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Reply to “Pleural Fluid and Tuberculosis: Are All Interferon Gamma Release Assays Equal?”

Author(s) -

Ashutosh N. Aggarwal,

Ritesh Agarwal,

Sahajal Dhooria,

Digambar Behera

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.03057-15

Subject(s) - pleural fluid , tuberculosis , interferon gamma release assay , interferon gamma , medicine , mycobacterium tuberculosis , virology , immunology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , pathology , pleural effusion , cytokine , latent tuberculosis

We thank Dr. Hofland and colleagues for their insightful comments ([1][1]) on our meta-analysis ([2][2]). They question our strategy of categorizing indeterminate interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) results in patients with tuberculosis as false negatives. We wish to reiterate our stand that a

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