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| Suzanne VerverSummaryAffiliation: KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Tuberculosis outbreaks predicted by characteristics of first patients in a DNA fingerprint clusterSandra V Kik
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, PO Box 146, 2501 CC The Hague, The Netherlands
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 178:96-104. 2008..Some clusters of patients who have Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with identical DNA fingerprint patterns grow faster than others. It is unclear what predictors determine cluster growth...
Effect of screening of immigrants on tuberculosis transmissionS Verver
Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association KNCV, The Hague
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 6:121-9. 2002..In The Netherlands all immigrants from highly endemic countries undergo obligatory entry screening by X-ray, followed by voluntary half-yearly screening for 2 years...- Proportion of tuberculosis transmission that takes place in households in a high-incidence areaSuzanne Verver
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Lancet 363:212-4. 2004..The proportion of transmission in the community that took place in the household was 19%, and therefore, in this high-incidence area, tuberculosis transmission occurs mainly outside the household... - Transmission of tuberculosis in a high incidence urban community in South AfricaSuzanne Verver
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Int J Epidemiol 33:351-7. 2004..The objective of this study was to identify risk factors for ongoing community transmission of tuberculosis (TB) in two densely populated urban communities with a high incidence rate of TB in Cape Town, South Africa... - Rate of reinfection tuberculosis after successful treatment is higher than rate of new tuberculosisSuzanne Verver
Desmond Tutu TB Center, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 171:1430-5. 2005..In a high-tuberculosis (TB) incidence area of Cape Town, South Africa, there is a very high rate of unexplained recurrent TB. The incidence of new bacteriologically confirmed disease in the area is 313 per 100,000 individuals... - Tuberculosis infection in children who are contacts of immigrant tuberculosis patientsS Verver
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Parkstraat 17, 2514 JD, The Hague, The Netherlands
Eur Respir J 26:126-32. 2005..In conclusion, the prevalence of active tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection among children who are close contacts of immigrant tuberculosis patients is high and warrants an expansion of contact investigation... - Association between passive smoking and infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in childrenSaskia den Boon
Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Pediatrics 119:734-9. 2007..The association between passive smoking and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is not well documented. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of passive smoking on M. tuberculosis infection in children... - No decrease in annual risk of tuberculosis infection in endemic area in Cape Town, South AfricaFiona E Kritzinger
Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Trop Med Int Health 14:136-42. 2009.... 
The tuberculin skin test versus QuantiFERON TB Gold® in predicting tuberculosis disease in an adolescent cohort study in South AfricaHassan Mahomed
South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
PLoS ONE 6:e17984. 2011..This study was conducted in a high tuberculosis (TB) burden area in Worcester, South Africa, with a notified all TB incidence rate of 1,400/100,000...- High prevalence of tuberculosis in previously treated patients, Cape Town, South AfricaSaskia den Boon
Desmond Tutu Centre, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1189-94. 2007..Such patients may contribute to transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the high TB prevalence rate. Successful treatment of TB patients must be a priority... - Screening for TB in high school adolescents in a high burden setting in South AfricaHassan Mahomed
South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Electronic address
Tuberculosis (Edinb) 93:357-62. 2013..The screening tools evaluated in this study may not be practical for routine use owing to low positive predictive values but may be useful in TB vaccine clinical trials... - Phenotypic variability in childhood TB: implications for diagnostic endpoints in tuberculosis vaccine trialsHumphrey Mulenga
South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Vaccine 29:4316-21. 2011.... - TB incidence in an adolescent cohort in South AfricaHassan Mahomed
South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa
PLoS ONE 8:e59652. 2013..We conducted a study to determine the TB incidence rates and risk factors for TB disease in a cohort of school-going adolescents in a high TB burden area in South Africa... - Predictive value of recent QuantiFERON conversion for tuberculosis disease in adolescentsShingai Machingaidze
South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative SATVI, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine II, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 186:1051-6. 2012..Recent TST conversion is associated with an established risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease, but the risk associated with recent IGRA conversions is unknown... - Direct and indirect costs of tuberculosis among immigrant patients in the NetherlandsSandra V Kik
Research Unit, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 9:283. 2009..Little empirical information is available about direct and indirect TB-related costs that patients face in these high-income countries. We assessed the direct and indirect costs of immigrants with TB in the Netherlands... - Determining causes of mortality in children enrolled in a vaccine field trial in a rural area in the Western Cape Province of South AfricaSizulu Moyo
South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
J Paediatr Child Health 43:178-83. 2007.... - The impact of a change in bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine policy on tuberculosis incidence in children in Cape Town, South AfricaHassan Mahomed
South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Pediatr Infect Dis J 25:1167-72. 2006.... - High incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis persists a decade after immigration, The NetherlandsAnnelies M Vos
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Emerg Infect Dis 10:736-9. 2004..Possible explanations are reactivation of old infections and infection transmitted after immigration. Control policies should be determined on the basis of the as-yet unknown main causes of the persistent high incidence... - Tuberculosis transmission by patients with smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in a large cohort in the NetherlandsAlma Tostmann
Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Clin Infect Dis 47:1135-42. 2008..The objective of this study was to determine the proportion of TB transmission events caused by patients with smear-negative pulmonary TB in The Netherlands... - BCG and protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infectionFrank G J Cobelens
Lancet 367:392-3; author reply 393-4. 2006