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Screening for latent tuberculosis in Norwegian health care workers: high frequency of discordant tuberculin skin test positive and interferon-gamma release assay negative results

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) presents globally a significant health problem and health care workers (HCW) are at increased risk of contracting TB infection. There is no diagnostic gold standard for latent TB infection (LTBI), but both blood based interferon-gamma release assays (IGRA) and the tuber...

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Autores principales: Gran, Gerd, Aßmus, Jörg, Dyrhol-Riise, Anne Ma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23590619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-353