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List of works by Mercedes C. Becerra

A role for community-level socioeconomic indicators in targeting tuberculosis screening interventions

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

A tale of two settings: the role of the Beijing genotype in the epidemiology of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article

Acquired and Transmitted Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis: The Role of Social Determinants

scientific article

Adaptation of a web-based, open source electronic medical record system platform to support a large study of tuberculosis epidemiology

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2012)

Addressing tuberculosis patients' medical and socio-economic needs: a comprehensive programmatic approach.

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Age-specific risks of tuberculosis infection from household and community exposures and opportunities for interventions in a high-burden setting

scientific article

Aggressive Regimens Reduce Risk of Recurrence After Successful Treatment of MDR-TB.

scientific article published on 8 May 2016

Aggressive regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis decrease all-cause mortality

scientific article

Aggressive regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis reduce recurrence

scientific article published on 7 December 2012

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin and isoniazid preventive therapy protect contacts of patients with tuberculosis

scientific article

Baseline Predictors of Treatment Outcomes in Children With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Children as sentinels of tuberculosis transmission: disease mapping of programmatic data

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Commentary: a targets framework: dismantling the invisibility trap for children with drug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 11 September 2014

Community-based therapy for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article

Community-based therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lima, Peru

scientific article (publication date: 9 January 2003)

Comprehensive treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.

scientific article published on August 2008

Concordance of drug resistance profiles between persons with drug-resistant tuberculosis and their household contacts: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Concordance of resistance profiles in households of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 28 October 2013

Consensus Statement on Research Definitions for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Children

scientific article published on 10 April 2013

Correction: Multidrug Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment Regimens and Patient Outcomes: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of 9,153 Patients.

scientific article published on 14 September 2012

Cost of delivering 12-dose isoniazid and rifapentine versus 6 months of isoniazid for tuberculosis infection in a high-burden setting

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Counting pyrazinamide in regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on May 2015

E-health systems for management of MDR-TB in resource-poor environments: a decade of experience and recommendations for future work

scientific article

Early progression to active tuberculosis is a highly heritable trait driven by 3q23 in Peruvians

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Eliminating the category II retreatment regimen from national tuberculosis programme guidelines: the Georgian experience ⬇️

scientific article published on November 24, 2011

Engaging the private sector to increase tuberculosis case detection: an impact evaluation study.

scientific article published on 14 June 2012

Epidemiologic inference from the distribution of tuberculosis cases in households in Lima, Peru

scientific article

Erratum for Velásquez et al., Pyrazinamide Resistance Assays and Two-Month Sputum Culture Status in Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Evaluation of GenoType MTBDRplus for the detection of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis on isolates from Karachi, Pakistan

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Evaluation of health-care providers' knowledge of childhood tuberculosis in Lima, Peru

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Expanding tuberculosis case detection by screening household contacts

scientific article

Fitness Costs of Drug Resistance Mutations in Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A Household-Based Case-Control Study

scientific article

From multidrug-resistant tuberculosis to DOTS expansion and beyond: making the most of a paradigm shift

scientific article

Geographic accessibility to health facilities predicts uptake of community-based tuberculosis screening in an urban setting

scientific article published in 2022

Global and Regional Burden of Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis

scientific article published on June 2015

Identifying Hotspots of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Transmission Using Spatial and Molecular Genetic Data

scientific article

Impact of Vitamin A and Carotenoids on the Risk of Tuberculosis Progression

scientific article published on 20 May 2017

Improving outcomes for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: aggressive regimens prevent treatment failure and death

scientific article

Incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis disease in children: systematic review and global estimates

scientific article

Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in Contacts of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Isoniazid resistance and the future of drug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on January 2004

Isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis in children: a systematic review

scientific article published on May 2013

Mapping local hot spots with routine tuberculosis data: A pragmatic approach to identify spatial variability

scientific article published on 24 March 2022

Modifiable Factors Associated with Tuberculosis Disease in Children

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Mortality in children diagnosed with tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis treatment regimens and patient outcomes: an individual patient data meta-analysis of 9,153 patients

scientific article

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment failure detection depends on monitoring interval and microbiological method.

scientific article

Multiple introductions of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis into households, Lima, Peru ⬇️

scientific article

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Lineage and Risk for Tuberculosis in Child Household Contacts, Peru

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Nutritional Status and Tuberculosis Risk in Adult and Pediatric Household Contacts

scientific article

Outcomes of Comprehensive Care for Children Empirically Treated for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in a Setting of High HIV Prevalence ⬇️

scientific article published on May 22, 2012

Parasite infection and tuberculosis disease among children: a case-control study

scientific article published on 30 December 2013

Pediatric Tuberculosis Research and Development: Progress, Priorities and Funding Opportunities

scientific article published on 24 January 2022

Pharmacokinetics of Levofloxacin in Children Treated for Exposure to Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Polyclonal Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infections and Risk for Multidrug Resistance, Lima, Peru.

scientific article

Potential effect of household contact management on childhood tuberculosis: a mathematical modelling study

scientific article published on 25 September 2018

Predictors of poor outcomes among patients treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis at DOTS-plus projects ⬇️

scientific article published on July 10, 2012

Programmes and principles in treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on February 2004

Progression of recentMycobacterium tuberculosisexposure to active tuberculosis is a highly heritable complex trait driven by 3q23 in Peruvians

scholarly article published 28 August 2018

Protective effects of household-based TB interventions are robust to neighbourhood-level variation in exposure risk in Lima, Peru: a model-based analysis.

scientific article

Pyrazinamide Resistance Assays and Two-Month Sputum Culture Status in Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 06 September 2016

RAPID HOME-BASED HIV TESTING TO REDUCE COSTS IN A LARGE TUBERCULOSIS COHORT STUDY.

scientific article

Recurrence after Treatment for Pulmonary Multidrug‐Resistant Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Reply to Hong-min et al.

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Risk factors and mortality associated with default from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment

scientific article published on June 2008

Risk factors for adverse events in household contacts prescribed preventive treatment for drug-resistant TB exposure

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Risk factors for unsuccessful tuberculosis treatment outcomes in children

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Sputum culture conversion as a prognostic marker for end-of-treatment outcome in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a secondary analysis of data from two observational cohort studies

scientific article

Surgery as an Adjunctive Treatment for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: An Individual Patient Data Metaanalysis

scientific article

The burden of tuberculosis disease in children--Authors' reply

scientific article published in October 2014

The effect of HIV-related immunosuppression on the risk of tuberculosis transmission to household contacts

scientific article published on 23 December 2013

Time to act on injectable-free regimens for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Time to culture conversion and regimen composition in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment

scientific article

Towards early inclusion of children in tuberculosis drugs trials: a consensus statement

scientific article published on 6 May 2015

Transmissibility and potential for disease progression of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Treatment Outcomes in Global Systematic Review and Patient Meta-Analysis of Children with Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Treatment and outcomes in children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Treatment outcomes of childhood tuberculous meningitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy for Individuals Exposed to Drug-resistant Tuberculosis: Feasibility and Safety of a Community-based Delivery of Fluoroquinolone-containing Preventive Regimen

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Tuberculosis burden in households of patients with multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 8 December 2010

Tuberculosis clinical presentation and treatment outcomes in pregnancy: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Tuberculosis household accompaniment to improve the contact management cascade: A prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Tuberculosis in children exposed at home to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article

Tuberculosis in children, adolescents, and women

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Turning off the tap: stopping tuberculosis transmission through active case-finding and prompt effective treatment

scientific article

Two clinical prediction tools to improve tuberculosis contact investigation

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

Using Changes in Weight-for-Age z Score to Predict Effectiveness of Childhood Tuberculosis Therapy

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Vitamin D status and risk of incident tuberculosis disease: A nested case-control study, systematic review, and individual-participant data meta-analysis

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Vitamin E Status Is Inversely Associated with Risk of Incident Tuberculosis Disease among Household Contacts

scientific article published in January 2018

Yield of contact investigations in households of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

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