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Vacina BCG. Eficácia e impacto nos resultados de rastreio tuberculínico em população de alto risco.

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 1998
In a housing estate population with a high prevalence of tuberculosis, the authors conducted tuberculosis screening with the tuberculin test, and an investigation with three purposes: evaluation of tuberculosis infection (defined as > 10 mm on tuberculin
A N Pina
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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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Improvement of bovine tuberculosis diagnosis

Ветеринария сегодня, 2021
Detection of animals with non-specific reactions to tuberculin is one of the major problems in bovine tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. There is a need to find and improve methods for detection of the sensitization causes.
M. O. Baratov
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Comparative intradermal tuberculin test in dairy cattle in the north of Ecuador and risk factors associated with bovine tuberculosis.

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2009
We studied the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) in Mejia canton, the major dairy cattle production area in northern Ecuador. Twenty dairy herds comprising 2,022 cattle were selected.
F. Proaño-Pérez, W. Benítez-Ortíz, M. Celi-Erazo, Lenin Ron-Garrido, Ricardo Benitez-Capistros, F. Portaels, L. Rigouts, A. Linden   +7 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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Parameter estimation and use of gamma interferon assay for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis in Brazil

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2012
This study aimed to evaluate the interference of tuberculin test on the gamma-interferon (INFg) assay, to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of the INFg assay in Brazilian conditions, and to simulate multiple testing using the comparative ...
Luciano B. Lopes, Telma M. Alves, Ana Paula R. Stynen, Pedro M.P.C. Mota, Rômulo C. Leite, Andrey P. Lage   +5 more
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Appraisal of Interpretation Criteria for the Comparative Intradermal Tuberculin Test for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Cattle in Central Ethiopia

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 2008
Accurate detection and removal of infected cattle, using immunodiagnostic tests such as the comparative intradermal tuberculin (CIDT) test, are the basis of control strategies for bovine tuberculosis (TB).
G. Ameni, G. Hewinson, A. Aseffa, D. Young, M. Vordermeier   +4 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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Immunodiagnostic Tests in the Assessment of Specific Sensitization to M. tuberculosis in Children under the Current Epidemical Situation

Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2021
The objective: to study the degree of specific sensitization according to the results of intradermal immunodiagnostic tests in children with different manifestations of tuberculosis infection under the current epidemic situation.Subjects and Methods. The
L. V. Poddubnаya, E. P. Shilovа, D. A. Kudlаy, N. P. Doktorovа   +3 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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