Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents

Effect of implementation of a 12 dose once-weekly treatment (3HP) in addition to standard regimens to prevent TB on completion rates: Interrupted time series design

(2022) Gonzalo G. Alvarez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The Value of Chest Radiography in Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment (TPT) Screening in Children and Adolescents

(2022) Ben J Marais et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Latent tuberculosis infection in family members in household contact with active tuberculosis patients in Semarang City, Central Java, Indonesia

(2022) Karbito Karbito et al.   Journal of Public Health in Africa

Effect of patient-delivered household contact tracing and prevention for tuberculosis: A household cluster-randomised trial in Malawi

(2022) Kruger Kaswaswa et al.   PLoS One

Infant BCG vaccination and risk of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis throughout the life course: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

(2022) Leonardo Martinez et al.   Lancet Global Health

Tuberculosis contact investigation results among paediatric contacts in low-incidence settings in Finland

(2021) Antti Kontturi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

BCG‐induced protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: Evidence, mechanisms, and implications for next‐generation vaccines

(2021) Mitchell Foster et al.   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Tests for tuberculosis infection: landscape analysis

(2021) Yohhei Hamada et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Safety and feasibility of 1 month of daily rifapentine plus isoniazid to prevent tuberculosis in children and adolescents: a prospective cohort study

(2021) Amyn A Malik et al.   Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Indoor Air Pollution and Susceptibility to Tuberculosis Infection in Urban Vietnamese Children

(2021) Robert J. Blount et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Vikela Ekhaya: a novel, community-based, tuberculosis contact management program in a high burden setting

(2021) Alexander W Kay et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Symptom-based Screening Versus Chest Radiography for TB Child Contacts

(2021) Anca Vasiliu et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

High rate of completion for weekly rifapentine plus isoniazid treatment in Chinese children with latent tuberculosis infection—A single center study

(2021) Heng Yang et al.   PLoS One

The definition of tuberculosis infection based on the spectrum of tuberculosis disease

(2021) Giovanni Battista Migliori et al.   Breathe

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in CD34-positive peripheral blood mononuclear cells of asymptomatic tuberculosis contacts: an observational study

(2021) Mulugeta Belay et al.   Lancet Microbe

Latent Tuberculosis Infection

(2021) Maunank Shah et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents: Testing and Treatment

(2021) Dawn Nolt et al.   PEDIATRICS

Prevalence and risk factors associated with latent tuberculosis infection among household contacts of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in South India

(2021) Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Global estimates of paediatric tuberculosis incidence in 2013–19: a mathematical modelling analysis

(2021) Sita Yerramsetti et al.   Lancet Global Health

Duration of Exposure Among Close Contacts of Patients With Infectious Tuberculosis and Risk of Latent Tuberculosis Infection

(2020) Mary R Reichler et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

False-positive Results of Quantiferon-Tb-Gold Assay in Children

(2020) Cristian Quintana-Ortega et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Tuberculosis contact investigation and short-course preventive therapy among young children in Africa

(2020) V. Schwoebel et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE

Fourth generation QuantiFERON-TB Gold-Plus: What is the evidence?

(2020) Arena Shafeque et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

The risk of tuberculosis in children after close exposure: a systematic review and individual-participant meta-analysis

(2020) Leonardo Martinez et al.   LANCET

An Overview of the Development of New Vaccines for Tuberculosis

(2020) E. Whitlow et al.   Vaccines

Three-month weekly rifapentine plus isoniazid for tuberculosis preventive treatment: a systematic review

(2019) Y. Hamada et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE

Risk Factors for Indeterminate Interferon-Gamma Release Assay for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Children—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2019) Noëmi R. Meier et al.   Frontiers in Pediatrics

The evolving research agenda for paediatric tuberculosis infection

(2019) James A Seddon et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Examining the Complex Relationship Between Tuberculosis and Other Infectious Diseases in Children

(2019) Elizabeth Whittaker et al.   Frontiers in Pediatrics

Effectiveness of BCG Vaccination Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Adults: A Cross-sectional Analysis of a UK-Based Cohort

(2019) Anthea L Katelaris et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Treatment for latent tuberculosis infection in low- and middle-income countries: progress and challenges with implementation and scale-up

(2019) Anthony D. Harries et al.   Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Artificial Intelligence, Radiology, and Tuberculosis: A Review

(2019) Sagar Kulkarni et al.   ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY

Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection—An Update

(2019) Moises A. Huaman et al.   CLINICS IN CHEST MEDICINE

Intensity of exposure to pulmonary tuberculosis determines risk of tuberculosis infection and disease

(2018) Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Tuberculin skin test versus interferon-gamma release assay in refugee children: A retrospective cohort study

(2018) Chris Elliot et al.   JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH

Interferon-γ Release Assay Performance for Tuberculosis in Childhood

(2018) Alexander W. Kay et al.   PEDIATRICS

Completion Rate and Safety of Tuberculosis Infection Treatment With Shorter Regimens

(2018) Andrea T. Cruz et al.   PEDIATRICS

Specificity of QuantiFERON-TB Plus®: a new generation Interferon-gamma release assay

(2018) S. A. R. Siegel et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

C-Tb skin test to diagnose Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children and HIV-infected adults: A phase 3 trial

(2018) Henrik Aggerbeck et al.   PLoS One

Utility of tuberculin skin test and IGRA for tuberculosis screening in internationally adopted children: Retrospective analysis from a single center in Florence, Italy

(2018) Maria Vincenza Mastrolia et al.   Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Human and Mouse Hematopoietic Stem Cells Are a Depot for Dormant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2017) Julia Tornack et al.   PLoS One

Safety and efficacy of the C-Tb skin test to diagnose Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, compared with an interferon γ release assay and the tuberculin skin test: a phase 3, double-blind, randomised, controlled trial

(2017) Morten Ruhwald et al.   Lancet Respiratory Medicine

False-positive QuantiFERON TB-Gold test due to Mycobacterium gordonae

(2016) Kiran Gajurel et al.   DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Guidelines for the use of interferon-γ release assays in the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection

(2016) Miguel Santin et al.   ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA

Evaluation of the Immune Response to Interferon Gamma Release Assay and Tuberculin Skin Test Among BCG Vaccinated Children in East of Egypt

(2016) Mohamed Refaat Beshir et al.   MEDICINE

The impact of BCG vaccination on tuberculin skin test responses in children is age dependent: evidence to be considered when screening children for tuberculosis infection

(2016) James A Seddon et al.   THORAX

Prevalence and risk factors of latent Tuberculosis among adolescents in rural Eastern Uganda

(2015) D Mumpe-Mwanja et al.   African Health Sciences

Management of latentMycobacterium tuberculosisinfection: WHO guidelines for low tuberculosis burden countries

(2015) Haileyesus Getahun et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Tuberculin Skin Testing and T-SPOT.TB in Internationally Adopted Children

(2015) Kevin B. Spicer et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Cigarette smoking among tuberculosis patients increases risk of transmission to child contacts

(2014) C-C. Huang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE

Extremes of Age Are Associated with Indeterminate QuantiFERON-TB Gold Assay Results

(2014) M. Tebruegge et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Integrating Social Contact and Environmental Data in Evaluating Tuberculosis Transmission in a South African Township

(2014) Jason R. Andrews et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The Association between Active and Passive Smoking and Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults and Children in the United States: Results from NHANES

(2014) Ryan P. Lindsay et al.   PLoS One

Effect of BCG vaccination against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children: systematic review and meta-analysis

(2014) A. Roy et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Burden of childhood tuberculosis in 22 high-burden countries: a mathematical modelling study

(2014) Peter J Dodd et al.   Lancet Global Health

Old ideas to innovate tuberculosis control: preventive treatment to achieve elimination

(2013) Roland Diel et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Contact investigation for tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2012) G. J. Fox et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Purified protein derivatives of tuberculin — past, present, and future

(2012) Hongliang Yang et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Tuberculosis in Children

(2012) Carlos M. Perez-Velez et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Clinical Application and Limitations of Interferon-  Release Assays for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection

(2011) V. Herrera et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Interferon-gamma release assays and childhood tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis [Review article]

(2011) A. M. Mandalakas et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE

Pathogenesis, Immunology, and Diagnosis of LatentMycobacterium tuberculosisInfection

(2010) Suhail Ahmad   Clinical & Developmental Immunology

Global lung health: the colliding epidemics of tuberculosis, tobacco smoking, HIV and COPD

(2010) R. N. van Zyl Smit et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

The Likelihood of an Indeterminate Test Result from a Whole-Blood Interferon-γ Release Assay for the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Children Correlates With Age and Immune Status

(2010) Thomas Haustein et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

LTBI: latent tuberculosis infection or lasting immune responses to M. tuberculosis? A TBNET consensus statement

(2009) U. Mack et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Comparative Performance of Tuberculin Skin Test, QuantiFERON-TB-Gold In Tube Assay, and T-Spot. TB Test in Contact Investigations for Tuberculosis

(2008) Roland Diel et al.   CHEST

Tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection in close contacts of people with pulmonary tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2008) Janina Morrison et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

A Three-Way Comparison of Tuberculin Skin Testing, QuantiFERON-TB Gold and T-SPOT.TB in Children

(2008) Tom G. Connell et al.   PLoS One