Pete Dodd
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Mathematical modelling for TB, infectious diseases, epi & pop health
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Pete Dodd
@petedodd24.bsky.social
· May 12
Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis infection screening at first reception into English prisons: a model-based analysis
The World Health Organization recommends systematic screening for tuberculosis in incarcerated populations, which are consistently at high risk of tub…
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Pete Dodd
@petedodd24.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Treatment decision algorithms for tuberculosis screening and diagnosis in children below 5 years hospitalised with severe acute malnutrition: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are an important risk group for underdiagnosis and death from tuberculosis. In 2022, the World Health Or…
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Finn McQuaid
@cfmcquaid.bsky.social
· Mar 26
Thinking fast and slow: the urgency of crisis response must not lead us to overlook chronic needs such as tuberculosis
The number of people facing displacement due to humanitarian crises worldwide is increasing rapidly and is likely to continue. An average 10% year-on-year increase in the last 5 years resulted in 68.3...
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Tom Yates
@tomayates.bsky.social
· Mar 18
Quantifying potential immortal time bias in observational studies in acute severe infection
We developed a tool to quantify the impact of misallocation of person time, then used it to demonstrate that published observational studies have likely ov
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Pete Dodd
@petedodd24.bsky.social
· Feb 14
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Hannah Rickman
@hannahrickman.bsky.social
· Jan 10
Sex Differences in the Risk of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Population-Based Immunoreactivity Surveys
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1·25 million people globally in 2023. Men have a 1·7-fold higher TB incidence than women, but it is not known to what exten
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@nguyenmv.bsky.social
· Dec 19
Levofloxacin Preventive Treatment in Children Exposed to MDR Tuberculosis | NEJM
Worldwide, approximately 2 million children younger than 15 years of age are infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with MDR tuberculosis developing in approximately 30...
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Pete Dodd
@petedodd24.bsky.social
· Dec 19
Effect of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services on case detection in Africa: the INPUT stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial
Introduction Paediatric tuberculosis (TB) underdiagnosis is a critical concern. The INPUT stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial assessed the impact of integrating child TB services into child healthc...
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Pete Dodd
@petedodd24.bsky.social
· Dec 19
Global burden of tuberculous meningitis in children aged 0–14 years in 2019: a mathematical modelling study
Tuberculous meningitis is fatal if untreated and can lead to lifelong neurological sequelae. However, to our knowledge, there are no data on the numbe…
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Pete Dodd
@petedodd24.bsky.social
· Dec 16
