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Impact of negative tuberculin skin test on growth among disadvantaged Bangladeshi children

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  • S M Abdul Gaffar
  • Mohammod Jobayer Chisti
  • Mustafa Mahfuz
  • Tahmeed Ahmed

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Millions of children are suffering from tuberculosis (TB) worldwide and often end-up with fatal outcome especially in resource-poor settings. Tuberculin skin test (TST) is a conventionally used diagnostic test, less sensitive but highly specific for the diagnosis of clinical TB especially in undernourished children. However, we do not have any data on the role of TST positivity among the children who received nutritional intervention. Our aim was to examine the growth differences between TST-positive and TST-negative undernourished children aged 12 to 18 months who received nutritional intervention prospectively for 90 feeding days. Our further aim was to explore the determinants of TST positivity at enrollment. TB screening as one of the secondary causes of malnutrition was performed on 243 stunted [length for age Z score (LAZ)

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  • S M Abdul Gaffar & Mohammod Jobayer Chisti & Mustafa Mahfuz & Tahmeed Ahmed, 2019. "Impact of negative tuberculin skin test on growth among disadvantaged Bangladeshi children," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(11), pages 1-11, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0224752
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224752
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