Screening for tuberculosis of patients with HIV-infection. New possibilities

Autor: E. A. Borodulina, D. A. Kudlay, A. N. Kuznetsova
Jazyk: ruština
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Acta Biomedica Scientifica, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 83-90 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2541-9420
2587-9596
DOI: 10.29413/ABS.2022-7.2.9
Popis: Background. Tuberculosis associated with HIV infection is becoming almost a new disease, where not only new approaches to treatment are being formed, but there is also a need to improve the quality and search for new means of early diagnosis of tuberculosis infection.The aim. To evaluate the diagnostic performance of the T-SPOT.TB test for the detection of latent tuberculosis infection and clinical forms of tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection.Materials and methods. 396 patients registered at the AIDS Center for more than a year were examined. Everyone underwent standard examinations for pulmonary tuberculosis using sputum bacterioscopy techniques with Ziehl – Neelsen staining; a molecular genetic method based on hybridization technology – HAIN-GenoType MTBDRplus; crops on liquid media in the automated BACTEC MGIT 960 system and on Löwenstein–Jensen dense medium. T-SPOT.TB was conducted as a screening for everyone. With positive T-SPOT.TB results, negative results of the MBT search, absence of specific changes on the X-ray a conclusion was made about latent tuberculosis infection. Statistical data processing was carried out using the software package Statistica 10 (StatSoft Inc., USA).Results. According to the results of a comprehensive examination, tuberculosis was diagnosed in 174 patients, verified using various methods of searching for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 116 patients (66.6 %). Infiltrative (63.8 %) and disseminated (24.7 %) tuberculosis were more often diagnosed. Latent tuberculosis infection was diagnosed in 52 patients, 170 HIV-infected patients have no data for tuberculosis at this stage.Conclusions. T-SPOT.TB can be used in the diagnostic complex of monitoring patients with HIV infections – as a screening method to detect latent tuberculosis, for preventive chemotherapy.
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