Spotting the old foe-revisiting the case definition for TB

Rein M G J Houben; Hanif Esmail; Jon C Emery; Louis R Joslyn; C Finn McQuaid; Nicolas A Menzies; Joaquín Sanz; Sourya Shrestha; Richard G White; Chongguang Yang; Frank Cobelens

doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30038-4

Spotting the old foe-revisiting the case definition for TB

Lancet Respir Med. 2019 Mar;7(3):199-201. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30038-4.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ TB Centre, TB Modelling Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Electronic address: rein.houben@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ TB Centre, TB Modelling Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.
⁴ Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada; Department of Genetics, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada; University of Chicago, Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁹ Department of Global Health and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

PMID: 30823971
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30038-4

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MeSH terms

Disease Progression
Early Diagnosis
Epidemiologic Methods
Humans
Latent Tuberculosis* / diagnosis
Latent Tuberculosis* / epidemiology
Latent Tuberculosis* / microbiology
Latent Tuberculosis* / transmission
Mycobacterium tuberculosis* / isolation & purification
Mycobacterium tuberculosis* / pathogenicity
Patient Acuity
Symptom Assessment* / methods
Symptom Assessment* / standards
Terminology as Topic
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary* / diagnosis
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary* / epidemiology
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary* / microbiology
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary* / transmission

Grants and funding

MR/P002404/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom