The global tuberculosis burden remains substantial, with more than 10 million people newly
ill per year. Nevertheless, tuberculosis incidence has slowly declined over the past decade …

Background People who experience incarceration are characterised by poor health profiles.
Clarification of the disease burden in the prison population can inform service and policy …

Background People who are incarcerated are at high risk of developing tuberculosis. We
aimed to estimate the annual global, regional, and national incidence of tuberculosis among …

Background Tuberculosis is a communicable disease of public health concern that
inequitably impacts the most vulnerable populations worldwide. Vulnerable populations are …

Introduction: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and tuberculosis (TB) are the newest and one of
the oldest global threats, respectively. In the COVID-19 era, due to the health system's focus …

The body of knowledge on alcohol use and communicable diseases has been growing in
recent years. Using a narrative review approach, this paper discusses alcohol's role in the …

Tuberculosis has affected humankind for thousands of years, but a deeper understanding of
its cause and transmission only arose after Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium …

Recent rises in incident tuberculosis (TB) cases in Paraguay and the increasing
concentration of TB within prisons highlight the urgency of targeting strategies to interrupt …

In the past decade, tuberculosis incidence has declined in much of the world, but has risen
in central and South America. It is not yet clear what is driving this reversal of progress in …

Background Globally, prisons are high-incidence settings for tuberculosis. Yet the role of
prisons as reservoirs of M. tuberculosis, propagating epidemics through spillover to …