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Detection of tuberculosis in HIV-infected children using an enzyme-linked immunospot assay

DOI

42

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34

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2009

Year

Mary‐Ann Davies, Tom Connell, Christine Johannisen, Kathryn J. Wood, Sandy Pienaar, Katalin A. Wilkinson, Robert J. Wilkinson, Heather J. Zar, Brian Eley, David Beatty,
AIDS

Abstract

ELISPOT is more sensitive than TST for the detection of active TB in HIV-infected children. However, the sensitivity of current ELISPOT assays is not sufficiently high to be used as a rule out test for TB.

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