
USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults
JAMA Clinical Reviews
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The Role of Screening in the Prevention of TB
The recommendation statement is really focused on people who are at high risk. So it isn't screening everybody, give me an idea of how we think about risk in this context. People who have increased risk here actually includes maybe three sets of people. The majority of people with TB in the US today come from five countries: Mexico, Philippines, India, Vietnam, and China.
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