9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook silicotuberculosis [sil″ĭ-ko-too-ber″ku-lo´sis] silicosiscomplicated by pulmonarytuberculosis; called alsotuberculosilicosis. Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Se...
Previously, TB screening among PLWH primarily relied on symptomatic indicators of TB, with tradi- tional methods such as acid-fast bacilli smear micros- copy, TB culture, and immunological tests (e.g., tuberculin skin test, interferon-γ release assay (IGRA)) playing a crucial role, especially...
The inter-rater reliability of the title/abstract screening, calculated as Krippendorff’s alpha, was α = 0.280 (SE 0.074; 95% CI [0.128–0.420]).Footnote 1 All disagreements could be fully resolved. After data extraction, 117 publications remained for meta-analyses reporting the sex-relat...
The association between the total cholesterol level and tuberculosis (TB) risk has been controversial. Our study aimed to evaluate whether total cholesterol level can predict the risk of TB. Data from 5,000,566 subjects who participated in a health screening exam in 2009 were investigated using t...
We assigned Elixhauser scores based on screening test results and ICD-9-CM codes recorded during the initial screening visit [23]. The study population was dichotomized into two groups: Elixhauser Score = 0 (No Comorbidity) or Elix- hauser Score ≥ 1 (Any Comorbidity). Second, we evalu- ...
The second isolate came from a patient in Uganda, and was discovered upon screening publicly available draft genome data- sets, where it was misclassified as an M. bovis strain. We used PacBio and Illumina WGS to reconstruct the full circular genome of the Rwandan strain. We used these ...
Thus, the observed differences between Danes and migrants are not believed to be exclusively caused by screening policies. A previous Danish study investigating long-term mortality among patients with TB who were alive 1 year after TB diagnosis, found almost twofold higher mortality among PTB cases,...
We assigned Elixhauser scores based on screening test results and ICD-9-CM codes recorded during the initial screening visit [23]. The study population was dichotomized into two groups: Elixhauser Score = 0 (No Comorbidity) or Elixhauser Score ≥ 1 (Any Comorbidity). Second, we ...
the event because they can create great variation in cases of TB. Additionally, to achieve the goals established in the End TB strategy and reducing the risk of disease and death, it is very important to expand the screening, diagnosis and treatment of latent mycobacterium tuberculosis infection....
The current TB screening system is not effective for patients with HIV. The current approach to prevention needs to be adjusted since it does not consider the specifics of TB development against the background of immunodeficiency. MDR-TB is more common in patients with HIV and is most likely ...