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LTBI

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LTBI (plural LTBIs)

Initialism of latent tuberculosis infection: the condition of being infected with tuberculosis but without symptoms of the active disease.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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About 90% of those infected with M. tuberculosis have asymptomatic, latent TB infections (sometimes called LTBI), with only a 10% lifetime chance that the latent infection will progress to overt, active tuberculous disease. Source: Internet

Therefore, a positive TST/PPD in a person who has received BCG vaccine is interpreted as latent TB infection (LTBI). Source: Internet

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