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Kevin P. Cain

Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications -  84
Citations -  3147

Kevin P. Cain is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Population. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 77 publications receiving 2799 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin P. Cain include Urbana University & Liverpool John Moores University.

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Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance: a prospective multicentre diagnostic accuracy study

TL;DR: For tuberculosis case detection, sensitivity ofXpert Ultra was superior to that of Xpert in Patients with paucibacillary disease and in patients with HIV, however, this increase in sensitivity came at the expense of a decrease in specificity.
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Tuberculosis among foreign-born persons in the United States.

TL;DR: The relative yield of finding and treating latent TB infection is particularly high among individuals from most countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
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An Algorithm for Tuberculosis Screening and Diagnosis in People with HIV

TL;DR: It is likely that antiretroviral therapy and isoniazid preventive therapy can be started safely in people whose screening for all three symptoms is negative, whereas diagnosis in most others will require mycobacterial culture.
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Yield of Acid-fast Smear and Mycobacterial Culture for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

TL;DR: In people with HIV living in settings where mycobacterial culture is not routinely available to all patients, a third sputum smear adds little to the diagnosis of TB, and broth-based culture of three spUTum specimens diagnoses most TB cases.