Open AccessInterferon-Gamma Release Assays and Pediatric Public Health Tuberculosis Screening: The San Francisco Program Experience 2005 to 2008
Author(s) -
Jennifer Grinsdale,
Shamim Islam,
Olivia Tran,
Christine Ho,
L. Masae Kawamura,
Julie Higashi
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/piu119
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , interferon gamma release assay , public health , mycobacterium tuberculosis , immunology , family medicine , latent tuberculosis , pathology
Interferon-gamma release assay utilization in pediatric tuberculosis (TB) screening is limited by a paucity of longitudinal experience, particularly in low-TB burden populations.
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