We report the exposure of 111 healthcare workers to infected dialysate from an infant with TB peritonitis. Two (5%) of 39 primary-care nurses, but no doctors or environmental service workers, had apparent tuberculin skin test conversions, raising the concern that patients with peritoneal TB may ...
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No pre-test preparations are needed for a TB skin test. If a patient has experienced a severe reaction to a previous TB skin test, this should be shared with the health care professional administering the test. Another type of TB test may be more suitable. ...
As it did in its April alert, the CDC is recommending steps that public health officials, clinicians, and occupational health and infection control personnel can take to work around the shortages of TST antigens. Substitute interferon-gamma release assay tests for TSTs. However, these tests come...
R Anjana,SR Anderson,O Amonn - 《Journal of Public Health》 被引量: 0发表: 2020年 Utility of Newer TB Blood Tests The assays are said to be capable of decreasing personnel time and office visits. The sensitivity of the assays and TST diminished in persons with immune system suppression.Kem...
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Performance was found to be comparable to QFT-Plus for detection of LTBI in a large cohort of health care workers [114]. In this study, the total agreement rate and kappa values between the two methods were 95.20% and 0.70, respectively. Unfortunately, the ichroma IGRA-TB produced higher ...
Although TST can be performed in the field, it requires a cold chain and trained personnel to administer the test and read and interpret the results. Reader variability also often results in false-positive and false-negative results. The use of different cut-offs for positivity makes it ...
Inadequate numbers of trained health care personnel create a challenge for TB programs. In South Africa, provision of TB services has historically been delivered by lower level staff such as enrolled nurses, and community health workers. Professional nurses, and doctors do not routinely offer TB te...