Agreement between QuantiFERON(®)-TB Gold In-Tube and the tuberculin skin test and predictors of positive test results in Warao Amerindian pediatric tuberculosis contacts

BACKGROUND: Interferon-gamma release assays have emerged as a more specific alternative to the tuberculin skin test (TST) for detection of tuberculosis (TB) infection, especially in Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccinated people. We determined the prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection...

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Autores principales: Verhagen, Lilly M, Maes, Mailis, Villalba, Julian A, d’Alessandro, Adriana, Rodriguez, Lazaro Perez, España, Mercedes F, Hermans, Peter WM, de Waard, Jacobus H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4227090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25012075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-383

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