Infection control and hospital epidemiologyJoshi M, Monson T, Woods G. QuantiFERON-TB test for annual screening of healthcare workers: not yet ready for prime time in low-prevalence countries. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2011;32: 518.
Who Can Take the TB Test (QuantiFERON-TB Gold)? A TB Test is recommended for individuals who: Have Been Exposed to TB: Close contact with someone who has active TB disease. Work in Healthcare Settings: Healthcare workers who may come into contact with TB patients. Have Weakened Immune Sy...
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To describe the burden of TB in healthcare workers (HCWs) in the UK and determine whether HCWs are at increased risk of TB due to occupational exposure.Retrospective cohort analysis of national UK TB surveillance and genotyping data between 2009 and 2013. The rate of TB in HCWs compared with...
"We'll be recruiting healthcare workers who are likely to come into contact with patients with COVID-19. So that's not just hospital doctors and nurses, but also potentially paramedics and ambulance drivers." Curtis said that thanks to philanthropic support such as that of the Gates Foundation...
Healthcare workers may be more exposed than the general population due to high patient contact rates. Furthermore, TB is often passed from person to person within the same family. Therefore, close family members of an individual affected by TB can potentially be at risk of TB themselves. ...
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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) screening of healthcare workers (HCWs) is an important component of hospital infection control programs. Many institutions have replaced tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) with interferon-release gamma assays (IGRAs). Challenges of IGRA tests include daily fluctuations of IGRA...
hospitals.A total of 42,155 T-SPOT.TB test results from healthcare workers at 19 geographically diverse hospitals obtained for routine tuberculosis screening programs were analyzed to determine the rates of positivity, reversion, and conversion in serial testing data.In 19,630 evaluable serial pairs...
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 ...