Efthimiou P,Sood S.Quanti FERON TB Gold Test:the new standard for screening of latent tuberculosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis?. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases . 2007Efthimiou P, Sood S. Quantiferon TB gold test: The new standard for screening of latent tuberculosis in patients with...
QuantiFERON TB Gold Test: the new standard for screening of latent tuberculosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis? Ann Rheum Dis. 2007 Feb;66(2):276. Epub 2006 Nov 24. Case Reports; Comment; Letter P Efthimiou,S Sood - 《Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases》 被引量: 84发表: 2007年 Cha...
QuantiFERON®-TBGoldTest A100YearUpdatefortheDiagnosisofTuberculosisInfection AlfredLardizabal,MD NewJerseyMedicalSchool GlobalTuberculosisInstitute Introduction IntheU.S.,theefforttocontroltuberculosis,itstransmission,andultimately,itseradicationhasbeenfoughtalongtwoimportantfronts ...
QuantiFERON TB-GOLD--A NEW TEST STRENGTHENING LONG-SUSPECTED TUBERCULOUS INVOLVEMENT IN SERPIGINOUS-LIKE CHOROIDITIS. S-LIKE CHOROIDITIS. QuantiFERON TB-GOLD--A NEW TEST STRENGTHENING LONG-SUSPECTED TUBERCULOUS INVOLVEMENT IN SERPIGINOUS-LIKE CHOROIDITIS... - 《Evidence Based Ophthalmology》 被引量...
QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) is a new generation of QuantiFERON assay that differs from QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube test (QFT-GIT). The aim of this study was to compare the performance of the new FDA-approved QFT-Plus interferon (IFN)-γ release assays (IGRAs) with the QFT-GI...
LTBI are difficult to diagnose, because there is no gold standard test. The diagnosis is based on a positive tuberculosis skin test (TST) and/or interferon-γ (IFN-γ) release assay (IGRA) in the absence of active tuberculosis. The TST is based on an immune reaction in the skin towards...
We determined the prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection by TST and QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) and assessed agreement between the two test methods and factors associated with positivity in either test in Warao Amerindian children in Venezuela. Furthermore, progression to ...
Because of the lack of a gold standard test that accurately identifies subjects without LTBI, many investigators have evaluated only the sensitivity of the IGRAs either in culture proven or using combined results of culture and clinical findings as gold reference [14, 20, 35]. In the present st...
QFT: Quantiferon-TB Gold IN-Tube test, LTBI: latent tuberculosis infection, TST: tuberculin skin test, HCW: health care workers. QFT. We therefore constructed a simulation of hypothetical North American HCWs undergoing serial testing with QFT, taking into account best estimates of both within-...
Stratifying the active TB patients according the microbiological status, we found that TB therapy significantly decreased IFN-γ response to antigen present in QFT-Plus test in patients with clinical diagnosis compared to those with a microbiological diagnosis. In conclusions, we demonstrated that TB ...