Prevalence of latent tuberculosis in end stage renal disease patients at Baghdad teaching hospital

ABSTRACT

Background: Tuberculosis [TB] is one of the oldest diseases known to affect humans, it caused by infection with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis [MTB]. MTB is most commonly transmitted from a patient with infectious pulmonary TB to other person by droplet nuclei. End Stage Renal Disease [ESRD] patients are exposed to a variety of infections, including TB. The standard test for detecting Latent TB infection [LTBI] is tuberculin skin test [TST]