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Tuberculosis Infection and Latent Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, 2016
Active tuberculosis (TB) has a greater burden of TB bacilli than latent TB and acts as an infection source for contacts. Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the state in which humans are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis without any clinical symptoms, radiological abnormality, or microbiological evidence.
S. H. Lee
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Latent Tuberculosis Infection Care [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2022
Katherine M Gaskell, Timesh D Pillay, James Brown, Moerida Belton, Stephen O Mepham, David A J Moore, Marc Lipman   +6 more
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Latent tuberculosis infection: An overview

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2017
Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is defined as a state of persistent immune response to stimulation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens without evidence of clinically manifested active tuberculosis (TB) disease. Individuals with LTBI represent a reservoir for active TB cases.
S, Kiazyk, T B, Ball
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Latent tuberculosis infection: Opportunities and challenges [PDF]

Respirology, 2018
ABSTRACTDiagnosing and treating latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI) is recognized by the World Health Organization as an important strategy to accelerate the decline in global TB and achieve TB elimination. Even among low‐TB burden countries that have achieved high rates of detection and successful treatment for active TB, a number of barriers ...
Cynthia B.E. Chee, Randall Reves, Ying Zhang, Robert Belknap   +3 more
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Evaluating latent tuberculosis infection diagnostics using latent class analysis [PDF]

Thorax, 2018
BackgroundLack of a gold standard for latent TB infection has precluded direct measurement of test characteristics of the tuberculin skin test and interferon-γ release assays (QuantiFERON Gold In-Tube and T-SPOT.TB).ObjectiveWe estimated test sensitivity/specificity and latent TB infection prevalence in a prospective, US-based cohort of 10 740 ...
Jason E Stout, Yanjue Wu, Christine S Ho, April C Pettit, Pei-Jean Feng, Dolly J Katz, Smita Ghosh, Thara Venkatappa, Ruiyan Luo   +8 more
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Short-course regimens of rifapentine plus isoniazid to treat latent tuberculosis infection in older Chinese patients: a randomised controlled study [PDF]

European Respiratory Journal, 2018
Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) management is now a critical component of the World Health Organization's End TB Strategy. In this randomised controlled trial (Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier ChiCTR-IOR-15007202), two short-course ...
Lei Gao, Haoran Zhang, Henan Xin, Jianmin Liu, Shouguo Pan, Xiangwei Li, Ling Guan, Fei Shen, Zisen Liu, Dakuan Wang, Xueling Guan, Jiaoxia Yan, Hengjing Li, Boxuan Feng, Xuefang Cao, Yú Chen, Wei Cui, Zongde Zhang, Yu Ma, Xiaoyou Chen, Xinhua Zhou, Qi Jin   +21 more
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Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2023
Importance In the US, tuberculosis remains an important preventable disease, including active tuberculosis, which may be infectious, and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), which is asymptomatic and not infectious but can later progress to active ...
Carol M. Mangione, Michael J. Barry, Wanda Nicholson, Michael Cabana, David Chelmow, Tumaini R. Coker, Esa M Davis, Katrina E. Donahue, C. Jaén, Li Li, G. Ogedegbe, Goutham Rao, John M Ruiz, James J Stevermer, S. Underwood, John B. Wong   +15 more
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From immunology to artificial intelligence: revolutionizing latent tuberculosis infection diagnosis with machine learning

Military Medical Research, 2023
Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) has become a major source of active tuberculosis (ATB). Although the tuberculin skin test and interferon-gamma release assay can be used to diagnose LTBI, these methods can only differentiate infected individuals from
Linsheng Li, Ling Yang, Zhuang Li, Zhaoyang Ye, Weiguo Zhao, W. Gong   +5 more
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In silico Analysis of Peptide-Based Biomarkers for the Diagnosis and Prevention of Latent Tuberculosis Infection

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Background Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the primary source of active tuberculosis (ATB), but there are no specific methods for diagnosing and preventing LTBI.
Peng Cheng, Liang Wang, W. Gong
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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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