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Campbell JI, Tabatneck M, Wilt GE, Sun M, He W, et al.
…rizing TB infection risk and defining the social ecology of pediatric TB infection in low-burden settings.
Aldhawyan NM, Alkhalifah AK, Kofi M, Yousef YM, Alqahtani AA
…in critical areas which include adult intensive care units, pediatric intensive care units, emergency departments, oncology departments, dialysis departments, tuberculosis labs, isolation rooms, and cardiac center intensive care units. Methods A record-based cross-sectional surve…
Ebonyi AO, Oguche S, Kampmann B
…y was carried out from September 2016 to August 2017 at the pediatric HIV clinic of the Jos University Teaching Hospital among HIV-1-infected children on ART, aged 6 months-15 years. LTBI was diagnosed using an interferon-gamma release assay, the ELISpot test, T-SPOT®.TB assay (O…
Borkowska-Tatar D, Krasińska M, Augustynowicz-Kopeć E
…greements. Our study suggests that QFT-Plus is helpful in a pediatric practice showing good sensitivity and specificity for LTBI. The BCG vaccine, infections, and concomitant morbidities do not affect QFT-Plus results.
Tang AS, Mochizuki T, Dong Z, Flood J, Katrak SS
… retrospective analysis of LTBI testing and treatment among pediatric and adult patients at a CHC with a large non-U.S.-born (USB) population during a series of quality improvement (QI) interventions from 2010 to 2019. Among 124,695 patients with primary care visits, 40% of patie…
Brendan Alex
…tuberculosis (TB) disease-state discriminatory gene panels. Pediatric and HIV-positive samples were removed to reduce confounding. Both normalised and non-normalised gene expression matrices are included. Normalisation was performed using z-score normalisation. The datasets are d…
Brendan Alex
…tuberculosis (TB) disease-state discriminatory gene panels. Pediatric and HIV-positive samples were removed to reduce confounding. Both normalised and non-normalised gene expression matrices are included. Normalisation was performed using z-score normalisation. The datasets are d…
Bastos ML, Campbell JR, Oxlade O, Adjobimey M, Trajman A, et al.
…in African countries. Similar findings were observed in the pediatric population. Limitation Costs may have been overestimated because the trial protocol required a minimum number of follow-up visits, although fewer than recommended by many authoritative guidelines. Conclusion A …
Telefon AH, Cil MK, Sonmez G, Turgut EA, Gulmez TK, et al.
…e frequency and clinical characteristics of tuberculosis in pediatric patients receiving both anti-TNF-alpha and other biological agents. Materials and methods The data of 270 patients who used biological agents due to rheumatologic diseases and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) a…
Yalçın Kara, Mahmut Can Kızıl, Merve İşeri Nepesov, Aslı Kavaz Tufan, Nuran Çetin, et al.
…ients using anti-TNF drugs.Methods: One hundred and fifteen pediatric cases which were received anti-TNF drugs were included in the study. The clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the cases were analyzed retrospectively.Results: One hundred and fifteen cases using anti…
Jeffrey I. Campbell, Yamini Adusumelli, Mary Tabatneck, Susan N. Sherman, Gabriella S Lamb, et al.
…ith LTBI in the US. We explored physicians’ perspectives on pediatric LTBI diagnosis and care, and strategies to improve care. Methods We conducted a convergent mixed methods study with physicians in Massachusetts. Participants were purposefully sampled from primary care clinics …
Hospital Mutua de Terrassa
… years after arrival in the host country. In addition, at a pediatric level, most cases are produced in immigrant children and the children of immigrants. This persistence of a greater incidence in the immigrant population might, in part, be explained by the increase in exposure …
Père-Joan Cardona
…xtrapulmonary TB, and pay attention to immunosuppressed and pediatric population.
Donahue ML, Eberly MD, Rajnik M
… implemented TeleMedicine LTBI DOT (vDOT) within a military pediatric infectious diseases clinic. Patients aged 24 months or older diagnosed with LTBI were referred for possible enrollment into our vDOT clinic. All patients without contraindications for receiving isoniazid and/or…
Aykut Eşki, Velat Şen
…nercept. It is crucial to assess these patients for TB by a pediatric pulmonologist or infectious disease at three monthly intervals.
Mellado-Sola I, Rodríguez-Molino P, Armas EA, Nogueira López J, Falces-Romero I, et al.
…screened for imported diseases with a unified protocol at a pediatric reference unit for tropical and infectious diseases in Madrid, Spain. We compared the pre-pandemic (2018-2019) and post-pandemic periods (2020-2021). Results A total of 192 minors were screened during the study…
Chua A, Nichols J, Li JC, Flynn CE, Facciolo K
…16 weeks' gestation presented two weeks post-procedure to a pediatric hospital for three days of worsening generalized abdominal pain, diarrhea, fevers, and cough. The patient's vital signs showed hypoxia, tachypnea, tachycardia, and hypotension; she was alert and oriented with a…
María Eugenia Castellanos, Leonardo Martínez, Christopher C. Whalen
…assays (IGRAs) in the diagnosis of tuberculous infection in pediatric populations. The tuberculin skin test (TST) and IGRA tests have known limitations for the diagnosis of latent tuberculous infection (LTBI).2 We propose, as suggested by Goetzinger et al., that these tests shoul…
Amin M, No DJ, Egeberg A, Wu JJ
… for distinct patient populations with psoriasis, including pediatric patients with psoriasis and patients with psoriasis of childbearing potential and nursing.
Sofia Kostoudi, Robert Hammond
… patients with immunosuppression (due to HIV or treatment), pediatric TB, cancer and dialysis patients, pregnancy, IV drug users, animal models, papers published before 2005, co-infected patients, IBD and transplant patients, and finally secondary literature. Such criteria were i…
Kushner L, Mony V, Vu D
…o BCG or non-TB Mycobacteria. However, data on QFT usage in pediatric populations, particularly refugee and immigrant children, are sparse. Our objective was to assess the impact of QFT on LTBI diagnosis and treatment in the vulnerable child refugee and immigrant population. Meth…
Wang SH, Rajaram MVS, Trollip A, Wu Q, Ayala D, et al.
…diverse patient populations including immunocompromised and pediatric patients are needed.
Donahue M, Eberly M, Stagliano D, Rajnik M
…DOT, we implemented TeleMedicine LTBI DOT within a military pediatric infectious diseases clinic. Local providers were requested to refer patients aged two and older diagnosed with LTBI to our DOT TeleMedicine clinic. All patients without absolute contraindications for receiving …
Moreno Guillén S, Rodríguez-Artalejo FJ, Ruiz-Galiana J, Cantón R, De Lucas Ramos P, et al.
… have been discussed in this paper, such as tuberculosis in pediatric age and tuberculosis as a cause for concern in surgery and intensive care. The status of the BCG vaccine and its present indications as well as the future of new vaccines to achieve the old dream of eradicating…
Mastrolia MV, Sollai S, Totaro C, Putignano P, de Martino M, et al.
…creened with protocol recommended by the America Academy of Pediatrics, including TST and QFT. TB infection prevalence was evaluated and possible risk factors associated with discordant TST/QFT results were investigated. Results 1775 IAC were enrolled (median age: 5.8; IQR:3.3-8.…