Marc Tebruegge

Mycobacterium ulcerans-specific immune response after immunisation with bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine

Laure F Pittet, Marc Tebruegge, Binita Dutta, Susan Donath, Nicole Messina, Dan Casalaz, Willem A Hanekom, Warwick J Britton, Roy Robins-Browne, Nigel Curtis, Nicole Ritz

Journal article  |  2021  |  VACCINE

BACKGROUND: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine provides partial protection against Buruli ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcera..

Preventing tuberculosis in paediatric kidney transplant recipients: is there a role for BCG immunisation pre-transplantation in low tuberculosis incidence countries?

Alasdair Bamford, Garth Dixon, Nigel Klein, Stephen D Marks, Nicole Ritz, Steven B Welch, Marc Tebruegge

Journal article  |  2020  |  PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY

The risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease is increased in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD), even higher in stage 5 CKD/kidne..

Repeat screening for syphilis in pregnancy as an alternative screening strategy in the UK: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

Susie Huntington, Georgie Weston, Farah Seedat, John Marshall, Heather Bailey, Marc Tebruegge, Imtyaz Ahmed, Katy Turner, Elisabeth Adams

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ Open

OBJECTIVES: To assess the cost-effectiveness of universal repeat screening for syphilis in late pregnancy, compared with the curre..

Tuberculosis Disease in Children and Adolescents on Therapy With Antitumor Necrosis Factor-alpha Agents: A Collaborative, Multicenter Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (ptbnet) Study

Antoni Noguera-Julian, Joan Calzada-Hernandez, Folke Brinkmann, Robindra Basu Roy, Olga Bilogortseva, Michael Buettcher, Isabel Carvalho, Vira Chechenyeva, Lola Falcon, Florian Goetzinger, Carmelo Guerrero-Laleona, Peter Hoffmann, Marija Jelusic, Tim Niehues, Iveta Ozere, Fiona Shackley, Elena Suciliene, Steven B Welch, Elisabeth H Scholvinck, Nicole Ritz, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

BACKGROUND: In adults, anti-tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) therapy is associated with progression of latent tuberculosis (TB) inf..

Comprehensive plasma proteomic profiling reveals biomarkers for active tuberculosis

Diana J Garay-Baquero, Cory H White, Naomi F Walker, Marc Tebruegge, Hannah F Schiff, Cesar Ugarte-Gil, Stephen Morris-Jones, Ben G Marshall, Antigoni Manousopoulou, John Adamson, Andres F Vallejo, Magdalena K Bielecka, Robert J Wilkinson, Liku B Tezera, Christopher H Woelk, Spiros D Garbis, Paul Elkington

Journal article  |  2020  |  JCI INSIGHT

BACKGROUNDTuberculosis (TB) kills more people than any other infection, and new diagnostic tests to identify active cases are requ..

Probable Vertical Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

Alicia Demirjian, Cheentan Singh, Marc Tebruegge, Rachel Herbert, Nehal Draz, Mariyam Mirfenderesky, Victoria Jones, Peter Hinstridge, Ranjika Seneviratne, Richard Myers, Joanna Ellis, Shahjahan Miah, Christopher Is Meadows, Julia Kenny, Alejandra Alonso, Jennifer Handforth, Shona Perkins, Mark Butler, Frances Blackburn, Sam Douthwaite, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Pediatr Infect Dis J

BACKGROUND: To date, although neonatal infections with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronovirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been desc..

COVID-19 in children and adolescents in Europe: a multinational, multicentre cohort study

Florian Goetzinger, Begona Santiago-Garcia, Antoni Noguera-Julian, Miguel Lanaspa, Laura Lancella, Francesca I Calo Carducci, Natalia Gabrovska, Svetlana Velizarova, Petra Prunk, Veronika Osterman, Uros Krivec, Andrea Lo Vecchio, Delane Shingadia, Antoni Soriano-Arandes, Susana Melendo, Marcello Lanari, Luca Pierantoni, Noemie Wagner, Arnaud G L'Huillier, Ulrich Heininger, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  LANCET CHILD & ADOLESCENT HEALTH

BACKGROUND: To date, few data on paediatric COVID-19 have been published, and most reports originate from China. This study aimed ..

Diagnostic Accuracy of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus Assays in Children and Adolescents with Tuberculosis Disease

Aleix Soler-Garcia, Anna Gamell, Begona Santiago, Manuel Monsonis, Cristina Calvo, Elvira Cobo, Elena Colino, Maria Espiau, Carmelo Guerrero-Laleona, Zulema Lobato, Andrea Martin-Nalda, Beatriz Perez-Gorricho, Tomas M Perez-Porcuna, Ana Isabel Piqueras, Paula Rodriguez-Molino, Marta Ruiz, Antoni Soriano-Arandes, Teresa Valmanya, Marc Tebruegge, Antoni Noguera-Julian

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Pediatrics

In 2016, a new interferon-gamma release assay, QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus, was introduced. We conducted a cross-sectional multicente..

Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine and the COVID-19 pandemic: responsible stewardship is needed

HS Schaaf, K du Preez, M Kruger, R Solomons, JJ Taljaard, H Rabie, JA Seddon, MF Cotton, M Tebruegge, N Curtis, AC Hesseling

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE

Performance of immune-based and microbiological tests in children with tuberculosis meningitis in Europe: a multicentre Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (ptbnet) study

Robindra Basu Roy, Stephanie Thee, Daniel Blazquez-Gamero, Lola Falcon-Neyra, Olaf Neth, Antoni Noguera-Julian, Cristina Lillo, Luisa Galli, Elisabetta Venturini, Danilo Buonsenso, Florian Gotzinger, Nuria Martinez-Alier, Svetlana Velizarova, Folke Brinkmann, Steven B Welch, Maria Tsolia, Begona Santiago-Garcia, Renate Kruger, Marc Tebruegge

Journal article  |  2020  |  EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

INTRODUCTION: Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is often diagnostically challenging. Only limited data exist on the performance of inte..