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Interferon-gamma release assays and TB screening in high-income countries: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

Olivia Oxlade, Kevin Schwartzman, Dick Menzies

PubMed · 2007 · 120 citations · 57 references

Abstract

Screening for LTBI, with TST or QFT, is cost-effective only if the risk of disease is high. The most cost-effective use of QFT is to test TST-positive persons.

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THE PROGNOSIS OF A POSITIVE TUBERCULIN REACTION IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

George W. Comstock, Verna T. Livesay, Shirley Ferebee Woolpert · American Journal of Epidemiology · 1974 · 701 citations

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