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. 2019 Aug 16;69(5):869-872.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz048.

Risk of Latent Tuberculosis Reactivation After Hematopoietic cell Transplantation

Matthew P Cheng  1   2   3 , Amanda E Kusztos  1   2 , Tyler D Bold  1   3   4 , Vincent T Ho  2   3 , Brett E Glotzbecker  2   3 , Candace Hsieh  2 , Meghan A Baker  1   2   3 , Lindsey R Baden  1   2   3 , Sarah P Hammond  1   2   3 , Francisco M Marty  1   2   3
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Risk of Latent Tuberculosis Reactivation After Hematopoietic cell Transplantation

Matthew P Cheng et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

There were no cases of tuberculosis in a cohort of 2531 patients who underwent hematopoietic cell transplantation from 2010 to 2015 after 7323 person-years of follow up (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.0-0.05 cases/100 person-years), including 29 (1.15%) patients with untreated latent tuberculosis after 89 person-years of follow-up (95% CI, 0.0-4.06 cases/100 person-years).

Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; LTBI; TB; allogeneic; hematopoietic cell transplantation.

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Summary of latent tuberculosis infection outcomes of all patients who received hematopoietic cell transplants at Dana-Farber Cancer Center from January 2010 through January 2015. See text for details. Abbreviations: HCT, hematopoietic cell transplant; LTBI, latent tuberculosis infection.
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