Lessons Learned from Two School Tuberculosis Investigations

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Shu-Hua Wang
W Garrett Hunt
Dwight A Powell
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[1] The Ohio State University Medical Center,Department of Internal Medicine
[2] The Ohio State University College of Medicine,Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health | 2010年 / 12卷
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Tuberculosis (TB); School; Immigrant health; Foreign-born;
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We describe the results from tuberculosis (TB) contact investigations of two high-school students. Following the development of active TB in two foreign-born students, contact investigations were performed to detect contacts with active TB disease or latent TB infection (LTBI). The two students developed pulmonary TB within 2 years of immigrating to the United States. Among household contacts, no case of active TB was identified; however, LTBI was identified in 7 of 20 persons screened (35%). Of the 104 high-risk school contacts identified, no cases of active TB disease were found, but 7 (9.3%) were diagnosed with LTBI. An additional 683 low-risk contacts were screened and 9 (1.5%) were positive. Schools and Public Health departments needs to be prepared for outbreak investigations and should screen only persons with a high risk of exposure to the index case with active TB in an attempt to identify secondary infections. Those persons with a low risk of exposure should not be screened.
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