The distribution of tuberculin reaction among children at school entry in Madaba, Jordan | Zendy

Seif El Din S. Hussein | Zendy; Alim A. H. Yaccub | Zendy

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The distribution of tuberculin reaction among children at school entry in Madaba, Jordan

Author(s) -

Seif El Din S. Hussein,

Alim A. H. Yaccub

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

eastern mediterranean health journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442

H-Index - 47

eISSN - 1687-1634

pISSN - 1020-3397

DOI - 10.26719/1996.2.1.135

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculin , pediatrics , tuberculin test , demography , environmental health , tuberculosis , pathology , sociology

The present study reports the results of a tuberculin test survey of a representative sample of BCG unvaccinated children at school entry age in the Madaba district in Jordan in 1991-92. Preschool household contacts of positive schoolchildren and a 5% random sample of negative schoolchildren were also screened by the same test. Three out of the 746 children screened by the initial school survey were found to be positive giving a prevalence rate of 0.4%. The overall prevalence rate of infection among preschool contacts was found to be 10.1% [28.6% among the contacts of the positive schoolchildren compared to 8.1% among contacts of the negative children]

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