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Use of tuberculin skin test for assessment of immune recovery among previously malnourished children in Ethiopia

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, November 2017
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Title
Use of tuberculin skin test for assessment of immune recovery among previously malnourished children in Ethiopia
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BMC Research Notes, November 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13104-017-2909-x
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Paluku Bahwere, Philip James, Alemseged Abdissa, Yesufe Getu, Yilak Getnet, Kate Sadler, Tsinuel Girma

Abstract

To compare levels of immunity in children recovering from severe acute malnutrition (cases) against those of community controls (controls). At baseline children recovering from severe acute malnutrition had lower, mid upper arm circumference (122 mm for cases and 135 mm for controls; p < 0.001), weight-for-height Z-score (- 1.0 for cases and - 0.5 for controls; p < 0.001), weight-for-age Z-score (- 2.8 for cases and - 1.1 for controls; p < 0.001) and height/length-for-age Z-score (- 3.6 for cases and - 1.4 for controls; p < 0.001), than controls. Age and gender matched community controls. At baseline, prevalence of a positive tuberculin skin test, assessed by cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction skin test, was very low in both cases (3/93 = 3.2%) and controls (2/94 = 2.1%) and did not significantly increase at 6 months follow up (6/86 = 7.0% in cases and 3/84 = 3.4% in controls). The incidences of common childhood morbidities, namely fever, diarrhoea and cough, were 1.7-1.8 times higher among cases than controls. In conclusion, these results show that tuberculin skin test does not enable any conclusive statements regarding the immune status of patients following treatment for severe acute malnutrition. The increased incidence of infection in cases compared to controls suggests persistence of lower resistance to infection even after anthropometric recovery is achieved.

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Unknown 47 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 9%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Lecturer 3 6%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Student > Master 3 6%
Other 9 19%
Unknown 21 45%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Social Sciences 3 6%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 22 47%
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#3,118,454
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