Tuberculosis Transmission in a Primary School and a Private Language School. An Estimation of Infectivity

Autor: Sara Debulpaep, Alexandra Dreesman, Violette Dirix, Veronique Toppet, Maryse Wanlin, Lies Geysens, Wouter Arrazola de Oñate, Maryse Fauville, Françoise Mascart, Jack Levy, Françoise Mouchet

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Pediatrics, Vol 8 (2020)

Introduction: Belgium is a country with low incidence of tuberculosis (TB) and a very low number of TB cases in children. Children in contact with an adult smear-positive TB case are at high risk of transmission. Early diagnosis is important as young

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From multidrug- to extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: upward trends as seen from a 15-year nationwide study.

Autor: Karolien Stoffels, Caroline Allix-Béguec, Guido Groenen, Maryse Wanlin, Dirk Berkvens, Vanessa Mathys, Philip Supply, Maryse Fauville-Dufaux

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 5, p e63128 (2013)

BackgroundEmergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) represents an enormous challenge to Public Health globally.MethodsProgression towards XDR-TB was investigated in Belgium, a country with a typically low TB incidence, by analyzin

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2018 Belgian guidelines for the screening for latent tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients

Autor: Maryse Wanlin, Steven Callens, Violette Dirix, Jean-Christophe Goffard, Sophie Henrard, Chloe Wyndham-Thomas, Jean-Paul Van Vooren, Françoise Mascart

Publikováno v: Acta clinica Belgica. 74(4)

Objectives: To review the current knowledge on screening for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in HIV-infected adults and provide specific guidelines for Belgium. Focus is given to who to test, which testing method to use, timing of screening and

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30036162

Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Brussels, 2010–2013

Autor: Martine Spitaels, Christelle Vluggen, Wouter Arrazola de Oñate, Maryse Fauville-Dufaux, Karine Soetaert, Maryse Wanlin, Vanessa Mathys, Claude Saegerman, Guido Groenen

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 2, p e0172554 (2017)

The tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate in Brussels-Capital Region is 3-fold higher than in Belgium as a whole. Eight years after the realization of initial prospective population-based molecular epidemiology investigations in this Region, a similar stu

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http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5319770

European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care

Autor: R. Loddenkemper, Hans Kluge, Keertan Dheda, Timothy R. Aksamit, Davide Manissero, Jadwiga A. Wedzicha, Manfred Danilovits, Maryse Wanlin, Vaira Leimane, Rosella Centis, Lia D'Ambrosio, Antonio Spanevello, G. De Vries, Christoph Lange, Francesco Blasi, Miguel Villar, Mario C. Raviglione, Giovanni Sotgiu, Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan, O. Menegale, Laurent P. Nicod, Masoud Dara, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Kai Kliiman, Jose A. Caminero, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Daniela Maria Cirillo, A. Sandgren, Elmira Ibraim, E. Huitric, Jean-Pierre Zellweger, Vibeke Østergaard Thomsen

Publikováno v: European Respiratory Journal; Vol 39
The European Respiratory Journal
European Respiratory Journal, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 807-819
European Respiratory Journal

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) jointly developed European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC) aimed at providing European Union (EU)-tailored standards for the diagnos

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