Open AccessImpact of socioeconomic status and living condition on latent tuberculosis diagnosis among the tribal population of Melghat: A cohort study
Author(s) -
Rajpal S. Kashyap,
Amit R. Nayak,
Aliabbas A. Husain,
Seema D. Shekhawat,
Ashish Satav,
Ruchika Jain,
Dhananjay Raje,
Hatim F. Daginawala,
Girdhar M. Taori
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.184868
Subject(s) - medicine , latent tuberculosis , socioeconomic status , odds ratio , population , confidence interval , tuberculin , cohort , tuberculosis , demography , quantiferon , cohort study , environmental health , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology , sociology
To study socioeconomic status (SES) and living conditions (LC) as risk factors for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and their impact on QuantiFERON-TB gold (QFT-G) and tuberculin skin test (TST) outcome for determining a better diagnostic test for LTBI in the malnourished tribal population of Melghat.