Effectiveness of the primary Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine against the risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease: a meta-analysis of individual participant data

Authors: Pelzer, Puck T ^{a, b, c, d, ∗}, Stuck, Logan ^{a, d, ∗}, Martinez, Leonardo ^{e, ∗}, Richards, Alexandra S ^c, Acuña-Villaorduña, Carlos ^f, Aronson, Naomi E ^g, Bonnet, Maryline ^h, Carvalho, Anna C ⁱ, Chan, Pei-Chun ^{j, k, l}, Huang, Li-Min ^l, Fang, Chi-Tai ^k, Churchyard, Gavin ^{m, n, o}, Corral-Londoño, Helena del ^p, Datta, Manjula ^q, Espinal, Marcos A ^s, Fielding, Katherine ^{c, t}, Fiore-Gartland, Andrew J ^u, Garcia-Basteiro, Alberto ^v, Hanekom, Willem ^w, Hatherill, Mark ^x, Hill, Phillip C ^y, Huerga, Helena ^z, Jones-López, Edward C ^aa, Kritski, Afranio ^r, Mandalakas, Anna M ^{bb, cc}, Mangtani, Punam ^{c, t}, Martins Netto, Eduardo ^{dd, ee, ff}, Mayanja, Harriet ^gg, Mazahir, Rufaida ^hh, Murray, Megan ⁱⁱ, Rangaka, Molebogeng ^jj, Scriba, Thomas ^kk, Singh, Jitendra ^ll, Singh, Sarman ^{mm, nn, oo, pp}, Stein, Catherine M ^qq, Vekemans, Johan ^rr, Verhagen, Lilly M ^{ss, tt, uu}, Villalba, Julian A ^{vv, ww}, Wajja, Anne ^xx, Watson, Basilea ^yy, White, Richard G ^c, Cobelens, Frank G J ^{a, d}

Source: In The Lancet Microbe February 2025 6(2)

Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence and case detection among incarcerated individuals from 2000 to 2019: a systematic analysis

Authors: Martinez, Leonardo, Warren, Joshua L, Harries, Anthony D, Croda, Julio, Espinal, Marcos A, Olarte, Rafael A López, Avedillo, Pedro, Lienhardt, Christian, Bhatia, Vineet, Liu, Qiao, Chakaya, Jeremiah, Denholm, Justin T, Lin, Yan, Kawatsu, Lisa, Zhu, Limei, Horsburgh, C Robert, Cohen, Ted, Andrews, Jason R

Source: Lancet.Public health. 8(7):e511-e519

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Infant BCG vaccination and risk of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis throughout the life course: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

Authors: Martinez, Leonardo, Cords, Olivia, Liu, Qiao, Acuna-Villaorduna, Carlos, Bonnet, Maryline, Fox, Greg J, Carvalho, Anna Cristina C, Chan, Pei-Chun, Croda, Julio, Hill, Philip C, Lopez-Varela, Elisa, Donkor, Simon, Fielding, Katherine, Graham, Stephen M, Espinal, Marcos A, Kampmann, Beate, Reingold, Arthur, Huerga, Helena, Villalba, Julian A, Grandjean, Louis, Sotgiu, Giovanni, Egere, Uzochukwu, Singh, Sarman, Zhu, Limei, Lienhardt, Christian, Denholm, Justin T, Seddon, James A, Whalen, Christopher C, García-Basteiro, Alberto L, Triasih, Rina, Chen, Cheng, Singh, Jitendra, Huang, Li-Min, Sharma, Surendra, Hannoun, Djohar, del Corral, Helena, Mandalakas, Anna M, Malone, LaShaunda L, Ling, Du-Lin, Kritski, Afrânio, Stein, Catherine M, Vashishtha, Richa, Boulahbal, Fadila, Fang, Chi-Tai, Boom, W Henry, Netto, Eduardo Martins, Lemos, Antonio Carlos, Hesseling, Anneke C, Kay, Alexander, Jones-López, Edward C, Horsburgh, C Robert, Lange, Christoph, Andrews, Jason R

Source: Lancet.Global health. 10(9):e1307-e1316

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Sustaining communicable disease elimination efforts in the Americas in the wake of COVID-19

Authors: Espinal, Marcos A., Alonso, Monica, Sereno, Leandro, Escalada, Rainier, Saboya, Martha, Ropero, Alba M., Bascolo, Ernesto, Perez, Freddy, Vigilato, Marco, Soares, Agnes, Luciani, Silvana, Vicari, Andrea, Castellanos, Luis G., Ghidinelli, Massimo, Barbosa, Jarbas

Source: In The Lancet Regional Health - Americas September 2022 13

The escalating tuberculosis crisis in central and South American prisons

Authors: Walter, Katharine S ^*, Martinez, Leonardo, Arakaki-Sanchez, Denise, Sequera, Victor G, Estigarribia Sanabria, G, Cohen, Ted, Ko, Albert I, García-Basteiro, Alberto L, Rueda, Zulma Vanessa, López-Olarte, Rafael A, Espinal, Marcos A, Croda, Julio, Andrews, Jason R

Source: In The Lancet 24-30 April 2021 397(10284):1591-1596

The risk of tuberculosis in children after close exposure: a systematic review and individual-participant meta-analysis

Authors: Acuna-Villaorduna, Carlos, Desai Ahuja, Shama, Altet, Neus, Augusto, Orvalho, Baliashvili, Davit, Basu, Sanjay, Becerra, Mercedes, Bonnet, Maryline, Henry Boom, W., Borgdorff, Martien, Boulahbal, Fadila, Carvalho, Anna Cristina C., Cayla, Joan A., Chakhaia, Tsira, Chan, Pei-Chun, Cohen, Ted, Croda, Julio, Datta, Sumona, del Corral, Helena, Denholm, Justin T., Dietze, Reynaldo, Dobler, Claudia C., Donkor, Simon, Egere, Uzochukwu, Ellner, Jerrold J., Espinal, Marcos, Evans, Carlton A., Fang, Chi-Tai, Fielding, Katherine, Fox, Greg J., García, Luis F., García-Basteiro, Alberto L., Geis, Steffen, Graham, Stephen M., Grandjean, Louis, Hannoun, Djohar, Hatherill, Mark, Hauri, Anja M., Hesseling, Anneke C., Hill, Philip C., Huang, Li-Min, Huerga, Helena, Hussain, Rabia, Jarlsberg, Leah, Jones-López, Edward C., Kato, Seiya, Kato-Maeda, Midori, Kampmann, Beate, Kirchner, H. Lester, Kritski, Afrânio, Lange, Christoph, Lee, Chih-Hsin, Lee, Li-Na, Lee, Meng-Rui, Lemos, Antonio Carlos, Lienhardt, Christian, Ling, Du-Lin, Liu, Qiao, Lo, Nathan C., Long, Richard, Lopez-Varela, Elisa, Lu, Peng, Magee, Matthew, Malone, LaShaunda L., Mandalakas, Anna M., Martinson, Neil A., Mazahir, Rufaida, Murray, Megan B., Netto, Eduardo Martins, Otero, Larissa, Parsonnet, Julie, Reingold, Arthur, Schaaf, H. Simon, Seddon, James A., Sharma, Surendra, Singh, Jitendra, Singh, Sarman, Sloot, Rosa, Sotgiu, Giovanni, Stein, Catherine M., Iqbal, Najeeha Talat, Triasih, Rina, Trieu, Lisa, van der Loeff, Maarten F Schim, Van der Stuyft, Patrick, van Schalkwyk, Cari, Vashishtha, Richa, Verhagen, Lilly M, Villalba, Julian A., Wang, Jann-Yuan, Whalen, Christopher C., Yoshiyama, Takashi, Zar, Heather J., Zellweger, Jean-Pierre, Zhu, Limei, Martinez, Leonardo ^*, Cords, Olivia, Horsburgh, C Robert, Andrews, Jason R

Source: In The Lancet 21-27 March 2020 395(10228):973-984

Association between microcephaly, Zika virus infection, and other risk factors in Brazil: final report of a case-control study

Authors: Dhalia, Carmen, Santos, Marcela, Cortes, Fanny, Kleber de Oliveira, Wanderson, Evelim Coelho, Giovanini, Cortez-Escalante, Juan Jose, Campelo de Albuquerque de Melo, Carlos Frederico, Ramon-Pardo, Pilar, Aldighieri, Sylvain, Mendez-Rico, Jairo, Espinal, Marcos, Torres, Leuridan, Nassri Hazin, Adriano, Van der Linden, Ana, Coentro, Monica, Santiago Dimech, George, Siqueira de Assuncao, Romildo, Ismael de Carvalho, Patricia, Felix Oliveira, Valdete, de Araújo, Thalia Velho Barreto, Ximenes, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar, Miranda-Filho, Demócrito de Barros, Souza, Wayner Vieira, Montarroyos, Ulisses Ramos, de Melo, Ana Paula Lopes, Valongueiro, Sandra, de Albuquerque, Maria de Fátima Pessoa Militão, Braga, Cynthia, Filho, Sinval Pinto Brandão, Cordeiro, Marli Tenório, Vazquez, Enrique, Cruz, Danielle di Cavalcanti Souza, Henriques, Claudio Maierovitch Pessanha, Bezerra, Luciana Caroline Albuquerque, Castanha, Priscila Mayrelle da Silva, Dhalia, Rafael, Marques-Júnior, Ernesto Torres Azevedo, Martelli, Celina Maria Turchi, Rodrigues, Laura Cunha

Source: In The Lancet Infectious Diseases March 2018 18(3):328-336

Emerging and Reemerging Aedes-Transmitted Arbovirus Infections in the Region of the Americas: Implications for Health Policy

Authors: Espinal, Marcos A., Andrus, Jon K., Jauregui, Barbara, Waterman, Stephen Hull, Morens, David Michael, Santos, Jose Ignacio, Horstick, Olaf, Francis, Lorraine Ayana, Olson, Daniel

Source: American journal of public health. 109(3):387-392

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Erasing the World's Slow Stain: Strategies to Beat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Authors: Dye, Christopher, Williams, Brian G., Espinal, Marcos A., Raviglione, Mario C.

Source: Science, 2002 Mar . 295(5562), 2042-2046.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3076272

Will Tuberculosis Become Resistant to All Antibiotics?

Authors: Dye, Christopher, Espinal, Marcos A.

Source: Proceedings: Biological Sciences, 2001 Jan 01. 268(1462), 45-52.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3067731

PAHO is Latin America's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

Authors: Espinal, Marcos A¹ (AUTHOR) mespinal@cenismi.com, Salomon, Mariela Licha² (AUTHOR), Periago, Mirta Roses³ (AUTHOR)

Source: Lancet. Mar2025, Vol. 405 Issue 10480, p694-695. 2p.

Subject Terms: Preventive medicine

Zika Virus Transmission — Region of the Americas, May 15, 2015–December 15, 2016

Authors: Ikejezie, Juniorcaius, Shapiro, Craig N., Kim, Jisoo, Chiu, Monica, Almiron, Maria, Ugarte, Ciro, Espinal, Marcos A., Aldighieri, Sylvain

Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2017 Mar . 66(12), 329-334.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24904872

Neglected infectious diseases in the Americas: current situation and perspectives for the control and elimination by 2030.

Authors: Saboyá-Díaz, Martha Idalí, Maia-Elkhoury, Ana Nilce S., Luciañez, Ana, Valadas, Samantha Y. O. B., Carvaho-Scholte, Ronaldo Guilherme, Nicholls, Rubén Santiago, Vigilato, Marco A. N., Castellanos, Luis Gerardo, Espinal, Marcos A.

Source: Frontiers in Tropical Diseases; 2024, p01-07, 7p

A digital transformation for primary health care.

Authors: Barbosa da Silva, Jarbas¹, Espinal, Marcos¹, Garcia-Saiso, Sebastian², Fitzgerald, James³, Marti, Myrna², Bascolo, Ernesto³, Haddad, Ana Estela⁴, D'Agostino, Marcelo² dagostim@paho.org

Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Jan2024, Vol. 102 Issue 1, p2-2A. 2p.

Subject Terms: *MEDICAL quality control, *HEALTH services accessibility, *DIGITAL technology, *DIGITAL health, *PUBLIC administration, *PRIMARY health care, *DATA security, *HEALTH equity, *HEALTH promotion

The Pan American Health Organization: 120 years in the Americas hemisphere

Authors: Espinal, Marcos A.

Source: In The Lancet Regional Health - Americas May 2023 21

Responding to Market Failures in Tuberculosis Control

Authors: Gupta, Rajesh, Kim, Jim Y., Espinal, Marcos A., Caudron, Jean-Michel, Pecoul, Bernard, Farmer, Paul E., Raviglione, Mario C.

Source: Science, 2001 Aug 01. 293(5532), 1049-1051.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3084354

International Health Regulations, Ebola, and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean

Authors: Espinal, Marcos, Aldighieri, Sylvain, St. John, Ronald, Becerra-Posada, Francisco, Etienne, Carissa

Source: American journal of public health. 106(2):279-282

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Progress towards eliminating canine rabies: policies and perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean

Authors: Vigilato, Marco Antonio Natal, Clavijo, Alfonso, Knobl, Terezinha, Silva, Hugo Marcelo Tamayo, Cosivi, Ottorino, Schneider, Maria Cristina, Leanes, Luis Fernando, Belotto, Albino José, Espinal, Marcos Antonio

Source: Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 2013 Aug 01. 368(1623), 1-8.

Access URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0143

Malaria in the Americas: Trends from 1959 to 2011

Authors: Carter, Keith H., Singh, Prabhjot, Mujica, Oscar J., Escalada, Rainier P., Ade, Maria Paz, Castellanos, Luis Gerardo, Espinal, Marcos A.

Source: American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 92(2):302-316

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Keynote Address (November 2016): Zika Virus Disease in the Americas: A Storm in the Making

Authors: Etienne, Carissa, dos Santos, Thais, Espinal, Marcos A.

Source: American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 97(1):16-18

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