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Gursharan Singh Narang, Preeti Malhotra, Rahul Puri, Ashwani Kumar
…nisation (WHO) estimate suggests that, one million cases of Tuberculosis (TB) occur among children (approximate 10% of the total 9.6 million TB cases). As per Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), high importance and priority is given to the household contacts …
Douglas Coelho, Igor Trindade, Maria da Graça Corso da Motta, João Lucas Pillar, Leonardo Campos, et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) has been affecting humanity for years and remains a public health issue. In some cases, it poses a diagnostic challenge. The main etiological agent is Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which can cause latent infection (LTBI), pulmonary disease, extrapulmonary di…
Daniel Yi Liang Tan, Young-Hoon Kim, Zeeshaan Hasan, Anthony Bewley, Sarah Mehrtens, et al.
…nosuppression, which may lead to the reactivation of latent tuberculosis (TB) in patients. The British Association of Dermatology has implemented guidelines that require doctors to screen for TB before prescribing biologics to patients. The 2020 guidelines advise screening questi…
Vannesa Yue May Teng, Yan Ting Chua, Eunice En Ni Lai, Shilpa Mukherjee, Jessica Michaels, et al.
ABSTRACT Objectives Tuberculosis (TB) is a common infection in HIV patients. Our study aims to determine the prevalence and characteristics of HIV-TB co-infected patients in Singapore, a high-income, intermediate TB-burden country. Methods Retrospective data of 11-years was obtai…
Holly Hartman-Adams, Robert Gerbo, Saira George
…pproximately 10 million people worldwide were infected with tuberculosis (TB) in 2019, resulting in 1.4 million deaths. In the United States that same year, there were nearly 9,000 reported cases of TB disease and up to 13 million people were living with latent TB infection (LTBI…
Miguel Arias Guillén, Ruth de Francisco, Sabino Riestra-Menéndez, Guillermo M. Albaiceta, María Teresa González-Budiño, et al.
…ed IGRAs annually compared to a single determination in the diagnosis of latent TB infection (LTBI). Determine the % of active TB in the cohort despite the use of IGRAs and prophylaxis. <b>Methodology:</b> Prospective cohort study, based on a dynamic cohort with dates of entry in…
Padma Kalyanaraman, S. Sumathi
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem all over the world and India accounts for nearly one-third of the world TB burden. Pediatric TB has been estimated to account for approximately 20–40% of the cases in India. However, the diagnosis of childhood TB rema…
Natalia Martínez Córdoba, Pilar Guerrero, Cámilo Sánchez Martín, Andrea Rangel, Marco Luciano Charry
Introduction: Tuberculosis of the central Nervous system occurs more frequently in children under three years of age and in immunodeficient populations, in which it is usual that it manifests as a disseminated disease, the frequency is usually higher in countries with a high prev…
HemaGupta Mittal, Shamitha Rangarajan, PAnmol Rathore, Parasdeep Kaur, Dheeraj Bahl, et al.
…tional screening of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and tuberculosis (TB) was suggested during the COVID-19 pandemic in view of similar clinical presentation and possible interaction between the two. Only few studies are available in the literature suggesting flare up of TB i…
Kavina Manalan, Mirae Park, Charaka Ratnayake, Rawya Charif, Onn Min Kon
The incidence of active tuberculosis (TB) post renal transplantation is much higher than the general population. This has previously been described as presenting in the first year following solid organ transplantation and is predominantly due to disease reactivation. Diagnosis ca…
Yuta Norimatsu, Kazuma Ito, Takayuki Shiomi, Katsunori Fujii, Makoto Sugaya
…cur when BCG vaccination is given to patients infected with tuberculosis. Here, we report a case of psoriatic skin lesions following BCG vaccination in a five-month-old girl with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). The child received the BCG vaccine and a third dose of DTP-IPV …
Aditi Sinha, Sarah K. Dixon, Louise Turnbull, F. Child
<h3>Introduction</h3> Tuberculosis (TB) incidence in England and Wales has fallen by 44% since 2011 with England now classed as a low incidence area. This means that individual clinicians are seeing fewer cases of TB and experience is falling. Working with public health and the T…
Yu. I. Feshchenko, Olga Bilogortseva, Ярослава Ігорівна Доценко, Iryna Shekhter, Oksana Sivachenko, et al.
Introduction. The main thrust of the global tuberculosis response for decades has been focused on tuberculosis (TB) in adults. However, this approach has failed to achieve the expected results in TB control. Therefore, WHO has changed the paradigm of TB control with a focus on ch…
Sarah Gorvetzian, Antônio Guilherme Pacheco, Erin M. Anderson, Susan M. Ray, Marcos C. Schechter
…tract Background There is growing evidence that people with tuberculosis (TB) are at higher risk of mortality even after treatment completion. However, there are limited data on post-TB treatment mortality rates and causes of death in the United States (U.S.). Methods Cohort stud…
Sachin Atre
… contact with a pulmonary TB case (Index case) will develop tuberculosis (TB) disease over the course of their lives.[1,2] About 75% of people who develop TB disease are estimated to get it within one year and 97% within two years after diagnosis of the index case.[3] TB preventi…
Ana Rita Gigante, M. Paes de Sousa, Ana Aguiar, Marta L. Pinto, Rita Gaio, et al.
…r evidence on possible links between COVID-19 and Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) control. Eventual negative impacts of the pandemic urge to be precociously recognized and addressed to mitigate its present and future consequences. <bold>Aims:</bold> To assess COVID-19 possible effec…
Christopher Schmitt, Jocelyn Castro, Jessica Frelinger, Larry Yin
…dysphagia and rash for 6 days. He was diagnosed with latent tuberculosis 10 years prior without receiving treatment and was currently sexually active. On day 4 of illness, he was prescribed amoxicillin-clavulanic acid by his physician for presumed bacterial pharyngitis, but then …
Jee Whang Kim, Rahul Patel, David Bell, Manish Pareek, Helen Thuraisingam, et al.
…s have significantly impacted healthcare delivery including tuberculosis (TB) services. <bold>Aims:</bold> To compare the incidence and phenotype of TB and latent TB infection rates in contacts between pre-pandemic (January 2019 – March 2020) and pandemic periods (April 2020 – Ma…
E. S. Ovsyankinа, М. Ф. Губкина, Л. В. Панова, N. V. Yukhimenko
…kova (MT with 2 TE PPD-L = MT) and samples with recombinant tuberculosis allergen (RTA) for the formation of high-risk groups and diagnosis of TB infection in children. Screening investigations with the use of MT have a high sensitivity (95-98%), which is an advantage of MT as th…
Özlem Karakaş, İsmail Doğan, Serdar Can Güven, Şule Erel, Şükran Erten
…re consecutively enrolled. 58 were under follow-up with the diagnosis of familial Mediterranean fever and one patient with a diagnosis of adult-onset Still’s disease. 35 patients (59.3%) were treated with anakinra and 24 (40.7%) were treated with canakinumab. 12 (50%) of the cana…
Francesca Bettelli, Davide Giusti, Monica Morselli, Ambra Paolini, Elisabetta Colaci, et al.
…ell transplant (HSCT), are susceptible to developing active tuberculosis (TB) disease with a relative risk 2–40 times higher than general population. However, scanty information is reported on prevalence and management of latent TB infection (LTBI) in patients with newly diagnose…
Paul Wada, Christian Lee-Rodriguez, Yun‐Yi Hung, Jacek Skarbinski
Abstract Background Active tuberculosis (TB) often results from reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). This can be prevented through LTBI screening and treatment, yet only 12% of Californians have undergone LTBI therapy. Updated estimates on the complete burden of …
Rassaiah Manmathan, Amila Rathnapala, Anoma Siribaddana
Introduction: The occurrence of Post primary Tuberculosis [TB] can be due to reactivation of previous infection or reinfection. Reactivation of TB could occur due to many conditions including immunosuppressive drug therapy and immunosuppressive diseases. In countries where latent…
ROHAN KADAM, Sudeep Kumar, TUSHAR KANAWADE, Joshi RS
…tudy were as follows: (1) To study the prevalence of latent tuberculosis (TB) in diabetic and non-diabetic population attending the tertiary care hospital. (2) To investigate the association between diabetes mellitus (DM) and latent TB, evaluating the prevalence of positive tuber…
Kavina Manalan, M Park, Chathura B. Ratnayake, Rawya Charif, Onn Min Kon
<h3></h3> The incidence of active tuberculosis (TB) post renal transplantation is much higher than the general population. This has previously been described as presenting in the first year following solid organ transplantation and is predominantly due to reactivation of latent T…