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17 maj 2022 · This survey, like many before it, has shown the inadequacy of using symptom screening to identify people living in the community who have culturable Mycobacterium tuberculosis and highlights the need for another triage method. 3 In this study, chest X-rays were also used to identify individuals most likely to have tuberculosis. Molecular ...
27 lis 2023 · The South African TB Prevalence Survey found that 57.7% of people with bacteriologically confirmed TB initially screened positive with chest x-ray alone 8, without symptoms.
12 lut 2024 · This finding is consistent with those from prevalence surveys in other countries and underlines the yawning detection gap created by the reliance on symptom screening to trigger TB testing and...
identify individuals most likely to have tuberculosis. Molecular testing for diagnosing tuberculosis, such as the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assay used in this survey, has shown great promise for rapid, reproducible diagnosis of both the presence of tuberculosis as well as drug-resistance mutations. However, the use of molecular
15 lut 2023 · In a study of 344 people with extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, Nelson and colleagues 21 found that 84% of genetically linked TB transmissions...
10 lut 2023 · The South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) was first known as the “BCG Study” research group, before the SATVI name was adopted. The research group was located within the Child Health Unit of the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Health Sciences.
6 maj 2020 · In South Africa, analysis shows that the vast majority of individuals with tuberculosis are engaged in the public health system. Despite this and the over 90% curability of TB, it is estimated that South Africa has a successful TB treatment rate of just over 50%.
