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Analysis of the current status and influencing factors of latent tuberculosis infection among new students in Taishan District in 2025 [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveTo analyze the current status and influencing factors of latent tuberculosis infection among new students in Taishan District in 2025, providing data support for the formulation of tuberculosis prevention and control strategies in schools ...
Huanqing Bian, Jun Zhou, Xingang Li, Xiuli Yan, Yonghe Sun, Xuebo Liu, Yan Ren   +6 more
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Using Electronic Health Record Data to Measure the Latent Tuberculosis Infection Care Cascade in Safety-Net Primary Care Clinics

AJPM Focus, 2023
Introduction: Prevention of tuberculosis disease through diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection is critical for achieving tuberculosis elimination in the U.S.
Laura A. Vonnahme, MPH, Julia Raykin, PhD, Matthew Jones, MS, Jee Oakley, MPH, Jon Puro, MPA, Adam Langer, DVM, Kaylynn Aiona, MPH, Robert Belknap, MD, Tracy Ayers, PhD, Jonathan Todd, PhD, Kathryn Winglee, PhD   +10 more
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Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Potential Renal Transplant Recipients and Live Donors in a Tertiary Level Transplant Center in Nepal

Journal of Nobel Medical College, 2022
Background: Active tuberculosis in transplant recipients can result from latent infection with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in the transplant recipients, donor tissue, or de novo post-transplant infection.
Suresh Maharjan, Bikash Khatri, Deepa Chemjong, Bijay Khatri, Dibya Singh Shah   +4 more
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Possibilities of Detecting an Epidemic Focus of Tuberculosis Infection in an Indicator Patient with a Positive Immunological Test for Tuberculosis

Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2023
Relevance. In connection with the advent of new diagnostic immunological tests, it became possible to determine a potential focus of infection not only through the identification of patients with tuberculosis, but also through the identification of ...
G. S. Oganezova, E. M. Bogorodskaya, N. I. Briko, E. M. Belilovsky   +3 more
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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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Changes in the rate of bacillus tuberculosis infection in health workers in the first year of the COVID-19 epidemic in Kashan- Iran

Heliyon, 2023
Objective: This cohort study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of latent tuberculosis infection among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mojgan Sehat, Reza Razzaghi, Mark Ghamsary, Monireh Faghir Ganji, Mojtaba Sehat   +4 more
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Outcomes of latent tuberculosis infection treatment in Istanbul

International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2022
Background and Aim: Increasing the extensity of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) treatment which is one of the important parameters of tuberculosis (TB) control and completing the treatment in success are important.
Abdullah Emre Güner, Sule Kiziltas, Aylin Babalik, Esra Sahin, Al Sibel, Mine Safak, Zeki Kiliçaslan   +6 more
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Latent tuberculosis infection among medical students in Malaysia

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2019
Objective: This study aimed to determine prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among medical students and tuberculosis exposure at the health facilities.
Maha Abdullah, Ummi Nadira Daut, Siti Aishah Daud, Nor Afifi Mohd Romli, Marsitah Abdul Jalil, Noorelina Muhammad, Safarina Mohammad Ismuddin, Masriana Hassan   +7 more
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Prevalence and risk factors for latent tuberculosis infection among healthcare workers in Nampula Central Hospital, Mozambique

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background Healthcare workers in high tuberculosis burdened countries are occupationally exposed to the tuberculosis disease with uncomplicated and complicated tuberculosis on the increase among them.
Celso Belo, Saloshni Naidoo
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Determinants of latent tuberculosis infection among nurses at public health centers in Indonesia

Belitung Nursing Journal, 2021
Background: The incidence of latent tuberculosis among healthcare workers, especially nurses, at public health centers in Indonesia has been increased. Therefore, factors related to the tuberculosis incidence need to be further investigated. Objective:
Meira Erawati, Megah Andriany
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