Comstock. G. W. (Training Center for Public Health Research, Box 2067. Hagerstown, Md. 21740), V. T. Livesay and S. F. Woolpert. The prognosis of a positive tuberculin reaction in childhood and adolescence. Am J Epidemiol 99: 131-138, 1974.—In the course of a controlled trial of bacillus of Cairn ette and Guerin vaccination among Puerto Rican children in 1949-1961. 82,269 reactors to 1 or 10 tu...

Comprehensive new guidelines for screening, targeted testing, and treating latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in children and adolescents are presented. The recent epidemiology of TB and data on risk factors for LTBI are reviewed. The evidence-based recommendations provided emphasize the paradigm that children and adolescents should be screened for risk factors by using a risk-factor question...

Seven of twenty-eight (25%) patients with untreated tuberculosis had skin induration of less than 6 mm to one tuberculin unit (TU), and 3 (11%) to 10 TU PPD. Among twenty-four patients with lung disease, there were no detectable differences in radiological extent of disease between reactors and non-reactors to low-dose tuberculin. However, non-reactors were significantly more malnourished (P le...

Background & Objectives: Annually, many Muslims fast during the month of Ramadan worldwide. This practice has different favorable medical and physiological effects, such as improved serum lipid profile and blood glucose level due to changes in diet and sleep patterns. It has also been hypothesized that Ramadan fasting may affect the immune system. As reported, Ramadan fasting can influence the ...