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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 screening of some selected Fulani lactating cows in north-central Nigeria [PDF]

, 2013
The prevalence of mycobacterial infection among lactating Fulani cows was investigated in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Kaduna State of Nigeria.
A Thakur, Aishatu Abubakar, AR Byarugaba, Ayuba Caleb Kudi, B Faye, G Ameni, GM Shirima, K Jalava, Lushaikyaa Allam, M Bland, Madhu Goyal, Peter H. Brooks, S Bilal, S Ibrahim, Shehu U. Abdullahi, SIB Cadmus, SIB Cadmus, SIB Cadmus, SO Okaiyeto, Solomon O. Okaiyeto, UB Abubakar, WY Ayele   +21 more
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TUBERCULIN DIAGNOSTICS: TO BE OR NOT TO BE?

Вопросы современной педиатрии, 2013
Tuberculin diagnostics — is a diagnostic method of detection of specific sensitization to Mycobactrerium tuberculosis (MBT). It is used as a specific test during mass population screening on tuberculosis (mass tuberculin diagnostics) and for individual ...
N. M. Koretskaya
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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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Diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis and host RNA expression in Africa [PDF]

, 2014
Improved diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in children are needed. We hypothesized that transcriptional signatures of host blood could be used to distinguish tuberculosis from other diseases in African children who either were or were not infected with ...
Amelia C. Crampin, Andrew J. Brent, Brian Eley, Claire M. Banwell, Eamranond P, Florian Kern, George Chagaluka, Hazel M. Dockrell, Hemed Twahir, Hesseling AC, J. Anthony G. Scott, Lachlan J. Coin, Ling Ling, Martin L. Hibberd, Melissa S. Hamilton, Michael Levin, Myrsini Kaforou, Neil French, Paul R. Langford, Rachel Mlotha, Robert J. Wilkinson, Robert S. Heyderman, Sandy Pienaar, Suzanne T. Anderson, Tom H.M. Ottenhoff, Vashini Pillay, Victoria J. Wright   +26 more
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The detection of airborne transmission of tuberculosis from HIV-infected patients, using an in vivo air sampling model [PDF]

, 2007
Background. Nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis remains an important public health problem. We created an in vivo air sampling model to study airborne transmission of tuberculosis from patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and ...
A. Gonzalez, A. R. Escombe, Balasubramanian, Beggs, Bhatia, C. A. Evans, C. Martinez, C. Noakes, C. Oeser, Caviedes, Cohn, Curtis, D. A. J. Moore, E. Ticona, Edlin, Elliott, Escombe, Gangadharam, Ikeda, J. S. Friedland, Katz, L. Caviedes, Luna-Herrera, M. Navincopa, Markowitz, Mastorides, Mills, Mitchison, Mitchison, Nardell, Nardell, Nunn, P. Sheen, Prabhakar, R. H. Gilman, Riley, RILEY, Riley, Schafer, Sultan, Xu   +40 more
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A preliminary assessment of new bovine and avian tuberculin in cattle by intra-dermal tests and whole blood interferon gamma assay

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2016
The present study reports ante-mortem diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis employing tuberculin test using a new tuberculin PPDB (M. bovis, 3/86) and interferon gamma assay in cattle whole blood culture stimulated using a commercial bovine IFN- γ assay kit.
MINAKSHI YADAV, RISHENDRA VERMA
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Performance and correlation of interferon gamma release assays and tuberculin skin test in HIV-infected children and adolescents with immune reconstitution

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020
Objective: To evaluate the performance of interferon gamma release assays and tuberculin skin test in HIV-infected children and adolescents with immune reconstitution.
Keswadee Lapphra, Rati Diwitaya, Sansnee Senawong, Maneeprang Thovarabha, Parnwas Pinnobphun, Alan Maleesatharn, Nantaka Kongstan, Benjawan Khumcha, Wanatpreeya Phongsamart, Orasri Wittawatmongkol, Supattra Rungmaitree, Kulkanya Chokephaibulkit   +11 more
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The seasonality of tuberculosis, sunlight, vitamin D, and household crowding. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Unlike other respiratory infections, tuberculosis diagnoses increase in summer. We performed an ecological analysis of this paradoxical seasonality in a Peruvian shantytown over 4 years. METHODS: Tuberculosis symptom-onset and diagnosis dates
Adams, Akhtar, Ane-Anyangwe, Anibarro, Arnedo-Pena, Baker, C. A. Evans, C. Jongkaewwattana, Chew, Dowling, Drucker, E. S. Ramos, Ford, G. Sandhu, J. J. Lewis, J. S. Friedland, K. Zevallos, Kennel, Liu, Lonnroth, Luquero, M. A. Tovar, M. R. Baldwin, Martineau, Nagayama, Onifade, Parrinello, R. H. Gilman, R. Montoya, Rao, Rook, S. G. Schumacher, Schaaf, Stamp, T. Wingfield, ten Asbroek, Wilkinson, Yang, Yoshiyama   +38 more
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Prevalence of tuberculosis in migrant children in Switzerland and relevance of current screening guidelines

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
AIMS Since 2016, Swiss guidelines recommend screening of all migrant children
Myriam Boukamel, Yves Fougère, Mario Gehri, Joan Carles Suris, Isabelle Rochat, Damien Miletto, Spyridoula Kyrilli, Athina Fouriki, Pierre Alex Crisinel   +8 more
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