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HIV patients with latent tuberculosis living in a low-endemic country do not develop active disease during a 2 year follow-up; a Norwegian prospective multicenter study

BACKGROUND: Interferon-γ release assays (IGRA) serve as immunodiagnostics of tuberculosis (TB) infection to identify individuals with latent TB infection (LTBI) eligible for preventive anti-TB therapy. In this longitudinal study of HIV-infected LTBI patients we have observed for possible progression...

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Autores principales: Pullar, Nadine Durema, Steinum, Harald, Bruun, Johan Nikolai, Dyrhol-Riise, Anne Ma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4273430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25515915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0667-0