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The Direct Comparison of Two Interferon-gamma Release Assays in the Tuberculosis Screening of Japanese Healthcare Workers
OBJECTIVE: Two interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs), the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) and T-SPOT.TB (T-SPOT), are commercially available. The agreement between the two IGRAs in the screening of healthcare workers (HCWs) for latent tuberculosis is not well known. METHODS: The QFT-GIT and...
Autores principales: | Tanabe, Masaki, Nakamura, Akiko, Arai, Akie, Yamasaki, Daisuke, Hirano, Kyoko, Kobayashi, Tetsu, Taguchi, Osamu, Kaneko, Toshihiro, Ito, Masaaki |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5457919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28381742 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.56.7533 |
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