Open AccessComparison of tuberculin skin test and QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube test in Bacillus Calmette–Guerin-vaccinated children
Author(s) -
Ira Shah,
Jagdish Kathwate,
Naman S. Shetty
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_304_19
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculin , concordance , tuberculosis , mycobacterium tuberculosis , gold standard (test) , skin test , quantiferon , tertiary care , kappa , immunology , gastroenterology , latent tuberculosis , pathology , linguistics , philosophy
The aim of this study is to determine the concordance between QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) and tuberculin skin test (TST) in children vaccinated with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG).