Thibela TB Press, Publications and Presentations

See below the most recent press articles, publications and presentations from the Thibela TB study.

To download a copy of the CREATE Supplement in the journal AIDS (November 2010), please click here.

Baseline Methods Paper:

Thibela TB: Design and methods of a cluster randomised trial of the effect of community-wide isoniazid preventive therapy on tuberculosis amongst gold miners in South Africa.
Fielding KL, Grant AD, Hayes RJ, Chaisson RE, Corbett EL, Churchyard GJ.
Contemp Clin Trials. 2010 Dec 28. [Epub ahead of print]

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'Team up against TB': promoting involvement in Thibela TB, a trial of community-wide tuberculosis preventive therapy.
Grant AD, Coetzee L, Fielding KL, Lewis JJ, Ntshele S, Luttig MM, Mngadi KT, Muller D, Popane F, Mdluli J, Mngadi N, Sefuthi C, Clark DA, Churchyard G.
AIDS. 2010 Nov;24 Suppl 5:S37-44.

Adverse events with isoniazid preventive therapy: experience from a large trial.
Grant AD, Mngadi KT, van Halsema CL, Luttig MM, Fielding KL, Churchyard GJ.
AIDS. 2010 Nov;24 Suppl 5:S29-36.

Tuberculosis outcomes and drug susceptibility in individuals exposed to isoniazid preventive therapy in a high HIV prevalence setting.
van Halsema CL, Fielding KL, Chihota VN, Russell EC, Lewis JJ, Churchyard GJ, Grant AD.
AIDS. 2010 Apr 24;24(7):1051-5.

Symptom and chest radiographic screening for infectious tuberculosis prior to starting isoniazid preventive therapy: yield and proportion missed at screening.
Churchyard GJ, Fielding KL, Lewis JJ, Chihota VN, Hanifa Y, Grant AD.
AIDS. 2010 Nov;24 Suppl 5:S19-27.

Past Articles and Abstracts

Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection amongst gold miners in South Africa.
Hanifa Y, Grant AD, Lewis J, Corbett EL, Fielding K, Churchyard G.

Healthcare and Mining
Clark, Dave

Factors associated with an increased case-fatality rate in HIV-infected and non-infected SA gold miners with pTB (2000)
Churchyard, Gavin

Risk factors for pmTB in South African gold miners.  A case-control study (1999)   
Corbett, Elizabeth

Tuberculosis Preventive therapy in the era of HIV infection: overview and research priorities
Churchyard, Gavin

Good Practice Guidance on HIV/AISD, TB, and Malaria
Churchyard, Gavin

Contribution of reinfection to recurrent tuberculosis in South African gold miners
Charalambous, S

Evaluation of the Arkansas method of urine testing for isoniazid in South Africa
Hanifa, Yasmin

Screening for TB prior to IPT amont HIV-infected gold miners in SA
Day, JH

Effect of routine IPT on TB incidence among HIV-infected men in SA; a novel randomized incremental recruitment study
Grant, Alison

HIV and the prevalence of undiagnosed TB in African gold miners
Corbett, Elizabeth

Morbidity and mortality in South African gold miners: impact of untreated disease due to HIV (2002)
Corbett, Elizabeth

Disease experience over one year of follow-up in a cohort of workers recently laid of from a South African gold mine
Park, Harriet

Feasibility of community-wide isoniazid preventive therapy among SA gold miners
Churchyard, Gavin

Contribution of TB screening as part of community-wide IPT to TB case finding among SA gold miners
Churchyard, Gavin

Factors associated with indicent TB in the South African gold mines; a cohort study embedded within Thibela TB
Lewis, James

Factors associated with prevalent TB at screening prior to isoniazid preventive therapy
Fielding, Katherine

TB incidence in HIV infected patients who are started on antiretroviral therapy in a SA mining population
Charalambous, S

A comparison of MGIT versus L J culture by smear status in gold miners in SA
Chihota, Violet

Undiagnosed infections TB in Harare: HIV, past TB treatment, and other risk factors
Corbett, Elizabeth