About Blog The UTE focus its main research devoted to
the Latent Tuberculosis Infection.
Three Months of Rifapentine and Isoniazid for
Latent Tuberculosis Infection.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for
latent tuberculosis infection in populations at increased risk.
«Screening for
latent tuberculosis infection recommended for those at increased risk.»
Not exact matches
In the United States,
tuberculosis remains an important preventable disease, including active
tuberculosis infection, which may be infectious, and
latent infection (LTBI), which is asymptomatic and not infectious but can later reactivate and progress to active disease.
Researchers increasingly recognize that
latent TB
infection includes diverse responses to
infection with Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (the pathogen that causes TB) and thus variable outcomes.
An editorial in the Sept. 6, 2016 issue of JAMA accompanies the publication of new US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening recommendations for
latent tuberculosis (TB)
infection in primary care settings.
One - third of the world population has
latent TB — meaning they are infected with the bacteria (M.
tuberculosis) that causes the disease but not actively suffering from the disease — providing a potential reservoir of
infection if the disease moved into an active state.
Lindestam Arlehamn CS, Gerasimova A, Mele F, Henderson R, Swann J, Greenbaum JA, Kim Y, Sidney J, James EA, Taplitz R, McKinney DM, Kwok WW, Grey H, Sallusto F, Peters B, Sette A. Memory T cells in
latent Mycobacterium
tuberculosis infection are directed against three antigenic islands and largely contained in a CXCR3 + CCR6 + Th1 subset.