The Latest on TB Research

See below the latest articles and publication on TB and HIV research.

Recurrent Tuberculosis: Relapse, Reinfection, and HIV
Chaisson RE, Churchyard GJ.
J Infect Dis. 2010 Feb 1.

Community-randomized trial of enhanced DOTS for tuberculosis control in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cavalcante SC, Durovni B, Barnes GL, Souza FB, Silva RF, Barroso PF, Mohan CI, Miller A, Golub JE, Chaisson RE.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2010 Feb 14.

Incidence of tuberculosis and HIV and progression of silicosis and lung function impairment among former Basotho gold miners
Park HH, Girdler-Brown BV, Churchyard GJ, White NW, Ehrlich RI.
Am J Ind Med. 2009 Dec;52(12):901-8.

HIV infection does not affect active case finding of tuberculosis in South African gold miners
Lewis JJ, Charalambous S, Day JH, Fielding KL, Grant AD, Hayes RJ, Corbett EL, Churchyard GJ.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Dec 15;180(12):1271-8

Screening and preventive therapy for tuberculosis
Marais BJ, Ayles H, Graham SM, Godfrey-Faussett P.
Clin Chest Med. 2009 Dec;30(4):827-46, x

The fourth I: scaling up implementation of collaborative TB-HIV activities to protect vulnerable mothers and infants
Gie RP, Beyers N.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2009 Dec;13(12):1443.

Comparison of QuantiFERON TB-G-test to TST for detecting latent tuberculosis infection in a high-incidence area containing BCG-vaccinated population
Kariminia A, Sharifnia Z, Aghakhani A, Banifazl M, Eslamifar A, Hazrati M, Ramezani A.

Evaluation of the Effect of Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection on QuantiFERON-TB Gold Assay Results
Pollock N, Kashino S, Napolitano D, Sloutsky A, Joshi S, Guillet J, Wong M, Nardell E, Campos-Neto A.

Approaches to tuberculosis screening and diagnosisin people with HIV in resource-limited settings
Reid M, Shah NS.

Biomarkers for tuberculosis disease activity, cure, and relapse
Wallis R, Doherty TM, Onyebujoh P, Vahedi M, Laang H,  Olesen O, Parida S, Zumla A.