A 28-year-old Inuk man living in a remote Arctic community presents for employment screening. His grandmother died from tuberculosis, and the communit...

Question

A 28-year-old Inuk man living in a remote Arctic community presents for employment screening. His grandmother died from tuberculosis, and the community has a known high incidence of TB. He has no symptoms. What is the most appropriate strategy regarding TB?

Accepted Answer

Screen with a tuberculin skin test or interferon-gamma release assay and offer latent TB infection treatment if positive

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No screening is necessary because he is asymptomatic

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Only screen if chest x-ray is abnormal

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Empirically start full 4-drug TB treatment

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Advise him to seek care only if he develops cough or weight loss

ca-mccqe1 MCQ (SBA): Latent tuberculosis screening in Indigenous populations

A 28-year-old Inuk man living in a remote Arctic community presents for employment screening. His grandmother died from tuberculosis, and the community has a known high incidence of TB. He has no symptoms. What is the most appropriate strategy regarding TB?