2024
Serial Mass Screening for Tuberculosis Among Incarcerated Persons in Brazil
de Araujo R, Martinez L, da Silva Santos A, Lemos E, de Oliveira R, Croda M, Silva D, Lemes I, Cunha E, Gonçalves T, dos Santos P, da Silva B, Gonçalves C, Andrews J, Croda J. Serial Mass Screening for Tuberculosis Among Incarcerated Persons in Brazil. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2024, 78: 1669-1676. PMID: 38324908, PMCID: PMC11175667, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciae055.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchScreening roundsIncarcerated personsMass screeningIndividual prisonersIncarcerated peoplePrison populationBrazilian prisonsCases of pulmonary tuberculosisHigh-risk populationPrisonHealth QuestionnaireChest X-rayImprove case detectionPrevalence of tuberculosisRate of tuberculosisTB screeningMedian scoreHyperendemic settingsPulmonary tuberculosisXpert MTB/RIFTB scoreTuberculosis casesTuberculosis burdenCase detectionTuberculosis
2022
Evaluation of chest X-ray with automated interpretation algorithms for mass tuberculosis screening in prisons: A cross-sectional study
Soares T, de Oliveira R, Liu Y, da Silva Santos A, dos Santos P, Monte L, de Oliveira L, Park C, Hwang E, Andrews J, Croda J. Evaluation of chest X-ray with automated interpretation algorithms for mass tuberculosis screening in prisons: A cross-sectional study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 2022, 17: 100388. PMID: 36776567, PMCID: PMC9904090, DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100388.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchChest X-rayWorld Health OrganizationTB screeningPrevious TBInterpretation algorithmsAbnormality scoreXpert MTB/RIFSputum bacillary loadSystematic Tuberculosis ScreeningMultivariable logistic regressionMTB/RIFCross-sectional studyEffective triage toolX-ray imagesTB symptomsClinical characteristicsBacillary loadPrior TBTuberculosis screeningTriage testUS National InstitutesAlgorithm accuracyTriage toolStandardized questionnaireConfirmatory testing
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