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List of works by Willy Ssengooba

A comparison of tools used for tuberculosis diagnosis in resource-limited settings: a case study at Mubende referral hospital, Uganda ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

A sister lineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex discovered in the African Great Lakes region

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

Accuracy of Xpert Ultra in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis among children in Uganda: a sub-study from the SHINE trial

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Accuracy of different Xpert MTB/Rif implementation strategies in programmatic settings at the regional referral hospitals in Uganda: Evidence for country wide roll out.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Agreement of Middle brook 7H10 with Lowenstein Jensen and accuracy of the Sensititre MYCOTB plate using either method as a reference standard for Mycobacterium tuberculosis first line drug susceptibility testing.

scientific article

An Early Morning Sputum Sample Is Necessary for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Even with More Sensitive Techniques: A Prospective Cohort Study among Adolescent TB-Suspects in Uganda

scientific article

Assessing a transmission network of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an African city using single nucleotide polymorphism threshold analysis

scientific article published on 01 June 2021

Burden of tuberculosis disease among adolescents in a rural cohort in Eastern Uganda ⬇️

scientific article

Clinical utility of a novel molecular assay in various combination strategies with existing methods for diagnosis of HIV-related tuberculosis in Uganda

scientific article

Comparative performance of urinary lipoarabinomannan assays and Xpert MTB/RIF in HIV-infected individuals

scientific article published in June 2014

Comparison of GeneXpert cycle threshold values with smear microscopy and culture as a measure of mycobacterial burden in five regional referral hospitals of Uganda- A cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Cost-effectiveness of novel algorithms for rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis in HIV-infected individuals in Uganda

scientific article

Diagnostic performance of smear microscopy and incremental yield of Xpert in detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in Rwanda

scientific article

Do Xpert MTB/RIF Cycle Threshold Values Provide Information about Patient Delays for Tuberculosis Diagnosis?

scientific article published in 2016

Evaluation of Cepheid's Xpert MTB/Rif test on pleural fluid in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis in a high prevalence HIV/TB setting

scientific article

Evaluation of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for the diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis in Uganda: a cross-sectional diagnostic study

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

Feasibility of establishing a biosafety level 3 tuberculosis culture laboratory of acceptable quality standards in a resource-limited setting: an experience from Uganda

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

Genomic analysis of globally diverse Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains provides insights into the emergence and spread of multidrug resistance

scientific article

High Genotypic Discordance of Concurrent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Sputum and Blood of HIV-Infected Individuals

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

High incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis in children admitted with severe pneumonia in Uganda

scientific article

High prevalence of phenotypic pyrazinamide resistance and its association with pncA gene mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Uganda

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Improving the sensitivity of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay on sputum pellets by decreasing the amount of added sample reagent: a laboratory and clinical evaluation

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Incremental yield of serial sputum cultures for diagnosis of tuberculosis among HIV infected smear negative pulmonary TB suspects in Kampala, Uganda

scientific article

Molecular epidemiology, drug susceptibility and economic aspects of tuberculosis in Mubende district, Uganda

scientific article

Molecular investigation of multiple strain infections in patients with tuberculosis in Mubende district, Uganda.

scientific article published on 30 March 2013

Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

Patient satisfaction with TB care clinical consultations in Kampala: a cross sectional study

scientific article

Performance of loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in a high prevalence TB/HIV rural setting in Uganda

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Predictors and outcomes of mycobacteremia among HIV-infected smear- negative presumptive tuberculosis patients in Uganda

scientific article

Predictors for MTB Culture-Positivity among HIV-Infected Smear-Negative Presumptive Tuberculosis Patients in Uganda: Application of New Tuberculosis Diagnostic Technology

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Prevalence and risk factors of latent Tuberculosis among adolescents in rural Eastern Uganda

scientific article published on September 2015

Prevalence of Tuberculosis Risk Factors among Bacteriologically Negative and Bacteriologically Confirmed Tuberculosis Patients from Five Regional Referral Hospitals in Uganda

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Prospective cross-sectional evaluation of the small membrane filtration method for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article

Rifampicin resistance mutations in the 81 bp RRDR of rpoB gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates using Xpert® MTB/RIF in Kampala, Uganda: a retrospective study

scientific article

Sensititre MYCOTB MIC plate for testing Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility to first- and second-line drugs

scientific article published on 07 October 2013

Species and genotypic diversity of non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from children investigated for pulmonary tuberculosis in rural Uganda

scientific article

Sputum microbiota profiles of treatment-naïve TB patients in Uganda before and during first-line therapy

scientific article published on 29 December 2021

Tuberculosis resistance-conferring mutations with fitness cost among HIV-positive individuals in Uganda.

scientific article published on May 2017

Tuberculosis risk factors among tuberculosis patients in Kampala, Uganda: implications for tuberculosis control

scientific article

Variable ability of rapid tests to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis rpoB mutations conferring phenotypically occult rifampicin resistance

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Variation and risk factors of drug resistant tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Whole genome sequencing reveals mycobacterial microevolution among concurrent isolates from sputum and blood in HIV infected TB patients

scientific article published on 5 August 2016

Whole genome sequencing to complement tuberculosis drug resistance surveys in Uganda

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Cerebrospinal Fluid

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra: Optimal procedures for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in cerebrospinal fluid

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

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