Tuberculin skin test and QuantiFERON-Gold In Tube assay for diagnosis of latent TB infection among household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in high TB burden setting

BACKGROUND: World Health Organization (WHO) recommends systematic screening of high-risk populations, including household contacts (HHCs) of adult pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients, as a key strategy for elimination of TB. QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) assay and tuberculin skin test (TST)...

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Autori principali: Chandrasekaran, Padmapriyadarsini, Mave, Vidya, Thiruvengadam, Kannan, Gupte, Nikhil, Shivakumar, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra, Hanna, Luke Elizabeth, Kulkarni, Vandana, Kadam, Dileep, Dhanasekaran, Kavitha, Paradkar, Mandar, Thomas, Beena, Kohli, Rewa, Dolla, Chandrakumar, Bharadwaj, Renu, Sivaramakrishnan, Gomathi Narayan, Pradhan, Neeta, Gupte, Akshay, Murali, Lakshmi, Valvi, Chhaya, Swaminathan, Soumya, Gupta, Amita
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Public Library of Science 2018
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070176/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30067752
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199360
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