Concordant or discordant results by the tuberculin skin test and the quantiFERON-TB test in children reflect immune biomarker profiles

Autor:	John Kenneth, Ruth Stavrum, Mario Vaz, Synne Jenum, Christian Ritz, Timothy Mark Doherty, S. Dhanasekaran, Harleen M. S. Grewal
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Adult Male Adolescent Immunology India Tuberculin Biology Sensitivity and Specificity QuantiFERON Interferon-gamma Immune system Tuberculosis diagnosis Interferon Genetics medicine Humans Tuberculosis Longitudinal Studies Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Genetics (clinical) Tuberculin Test Infant Newborn Infant bacterial infections and mycoses Receptors Formyl Peptide Up-Regulation Vaccination Receptors Tumor Necrosis Factor Type I Biomarker (medicine) Female Carrier Proteins Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Biomarkers medicine.drug
Zdroj:	Genes & Immunity. 15:265-274
ISSN:	1476-5470 1466-4879
Popis:	The tuberculin skin test (TST) and QuantiFERON-TB-Gold-In-tube (QFTGIT) are adjunctive tests used in the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis (TB). Neither test can rule out TB; however, a positive test usually triggers preventive treatment in TB contacts aged
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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