Background Peru is one of the countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) and
multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in the Latin American region and globally. Health …

Peru is one of the countries with the highest incidence of tuberculosis and multidrug‐
resistant tuberculosis in the world. Although public health measures adopted in the country …

Background The growing threat from pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR-
TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) poses a major public health …

Following the efforts of patient advocates, the World Health Organization published updated
guidelines for management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2018 that advised against …

Background We sought to identify resistance patterns and key drivers of recent multidrug-
resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) transmission in a TB-prevalent area in Peru. Methods Cross …

Disruption of health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to derail progress
being made in tuberculosis control efforts. Forcibly displaced people and migrant …

Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a major contributor to global cases of
antimicrobial resistance and remains a public health challenge. To understand the extent …

Background Targeted testing and treatment of TB infection to prevent disease is a pillar of
TB elimination. Despite recent global commitments to greatly expand access to preventive …

ABSTRACT A previous investigation has elucidated the landscape of Mtb genomic diversity
and transmission dynamics in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Here, we expand the scope of this …

Objective Drug resistance is the critical determinant for appropriate tuberculosis (TB)
treatment regimens and an important indicator of the local TB burden. We aimed to …