Trend and treatment status of latent tuberculosis infection patients in Japan - Analysis of Japan TB Surveillance data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective and method

Management of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is one of the core elements of End TB Strategy. Japan is one of the few countries in which notification of LTBI is mandatory, yet so far, the data has not been analyzed in detail. We thus conducted a cross-sectional study to examine the trend of LTBI, its treatment outcome and factors predicting treatment non-completion in Japan for the period of 2007 and 2014, using the data from the electronic Japan Tuberculosis Surveillance system. Treatment completion was defined as those whose reason for terminating the treatment was recorded as "treatment completed" and whose treatment duration was 180 days or more.

Results

During the study period, a total of 50,268 LTBI patients were notified, of which 49,525, who

SUBMITTER: Kawatsu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665521 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature