Publications

 

  1. Beatriz Barreto Duarte, Jerrold Ellner, Alicia D Wright, Mark Hatherill, Amita Gupta, Timothy R Sterling, Rajita Bhavaraju, Bruno B Andrade, Asymptomatic Tuberculosis Across the Disease Spectrum: A Scoping Review of Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Public Health Implications, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 82, Issue Supplement_2, 15 April 2026, Pages S75–S84, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciag150
  2. Mariana Araújo-Pereira, Rajita Bhavaraju, Mark Hatherill, Amita Gupta, Jerrold J Ellner, Timothy R Sterling, Bruno B Andrade, From Exposure to Disease: Predicting Tuberculosis Progression, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 82, Issue Supplement_2, 15 April 2026, Pages S68–S74, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciag125
  3. Rajita Bhavaraju, Bruno Andrade, Suzanne Siminski, Soyeon Kim, Mark Hatherill, Timothy Sterling, Amita Gupta, Daphne Martin, Sonali Sarkar, Marissa Alejandria, Jerrold J Ellner, A Narrative Review of the Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis International Consortium: Sharing Diverse Data and Specimens in the Fight Against Tuberculosis, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 82, Issue Supplement_2, 15 April 2026, Pages S53–S59, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciag151
  4. Ridolfi F, Amorim G, Haas DW, Arriaga M, Staats C, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Figueiredo MC, Andrade BB, Sterling TR, Rolla VC, and the Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)-Brazil Consortium. Determinants of HIV-1 virologic suppression in HIV-associated tuberculosis in Brazil. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Vol 121, Mar 2026; doi:10.1590/0074-02760250090.
  5. Mendelsohn SC, Andrade BB, Araújo-Pereira M, Amorim GC, Erasmus M, Andrade AM, Fisher M, Figueiredo MC, Muwanga VM, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Rolla VC, Hatherill M, Sterling TR, Scriba TJ; members of the RePORT South Africa; RePORT-Brazil Consortia. Blood transcriptomic signatures predict poor treatment outcomes in drug-susceptible pulmonary TB in Brazil. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Oct 8:2025.10.07.25337480. doi: 10.1101/2025.10.07.25337480. PMID: 41282706; PMCID: PMC12632667.
  6. Piekos JA, Amorim G, Ridolfi F, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Figueiredo MC, Andrade BB, Santos AR, Haas DW, Sterling TR, Rolla VC, Velez Edwards DR; Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)-Brazil consortium. Genetic ancestry proportion influences risk of adverse events from tuberculosis treatment in Brazil. Hum Genet. 2026 Jan 6;145(1):10. doi: 10.1007/s00439-025-02809-y. PMID: 41493624.
  7. Sobral L, Arriaga MB, Souza AB, Barreto-Duarte B, Garcia-Rosa BS, Fernandes CD, Queiroz ATL, Rocha MS, Benjamin A, Moreira ASR, de Oliveira JG, Carvalho ACC, Spener-Gomes R, Figueiredo MC, Cavalcante S, Durovni B, Lapa-E-Silva JR, Kritski AL, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Cordeiro-Santos M, Araújo-Pereira M, Andrade BB; RePORT Brazil consortium. Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission among child and adolescent contacts of people with pulmonary tuberculosis in Brazil: a multi-center prospective cohort study. BMC Infect Dis. 2025 Dec 22. doi: 10.1186/s12879-025-12268-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41430120.
  8. Barreto-Duarte B, Villalva-Serra K, Miguez-Pinto JP, Araújo-Pereira M, Campos VMS, Ferreira IBB, Nogueira BMF, Queiroz ATL, Rolla VC, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Martinez L, Rebeiro PF, Sterling TR, Rodrigues MM, Andrade BB. Interplay between biological & social vulnerability and poor tuberculosis treatment outcome in Brazil: a nationwide study using multivariate modelling with excess risk. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2025 Nov 27;53:101305. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2025.101305. PMID: 41399540; PMCID: PMC12702379.
  9. Gordhan BG, Sewcharran A, Waja Z, Martinson N, Araujo-Pereira M, Saboia AS, Lourenço MCS, Gomes-Silva A, Rolla VC, Kana B; Associative BRICS Research in Covid-19 and TB (ABRICOT) Research Group. Oral Rinse as an Alternative Diagnostic Specimen for Detection of Tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Sep 12. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202503-0723RL. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40938622.
  10. Arriaga MB, Amorim G, Figueiredo MC, Staats C, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santo M, Rolla VC, Rebeiro PF, Andrade BB, Sterling TR; RePORT-Brazil consortium. Body Mass Index and Incident Tuberculosis in Close Tuberculosis Contacts. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Sep 3:ciaf475. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaf475. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40898999.
  11. Ferreira IBB, Menezes RC, Araújo-Pereira M, Rolla VC, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Sterling TR, Staats C, Amorim G, Trajman A, Andrade BB; RePORT-Brazil Consortium. Effects of missed anti-tuberculosis therapy doses on treatment outcome: a multi-center cohort study. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2025 Jun 25;48:101162. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2025.101162. PMID: 40657430; PMCID: PMC12246921.
  12. Melo MCM, Silveira AK, Dalvi APR, Silva J, Printes VS, Anselmo L, da Silva TI, Oliveira MM, Conceição C, Lopes A, Bollela V, Cordeiro-Santos M, Bhering M, Moreira ASR, Carvalho ACC, Kritski AL. Accuracy of Truenat™ MTB Plus for the diagnosis of pulmonary TB. IJTLD Open. 2025 Apr 9;2(4):199-207. doi: 10.5588/ijtldopen.24.0561. PMID: 40226136; PMCID: PMC11984528.
  13. Barreto-Duarte B, Villalva-Serra K, Campos VMS, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Araújo-Pereira M, Rodrigues MM, Andrade BB. Nationwide economic analysis of pulmonary tuberculosis in the Brazilian healthcare system over seven years (2015-2022): a population-based study. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024 Oct 10;39:100905. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100905. PMID: 39839682; PMCID: PMC11747192.
  14. Nogueira BMF, Rangel F, Andrade AMS, Daniel EA, Figueiredo MC, Staats C, Rolla VC, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Gupta A, Hanna LE, Sterling TR, Araújo-Pereira M, Andrade BB; RePORT Brazil and RePORT India Consortia. Predictive Markers of Incident Tuberculosis in Close Contacts in Brazil and India. J Infect Dis. 2025 Jan 7:jiae642. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae642. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39763217.
  15. Villalva-Serra K, Barreto-Duarte B, Rodrigues MM, Queiroz ATL, Martinez L, Croda J, Rolla VC, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Sterling TR, Araújo-Pereira M, Andrade BB. Impact of strategic public health interventions to reduce tuberculosis incidence in Brazil: a Bayesian structural time-series scenario analysis. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024 Dec 11;41:100963. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100963. PMID: 39759249; PMCID: PMC11697790.
  16. Amorim G, Jaworski J, Yang J, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Figueiredo MC, Turner M, Andrade BB, Velez Edwards DR, Santos AR, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Haas DW; Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)-Brazil network. Pharmacogenetics of tuberculosis treatment toxicity and effectiveness in a large Brazilian cohort. Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2025 Feb 1;35(2):55-64. doi: 10.1097/ PMID: 39470346; PMCID: PMC11695165.
  17. Barreto-Duarte B, Villalva-Serra K, Miguez-Pinto JP, Araújo-Pereira M, Campos VMS, Rosier G, Nogueira BMF, Queiroz ATL, Rolla VC, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Martinez L, Rebeiro PF, Sterling TR, Rodrigues MM, Andrade BB. Retreatment and Anti-tuberculosis Therapy Outcomes in Brazil Between 2015 and 2022: A Nationwide Study. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Jul 18;11(8):ofae416. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae416. PMID: 39100532; PMCID: PMC11297487.
  18. Villalva-Serra K, Barreto-Duarte B, Miguez-Pinto JP, Queiroz ATL, Rodrigues MM, Rebeiro PF, Amorim G, Cordeiro-Santos M, Sterling TR, Araújo-Pereira M, Andrade BB. Impact of Xpert MTB/RIF implementation in tuberculosis case detection and control in Brazil: a nationwide intervention time-series analysis (2011-2022). Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024 Jun 5;36:100804. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100804. PMID: 38912329; PMCID: PMC11192787.
  19. Xavier MS, Araujo-Pereira M, de Oliveira QM, Sant’Anna FM, Ridolfi FM, de Andrade AMS, Figueiredo MC, Sterling TR, Gordhan BG, Kana BD, Andrade BB, Rolla VC, Gomes-Silva A. The effect of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection on systemic immune responses in individuals with tuberculosis. Front Immunol. 2024 Jun 27;15:1357360. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1357360. PMID: 38994357; PMCID: PMC11236595.
  20. Arriaga MB, Amorim G, Figueiredo MC, Staats C, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Rolla VC, Andrade BB, Sterling TR; RePORT-Brazil consortium. Effect of Smoking on Longitudinal Interferon γ Release Assay Results Among Close Contacts of People with Pulmonary Tuberculosis. J Infect Dis. 2025 Feb 4;231(1):103-108. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae285. PMID: 38820119; PMCID: PMC11793032.
  21. Rodrigues, M.M.S., Barreto-Duarte, B., Vinhaes, C.L. et al. Machine learning algorithms using national registry data to predict loss to follow-up during tuberculosis treatment. BMC Public Health 24, 1385 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18815-0
  22. Mendelsohn SC, Andrade BB, Mbandi SK, Andrade AMS, Muwanga VM, Figueiredo MC, Erasmus M, Rolla VC, Thami PK, Cordeiro-Santos M, Penn-Nicholson A, Kritski AL, Hatherill M, Sterling TR, Scriba TJ; RePORT-South Africa and RePORT-Brazil Consortia. Transcriptomic signatures of progression to TB disease among close contacts in Brazil. J Infect Dis. 2024 May 6:jiae237. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae237. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38709708.
  23. Vinhaes CL, Fukutani ER, Santana GC, Arriaga MB, Barreto-Duarte B, Araújo-Pereira M, Maggitti-Bezerril M, Andrade AMS, Figueiredo MC, Milne GL, Rolla VC, Kristki AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Sterling TR, Andrade BB, Queiroz ATL; RePORT Brazil Consortium. An integrative multi-omics approach to characterize interactions between tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus. iScience. 2024 Feb 5;27(3):109135. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109135. PMID: 38380250; PMCID: PMC10877940.
  24. Ridolfi F, Amorim G, Peetluk LS, Haas DW, Staats C, Araújo-Pereira M, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Figueiredo MC, Andrade BB, Rolla VC, Sterling TR; Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)-Brazil consortium. Prediction models for adverse drug reactions during tuberculosis treatment in Brazil. J Infect Dis. 2024 Jan 23:jiae025. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae025. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38262629.
  25. Enane LA, Duda SN, Chanyachukul T, Bolton-Moore C, Navuluri N, Messou E, Mbonze N, McDade LR, Figueiredo MC, Ross J, Evans D, Diero L, Akpata R, Zotova N, Freeman A, Pierre MF, Rupasinghe D, Ballif M, Byakwaga H, de Castro N, Tabala M, Sterling TR, Sohn AH, Fenner L, Wools-Kaloustian K, Poda A, Yotebieng M, Huebner R, Marcy O; International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS. The Tuberculosis Sentinel Research Network (TB-SRN) of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA): protocol for a prospective cohort study in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. BMJ Open. 2024 Jan 9;14(1):e079138. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079138. PMID: 38195167.
  26. Mariana Araújo-Pereira, María B Arriaga, Anna Cristina C Carvalho, Renata Spener-Gomes, Carolina A S Schmaltz, Betânia M F Nogueira, Marina C Figueiredo, Megan M Turner, Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos, Valeria C Rolla, Timothy R Sterling, Bruno B Andrade, Afrânio L Kritski, for the RePORT-Brazil Consortium, Isoniazid monoresistance and anti-tuberculosis treatment outcome in persons with pulmonary tuberculosis in Brazil, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2024;
  27. Garcia LS, Costa AG, Araújo-Pereira M, Spener-Gomes R, Aguiar AF, Souza AB, Lima LOA, Benjamin A, Rocha MS, Moreira ASR, Silva J, Santos SRN, Lourenço MC, Figueiredo MC, Turner MM, Kritski AL, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Andrade BB, Cordeiro-Santos M; RePORT Brazil Consortium. The Xpert® MTB/RIF cycle threshold value predicts M. tuberculosis transmission to close contacts in a Brazilian prospective multicenter cohort. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Jan 3:ciad794. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad794. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38170196.
  28. Rocha EF, Vinhaes CL, Araújo-Pereira M, Mota TF, Gupte AN, Kumar NP, Arriaga MB, Sterling TR, Babu S, Gaikwad S, Karyakarte R, Mave V, Kulkarni V, Paradkar M, Viswanathan V, Kornfeld H, Gupta A, Andrade BB, Queiroz ATL; RePORT Brazil; RePORT India Consortia. The sound of silent RNA in tuberculosis and the lncRNA role on infection. iScience. 2023 Dec 8;27(1):108662. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108662. PMID: 38205253; PMCID: PMC10777062.
  29. Queiroz, A.T.L., Vinhaes, C.L., Fukutani, E.R. et al. A multi-center, prospective cohort study of whole blood gene expression in the tuberculosis-diabetes interaction. Sci Rep 13, 7769 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34847-9
  30. Araújo-Pereira M, Nogueira BMF, Spener-Gomes R, Carvalho ACC, Sant’Anna FM, Figueiredo MC, Turner MM, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Andrade BB; RePORT-Brazil Consortium. Anemia and anti-tuberculosis treatment outcome in persons with pulmonary tuberculosis: A multi-center prospective cohort study. J Infect Public Health. 2023 Apr 18;16(6):974-980. doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2023.04.009. PMID: 37121049.
  31. Ridolfi F, Peetluk L, Amorim G, Turner M, Figueiredo M, Cordeiro-Santos M, Cavalcante S, Kritski A, Durovni B, Andrade B, Sterling TR, Rolla V; Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)–Brazil Consortium. Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in Brazil: Different Predictors for Each Type of Unsuccessful Outcome. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 8;76(3):e930-e937. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac541. PMID: 35788646; PMCID: PMC10169436.
  32. Nogueira BMF, Krishnan S, Barreto-Duarte B, Araújo-Pereira M, Queiroz ATL, Ellner JJ, Salgame P, Scriba TJ, Sterling TR, Gupta A, Andrade BB. Diagnostic biomarkers for active tuberculosis: progress and challenges. EMBO Mol Med. 2022 Oct 31:e14088. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202114088. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36314872.
  33. Villalva-Serra K, Barreto-Duarte B, Nunes VM, Menezes RC, Rodrigues MMS, Queiroz ATL, Arriaga MB, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Sterling TR, Araújo-Pereira M, Andrade BB. Tuberculosis treatment outcomes of diabetic and non-diabetic TB/HIV co-infected patients: A nationwide observational study in Brazil. Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Sep 16;9:972145. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.972145. PMID: 36186793; PMCID: PMC9523014.
  34. Sobral L, Arriaga MB, Souza AB, Araújo-Pereira M, Barreto-Duarte B, Sales C, Rocha MS, Benjamin A, Moreira ASR, Oliveira JG, Carvalho AC, Spener-Gomes R, Figueiredo MC, Cavalcante S, Durovni B, Lapa-e-Silva JR, Kritski AL, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Cordeiro-Santos M, Andrade BB. Determinants of losses in the tuberculosis infection cascade of care among children and adolescent contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis cases: A Brazilian multi-centre longitudinal study. The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, 2022, 100358, ISSN 2667-193X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100358.
  35. Arriaga MB, Karim F, Queiroz ATL, Araújo-Pereira M, Barreto-Duarte B, Sales C, Moosa MS, Mazibuko M, Milne GL, Maruri F, Serezani CH, Koethe JR, Figueiredo MC, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Leslie A, Andrade BB. Effect of Dysglycemia on Urinary Lipid Mediator Profiles in Persons With Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Front Immunol. 2022 Jul 8;13:919802. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.919802. PMID: 35874781; PMCID: PMC9304990.
  36. Wada PY, Costa AG, Araújo-Pereira M, Barreto-Duarte B, Souza AB, Rocha MS, Figueiredo MC, Turner MM, Rolla VC, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Andrade BB, Sterling TR, Rebeiro PF; Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT) Brazil Consortium. Possible Sex Difference in Latent Tuberculosis Infection Risk among Close Tuberculosis Contacts. Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Jul 14:S1201-9712(22)00426-X. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.07.031. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35843494.
  37. Queiroz ATL, Araújo-Pereira M, Barreto-Duarte B, Gomes-Silva A, Costa AG, Andrade AMS, Miguez-Pinto JP, Spener-Gomes R, Souza AB, Benjamin A, Sant’Anna F, Figueiredo MC, Mave V, Salgame P, Ellner JJ, Sterling TR, Cordeiro-Dos-Santos M, Andrade BB, Rolla VC. Immunologic Biomarkers in Peripheral Blood of Persons With Tuberculosis and Advanced HIV. Front Immunol. 2022 Jun 10;13:890003. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.890003. PMID: 35757685; PMCID: PMC9226490.
  38. Arriaga MB, Araújo-Pereira M, Barreto-Duarte B, Sales C, Miguez-Pinto JP, Nogueira EB, Nogueira BMF, Rocha MS, Souza AB, Benjamin A, de Oliveira JG, Moreira ASR, Queiroz ATL, Rodrigues MMS, Spener-Gomes R, Figueiredo MC, Durovni B, Cavalcante S, Lapa-E-Silva JR, Kristki AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Sterling TR, Rolla VC, Andrade BB; RePORT-Brazil consortium. Prevalence and Clinical Profiling of Dysglycemia and HIV Infection in Persons With Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Brazil. Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Jan 21;8:804173. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.804173. PMID: 35127760; PMCID: PMC8814308.
  39. Costa AG, Carvalho BKS, Araújo-Pereira M, Ibiapina HNS, Spener-Gomes R, Souza AB, Gomes-Silva A, Andrade AMS, Silva EC, Arriaga MB, Benjamin A, Rocha MS, Moreira ASR, Oliveira JG, Figueiredo MC, Turner MM, Durovni B, Cavalcante S, Kritski AL, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Andrade BB, Cordeiro-Santos M; RePORT-Brazil Consortium. Lessons Learned from Implementation of an Interferon Gamma Release Assay to Screen for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in a Large Multicenter Observational Cohort Study in Brazil. Microbiol Spectr. 2021 Dec 1:e0116321. doi: 10.1128/Spectrum.01163-21. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34851140.
  40. Arriaga MB, Araújo-Pereira M, Barreto-Duarte B, Nogueira B, Freire MVCNS, Queiroz ATL, Rodrigues MMS, Rocha MS, Souza AB, Spener-Gomes R, Carvalho ACC, Figueiredo MC, Turner MM, Durovni B, Lapa-E-Silva JR, Kritski AL, Cavalcante S, Rolla VC, Cordeiro-Santos M, Sterling TR, Andrade BB; RePORT Brazil consortium. The Effect of Diabetes and Prediabetes on Anti-tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes: A Multi-center Prospective Cohort Study. J Infect Dis. 2021 Oct 15:jiab427. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiab427. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34651642.
  41. Souza AB, Arriaga MB, Amorim G, Araújo-Pereira M, Nogueira BMF, Queiroz ATL, Figueiredo MC, Rocha MS, Benjamin A, Moreira ASR, Oliveira JG, Rolla V, Durovni B, Lapa E Silva JR, Kritski AL, Cavalcante S, Sterling T, Andrade BB, Cordeiro-Santos M; RePORT Brazil consortium. Determinants of losses in the latent tuberculosis infection cascade of care in Brazil. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Sep;6(9):e005969. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005969. PMID: 34518204.
  42. Barreto-Duarte B, Araújo-Pereira M, Nogueira BMF, Sobral L, Rodrigues MMS, Queiroz ATL, Rocha MS, Nascimento V, Souza AB, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Sterling TR, Arriaga MB, Andrade BB. Tuberculosis Burden and Determinants of Treatment Outcomes According to Age in Brazil: A Nationwide Study of 896,314 Cases Reported Between 2010 and 2019. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Jul 27;8:706689. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.706689. PMID: 34386510; PMCID: PMC8354381.
  43. Carvalho ACC, Amorim G, Melo MGM, Silveira AKA, Vargas PHL, Moreira ASR, Rocha MS, Souza AB, Arriaga MB, Araújo-Pereira M, Figueiredo MC, Durovni B, Lapa-E-Silva JR, Cavalcante S, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Cordeiro-Santos M, Andrade BB, Silva EC, Kritski AL; RePORT Brazil consortium. Pre-Treatment Neutrophil Count as a Predictor of Antituberculosis Therapy Outcomes: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study. Front Immunol. 2021 Jul 2;12:661934. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.661934. PMID: 34276654; PMCID: PMC8284392.
  44. Peetluk LS, Rebeiro PF, Ridolfi FM, Andrade BB, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski A, Durovni B, Calvacante S, Figueiredo MC, Haas DW, Liu D, Rolla VC, Sterling TR; Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)-Brazil network. A clinical prediction model for unsuccessful pulmonary tuberculosis treatment outcomes. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Jul 2:ciab598. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab598. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34214166.
  45. Arriaga MB, Rocha MS, Nogueira B, Nascimento V, Araújo-Pereira M, Souza AB, Andrade AMS, Costa AG, Gomes-Silva A, Silva EC, Figueiredo MC, Turner MM, Durovni B, Lapa-E-Silva JR, Kritski AL, Cavalcante S, Rolla VC, Cordeiro-Santos M, Sterling TR, Andrade BB; RePORT Brazil consortium. The Effect of Diabetes and Prediabetes on Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission to Close Contacts. J Infect Dis. 2021 May 19:jiab264. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiab264. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34008010
  46. Kulkarni V, Queiroz ATL, Sangle S, Kagal A, Salvi S, Gupta A, Ellner J, Kadam D, Rolla VC, Andrade BB, Salgame P, Mave V. A Two-Gene Signature for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Persons With Advanced HIV. Front Immunol. 2021 Feb 22;12:631165. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.631165. PMID: 33692804; PMCID: PMC7937880.
  47. Spener-Gomes R, Costa AG, Melo HF, Souza AB, Beraldi-Magalhães F, Jesus JS, Arriaga MB, Kritski A, Safe I, Andrade BB, Trajman A, Cordeiro-Santos M. Examination of respiratory specimens improves microbiological diagnosis of patients with presumptive extrapulmonary tuberculosis. IJID. 2021 Mar 12; doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.03.022. PMID: 33722683.
  48. Peetluk LS, Ridolfi FM, Rebeiro PF, Liu D, Rolla VC, Sterling TR. Systematic review of prediction models for pulmonary tuberculosis treatment outcomes in adults. BMJ Open. 2021 Mar 2;11(3):e044687. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044687. PMID: 33653759; PMCID: PMC7929865.
  49. Barreto-Duarte B, Sterling TR, Fiske CT, Almeida A, Nochowicz CH, Smith RM, Barnett L, Warren C, Blackman A, Lapa E Silva JR, Andrade BB, Kalams SA. Increased Frequency of Memory CD4+ T-Cell Responses in Individuals With Previously Treated Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis. Front Immunol. 2020 Dec 17;11:605338. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.605338. PMID: 33391271; PMCID: PMC7774017.
  50. Arriaga MB, Amorim G, Queiroz ATL, Rodrigues MMS, Araújo-Pereira M, Nogueira BMF, Souza AB, Rocha MS, Benjamin A, Moreira ASR, de Oliveira JG, Figueiredo MC, Turner MM, Alves K, Durovni B, Lapa-E-Silva JR, Kritski AL, Cavalcante S, Rolla VC, Cordeiro-Santos M, Sterling TR, Andrade BB; RePORT Brazil consortium. Novel stepwise approach to assess representativeness of a large multicenter observational cohort of tuberculosis patients: The example of RePORT Brazil. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Feb;103:110-118. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.11.140. Epub 2020 Nov 14. PMID: 33197582; PMCID: PMC7959330.
  51. Silveira-Mattos PS, Barreto-Duarte B, Vasconcelos B, Fukutani KF, Vinhaes CL, Oliveira-De-Souza D, Ibegbu CC, Figueiredo MC, Sterling TR, Rengarajan J, Andrade BB. Differential Expression of Activation Markers by Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4+ T Cell Distinguishes Extrapulmonary From Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Latent Infection. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 5;71(8):1905-1911. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1070. PMID: 31665254.
  52. Demitto FO, Araújo-Pereira M, Schmaltz CA, Sant’Anna FM, Arriaga MB, Andrade BB, Rolla VC. Impact of Persistent Anemia on Systemic Inflammation and Tuberculosis Outcomes in Persons Living With HIV. Front Immunol. 2020 Sep 24;11:588405. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.588405. PMID: 33072136; PMCID: PMC7541849.
  53. Rebeiro PF, Cohen MJ, Ewing HM, Figueiredo MC, Peetluk LS, Andrade KB, Eakin M, Zechmeister EJ, Sterling TR. Knowledge and stigma of latent tuberculosis infection in Brazil: implications for tuberculosis prevention strategies. BMC Public Health. 2020 Jun 9;20(1):897. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09053-1. PMID: 32517671; PMCID: PMC7285569.
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By Investigator

Bruno Andrade: MyNCBI
Timothy Sterling: MyNCBI
Valeria Rolla: MyNCBI
Solange Cavalcante: MyNCBI
Betina Durovni: MyNCBI
Afranio Kritski: MyNCBI
José Roberto Lapa e Silva: MyNCBI
Marcelo Santos: MyNCBI
Cristina Lourenço: MyNCBI