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 ...
Revisiting Healthcare Workers as a Risk Group for Progression toward Tuberculosis rates of positivity and high conversion/reversion rates on retesting.To define the performance characteristics of the T-SPOT.TB test, an interferon-纬 release assay, during serial screening programs of healthcare workers...
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...
Objective: The use on ganciclovir for perinatal cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is controversial. We aim to evaluate the use of ganciclovir treatment f... Z Vanc̆Íková,T Kuc̆Erová,L Pelikán,... - 《Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health》 被引量: 71发表: 2004年 meet-the-expert...
QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test for healthcare workers Interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) offer alternatives to tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) for diagnosing latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Unlike TSTs... C A.,Carvalho,and,... - 《Journal of Hospital Infection》 被引量: 32发表: 2008年...
Therefore, testing for latent TB infection is recommended for people at high risk of contracting or developing TB. People who have recently had contact with a TB patient, healthcare workers who are likely to come into contact with TB patients, and transplant patients are the main targets for ...
Further, this pick and choose approach confuses healthcare workers performing this duty as well as the very people exposed to active TB. It provides a perception that those not screened for LTBI are not valued, or are invulnerable from acquiring TB. Even worse, it implies that TB is somehow...
To conduct a non-inferiority randomized trial to measure the comparative effectiveness of two potentially implementable ACF strategies within the NTEP, conducted by existing NTEP healthcare workers (HCWs): (i) home-based ACF (HACF) and (ii) telephonic ACF (TACF) 2. To characterize implementatio...
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 ...