Fig 1.
TST = tuberculin skin test.
Fig 2.
Histogram of non-zero induration from tuberculin skin tests.
Among the 3,121 children who had TSTs placed and read, 2425 (77.7%) had an induration of 0 millimeters (mm) and 696 (22.3%) had a non-zero mm induration. The mode of non-zero indurations was 8mm.
Table 1.
Characteristics of youth 5–19 years of age participating in the TB Infection Household Survey in 9 rural communities in Uganda.
Fig 3.
Population-level age-stratified prevalence estimates of TB infection, defined as a positive tuberculin skin test (TST), in duration >10mm or >5mm if living with HIV.
Table 2.
Association between TB infection and individual, household, and community-level predictors in children and adolescents in 9 rural communities in rural Uganda.
Table 3.
Association between prevalent TB infection in youth and proxies for household TB transmission, stratified by age group.