NHS England, PENTA Foundation.doi:10.1016/S2352-3018(15)00200-3elsevierLancet HivTurkova A, Chappell E, Judd A, et al. Prevalence, incidence, and associated risk factors of tuberculosis in children with HIV living in the UK and Ireland (CHIPS): a cohort study. Lancet HIV. 2015;2(12):...
Further study is warranted of tuberculosis screening and preventive treatment for children at high-risk of this disease to avoid morbidity and mortality in this population. NHS England, PENTA Foundation. 展开 DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(15)00200-3 ...
It has been estimated that about 25% of the global population is infected withM. tuberculosis, but only 5–10% of infected individuals develop TB. The development of TB is strongly influenced by human genetic determinants as suggested by early genetic studies21,22. The frequency of BCG disease...
Imperial Vascular Unit, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Joseph Shalhoub Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Cambridge, MA, USA Carey Thomson & Dominic C. Marshall National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College Lond...
(UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands; 5Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; 6Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK; 7Find and Treat, University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; 8KNCV Tuberculosis...
Cellular phagocytosis of fluorescent beads coated with PPD, LAM and ESAT6 was performed51. The human cell line THP-1 was used to source monocytes from the assay in a reproducible and high-throughput format. Briefly, antigens were biotinylated with 50-fold excess biotin with EZ-link NHS-long...
Diagnosing LTBI among household contacts and recognizing the potential risk factors for progression to active disease is critical towards reducing TB incidence [19]. Unlike previous studies investigating the prevalence of LTBI in Iran, both TST and IGRA results were available for each subject in our ...
Factors influencing the higher incidence of tuberculosis among migrants and ethnic minorities in the UK. F1000Research. 2018;7:461. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Adhikari N, Bhattarai RB, Basnet R, Joshi LR, Tinkari BS, Thapa A, et al. Prevalence and associated risk factors ...
Tuberculosis odds were four times higher in subjects with education below GCSE O-levels, compared to higher education (OR = 3.94; 95%CI: 2.74, 5.67), after adjusting for other TB risk factors (age, sex, BCG-vaccination and stays ≥3 months in Africa/Asia). When simultaneously ...
6Department of Infectious Diseases, Northwick Park Hospital, Northwest London Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK. Received: 6 August 2016 Accepted: 11 April 2017 References 1. Murray CJ, Lopez AD. Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: global burden of disease ...