“…A lower prevalence of LTBI was observed among Egyptian health care providers working in a high-risk TB environment diagnosed by TST and QFT assays ( El-Sokkary et al, 2015 ). A high prevalence of LTBI has been reported in many studies using different diagnostic tests, especially in countries with high TB disease burdens ( Abdulkareem et al, 2020, Abu-Taleb et al, 2011, Albanese et al, 2015, Eom et al, 2018, Hosten et al, 2018, Hu et al, 2012, Morrison et al, 2008, Narasimhan et al, 2017, Triasih et al, 2015.…”