نتایج جستجو برای: tb test
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SETTING Kazakhstan is a country with a low HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune-deficiency syndrome) burden, but a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). METHODS We describe the epidemiology of multidrug resistance and HIV among TB patients, using the 2007-2011 national electronic TB register. RESULTS HIV test results were available for 97.2% of TB p...
BACKGROUND The urine lipoarabinomannan (LAM) strip test has been suggested as a new point-of-care test for active tuberculosis (TB) among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals. It has been questioned if infections with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) affect assay specificity. We set forth to investigate if the test detects LAM in urine from a Danish cystic fibrosis (CF) popu...
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious and contagious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis. Dentists are susceptible to TB. Thus,the aim of this study is to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of dentists regarding TB. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study evaluated the knowledge of 120 dentists regarding TB. Using a questionnaire the q...
BACKGROUND The diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is problematic. There are limited data on the profile of alveolar TB antigen-specific T cells, and their utility for the rapid immunodiagnosis of pulmonary TB is unclear. METHODS Antigen-specific interferon gamma (IFNgamma) responses to the RD-1 antigens ESAT-6 and CFP-10 (T-SPOT.TB and QuantiFERON-TB-Gold-In-Tube), hepari...
introduction : working in hospital as a health care worker (hcw) predisposes the staffs to the risk of tuberculosis infection (tb). majority of hospitals around the world have developed protocols to prevent their personnel against tb. this study was carried out to determine the status of tb prevalence in the hcws using tuberculin skin test to establish an occupational health protection against...
OBJECTIVE We compared a whole-blood interferon-gamma release assay (QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube test, hereafter "QFT-in tube test") with a tuberculin skin test (TST) to determine which test more accurately identified latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in healthcare staff. METHODS A total of 481 hospital staff members were recruited from 5 hospitals in Melbourne, Australia. They provi...
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