Lower production of IL-17A and increased susceptibility to Mycobacterium bovis in mice coinfected with Strongyloides venezuelensis Alyria Teixeira Dias; Sandra Bertelli Ribeiro de Castro; Caio César Souza Alves; Alice Belleigoli Rezende; Michele Fernandes Rodrigues; Rachel Rocha Pinheiro Machado; Adriana Fernandes; Deborah Negrão Corrêa; Henrique Couto Teixeira; Ana Paula Ferreira PAGE: 617-619 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500015

Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from alow-endemic setting in northwestern state of Paraná in Southern Brazil Erika Noda Noguti; Clarice Queico Fujimura Leite; Ana Carolina Malaspina; Adolfo Carlos Barreto Santos; Rosário Dominguez Crespo Hirata; Mario Hiroyuki Hirata; Elsa Massae Mamizuka; Rosilene Fressatti Cardoso PAGE: 779-785 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000600008

Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to first-line antimycobacterial agents in a Brazilian hospital: assessing the utility of the tetrazolium (MTT) microplate assay Michela De Luca Ferrari; Maria Alice da Silva Telles; Lucilaine Ferrazoli; Carlos Emílio Levy; Maria Cecília Barison Villares; Maria Luiza Moretti; Mariângela Ribeiro Resende PAGE: 661-664 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500010

Mutations in rpoB and katG genes in Mycobacterium isolates from the Southeast of Mexico R Zenteno-Cuevas ; JC Zenteno; A Cuellar; B Cuevas; CL Sampieri; JE Riviera; A Parissi PAGE: 468-472 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000300012

Infectious disease among enslaved African Americans at Eaton's Estate, Warren County, North Carolina, ca. 1830-1850 Patricia M Lambert PAGE: 107-117 | DOI: S0074-02762006001000017

Tuberculosis in a southern Brazilian prison Daniele Kuhleis; Andrezza Wolowski Ribeiro; Elis Regina Dalla Costa, Patrícia Izquierdo Cafrune; Karen Barros Schmid; Lucas Laux da Costa; Marta Osório Ribeiro; Arnaldo Zaha; Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti PAGE: 909-915 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000700012

Mycobacterial laminin-binding histone-like protein mediates collagen-dependent cytoadherence André Alves Dias; Dominique Raze; Cristiana Soares de Lima; Maria Angela de Melo Marques; Hervé Drobecq; Anne-Sophie Debrie; Michelle Lopes Ribeiro-Guimarães; Franck Biet; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani PAGE: 174-182 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900025

Comparative evaluation under routine conditions of the nitrate reduction assay, the proportion assay and the MGIT 960 assay for drug susceptibility testing of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis  Leila de Souza Fonseca; Gisele Betzler de Oliveira Vieira; Luciana Fonseca Sobral; Elizabete Oliveira Ribeiro; Anna Grazia Marsico PAGE: 142-144 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000100021

Colorimetric microwell plate reverse-hybridization assay for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection Candice Tosi Michelon; Franciele Rosso; Karen Barros Schmid; Rosa Dea Sperhacke; Martha Maria Oliveira; Afrânio Lineu Kritski; Leonides Rezende Jr; Elis Regina Dalla Costa; Andrezza Woloski Ribeiro; Mirela Verza; Patrícia Izquierdo Cafrune; Márcia Susana Nunes Silva; Daniele Kuhleis; Arnaldo Zaha; Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti PAGE: 194-199 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000200013

Evaluation of Lionex TB kits and mycobacterial antigens for IgG and IgA detection in cerebrospinal fluid from tuberculosis meningitis patients Isabela Gama Sardella; Mahavir Singh; Susanne Kumpfer; Rafael Ribeiro Heringer; Maria Helena Féres Saad; Marzia Puccioni Sohler PAGE: 722-728 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500022

Rhodococcus equi isolation from sputum of patients with suspected tuberculosis Paulo da Silva; Marcelo Miyata; Daisy Nakamura Sato; Adolfo Carlos Barreto Santos; Natália Helena Mendes; Clarice Queico Fujimura Leite PAGE: 199-202 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000200015

Genetic polymorphisms of NAT2, CYP2E1 and GST enzymes and the occurrence of antituberculosis drug-induced hepatitis in Brazilian TB patients Raquel Lima de Figueiredo Teixeira; Renata Gomes Morato; Pedro Hernan Cabello; Ligia Mayumi Kitada Muniz; Adriana da Silva Rezende Moreira; Afrânio Lineu Kritski; Fernanda Carvalho Queiroz Mello; Philip Noel Suffys; Antonio Basilio de Miranda; Adalberto Rezende Santos PAGE: 716-724 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000600011

Tuberculosis in the New World: a study of ribs from the Schild Mississippian population, West-Central Illinois Jennifer Raff, Della Collins Cook; Frederika Kaestle PAGE: 25-27 | DOI: S0074-02762006001000005

Levels of complement C3 and C4 components in Amerindians living in an area with high prevalence of tuberculosis Zaida Araujo; Nieves González; Laura de Cubeddu; Rita C Ziegler; Jacobus H de Waard; Francesca Giampietro; Domingo Garzaro; Flor H Pujol; Neligia Carrasco de Serrano; Amairany García de Saboin PAGE: 359-364 | DOI: S0074-02762006000400003

Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated in Community Health Centers of Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil Maraníbia C Oelemann; Amanda NB Fontes ; Marcia A da Silva Pereira; Yolanda Bravin; Guida Silva; Wim Degrave; Anna Cristina Carvalho; Rossana C Brito; Afrânio L Kritski; Philip N Suffys PAGE: 455-462 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000034

IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from East Azerbaijan Province of Iran Mohamad Asgharzadeh; Karen Shahbabian; Jafar Majidi; Ahmad Mirza Aghazadeh; Cirus Amini; Ali Reza Jahantabi; Abdolnaser Rafi PAGE: 517-521 | DOI: S0074-02762006000500006

Isolation and identification of bovine tuberculosis in a Brazilian herd (São Paulo) AFC Nassar; S Miyashiro; CG Oliveira; WA Pacheco; RA Ogata PAGE: 639-642 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000073

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum from Suruí Indian subjects, Brazilian Amazon Paulo Cesar Basta; Maraníbia AC Oelemann; Walter MR Oelemann; Leila de Souza Fonseca; Carlos EA Coimbra Jr PAGE: 581-584 | DOI: S0074-02762006000600001

Cell proliferation and interferon-g response to recombinant MBP-3, NarL, MT-10.3, and 16kDa Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in Brazilian tuberculosis patients Ricardo Candido Oliveira Tavares; Jorge Salgado; Valéria Barbosa Moreira; Mônica Antonia S Ferreira; Fernanda Carvalho Queoz Mello; Janaína AW Leung; Mahavir Singh; Leila de Souza Fonseca; Maria Helena Feres Saad PAGE: 857-861 | DOI: S0074-02762006000800006

In house colorimetric reverse hybridisation assay for detection of the mutation most frequently associated with resistance to isoniazid in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mirela Verza; Raquel de Abreu Maschmann; Márcia Susana Nunes Silva; Elis Regina Dalla Costa; Marta Osório Ribeiro; Franciele Rosso; Philip Noel Suffys; EnricoTortoli; Fiorella Marcelli; Arnaldo Zaha; Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti PAGE: 710-714 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000500008

Detection of rifampin-resistant genotypes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by reverse hybridization assay Raquel de A Maschmann; Mirela Verza; Marcia SN Silva; Rosa Dea Sperhacke; Marta O Ribeiro; Philip Noel Suffys; Harrison Magdinier Gomes; Enrico Tortoli; Fiorella Marcelli; Arnaldo Zaha; Maria Lucia R Rossetti PAGE: 139-145 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000200004

Comparison of spoligotyping, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units typing and IS6110-RFLP in a study of genotypic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Delhi, North India Mandira Varma-Basil; Sujeet Kumar; Jyoti Arora; Archana Angrup; Thierry Zozio; Jayant Nagesh Banavaliker; Urvashi Balbir Singh; Nalin Rastogi; Mridula Bose PAGE: 524-535 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500002

Preparation and antitubercular activity of lipophilic diamines and amino alcohols Celso OR Júnior; Mireille le Hyaric; Cristiane F da Costa; Taís A Corrêa; Aline F Taveira; Débora P Araújo; Elaine FC Reis; Maria Cristina S Lourenço; Felipe RC Vicente; Mauro V de Almeida PAGE: 703-705 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000500006

High prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis and other mycobacteria among HIV-infected patients in Brazil: a systematic review Ricardo H Bammann ; Liliana A Zamarioli; Valdir S Pinto; Carla MP Vázquez; Marcelo N Litvoc; Giselle B Klautau; Fernando A Fiúza de Melo; Nilton J Cavalcante; Lucilaine Ferrazoli PAGE: 838-841 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000600019

Patterns of tuberculosis in the Americas - how can modern biomedicine inform the ancient past? Alicia Kay Wilbur; Jane Ellen Buikstra PAGE: 59-66 | DOI: S0074-02762006001000011

Anti-mycobacterial treatment reduces high plasma levels of CXC-chemokines detected in active tuberculosis by cytometric bead array Caroline de Souza Almeida; Clarice Abramo; Caio César de Souza Alves; Luciano Mazzoccoli; Ana Paula Ferreira; Henrique Couto Teixeira PAGE: 1039-1041 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000700018

Comparison of serological responses in two different populations with pulmonary tuberculosis Zaida Araujo; Francesca Giampietro; Lucio Castellano Cançado; Mahavir Singh; Albina Wide PAGE: 661-667 | DOI: S0074-02762008000700006

Effectiveness and safety of isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for HIV-1 infected patients from Rio de Janeiro Claudia Teresa Vieira de Souza ; Yara Hahr Marques Hökerberg; Sandro Javier Bedoya Pacheco; Valéria Cavalcanti Rolla; Sonia Regina Lambert Passos PAGE: 462-467 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000300011

A population-based study of first and second-line drug-resistant tuberculosis in a high-burden area of the Mexico/United States border Pola Becerril-Montes, Salvador Said-Fernández, Julieta Luna-Herrera, Guillermo Caballero-Olín, José Antonio Enciso-Moreno, Herminia Guadalupe Martínez-Rodríguez, Gerardo Padilla-Rivas, Elsa Nancy-Garza-Treviño, Gloria María Molina-Salinas PAGE: 160-166 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108022013006

Characterisation of pks15/1 in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Mexico Roberto Zenteno-Cuevas, Francisco X Silva-Hernández, Fabiola Mendoza-Damián, Maria Dolores Ramírez-Hernández, Karen Vázquez-Medina, Lorena Widrobo-García, Aremy Cuellar-Sanchez, Raquel Muñíz-Salazar, Leonor Enciso-Moreno, Lucia Monserrat Pérez-Navarro, José Antonio Enciso-Moreno DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108062013007

Mapping the tuberculosis scientific landscape among BRICS countries: a bibliometric and network analysis Kamaiaji Castor, Fabio Batista Mota, Roseli Monteiro da Silva, Bernardo Pereira Cabral, Ethel Leonor Maciel, Isabela Neves de Almeida, Denise Arakaki-Sanchez, Kleydson Bonfim Andrade, Vadim Testov, Irina Vasilyeva, Yanlin Zhao, Hui Zhang, Manjula Singh, Raghuram Rao, Srikanth Tripathy, Glenda Gray, Nesri Padayatchi, Niresh Bhagwandin, Soumya Swaminathan, Tereza Kasaeva, Afrânio Kritski DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190342

Incidence and transmission patterns of tuberculosis among indigenous populations in Brazil Eunice Atsuko Cunha, Lucilaine Ferrazoli, Lee W Riley, Paulo Cesar Basta, Michael Robert Honer, Rosalia Maia, Izaias Pereira da Costa PAGE: 108-113 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130082

Prevalence and genetic characterisation of HTLV-1 and 2 dual infections in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Central-West Brazil Aline Garcia Kozlowski, Megmar Aparecida dos Santos Carneiro, Márcia Alves Dias de Matos, Sheila Araújo Teles, João Alves Araújo Filho, Koko Otsuki, Ana Carolina Paulo Vicente, Regina Maria Bringel Martins PAGE: 118-121 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130230

Standardization of in-house Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the Reference Tropical Disease Hospital in the State of Goiás, Brazil Márcia Alves Vasconcelos Rodrigues, Álvaro Bisol Serafini, Marieta de Souza Pereira, Thathiane Dias da Silva, Marcelo Fouad Rabahi, Suely Lemes de Alves, André Kipnis PAGE: 415-419

Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Evaluation of Interferon-g Levels as an Immunological Healing Marker Based on the Response to the Bacillus Calmette-guerin EP Moura, VPCP Toledo, MHP Oliveira, S Spíndola-de-Miranda, HM Andrade, TMPD Guimarães PAGE: 283-287

Evaluation of Indirect Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the First- and Second-line, and Alternative Drugs by the Newer MB/BacT System Angela Maria Werneck Barreto, Joselba Borges Melo Araújo, Reginalda Ferreira de Melo Medeiros, Paulo César de Souza Caldas PAGE: 827-830

IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolated from Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Campinas, Brazil. Evidence of Intercontinental Distribution of Strains Ana Lucia Roscani Calusni, Gláucia Nogueira Roscani, Maria Cecília Barisson Villares, Hanna Soini, Edward A Graviss, Marcelo de Carvalho Ramos PAGE: 655-658

Drug Resistance and Genotypes of Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolated from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected and Non-infected Tuberculosis Patients in Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil Ida Maria Foschiani Dias Baptista, Maraníbia Cardoso Oelemann*, Diltor Vladimir Araújo Opromolla, Philip Noel Suffys* PAGE: 1147-1152

Clinical Presentation and Survival of Smear-positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients of a University General Hospital in a Developing Country Anna CC Carvalho, Zoelete B Nunes, Marneili Martins, Rodrigo OC Araújo, Mario Comelli*, Alessandra Marinoni*, Afrânio L Kritski PAGE: 1225-1230

Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria I: One Year Clinical Isolates Identification in Tertiary Hospital Aids Reference Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in Pre Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era Rosa Maria Carvalho Ferreira, Maria Helena Féres Saad, Marlei Gomes da Silva, Leila de Souza Fonseca PAGE: 725-729

Direct Sensitivity Test of the MB/BacT System Angela Maria Werneck Barreto, Joselba Borges Melo Araujo, Reginalda Ferreira de Melo Medeiros, Paulo Cesar de Souza Caldas PAGE: 263-264

Tuberculin skin test and interferon-gamma release assay values are associated with antimicrobial peptides expression in polymorphonuclear cells during latent tuberculous infection Julio E Castañeda-Delgado, Alberto Cervantes-Villagrana, Carmen J Serrano-Escobedo, Isabel Frausto-Lujan, Cesar Rivas-Santiago, Jose A Enciso-Moreno, Bruno Rivas-Santiago PAGE: 330-334 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140348

Inhibition of the Polymerase Chain Reaction by Sputum Samples from Tuberculosis Patients After Processing Using a Silica-guanidiniumthiocyanate DNA Isolation Procedure Philip Suffys, Patricia Rosa Vanderborght, Patricia Barros dos Santos, Leticia Almeida Pinto Correa, Yolanda Bravin, Afranio Lineu Kritski PAGE: 1137-1139

Risk Factors for Tuberculosis among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected Persons. A Case-control Study in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil (1985-1996) Antonio Carlos de Castro Toledo Jr., Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco,Carlos Maurício Figueiredo Antunes PAGE: 437-443

Flow Cytometry as a Tool to Identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis Interaction with the Immune System and Drug Susceptibility Maria da Gloria Bonecini-Almeida PAGE: 491-494

Drug Resistance Patterns among Hospitalized Tuberculous Patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1993-1994 FCO Fandinho, AL Kritski, C Hofer, H Conde Jr, RMC Ferreira, MG Silva, LS Fonseca PAGE: 543-547

Comparison between Human Immunodeficiency Virus Positive and Negative Patients with Tuberculosis in Southern Brazil Lucélia Henn, Fabiano Nagel, Felipe Dal Pizzol PAGE: 377-381

Immune Response During HIV and Tuberculosis Co-infection MG Bonecini-Almeida, JR Lapa e Silva, AL Kritski, I Neves Jr., MG Morgado, C Nathan, JL Ho PAGE: 399-402

Tuberculosis and HIV: Renewed Challenge Afranio L Kritski, José Roberto Lapa e Silva, Marcus B Conde PAGE: 417-422

Evaluation of Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the Serodiagnosis of Tuberculosis in Patients with AIDS in Cuba Ernesto Montoro, Raúl Díaz, Miguel Echemendía, José A Valdivia PAGE: 191

Use of the 2,3-Diacyl-trehalose and the Purified Protein Derivative in the Serodiagnosis of Tuberculosis in AIDS Maria Helena F Saad, Afranio L Kritski, Eduardo Werneck-Barroso, Solange Cavalcante, Monica Antônia S Ferreira, Leila de Souza Fonseca PAGE: 97-100

Oral bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine against tuberculosis: why not? Renata Monteiro-Maia, Rosa Teixeira de Pinho PAGE: 838-845 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140091

Evaluation of four molecular methods for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in pulmonary and blood samples from immunocompromised patients Juliana Maria Azevedo de Lyra, Magda Maruza, Mirela Verza, Maria Madileuza Carneiro, Maria de Fátima Militão de Albuquerque, Maria Lúcia Rossetti, Ricardo Ximenes, Maria Cynthia Braga, Norma Lucena-Silva PAGE: 805-813 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130542

Prehistoric Tuberculosis in America: Adding Comments to a Literature Review Jordi Gómez i Prat, Sheila MF Mendonça de Souza PAGE: 151-159

Overview of Some Biomedical Research Projects in Tropical Medicine Conducted at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Egidio Romano, Italo Cesari, Ananias Escalante, Ferdinando Liprandi, Jose Antonio O'Daly, Hilda Perez, Howard Takiff PAGE: 33-40

Mycobacteriosis in the Compromised Host PH Lagrange, A Wargnier, JL Herrmann PAGE: 163-170

Clinical and epidemiological profiles of individuals with drug-resistant tuberculosis Heloisa da Silveira Paro Pedro, Susilene Maria Tonelli Nardi, Maria Izabel Ferreira Pereira, Rosângela Siqueira Oliveira, Philip Noel Suffys, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Amanda Juliane Finardi, Eloise Brasil de Moraes, Ida Maria Foschiani Dias Baptista, Ricardo Luiz Dantas Machado, Lilian Castiglioni PAGE: 235-241 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760140316

The use of biodiversity as source of new chemical entities against defined molecular targets for treatment of malaria, tuberculosis, and T-cell mediated diseases _ A Review Luiz Augusto Basso, Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva, Arthur Germano Fett-Neto, Walter Filgueira de Azevedo Junior, Ícaro de Souza Moreira, Mário Sérgio Palma, João Batista Calixto, Spartaco Astolfi Filho, Ricardo Ribeiro dos Santos, Milena Botelho Pereira Soares, Diógenes Santiago Santos PAGE: 475-506

The Changing Face of the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis due to Molecular Strain Typing - A Review Philip N Suffys , Marcelo E Ivens de Araujo, Wim M Degrave PAGE: 297-316

Molecular profiling of drug resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil Rodrigo Ivan Prim, Marcos André Schörner, Simone Gonçalves Senna, Christiane Lourenço Nogueira, Anna Carolina Cançado Figueiredo, Jaquelline Germano de Oliveira, Darcita Bürger Rovaris, Maria Luiza Bazzo PAGE: 618-623 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150100

Incidence of active mycobacterial infections in Brazilian patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis and negative evaluation for latent tuberculosis infection at baseline - A longitudinal analysis after using TNFa Carina Mori Frade Gomes, Maria Teresa Terreri, Maria Isabel de Moraes-Pinto,Cássia Barbosa, Natália Pereira Machado, Maria Roberta Melo, Marcelo Medeiros Pinheiro PAGE: 921-928 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150235

A molecular platform for the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant and pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis based on single nucleotide polymorphism mutations present in Colombian isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Luz Maira Wintaco Martínez, Gloria Puerto Castro, Martha Inírida Guerrero PAGE: 93-100 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150306

The mc2-CMX vaccine induces an enhanced immune response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis compared to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin but with similar lung inflammatory effects Fábio Muniz de Oliveira, Monalisa Martins Trentini, Ana Paula Junqueira-Kipnis, André Kipnis PAGE: 223-232 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150411

Performance of an in-house real-time polymerase chain reaction for identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in laboratory routine diagnosis from a high burden setting Juliana Failde Gallo, Juliana Maira Watanabe Pinhata, Erica Chimara, Maria Gisele Gonçalves, Lucila Okuyama Fukasawa, Rosangela Siqueira de Oliveira PAGE: 545-550 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160048

Performance of a molecular assay to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in clinical specimens: multicenter study in Brazil Mirela Verza, Karen Barros Schmid, Regina Bones Barcellos, Natali Linck, Graziele Lima Bello, Daniel Scapin, Rosa Dea Sperhacke, Márcia Susana Nunes Silva, Claudia Wollheim, Martha Gabriela Celle Rivero, Afrânio Lineu Kritski, Leonides Rezende Jr, Martha Maria Oliveira, Elis Regina Dalla Costa, Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti PAGE: 94-99 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160196

Tuberculosis associated factors caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the RDRio genotype Eloise Brasil Moraes, Letícia Slompo, Amanda Juliane Finardi, Heloisa Paro Pedro da Silveira, Luciana Ruiz, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Virginia Bodelão Richini, Philip Suffys, Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza, Ricardo Cavalcanti, Ida Maria Foschiani Dias Baptista PAGE: 182-187 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160347

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus in a group of patients newly diagnosed with active tuberculosis in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil Cintia Costi, Tarciana Grandi, Maria Laura Halon, Márcia Susana Nunes Silva, Cláudia Maria Dornelles da Silva, Tatiana Schäffer Gregianini, Lia Gonçalves Possuelo, Carla Adriane Jarczewski, Christian Niel, Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti PAGE: 255-259 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160352

Detection of tuberculosis drug resistance: a comparison by Mycobacterium tuberculosis MLPA assay versus Genotype®MTBDRplus Paula Fernanda Gonçalves dos Santos, Elis Regina Dalla Costa, Daniela M Ramalho, Maria Lucia Rossetti, Regina Bones Barcellos, Luciana de Souza Nunes, Leonardo Souza Esteves, Rodrigo Rodenbusch, Richard M Anthony, Indra Bergval, Sarah Sengstake, Miguel Viveiros, Afrânio Kritski, Martha M Oliveira PAGE: 396-403 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160376

Glutaraldehyde test for the rapid diagnosis of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in an area with high tuberculosis incidence Ben Hadj Hassine Ahmed, Marzouk Manel, Dhaou Mohamed, Boukadida Jalel DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160541

Correlation between the BACTEC MGIT 960 culture system with Genotype MTBDRplus and TB-SPRINT in multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from Brazil Nayanne Gama Teixeira Dantas, Philip Noel Suffys, Wânia da Silva Carvalho, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Isabela Neves de Almeida, Lida Jouca de Assis Figueiredo, Alan Douglas Gonçalves, Michel Kireopori Gomgnimbou, Guislaine Refregier, Christophe Sola, Silvana Spíndola de Miranda DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170062

Type-2 diabetes alters the basal phenotype of human macrophages and diminishes their capacity to respond, internalise, and control Mycobacterium tuberculosis Nallely Lopez-Lopez, Ana Gabriela Ramos Martinez, Mariana Haydee Garcia-Hernandez, Rogelio Hernandez-Pando, Julio Enrique Castañeda-Delgado, Geanncarlo Lugo-Villarino, Céline Cougoule, Olivier Neyrolles, Bruno Rivas-Santiago, Monica Alejandra Valtierra-Alvarado, Marisela Rubio-Caceres, Jose Antonio Enciso-Moreno, Carmen Judith Serrano DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170326

Risk factors for human Mycobacterium bovis infections in an urban area of Brazil Marcio Roberto Silva, Adalgiza da Silva Rocha, Flábio Ribeiro Araújo, Antônio Augusto Fonseca-Júnior, Andrea Padilha de Alencar, Philip Noel Suffys, Ronaldo Rodrigues da Costa, Maria Aparecida Scatamburlo Moreira, Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170445

Gain of function in Mycobacterium bovis BCG Moreau due to loss of a transcriptional repressor Renata Monteiro-Maia, Paloma Rezende Correa, Periela da Silva Sousa-Vasconcelos, Rosa Teixeira de Pinho, Leila Mendonça-Lima DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180267

Tuberculosis-HIV treatment with rifampicin or rifabutin: are the outcomes different? Carolina Arana Stanis Schmaltz, Fernanda de Oliveira Demitto, Carolina Arana Stanis Schmaltz, Fernanda de Oliveira Demitto, Flavia Marinho Sant’Anna, Valeria Cavalcanti Rolla DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180420

Neutrophil CD64 expression levels in IGRA-positive individuals distinguish latent tuberculosis from active disease Raquel da Silva Corrêa, Luciana Silva Rodrigues, Leticia Hagge Lima Pereira, Otto Castro Nogueira, Janaína Leung, Marcela da S Sousa, Mariana de Andrea Hacker, Helio Ribeiro de Siqueira, Domênico Capone, Rogério Lopes Rufino Alves, Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani, Veronica Schmitz, Geraldo Moura Batista Pereira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180579

Variability in the virulence of specific Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates alters the capacity of human dendritic cells to signal for T cells Ana Gabriela Ramos-Martinez, Monica Alejandra Valtierra-Alvarado, Mariana Haydee Garcia-Hernandez, Rogelio Hernandez-Pando, Julio Enrique Castañeda-Delgado, Céline Cougoule, Bruno Rivas-Santiago, Olivier Neyrolles, Jose Antonio Enciso-Moreno, Geanncarlo Lugo-Villarino, Carmen Judith Serrano DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190102

Genomic analysis of Latin American-Mediterranean family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains from Kazakhstan  Pavel Tarlykov Sabina Atavliyeva, Arike Alenova, Yerlan Ramankulov DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200215

Evaluation of drug susceptibility profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 1 from Brazil based on whole genome sequencing and phenotypic methods Arthur Emil dos Santos Guimarães, Abhinav Sharma, Ismari Perini Furlaneto, Liliana Rutaihwa, Jedson Ferreira Cardoso, Marília Lima da Conceição, Lizânia Borges Spinassé, Edson Machado, Maria Luiza Lopes, Rafael Silva Duarte, Sebastien Gagneux, Philip Noel Suffys, Karla Valéria Batista Lima, Emilyn Costa Conceição DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200520

Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil before the whole genome sequencing era: a literature review  Emilyn Costa Conceição, Richard Steiner Salvato, Karen Machado Gomes, Arthur Emil dos Santos Guimarães, Marília Lima da Conceição, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e Guimarães, Abhinav Sharma, Ismari Perini Furlaneto, Regina Bones Barcello, Valdes Roberto Bollela, Lívia Maria Pala Anselmo, Maria Carolina Sisco, Cristina Viana Niero, Lucilaine Ferrazoli, Guislaine Réfrégier, Maria Cristina da Silva Lourenço, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Artemir Coelho de Brito, Marcos Catanho, Rafael Silva Duarte, Philip Noel Suffys, Karla Valéria Batista Lima DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200517

Differences in responses to the intracellular macrophage environment between Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine strains Moreau and Pasteur Paloma Rezende Corrêa, Marcos Gustavo Araujo Schwarz, Renata Monteiro Maia, Fátima Maria Figueroa Vergara, Milton Ozório Moraes, Leila Mendonça-Lima DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760230070

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors- based drugs are effective to control Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and promote the sensibility for rifampicin in MDR strain Adrián Rodríguez-Carlos, Yolanda Jacobo-Delgado, Alan Orlando Santos-Mena, Mariana H García-Hernández, Luis Adrian De Jesus-Gonzalez, Edgar E Lara-Ramirez, Bruno Rivas-Santiago DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760230143

PPE59 antibodies in tuberculous patients and potential use for diagnosis when assayed with other rapid biomarkers Ana Carla de Paulo Mulinari, Isabela Gama Sardella, Vania Maria C da Silva, Alberto Matteelli, Anna Cristina C Carvalho, Maria Helena Féres Saad DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760230183

Advances in the development of new vaccines for tuberculosis and Brazil’s role in the effort forward the end TB strategy Ana Paula Junqueira-Kipnis, Luciana Cesar de Cerqueira Leite, Júlio Croda, Erica Chimara, Anna Cristina C Carvalho, Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760240093