Search Results - "Lutchminarain, Keeren"
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Evaluating systematic targeted universal testing for tuberculosis in primary care clinics of South Africa: A cluster-randomized trial (The TUTT Trial)
Published in PLoS medicine (22-05-2023)“…The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends systematic symptom screening for tuberculosis (TB). However, TB prevalence surveys suggest that this strategy…”
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Southern African HIV Clinicians Society guideline on the management of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in people with HIV
Published in Southern African journal of HIV medicine (23-10-2024)“…No Abstract required…”
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Bedaquiline resistance in drug-resistant tuberculosis HIV co-infected patients
Published in The European respiratory journal (01-06-2020)“…Global tuberculosis (TB) control is threatened by drug resistance, with over 500 000 cases resistant to first-line drugs in 2018 [1]. Bedaquiline is a highly…”
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Evolving rifampicin and isoniazid mono-resistance in a high multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis region: a retrospective data analysis
Published in BMJ open (06-11-2019)“…ObjectivesSouth Africa ranks among the highest drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) burdened countries in the world. This study assessed the changes in…”
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Performance of the GenoType MTBDRsl in a programmatic setting, South Africa
Published in The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease (01-05-2022)“…BACKGROUND: The GenoType MTBDRsl v2 is a molecular test designed for the rapid detection of resistance to second-line anti-TB drugs in Mycobacterium…”
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The impact of COVID-19 national lockdowns on drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A spatial analysis
Published in Annals of epidemiology (01-09-2024)“…We sought to understand the impact of the initial COVID-19 mitigation strategies in 2020 on drug-resistant (DR) TB diagnoses in KwaZulu-Natal province (KZN),…”
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