Tuberculin skin test and QuantiFERON-Gold In Tube assay for diagnosis of latent TB infection among household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in high TB burden setting

BACKGROUND: World Health Organization (WHO) recommends systematic screening of high-risk populations, including household contacts (HHCs) of adult pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients, as a key strategy for elimination of TB. QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) assay and tuberculin skin test (TST)...

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Autores principales: Chandrasekaran, Padmapriyadarsini, Mave, Vidya, Thiruvengadam, Kannan, Gupte, Nikhil, Shivakumar, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra, Hanna, Luke Elizabeth, Kulkarni, Vandana, Kadam, Dileep, Dhanasekaran, Kavitha, Paradkar, Mandar, Thomas, Beena, Kohli, Rewa, Dolla, Chandrakumar, Bharadwaj, Renu, Sivaramakrishnan, Gomathi Narayan, Pradhan, Neeta, Gupte, Akshay, Murali, Lakshmi, Valvi, Chhaya, Swaminathan, Soumya, Gupta, Amita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30067752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199360

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30067752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199360

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