Is the QuantiFERON-TB Blood Assay a Good Replacement for the Tuberculin Skin Test in Tuberculosis Screening?: A Pilot Study at Berkshire Medical Center

The QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube method (QFT-GIT; Cellestis, Carnegie, Australia) is a recently US Food and Drug Administration-approved interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) for the detection of tuberculosis infection, which has been screened for by the tuberculin skin test (TST) for nearly a centur...

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