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International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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1 International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Prevalence of Latent Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) in Saudi Arabia; Population based survey  Hanan H. Balkhy, Kamel El Beltagy, Aiman El-Saed, Badr Aljasir, Abdulhakeem Althaqafi, Adel F. Alothman, Mohammad Alshalaan, Hamdan Al-Jahdali  International Journal of Infectious Diseases  Volume 60, Pages (July 2017) DOI: /j.ijid Copyright © 2017 The Authors Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Prevalence of LTBI using TST and QFT-GIT by age and gender groups. The prevalence of LTBI was significantly different by age groups in both tests and in both genders (p<0001 in each). The prevalence of LTBI was significantly different by gender, only in age group years using TST (p<0001). International Journal of Infectious Diseases  , 11-16DOI: ( /j.ijid ) Copyright © 2017 The Authors Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 Annual risk of tuberculosis infection (ARTI) using TST and QFT-GIT by gender groups. ARTI was not significantly different by gender using TST or QFT-GIT. International Journal of Infectious Diseases  , 11-16DOI: ( /j.ijid ) Copyright © 2017 The Authors Terms and Conditions


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