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Latent Tuberculosis Infection Screening and Treatment in Congregate Settings (TB FREE COREA):Demographic Profiles of InterferonGamma Release Assay Cohort
Article em En | WPRIM | ID: wpr-900062
Biblioteca responsável: WPRO
ABSTRACT
In 2017, the Korean government launched an unprecedentedly large-scaled latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening project which covered more than a million individuals in congregate settings. A total of 1,047,689 participants of source population (n = 2,336,157) underwent LTBI testing from 2017 to 2018. The overall LTBI test uptake rate during this project was 44.8%. Workers in daycare centers (83.5%) and kindergartens (78.9%) showed high participation rate. A total of 1,012,206 individuals with valid results of interferongamma release assay (IGRA) were selected to constitute the IGRA cohort. Most of the enrolled participants in the IGRA cohort were in their working age. Approximately, threequarters of total enrolled population were female. Investigating the LTBI prevalence, stages of LTBI care cascade, natural history of LTBI, efficacy of LTBI treatment and cost-effectiveness of LTBI screening are feasible within this IGRA cohort.
Texto completo: 1 Índice: WPRIM Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Screening_studies Idioma: En Revista: Journal of Korean Medical Science Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article
Texto completo: 1 Índice: WPRIM Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Screening_studies Idioma: En Revista: Journal of Korean Medical Science Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article