Diagnosis and follow-up of treatment of latent tuberculosis; the utility of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-tube assay in outpatients from a tuberculosis low-endemic country

BACKGROUND: Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) Release Assays (IGRA) are more specific than the tuberculosis skin test (TST) in the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI). We present the performance of the QuantiFERON(®)-TB Gold In-tube (QFT-TB) assay as diagnostic test and during follow-up of...

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Autores principales: Dyrhol-Riise, Anne M, Gran, Gerd, Wentzel-Larsen, Tore, Blomberg, Bjørn, Haanshuus, Christel Gill, Mørkve, Odd
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20210999
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-57

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20210999
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-57

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