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1. Monkeypox outbreak—Nine states, May 2022

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Faisal S. Minhaj, Yasmin P. Ogale, Florence Whitehill, Jordan Schultz, Mary Foote, Whitni Davidson, Christine M. Hughes, Kimberly Wilkins, Laura Bachmann, Ryan Chatelain, Marisa A.P. Donnelly, Rafael Mendoza, Barbara L. Downes, Mellisa Roskosky, Meghan Barnes, Glen R. Gallagher, Nesli Basgoz, Victoria Ruiz, Nang Thu Thu Kyaw, Amanda Feldpausch, Amy Valderrama, Francisco Alvarado-Ramy, Chad H. Dowell, Catherine C. Chow, Yu Li, Laura Quilter, John Brooks, Demetre C. Daskalakis, R. Paul McClung, Brett W. Petersen, Inger Damon, Christina Hutson, Jennifer McQuiston, Agam K. Rao, Ermias Belay, and Andrea M. McCollum

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Transplantation, Immunology and Allergy, Pharmacology (medical)
Published
2022
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2. Synergy Between Low Body Mass Index and Hyperglycemia Increases Tuberculosis Incidence Among People Living With HIV: A Cohort Study

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Nang Thu Thu Kyaw, Anthony D. Harries, Matthew J. Magee, Ajay Kumar, Matthew J Hayat, Srinath Satyanarayana, Nay Lynn Oo, and Kenneth G. Castro

Subjects
Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), medicine.disease_cause, medicine.disease, Diabetes mellitus, medicine, Low body mass index, Underweight, medicine.symptom, Tuberculosis incidence, business, Cohort study
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2021
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3. Yield of facility-based verbal screening amongst household contacts of patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Pakistan

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Razia Fatima, Aashifa Yaqoob, Nang Thu Thu Kyaw, Safieh Shah, Ejaz Qadeer, Mahboob Ul Haq, Mrinalini Das, and Petros Isaakidis

Subjects
Microbiology (medical), Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Tuberculosis, Vulnerable adult, MDR-TB, GeneXpert, Article, lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases, Household contacts, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Contact tracing, Medicine, lcsh:RC109-216, 030212 general & internal medicine, Children, lcsh:RC705-779, GeneXpert MTB/RIF, business.industry, Index patients, Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, lcsh:Diseases of the respiratory system, medicine.disease, Surgery, Infectious Diseases, 030228 respiratory system, Night sweat, Family medicine, business
Abstract

Background: Household contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients are at a high risk of getting infected with TB/MDR-TB, therefore symptomatic or vulnerable individuals should be screened and treated early. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among household contacts of MDR-TB patients in three high-burden TB sites in Pakistan from July 2013 to June 2014. MDR-TB index patients were asked to provide a list of all members of their household and were asked whether any of them had TB symptoms such as productive cough, fever, weight loss and night sweat (âfacility-based verbal screeningâ). Symptomatic contacts were defined as presumptive TB cases and were invited for investigations at the facility. Those who did not come were paid a home-visit. Confirmed TB/MDR-TB patients were registered in the nearest treatment facility. Results: Of 209 MDR-TB index patients, 1467 household contacts were identified and screened, 95 of them children

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2017
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