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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...
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. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2007
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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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