Open AccessComparing the Diagnostic Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus to Other Tests of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Author(s) -
Chi Eun Oh,
Edgar OrtízBrizuela,
Mayara Lisboa Bastos,
Dick Menzies
Publication year - 2020
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/ciaa1822
Subject(s) - medicine , latent tuberculosis , quantiferon , tuberculosis , confidence interval , meta analysis , gold standard (test) , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology
We conducted a review to compare the sensitivity, specificity, reproducibility, and predictive ability of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) with that of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT; QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany) and other latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) tests.
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