Comprehensive genomic surveillance reveals transmission profiles of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in Pará, Brazil by Davi Josué Marcon, Davi Josué Marcon, Abhinav Sharma, Alex Brito Souza, Alex Brito Souza, Rafaella Bonfim Barros, Valnete das Graças Dantas Andrade, Ricardo José de Paula Souza Guimarães, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Lima, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Lima, Lúcia Helena Martins Tavares Monteiro, Ana Judith Pires Garcia Quaresma, Ana Judith Pires Garcia Quaresma, Layana Rufino Ribeiro, Layana Rufino Ribeiro, Philip Noel Suffys, Robin Mark Warren, Carlos Augusto Abreu Alberio, Karla Valéria Batista Lima, Karla Valéria Batista Lima, Emilyn Costa Conceição

“…Monitoring the emergence and transmission of DR-TB is crucial for implementing public health to control the spread of DR strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. To measure its impact on the multi-drug treatment scheme in the state of Pará, we aimed to conduct genomic surveillance of DR-TB after bedaquiline was introduced in Brazil. …”
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Estimation of tuberculosis incidence at subnational level using three methods to monitor progress towards ending TB in India, 2015–2020 by Swati Mahajan, Amar Shah, Sarit Sharma, Rituparna Das, Kathiresan Jeyashree, Mathavaswami Vijayageetha, Bhavesh Modi, Burugina Nagaraja Sharath, Vijay Singh, Shamim Mannan, Sairu Philip, Jasleen Kaur, Ranjani Ramachandran, Raghuram Rao, Sriram Selvaraju, Bency Joseph, Vaibhav Shah, Kiran Rade, Lalit Sankhe, Surinder Singh, Sandeep Chauhan, Anupam Banerjee, Devender Kumar, Ganapathy Kalaiselvan, Bhavin Vadera, Paras Mehta, Meenakumari Natarajan, Manoj Murhekar, Aswathy Sreedevi, Jeromie Thangaraj, Saravanakumar Velusamy, Sasidharan Akhil, Dhanapal Sudha Rani, Ramasamy Sabarinathan, Sakthivel Manikandanesan, Rajalakshmi Elumalai, Amarendra Mahapatra, Almas Shamim, Ashok Bhardwaj, Anil Purty, Anand Sridhar, Aniket Chowdhury, Asif Shafie, Avijit Choudhury, Deka Dhrubjyoti, Hardik Solanki, Krushna Sirmanwar, Kshitij Khaparde, Malik Parmar, Nisha Dahiya, Parija Debdutta, Quazi Ahmed, Ranjeet Prasad, Rohini Shinde, Rupali Baruah, Sandip Bharaswadkar, Shanta Achanta, Shibu Balakrishnan, Shivani Chandra, Sophia Khumukcham, Sudarsan Mandal, Sumitha Chalil, Venkatesh Roddawar, Kuldeep Sachdeva, Jayakrishna Kurada, Mayank Sharma, Debajyoti Mohapatra, Yogesh Patel, Sapna Thekkepat, Karthikeyan Kumaraswamy, Mallika Tharakan, Shramana Majumdar, Vrinda Manocha, Sukriti Chauhan, Shekhar Waikar, Puja Ambule, Krithika Murali, Devi Madhavi Bhimarasetty, Tulika Goswami, Darshan Mahyavanshi, Krutarth Bhrahmbhatt, Bhautik Modi, Anmol Gupta, Sunil Raina, Rajiv Kumar Gupta, Ratnesh Sinha, Manju Toppo, Gajen Medhi, Swati M Patki, Bishnu Ram Das, Lisa Sarangi, Afsal Hakim, Suresh Balan, Baer Philip Ravikumar, Subrata Baidya, Abhik Sinha, Boddepalli Nagendra Naidu, Bikash Chandra Nayak, Anoop Dev, Pallavi Boro, Debarshi Paul, Amrita Sarkar, Bhavesh Bariya, Jatin Chhaya, Dixit Chauhan, Mithun Sanghavi, Nilesh Thakor, Rohit Ram, Hinal Baria, Abhilash Sood, Anupam Parashar, Yangchen Dolma, Rakesh Bahl, Dilip Kumar, Mohammad Salim Khan, A K Jayasree, Zinia Nujum, Sheela P Haveri, Dinesh Bhatnagar, Subrata Kumar Palo, Priyesh Marskole, Prashant Verma, Dinesh Kumar Pal, Neelam Toppo, Sanjay R Quraishi, Sunil Panigrahi, Rambadan Chauhan, Jayashree Gothankar, Swapnali S Kadam, Dasi Rao, Sudhir Wanje, Pallavi Uplap, Ningombam Joenna Devi, Rikrak Ch Marak, Markordor Lyngdoh, Manoj B Patki, Satyajit Sundar Ray, Kavita Vasudevan, Mahesh Satija, Mahesh Choudhary, Mitin Parmar, Venkatesh Govindasamy, Karlapudi Nitesh Kumar, Goutham Thumari, Amar Tripura, Chanda Mog, Shampa Das, Ritesh Singh, Chandra Shekar Maity, Mamta Gehlawat

“…The survey continued until 30 Mycobacterium tuberculosis cases were identified in a district.Outcome measures We calculated a direct estimate of TB incidence based on incident cases identified in the survey. …”
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