Predictive factors for repetition of the tuberculin test after a nonreactive test in patients with HIV/AIDS Factores predictivos para la repetición de la prueba de la tuberculina después de un resultado no reactivo en pacientes con infección por el VIH/sida

• Main Authors: Líbia Cristina Rocha Vilela Moura, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, Heloísa Ramos Lacerda, Demócrito Barros Miranda-Filho, Maria Tereza Barbosa, Maria Rita Byington, Maria de Fátima Pessoa Militão Albuquerque
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2012
• Subjects: Prueba de tuberculina; tuberculosis latente; VIH; Brasil; Tuberculin test; latent tuberculosis; HIV; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Meier; Referencia; Sida
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/04368fcdc678439a91e5b2006d65fd78

OBJECTIVE: The outcome of interest was repetition of the tuberculin skin test (TST) and the objectives were to estimate the rate of TST repetition, the probability of no TST repetition after 1 year, and the probability of no TST repetition at the end of the follow-up period in patients whose initial...