Interpreting Tuberculin Skin Tests in a Population With a High Prevalence of HIV, Tuberculosis, and Nonspecific Tuberculin Sensitivity

Understanding the epidemiology and clinical course of tuberculosis is hampered by the absence of a perfect test for latent tuberculosis infection. The tuberculin skin test (TST) is widely used but suffers poor specificity in those receiving the bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine and poor sensitivity in...

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Main Authors: Dodd, Peter J., Millington, Kerry A., Ghani, Azra C., Mutsvangwa, Junior, Butterworth, Anthony E., Lalvani, Ajit, Corbett, Elizabeth L.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Oxford University Press 2010
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Practice of Epidemiology
Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2858871/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20382638
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwq017
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