BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is one of the major infectious diseases in Taiwan. It has an especially high prevalence in diabetes patients, in whom it is usually asymptomatic and are more likely to result in drug-resistant tuberculosis. The aim of the study was to aggressively screen high risk diabetic elderly, identify the prevalence of tuberculosis and its determinants. METHODS Type 2 diabetes pa...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization is currently developing guidelines on screening for tuberculosis disease to inform national screening strategies. This process is complicated by significant gaps in knowledge regarding mass screening. This study aimed to assess feasibility, uptake, yield, treatment outcomes, and costs of adding an active tuberculosis case-finding program to an existing m...

BACKGROUND Several high-income countries have pre-entry screening programmes for tuberculosis. We aimed to establish the yield of pre-entry screening programmes to inform evidence-based policy for migrant health screening. METHODS We searched six bibliographic databases for experimental or observational studies and systematic reviews, which reported data on migrant screening for active or lat...

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 325 © 2012 The Authors. ANZJPH © 2012 Public Health Association of Australia After individuals have been exposed to tuberculosis (TB), tubercle bacilli may cause disease or remain quiescent but viable for many decades; this latter state is known as latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). During this phase, individuals are asymptomatic and pose n...

Although there is no evidence that imported tuberculosis increases the incidence of the disease in host countries, the rise in migration worldwide raises concerns regarding the adequacy of surveillance and control of immigrant-associated tuberculosis in low incidence countries. Assessing the performance of screening of immigrants for tuberculosis is key to rationalizing control policies for the...

BACKGROUND The HIV/AIDS epidemic has caused an excess of tuberculosis cases in Spain and in other countries, but its impact on tuberculosis infection is less well understood. This study presents a massive screening undertaken to estimate the prevalence of tuberculous infection in a cohort of primary school entrants. The evolution of the risk of infection is studied by comparison with previous d...

BACKGROUND Screening and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) prior to anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha (anti-TNF-alpha) therapy has been shown to decrease the incidence of active tuberculosis (TB) by more than 80%, and is recommended by the British Thoracic Society. In the absence of a gold standard test for LTBI, conventional screening currently involves taking a clinical histor...

background : despite recent technologic improvements in identifying mycobacterium tuberculosis, we are still facing problems in rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis. the objective of this study is to determine the diagnostic value of a new rapid screening test (patho-tb™) for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. methods : between september 2006 to august 2007, 178 patients were enrolled in the study...

BackgroundScreening for TB (tuberculosis) among socially marginalized citizens has been implemented in many urban areas countries with a low incidence of TB, including Denmark. This study aims to describe the findings screening programs and latent tuberculosis (LTBI) used western part Denmark period 2014–2019.MethodsData was collected retrospectively on test results from interferon-gamma releas...

BACKGROUND Screening and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in asylum seekers (AS) may prevent future cases of tuberculosis. As the screening with Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) is costly, the objective of this study was to assess which factors were associated with LTBI and to define a score allowing the selection of AS with the highest risk of LTBI. METHODS In across-se...