Tuberculosis progression rates in U.S. Immigrants following screening with interferon-gamma release assays

BACKGROUND: Interferon-gamma release assays may be used as an alternative to the tuberculin skin test for detection of M. tuberculosis infection. However, the risk of active tuberculosis disease following screening using interferon-gamma release assays in immigrants is not well defined. To address t...

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Autores principales: Blount, Robert J., Tran, Minh-Chi, Everett, Charles K., Cattamanchi, Adithya, Metcalfe, John Z., Connor, Denise, Miller, Cecily R., Grinsdale, Jennifer, Higashi, Julie, Nahid, Payam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4997768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27558397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3519-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4997768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27558397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3519-6

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