2014
The Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Mortality in HIV Positive People during Tuberculosis Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Odone A, Amadasi S, White RG, Cohen T, Grant AD, Houben RM. The Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Mortality in HIV Positive People during Tuberculosis Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLOS ONE 2014, 9: e112017. PMID: 25391135, PMCID: PMC4229142, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112017.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHIV-positive peopleAntiretroviral therapyTB treatmentTuberculosis treatmentSystematic reviewHIV-positive TB casesCoverage of ARTRisk of deathMain outcome measuresOutcomes of interestTB casesDual epidemicsTB therapyRelative riskOutcome measuresPooled estimatesStudy populationProportion of individualsFatality ratioPositive peopleMeta-AnalysisART statusClinical settingManual searchMortality
2013
Evaluation of the Tuberculosis Strain Typing Service (TB-STS) in England
Mears J, Vynnycky E, Lord J, Borgdorff M, Cohen T, Abubakar I, Sonnenberg P, group O. Evaluation of the Tuberculosis Strain Typing Service (TB-STS) in England. The Lancet 2013, 382: s73. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62498-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTuberculosis incidenceProportion of infectionsDiagnostic delayBase-case assumptionsLatent infectionPulmonary tuberculosis casesTuberculosis control effortsHigh-incidence settingsMycobacterium tuberculosis isolatesCluster investigationsTuberculosis notification ratesPost-implementation dataComplex public health interventionsPopulation-level interventionsPublic health interventionsMIRU-VNTR typingTuberculosis infectionTuberculosis casesPreventive treatmentPublic health outcomesNotification ratesTuberculosis isolatesSenior Research FellowshipDeterministic compartmental modelProportion of individuals