Tuberculosis contact investigation in an intermediate burden setting: implications from a large tuberculosis contact cohort in Taiwan

Eur Respir J. 2017 Aug 24;50(2):1700851. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00851-2017. Print 2017 Aug.

Meng-Rui Lee^{1

2

3}, Cheng-Maw Ho⁴, Chih-Hsin Lee^{5

6}, Ming-Chia Lee^{7

8}, Lih-Yu Chang^{1

2}, Kai-Lun Yu^{1

2}, Jen-Chung Ko¹, Jann-Yuan Wang⁹, Jann-Tay Wang², Li-Na Lee^{2

10}

¹ Dept of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.
² Dept of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Dept of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁵ Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Dept of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Dept of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁷ Dept of Pharmacy, New Taipei City Hospital, New Taipei, Taiwan.
⁸ School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁹ Dept of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan jywang@ntu.edu.tw.
¹⁰ Dept of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abstract

Taiwan TB contact cohort: 0.5% 1-year yield, age ≥65 as significant risk factor and elevated TB risk at 5th year http://ow.ly/9ZGr30dpkMc