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Tuberculosis: epidemiology

Afghanistan

• PLoS ONE
  • An Evaluation of Passive and Active Approaches to Improve Tuberculosis Notifications in Afghanistan [2016]

Africa

• BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • A systematic review of the quality of conduct and reporting of survival analyses of tuberculosis outcomes in Africa [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Epidemiology of tuberculous lymphadenitis in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Tuberculosis in the Americas. Regional Report 2021 [2022]

Armenia

• Public Health Action
  • Performance of decentralised facilities in tuberculosis case notification and treatment success in Armenia [2014]

Asia, North Africa

• Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Trend analysis and longitudinal clustering of tuberculosis mortality in Asian and North African countries: Results from the global burden of disease 2017 study [2021]

Australia

• PLoS ONE
  • Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Management of Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Low-Prevalence Country: A Four Year Retrospective Study in an Australian Tertiary Infectious Diseases Unit [2016]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Tuberculosis in elderly Australians: a 10-year retrospective review [2024]

Benin

• Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
  • Tuberculosis Case Finding in Benin, 2000–2014 and Beyond: A Retrospective Cohort and Time Series Study [2016]

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Materia Socio-Medica
  • Epidemiology of Tuberculosis During the Period 1703–2011: Honoring the World Tuberculosis Day [2013]

Brazil

• BMJ Open
  • Identifying socioeconomic, epidemiological and operational scenarios for tuberculosis control in Brazil: an ecological study [2018]

• Epidemics
  • Bayesian evidence synthesis to estimate subnational TB incidence: An application in Brazil [2021]

• Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
  • Tuberculosis in Brazil: one country, multiple realities [2021]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Excess tuberculosis cases and deaths following an economic recession in Brazil: an analysis of nationally representative disease registry data [2022]

• Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Incidence and risk factors of tuberculosis among 420 854 household contacts of patients with tuberculosis in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort (2004-18): a cohort study [2024]

• Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
  • Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil before the whole genome sequencing era: a literature review [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Time trend, social vulnerability, and identification of risk areas for tuberculosis in Brazil: An ecological study [2022]
  • Tuberculosis in Brazil and cash transfer programs: A longitudinal database study of the effect of cash transfer on cure rates [2019]
  • Ethnic and Racial Inequalities in Notified Cases of Tuberculosis in Brazil [2016]

• Population Health Metrics
  • The burden of tuberculosis and attributable risk factors in Brazil, 1990–2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 [2020]

• Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
  • Tuberculosis incidence in Brazil: time series analysis between 2001 and 2021 and projection until 2030 [2024]
  • Spatial-temporal evolution of tuberculosis incidence rates in indigenous and non-indigenous people of Brazil, from 2011 to 2022 [2023]
  • Spatiotemporal pattern of the incidence of tuberculosis and associated factors [2022]

• Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
  • Temporal Pattern and Spatial Distribution of Tuberculosis Prevalence Associated with Multimorbidity in Brazil [2024]

Brunei Darussalam

• BMJ Open
  • Epidemiology of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Brunei Darussalam: a retrospective cohort study [2023]

Cambodia

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Progress towards the 2020 milestones of the end TB strategy in Cambodia: estimates of age and sex specific TB incidence and mortality from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 [2022]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Tuberculosis case-finding in Cambodia: analysis of case notification data, 2000 to 2013 [2015]

Canada

• CMAJ
  • The prevalence of tuberculosis infection among foreign-born Canadians: a modelling study [2023]

• Journal of Public Health Research
  • Tuberculosis in Quebec: a Review of Trends [2012]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Tuberculosis in Canada - Summary 2015 [2017]
  • Tuberculosis in Canada: 2015 Supplementary data [2017]
  • Canadian Tuberculosis Standards 7th Edition: 2014 – Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Canada [2014]
  • Tuberculosis: Monitoring

Central Africa

• Scientific Reports
  • Long-term trends of tuberculosis incidence and mortality in four central African countries [2021]

China

• Biomedical and Environmental Sciences
  • Changes in Notified Incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in China, 2005-2020 [2023]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Analysis of the epidemiological trends of Tuberculosis in China from 2000 to 2021 based on the joinpoint regression model [2024]
  • Incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis under the regular COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control in China [2022]

• BMC Public Health
  • Epidemiological characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis in mainland China from 2004 to 2015: a model-based analysis [2019]

• BMC Pulmonary Medicine
  • The temporal trend of tuberculosis burden in an aging population in China: a secondary data analysis from the GBD 2019 [2024]

• BMJ Open
  • Under-reporting of diagnosed tuberculosis to the national surveillance system in China: an inventory study in nine counties in 2015 [2019]
  • Temporal trends analysis of tuberculosis morbidity in mainland China from 1997 to 2025 using a new SARIMA-NARNNX hybrid model [2019]

• China CDC Weekly
  • Predicted Impact of the COVID-19 Responses on Deaths of Tuberculosis — China, 2020 [2021]
  • Underreporting of Notifiable Pulmonary Tuberculosis Cases to the National Tuberculosis Information Management System — China, 2015 [2020]

• Chinese Medical Journal
  • Notification Rate of Tuberculosis among Migrants in China 2005–2014: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2016]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • The incidence of tuberculous pleurisy in mainland China from 2005 to 2018 [2023]
  • An Ecological Study of Tuberculosis Incidence in China, From 2002 to 2018 [2022]

• Infection and Drug Resistance
  • Estimating the Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on the Reductions in Tuberculosis Cases and the Epidemiological Trends in China: A Causal Impact Analysis [2021]
  • Secular Seasonality and Trend Forecasting of Tuberculosis Incidence Rate in China Using the Advanced Error-Trend-Seasonal Framework [2020]

• Infectious Diseases of Poverty
  • Epidemiological characteristics of tuberculosis incidence and its macro-influence factors in Chinese mainland during 2014-2021 [2024]
  • Age-period-cohort analysis of pulmonary tuberculosis reported incidence, China, 2006-2020 [2022]
  • Changes in newly notified cases and control of tuberculosis in China: time-series analysis of surveillance data [2021]
  • Spatial inequality, characteristics of internal migration, and pulmonary tuberculosis in China, 2011–2017: a spatial analysis [2020]

• International Journal of Clinical Practice
  • Epidemiology and Association Rules Analysis for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Cases with Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis from Age and Gender Perspective: A Large-Scale Retrospective Multicenter Observational Study in China [2023]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Temporal Trends in Notification and Mortality of Tuberculosis in China, 2004–2019: A Joinpoint and Age–Period–Cohort Analysis [2021]
  • Assessing the Quality of Reporting to China’s National TB Surveillance Systems [2021]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in China: a national survey [2023]
  • Epidemiology of concurrent extrapulmonary tuberculosis in inpatients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis lesions in China: a large-scale observational multi-centre investigation [2022]
  • Analysis on spatial-temporal distribution characteristics of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis in China, 2004–2015 [2019]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Changes in Incidence and Epidemiological Characteristics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Mainland China, 2005-2016 [2021]

• Journal of Global Health
  • The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on reported tuberculosis incidence and mortality in China: An interrupted time series analysis [2023]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in western China in 2010-11: a population-based, cross-sectional survey [2016]

• PeerJ
  • Temporal disruption in tuberculosis incidence patterns during COVID-19: a time series analysis in China [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • The epidemiology of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in China: A large-scale multi-center observational study [2020]

• Scientific Reports
  • The burden and challenges of tuberculosis in China: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 [2017]

• Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
  • Frequency of tuberculosis among diabetic patients in the People’s Republic of China [2014]

Denmark

• EuroSurveillance
  • The impact of living conditions and health interventions on tuberculosis, Denmark, 1876 to 2022 [2024]
  • Prevalence estimates of tuberculosis infection in adults in Denmark: a retrospective nationwide register-based cross-sectional study, 2010 to 2018 [2024]
  • Tuberculosis incidence among migrants according to migrant status: a cohort study, Denmark, 1993 to 2015 [2019]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The economic burden of Tuberculosis in Denmark 1998-2010. Cost analysis in patients and their spouses [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Characteristics and predictors for tuberculosis related mortality in Denmark from 2009 through 2014: A retrospective cohort study [2020]

Egypt

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence, incidence and treatment outcomes of tuberculosis in Egypt: updated overview [2024]

Eritrea

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Determining the burden of tuberculosis in Eritrea: a new approach [2007]

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Evaluating Tuberculosis Case Detection in Eritrea [2007]

Eswatini

• International Journal of Public Health
  • The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis Case Notification and Treatment Outcomes in Eswatini [2022]

Ethiopia

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis (TB) in the refugee camps in Ethiopia: trends of case notification, profile, and treatment outcomes, 2014 to 2017 [2021]
  • Spoligotyping based genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ethiopia: a systematic review [2018]

• Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
  • Tuberculosis Burden in Ethiopia from 1990 to 2016: Evidence from the Global Burden of Diseases 2016 Study [2018]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis among key and vulnerable populations in hotspot settings of Ethiopia. A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Bacteriologically confirmed extrapulmonary tuberculosis and the associated risk factors among extrapulmonary tuberculosis suspected patients in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Europe

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2024 - 2022 data [2024]
  • Tuberculosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2022 [2024]
  • Social determinants and risk factors in tuberculosis surveillance in the EU/EEA [2018]
  • Tuberculosis in Europe: from passive control to active elimination – high- and low-incidence countries [2015]
  • Annual epidemiological report 2014 – respiratory tract infections – tuberculosis [2015]

• European Journal of Public Health
  • Tuberculosis among migrant populations in the European Union and the European Economic Area [2014]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Tuberculosis in people of Ukrainian origin in the European Union and the European Economic Area, 2019 to 2022 [2024]
  • Tuberculosis incidence in foreign-born people residing in European countries in 2020 [2023]
  • Monitoring the progress achieved towards ending tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2018 to 2021 [2023]
  • Completeness of tuberculosis (TB) notification: inventory studies and capture-recapture analyses, six European Union countries, 2014 to 2016 [2020]
  • Will we reach the Sustainable Development Goals target for tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area by 2030? [2019]
  • Tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area: much progress, still many challenges [2019]
  • Tuberculosis notification rate decreases faster in residents of native origin than in residents of foreign origin in the EU/EEA, 2010 to 2015 [2017]
  • The effect of migration within the European Union/European Economic Area on the distribution of tuberculosis, 2007 to 2013 [2016]
  • Migration-related tuberculosis: epidemiology and characteristics of tuberculosis cases originating outside the European Union and European Economic Area, 2007 to 2013 [2016]
  • Impact of migration on tuberculosis epidemiology and control in the EU/EEA [2016]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Tuberculosis Notification Trends and Treatment Outcomes in Penitentiary and Civilian Health Care Sectors in the WHO European Region [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Determinants of site of tuberculosis disease: An analysis of European surveillance data from 2003 to 2014 [2017]

• Public Health Action
  • Social determinants and risk factors for tuberculosis in national surveillance systems in Europe [2015]

• TBNET
  • Burden and Characteristics of the Comorbidity Tuberculosis—Diabetes in Europe: TBnet Prevalence Survey and Case-Control Study [2019]

• WHO European Region
  • Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2024 – 2022 data [2024]
  • Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2023: 2021 data [2023]

Fiji

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis, Fiji, 2002–2013 [2016]

Finland

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Recurrent tuberculosis in Finland 1995–2013: a clinical and epidemiological cohort study [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Transmission of tuberculosis between foreign-born and Finnish-born populations in Finland, 2014–2017 [2021]
  • Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Finland, 2008-2011 [2013]

Germany

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Completeness of tuberculosis case notifications in Germany in 2013–2017: first results of an inventory study [2020]

• BMC Public Health
  • Seasonality in extra-pulmonary tuberculosis notifications in Germany 2004-2014- a time series analysis [2021]

• European Journal of Microbiology & Immunology
  • Tuberculosis surveillance and control in Germany – An application of the Berlin Declaration Monitoring and Evaluation Framework [2012]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Tuberculosis in times of war and crisis: Epidemiological trends and characteristics of patients born in Ukraine, Germany, 2022 [2023]
  • The burden of extrapulmonary and meningitis tuberculosis: an investigation of national surveillance data, Germany, 2002 to 2009 [2013]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Tuberculosis among Health Workers—A Secondary Data Analysis of German Social Accident Insurance Data from 2002–2017 [2020]

• Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
  • Tuberculosis in healthcare workers – a narrative review from a German perspective [2014]

• Robert Koch Institute
  • Report on the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Germany - 2017 [2018]

Guinea-Bissau

• Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
  • Spatial and temporal analysis of tuberculosis incidence in Guinea-Bissau, 2018 to 2020 [2023]

Haiti

• International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • Evaluation of the national tuberculosis surveillance program in Haiti [2015]

High-income countries

• BMC Medicine
  • The impact of migration on tuberculosis epidemiology and control in high-income countries: a review [2016]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Gender differences in tuberculosis incidence rates-A pooled analysis of data from seven high-income countries by age group and time period [2023]

India

• BMC Pulmonary Medicine
  • Trends in incidence and mortality of tuberculosis in India over past three decades: a joinpoint and age–period–cohort analysis [2021]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Tuberculosis case fatality in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • India’s syndemic of tuberculosis and COVID-19 [2020]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • How to bend the curve of TB incidence downwards in India [2024]
  • The prevalence of tuberculosis infection in India: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Journal of Infection and Public Health
  • Prevalence and factors associated with tuberculosis infection in India [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Recurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis in India: Findings from the 2019-2021 nationwide community-based TB prevalence survey [2023]
  • Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis among the tribal populations in India [2021]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • TB notification rates across parliamentary constituencies in India: a step towards data-driven political engagement [2021]

Indonesia

• Lancet Global Health
  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis control in Indonesia: a nationwide longitudinal analysis of programme data [2023]
  • Clinical and economic burden of drug-susceptible tuberculosis in Indonesia: national trends 2017-19 [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Variation of tuberculosis prevalence across diagnostic approaches and geographical areas of Indonesia [2021]

International

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology of TB in prisoners: a metanalysis of the prevalence of active and latent TB [2023]
  • Does tuberculosis threaten our ageing populations? [2016]

• BMC Medicine
  • Methods used in the spatial analysis of tuberculosis epidemiology: a systematic review [2018]
  • Global variation in bacterial strains that cause tuberculosis disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• BMC Public Health
  • Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis and attributable risk factors for 204 countries and territories, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Diseases 2021 study [2024]
  • Global, regional and national trends in tuberculosis incidence and main risk factors: a study using data from 2000 to 2021 [2024]
  • The social determinants of national tuberculosis incidence rates in 116 countries: a longitudinal ecological study between 2005-2015 [2023]
  • Geographical evolutionary pathway of global tuberculosis incidence trends [2023]
  • Geo-spatial high-risk clusters of Tuberculosis in the global general population: a systematic review [2023]

• BMC Pulmonary Medicine
  • Trends in pulmonary tuberculosis mortality between 1985 and 2018: an observational analysis [2023]

• BMJ Open
  • Epidemiological features and temporal trends of HIV-negative tuberculosis burden from 1990 to 2019: a retrospective analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 [2023]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Epidemiology of Tuberculosis and Progress Toward Meeting Global Targets — Worldwide, 2019 [2021]
  • Global Epidemiology of Tuberculosis and Progress Toward Meeting Global Targets — Worldwide, 2018 [2020]

• Infectious Diseases of Poverty
  • Global, regional, and national burden of HIV-negative tuberculosis, 1990-2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 [2024]

• International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Improving the quality of the Global Burden of Disease tuberculosis estimates from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation [2023]
  • Methods for estimating tuberculosis incidence and mortality by age and sex [2021]

• Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
  • Effects of migration on tuberculosis epidemiological indicators in low and medium tuberculosis incidence countries: A systematic review [2021]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Global, regional, and national mortality of tuberculosis attributable to alcohol and tobacco from 1990 to 2019: A modelling study based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019 [2024]

• Journal of Infection and Public Health
  • Present outlooks on the prevalence of minimal and subclinical tuberculosis and current diagnostic tests: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • The global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019 [2023]

• Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
  • Global burden of tuberculosis attributable to cancer in 2019: Global, regional, and national estimates [2022]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Economic impact of tuberculosis mortality in 120 countries and the cost of not achieving the Sustainable Development Goals tuberculosis targets: a full-income analysis [2021]
  • Proximate determinants of tuberculosis in Indigenous peoples worldwide: a systematic review [2019]
  • The impact of social protection and poverty elimination on global tuberculosis incidence: a statistical modelling analysis of Sustainable Development Goal 1 [2018]

• Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Burden of tuberculosis among vulnerable populations worldwide: an overview of systematic reviews [2023]
  • The impact of social protection on tuberculosis rates: a global analysis [2015]

• Lancet Public Health
  • Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence and case detection among incarcerated individuals from 2000 to 2019: a systematic analysis [2023]
  • Incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis in incarcerated populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Co-infection: Prevalence, fatality, and treatment considerations [2024]

• Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
  • Epidemiology and control strategies for tuberculosis in countries with the largest prison populations [2022]

• Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Global Epidemiology of Tuberculosis [2018]

Iran

• BMC Public Health
  • Distribution incidence, mortality of tuberculosis and human development index in Iran: estimates from the global burden of disease study 2019 [2023]
  • Spatio-temporal epidemiology of the tuberculosis incidence rate in Iran 2008 to 2018 [2021]

• International Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Role of Immigration in Tuberculosis Transmission to Iran: A Systematic Review [2020]
  • Trend of Smear-positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Iran during 1995–2012: A Segmented Regression Model [2016]

• Iranian Journal of Public Health
  • Predicting the Incidence of Smear Positive Tuberculosis Cases in Iran Using Time Series Analysis [2015]
  • Pattern of Reported Tuberculosis Cases in Iran 2009–2010 [2013]

Ireland

• Health Protection Surveillance Centre
  • Tuberculosis (TB)

Japan

• Epidemiology & Infection
  • Analysis of 605 tuberculosis outbreaks in Japan, 1993–2015: time, place and transmission site [2021]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis and non-recent immigrants in Japan – some issues for post-entry interventions [2017]

Kazakhstan

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis in Kazakhstan: analysis of risk determinants in national surveillance data [2012]

• BMJ Open
  • Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Kazakhstan: data from the Unified National Electronic Healthcare System 2014-2019 [2023]

• Journal of Infection and Public Health
  • Epidemiological and genetic aspects of pulmonary tuberculosis in Kazakhstan [2024]

Kiribati

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Battling tuberculosis in an island context with a high burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases: epidemiology, progress, and lessons learned in Kiribati, 2000 to 2012 [2015]

Kosovo

• Materia Socio-Medica
  • Tuberculosis Incidence and Case Notification Rates in Kosovo and the Balkans in 2012: Cross-country Comparison [2014]

Laos

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • The first national tuberculosis prevalence survey of Lao PDR (2010–2011) [2015]

Latin America

• BMJ Global Health
  • Increasing tuberculosis burden in Latin America: an alarming trend for global control efforts [2021]

• Genes
  • Tuberculosis Genetic Epidemiology: A Latin American Perspective [2019]

Lesotho

• PLoS ONE
  • Policy and programmatic directions for the Lesotho tuberculosis programme: Findings of the national tuberculosis prevalence survey, 2019 [2023]

Low and middle income countries

• Infectious Diseases of Poverty
  • Further analysis of tuberculosis in eight high-burden countries based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 data [2024]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Sex Differences in Tuberculosis Burden and Notifications in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2016]

Mexico

• Canadian Respiratory Journal
  • Morbidity Trends and Risk of Tuberculosis: Mexico 2007–2017 [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • Association of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Diabetes in Mexico: Analysis of the National Tuberculosis Registry 2000–2012 [2015]

Mexico, United States

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
  • Tuberculosis in Mexico and the USA, Comparison of Trends Over Time 1990-2010 [2015]

Middle East

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Diabetes-related tuberculosis in the Middle East: an urgent need for regional research [2015]

Middle East, North Africa

• African Health Sciences
  • Epidemiological features of tuberculosis in the Middle East and North Africa from 1990 to 2019: results from the global burden of disease Study 2019 [2023]

Mongolia

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Mongolia: analysis of surveillance data, 2015-2019 [2023]

Mozambique

• Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology
  • Spatial distribution and determinants of tuberculosis incidence in Mozambique: A nationwide Bayesian disease mapping study [2024]

Myanmar

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Are current case-finding methods under-diagnosing tuberculosis among women in Myanmar? An analysis of operational data from Yangon and the nationwide prevalence survey [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Determinants of correct knowledge on tuberculosis transmission and self-reported tuberculosis prevalence among general population aged 15-49 years in Myanmar [2023]

Netherlands

• EuroSurveillance
  • Recurrent tuberculosis in the Netherlands – a 24-year follow-up study, 1993 to 2016 [2022]

Nigeria

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Tuberculosis case detection in Nigeria, the unfinished agenda [2015]

Norway

• BMC Public Health
  • Description of the largest cluster of tuberculosis notified in Norway 1997–2011: is the Norwegian tuberculosis control programme serving its purpose for high risk groups? [2015]

Pacific Islands

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Pacific island countries and areas, 2000-2020 [2023]
  • The epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Pacific, 2000 to 2013 [2015]

Pakistan

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • The relationship between seasonality, latitude and tuberculosis notifications in Pakistan [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Population Based National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey among Adults (>15 Years) in Pakistan, 2010–2011 [2016]

Papua New Guinea

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea: analysis of case notification and treatment-outcome data, 2008–2016 [2018]

Peru

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Factors Associated with Mortality with Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Indigenous Populations in Peru 2015-2019 [2022]

Philippines

• PLoS ONE
  • High TB burden and low notification rates in the Philippines: The 2016 national TB prevalence survey [2021]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Tuberculosis among children, adolescents and young adults in the Philippines: a surveillance report [2018]
  • The tuberculosis profile of the Philippines, 2003–2011: advancing DOTS and beyond [2013]

Poland

• EuroSurveillance
  • Inventory study on completeness of tuberculosis case notifications in Poland in 2018 [2024]

Portugal

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis amongst foreign-born and nationals: different delays, different risk factors [2021]

• Pulmonology
  • Decline of tuberculosis notification rate in different populations and regions in Portugal, 2010–2017 [2021]

Republic of Korea

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Achievements in and Challenges of Tuberculosis Control in South Korea [2015]

• Epidemiology and Health
  • Nationwide trends in the incidence of tuberculosis among people with disabilities in Korea: a nationwide serial cross-sectional study [2022]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • The Relationship Between Socio-Demographic Factors and Tuberculosis Mortality in the Republic of Korea During 2008–2017 [2021]

• Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
  • Estimating the burden of nosocomial exposure to tuberculosis in South Korea, a nationwide population based cross-sectional study [2021]

• Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives
  • Tuberculosis Notification Completeness and Timeliness in the Republic of Korea During 2012–2014 [2016]

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
  • Increased Tuberculosis Burden Due to Demographic Transition in Korea from 2001 to 2010 [2013]

Russia

• Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • Insights into the Origin, Emergence, and Current Spread of a Successful Russian Clone of Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2013]

• Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
  • Tuberculosis in the Russian Federation: Prognosis and Epidemiological Models in a Situation After the COVID-19 Pandemic [2023]

Saudi Arabia

• Annals of Thoracic Medicine
  • Tuberculosis incidence trends in Saudi Arabia over 20 years: 1991-2010 [2013]

• International Journal of Mycobacteriology
  • Mapping the epidemiology and trends of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia [2015]

• Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
  • The Prevalence of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2024]

• Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
  • Tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia: the journey across time [2015]

• Saudi Medical Journal
  • Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia following the implementation of end tuberculosis strategy: Analysis of the surveillance data 2015-2019 [2024]

Serbia

• EuroSurveillance
  • Trends in tuberculosis notification and mortality and factors associated with treatment outcomes in Serbia, 2005 to 2015 [2020]

• Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
  • Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of tuberculosis and influenza [2021]

Singapore

• BMC Public Health
  • Time series analysis of demographic and temporal trends of tuberculosis in Singapore [2014]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • TB control in Singapore: where do we go from here? [2012]
  • TB Control in Singapore: the high price of diagnostic delay [2012]

Solomon Islands

• Public Health Action
  • Tuberculosis notifications, characteristics and treatment outcomes: urban vs. rural Solomon Islands, 2000–2011 [2014]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Tuberculosis in Solomon Islands: why declining case notifications may not reflect true incidence [2024]
  • Epidemiology of and programmatic response to tuberculosis in Solomon Islands: analysis of surveillance data, 2016-2022 [2024]

South Africa

• BMC Health Services Research
  • The epidemiology of tuberculosis in health care workers in South Africa: a systematic review [2016]

• BMC Public Health
  • TB epidemiology: where are the young women? Know your tuberculosis epidemic, know your response [2018]
  • Completeness and Reliability of the Republic of South Africa National Tuberculosis (TB) Surveillance System [2015]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Estimating the yield of tuberculosis from key populations to inform targeted interventions in South Africa: a scoping review [2020]

• Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in South Africa, 2017-19: a multistage, cluster-based, cross-sectional survey [2022]

• Scientific Reports
  • Drivers of sex differences in the South African adult tuberculosis incidence and mortality trends, 1990-2019 [2023]

South Asia

• Scientific Reports
  • Diabetes among tuberculosis patients and its impact on tuberculosis treatment in South Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

Spain

• PLoS ONE
  • The epidemiological situation of tuberculosis in Spain according to surveillance and hospitalization data, 2012-2020 [2024]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Environmental Research
  • Exploring the role of wastewater-based epidemiology in understanding tuberculosis burdens in Africa [2023]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Prevalence of tuberculosis among prisoners in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

Sudan

• BMC Pulmonary Medicine
  • Tuberculosis in Sudan: systematic review and meta analysis [2024]

Suriname

• Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
  • Ethnic disparities in tuberculosis incidence and related factors among indigenous and other communities in ethnically diverse Suriname [2021]

Switzerland

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Surveillance of tuberculosis in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein, 2009 to 2019 [2021]

Taiwan

• Scientific Reports
  • Trends and annual percentage changes in tuberculosis mortality estimated by Joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort analyses, Taiwan, 1978-2022 [2024]

Tajikistan

• Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
  • Tuberculosis in key populations in Tajikistan – a snapshot in 2017 [2020]

Tanzania

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Epidemiology and treatment outcomes of recurrent tuberculosis in Tanzania from 2018 to 2021 using the National TB dataset [2024]

Turkey

• Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
  • Effect of human development index parameters on tuberculosis incidence in Turkish provinces [2016]

Uganda

• African Health Sciences
  • A comparative analysis of two national tuberculosis reporting systems and their impact on tuberculosis case notification in Uganda [2023]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Spatial distribution and temporal trends of tuberculosis case notifications, Uganda: a ten-year retrospective analysis (2013-2022) [2024]

Ukraine

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Incidence and Mortality of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Ukraine: Analysis of National Surveillance Data [2022]

• ERJ Open Research
  • Clinical manifestations and epidemiology of adolescent tuberculosis in Ukraine [2020]

United Kingdom

• BMC Medicine
  • Recent household transmission of tuberculosis in England, 2010–2012: retrospective national cohort study combining epidemiological and molecular strain typing data [2017]

• ERJ Open Research
  • Trends and risk factors for death and excess all-cause mortality among notified tuberculosis patients in the UK: an analysis of surveillance data [2019]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Creating a web-based electronic tool to aid tuberculosis (TB) cluster investigation: data integration in TB surveillance activities in the United Kingdom, 2013 to 2016 [2018]

• HSC Public Health Agency
  • Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Northern Ireland, Annual Surveillance Report 2016 [2018]

• Lancet
  • Tuberculosis in migrants moving from high-incidence to low-incidence countries: a population-based cohort study of 519?955 migrants screened before entry to England, Wales, and Northern Ireland [2016]

• Public Health England
  • Tuberculosis: notifying cases
  • Tuberculosis (TB): national strain typing service
  • Tuberculosis (TB) in England: ad hoc provisional data
  • Enhanced TB surveillance strain typing module: user guide

• Public Health Scotland
  • Tuberculosis annual report for Scotland

• UK Health Security Agency
  • Tuberculosis in England: national quarterly reports
  • Tuberculosis in England: annual report

United Kingdom, United States

• Thorax
  • Mind the gap: TB trends in the USA and the UK, 2000–2011 [2016]

United States

• American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Prospects for Tuberculosis Elimination in the United States: Results of a Transmission Dynamic Model [2018]

• BMC Public Health
  • Racial disparity in mortality from tuberculosis in the US between states with and without a history of Jim-Crow laws: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and risk factors study, 1990 to 2019 [2024]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2023 [2024]
  • Second Nationwide Tuberculosis Outbreak Caused by Bone Allografts Containing Live Cells — United States, 2023 [2024]
  • Progress Toward Tuberculosis Elimination and Tuberculosis Program Performance — National Tuberculosis Indicators Project, 2016–2022 [2024]
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2022 [2023]
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2021 [2022]
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2020 [2021]
  • US Tuberculosis Rates among Persons Born Outside the United States Compared with Rates in Their Countries of Birth, 2012–2016 [2020]
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2019 [2020]
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2018 [2019]
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2017 [2018]
  • Tuberculosis — United States, 2016 [2017]
  • Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium africanum, United States, 2004–2013 [2016]
  • Leveling of Tuberculosis Incidence — United States, 2013–2015 [2016]
  • Tuberculosis Trends — United States, 2014 [2015]
  • Trends in Tuberculosis — United States, 2013 [2014]
  • Trends in Tuberculosis — United States, 2012 [2013]
  • Tuberculosis Genotyping — United States, 2004–2010 [2012]
  • Trends in Tuberculosis — United States, 2011 [2012]
  • Tuberculosis Outbreak Investigations in the United States, 2002–2008 [2011]
  • TB Data and Statistics

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Trends, Mechanisms, and Racial/Ethnic Differences of Tuberculosis Incidence in the US-Born Population Aged 50 Years or Older in the United States [2022]

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis Infection among Non-US-Born Persons and Persons >=60 Years of Age, United States, 2019-2020 [2023]

• Epidemics
  • High-resolution estimates of tuberculosis incidence among non-U.S.-born persons residing in the United States, 2000–2016 [2020]

• JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
  • The US National Tuberculosis Surveillance System: A Descriptive Assessment of the Completeness and Consistency of Data Reported from 2008 to 2012 [2015]

• Journal of Infection and Public Health
  • Pulmonary vs. extra-pulmonary tuberculosis hospitalizations in the US [1998–2014] [2019]

• Lancet Public Health
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in diagnosis and treatment outcomes among US-born people diagnosed with tuberculosis, 2003-19: an analysis of national surveillance data [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Recent Transmission of Tuberculosis — United States, 2011–2014 [2016]
  • Abrupt Decline in Tuberculosis among Foreign-Born Persons in the United States [2016]
  • Tuberculosis Infection in the United States: Prevalence Estimates from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2012 [2015]

Vanuatu

• Public Health Action
  • Tuberculosis case burden and treatment outcomes in children, adults and older adults, Vanuatu, 2007–2011 [2014]

Vietnam

• PLoS Medicine
  • Social determinants of the changing tuberculosis prevalence in Viet Nam: Analysis of population-level cross-sectional studies [2022]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Tuberculosis case notification data in Viet Nam, 2007 to 2012 [2015]

West Africa

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • The Relevance of Genomic Epidemiology for Control of Tuberculosis in West Africa [2021]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Global tuberculosis report 2024 [2024]
  • Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance: web annex F: evaluation of the WHO DHIS2 case-based package for tuberculosis surveillance (TB Tracker) in five pilot countries: summary of key findings [2024]
  • Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance: web annex E: examples of how to report diagnosis, start of treatment and treatment outcomes [2024]
  • Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance: web annex D: reporting of aggregated data and calculation of core indicators: templates and formulae [2024]
  • Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance: web annex C: record-linkage exercises [2024]
  • Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance: web annex B: standards and benchmarks for tuberculosis surveillance and vital registration systems: checklist [2024]
  • Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance: web annex A: commonly observed problems and associated solutions [2024]
  • Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance [2024]
  • National tuberculosis prevalence surveys: what diagnostic algorithms should be used in future? [2023]
  • Good practices guidance handbook for national TB surveys: how to apply good clinical and good data management practices for national TB surveys [2022]
  • National tuberculosis prevalence surveys 2007-2016 [2021]
  • Electronic recording and reporting for tuberculosis care and control [2012]
  • Tuberculosis prevalence surveys: a handbook [2011]
  • Tuberculosis data
  • Tuberculosis cases and deaths
  • Tuberculosis (WHO Mortality Database)
  • TB country profiles
  • Global Tuberculosis reports

WHO Western Pacific Region

• Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific
  • Tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: Estimating the burden of disease and return on investment 2020–2030 in four countries [2021]

• Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
  • Epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: Progress towards the 2020 milestones of the End TB Strategy [2020]

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Epidemiology and control of tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: update with 2013 case notification data [2016]

Yemen

• Epidemiology & Infection
  • Prevalence and surveillance of tuberculosis in Yemen from 2006 to 2018 [2022]

Zambia

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Undernotification and underreporting of tuberculosis in Zambia: a national data quality assessment [2022]

• BMJ Open
  • Tuberculosis care cascade in Zambia - identifying the gaps in order to improve outcomes: a population-based analysis [2021]

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • How "Subclinical" is Subclinical Tuberculosis? An Analysis of National Prevalence Survey Data from Zambia [2022]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • A 10-year Review of TB Notifications and Mortality Trends Using a Joint Point Analysis in Zambia - a High TB burden country [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • The Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Zambia: Results from the First National TB Prevalence Survey, 2013–2014 [2016]

Zimbabwe

• BMC Research Notes
  • Trends of sputum-smear positive tuberculosis in Zimbabwe: 2008–2011 [2015]

• International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • TB prevalence in Zimbabwe: a national cross-sectional survey, 2014 [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Spatial patterns of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases in Zimbabwe from 2015 to 2018 [2021]

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