A healthy patient with positive mantoux test but negative quantiferon Gold assay and no evidence of risk factors – to treat or not to treat?

A 56-year-old woman who vaccinated as a child with the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), now tests positive to the tuberculin skin test (TST) but test negative to the Quantiferon Gold assay. She has no history of tuberculosis contact and is asymptomatic. This dilemma now is, should be treated for tube...

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Autores principales: Montane Jaime, Lazara Karelia, Akpaka, Patrick E., Vuma, Sehlule, Justiz-Vaillant, Angel A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00658

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00658

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