Hiv and tuberculosis

[Marcos89 0]

Hi every body

I woul likevto know if a person who is hiv positive when go to the medical exam in his home country . is required to do a sputum to find tb bacterias. Because hi is hiv positive.  

I had hert that hiv positive has yo do a sputum no matter what . even is the xray and IGRA tes are negative

Please any advise

[Marcos89 0]

On 3/21/2019 at 3:28 PM, Marcos89 said:

Hi every body

I woul likevto know if a person who is hiv positive when go to the medical exam in his home country . is required to do a sputum to find tb bacterias. Because hi is hiv positive.  

I had hert that hiv positive has yo do a sputum no matter what . even is the xray and IGRA tes are negative

Please any advise

Any answer??

[Ate 180]

From https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/exams/ti/panel/tuberculosis-panel-technical-instructions.html --

 

People with HIV infection are less likely to have an abnormal chest x-ray during tuberculosis disease; and negative IGRA results do not rule out tuberculosis disease, thus all applicants with known HIV infection must provide sputum specimens for microscopy and culture regardless of IGRA and chest x-ray results in order to rule out tuberculosis disease.

 

[Marcos89 0]

11 minutes ago, Ate said:

From https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/exams/ti/panel/tuberculosis-panel-technical-instructions.html --

 

People with HIV infection are less likely to have an abnormal chest x-ray during tuberculosis disease; and negative IGRA results do not rule out tuberculosis disease, thus all applicants with known HIV infection must provide sputum specimens for microscopy and culture regardless of IGRA and chest x-ray results in order to rule out tuberculosis disease.

 

Thanks. So that means that person needs to do the sputum test .