@article {4757,
	title = {Screening for tuberculosis in the study of the living renal donor in a developing country},
	volume = {81},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Jan},
	abstract = {Given the high prevalence of tuberculosis (Tb) in the Mexican population, a strict program to detect Tb in the potential donor is required. Chest x-ray, excretory urogram, urinalysis with microscopic exam of the sediment, urine cultures for M. tuberculosis, and tuberculin skin test (TST) with PPD-RT23 performed for evaluation of 222 living donors were reviewed. Isoniazid prophylaxis before kidney donation was gathered. Donors and recipients were followed up for a minimum of 2 years. According to the TST result, 36.8\% of the donors had latent tuberculosis; however, all other studies were normal or negative in all of them. Use of isoniazid prophylaxis in TST-positive donors made no difference in risk of transmission of tuberculosis to the recipient or development of tuberculosis among the donors. Normal chest x-ray and excretory urogram, along with a negative microscopic examination of the urine, safely exclude tuberculosis transmission to recipients.},
	doi = {10.1097/01.tp.0000188689.41785.d8},
	author = {Hern{\'a}ndez-Hern{\'a}ndez, E and Alber{\'u}, J and Gonz{\'a}lez-Michaca, L and Bobadilla-del Valle, M and Quiroz-Mej{\'\i}a, RA and Baizabal-Olarte, R and Correa-Rotter, R and Sifuentes-Osornio, J}
}
