Evaluation of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus for Predicting Incident Tuberculosis among Recent Contacts: A Prospective Cohort Study

The authors argue on the cohort study concerning the evaluation of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus for predicting incident tuberculosis among recent contacts. A new-generation QuantiFERON (QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus; QFT-Plus) was recently launched, adding a second TB antigen tube (TB2) that incorporates sho...

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Veröffentlicht in:	ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY 2020-05, Vol.17 (5), p.646-650
Hauptverfasser:	Gupta, Rishi K., Kunst, Heinke, Lipman, Marc, Noursadeghi, Mahdad, Jackson, Charlotte, Southern, Jo, Imran, Ambreen, Lozewicz, Stefan, Abubakar, Ibrahim
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Antigens Biomarkers Cohort analysis Contact Tracing - methods Female Humans Interferon-gamma Release Tests - methods Latent Tuberculosis - diagnosis Latent Tuberculosis - epidemiology Latent Tuberculosis - microbiology Letters Life Sciences & Biomedicine London - epidemiology Male Middle Aged Mycobacterium tuberculosis - immunology Peptides Predictive Value of Tests Prospective Studies Respiratory System ROC Curve Science & Technology Tuberculin Test - methods Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - microbiology Young Adult
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