nicol Drive, Fourways, Johannesburg, 2055, South Africa
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 29 Princess of Wales Terrace, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Clinical HIV Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Perth Road, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2092, South Africa
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.,Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, University Square, Wilrijk, Antwerp, 2610, Belgium
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Khan PY, Glynn JR, Fielding KL, Mzembe T, Mulawa D, Chiumya R, Fine PEM, Koole O, Kranzer K, Crampin AC. Risk factors for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in 2-4 year olds in a rural HIV-prevalent setting. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2016; 20:342-9. [PMID: 27046715 PMCID: PMC4743681 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.15.0672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children acts as a sentinel for infectious tuberculosis. OBJECTIVE To assess risk factors associated with tuberculous infection in pre-school children. METHOD We conducted a population-wide tuberculin skin test (TST) survey from January to December 2012 in Malawi. All children aged 2-4 years residing in a demographic surveillance area were eligible. Detailed demographic data, including adult human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status, and clinical and sociodemographic data on all diagnosed tuberculosis (TB) patients were available. RESULTS The prevalence of M. tuberculosis infection was 1.1% using a TST induration cut-off of 15 mm (estimated annual risk of infection of 0.3%). The main identifiable risk factors were maternal HIV infection at birth (adjusted OR [aOR] 3.6, 95%CI 1.1-12.2), having three or more adult members in the household over a lifetime (aOR 2.4, 95%CI 1.2-4.8) and living in close proximity to a known case of infectious TB (aOR 1.6, 95%CI 1.1-2.4), modelled as a linear variable across categories (>200 m, 100-200 m, <100 m, within household). Less than 20% of the infected children lived within 200 m of a known diagnosed case. CONCLUSION Household and community risk factors identified do not explain the majority of M. tuberculosis infections in children in our setting.
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- P Y Khan
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WD1E 7HT, UK; Karonga Prevention Study, Chilumba, Malawi.
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Karonga Prevention Study, Chilumba, Malawi
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- Karonga Prevention Study, Chilumba, Malawi
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- Karonga Prevention Study, Chilumba, Malawi
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Karonga Prevention Study, Chilumba, Malawi
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- National and Supranational Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Karonga Prevention Study, Chilumba, Malawi
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Yates TA, Khan PY, Knight GM, Taylor JG, McHugh TD, Lipman M, White RG, Cohen T, Cobelens FG, Wood R, Moore DAJ, Abubakar I. The transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in high burden settings. THE LANCET. INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2016; 16:227-38. [PMID: 26867464 DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(15)00499-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2015] [Revised: 11/03/2015] [Accepted: 11/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Unacceptable levels of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission are noted in high burden settings and a renewed focus on reducing person-to-person transmission in these communities is needed. We review recent developments in the understanding of airborne transmission. We outline approaches to measure transmission in populations and trials and describe the Wells-Riley equation, which is used to estimate transmission risk in indoor spaces. Present research priorities include the identification of effective strategies for tuberculosis infection control, improved understanding of where transmission occurs and the transmissibility of drug-resistant strains, and estimates of the effect of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on transmission dynamics. When research is planned and interventions are designed to interrupt transmission, resource constraints that are common in high burden settings-including shortages of health-care workers-must be considered.
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- Tom A Yates
- Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, UK; Wellcome Trust Africa Centre for Population Health, Mtubatuba, South Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Tuberculosis Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Karonga Prevention Study, Chilumba, Malawi
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- Tuberculosis Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Tuberculosis Modelling Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Tuberculosis Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Tuberculosis Modelling Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Tuberculosis Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Tuberculosis Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, UK; MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, University College London, London, UK
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Abe J, Alop-Mabuti A, Burger P, Button J, Ellsberry M, Hitzeman J, Morgenstern D, Nunies K, Strother M, Darling-Munson J, Chan YL, Cassady R, Vasconcellos SMK, Iseman MD, Chan ED, Honda JR. Comparing the temporal colonization and microbial diversity of showerhead biofilms in Hawai'i and Colorado. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2016; 363:fnw005. [PMID: 26764424 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnw005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The household is a potential source of opportunistic pathogens to humans, a particularly critical issue for immunodeficient individuals. An important human-microbe interface is the biofilm that develops on showerhead surfaces. Once microbe-laden biofilms become aerosolized, they can potentially be inhaled into the lungs. Understanding how quickly a new showerhead becomes colonized would provide useful information to minimize exposure to potentially pathogenic environmental microbes. High school scientists sampled the inner surfaces of pre-existing and newly fitted showerheads monthly over a nine-month period and applied standard microbiologic culture techniques to qualitatively assess microbial growth. Water chemistry was also monitored using commercial test strips. Sampling was performed in households on Oahu, Hawai'i and Denver, Colorado, representing warm/humid and cold/arid environments, respectively. Pre-existing showerheads in Hawai'i showed more diverse microbial growth and significantly greater microbial numbers than a comparable showerhead from Colorado. New, chrome-plated or plastic showerheads in Hawai'i showed diverse and abundant growth one month after installment compared to new showerheads from Colorado. The pH, total chlorine and water hardness levels varied significantly between the Hawai'i and Colorado samples. Enthusiastic student and teacher participation allowed us to answer long-standing questions regarding the temporal colonization of microbial biofilms on pre-existing and new showerhead surfaces.
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- Island Pacific Academy, Kapolei, Hawai'i 96707, USA
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- National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80206, USA Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, CO 80220, USA
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- National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80206, USA Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, CO 80220, USA
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Zelner JL, Murray MB, Becerra MC, Galea J, Lecca L, Calderon R, Yataco R, Contreras C, Zhang Z, Manjourides J, Grenfell BT, Cohen T. Identifying Hotspots of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Transmission Using Spatial and Molecular Genetic Data. J Infect Dis 2015; 213:287-94. [PMID: 26175455 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2015] [Accepted: 07/08/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND We aimed to identify and determine the etiology of "hotspots" of concentrated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-tuberculosis) risk in Lima, Peru. METHODS From 2009 to 2012, we conducted a prospective cohort study among households of tuberculosis cases from 106 health center (HC) areas in Lima, Peru. All notified tuberculosis cases and their household contacts were followed for 1 year. Symptomatic individuals were screened by microscopy and culture; positive cultures were tested for drug susceptibility (DST) and genotyped by 24-loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variable-number tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR). RESULTS 3286 individuals with culture-confirmed disease, DST, and 24-loci MIRU-VNTR were included in our analysis. Our analysis reveals: (1) heterogeneity in annual per-capita incidence of tuberculosis and MDR-tuberculosis by HC, with a rate of MDR-tuberculosis 89 times greater (95% confidence interval [CI], 54,185) in the most-affected versus the least-affected HC; (2) high risk for MDR-tuberculosis in a region spanning several HCs (odds ratio = 3.19, 95% CI, 2.33, 4.36); and (3) spatial aggregation of MDR-tuberculosis genotypes, suggesting localized transmission. CONCLUSIONS These findings reveal that localized transmission is an important driver of the epidemic of MDR-tuberculosis in Lima. Efforts to interrupt transmission may be most effective if targeted to this area of the city.
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- Jonathan L Zelner
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) & Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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- Department of Health Sciences, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
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