Open AccessHow Well Does TSTin3D Predict Risk of Active Tuberculosis in the Canadian Immigrant Population? An External Validation Study
Author(s) -
Joseph H. Puyat,
Hennady P. Shulha,
Robert Balshaw,
Jonathon R. Campbell,
Stephanie Law,
Richard Menzies,
James C. Johnston
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciaa780
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculin , tuberculosis , interferon gamma release assay , latent tuberculosis , active tuberculosis , concordance , demography , population , environmental health , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology , sociology
The online Tuberculin Skin Test/Interferon Gamma Release Assay (TST/IGRA) Interpreter V3.0 (TSTin3D), a tool for estimating the risk of active tuberculosis (TB) in individuals with latent TB infection (LTBI), has been in use for more than a decade, but its predictive performance has never been evaluated.