Lessells, RJ; Cooke, GS; McGrath, N; Nicol, MP; Newell, ML; Godfrey-Faussett, P; (2017) Impact of Point-of-care Xpert MTB/RIF on Tuberculosis Treatment Initiation: A Cluster Randomised Trial. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. ISSN 1073-449X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201702-0278OC

Reniers, G; Blom, S; Lieber, J; Herbst, AJ; Calvert, C; Bor, J; Barnighausen, T; Zaba, B; Li, ZR; Clark, SJ; +4 more... Grant, AD; Lessells, R; Eaton, JW; Hosegood, V; (2017) Tuberculosis mortality and the male survival deficit in rural South Africa: An observational community cohort study. PloS one, 12 (10). e0185692. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185692

Smith, CM; Lessells, R; Grant, AD; Herbst, K; Tanser, F; (2017) Spatial clustering of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Hlabisa subdistrict, KwaZulu-Natal, 2011-2015. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease, 22 (3). pp. 287-293. ISSN 1027-3719 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.17.0457

Manasa, J; Danaviah, S; Lessells, R; Elshareef, M; Tanser, F; Wilkinson, E; Pillay, S; Mthiyane, H; Mwambi, H; Pillay, D; +1 more... de Oliveira, T; (2016) Increasing HIV-1 drug resistance between 2010 and 2012 in adults participating in population-based HIV surveillance in rural KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. AIDS research and human retroviruses, 32 (8). pp. 763-9. ISSN 0889-2229 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/AID.2015.0225

Rossouw, TM; Nieuwoudt, M; Manasa, J; Malherbe, G; Lessells, RJ; Pillay, S; Danaviah, S; Mahasha, P; van Dyk, G; de Oliveira, T; (2016) HIV drug resistance levels in adults failing first-line antiretroviral therapy in an urban and a rural setting in South Africa. HIV medicine. ISSN 1464-2662 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12400

Treffry-Goatley, A; Lessells, R; Sykes, P; Bärnighausen, T; de Oliveira, T; Moletsane, R; Seeley, J; (2016) Understanding Specific Contexts of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in Rural South Africa: A Thematic Analysis of Digital Stories from a Community with High HIV Prevalence. PloS one, 11 (2). e0148801. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148801

Lessells, RJ; (2015) Impact of the Xpert MTB/RIF tuberculosis diagnostic system in individuals at high risk of mortality in rural South Africa. PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.02222113

Lessells, RJ; Swaminathan, S; Godfrey-Faussett, P; (2015) HIV treatment cascade in tuberculosis patients. Current opinion in HIV and AIDS, 10 (6). pp. 439-46. ISSN 1746-630X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/COH.0000000000000197 Item availability may be restricted.

McGrath, N; Lessells, RJ; Newell, ML; (2015) Time to eligibility for antiretroviral therapy in adults with CD4 cell count > 500 cells/μL in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. HIV medicine, 16 (8). pp. 512-8. ISSN 1464-2662 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12255

Cornell, M; Lessells, R; Fox, MP; Garone, DB; Giddy, J; Fenner, L; Myer, L; Boulle, A; IeDEA-Southern Africa Collaboration; (2014) Mortality among adults transferred and lost to follow-up from antiretroviral therapy programmes in South Africa: a multicentre cohort study. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), 67 (2). e67-75. ISSN 1525-4135 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000000269 Full text not available from this repository.

Lessells, RJ; Stott, KE; Manasa, J; Naidu, KK; Skingsley, A; Rossouw, T; de Oliveira, T; Southern African Treatment and Resistance Network (SATuRN); (2014) Implementing antiretroviral resistance testing in a primary health care HIV treatment programme in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: early experiences, achievements and challenges. BMC health services research, 14 (1). p. 116. ISSN 1472-6963 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-116

Manasa, J; Lessells, R; Rossouw, T; Naidu, K; Van Vuuren, C; Goedhals, D; van Zyl, G; Bester, A; Skingsley, A; Stott, K; +8 more... Danaviah, S; Chetty, T; Singh, L; Moodley, P; Iwuji, C; McGrath, N; Seebregts, CJ; de Oliveira, T; (2014) Southern African Treatment Resistance Network (SATuRN) RegaDB HIV drug resistance and clinical management database: supporting patient management, surveillance and research in southern Africa. Database, 2014. bat082. ISSN 1758-0463 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bat082 Item availability may be restricted.

Pillay, S; Bland, RM; Lessells, RJ; Manasa, J; de Oliveira, T; Danaviah, S; (2014) Drug resistance in children at virological failure in a rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, cohort. AIDS research and therapy, 11 (1). p. 3. ISSN 1742-6405 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-6405-11-3

Iwuji, CC; Orne-Gliemann, J; Tanser, F; Boyer, S; Lessells, RJ; Lert, F; Imrie, J; Barnighausen, T; Rekacewicz, C; Bazin, B; +3 more... Newell, ML; Dabis, F; Grp, AnrsTaspStudy; (2013) Evaluation of the impact of immediate versus WHO recommendations-guided antiretroviral therapy initiation on HIV incidence: the ANRS 12249 TasP (Treatment as Prevention) trial in Hlabisa sub-district, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 14. ISSN 1745-6215 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-230

Lessells, RJ; Avalos, A; de Oliveira, T; (2013) Implementing HIV-1 Genotypic Resistance Testing in Antiretroviral Therapy Programs in Africa: Needs, Opportunities, and Challenges. AIDS reviews, 15 (4). pp. 221-9. ISSN 1139-6121 http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1386895 Full text not available from this repository.

Lessells, RJ; Cooke, GS; McGrath, N; Nicol, MP; Newell, ML; Godfrey-Faussett, P; (2013) Impact of a novel molecular TB diagnostic system in patients at high risk of TB mortality in rural South Africa (Uchwepheshe): study protocol for a cluster randomised trial. Trials, 14. p. 170. ISSN 1745-6215 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-170

Lessells, RJ; Mutevedzi, PC; Iwuji, CC; Newell, ML; (2013) Reduction in early mortality on antiretroviral therapy for adults in rural South Africa since change in CD4+ cell count eligibility criteria. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999). ISSN 1525-4135 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0b013e31829ceb14

Manasa, J; Lessells, RJ; Skingsley, A; Naidu, KK; Newell, ML; McGrath, N; de Oliveira, T; Southern African Treatment and Resistance Network (SATuRN); (2013) High-Levels of Acquired Drug Resistance in Adult Patients Failing First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in a Rural HIV Treatment Programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PloS one, 8 (8). e72152. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072152

Mutevedzi, PC; Lessells, RJ; Newell, ML; (2013) Disengagement from care in a decentralised primary health care antiretroviral treatment programme: cohort study in rural South Africa. Tropical medicine & international health. ISSN 1360-2276 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.12135

Rossouw, T; Lessells, RJ; de Oliveira, T; (2013) HIV & TB Drug Resistance and Clinical Management Case Book. South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, p. 130. ISBN 9781920014919 http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/967463 Full text not available from this repository.

Stott, KE; de Oliviera, T; Lessells, RJ; (2013) Combined antiretroviral and anti-tuberculosis drug resistance following incarceration. Southern African journal of HIV medicine, 14 (3). ISSN 1608-9693 DOI: https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJHIVMED.957

Cornell, M; Schomaker, M; Garone, DB; Giddy, J; Hoffmann, CJ; Lessells, R; Maskew, M; Prozesky, H; Wood, R; Johnson, LF; +4 more... Egger, M; Boulle, A; Myer, L; for the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS S; (2012) Gender Differences in Survival among Adult Patients Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa: A Multicentre Cohort Study. PLoS medicine, 9 (9). e1001304. ISSN 1549-1277 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001304

Hontelez, JA; Newell, ML; Bland, RM; Munnelly, K; Lessells, RJ; Barnighausen, T; (2012) Human resources needs for universal access to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa: a time and motion study. Human resources for health, 10 (1). p. 39. ISSN 1478-4491 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-10-39

Lessells, RJ; Katzenstein, DK; de Oliveira, T; (2012) Are subtype differences important in HIV drug resistance? Current opinion in virology, 2 (5). pp. 636-43. ISSN 1879-6257 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coviro.2012.08.006

Cooke, GS; Beaton, RK; Lessells, RJ; John, L; Ashworth, S; Kon, OM; Williams, OM; Supply, P; Moodley, P; Pym, AS; (2011) International Spread of MDR TB from Tugela Ferry, South Africa. Emerging infectious diseases, 17 (11). pp. 2035-7. ISSN 1080-6040 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1711.110291

Lessells, RJ; Cooke, GS; Newell, ML; Godfrey-Faussett, P; (2011) Evaluation of tuberculosis diagnostics: establishing an evidence base around the public health impact. The Journal of infectious diseases, 204 Su. S1187-95. ISSN 0022-1899 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jir412

Lessells, RJ; Mutevedzi, PC; Cooke, GS; Newell, ML; (2011) Retention in HIV care for individuals not yet eligible for antiretroviral therapy: rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), 56 (3). e79-86. ISSN 1525-4135 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0b013e3182075ae2

Lessells, RJ; Mutevedzi, PC; Heller, T; Newell, ML; (2011) Poor long-term outcomes for cryptococcal meningitis in rural South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 101 (4). pp. 251-2. ISSN 0256-9574 http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/39470

Mutevedzi, PC; Lessells, RJ; Rodger, AJ; Newell, ML; (2011) Association of Age with Mortality and Virological and Immunological Response to Antiretroviral Therapy in Rural South African Adults. PloS one, 6 (7). ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021795

Heller, T; Lessells, RJ; Wallrauch, CG; Barnighausen, T; Cooke, GS; Mhlongo, L; Master, I; Newell, ML; (2010) Community-based treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease, 14 (4). pp. 420-6. ISSN 1027-3719 http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/2718

Heller, T; Wallrauch, C; Lessells, RJ; Goblirsch, S; Brunetti, E; (2010) Short course for focused assessment with sonography for human immunodeficiency virus/tuberculosis: preliminary results in a rural setting in South Africa with high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus and tuberculosis. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 82 (3). pp. 512-5. ISSN 0002-9637 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0561

Houlihan, CF; Bland, RM; Mutevedzi, PC; Lessells, RJ; Ndirangu, J; Thulare, H; Newell, ML; (2010) Cohort Profile: Hlabisa HIV Treatment and Care Programme. International journal of epidemiology. ISSN 0300-5771 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyp402

Houlihan, CF; Mutevedzi, PC; Lessells, RJ; Cooke, GS; Tanser, FC; Newell, ML; (2010) The tuberculosis challenge in a rural South African HIV programme. BMC infectious diseases, 10. p. 23. ISSN 1471-2334 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-23

Lightowler, JV; Cooke, GS; Mutevedzi, P; Lessells, RJ; Newell, ML; Dedicoat, M; (2010) Treatment of cryptococcal meningitis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PloS one, 5 (1). e8630. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008630

Mutevedzi, PC; Lessells, RJ; Heller, T; Barnighausen, T; Cooke, GS; Newell, ML; (2010) Scale-up of a decentralized HIV treatment programme in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: does rapid expansion affect patient outcomes? Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88 (8). pp. 593-600. ISSN 0042-9686 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.09.069419

Wallrauch, C; Heller, T; Lessells, R; Kekana, M; Barnighausen, T; Newell, ML; (2010) High uptake of HIV testing for tuberculosis patients in an integrated primary health care HIV/TB programme in rural KwaZulu-Natal. South African Medical Journal, 100 (3). pp. 146-7. ISSN 0256-9574 http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/2720

Franey, C; Knott, D; Barnighausen, T; Dedicoat, M; Adam, A; Lessells, RJ; Newell, ML; Cooke, GS; (2009) Renal impairment in a rural African antiretroviral programme. BMC infectious diseases, 9. p. 143. ISSN 1471-2334 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-143

Lessells, RJ; Cooke, GS; (2008) Effect of the HIV epidemic on liver cancer in Africa. Lancet, 371 (9623). p. 1504. ISSN 0140-6736 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60652-2 Full text not available from this repository.

Lessells, RJ; Main, J; Cooke, GS; (2008) HIV and hepatitis B co-infection in Africa. The Lancet infectious diseases, 8 (4). pp. 210-1. ISSN 1473-3099 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70047-1 Full text not available from this repository.