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Investigation of the Frequency of Positive PPD Test in Candidate Patients Receiving Immunosuppressive Drugs Hospitalized in Shahid Sadoughi Hospital in Years 2019-2020 [PDF]

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ’Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Shahīd Ṣadūqī Yazd, 2023
Introduction: Tuberculosis is one of the most common infections that lead to death,; incidence of tuberculosis is higher in individuals with immune system deficiency. Candidates for receiving immunosuppressive drugs should be examined for the presence of
Hamid Reza Mohammadi, Zohreh Akhoundimeybodi, Mohammad Javad Sadeghi, Ahmad Reza Ghayedi, Jamshid Ayatollahi, Marzieh Azimi Zade   +5 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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Comparative evaluation of immunological tests for at-risk children in Tomsk Region

Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to compare the results of immunological tests (tests with recombinant allergen TB in standard dilution (RAT) and the Mantoux tuberculin test) in children at risk of developing tuberculosis in Tomsk Region.Materials and ...
N. N. Kabanets, O. V. Filinyuk, O. I. Urazova, K. S. Morozova, O. V. Kolokolova   +4 more
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A Comparison of Two-Step Tuberculin Skin Test between Health-Care Workers and Nonhospital Employees [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2010
Background: The tuberculin test is widely used to identify tuberculosisinfection. Some individuals infected with Mycobacteriumtuberculosis may have an initial negative skin test reactionto tuberculin. The two step purified protein derivative skin testcan
Iraj Nikokar, Ameneh Dadgran, Lida Mafozei   +2 more
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Steroids Decrease Prevalence of Positive Tuberculin Skin Test in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Implications on Anti-TNF Therapies

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2014
Tuberculin skin test has been used as an indicator of latent tuberculosis in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) before administration of biologicals.
Shweta Agarwal, Siddharth Kumar Das, Girdhar G. Agarwal, Ragini Srivastava   +3 more
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Tuberculin Skin Test and CD4+/CD8+ T Cell Counts in Adults Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Medellín, Colombia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1997
To evaluate the effect of BCG vaccination and T lymphocyte subpopulations on the reactivity to the tuberculin skin test, 113 asymtomatic HIV+ individuals were tuberculin tested by intradermal injection of 5TU of purified protein derivative and the levels
JI Rodríguez, M Arias, SC París, MP Arbeláez, J Betancur, LF García   +5 more
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Evaluation of latent tuberculosis infection in liver transplant recipients

Iranian Journal of Microbiology, 2021
Background and Objectives: Tuberculosis is one of the main reasons for mortality in liver transplant recipients. Since Iran is considered as a tuberculosis-endemic country, the present study aims to evaluate the outcome of latent tuberculosis infection ...
Zahra Ahmadinejad, Maryam Mokhtaryan, Arezoo Salami, Monavar Talebian, Hamideh Irajian, Fereshteh Ghiasvand   +5 more
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C-Tb Skin Test: A Step Toward Tuberculosis Eradication [PDF]

Pediatric Infectious Disease
C-Tb is a novel diagnostic test for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. It is a skin test based on the principle of tuberculin skin test containing early secreted antigenic target 6 (ESAT-6) and culture filtrate protein 10 (CFP-10).
Harshini T Reddy, Bhaskar Shenoy
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A healthy patient with positive mantoux test but negative quantiferon Gold assay and no evidence of risk factors – to treat or not to treat?

IDCases, 2019
A 56-year-old woman who vaccinated as a child with the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), now tests positive to the tuberculin skin test (TST) but test negative to the Quantiferon Gold assay.
Lazara Karelia Montane Jaime, Patrick E. Akpaka, Sehlule Vuma, Angel A Justiz-Vaillant   +3 more
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Tuberculin skin testing in HIV-infected patients in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2010
A cross-sectional study on HIV/AIDS was carried out in 108 outpatients from the university hospital of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil, from July to December 2008, to investigate latent tuberculosis infection using the ...
SMVL De Oliveira, AMM Paniago, MG Bonecini-Almeida, N Bertoni, AC Stabile, RV Da Cunha, OA De Oliveira, AF Druzian, AC Negri, R Andreotti   +9 more
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