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1377. Use of Interferon-Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs) Reduced Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) Diagnosis in Refugee and Immigrant Children

BACKGROUND: For foreign-born children from countries with high tuberculosis (TB) burden, positive tuberculin skin test (TST) results, associated with Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccination, paradoxically increase the risk for overdiagnosis and overtreatment of latent TB infection (LTBI) during i...

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Publicat a:Open Forum Infect Dis
Autors principals: Kushner, Lauren E, Mony, Vidya, Vu, David M
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: Oxford University Press 2019
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6808690/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1241
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