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Autor:
Rachel Woodruff, Roque Miramontes
Publikováno v:
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 29, Iss 7, Pp 1470-1472 (2023)
We examined tuberculosis (TB) infection results for the United States from the 2019–2020 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Over this period, 10% of non–US-born persons and 7% of those >60 years of age tested positive for TB infect
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/cfcce35f787c481eb029ebb0d99878af
Autor:
Larry D. Teeter, Padmaja Vempaty, Duc T. M. Nguyen, Jane Tapia, Sharon Sharnprapai, Smita Ghosh, J. Steven Kammerer, Roque Miramontes, Wendy A. Cronin, Edward A. Graviss, on behalf of the Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium
Publikováno v:
BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2016)
Abstract Background Tracking the dissemination of specific Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) strains using genotyped Mtb isolates from tuberculosis patients is a routine public health practice in the United States. The present study proposes a standar
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/e99f8f1e894841b092724ee31f8494d6
Publikováno v:
Tuberculosis Research and Treatment, Vol 2017 (2017)
Objective. To evaluate TB test usage and associated direct medical expenditures from 2013 private insurance claims data in the United States (US). Methods. We extracted outpatient claims for TB-specific and nonspecific tests from the 2013 MarketScan
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/c7b2801155d74703a44660d02a619b5b
Autor:
Roque Miramontes, Andrew N Hill, Rachel S Yelk Woodruff, Lauren A Lambert, Thomas R Navin, Kenneth G Castro, Philip A LoBue
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 11, p e0140881 (2015)
Reexamining the prevalence of persons infected with tuberculosis (TB) is important to determine trends over time. In 2011-2012 a TB component was included in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to estimate the reservoir of p
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/7903aa71a4084e7db2f625eb458c30d4
Autor:
Sara C Auld, Eleanor S Click, Charles M Heilig, Roque Miramontes, Kevin P Cain, Gregory P Bisson, William R Mac Kenzie
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 11, p e78779 (2013)
BACKGROUND: Although the tuberculin skin test (TST) is frequently used to aid in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) disease and to identify persons with latent TB infection, it is an imperfect test and approximately 10-25% of persons with microbiolog
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/2e6a05e7794347ce998646175b9c58ce
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 6, p e65276 (2013)
In 2010, foreign-born persons accounted for 60% of all tuberculosis (TB) cases in the United States. Understanding which national groups make up the highest proportion of TB cases will assist TB control programs in concentrating limited resources whe
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/84290777de2b43469560e6debee95f00
Publikováno v:
Tuberculosis Research and Treatment, Vol 2012 (2012)
Introduction. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Tuberculosis Surveillance System (NTSS) is the national repository of tuberculosis (TB) data in the United States. Jurisdictions report to NTSS through the Report of Veri
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/5184ec43e3cb4d0386affcc6bf2ff792
Publikováno v:
Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 18:1669-1676
Rationale: A central strategy of tuberculosis (TB) control in the United States is reducing the burden of latent TB infection (LTBI) through targeted testing and treatment of persons with untreated LTBI. Objectives: The objective of the study was to
Publikováno v:
J Immigr Minor Health
Increased testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among US-residents who were born (or lived) in countries with high rates of TB can hasten progress toward TB elimination. We calculated LTBI prevalence using QuantiFERON®-TB Gol
Publikováno v:
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
OBJECTIVE: To determine risk factors for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and describe MDR-TB according to three characteristics: previous TB disease, recent transmission of MDR-TB, and reactivation of latent MDR-TB infection.SETTING and DES