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

Winsley Rose | Zendy; Stanley Read | Zendy; Ari Bitnun | Zendy; E Rea | Zendy; Derek Stephens | Zendy; W. Pongsamart | Zendy; Ian Kitai | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Winsley Rose,

Stanley Read,

Ari Bitnun,

E Rea,

Derek Stephens,

W. Pongsamart,

Ian Kitai

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 2048-7207

pISSN - 2048-7193

DOI - 10.1093/jpids/piu024

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculin , quantiferon , tuberculosis , odds ratio , confidence interval , sputum , tuberculosis diagnosis , multivariate analysis , skin test , pediatrics , immunology , mycobacterium tuberculosis , latent tuberculosis , pathology

Few 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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