A three-way comparison of tuberculin skin testing, QuantiFERON-TB gold and T-SPOT.TB in children.

A three-way comparison of tuberculin skin testing, QuantiFERON-TB gold and T-SPOT.TB in children.

<h4>Background</h4>There are limited data comparing the performance of the two commercially available interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) release assays (IGRAs) for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in children. We compared QuantiFERON-TB gold In Tube (QFT-IT), T-SPOT.TB and the tuberculin ski...

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Main Authors: Tom G Connell, Nicole Ritz, Georgia A Paxton, Jim P Buttery, Nigel Curtis, Sarath C Ranganathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18612425/?tool=EBI

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