Comparison of Mantoux and QuantiFERON TB Gold Tests for Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Army Personnel

The tuberculin skin test (TST) was compared with QuantiFERON-TB Gold in-tube (QFT-GIT) test for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in non-Mycobacterium bovis BCG-vaccinated military personnel. Among subjects positive by TST, 44.4% of recruits were positive by QFT-GIT compared with 11.5% subjects tested a...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Franken, Willeke P. J., Timmermans, Joost F., Prins, Corine, Slootman, Evert-Jan H. J., Dreverman, Johan, Bruins, Hans, van Dissel, Jaap T., Arend, Sandra M.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: American Society for Microbiology 2007
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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1865601/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17301213
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/CVI.00463-06
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