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Grace Chisale, Tiyamike Mwale, Chimwemwe Banda, Kondwani Phiri
…rscore the urgent need to integrate nutritional support and social protection into existing adolescent-focused antenatal and HIV/TB services to disrupt this detrimental cycle.
Fernanda Silveira, MD, David L Paterson, MD
…r, race and ethnicity. * Review and record past medical and social history The screening procedures will take a total of about 15-30 minutes and all subjects will be seen in the Liver Transplant Clinic. The investigator and research coordinators will be reviewing the subject's m…
Sagarika N Suresh, Keertivardhan D Kulkarni, Pothireddy Manisha Reddy
…ocumented. Data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v20.0, and significance was set at a p-value threshold of 0.05. Results: A total of 264 HHCs were evaluated. Females were 136 in number, constituting 51.5% of the population. The mean age was 34.55…
Zorilla RA, Shikuma CM
…ce to LTBI screening among PLHIV by identifying factors and determinants that affect the implementation of LTBI screening among PLHIV in low TBD incidence countries. Electronic databases were used to search for articles describing the adherence to LTBI screening guidelines. Fourt…
Digambar Behera
… outcomes in both diseases. Both diseases have considerable social impact such as stigma, discrimination, and isolation in addition to the economic impact because of loss of productivity and catastrophic costs to individuals and households. There are some important differences be…
Queen Mary University of London
… exposure to TB patients, history of TB and other potential determinants of LTBI such as physical proximity to active TB patients, average daily duration of exposure as well as total duration of exposure to index cases. CRFs will also include the following data: checklist of elig…
Rodson Zorilla, Cecilia M. Shikuma
…ce to LTBI screening among PLHIV by identifying factors and determinants that affect the implementation of LTBI screening among PLHIV in low TBD incidence countries. Electronic databases were used to search for articles describing the adherence to LTBI screening guidelines. Fourt…
Sema Aytac
…oviding the self-care agency of patients and the cognitive-social adaptation. It has been reported that some problems emerge especially in the TB patients such as the interruption of treatment, forgetting medication (24.5%), side-effects of drugs, (23.3%), symptomatic recovery (1…
MV Smilianska, AY Volianskyi, LA Sukhanova, NV Kashpur
… the spread of tuberculosis, due to both the infectious and social nature of the disease. At the end of the 20th century, after a long period of relative prosperity, the epidemiological situation with tuberculosis worsened significantly. Under the influence of various factors, th…
Joaquín Miguel Pellegrini, María Paula Morelli, María Isabel Colombo, Verónica García
…0 views, 499 downloads, 2 citations) analysed the effect of social disruption stress (SDR) on the lungs of young and old mice and their response to TB infection (Lafuse et al., 2022). This report shows that SDR induces the accumulation of CD11b+ myeloid cells in an age-independen…
C. R. Saju
…berculosis (TB) has plagued humanity due to its significant social and economic impact on human existence on a global scale. Over 10 million new cases of TB are reported worldwide each year, affecting over 25% of the world’s population.[1] Thirty high-burden nations account for 8…
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
…sive national strategic plan for TB and could help identify determinants for unfavorable treatment outcome or loss to follow-up. The healthcare pathway of patients with tuberculosis presents glaring shortcomings with a large proportion of treatment outcomes unknown, including a l…
Santos JC, Silva JB, Rangel MA, Barbosa L, Carvalho I
…ent center, and the subsequent identification of compliance determinants. Methods Retrospective analysis of all pediatric patients who underwent PT in Gaia TB outpatient center from January 2015 to June 2016. Patients were divided into two groups: compliant and non-compliant, acc…
Shamputa IC, Nguyen DTK, Higazy D, Abdelhadi A, MacKenzie H, et al.
…8 participants. Participants will be recruited via posters, social media platforms, invitations at immigrant wellness check-ups, presentations to local ethnocultural groups, and by snowball sampling. Consenting participants will be asked to submit a blood sample for LTBI screenin…
Sharma N, Basu S, Khanna A, Sharma P, Chandra S
…willingness to accept TPT if prescribed with caveat for the social desirability bias.
Xavier Mariette, Pr
Tuberculosis is a current infection during anti TNF therapy. After infectious contact, some patients will develop tuberculosis and some will only be infected without symptoms, they have Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) wich can reactivate later. In order to prevent this tuber…
Kevin P Fennelly, M.D.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a lung disease. It is caused by inhaling a type of airborne bacterium. Tuberculin Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) is used to test for TB exposure. It is usually injected under a person s skin. In this study, it will be applied in the lung. Obj…
Cui Z, Lin D, Chongsuvivatwong V, Graviss EA, Chaiprasert A, et al.
… quantify the influence of locality, genotype and potential determinants on the rates of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among household contacts of index TB cases. Parallel case-contact studies were conducted in two geographic areas classified as "cold" and "hot" spots base…
Endo M, Ota M, Kayebeta A, Takahashi I, Nagata Y
In November 2016, a woman in her 30s who stayed at an insecure, temporary housing facility, a manga café in Tokyo, Japan, for a year was diagnosed with sputum smear-positive tuberculosis (TB). Since the café had 31 staff members and provided with accommodation to many people, the…
Thomas B Nutman, M.D.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a severe disease and a major cause of death in many people worldwide. It is caused by a bacteria that enters through the lungs and can spread elsewhere in the body. People with latent TB have the bacteria that lie dormant but can become active an…