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Performance and correlation of QuantiFERON-TB Gold, T-SPOT.TB and tuberculin skin test in young children with tuberculosis exposure or tuberculosis disease

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020
Objective: To evaluate the performance of interferon gamma release assays and tuberculin skin test in Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccinated young children.
Keswadee Lapphra, Paninun Srinuchasart, Sansnee Senawong, Utane Rungpanich, Pinklow Umrod, Alan Maleesatharn, Nantaka Kongstan, Watcharee Lermankul, Kulkanya Chokephaibulkit   +8 more
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Risk stratification of latent tuberculosis defined by combined interferon gamma release assays. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: Most individuals infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis develop latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Some may progress to active disease and would benefit from preventive treatment yet no means currently exists to predict who will ...
Véronique Corbière, Gaelle Pottier, Florence Bonkain, Kinda Schepers, Virginie Verscheure, Sophie Lecher, T Mark Doherty, Camille Locht, Françoise Mascart   +8 more
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Interferon-gamma release assay: use and misuse [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2012
Interferon-gamma release assays are being increasingly used worldwide for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis (TB) in patients of all ages, including children [1]. A PubMed search with ‘interferon-gamma release assays’ as keyword revealed a total of 1077 references, up to 100 of which had been released in 2012, including several reviews.
Brouqui, P., Delaigue, S., Parola, P., Drancourt, M.   +3 more
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TB screening in Canadian health care workers using interferon-gamma release assays. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
While many North American healthcare institutions are switching from Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) to Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs), there is relatively limited data on association between occupational tuberculosis (TB) risk factors and test ...
Alice Zwerling, Mihaela Cojocariu, Fiona McIntosh, Filomena Pietrangelo, Marcel A Behr, Kevin Schwartzman, Andrea Benedetti, Nandini Dendukuri, Dick Menzies, Madhukar Pai   +9 more
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«Interferon Gamma Release Assays» ou IGRA

Forum Médical Suisse ‒ Swiss Medical Forum, 2021
Bei IGRA handelt es sich um In-vitro-Tests zum Nachweis von spezifischen Effektor-T-Lymphozyten, die nach Sensibilisierung durch Mycobacterium tuberculosis Interferon gamma produzieren.
Minh Khoa Truong, Laurent Nicod, Jesica Mazza-Stalder, Vincent Aubert, Peter Vollenweider   +4 more
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Performance and correlation of interferon gamma release assays and tuberculin skin test in HIV-infected children and adolescents with immune reconstitution

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020
Objective: To evaluate the performance of interferon gamma release assays and tuberculin skin test in HIV-infected children and adolescents with immune reconstitution.
Keswadee Lapphra, Rati Diwitaya, Sansnee Senawong, Maneeprang Thovarabha, Parnwas Pinnobphun, Alan Maleesatharn, Nantaka Kongstan, Benjawan Khumcha, Wanatpreeya Phongsamart, Orasri Wittawatmongkol, Supattra Rungmaitree, Kulkanya Chokephaibulkit   +11 more
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Interferon Gamma Release Assays in active Tuberculosis: new medical insights

Microbiologia Medica, 2011
Since first presentation, Interferon γ Release Assays (IGRAs) have had basic and wide application to LTBI, in accordance with international consensus and CDC recommendations, leaving their use in active TB to the field of study and research.We reviewed ...
Sandro Pierdomenico, Sergio Gallazzi, Daniela De Francesco, Carla Cisari, Amedea Giani   +4 more
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Interferon-Gamma Release Assays versus Tuberculin Skin Testing for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: An Overview of the Evidence

Pulmonary Medicine, 2013
A profusion of articles have been published on the accuracy and uses of interferon-gamma releasing assays. Here we review the clinical applications, advantages, and limitations of the tuberculin skin test and interferon-gamma release assays and provide ...
A. Trajman, R. E. Steffen, D. Menzies
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Non-tuberculous mycobacteria and the performance of interferon gamma release assays in Denmark.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundThe QuantiFERON-TB-Gold Test (QFT) is more specific than the Mantoux skin-test to discriminate between Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections.
Thomas Stig Hermansen, Vibeke Østergaard Thomsen, Troels Lillebaek, Pernille Ravn   +3 more
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Tuberculosis Uveitis Associated With Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia in an Otherwise Healthy Patient

Acta Medica Iranica, 2021
We describe a 34-year-old woman with isolated tuberculosis (TB) uveitis who had unsuccessful resolution of her ocular surface squamous neoplasia after multiple shave excisions with a positive purified protein derivative (PPD) test and interferon-gamma ...
Hossein Aghaei, Acieh Es'haghi, Sanam Alilou, Shirin Rafatnia   +3 more
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