Using ELISPOT to Expose False Positive Skin Test Conversion in Tuberculosis Contacts

BACKGROUND: Repeat tuberculin skin tests may be false positive due to boosting of waned immunity to past mycobacterial exposure. We evaluated whether an ELISPOT test could identify tuberculosis (TB) contacts with boosting of immunity to non-tuberculous mycobacterial exposure. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL F...

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Autores principales: Hill, Philip C., Jeffries, David J., Brookes, Roger H., Fox, Annette, Jackson-Sillah, Dolly, Lugos, Moses D., Donkor, Simon A., de Jong, Bouke C., Corrah, Tumani, Adegbola, Richard A., McAdam, Keith P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17264885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000183

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17264885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000183

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