NEW ORLEANS — Although uptake was limited, prophylactic treatment with moxifloxacin was well-tolerated in individuals with evidence of latent tuberculosis (TB) who were in contact with patients with high-risk multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to results of a study presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting 2019, held October 19 to 23 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In patients who are immunocompromised, such as people living with HIV, the new fourth-generation QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) assay demonstrated similar sensitivity to the third-generation interferon-gamma release assay for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis (TB), according to study results presented at American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Microbe 2019, held June 20 to 24 in San Francisco, California.