Updated Recommendation
A new evidence synthesis was published:2024, WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 1: prevention: tuberculosis preventive treatment, 2nd ed
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Recommendation
Recommended against
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Very low
Systematic latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing and treatment is not recommended for people with diabetes, people who engage in the harmful use of alcohol, tobacco smokers and underweight people unless they also belong to other risk groups included in the above recommendations.
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This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection
Latent tuberculosis infection: updated and consolidated guidelines for programmatic management
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 5: management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents.
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 1: prevention: tuberculosis preventive treatment, 2nd ed