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Chapter 7 from the book People's Movements in the 21st Century - Risks, Challenges and Benefits
Pathak et al. (2016), PeerJ, DOI 10.7717/peerj.1738; 1-14
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2007;85:637–643
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الترجمة العربية لهذه الخلاصة في نهاية النص الكامل ل...هذه المقالة.
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Public health Panoram, Vol.2 Issue 1 March 2016
Regional Tuberculosis Program, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
54th directing council; 67th session of the regional Committee of WHO for the Americas
CD54/11, Rev. 1, 2 October 2015, Original: Spanish
First report of a demonstration project
The revised guidelines contain recommendations for specific administrative, environmental controls and respiratory protection, following the assessment made by an external group of experts convened as members of the Guideline Development Group. Moreover, these guidelines focus on interventions speci...fic to preventing transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bridging with the core components of infection prevention and control programmes at the national and acute health care facility level
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A Guide For Multicentre Trials in High-Burden Countries
Three classess of tests are now recommended in the latest consolidated guideles on tests for tuberculosis infection. It includes for the first-time a new class of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen-based skin tests (TBSTs), and the two existing classes of tests: the tuberculin skin test (TST) and t...he interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs).
IGRAs and TBSTs use Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex specific antigens and represent a significant advancement to TST which has been used for over half a century.
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