Comparison of mantoux skin test with three generations of a whole blood IFN-gamma assay for tuberculosis infection. - Concepedia

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Comparison of mantoux skin test with three generations of a whole blood IFN-gamma assay for tuberculosis infection.

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2006

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Hassan Mahomed, E. Jane Hughes, Tony Hawkridge, D Minnies, E. Simon, Francesca Little, Willem A. Hanekom, Lawrence Geiter, G Hussey

Abstract

We showed poor agreement between TST and the different QuantiFERON tests in diagnosing LTBI. The surprising discordance between the Quanti-FERON TB Gold and QuantiFERON TB Gold (In-Tube method) tests needs to be investigated further.