Pleural Fluid and Tuberculosis: Are All Interferon Gamma Release Assays Equal?
| Autor: | Jan-Willem J. Lammers, Aik Bossink, Regina W. Hofland, Steven F. T. Thijsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) Letter Tuberculosis Diagnostic Tests Routine business.industry Comment 030106 microbiology Diagnostic test Tuberculosis Pleural Active tuberculosis medicine.disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030228 respiratory system Immunology medicine Pleural fluid Humans Interferon gamma Interferon-gamma Release Tests Letters to the Editor business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 54(2), 504. American Society for Microbiology |
| ISSN: | 1098-660X 0095-1137 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/jcm.02653-15 |
| Popis: | We have read the recently published review of Aggarwal and colleagues ([1][1]) with great interest. The use of interferon gamma release assays (IGRA) in extrasanguineous body fluids as potential diagnostic tests for active tuberculosis (TB) does have our special attention. We would like to address |
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