Ongoing Projects
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Management of tuberculosis in transplant recipients
This multicentric retrospective cohort study will compare the incidence of tuberculosis at least two years after transplant in those with screening and those without screening.
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Pragmatic trial on safety and tolerability of an optimized (high) dose of rifampicin in tuberculosis patients’
Pragmatic Optimized
Rifampicin Trial (PORT)
Martin Boeree
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Validation of a health care index for short term mortality for tuberculosis (TB) among People Living with HIV
We hypothesize that a Health Care Index (HCI) derived from a European TB/HIV co-infection cohort does equally predict the probability for death in other cohorts from various settings.
Christian Kraef
Migrant-sensitive care and tuberculosis treatment outcome and completion
The aim of the study is to assess whether migrant-sensitive care strategies lead to an increase of successful active TB and LTBI treatment outcomes in migrants.
Lorenzo Guglielmetti,
Berit Lange & Heinke Kunst
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Xpert MTB/RIF false positive results in patients with tuberculosis
risk factors and impact on clinical outcome
Irina Kontsevaya
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Availability of mental health management in the context of TB diagnosis and during TB treatment across WHO European Region
Christina Vilaplana, Olena Rzhepishevska, Olha Konstantynovska
We hypothesise that mental health both in diagnosis and during TB treatment is underreported, poorly managed and appropriate guidelines are potentially missing in the WHO European Region
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EURO SURVERY TB
Raja Idris & Nils Wetzstein
An Europe-wide Survey to evaluate the Role of Adjunctive Surgery in the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis