Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

008. Prevalence of TB infection in Greek first—grade primary school students during the last 15 years

2015; AME Publishing Company; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2015.ab008

2077-6624

Elisabeth-Christina Filippidou, Vasilios Ioannidis, E Liolios, Athanasia Kalkantzi, Ekaterini Tsouknida, Alexis Politis, Polimnia Charalampous, Theodora Argiriadou, Aspasia Dellaporta,

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

Objective To monitor the changing prevalence of latent TB infection in first-grade primary school students over the last 15 years [1998-2013] in the county of Kavala in Greece, we recorded the Tuberculosis index (TB index) which represented the percentage of the population with a positive Mantoux Tuberculin Skin Test (TST).