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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Hlavní autoři:	Ehsan Mostafavi, Mahshid Nasehi, Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki, Saber Esmaeili, Ebrahim Ghaderi, Saeed Sharafi, Amin Doosti-Irani
Médium:	Artigo
Jazyk:	Inglês
Vydáno:	Korean Society of Epidemiology 2016-07-01
Edice:	Epidemiology and Health
Témata:	Latent tuberculosis Tuberculin skin test QuantiFERON-TB Gold Health care workers
On-line přístup:	http://www.e-epih.org/upload/pdf/epih-38-e2016032.pdf
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