Frascella, B;
Richards, AS;
Sossen, B;
Emery, JC;
Odone, A;
Law, I;
Onozaki, I;
... Houben, RMGJ; + view all
(2020)
Subclinical tuberculosis disease - a review and analysis of prevalence surveys to inform definitions, burden, associations and screening methodology.
Clinical Infectious Diseases
10.1093/cid/ciaa1402.
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Abstract
While it is known that a substantial proportion of individuals with tuberculosis disease (TB) present subclinically, usually defined as bacteriologically-confirmed but negative on symptom screening, considerable knowledge gaps remain. Our aim was to review data from TB prevalence population surveys and generate a consistent definition and framework for subclinical TB, thus enabling an estimate of the proportion of TB that is subclinical, explore associations with overall burden and programme indicators, and performance of screening strategies. We extracted data from all publicly available prevalence surveys conducted since 1990. Between 36.1-79.7% (median 50.4%) of prevalent bacteriologically-confirmed TB was subclinical. No association was found between prevalence of subclinical and all bacteriologically confirmed TB, patient diagnostic rate or country-level HIV prevalence (p-values, 0.32, 0.4, 0.34, respectively). Chest X-ray detected 89% (range 73-98%) of bacteriologically-confirmed TB disease, highlighting the potential of optimizing current TB case-finding policies.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Subclinical tuberculosis disease - a review and analysis of prevalence surveys to inform definitions, burden, associations and screening methodology |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/cid/ciaa1402 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1402 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
| Keywords: | Chest X-ray screening, Subclinical TB, Symptom screening, TB prevalence surveys, TB screening |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112841 |
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