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[Modality proposal of tuberculosis infection screening in high school contacts].
Medicina (B Aires)
December 2022
Servicio de Neumonología, Hospital General de Agudos Parmenio Piñero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The systematic registry of contacts with the objective of identifying and treating those with tuberculosis infection is one of the pillars established by the WHO in the end Tuberculosis Strategy. The risk of tuberculosis infection in school contacts, although lower than in households, is significant. However, compliance with preventive treatment is low and several points are open to discussion, such as the cutoff of the tuberculin test to be used, the usefulness of starting a chemoprophylactic treatment in the absence of confirmed infection or carrying out studies in contacts of non-bacilliferous index cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Factors related to the tuberculous patient and the study of contacts].
Rev Clin Esp
January 2004
Sección de Epidemiología, Delegación Territorial del Departamento de Sanidad y Seguridad Social de Lleida, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Lleida.
Context: While the maximum priority of the programs for tuberculosis prevention and control is the identification and treatment of all the people with active tuberculosis, the second priority is the evaluation of their contacts. The goal of this study has been to evaluate the factors of the tuberculous patients associated with the study of their contacts.
Patients And Methods: The incident cases of tuberculosis occurred during the period 1992-1997 in the province of Lleida were studied.
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