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As part of tuberculosis control and the WHO end-TB strategy, contact persons of tuberculosis patients in Germany are examined for a possible infection with latent tuberculosis (LTBI). Activation of LTBI contributes a considerable proportion of newly reported tuberculosis cases in low-incidence countries such as Germany. Therefore, the aim is to detect cases of LTBI and, through chemopreventive treatment of these cases, prevent future, post-primary, active tuberculosis.In Germany, the rate of LTBI among contact persons of people diagn