Annual Risk of Tuberculous Infection Using Different Methods in Communities with a High Prevalence of TB and HIV in Zambia and South Africa 英文参考文献.docVIP
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Annual Risk of Tuberculous Infection Using Different Methods in Communities with a High Prevalence of TB and HIV in Zambia and South Africa 英文参考文献
AnnualRiskofTuberculousInfectionUsingDifferent
MethodsinCommunitieswithaHighPrevalenceofTB
andHIVinZambiaandSouthAfrica
KwameShanaube1*,CharalambosSismanidis2,HelenAyles1,2,NuldaBeyers3,AbSchaap1,2 ,Katherine-
AnneLawrence3,AnnieBarker3,PeterGodfrey-Faussett2
1ZAMBART Project, UniversityTeachingHospital,Lusaka, Zambia,2London SchoolofHygieneandTropicalMedicine,London,United Kingdom, 3Desmond TutuTB
Centre,StellenboschUniversity,SouthAfrica
Abstract
Background:Theannualriskoftuberculousinfection(ARTI)isakeyepidemiologicalindicatoroftheextentoftransmission
inacommunity.Severalmethodshavebeensuggestedtoestimatetheprevalenceoftuberculousinfectionusingtuberculin
skintestdata.ThispaperexplorestheimplicationsofusingdifferentmethodstoestimateprevalenceofinfectionandARTI.
TheeffectofBCGvaccinationontheseestimatesisalsoinvestigated.
Methodology/PrincipalFindings:Tuberculinsurveysamongschoolchildrenin16communitiesinZambiaand8inSouth
Africa(SA)wereperformedin2005,aspartofbaselinedatacollectionandforrandomisationpurposesoftheZAMSTAR
study. Infection prevalence and ARTI estimates were calculated using five methods: different cut-offs with or without
adjustments for sensitivity, the mirror method, and mixture analysis. A total of 49,835 children were registered for the
surveys,ofwhich25,048(50%)hadskintestsdoneand22,563(90%)ofthosetestedwereread.Infectionprevalencewas
higherinthecombinedSAthanZambiancommunities.Themirrormethodresultedintheleastdifferenceof7.8%,whereas
that estimated by the cut-off methods varied from 12.2% to 17.3%. The ARTI in the Zambian and SA communities was
between0.8%and2.8%and2.5%and4.2%respectively,dependingonthemethodused.IntheSAcommunities,theARTI
washigheramongtheyoungerchildren.BCGvaccinationhadlittleeffectontheseestimates.
Conclusions/Significance:ARTIestimatesaredependentonthecalculationmethodused.Allmethodsagreedthattherewere
substantialdifferencesininfectionprevalenceacrossthecommunities,withhigherratesinSA.AlthoughTBnotificationrates
havein
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