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Disease tuberculosis
Symptom C0872054|latent infection
Sentences 31
PubMedID- 26187708 Screening for the presence of latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis and targeted preventive treatment to reduce the risk of progression to tb is mandatory in these patients.
PubMedID- 22732919 Background: one-third of the world's population has latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis, and 10%-15% of cases of reactivation occur at extrapulmonary sites without active pulmonary tuberculosis.
PubMedID- 24659544 All contacts or caretakers should receive information regarding the likelihood of latent infection with m. tuberculosis (ltbi) developing into tb disease and symptoms of tb disease.
PubMedID- 24804006 The acronym “ltbi” is commonly used synonymously to describe latent infection with m. tuberculosis ….
PubMedID- 22479556 Hiv infection is the most important factor increasing the risk of progression from latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis to clinically active disease 2.
PubMedID- 22844428 It is estimated that worldwide over 2 billion individuals have latent infection with m. tuberculosis and almost 10 million new cases of active tuberculosis (tb) occur each year.
PubMedID- 23107218 In clinical practice, latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis is defined by the presence of an m.
PubMedID- 24275361 The latent infection is unique characteristic of mycobacterium tuberculosis to overcome human immune response for its survival.
PubMedID- 25490545 latent infection with dormant mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the major reasons behind the emergence of drug-resistant strains of the pathogen worldwide.
PubMedID- 22700862 Rationale: interferon-gamma (ifn-gamma) release assays are widely used to diagnose latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis in adults, but their performance in children remains incompletely evaluated to date.
PubMedID- 25722598 In india most of the patients have a latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis, which has antigenic similarity with mw.
PubMedID- 25763458 Rationale: latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis is defined by a positive ifn-gamma release assay (igra) result in the absence of active tuberculosis.
PubMedID- 24130493 However, only 10% of latent infections lead to active tuberculosis, indicating the importance of host immune defense against mycobacterial infection 2.
PubMedID- 24039703 Fifty-four age-matched healthy individuals (mean age 65.3±11.0 years, 45 males, 9 females) who underwent analyses for latent infection with m. tuberculosis without clinical suspicion of active disease were recruited as controls.
PubMedID- 20525402 However, our previous study of healthy children and young adults from the control community found that 80% of children older than 15 years had positive tuberculin skin tests, an indication of latent infection with m. tuberculosis .
PubMedID- 24361157 Results: when comparing active tuberculosis cases with latent infection contacts, deficiency of vitd (vitd levels <10 ng/ml, odds ratio or: 2.02, 95% confidence interval ci: 1.04 to 3.93), male sex (or: 1.9, 95% ci: 0.96 to 3.71) and non-white race (or: 0.7, 95% ci: 0.34 to 1.42) were factors independently associated with the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
PubMedID- 20927496 Diagnosis and treatment of latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis (ltbi), significantly reduces the risk of developing active tuberculosis and the transmission of the disease in the community.
PubMedID- 24618815 Very little is known about the growth and mutation rates of mycobacterium tuberculosis during latent infection in humans.
PubMedID- 23806088 People with a latent infection of mycobacterium tuberculosis (mtb), which accounts for about one-third of the inhabitants of sub-saharan africa, are at a greater risk of developing active tb if they are also immunologically weakened by concurrent hiv infection 5.
PubMedID- 26347586 Approximately one third of the world's population has latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis 1.
PubMedID- 20721576 Despite our increasing knowledge, several key questions about latent infection and reactivation of m. tuberculosis remain unanswered.
PubMedID- 20941341 Despite our increasing knowledge, several key questions about latent infection and reactivation of m. tuberculosis remain unanswered.
PubMedID- 25919455 Our previous study of healthy children and young adults from the control community found that 80% of children older than 15 years had positive tuberculin skin tests (tst), an indication of latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis (m. tuberculosis) .
PubMedID- 23575323 Background: treatment of latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis effectively reduces future activation and transmission of tuberculosis.
PubMedID- 24273174 latent infection with m. tuberculosis was excluded by a negative ex vivo enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot (elispot) assay response to esat-6 and cfp-10 peptides.
PubMedID- 22057826 It is likely that the elderly kept latent infection of m. tuberculosis for long years, and the age-associated decline in immune response caused development of active tb, while the younger patients developed active tb soon after initial infection (tufariello et al.
PubMedID- 24311770 latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis (ltbi) is defined by the presence of m.
PubMedID- 26573524 M. tuberculosis subpopulation associated with latent infection in humans is believed to be in a dormant state characterized by low metabolic status and transient inability to grow and proliferate .
PubMedID- 20847080 Interferon-gamma release assays (igras) are now established for the immunodiagnosis of latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis in many countries.
PubMedID- 22028119 Prevalence of latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis in mazovia region using interferon gamma release assay after stimulation with specific antigens esat-6 and cfp-10.
PubMedID- 25785445 Background: to evaluate interleukin (il)-2 and interferon (ifn)-gamma secreting t-cells in parallel for the differentiation of latent infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (ltbi) from active tuberculosis.

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