A Global Tuberculosis Dictionary: unified terms and definitions for the field of tuberculosis

Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro¹, Joanna Ehrlich², Maryline Bonnet³, Marianne Calnan⁴, Stephen M Graham⁵, Sabine Hermans⁶, Adriana Jarrett⁷, Rhoda Lewa⁸, Anna Mandalakas⁹, Leonardo Martinez¹⁰, Giovanni Battista Migliori¹¹, Catherine W M Ong¹², Larissa Otero¹³, Molebogeng Xheedha Rangaka¹⁴, Mario C B Raviglione¹⁵, Barbara Seaworth¹⁶, Willy Ssengooba¹⁷, Grant Theron¹⁸, Anete Trajman¹⁹, Marcel A Behr²⁰

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¹ Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Manhiça 1121, Mozambique; Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: alberto.garcia-basteiro@manhica.net.
² Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ TransVIHMI, University of Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Montpellier, France.
⁴ University Research Co., Chevy Chase, MD, USA.
⁵ University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁶ Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁷ We Are TB, National Tuberculosis Controllers Association, Smyrna, GA, USA.
⁸ Nairobi, Kenya.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine-Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹¹ Servizio di Epidemiologia Clinica delle Malattie Respiratorie, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, IRCCS Tradate, Tradate, Italy.
¹² Infectious Diseases Translational Research Programme and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
¹³ School of Medicine and Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
¹⁴ Institute for Global Health & Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, London, UK; School of Public Health and Clinical Infectious Disease Research Institute-AFRICA, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁵ Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
¹⁶ University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁸ DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁹ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; McGill International TB Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
²⁰ McGill International TB Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.

PMID: 38527468
PMCID: PMC11460053
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00083-4

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A Global Tuberculosis Dictionary: unified terms and definitions for the field of tuberculosis

Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2024 May.

. 2024 May;12(5):e737-e739.

doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00083-4. Epub 2024 Mar 22.

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¹ Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Manhiça 1121, Mozambique; Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: alberto.garcia-basteiro@manhica.net.
² Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ TransVIHMI, University of Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Montpellier, France.
⁴ University Research Co., Chevy Chase, MD, USA.
⁵ University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁶ Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁷ We Are TB, National Tuberculosis Controllers Association, Smyrna, GA, USA.
⁸ Nairobi, Kenya.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine-Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹¹ Servizio di Epidemiologia Clinica delle Malattie Respiratorie, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, IRCCS Tradate, Tradate, Italy.
¹² Infectious Diseases Translational Research Programme and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
¹³ School of Medicine and Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
¹⁴ Institute for Global Health & Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, London, UK; School of Public Health and Clinical Infectious Disease Research Institute-AFRICA, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁵ Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
¹⁶ University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁸ DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁹ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; McGill International TB Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
²⁰ McGill International TB Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.

PMID: 38527468
PMCID: PMC11460053
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00083-4

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests. We thank Ramiro García for his contribution to the first draft of the dictionary, and Maria Beltran and Israel Torres for their support in the design and development of the TB dictionary website.

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Global tuberculosis research and its future prospects.
Garrido-Cardenas JA, de Lamo-Sevilla C, Cabezas-Fernández MT, Manzano-Agugliaro F, Martínez-Lirola M. Garrido-Cardenas JA, et al. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2020 Mar;121:101917. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2020.101917. Epub 2020 Feb 23. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2020. PMID: 32279873

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