Walter Nicholas D, Jasmer Robert M, Grinsdale Jennifer, Kawamura L Masae, Hopewell Philip C, Nahid Payam
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 94110, USA.
Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Jan 1;46(1):103-6. doi: 10.1086/523733.
Analysis of whether assiduous implementation of American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines for targeted testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection could have prevented any of 223 cases of active tuberculosis in foreign-born persons in San Francisco during the period 2002-2003. We report that 62% of these cases were not preventable and conclude that a further reduction in the incidence of tuberculosis among foreign-born persons will be modest without modification of current guidelines.
分析美国胸科学会/疾病控制与预防中心/美国传染病学会针对潜伏性结核感染的靶向检测和治疗指南的严格实施是否能够预防2002年至2003年期间旧金山223例外国出生者的活动性结核病例中的任何一例。我们报告称，这些病例中有62%是无法预防的，并得出结论，在不修改现行指南的情况下，外国出生者中结核病发病率的进一步降低幅度将不大。
