ManagementofLatentTuberculosisInfectionintheForeign-.pptVIP

Main Point: review of primary care management of LTBI. Main Point: Take LTBI seriously and as a risk for a serious disease for your patients. Supplement: “Often we treat latent TB as though it is not a real problem; it’s really active disease we worry about. It is helpful to think of latent TB as its own unique infection because it changes the way you address it. To make an analogy, low level HTN is not such an issue, it’s what it can do that has us managing it because it is a risk factor for other things. And so we get excited about HTN and it’s the same way we need to see latent TB. It requ