2019
Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil
Mabud TS, de Lourdes Delgado Alves M, Ko AI, Basu S, Walter KS, Cohen T, Mathema B, Colijn C, Lemos E, Croda J, Andrews JR. Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil. PLOS Medicine 2019, 16: e1002737. PMID: 30677013, PMCID: PMC6345418, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002737.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIncidence of TBPrison-based interventionsTB incidenceGeneral populationTB casesCox proportional hazards modelNew TB casesControl of tuberculosisProportional hazards modelPaucity of dataTime of incarcerationTB burdenTB screeningTB riskTB transmissionTB ratesTB epidemicAdministrative databasesCommunity incidenceTuberculosis epidemicHazards modelTB databaseIncidenceEpidemiological contextIntervention
2017
Cystic fibrosis carriership and tuberculosis: hints toward an evolutionary selective advantage based on data from the Brazilian territory
Bosch L, Bosch B, De Boeck K, Nawrot T, Meyts I, Vanneste D, Le Bourlegat C, Croda J, da Silva Filho L. Cystic fibrosis carriership and tuberculosis: hints toward an evolutionary selective advantage based on data from the Brazilian territory. BMC Infectious Diseases 2017, 17: 340. PMID: 28499359, PMCID: PMC5429554, DOI: 10.1186/s12879-017-2448-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCystic fibrosisCommon fatal genetic diseaseMellitus type 2Mycobacterium tuberculosis infectionAIDS incidence ratesTuberculosis infectionTB incidenceMtb infectionTuberculosis incidenceIncidence rateSmoking dataType 2Fatal genetic diseaseRelative protectionCF carriersConfoundersMonthly incomeInfectionIncidenceNegative correlationSpatial epidemiologyGenetic diseasesFibrosisEvolutionary selective advantageTuberculosis