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J Am Soc Nephrol
January 2025
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Background: People with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a higher risk for progression to tuberculosis disease following infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We produced a nationwide incidence estimate and description of tuberculosis among people with kidney failure.
Methods: We completed a cross-sectional descriptive analysis of people with a reported case of tuberculosis in the United States between 2010 and 2021.
Arch Public Health
January 2025
Chongqing Municipal Institute of Tuberculosis, Chongqing, 400045, China.
Background: Previous research has indicated a low tuberculin skin tests (TST) strong positive rate in school tuberculosis (TB) screening implemented by community-level medical and health care institutions in China. The research objective was to evaluate the latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) detection gap in school contact investigation in China.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, school contacts were investigated by Chongqing Municipal Institute of Tuberculosis between January 2022 and April 2024 in Chongqing, China.
Sao Paulo Med J
January 2025
Adjunt Professor, College of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF), Paulo Afonso (BA), Brazil.
Background: The diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) are crucial for tuberculosis (TB) control. Household contacts (HHC) of patients with pulmonary TB are at a high risk of LTBI due to their close proximity to source cases.
Objective: To describe the diagnosis and treatment of LTBI among HHC.
J Clin Med
December 2024
Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Immunopathology Group, Avda. Valdecilla s/n., 39008 Santander, Spain.
Patients with rheumatic immune-mediated diseases (rheumatic-IMID) and latent tuberculosis (LTBI) are at an increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB); therefore, screening is recommended before starting biological treatment. The aims of this study were as follows: (i) to assess the prevalence of LTBI, (ii) to determine the importance of using a booster test in TST-negative patients, (iii) to compare the tuberculin skin test (TST) with the interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA), (iv) to perform a review of the prevalence of LTBI. A cross-sectional hospital study was performed, including patients diagnosed with rheumatic-IMID who underwent a TST and/or IGRA during the period 2016-2020.
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December 2024
Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Department of Global Health and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Background: Tuberculosis vaccine trials using disease as the primary endpoint are large, time consuming, and expensive. An earlier immunological measure of the protection against disease would accelerate tuberculosis vaccine development. We aimed to assess whether the effectiveness of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection was consistent with that for prevention of tuberculosis disease.
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