School-Based Screening for Tuberculous Infection

Mohle-Boetani, Janet C.; Miller, Bess; Halpern, Michael T.; Trivedi, Amal N.; Lessler, Judy; Solomon, Steven L.; Fenstersheib, Martin

doi:10.1001/jama.1995.03530080029037

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“…1998;152:646-650 S CREENING HIGH-RISK populations for tuberculosis (TB) and treating those with infection has been shown to be a cost-beneficial component of a comprehensive TB elimination strategy. 1 For children living in areas with a high prevalence of TB, screening is recommended 2 at ages 4 to 6 years and 11 to 16 years. Children with risk factors, such as recent immigration, institutional residence, incarceration, or exposure to adults at high risk for TB, should be tested with greater frequency.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the positive predictive value of the Mantoux skin test decreases in populations with a low prevalence of TB infection. Mohle-Boetani et al 1 showed that screening all children is only cost beneficial if the reactor rate is 20% or higher. This situation exists in the non-US-born population tested for this study (positive TST rate of 40.2% for both schools combined), but not in the US-born population (positive TST rate of 4.1% for both schools combined).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Tuberculosis Screening at 2 San Diego High Schools With High-Risk Populations

Pong¹,

Anders²,

Moser³

et al. 1998

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Tuberculosis Screening at 2 San Diego High Schools With High-Risk Populations

Pong¹,

Anders²,

Moser³

et al. 1998

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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“…Targeted school-based screening programs for recently immigrated children, although controversial, appear to be a promising option (15), especially when the prevalence of TB infection is 20% or more in the targeted group and if adherence to preventive therapy is greater than 60% (16). Such innovative, targeted activities that require partnerships among schools, local health care providers and public health departments must be further evaluated for their ability to meet the objectives for finding latent TB infection and ensuring that children are appropriately treated.…”

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Tuberculosis in Canada: Global view and new challenges

Tapiéro

Lamarre

2003

Paediatrics &Amp; Child Health

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“…For example, outbreaks of Salmonella serovar Enteritidis have been repeatedly associated with raw or undercooked eggs (3) and Salmonella Marina infection has been associated with exposure to reptiles (4) .…”

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Antibiotic susceptibility of Salmonella spp.: a comparison of two surveys with a 5 years interval

Mijović¹

2012

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SUMMARYSalmonella infections are one of the major global public health problems. During the last decade, antibiotic resistance and multiresistance of Salmonella spp. have increased a great deal, especially in developing countries with an increased and indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the treatment of humans and animals.This study aims to investigate and compare antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Salmonella during 2005 and 2010.A total of 186 Salmonella strain during 2005 and 140 Salmonella strain during 2010 were isolated from stool specimens using standard methods. The isolates were confirmed as Salmonella by using a battery of biochemical reactions. Specific antisera were used for serologic characterization of Salmonella strain. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by standard disk diffusion method using ampicillin, trimethoprimsulfamethoxasole, ceftriaxon, chloramphenicol, nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin.One Sensitivity of Salmonella isolates to all tested antimicrobial agents except to ceftriaxon was been slightly improved over testing period. Resistance rate to ceftriaxon was higher in 2010 than in 2005, and this fact deserves attention. Significantly increase susceptibility rate to nalidixic acid was observed between the two surveys.

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School-Based Screening for Tuberculous Infection

Cited by 71 publications

References 19 publications

Tuberculosis Screening at 2 San Diego High Schools With High-Risk Populations

Tuberculosis Screening at 2 San Diego High Schools With High-Risk Populations

Tuberculosis in Canada: Global view and new challenges

Antibiotic susceptibility of Salmonella spp.: a comparison of two surveys with a 5 years interval

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