Open AccessPerformance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold and Tuberculin Skin Test Relative to Subjects' Risk of Exposure to Tuberculosis
Author(s) -
S. E. McMullen,
David A. Pegues,
Frances S. Shofer,
A. C. Sheller,
Eugene Wiener
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciu119
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , tuberculin , quantiferon , odds ratio , confidence interval , risk factor , population , mycobacterium tuberculosis , latent tuberculosis , environmental health , pathology
Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) and tuberculin skin test (TST) has not been compared in a US college population with varying risk of tuberculosis exposure.
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