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The Tuberculin Skin Test versus QuantiFERON TB Gold® in Predicting Tuberculosis Disease in an Adolescent Cohort Study in South Africa

SETTING: This study was conducted in a high tuberculosis (TB) burden area in Worcester, South Africa, with a notified all TB incidence rate of 1,400/100,000. MAIN OBJECTIVE: To compare the predictive value of a baseline tuberculin skin test (TST) with that of the QuantiFERON TB Gold (In-tube) assay...

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Autores principales: Mahomed, Hassan, Hawkridge, Tony, Verver, Suzanne, Abrahams, Deborah, Geiter, Lawrence, Hatherill, Mark, Ehrlich, Rodney, Hanekom, Willem A., Hussey, Gregory D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21479236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017984