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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...
Autores principales: | Talbot, Elizabeth A., Maro, Isaac, Ferguson, Katherine, Adams, Lisa V., Mtei, Lillian, Matee, Mecky, von Reyn, C. Fordham |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2012
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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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