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120. A Randomized Double-blind Trial Assessing the Efficacy of M72/AS01E Vaccine Against Pulmonary Tuberculosis Disease in Adults With Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

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A combined medical and surgical approach to hydatid disease: 12 years' experience at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London.

scientific article published on March 2002

A multidisciplinary method to map potential tuberculosis transmission 'hot spots' in high-burden communities

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A novel multiple-instance learning-based approach to computer-aided detection of tuberculosis on chest X-rays

scientific article published on 22 August 2014

Ability to understand and correctly follow HIV self-test kit instructions for use: applying the cognitive interview technique in Malawi and Zambia

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Acute airway obstruction in patients with AIDS

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Age- and Sex-Specific Social Contact Patterns and Incidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

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Annual risk of tuberculous infection using different methods in communities with a high prevalence of TB and HIV in Zambia and South Africa

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Application of balanced scorecard in the evaluation of a complex health system intervention: 12 months post intervention findings from the BHOMA intervention: a cluster randomised trial in Zambia

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Application of system thinking concepts in health system strengthening in low-income settings: a proposed conceptual framework for the evaluation of a complex health system intervention: the case of the BHOMA intervention in Zambia.

scientific article published on 9 May 2014

Application of systems thinking: 12-month postintervention evaluation of a complex health system intervention in Zambia: the case of the BHOMA.

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Applying ethical principles to international community-based research: a case study from the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS-TB Epidemic (CREATE) .

scientific article published on May 2014

Automatic detection of pleural effusion in chest radiographs

scientific article published in December 2015

Can combination prevention strategies reduce HIV transmission in generalized epidemic settings in Africa? The HPTN 071 (PopART) study plan in South Africa and Zambia

scientific article published on July 2013

Can we control tuberculosis in high HIV prevalence settings?

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Cavity contour segmentation in chest radiographs using supervised learning and dynamic programming

scientific article published on July 2014

Changes in tuberculosis notifications and treatment delay in Zambia when introducing a digital X-ray service

scientific article published on 10 August 2012

Children's role in enhanced case finding in Zambia.

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Comparison of four culture systems for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Zambian National Reference Laboratory.

scientific article published on April 2009

Comparison of indoor contact time data in Zambia and Western Cape, South Africa suggests targeting of interventions to reduce Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission should be informed by local data

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Correction: Implementation Research to Inform the Use of Xpert MTB/RIF in Primary Health Care Facilities in High TB and HIV Settings in Resource Constrained Settings

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Cost of tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment from the patient perspective in Lusaka, Zambia.

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Cost-per-diagnosis as a metric for monitoring cost-effectiveness of HIV testing programmes in low-income settings in southern Africa: health economic and modelling analysis

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Costs and cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis cultures using solid and liquid media in a developing country.

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Design of pragmatic trials of tuberculosis interventions - authors' reply

scientific article published in January 2014

Detection of tuberculosis using digital chest radiography: automated reading vs. interpretation by clinical officers

scientific article published on December 2013

Development and validation of a prediction model for active tuberculosis case finding among HIV-negative/unknown populations

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Development of a standardized screening rule for tuberculosis in people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings: individual participant data meta-analysis of observational studies

scientific article (publication date: 18 January 2011)

Diabetes mellitus in Zambia and the Western Cape province of South Africa: Prevalence, risk factors, diagnosis and management

scientific article published on 07 May 2016

Diagnosis of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis: Discordant results by diagnostic methods

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Differences in health-related quality of life between HIV-positive and HIV-negative people in Zambia and South Africa: a cross-sectional baseline survey of the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Effect of home-based interventions on virologic outcomes in adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in Africa: a meta-analysis

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Effect of household and community interventions on the burden of tuberculosis in southern Africa: the ZAMSTAR community-randomised trial

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Enhancement of class I HLA antigen expression by cytomegalovirus: role in amplification of virus infection

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Evaluation of the Capilia TB assay for culture confirmation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections in Zambia and South Africa

scientific article published on 4 August 2010

Extra-pulmonary and smear-negative forms of tuberculosis are associated with treatment delay and hospitalisation.

scientific article published on June 2010

Factors associated with HIV-testing and acceptance of an offer of home-based testing by men in rural Zambia

scientific article published on March 2015

Field comparison of OraQuick ADVANCE Rapid HIV-1/2 antibody test and two blood-based rapid HIV antibody tests in Zambia

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Frequency and correlates of anxiety and mood disorders among TB- and HIV-infected Zambians

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Frequency of HIV-testing and factors associated with multiple lifetime HIV-testing among a rural population of Zambian men.

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Fusion of local and global detection systems to detect tuberculosis in chest radiographs

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Genital self-sampling compared with cervicovaginal lavage for the diagnosis of female genital schistosomiasis in Zambian women: The BILHIV study

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

HIV treatment-as-prevention research: taking the right road at the crossroads

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HPTN 071 (PopART): a cluster-randomized trial of the population impact of an HIV combination prevention intervention including universal testing and treatment: mathematical model

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

HPTN 071 (PopART): rationale and design of a cluster-randomised trial of the population impact of an HIV combination prevention intervention including universal testing and treatment - a study protocol for a cluster randomised trial

scientific article published on 13 February 2014

High burden of prevalent tuberculosis among previously treated people in Southern Africa suggests potential for targeted control interventions

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

High levels of vulnerability and anticipated stigma reduce the impetus for tuberculosis diagnosis in Cape Town, South Africa

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High prevalence of tuberculosis and insufficient case detection in two communities in the Western Cape, South Africa

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How can we reduce TB deaths?

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Impact of acute malaria on plasma concentrations of transferrin receptors

scientific article published in May 2000

Implementation Research to Inform the Use of Xpert MTB/RIF in Primary Health Care Facilities in High TB and HIV Settings in Resource Constrained Settings

scientific article published on June 2015

Integrating tuberculosis and HIV services for people living with HIV: costs of the Zambian ProTEST Initiative.

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Intra-assay reliability and robustness of QuantiFERON(R)-TB Gold In-Tube test in Zambia.

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Isoniazid to prevent first and recurrent episodes of TB.

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Linezolid-resistant enterococci: report of the first isolates in the United Kingdom

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Logistic, ethical, and political dimensions of stepped wedge trials: critical review and case studies

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Malaria at Christmas: risks of prophylaxis versus risks of malaria.

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Measuring governance at health facility level: developing and validation of simple governance tool in Zambia

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Measuring health system strengthening: application of the balanced scorecard approach to rank the baseline performance of three rural districts in Zambia

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Measuring health workers' motivation in rural health facilities: baseline results from three study districts in Zambia

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

On Combining Multiple-Instance Learning and Active Learning for Computer-Aided Detection of Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 4 December 2015

Patient Diagnostic Rate as Indicator of Tuberculosis Case Detection, South Africa

scientific article published on March 2016

Phase 2b Controlled Trial of M72/AS01 Vaccine to Prevent Tuberculosis

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PopART-IBM, a highly efficient stochastic individual-based simulation model of generalised HIV epidemics developed in the context of the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial

scientific article published in September 2021

PopART-IBM, a highly efficient stochastic individual-based simulation model of generalised HIV epidemics developed in the context of the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial

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Potential utility of empirical tuberculosis treatment for HIV-infected patients with advanced immunodeficiency in high TB-HIV burden settings.

scientific article published on March 2011

Preferences for linkage to HIV care services following a reactive self-test: discrete choice experiments in Malawi and Zambia

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Prevalence and correlates of alcohol dependence disorder among TB and HIV infected patients in Zambia

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Prevalence of tuberculosis, HIV and respiratory symptoms in two Zambian communities: implications for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV

scientific article published on 19 May 2009

Protocol-driven primary care and community linkages to improve population health in rural Zambia: the Better Health Outcomes through Mentoring and Assessment (BHOMA) project

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Rapid detection of active and latent tuberculosis infection in HIV-positive individuals by enumeration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific T cells

scientific article published in November 2002

Re-reading of OraQuick HIV-1/2 rapid antibody test results: quality assurance implications for HIV self-testing programmes

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Restricted randomization of ZAMSTAR: a 2 x 2 factorial cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on January 2008

Risk factors associated with positive QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and tuberculin skin tests results in Zambia and South Africa

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Screening and preventive therapy for tuberculosis

scientific article published on December 2009

Screening for tuberculosis and testing for human immunodeficiency virus in Zambian prisons

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Screening people living with HIV before tuberculosis preventative therapy

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Sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility of the Capilia TB-Neo assay

scientific article published on 09 October 2013

Sharing clinical trial data.

scientific article published in June 2016

Socio-economic gradients in prevalent tuberculosis in Zambia and the Western Cape of South Africa

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Spread of Neisseria meningitidis group A clone III-I meningitis epidemic into Zambia

scientific article published in March 1998

Suppressed or unsuppressed HIV in adults on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: who is at risk?

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Symptom reporting among prevalent tuberculosis cases who smoke, are HIV-positive or have hyperglycaemia

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Systems thinking in practice: the current status of the six WHO building blocks for health system strengthening in three BHOMA intervention districts of Zambia: a baseline qualitative study

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The association between household socioeconomic position and prevalent tuberculosis in Zambia: a case-control study

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The association of hyperglycaemia with prevalent tuberculosis: a population-based cross-sectional study

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The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community-based lay distribution of HIV self-tests in increasing uptake of HIV testing among adults in rural Malawi and rural and peri-urban Zambia: protocol for STAR (self-testing for Africa) cluster rando

scientific article published on 6 November 2018

The effects of HIV on the sensitivity of a whole blood IFN-gamma release assay in Zambian adults with active tuberculosis

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The high burden of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a large Zambian prison: a public health alert

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The impact of HIV on tuberculosis control--towards concerted action.

scientific article published on December 2002

The measurement of household socio-economic position in tuberculosis prevalence surveys: a sensitivity analysis

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The sensitivity and specificity of using a computer aided diagnosis program for automatically scoring chest X-rays of presumptive TB patients compared with Xpert MTB/RIF in Lusaka Zambia

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Tuberculosis among community-based health care researchers

scientific article published in December 2010

Tuberculosis and the human immunodeficiency virus in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in 2008.

scientific article published on December 2009

Universal HIV testing and treatment and HIV stigma reduction: a comparative thematic analysis of qualitative data from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial in South Africa and Zambia

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Validation of brief screening tools for depressive and alcohol use disorders among TB and HIV patients in primary care in Zambia

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ZAMSTAR, The Zambia South Africa TB and HIV Reduction Study: design of a 2 x 2 factorial community randomized trial

scientific article published on 7 November 2008

‘TB is a disease which hides in the body’: Qualitative data on conceptualisations of tuberculosis recurrence among patients in Zambia and South Africa

scientific article published in 2021

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