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Analysis Factor Associated Tuberculin Test in Children Contact Tuberculosis History [PDF]
Jurnal Berkala Epidemiologi, 2014 Tuberculosis in children can not be separated from the history of contact with smear-positive tuberculosis patients as a source of infection. The aims of this study was to identify and analyze the risks tuberculin test results among children who had ...
Tika Triharinni +1 more
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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 +4 more
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Diagnostic accuracy of the Enferplex Bovine Tuberculosis antibody test in cattle sera
Scientific Reports, 2023 Bovine tuberculosis is a contagious bacterial disease of worldwide economic, zoonotic and welfare importance caused mainly by Mycobacterium bovis infection. Current regulatory diagnostic methods lack sensitivity and require improvement. We have developed
Amanda O’Brien +8 more
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Detection of bovine tuberculosis in three dairy cow stations in Iraq [PDF]
Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2014 The study was conducted to investigate bovine tuberculosis in three dairy cows stations using comparative tuberculin test (bovine and avian) and bacterial isolation.
M.A.A. Al-Graibawi +2 more
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BMC Veterinary Research, 2021 Background Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), is a worldwide disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis). The success of bTB eradication and control programs is based on early detection and the removal of reactors from a herd thus routine testing and cull ...
Paulo Alex Machado Carneiro +10 more
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Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2022 Introduction: latent tuberculosis infections (LTBI) are not detectable by a single-stage tuberculin test and maybe detected after repeating tests 7-21 days later.
Mahshad Mousavi1 +3 more
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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020 Objective: To evaluate the performance of interferon gamma release assays and tuberculin skin test in Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccinated young children.
Keswadee Lapphra +8 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 +14 more
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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 +2 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 +8 more
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