Screening Matters Every TB test result is a ‘moment of truth’. If it’s positive, then you’ve begun the process of fighting it. You can protect the patient and the wider community from a deadly risk. If it’s negative, there may be no need for powerful antibiotics – and the patie...
Screening of child contacts is not routinely carried out in the Orinoco Delta. Lack of staff expertise, the need for a minimum of two appointments to complete screening, transport costs and high healthcare worker workload have been identified as barriers to contact screening in rural Africa [37...
“Imagine the incidence of any other disease decreasing by almost half within a 10-year period. This trend should be encouraging to those working to eliminate tuberculosis and provide evidence that current strategies of control, including early initiation oftherapy, screening of close contacts ...
The article presents s on medical topics which include the role of T cell based interferon release assays in evaluating patients with suspected active tuberculosis (TB), contact screening of TB in immunocompromised human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients and T-spot-TB reactivity after che...
T-SPOT.TB interferon-γ release assay performance in healthcare worker screening at nineteen US hospitals. Am J Resp Crit Care Med. 2015;192(3):367-373. doi:10.1164/rccm.201501-0199OC van Zyl-Smit RN, Zwerling A, Dheda K, et al. Within-subject variability of interferon-g assay results...
Participants were tested for HIV and all newly-identified HIV-infected participants received TB screening. HIV-infected participants were either in the intervention group, and were assigned to a HSN, or the control group, the current usual care in Durban (Figure 1). Nine months following ...
Family screening diagnosed the father with sputum smear-positive TB. The mother and a 2-year-old sibling had no symptoms or signs of TB disease and started preventive therapy. Early TB meningitis diagnosis is the single most important factor influencing clinical outcome, but is difficult due to ...
Newborn screening tests require small, but adequate amounts of blood. Accuracy of their results depends, however, on proper sample collection technique. Heel sticks are the most commonly performed invasive procedures in neonatal intensive care units. Clinical guidelines recommend drawing blood from an ...
- 《International Journal of Pediatrics》 被引量: 0发表: 2024年 Impact of maternal obesity on fetal cardiac screening: which follow-up strategy is cost-effective? prenatal screeningsuboptimal visualizationObjective To perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of different follow-up strategies for non-obese...
GB: Churchill LivingstoneANTENATAL AND NEONATAL SCREENING, edited by N. J. Wald; 1984. GB: Oxford University PressPERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, edited by Michael B. Bracken; 1984. GB: Oxford University PressTREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF ACUTE DIARRHOEA: GUIDELINES FOR THE TRAINERS OF HEALTH WORKERSSUDDEN ...