Brief Report: Performance of Tuberculosis Symptom Screening Among Hospitalized ART-Naive Children With HIV in Kenya

Conclusions: The WHO TB symptom screen was highly sensitive but resulted in a high proportion of hospitalized CHIV who would require TB diagnostic evaluation. Other published TB screening criteria missed CHIV with confirmed TB. Our optimized screening tool increased specificity while preserving sensitivity. Future multicenter studies are needed to improve TB screening tools for CHIV in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Source: JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes - Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Clinical Science Source Type: research