TB / Atypical Mycobacteria Flashcards
How many people with latent TB go on to have active disease
5-10%
In HIV its 10% per year
When is a 5mm on PPD mantoux test positive? Who is 10mm? 15mm?
-HIV-positive or immunosuppressed patients
-Recent contacts of TB case
-fibrotic changes on chest radiograph consistent with old healed TB
10mm - pepeople with some risk factor eg immigrants
- work in healthcare
15mm - no risk factors and healthy
Why use Quantiferon-TB to test for latent infection
Zero cross-reactivity with BCG
latent TB rx? in HIV? Alternative?
6 months isoniazid daily (WHO)
9 months in HIV
Rifampicin for 4 months alternative
What % Tb is pulmonary? What if HIV positive ?
85%
In HIV
- PULMONARY– 40%
- EXTRAPULMONARY AND SYSTEMIC 30-40%
- PULMONARY PLUS EXTRAPULMONARY– 20-30%
Which TB usually causes GI TB infection? from?
Bovine TB
Consumption of milk
How much TB do you need for a positive AFB in sputum
Requires 10,000 organisms/ml
-Often takes 5 months of infection
Best quick way to test for TB
Molecular (Xpert MTB/RIF assay) - most specific and tells if rifampicin resistant
Pleural TB best dx if no Xpert MTB/RIF assay
Biopsy more sensitive than effusion
Pleural TB best dx if no Xpert MTB/RIF assay
Culture effusion - much more sensitive than biosy
Where 90% of TB lymphadenitis? Key Sx
Neck and head
Often Systemicall well - With NO fever
3 types of cutaneous TB
- Primary cutaneous (exogenous source)
-More like an ulcer - Secondary Acute hematogenous papules and pustules
* Lupus vulgaris: Multiple nodules and plaques
on face and neck - Tuberculids
-Allergic reaction without AFB in the skin
-Commonly with erythema nodosum
Most common presentation of GU TB
“Aseptic” pyuria (50-80%) i
Who has very high rates of developing tb meningitis as their presenting feature in 10%
children <1
Pulmonary disease 30-40%
TB meningitis or miliary disease 10%
Prevention of tb in children
BCG at birth
Logistic reasons sputum samples are poor for TB diagnosis
Smear only analyses 0.1ml
Requires cold chain transportation
Lack of well trained lab technicians
How to improve sensitivity of sputum collection for TB
Early morning
Centrifuge
Well trained staff
Fluorescence (auramine) microscopy
Why is fluorescence (auramine) microscpy better than ZN
Cheaper
Takes less time
More sensitive
[BUT microscope is much more expensive]
Culture for TB done on?
Lowenstein-jensen medium
Culture for TB done on?
Lowenstein-jensen medium
ZHeill-neilson stain what do cultured TB look like
Cording (like a purple star)
TB Drug sennsitiviy testing is usually using a …. medium? Eg?
Liquid - MGIT (Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube)
Solid - Eg Lowenstein-Jensen medium
-Add different abx to various tubes
Which is fastest diagnosis of TB
Xpert MTB/Rif - also works for csf
Which TB molecular test is read with a naked eye key issue?
LAMP - Can do multiple samples at once
Does NOT give any drug resistance
Who could you use a TB urine test for
LF-LAM test - Only patients with active disease
HIV positive with CD4 <100
Results in <30mins
Low sensitivities 50% if not above population
Which population is the XpertMTB ultra especially better in? Issue with all xpertmtb vs LAMP or PCR?
Hiv positive
If power goes out loose sample unlike pcr - also a bit less robust eg to dust / temperature
Which tb test for rapid screening of big populations eg prison
LAMP - Does16 tests at once
TB rx
RIPE
RI 6m
PE 2m only
Mono-resistance:
* Poly-resistance:
* Multidrug-Resistant ( MDR-TB): r
* Pre-XDR :
* Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR-TB):
Mono-resistance: One single drug
- Poly-resistance: Multiple drugs but not MDR/RR-TB
- Multidrug-Resistant ( MDR-TB): At least resistant to INH and Rif
- Rifampin resistant (RR-TB): Rifampin resistant tuberculosis. Consider equivalent as MDR ~90%.
- Pre-XDR : MDR/RR-TB + resistant to any fluoroquinolone
- Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR-TB): MDR/RR-TB + resistant to any fluoroquinolone + one additional Group A drug
which of the 1st line TB drugs is has the highest bacteriocidal activity
Isoniazid
Which RIPE TB drug has the best sterilising activity
Pyrazinamide
- Kills inactive bacteria in macrophages - > prevents relapse
TB where means you need to extend therapy to 12 months
CNS
Bone and joints
To 12 months
[Disseminated only 6months]
In TB meningitis and new diagnosis HIV when start ARV?
Not until end of the intensive phase (within 4-8weeks)
Start ARV within 2 weeks if CD4 <50 and prophylactic abx in resource rich setting
Most common acute complications TB meningitis
SIADH / cerebral salt wasting - HypoNa in 50%
Vasculitis/stroke ~60% Eg Hemiparesis
Tuburculomas
TB meningitis how to prevent vasculitis
Aspirin
Which TB course can be 4 months
Rifapentine / INH /PZA / Moxifloxacin
Protrusion of back with bruising clinical name [in Potts]
Gibus
What part of vertebrae does pots start on?
Lytic destruction of anterior portion of the vertebral body
50% of MDRTB from
India
Russia
China
rifampicin-susceptible and isoniazid-resistant
tuberculosis rx? Exemptions?
rifampicin, ethambutol, pyrazinamide
and levofloxacin for 6 (or 9) months§
in cases where resistance to rifampicin cannot be
excluded (i.e. unknown susceptibility to rifampicin;
indeterminate/error results on Xpert MTB/RIF);
* known or suspected resistance to levofloxacin;
* known intolerance to fluoroquinolones;
* known or suspected risk for prolonged QT-interval;
MDR TB short course rx
BPaLM is 6 months
bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, moxifloxacin
BPaL is 9 months (I’ll B your PaL for longer)
How to make long regime for xdr TB
Group A Pick 3
Levofloxacin/Moxifloxacin
Bedaquiline
Linezolid
Add 2 of: Group B
Clofazimine
Cycloserine or
Terizidone
If still don’t have 4 drugs…Add from Group C
Ethambutol
Delamanid
Pyrazinamide
Amikacin
Ethionamide/Prothionamide
Imipenem-cilastatin
Meropenem
PAS
Key side effects linezolid
Myelosuppression, peripheral and optic neuropathy
TB resistant to Rif/Isoniazid, fluoro/aminoglycoside =? rx?
XDR TB
Individualised long regime
-At least 4 drugs in the intensive phase
-At least 3 drugs when bedaquiline stopped (as max 6m)
-Treat for 15m following culture conversion
Surgery if localised disease
Treatment in hospital
When must you treat TB in a hospital?
XDR TB
Household contact rx of MDR TB
Moxifloxacin 6 months
Who should get screened for TB in HIV
Any 1 of 4 symptoms
current cough, fever, weight loss or night sweats
Who should get screened for TB in HIV
Any of 4 symptoms
-current cough, fever, weight loss or night sweats
Crp>5
Benefits of LAM urine POC testing in HIV
Picks up most cases of those who would die soon
Cheap test
Rx of TB in HIV? When start ARV?
Same as normal RIPE
Start early ARV during TB rx
ALWAYS within 2 weeks if CD4 <50
Or within 8 weeks otherwise
Only side effect of starting ART within 2 weeks of TB therapy
Immune reconstruction syndrome (no increase in mortality)
When might you delay ARV slightly in TB-HIV coinfection
TB meningitis - wait 4-8 weeks