Introduction Although laboratory culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M TB) remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB), only 66% of pulmonary and 46% of extra-pulmonary cases of TB in the UK are culture confirmed.1 The Health Protection Agency's Strategic Plan ...
Author(s): Oriol Manuel [[dagger]] 1 , Deepali Kumar 2 Keywords : IFN-γ-release assay; latent tuberculosis infection; Mycobacterium tuberculosis ; sensitivity; specificity Introduction & overview of the market The diagnosis and treatment of patients with latent TB infection (LTBI) is a cornerston...
(2021) Combines hand-crafted features and CNN for tuberculosis diagnosis TB MO,S Ul Abideen et al. (2020) Evaluates a Bayesian-based CNN for detection of TB TB MO,S Rajpurkar et al. (2020) Evaluates assisting clinicians with an AI based system to improve diagnosis of TB TB PR Heo et ...
Likelihood ratios for symptoms and near patient test results compared with two 'gold standards' for diagnosis of UTI were calculated and their impact on post-test probability of UTI determined.GPs were far more likely to treat empirically patients with symptoms of dysuria and frequency [odds ratio...
Comparison of Mantoux and QuantiFERON TB Gold Tests for Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Army Personnel The tuberculin skin test (TST) was compared with QuantiFERON-TB Gold in-tube (QFT-GIT) test for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in non-Mycobacterium bovis BC... WPJ Franken,JF Tim...
BACKGROUND: -γ release assays (IGRAs) are increasingly used for the diagnosis of (LTBI). Because of the lack of a gold standard for the diagnosis of LTBI, IGRAs are compared to the tuberculin skin test () and yield conflicting results. We assessed the usefulness of an IGRA test, Quanti...
Rifampin Drug Resistance Tests for Tuberculosis: Challenging the Gold Standard The rapid diagnosis of rifampin resistance is hampered by a reported insufficient specificity of molecular techniques for detection of rpoB mutations. Our ... A Van Deun,KJM Aung,V Bola,... - 《Journal of Clinical ...
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is facilitated by tuberculin skin testing (TST) or interferon-gamma release assays such as the QuantiFERON TB Gold In-Tube (QTF-GIT) assays. Limited data exist on the utility of interferon-gamma release assays in HIV-infected children...
Background: The diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is currently based on the immunological response of T-cells to M. tuberculosis (MTB) antigens. However, the QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube assay (QFT) has not yet been evaluated in the Thai adult population. Objec...
Clinical utility of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube test for the diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis We evaluated the usefulness of interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB) in routine clinical practice. We retros......