The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Case finding in children in contact with adults in the house with TB [Editorial]
pp. 1013-1014(2)
Author: Beyers, Nulda

The transmission of tuberculosis in confined spaces: an analytical review of alternative epidemiological models
pp. 1015-1026(12)
Authors: Beggs, C. B.; Noakes, C. J.; Sleigh, P. A.; Fletcher, L. A.; Siddiqi, K.

The potential of human neutrophil peptides in tuberculosis therapy
pp. 1027-1032(6)
Author: Fu, L. M.

Passive versus active tuberculosis case finding and isoniazid preventive therapy among household contacts in a rural district of Malawi
pp. 1033-1039(7)
Authors: Zachariah, R.; Spielmann, M-P.; Harries, A. D.; Gomani, P.; Graham, S. M.; Bakali, E.; Humblet, P.

Management and outcome of tuberculosis patients who fail treatment under routine programme conditions in Malawi
pp. 1040-1044(5)
Authors: Harries, A. D.; Nyirenda, T. E.; Kemp, J. R.; Squire, B. S.; Godfrey-Faussett, P.; Salaniponi, F. M. L.

Encouraging outcomes in the first year of a TB control demonstration program: Orel Oblast, Russia
pp. 1045-1051(7)
Authors: Kherosheva, T.; Thorpe, L. E.; Kiryanova, E.; Rybka, L.; Gerasichev, V.; Shulgina, M.; Nemtsova, E.; Aptekar, T.; Kluge, H.; Jakubowiak, W.; Grzemska, M.; Aquino, G.; Wells, C.; Kazionny, B.

Tuberculosis: do we know enough? A study of patients and their families in an out-patient hospital setting in Karachi, Pakistan
pp. 1052-1058(7)
Authors: Ali, S. S.; Rabbani, F.; Siddiqui, U. N.; Zaidi, A. H.; Sophie, A.; Virani, S. J.; Younus, N. A.

Microscopic examination and treatment outcomes of new pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Istanbul dispensaries between 1998 and 2000
pp. 1059-1063(5)
Authors: Kílícaslan, Z.; Öztürk, F.; Sarimurat, N.; Cuhadaroglu, C.; Caglar, E.; Erem, A.

Trends and patterns of tuberculosis: interpretations and prospects of tuberculosis control in Vojvodina, Yugoslavia, 1987–2000
pp. 1064-1069(6)
Authors: Ilic, M.; Khan, M. I.; Kuruc, V.; Pavlovic, S.; Kristoforovic-Ilic, M.; Laaser, U.

Characteristics associated with reported sputum culture conversion in the era of re-emergent Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the State of North Carolina, 1993–1998
pp. 1070-1076(7)
Authors: Salihu, H. M.; Aliyu, M. H.; Ratard, R.; Pierre-Louis, B. J.

Blinded rechecking of sputum smears for acid-fast bacilli to ensure the quality and usefulness of restaining smears to assess false-positive errors
pp. 1077-1082(6)
Authors: Selvakumar, N.; Prabhakaran, E.; Rahman, F.; Chandu, N. A.; Srinivasan, S.; Santha, T.; Chauhan, L. S.; Narayanan, P. R.

Association of initial tuberculin sensitivity, age and sex with the incidence of tuberculosis in South India: a 15-year follow-up
pp. 1083-1091(9)

Qualitative tuberculin response in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in apparently healthy schoolchildren
pp. 1092-1096(5)
Authors: Shastri, A. R. T.; Serane, V. T.; Mahadevan, S.; Nalini, P.

Prevalence of Beijing genotype in Latvian multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates
pp. 1097-1103(7)
Authors: Tracevska, T.; Jansone, I.; Baumanis, V.; Marga, O.; Lillebaek, T.

Characterization of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to drugs and detection of RpoB mutation in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the Philippines
pp. 1104-1108(5)
Authors: Agdamag, D. M. D.; Kageyama, S.; Solante, R.; Espantaleon, A. S.; Sangco, J. C. E.; Suzuki, Y.

Impaired interleukin-1β converting enzyme (ICE) activity in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis
pp. 1109-1112(4)
Authors: Fujiuchi, S.; Matsumoto, H.; Yamazaki, Y.; Nakata, H.; Takahashi, M.; Nakao, S.; Takeda, A.; Okamoto, K.; Fujita, Y.; Fujikane, T.; Shimizu, T.