2019
Notification of relapse and other previously treated tuberculosis in the 52 health districts of South Africa
Marx F, Cohen T, Lombard C, Hesseling A, Dlamini S, Beyers N, Naidoo P. Notification of relapse and other previously treated tuberculosis in the 52 health districts of South Africa. The International Journal Of Tuberculosis And Lung Disease 2019, 23: 891-899. PMID: 31533878, DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.18.0609.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSouth African health districtTB casesCase notification ratesHealth districtTB burdenNotification ratesHigh case notification ratesHIV co-infection rateHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalenceTB case notification ratesAntenatal HIV prevalenceSecondary preventive therapyDrug-susceptible tuberculosisNew TB casesCo-infection rateTreatment history informationPreventive therapyMultivariable analysisHIV prevalenceSouth African districtPatient categoriesRelapseTuberculosisTreatment monitoringVirus prevalence
2012
Identifying multidrug resistant tuberculosis transmission hotspots using routinely collected data
Manjourides J, Lin HH, Shin S, Jeffery C, Contreras C, Santa Cruz J, Jave O, Yagui M, Asencios L, Pagano M, Cohen T. Identifying multidrug resistant tuberculosis transmission hotspots using routinely collected data. Tuberculosis 2012, 92: 273-279. PMID: 22401962, PMCID: PMC3323731, DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2012.02.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDrug sensitivity testTransmission hotspotsRetreatment casesDrug-resistant tuberculosis epidemicRisk of MDRTime of diagnosisDrug-resistant diseaseTB casesResistant diseaseTuberculosis epidemicHigh riskUntreated casesProgrammatic dataMDRTBRiskMDRHigh levelsTargeted investigationGeographic areasCasesDiseaseDiagnosisSensitivity tests