Feasibility, acceptability, and cost of tuberculosis testing by whole-blood interferon-gamma assay

BACKGROUND: The whole-blood interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) is recommended in some settings as an alternative to the tuberculin skin test (TST). Outcomes from field implementation of the IGRA for routine tuberculosis (TB) testing have not been reported. We evaluated feasibility, acceptability,...

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Autores principales: Dewan, Puneet Kumar, Grinsdale, Jennifer, Liska, Sally, Wong, Ernest, Fallstad, Robert, Kawamura, L Masae
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1434750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16539718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-47

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1434750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16539718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-47

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