An opposing view on including high school students in a latent tuberculosis infection control program in Korea

The Korea Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (KCDC) has announced a control program against latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (LTBI), for a “TB-safe country” this year with the goal of a “TB-free Korea” by 2025. The program includes high school students as one target group; howeve...

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Autor principal: Bae, Jong-Myon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Epidemiology 2017
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28395400
http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2017015
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description The Korea Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (KCDC) has announced a control program against latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (LTBI), for a “TB-safe country” this year with the goal of a “TB-free Korea” by 2025. The program includes high school students as one target group; however, some school health teachers and parents have expressed their opposition to this. The 2015 World Health Organization guidelines do not recommend inclusion of asymptomatic high school students in LTBI control programs. Based on this guideline, the KCDC should consider excluding this population from the program.
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spelling pubmed-54342242017-05-25 An opposing view on including high school students in a latent tuberculosis infection control program in Korea Bae, Jong-Myon Epidemiol Health Perspective The Korea Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (KCDC) has announced a control program against latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (LTBI), for a “TB-safe country” this year with the goal of a “TB-free Korea” by 2025. The program includes high school students as one target group; however, some school health teachers and parents have expressed their opposition to this. The 2015 World Health Organization guidelines do not recommend inclusion of asymptomatic high school students in LTBI control programs. Based on this guideline, the KCDC should consider excluding this population from the program. Korean Society of Epidemiology 2017-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5434224/ /pubmed/28395400 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2017015 Text en © 2017 Copyright Korean Society of Epidemiology This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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