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Carolina Garest, Igor Campos, S. R. Sales De Mello, Ana Paula Barbosa, Priscilla Araújo, et al.
…he purpose of this report is to emphasize the importance of tuberculosis (TB) contacts evaluation in order to detect cases of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and active TB. This case reports a two-month-old infant diagnosed with pulmonary TB with a bacilliferous mother whose…
Plascencia Hernández A, González Sánchez RM, Hernández Cañaveral II, Luévanos Velázquez A, Martínez Arce PA, et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a prevalent disease throughout the world. The extent of TB illness in childhood is not clear; recent data shows that 10-20% of the cases are found in children under 15 years old. In 2017, 1 million children developed the disease, of which 9% were c…
Rebecca F. Baggaley, Christopher Martin, Helen Eborall, Marjan Gohar, Kashif Aziz, et al.
… risk of chronic infections and have poorer outcomes. Early diagnosis and management can reduce morbidity, mortality and onward infection transmission. Methods We evaluated the effectiveness of an integrated approach to screening migrants for exposure to tuberculosis (TB) with an…
Bakhtiar Bakhtiar, Hirsa Angriani
Tuberculosis (TB) control program in children is carried out with three strategies: finding and treating adult TB cases (as a source of transmission), treating latent TB infection, and administering the BCG vaccine. There is a high risk of transmission in children in close contac…
Père-Joan Cardona
Designing of a Point-of-care test to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) is not an easy task. This viewpoint stems from the dichotomous diagnostic approach, based on the bacillary load estimated in latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), thanks to the isoniazid chemoprophylaxis strategy, as…
Noguera-Julian A, Calzada-Hernández J, Brinkmann F, Basu Roy R, Bilogortseva O, et al.
…-α (TNF-α) therapy is associated with progression of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI) to TB disease, but pediatric data are limited. Methods Retrospective multicenter study within the Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group, capturing patients Results Sixty…
Patrick Lungu, Duncan Chanda, Gershom Chongwe, Shabir Lakhi
…ions, leading to missed opportunities for prevention, early diagnosis and high mortality.
 OBJECTIVES 
 Main objective was to establish the prevalence of latent and active tuberculosis in bedside contacts of smear-positive index patients and associated risk factors.�…
Laxman Singanamala, Devin C Weber, LAURA WALTERS, Courtney E. Comar
…elease Assay used to assess prior exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), primarily for latent TB screening. TB remains a major global health concern, with an estimated one-quarter of the world's population infected and a global incidence of 127 cases per 100,000 (WHO). In …
Adrienne Katrin M. Guiang-Valerio
PV293 / #569 Case Report Poster Topic: AS18 - Pediatric SLE Introduction Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic disease, which can affect multiple organ systems. Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement is rare in pediatric SLE and is under-recognized. On the other hand, gastr…
Yu Ri Woo, Sang Hyun Cho, Hei Sung Kim
Abstract Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health challenge, with latent TB infection (LTBI) increasing the risk of active TB, particularly in immunocompromised individuals. Dermatological conditions needing immunomodulatory therapies may affect LTBI risk and diagnos…
Samuelk Paul
…spite advances in case finding and treatment, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains a formidable health threat. In 2012, 8.6 million people became ill with tuberculosis (TB), with 1.3 million deaths making TB second to HIV/AIDS as one of the two major killers worldwide. Indivi…
Yu Y, Hua J, Chen L
…d Autophagy is crucial for controlling the manifestation of tuberculosis. This study intends to discover autophagy-related molecular clusters as biomarkers for discriminating between latent tuberculosis (LTBI) and active tuberculosis (ATB) in children through gene expression prof…
Patrick Lungu, Duncan Chanda, Gershom Chongwe, Shabir Lakhi
Background: Screening of contacts of tuberculosis (TB) patients is not routinely done in resourcelimited countries like Zambia despite the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, leading to missed opportunities for prevention, early diagnosis and high mortality.Objective…
Blythe Richards, Farrah Gaston, Girish Deshpande Joe Baker, M. Bakır
…es. Pericardiocentesis and fluid analysis are essential for diagnosis and additionally offer symptomatic relief. Management of idiopathic chylopericardium necessitates pinpointing and surgically correcting the lymphatic anomaly contributing to fluid accumulation. This case descri…
nagla h. fargaly, professor
identify the prevalence of latent tuberculosis (according to new guideline ;NICE tuberculosis) among these high risk groups of children and notify ministry of health TB is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It typically affects the lungs (pu…
María Emilia Paladino, Michael Belingheri, M D’Orso, M Riva
…kers, are exposed to biological risk from MT (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) during hospital internships. Therefore, health surveillance for LTBI (latent tuberculosis infection) is crucial for them, even in low TB incidence countries like Italy, for early diagnosis and preventing ac…
Hikari Yoshii, Charles Bark
Abstract Background Adherence in the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is closely related to reactivation and infection control in the population. However, there has been little research on which populations are at higher risk of loss to follow-up. The aim of this…
Haider Ali, Syed Imtiaz Ahmed Jafry, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Hydrie, Syed Muhammad Zulfiqar Hyder Naqvi, Munir Ahmad Shaikh
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common infectious diseases caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis and continues to be a major public health problem worldwide especially in low and middle-income countries. To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice among final y…
Tatyana Tyulkova, Anastasiia Russkikh, Sergey Skornyakov, К. В. Кузнецова, Vladimir Khorotetto, et al.
…s:</b> To describe the epidemiological features of TB and M.tuberculosis (MTB) in adult pulmonary TB patients among the indigenous people and newcomers of the RA. <b>Methods:</b> The study was conducted in 2018-2019 in the RA. TB detection way, gender, and the presence of risk fa…
Sophie Forsyth, Tolulope Subuloluwa, Myat Lwin, Jessica Henderson Daniel
<h3>Introduction</h3> 2018 BHIVA Tuberculosis (TB) guidelines recommend testing people living with HIV (PLWH) from countries with high and medium TB incidence for LTBI and from low-incidence countries if they have additional TB risk factors. We had not yet introduced this in our …
Alemeh Doostdar, Zeinab Saremi, Elham Atabati, Gholamreza Sharifzade
Tuberculosis remains a serious public health concern. Comorbidity in immunocompromised patients makes its diagnosis more difficult. The present study was conducted to assess the prevalence of positive tuberculin skin test and Chest X-ray changes in patients with rheumatologic dis…
J. McIntosh, Nikkiah Forbes, Kevin Moss, Morton Anthony C Frankson
Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest diseases known to man, yet the world health organization reports that Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. There are various factors that have made the eradication of tuberculosis in the Bahamas di…
Ira Shah, Naman S. Shetty, Anmol Goyal, Nikhil Patankar, SujeetM Chilkar
Aim: The study aimed to describe the clinical profile tuberculosis (TB) in children at various ages. Materials and Methods: Clinical profile of various types of TB and factors associated with them was compared. Results: A total of 135 children were diagnosed with TB in the study …
Santiago Montiel, Benjamín Valente-Acosta
Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is defined as TB infection without clinical symptoms or microbiological evidence. LTBI is a risk factor to later development of active TB. COVI…
Peng,Yizhou, Meng Lv, Xueqiang Hu, Zhiqiang Han, Hong,Zhenya
…ive effect of rux.Case Presentation: We report two cases of tuberculosis (TB) in primary myelofibrosis patients during rux therapy. The first patient received rux soon after diagnosis, and tracheobronchial TB (TBTB) and bronchoesophageal fistula were found after 4 months. After d…