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Triumph and Tragedy of 21st Century Tuberculosis Drug Development
Guy Thwaites, F.R.C.P., and Payam Nahid, MD, MPH
March 5, 2020
N Engl J Med 2020; 382:959-960
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe2000860
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Advances in clinical trial design: Weaving tomorrow’s TB treatments
Christian Lienhardt, Andrew Nunn, Richard Chaisson, Andrew Vernon, Matteo Zignol, Payam Nahid, Eric Delapor
February 27, 2020
PLoS Med 17(2): e1003059.
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Comparative Modeling of Tuberculosis Epidemiology and Policy Outcomes in California
Nicolas A Menzies, Andrea Parriott, Sourya Shrestha, David W Dowdy, Ted Cohen, Joshua A Salomon, Suzanne M Marks, Andrew N Hill, Carla A Winston, Garrett R Asay, Pennan Barry, Adam Readhead, Jennifer Flood, James G Kahn, Priya B Shete
February 1, 2020
Am J Respir Crit Care Med; 201 (3), 356-365
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The importance of adherence in tuberculosis treatment clinical trials and its relevance in explanatory and pragmatic trials
Andrew Vernon, Rada Savic, Katherine Fielding, Lori Dodd, Payam Nahid
December 10, 2019
PLoS Med 16(12): e1002884
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Treatment of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. An Official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline
Payam Nahid, Sundari R Mase, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Giovanni Sotgiu, Graham H Bothamley, Jan L Brozek, Adithya Cattamanchi, J Peter Cegielski, Lisa Chen, Charles L Daley, Tracy L Dalton, Raquel Duarte, Federica Fregonese, C Robert Horsburgh Jr, Faiz Ahmad Khan, Fayez Kheir, Zhiyi Lan, Alfred Lardizabal, Michael Lauzardo, Joan M Mangan, Suzanne M Marks, Lindsay McKenna, Dick Menzies, Carole D Mitnick, Diana M Nilsen, Farah Parvez, Charles A Peloquin, Ann Raftery, H Simon Schaaf, Neha S Shah, Jeffrey R Starke, John W Wilson, Jonathan M Wortham, Terence Chorba, Barbara Seaworth
November 15, 2019
Am J Respir Crit Care Med; 200 (10), e93-e142
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Development of new TB regimens: Harmonizing trial design, product registration requirements, and public health guidance.
Christian Lienhardt, Andrew Vernon, Marco Cavaleri, Sumati Nambiar, Payam Nahid
September 6, 2019
PLOS Med 16(9): e1002915 
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Alternative dosing guidelines to improve outcomes in childhood tuberculosis: a mathematical modelling study
Kendra K Radtke, PharmD, Kelly E Dooley, MD, Peter J Dodd, PhD, Anthony J Garcia-Prats, MD, Lindsay McKenna, MPH, Prof Anneke C Hesseling, MD, Radojka M Savic, PhD 
July 16, 2019
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Vol. 3, No. 9
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Advancing the development of new tuberculosis treatment regimens: The essential role of translational and clinical pharmacology and microbiology
Kelly E Dooley, Debra Hanna, Vidya Mave, Kathleen Eisenach, Radojka M Savic
July 5, 2019
PLoS Med 16(7): e1002842
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Advances in clinical trial design for development of new TB treatments: A call for innovation
Christian Lienhardt MD, DTM, MSc, PhD and Payam Nahid, MD, MPH
March 22, 2019
PLoS Med 16(3): e1002769
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Keeping phase III tuberculosis trials relevant: Adapting to a rapidly changing landscape
Patrick P. J. Phillips, Carole D. Mitnick, James D. Neaton, Payam Nahid, Christian Lienhard, Andrew J. Nunn
March 22, 2019
PLoS Med 16(3): e1002767
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Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis
Michael J A Reid, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Amy Bloom, Barry R Bloom, Catharina Boehme, Richard Chaisson, Daniel P Chin, Gavin Churchyard, Helen Cox, Lucica Ditiu, Mark Dybul, Jeremy Farrar, Anthony S Fauci, Endalkachew Fekadu, Paula I Fujiwara, Timothy B Hallett, Christy L Hanson, Mark Harrington, Nick Herbert, Philip C Hopewell, Chieko Ikeda, Dean T Jamison, Aamir J Khan, Irene Koek, Nalini Krishnan, Aaron Motsoaledi, Madhukar Pai, Mario C Raviglione, Almaz Sharman, Peter M Small, Soumya Swaminathan, Zelalem Temesgen, Anna Vassall, Nandita Venkatesan, Kitty van Weezenbeek, Gavin Yamey, Bruce D Agins, Sofia Alexandru, Jason R Andrews, Naomi Beyeler, Stela Bivol, Grania Brigden, Adithya Cattamanchi, Danielle Cazabon, Valeriu Crudu, Amrita Daftary, Puneet Dewan, Laurie K Doepel, Robert W Eisinger, Victoria Fan, Sara Fewer, Jennifer Furin, Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert, Gabriela B Gomez, Stephen M Graham, Devesh Gupta, Maureen Kamene, Sunil Khaparde, Eunice W Mailu, Enos O Masini, Lorrie McHugh, Ellen Mitchell, Suerie Moon, Michael Osberg, Tripti Pande, Lea Prince, Kirankumar Rade, Raghuram Rao, Michelle Remme, James A Seddon, Casey Selwyn, Priya Shete, Kuldeep S Sachdeva, Guy Stallworthy, Juan F Vesga, Valentina Vilc, Eric P Goosby
March 20, 2019
The Lancet, Vol. 393, No. 10178
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