Using ELISPOT to Expose False Positive Skin Test Conversion in Tuberculosis Contacts

BACKGROUND: Repeat tuberculin skin tests may be false positive due to boosting of waned immunity to past mycobacterial exposure. We evaluated whether an ELISPOT test could identify tuberculosis (TB) contacts with boosting of immunity to non-tuberculous mycobacterial exposure. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL F...

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Main Authors: Hill, Philip C., Jeffries, David J., Brookes, Roger H., Fox, Annette, Jackson-Sillah, Dolly, Lugos, Moses D., Donkor, Simon A., de Jong, Bouke C., Corrah, Tumani, Adegbola, Richard A., McAdam, Keith P.
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Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: Public Library of Science 2007
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Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779806/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17264885
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000183
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