RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Screening contacts of patients with extrapulmonary TB for latent TB infection
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP thoraxjnl-2016-209639
DO 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209639
A1 Anna Humphreys
A1 Aula Abbara
A1 Sion Williams
A1 Laurence John
A1 Tumena Corrah
A1 Alastair McGregor
A1 Robert N Davidson
YR 2017
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2017/05/10/thoraxjnl-2016-209639.abstract
AB 2016 TB National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines imply that contacts of extrapulmonary TB do not require screening for latent TB infection. At our high TB prevalence site, we identified 189 active cases of TB for whom there were 698 close contacts. 29.1% of the contacts of pulmonary TB and 10.7% of the contacts of extrapulmonary TB had active or latent TB infection. This supports screening contacts of extrapulmonary TB at our site and presents a way to access high-risk individuals. We propose to continue to screen the contacts of our patients with extrapulmonary TB and recommend other TB units audit their local results.