Transmission ofMycobacterium tuberculosisFrom Patients Who Are Nucleic Acid Amplification Test Negative | Zendy

Yingda L. Xie | Zendy; Wendy Cronin | Zendy; Michael A. Proschan | Zendy; Richard Oatis | Zendy; Silvia Cohn | Zendy; Scott Curry | Zendy; Jonathan E. Golub | Zendy; Clifton E. Barry | Zendy; Susan E. Dorman | Zendy

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Transmission ofMycobacterium tuberculosisFrom Patients Who Are Nucleic Acid Amplification Test Negative

Author(s) -

Yingda L. Xie,

Wendy Cronin,

Michael A. Proschan,

Richard Oatis,

Silvia Cohn,

Scott Curry,

Jonathan E. Golub,

Clifton E. Barry,

Susan E. Dorman

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciy365

Subject(s) - nucleic acid amplification tests , medicine , mycobacterium tuberculosis , virology , tuberculosis , microbiology and biotechnology , nucleic acid , transmission (telecommunications) , mycobacterium tuberculosis complex , biology , genetics , pathology , chlamydia trachomatis , electrical engineering , engineering

Among adults with signs and symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), recognition of transmissible TB has implications for airborne infection isolation and public health activities. Sputum smear-negative TB patients account for around one-fifth of tuberculosis transmission. The tuberculosis transmission risk of TB patients with negative results on nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) of respiratory specimens has not been established. We sought to estimate the tuberculosis transmission risk of NAAT-negative TB patients.

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