Management of latent<i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>infection: WHO guidelines for low tuberculosis burden countries

Getahun, Haileyesus; Matteelli, Alberto; Abubakar, Ibrahim; Abdel Aziz, Mohamed; Baddeley, Annabel; Barreira, Draurio; Den Boon, Saskia; Marta Borroto Gutierrez, Susana; Bruchfeld, Judith; Burhan, Erlina; Cavalcante, Solange; Cedillos, Rolando; Chaisson, Richard; Bin-Eng Chee, Cynthia; Chesire, Lucy; Corbett, Elizabeth; Dara, Masoud; Denholm, Justin; de Vries, Gerard; Falzon, Dennis; Ford, Nathan; Gale-Rowe, Margaret; Gilpin, Chris; Girardi, Enrico; Go, Un-Yeong; Govindasamy, Darshini; D. Grant, Alison; Grzemska, Malgorzata; Harris, Ross; Robert Horsburgh, C.; Ismayilov, Asker; Jaramillo, Ernesto; Kik, Sandra; Kranzer, Katharina; Lienhardt, Christian; LoBue, Philip; Lönnroth, Knut; Marks, Guy; Menzies, Dick; Battista Migliori, Giovanni; Mosca, Davide; Diul Mukadi, Ya; Mwinga, Alwyn; Nelson, Lisa; Nishikiori, Nobuyuki; Oordt-Speets, Anouk; Xheedha Rangaka, Molebogeng; Reis, Andreas; Rotz, Lisa; Sandgren, Andreas; Sañé Schepisi, Monica; J. Schünemann, Holger; Kumar Sharma, Surender; Sotgiu, Giovanni; R. Stagg, Helen; R. Sterling, Timothy; Tayeb, Tamara; Uplekar, Mukund; J. van der Werf, Marieke; Vandevelde, Wim; van Kessel, Femke; van't Hoog, Anna; K. Varma, Jay; Vezhnina, Natalia; Voniatis, Constantia; Vonk Noordegraaf-Schouten, Marije; Weil, Diana; Weyer, Karin; John Wilkinson, Robert; Yoshiyama, Takashi; Pierre Zellweger, Jean; Raviglione, Mario

doi:10.1183/13993003.01245-2015

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

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Authors:

Haileyesus Getahun

Alberto Matteelli

Ibrahim Abubakar

Abstract

Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is characterised by the presence of immune responses to previously acquired Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection without clinical evidence of active tuberculosis (TB). Here we report evidence-based guidelines from the World Health Organization for a public health...

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