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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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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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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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Exploring the fate of cattle herds with inconclusive reactors to the tuberculin skin test [PDF]

, 2018
Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is an important animal health issue in many parts of the world. In England and Wales, the primary test to detect infected animals is the single intradermal comparative cervical tuberculin test, which compares immunological ...
Brooks-Pollock, Brunton, Burnham, Clegg, Clegg, De La Rua-Domenech, Dohoo, Downs, Good, Goodchild, Green, Green, Humblet, Johnston, Kaplan, Karolemeas, Nuñez-Garcia, O'Hagan, Olea-Popelka, Reilly, Skuce, Vial   +21 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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Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Healthcare Students and Postgraduates in a Mediterranean Italian Area: What Correlation with Work Exposure? [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Tuberculosis screening is part of the standard protocol for evaluating the risk of infection in healthcare workers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among students attending various ...
Antonina Ciccarello, Benedetta Romanin, Maria Gabriella Verso, Nicola Serra, Paola Di Carlo   +4 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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Temporal dynamics of intradermal cytokine response to tuberculin in Mycobacterium bovis BCG-vaccinated cattle using sampling microneedles

Scientific Reports, 2021
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a disease of livestock with severe and worldwide economic, animal welfare and zoonotic consequences. Application of test-and-slaughter-based control polices reliant on tuberculin skin testing has been the mainstay of bTB ...
Sabine Steinbach, Sasan Jalili-Firoozinezhad, Sreenidhi Srinivasan, Mariane B. Melo, Sonya Middleton, Timm Konold, Michael Coad, Paula T. Hammond, Darrell J. Irvine, Martin Vordermeier, Vivek Kapur   +10 more
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