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Chi‐Lu Chiang, Yuh‐Min Chen, Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
…c and professional awareness of early evaluation and timely treatment for the disease in individuals with chronic airway symptoms. A recently validated two-stage, risk-stratified strategy combining the COPD Diagnostic Questionnaire with FEV1/FEV6 measurement was demonstrated to b…
Aldon Li, Tawny Belleau, Graciela Faiad
…series of patients who were exposed to TB as defined by CDC Guidelines, identified through contact tracing reports during exposure period April-July 2019. Local infection control protocol was to assess exposed patients with an IGRA initially, then place a PPD if IGRA was inconclu…
Aylin Özgen Alpaydın, Tuba Turunç, Vildan Avkan-Oğuz, Füsun Öner Eyüboğlu, Elif Tükenmez Tigen, et al.
OBJECTIVE: Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening is strongly recommended in the pre-transplant evaluation of solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, although it remains inadequate in many transplant centers. We decided to investigate pre-transplant TB risk assessment, L…
Nathan Kapata, Alimuddin Zumla
An estimated 1·7 billion people globally are latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.1WHOGlobal tuberculosis report 2021.https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240037021Date: October 14, 2021Date accessed: March 19, 2022Google Scholar Latent M tuberculosis infectio…
M Ameri, L Suarez, Layla Abdul Jabbar, M Koppikar
…lly, recently, concept of roles of nutrition in immunology, latent infections, a short presentation of TB. Further discussing current guidelines, covering topics such as BCG, treatments, role of fluoroquinolones and MDR. With an examination of the social aspect by reviewing the a…
Anjum Hameed Dr. Manal Tanveer
…arming infectious diseases. This research overviews general treatment guidelines, diagnosis and pathogenesis of TB. Before commencement of this review, we explored related articles on PubMed; in addition to that, we also searched international institutes official pages on the web…
Michele L Pearson, MD, Sara J Whitehead, MD
…Healthcare facility Study Duration: 3 years; prevalence of latent Tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in healthcare workers (HCWs) will be at measured at baseline, and LTBI incidence will be measured among susceptible HCWs at 12 and 24 months. Secondary outcomes will be measures at 0 …
Cecilia Kit Ying O’Young, King Man Ho, Ho So, Thomas Yun Wing Mok, Chi Chiu Leung, et al.
… risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB). Screening and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) with the use of a standard screening protocol is important in reducing the risk of TB reactivation during therapies with anti-TNF agents. The Latent Tuberculosis Infectio…
Neil W. Schluger
…treated with isoniazid (INH) according to Peruvian national guidelines in Peru Topics discussed include vaccine candidates in phase trials after cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), clinical trials examining treatment for latent TB and infectious disease challenge in hospital…
Timothy Sterling, MD, Robert Belknap, MD, Amber Robinson, PhD, Rosanna M Boyd, PhD, Dick Menzies, MD
…rm) with a comparator arm of 12-16 weeks of rifamycin-based treatment (standard of care, control arm) of latent M. tuberculosis infection (LTBI). This trial is conducted among persons who are at increased risk of progression to tuberculosis (TB) and require treatment of LTBI. Th…
Jann-Yuan Wang, Ph.D.
…duction in TB incidence, or even elimination should rely on treatment for LTBI. However, which is the cost-effective screening method or what is the cost-effective regimen in Taiwan is still unclear. Therefore, the investigators designed this prospective study to follow up adult…
Abdurahman Ridho, Sofa D. Alfian, Job F. M. van Boven, Jutti Levita, Esin Aki, et al.
…dherence to medication in tuberculosis (TB) hampers optimal treatment outcomes. Digital health technology (DHT) seems to be a promising approach to managing problems of nonadherence to medication and improving treatment outcomes. </sec> <sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This paper s…
Gordin F, Brown LS
…of tuberculosis in patients who are coinfected with HIV and latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb). Current guidelines recommend 6 to 12 months of treatment with INH for purified protein derivative (PPD)-positive individuals. Problems with this treatment include compliance, adv…
Arslan A Sidhu, Anupama Nandagudi
…n is important in patients receiving biologics. Current BSR guidelines on biologic safety in inflammatory arthritis (2018) advise to screen all patients for TB before starting treatment. Due to limitations of tuberculin skin test (TST), IFN-γ release assay (IGRA) is frequently us…
Yoshihiro Kobashi, Toru Oga
… diagnoses were: 14 patients with active TB disease, 4 with latent TB infection (LTBI), 17 with old (cured) TB disease, and 10 with pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease. We used the two IGRAs for these patients and evaluated the data according to the manufacturer’…
Hung‐Ling Huang, Wei‐Chang Huang, Meng‐Rui Lee, Inn‐Wen Chong, Jann‐Yuan Wang
…, “Completion Rate and Safety of Programmatic Screening and Treatment for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Elderly Patients with Poorly Controlled Diabetic Mellitus: A Prospective Multicenter Study” [1]. The tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) co-epidemic is a major glob…
Gavin Churchyard, MBBCh MMed FRCP FCP(SA) PhD, Amita Gupta, MD, MHS, Anneke Hesseling, MD, PhD, Susan Swindells, MBBS
…-risk HHCs are those with HIV or non-HIV immunosuppression, latent TB infection, and young children below the age of 5 years. This study will compare the efficacy and safety of 26 weeks of delamanid (DLM) versus 26 weeks of isoniazid (INH) for preventing confirmed or probable ac…
Shui Shan Lee
…ing are necessary but insufficient strategies. Detection of latent TB infection (LTBI) followed by short-term antimycobacterial preventive therapy constitutes an add-on approach to reducing TB reactivation diseases. In practice, the diagnosis of LTBI can be made either by perform…
Sarah Herrera Mercedes, Jessica Strzepka, Atsushi Sakuraba, Dauris Rosario
…s an isolated jejunal stricture in the setting of untreated latent TB infection (LTBI). Case Description/Methods: A 62-year-old woman, presented with a 3-month history of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and weight loss. She was hemodynamically stable. Laboratory values were sign…
Jody Boffa, Dina A. Fisher, Maria Mayan, Reginald S. Sauve, Tyler Williamson
…the global TB-HIV burden.3Mycobacterium tuberculosis can be latent or active in the body. Immune suppression from HIV is the strongest determinant for developing active TB4,5; however, latent TB infection can be successfully treated using isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT). Follo…
Paul van der Valk, Reinout van Crevel, Jurriaan Jde Steenwinkel, Marleen Bakker, Harald E. Vonkeman, et al.
A considerable proportion of the world’s population is latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) complex (LTBI) but in low-incidence counties as the Netherlands (4.6 TB cases/100.000 /year) LTBI prevalence is predominantly found among the elder population and foreig…
Ayesha J Verrall, Philip C. Hill, Dougal Thorburn, Michael J. Maze, Lavinia Perumal, et al.
…r issues; 4) identify active TB and undertake screening for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in recent TB contacts and selected high-risk groups, and provide appropriate treatment; 5) optimise the prevention and care of drug-resistant TB; 6) ensure continued surveillance, pro…
Ketan N Malu, Avinash Lamb
…n important first line drug in the management of active and latent TB. It’s widespread use and lack of diagnostic testing has resulted in increase in prevalence of Hr-TB, either alone or in combination with other drugs. katG and inhA mutations confer high and low level INH resist…
Annunziata Raimondo, Paolo Amerio, Anna Balato, Francesco Cusano, Maria Concetta Fargnoli, et al.
According to current guidelines for the treatment of psoriasis, screening for tuberculosis infection (TBI) is performed before starting any biological drug, using interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) release assay (Quantiferon TB test), or clinical and radiographic examination when needed, t…
Seung Ah Kang, Crystal Zheng
…ing with HIV (PLHIV) are at higher risk of progression from latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) to active tuberculosis (TB). Guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommend LTBI screening at HIV diagnosis and after immune recovery, with annual screenin…