Items tagged with Latent TB
‘Worryingly high’ number of people infected with latent form of drug-resistant TB (post)
More than 19 million people around the globe are infected with one of the most complex forms of dormant tuberculosis, threatening efforts to control the fatal disease, researchers have warned.
Estimated global prevalence of latent TB about 25% (post)
About one-quarter of the world’s population may be infected with latent tuberculosis, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the European Respiratory Journal.
South-East Asia Regional Action Plan on the Programmatic Management of Latent Tuberculosis Infection launched at the 72nd Regional Committee (post)
05 September 2019 | New Delhi: Health Ministers and experts from Member States of WHO South-East Asia Region began a week-long meeting in New Delhi this week to deliberate on priority public health issues and build on the recent momentum for elimination of communicable diseases.
12.6 million in U.S. could benefit from therapy to prevent active TB (post)
An estimated 12.6 million persons in the United States could benefit from treatment to prevent active tuberculosis (TB), according to a report published in the October issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Technical consultation on latent TB infection management: Research for scale-up and target regimen profiles (post)
19 September 2019 | Montreal – The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Programme and the WHO Collaborating Centre in TB Research at McGill University, Montreal, Canada convened a two-day technical consultation on research on latent TB infection (LTBI). Around 40 participants attended the meeting representing the TB research community, national TB programmes, civil society, technical and implementation partners, and donor agencies.
BCG vaccination associated with lower prevalence of LTBI in adults (post)
Bacille Calmette-Guérin, or BCG, vaccination is associated with a lower prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection in adult TB contacts and could protect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, according to results published in Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Elderly patients able to complete latent TB therapy (post)
Treatment for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among patients between age 65 and 78 years has been shown to be relatively well tolerated, with completion rates decreasing according to age.
TB infection is not life-long in most people (post)
PHILADELPHIA – A new analysis challenges the longstanding notion that tuberculous infection is a life-long infection that could strike at any time and cause tuberculosis (TB). Based on a review of clinical studies, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues show that people who test positive with immunologic TB skin or blood tests rarely develop TB. They suggest it’s because the infecting organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is likely dead, wiped out naturally by people’s immune systems. Despite that, these people retain an immunological memory to the disease, which the authors say likely explains why standard TB tests show a positive result, since those tests look for an immune response and not live bacteria. The study was published this week in the journal BMJ.
Preventive moxifloxacin well-tolerated in people with latent TB exposed to MDR-TB (post)
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.
Low clinical value in repeat latent TB tests in patients taking biologics (post)
TLANTA — Repeat, routine testing for latent tuberculosis infection among patients receiving biologics is both costly and of low clinical value, according to findings presented at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting.
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