TB test, is one of two Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) which detect latent TB infection and are replacing the 90-year old tuberculin skin test currently used for this purpose. The World Health Organisation [1] estimated in 2006 that 50 million latent TB screening tests were p...
F Piana,LR Codecasa,R Baldan,... - 《New Microbiologica》 被引量: 573发表: 2007年 Comparing QuantiFERON-tuberculosis gold, T-SPOT tuberculosis and tuberculin skin test in HIV-infected individuals from a low prevalence tuberculosis country. To evaluate the interferon-γ-releasing assays QuantiFER...
TB test and similar ELISPOT tests have reported sensitivities of 83–97%. [1, 4–10] In addition, compared with the tuberculin skin test, the T-SPOT.TB and similar ELISPOT tests have been shown to correlate more closely with extent of M. tuberculosis exposure in contacts of TB patients. ...