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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,...
Autores principales: | Dewan, Puneet Kumar, Grinsdale, Jennifer, Liska, Sally, Wong, Ernest, Fallstad, Robert, Kawamura, L Masae |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2006
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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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