TB Research

Occupational Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection

Sara D. Khangura, Melissa Severn

Canadian Journal of Health Technologies · 2021-09

Abstract

In people at risk of occupational exposure to tuberculosis, targeted testing for latent tuberculosis infection (e.g., testing for high-risk individuals, testing after tuberculosis exposure) appears to be more cost-effective than repeated testing, such as testing once a year or every 3 years (findings based on 2 economic evaluations that assessed the cost-effectiveness of repeated latent tuberculosis infection screening in workers of health care settings).

MeSH terms

  • Latent tuberculosis
  • Tuberculosis
  • Medicine
  • Environmental health
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis