5-Year Follow-up of Active Tuberculosis Development From Latent Infection in Rural China. (28th June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xin, Henan; Zhang, Haoran; Yang, Shumin; Liu, Jianmin; Lu, Wei; Bai, Liqiong; Cao, Xuefang; Feng, Boxuan; Jin, Qi; Gao, Lei
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 70:Number 5(2020)
• Page Start: 947
• Page End: 950
• Publication Date: 2019-06-28
• Subjects: latent tuberculosis infection -- tuberculosis -- incidence -- cohort study; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz581
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

Abstract: A 5-year follow-up study found declining disease development rates from latent tuberculosis infection. In the latter 3 years, the incidence, per 100 person-years, was 0.26 for interferon-γ release assay positives and 0.19 for tuberculin skin test positives (P = .28). In addition, all round have been checked.