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Relating Tuberculosis (TB) Contact Characteristics to QuantiFERON-TB-Gold and Tuberculin Skin Test Results in the Toronto Pediatric TB Clinic

2014; Oxford University Press; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/jpids/piu024

ISSN

2048-7207

Autores

Winsley Rose, Stanley Read, Ari Bitnun, E Rea, Derek Stephens, W. Pongsamart, Ian Kitai,

Tópico(s)

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment

Resumo

BackgroundFew data relate interferon-γ-release-assay results in children to source case sputum status, the best predictor of infectiousness of tuberculosis (TB) patients. We evaluated the QuantiFERON-Gold-in-tube assay (QFT) and tuberculin skin test (TST) in children with different types of TB exposure.

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