Implementation and Challenges to Latent Tuberculosis Infection Care in Malaysia
- Yen Jun Wong
- Shaun Lee
DOIAbstract
introduction Tuberculosis (TB) caused a total death toll of 1.5 million out of 10 million infected world population in 2018.1 • The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nation (UN) advocate the commitment in latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) care in countries with lower incidence of TB (TB incidence rate <100 per 100,000 population) to end the TB epidemic by the next decade. Screening and treating LTBI is one of the TB preventive strategies, targeting asymptomatic individuals infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that remains dormant and nontransmissible. Malaysia is a country with TB incidence rate of 92 and mortality rate of 6.6 per 100 000 population in 2018. Through LTBI identification, preventing TB reactivation among the...
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