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Discriminating active from latent tuberculosis in patients presenting to community clinics. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Because of the high global prevalence of latent TB infection (LTBI), a key challenge in endemic settings is distinguishing patients with active TB from patients with overlapping clinical symptoms without active TB but with co-existing LTBI ...
Agranoff, DD, Athanasakis, D, Battaglia, F, Ely, BK, Evans, CA, Fernandez-Reyes, D, Friedland, JS, Gilman, RH, Montoya, R, Sandhu, G, Valencia, T   +10 more
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PREVALENCE OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS AMONG CHILDREN AT THE RESERVOIRS OF INFECTION IN THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

Паёми Сино, 2021
Objective: To study the prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the infection reservoirs in the Republic of Tajikistan among children and the impact of BCG vaccination assessed by tuberculin skin test.
O.I. BOBOKHOJAEV, U.YU. SIRODJIDINOVA, S.M. SAYDALIEV, R.S. BOZOROVA   +3 more
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Interferon-gamma release assays and tuberculin skin testing for diagnosing latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in at-risk groups in Poland

International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2016
Objective/Background: The diagnostics of latent tuberculosis infection in Poland using the tuberculin skin test is challenging due to the obligatory Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccinations.
Katarzyna Kruczak, Lucyna Mastalerz, Krzysztof Sładek   +2 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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Defining an intermediate category of tuberculin skin test: A mixture model analysis of two high-risk populations from Kampala, Uganda.

PLoS ONE, 2021
One principle of tuberculosis control is to prevent the development of tuberculosis disease by treating individuals with latent tuberculosis infection.
Henok G Woldu, Sarah Zalwango, Leonardo Martinez, María Eugenia Castellanos, Robert Kakaire, Juliet N Sekandi, Noah Kiwanuka, Christopher C Whalen   +7 more
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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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Tuberculin skin test reaction and sarcoidosis – An unexpected sequela

Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2020
Puravoor Jayasree, Karalikkattil T Ashique, Nandakumar Gopinathan Nair   +2 more
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Tuberculine reaction measured by infrared thermography [PDF]

, 2015
Setting: The infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis gives a delayed immune response, measured by the tuberculine skin test. We present a new technique for evaluation based on automatic detection and measurement of skin temperature due to infrared ...
Becker, Caroline, Faúndez Zanuy, Marcos, Fiz Fernández, José Antonio, Gonzalez Martinez, Adela, Lozano, Manuel, Monte Moreno, Enrique, Pons Rodriguez, Laura, Ruiz Manzano, Juan   +7 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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Using ELISPOT to expose false positive skin test conversion in tuberculosis contacts.

PLoS ONE, 2007
BackgroundRepeat tuberculin skin tests may be false positive due to boosting of waned immunity to past mycobacterial exposure. We evaluated whether an ELISPOT test could identify tuberculosis (TB) contacts with boosting of immunity to non-tuberculous ...
Philip C Hill, David J Jeffries, Roger H Brookes, Annette Fox, Dolly Jackson-Sillah, Moses D Lugos, Simon A Donkor, Bouke C de Jong, Tumani Corrah, Richard A Adegbola, Keith P McAdam   +10 more
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