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Risk of Tuberculosis Among Patients on Dialysis: The Predictive Value of Serial Interferon-Gamma Release Assay

Patients on long-term dialysis are at high risk for tuberculosis (TB). Although latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is good target for TB eradication, interferon-gamma release assay-defined LTBI has a high proportion of negative conversion and lacks active TB correlation among patients on dialysis....

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Autores principales: Shu, Chin-Chung, Hsu, Chia-Lin, Wei, Yu-Feng, Lee, Chih-Yuan, Liou, Hung-Hsiang, Wu, Vin-Cent, Yang, Feng-Jung, Lin, Hsien-Ho, Wang, Jann-Yuan, Chen, Jin-Shing, Yu, Chong-Jen, Lee, Li-Na
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4900731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27258523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000003813