T-cell-based diagnosis of tuberculosis infection in children in Lithuania: a country of high incidence despite a high coverage with bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination

BACKGROUND: Lithuania is a country with a high incidence of tuberculosis (TB), despite a high coverage with bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination. Until now the only method used to detect latent TB infection was the tuberculin skin test (TST). However, TST may have a cross reactivity to the BCG...

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Autores principales: Hansted, Edita, Andriuskeviciene, Angele, Sakalauskas, Raimundas, Kevalas, Rimantas, Sitkauskiene, Brigita
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19689817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-9-41

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19689817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-9-41

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