Comparison of the tuberculin skin test and the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test in detecting latent tuberculosis in health care workers in Iran

OBJECTIVES: The tuberculin skin test (TST) and the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test (QFT) are used to identify latent tuberculosis infections (LTBIs). The aim of this study was to determine the agreement between these two tests among health care workers in Iran. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included...

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Autores principales: Mostafavi, Ehsan, Nasehi, Mahshid, Hashemi Shahraki, Abdolrazagh, Esmaeili, Saber, Ghaderi, Ebrahim, Sharafi, Saeed, Doosti-Irani, Amin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Epidemiology 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27457062
http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2016032

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