Background Tuberculosis (TB) in prisons usually occurs at higher rates than in the general
population, especially in developing countries. TB has been reported as the most common …

Las personas privadas de la libertad (PPL) están sujetas a condiciones adversas para su
salud y problemas estructurales en los diferentes establecimientos penitenciarios y …

Background Lack of a gold standard for latent TB infection has precluded direct
measurement of test characteristics of the tuberculin skin test and interferon-γ release …

Background Prisons are considered as major reservoirs for tuberculosis. Preventive therapy
for latent TB infection (LTBI) is an adjunctive strategy to control TB. However, LTBI data in …

Introduction The risk of progression to tuberculosis disease is highest within the first year
after M. tuberculosis infection (TBI). We hypothesize that people with newly acquired TBI …

Background Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the major source of active TB and is an
obstacle to the strategy of World Health Organization to end TB by 2035. In Ethiopia, there …

Background Tuberculosis still remains a major public health concern in several provinces of
the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially in prison settings. The present study aimed at …

Background: Latent Tuberculosis treatment is a key tuberculosis control intervention.
Adolescents are a high risk group that is not routinely treated in low income countries …

Objective To analyze the latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among persons living with HIV
(PLWH) in Jiangsu Province, to explore the factors affecting the positive rate of LTBI, and to …

Introduction Active tuberculosis (TB) and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) are a public
health threat in prisons around the world. The objectives of the study were to estimate the …