Maintenance of Sensitivity of the T-SPOT.TB Assay after Overnight Storage of Blood Samples, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Background. T-SPOT.TB is an interferon gamma release assay for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The requirement to process within 8 hours is constraining, deters use, and leads to invalid results. Addition of T Cell Xtend reagent may allow delayed processing, but has not been extensiv...

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Autores principales: Talbot, Elizabeth A., Maro, Isaac, Ferguson, Katherine, Adams, Lisa V., Mtei, Lillian, Matee, Mecky, von Reyn, C. Fordham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Clinical Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/345290

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/345290

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