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Impact of imperfect test sensitivity on determining risk factors : the case of bovine tuberculosis [PDF]

, 2012
Background Imperfect diagnostic testing reduces the power to detect significant predictors in classical cross-sectional studies. Assuming that the misclassification in diagnosis is random this can be dealt with by increasing the sample size of a study ...
Camille Szmaragd, Frank Emmert-Streib, Graham F. Medley, Laura E. Green, William J. Browne   +4 more
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The age-specific burden and household and school-based predictors of child and adolescent tuberculosis infection in rural Uganda. [PDF]

, 2020
BackgroundThe age-specific epidemiology of child and adolescent tuberculosis (TB) is poorly understood, especially in rural areas of East Africa. We sought to characterize the age-specific prevalence and predictors of TB infection among children and ...
Atukunda, Mucunguzi, Balzer, Laura B, Chamie, Gabriel, Charlebois, Edwin D, Clark, Tamara D, Havlir, Diane V, Kamya, Moses R, Kironde, Joel, Kwarisiima, Dalsone, Marquez, Carina, Mwangwa, Florence, Petersen, Maya, Ruel, Theodore D, Ssemmondo, Emmanuel, Tram, Khai Hoan   +14 more
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Tuberculin reactivity in schoolchildren, Kassala State, Sudan

International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2020
Background: Tuberculin skin test (TST) is widely used for the assessment of Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine efficacy and screening of latent TB infection (LTBI). Poor or no data are available on the reactivity of tuberculin in Kassala State.
Fatima Abbas Khalid, Muataz Mohammed Eldirdery, Mamoun El-Obeid El-Gasim, Maowia Mohammed Mukhtar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Screening for Tuberculosis in Health Care Workers. Experience in an Italian Teaching Hospital [PDF]

, 2017
Health care workers (HCW) are particularly at risk of acquiring tuberculosis (TB), even in countries with low TB incidence. Therefore, TB screening in HCW is a useful prevention strategy in countries with both low and high TB incidence.
De Luca, Assunta, DI NINNO, Filippo, Ferretti, Filippo, Marani, Alessandra, Napoli, Christian, Orioli, Riccardo, Orsi, Giovanni Battista, Prestigiacomo, Claudio, Sarlo, MARIA GIUDITTA   +8 more
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Association Between Smoking and Tuberculosis Infection: A Population Survey in a High Tuberculosis Incidence Area [PDF]

, 2005
Associations between smoking and tuberculosis disease including death from tuberculosis have been reported, but there are few reports on the influence of smoking on the risk of developing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The aim of this study was to
Bateman, E.D, Beyers, N, Boon den, S, Borgdorff, M.W, Enarson, D.A, LIll van, P, Lombard, C.J, Verver, S   +7 more
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The History of In Vivo Tuberculin Testing in Bovines: Tuberculosis, a “One Health” Issue

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018
Tuberculosis (TB) is more than 3 million years old thriving in multiple species. Ancestral Mycobacterium tuberculosis gave rise to multiple strains including Mycobacterium bovis now distributed worldwide with zoonotic transmission happening in both ...
M. Good, D. Bakker, A. Duignan, D. Collins   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Resposta imune específica de bovinos experimentalmente sensibilizados com inóculos inativados de Mycobacterium bovis e Mycobacterium avium Specific immune response of cattle to experimental sensibilization by inactivated Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium avium

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2006
O diagnóstico presuntivo da tuberculose bovina é baseado na análise da resposta imune celular a antígenos micobacterianos. Procedeu-se à simulação experimental de sensibilização por Mycobacterium bovis e Mycobacterium avium inativados em bovinos a fim de
Robson F.C. Almeida, Claudio R. Madruga, Cleber O. Soares, Marta C. Fernandes, Nilton M. Carvalho, Klaudia S.G. Jorge, Ana Luiza A.R. Osório   +6 more
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Effect of HIV-1 infection on T-Cell-based and skin test detection of tuberculosis infection [PDF]

, 2007
RATIONALE: Two forms of the IFN-gamma release assay (IFNGRA) to detect tuberculosis infection are available, but neither has been evaluated in comparable HIV-infected and uninfected persons in a high tuberculosis incidence environment.
Connell, Tom G, Diwakar, Lavanya, Diwakar, Lavanya, Maartens, Gary, Meintjes, Graeme Ayton, Morroni, Chelsea, Mouton, Priscilla, Rangaka, Molebogeng Xheeda, Seldon, Ronnett, Van Cutsem, Gilles, Wilkinson, Katalin A, Wilkinson, Robert J   +11 more
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Tuberculin skin test conversion and primary progressive tuberculosis disease in the first 5 years of life: a birth cohort study from Cape Town, South Africa

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 2018
Summary Background Tuberculosis is a leading cause of global childhood mortality. However, the epidemiology and burden of tuberculosis in infancy is not well understood.
L. Martinez, D. L. le Roux, W. Barnett, A. Stadler, M. Nicol, H. Zar   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of Tuberculin Skin test and Quantiferon immunological assay for latent Tuberculosis infection

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2005
Background. Correct identification of individuals with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is a crucial element of the elimination strategy, allowing their adequate treatment.
L.R. Codecasa, M. Ferrarese, V. Penati, C. Lacchini, D. Cirillo, C. Scarparo, P. Piccoli, C. Piersimoni, G.B. Migliori   +8 more
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