TY - JOUR T1 - Screening contacts of patients with extrapulmonary TB for latent TB infection JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 277 LP - 278 DO - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209639 VL - 73 IS - 3 AU - Anna Humphreys AU - Aula Abbara AU - Sion Williams AU - Laurence John AU - Tumena Corrah AU - Alastair McGregor AU - Robert N Davidson Y1 - 2018/03/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/73/3/277.abstract N2 - 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. ER -