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Latent Tuberculosis: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment, Perspectives, and the Crucial Role of Biomarkers

Current Microbiology, 2023
Tuberculosis (TB) is the major cause of morbidity and mortality globally, which is caused by a single infectious agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis. For years, many TB control programmes are established for effective diagnosis and treatment of active TB ...
Jayanthi Palanivel, Vignesh Sounderrajan, T. Thangam, Sudhanarayani S. Rao, S. Harshavardhan, K. Parthasarathy   +5 more
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Latent Tuberculosis: Two Centuries of Confusion

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2021
The term latent tuberculosis (TB) was coined two centuries ago to describe post-mortem tuberculous pathology in the absence of ante-mortem tuberculosis manifestations.
M. Behr, E. Kaufmann, J. Duffin, P. Edelstein, L. Ramakrishnan   +4 more
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Review article: latent tuberculosis in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases receiving immunosuppression—risks, screening, diagnosis and management

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2022
One quarter of the world's population has latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Systemic immunosuppression is a risk factor for LTBI reactivation and the development of active tuberculosis.
S. Fehily, A. Al-Ani, Jonathan Abdelmalak, Clarissa Rentch, E. Zhang, J. Denholm, D. Johnson, S. Ng, Vishal Sharma, D. Rubin, P. Gibson, B. Christensen   +11 more
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Interferon-gamma assay and tuberculin skin test for screening of latent tuberculosis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a summarization study

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2021
Background Latent tuberculosis is an important clinical problem. This problem might be significant in some specific groups of patients. The screening for latent tuberculosis is recommended for management of those patients at risk.
Rujittika Mungmunpuntipantip, Viroj Wiwanitkit   +1 more
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Transcriptional Profiling and Deriving a Seven-Gene Signature That Discriminates Active and Latent Tuberculosis: An Integrative Bioinformatics Approach

Genes, 2022
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb.). Our integrative analysis aims to identify the transcriptional profiling and gene expression signature that distinguish individuals with active TB (ATB) disease, and ...
S. Natarajan, Mohan Ranganathan, L. Hanna, S. Tripathy   +3 more
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Differential Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection and Active Tuberculosis: A Key to a Successful Tuberculosis Control Strategy

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
As an ancient infectious disease, tuberculosis (TB) is still the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent worldwide. Latent TB infection (LTBI) has been recognized as the largest source of new TB cases and is one of the biggest obstacles to ...
W. Gong, Xueqiong Wu
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The Biological and Clinical Aspects of a Latent Tuberculosis Infection

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by bacilli from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, remains a serious global public health problem, representing one of the main causes of death from infectious diseases.
N. Khabibullina, D. M. Kutuzova, I. Burmistrova, I. Lyadova   +3 more
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Latent tuberculosis infection: approach and therapeutic schemes

Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia, 2022
Tuberculosis continues to be a major public health problem. A priority objective is the implementation of early diagnosis, contact investigation and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing.
J. Fortún, E. Navas
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Acceptance and influencing factors of preventive treatment for latent tuberculosis infection: a review

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2023
Preventive treatment for latent tuberculosis infection is one of the key measures to achieve the goal of ending tuberculosis. Currently, the acceptance of preventive treatment among different populations is unclear.
Yemin YUAN, Shixue LI, Chengchao ZHOU
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COVID-19 promoting the development of active tuberculosis in a patient with latent tuberculosis infection: A case report

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021
We report the case of a 40-year-old female diagnosed with COVID-19 after presenting to our institution with fever, cough and myalgia for three days. Her nasopharyngeal swab tested positive for SARS COV-2 by real time PCR and her plain chest radiograph ...
M. Khayat, Ha-Nan Fan, Yusuf Vali
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