Publications

Chest Radiograph Screening for Detecting Subclinical Tuberculosis in Asymptomatic Household Contacts, Peru.

Author(s): Tan Q, Huang CC, Becerra MC, Calderon R, Contreras C, Lecca L, Jimenez J, Yataco R, Galea JT, Feng JY, Pan SW, Tseng YH, Huang JR, Zhang Z, Murray MB|Journal: Emerg Infect Dis|PMID: 38781680| June 2024

The World Health Organization's end TB strategy promotes the use of symptom and chest radiograph screening for tuberculosis (TB) disease.…

Who Transmits Tuberculosis to Whom: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Cohort Study in Lima, Peru.

Author(s): Trevisi L, Brooks MB, Becerra MC, Calderón RI, Contreras CC, Galea JT, Jimenez J, Lecca LW, Yataco RM, Tovar X, Zhang Z, Murray MB, Huang CC|Journal: Am J Respir Crit Care Med|PMID: 38416532| February 2024

The persistent burden of TB disease emphasizes the need to identify individuals with TB for treatment and those at a…

Latent tuberculosis and depressive symptoms in household contacts of persons with active TB: A cohort study

Author(s): Galea JT, Chu AL, Sweetland A, Jimenez J, Yataco R, Calderon R, Zhang Z, Huang CC, Lecca L, Murray MB|Journal: medRxiv| November 2022

Depression is common among persons with TB and associated with poor clinical outcomes. However, little is known about the relationship…

Higher native Peruvian genetic ancestry proportion is associated with tuberculosis progression risk.

Author(s): Asgari S, Luo Y, Huang CC, Zhang Z, Calderon R, Jimenez J, Yataco R, Contreras C, Galea JT, Lecca L, Jones D, Moody DB, Murray MB, Raychaudhuri S|Journal: Cell Genom|PMID: 35873671| July 2022

We investigated whether ancestry-specific genetic factors affect tuberculosis (TB) progression risk in a cohort of admixed Peruvians. We genotyped 2,105…

A positively selected FBN1 missense variant reduces height in Peruvian individuals.

Author(s): Asgari S, Luo Y, Akbari A, Belbin GM, Li X, Harris DN, Selig M, Bartell E, Calderon R, Slowikowski K, Contreras C, Yataco R, Galea JT, Jimenez J, Coit JM, Farroñay C, Nazarian RM, O'Connor TD, Dietz HC, Hirschhorn JN, Guio H, Lecca L, Kenny EE, Freeman EE, Murray MB, Raychaudhuri S|Journal: Nature|PMID: 32499652| May 2020

On average, Peruvian individuals are among the shortest in the world. Here we show that Native American ancestry is associated…

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Lineage and Risk for Tuberculosis in Child Household Contacts, Peru.

Author(s): Huang CC, Chu AL, Becerra MC, Galea JT, Calderon R, Contreras C, Yataco R, Zhang Z, Lecca L, Murray MB|Journal: Emerg Infect Dis|PMID: 32091363| March 2020

Few studies have prospectively compared the relative transmissibility and propensity to cause disease of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains with other…

Two clinical prediction tools to improve tuberculosis contact investigation.

Author(s): Li R, Nordio F, Huang CC, Contreras C, Calderon R, Yataco R, Galea JT, Zhang Z, Becerra MC, Lecca L, Murray MB|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 31905406| January 2020

Efficient contact investigation strategies are needed for the early diagnosis of TB disease and treatment of latent TB infections.

Polyclonal Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infections and Risk for Multidrug Resistance, Lima, Peru.

Author(s): Nathavitharana RR, Shi CX, Chindelevitch L, Calderon R, Zhang Z, Galea JT, Contreras C, Yataco R, Lecca L, Becerra MC, Murray MB, Cohen T|Journal: Emerg Infect Dis|PMID: 29048297| November 2017

Because within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity complicates diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), we measured diversity prevalence and associated factors among…