IGRAs对结核潜伏感染的诊断价值:结核病潜伏感染尚未有诊断金标准,目前结核病潜伏感染诊断主要依据IGRAs检测和结核菌素皮肤试验(Tuberculin skin test, TST)。TST试验是将结核分枝杆菌蛋白纯化衍生物(Purified protein derivative, PPD)注射到受试...
The Think. Test. Treat TB website has information and resources to help you share the Think. Test. Treat TB message. You can also access free >resources in multiple languages, including patient and provider education materials, and a partner toolkit. Your state or local TB program can ...
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In most US states, TB care (including skin testing, chest x-rays, and drugs) is available free through public health clinics to reduce barriers to treatment. Increasingly, directly observed therapy (DOT) is part of optimal patient case management; DOT involves supervision by public health ...
(redirected fromQuantiFERON-TB Gold blood test) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia tu·ber·cu·lo·sis (to͝o-bûr′kyə-lō′sĭs, tyo͝o-) n.Abbr.TB 1.An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the tubercle bacillus and characterized by the formation of tubercles on the ...
To test for the infection, a tuberculin skin test or TST can be done in a clinic or doctor’s office. A small amount of liquid with pieces of the bacteria is injected directly under the skin, and a clinician looks at the reaction 48–72 hours later. If someone has been exposed to TB...
Main Objective: To compare the predictive value of a baseline tuberculin skin test (TST) with that of the QuantiFERON TB Gold (In-tube) assay (QFT) for subsequent microbiologically confirmed TB disease among adolescents. Methods: Adolescents aged 12-18 years were recruited from high schools in ...
Biomedical research in the 21st century increasingly relies on pathogen-free nonhuman primates (NHPs) to model human pathophysiology. Despite adherence to protocols designed to maintain pathogen-free colonies, reports of tuberculosis regularly appear. We hypothesize that, undetected by standard screening pr...
The LODs of the recombinant CFP-10 and ESAT-6 in the TB-free serum were 50 pM and 200 pM, respectively [14]. In HIV-negative TB patients’ serum, the sensitivity was 100% and 91% in smear-positive and smear-negative patients, respectively. The specificity was 87.1% in healthy controls...
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