The global pandemic of COVID-19 has been associated with infections and deaths among
health-care workers. This Viewpoint of infectious aerosols is intended to inform appropriate …

Throughout history, pandemics of viral infections such as HIV, Ebola and Influenza have
disrupted health care systems, including the prevention and control of endemic diseases …

Evidence-based guidance is needed on 1) how tuberculosis (TB) infectiousness evolves in
response to effective treatment and 2) how the TB infection risk can be minimised to help …

Background Although household contacts of patients with tuberculosis are known to be
particularly vulnerable to tuberculosis, the published evidence focused on this group at high …

Background Evidence on the comparative performance of purified protein derivative
tuberculin skin tests (TST) and interferon-gamma release assays (IGRA) for predicting …

The International Standards for Tuberculosis Care define the essential level of care for
managing patients who have or are presumed to have tuberculosis, or are at increased risk …

M. tuberculosis is a bacterium that is communicable from one human to another mainly by
the aerosol route and rarely by other means such as ingestion or percutaneous inoculation …

The ubiquity of airborne germs poses a significant threat to human respiratory health, as
demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and since the outbreak of COVID-19, masks have …

Abstract Background Resistance to latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection,
identified by persistently negative tuberculin skin tests (TST) and interferon-gamma release …

The objective of this study was to describe country-specific lockdown measures and
tuberculosis indicators collected during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data on …