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Utility of newer technologies for the diagnosis of active and latent tuberculosis [PDF]

, 2009
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-109).Since the 1800s the tuberculin skin test (TST) has been the only available test for latent tuberculosis (LTBI). Recently, interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) have been developed which are based upon
Cashmore, Tamaryn Jane, Tamaryn Jane Cashmore   +1 more
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Tuberculin Skin Test and CD4+/CD8+ T Cell Counts in Adults Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Medellín, Colombia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1997
To evaluate the effect of BCG vaccination and T lymphocyte subpopulations on the reactivity to the tuberculin skin test, 113 asymtomatic HIV+ individuals were tuberculin tested by intradermal injection of 5TU of purified protein derivative and the levels
JI Rodríguez, M Arias, SC París, MP Arbeláez, J Betancur, LF García   +5 more
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Evaluation of latent tuberculosis infection in liver transplant recipients

Iranian Journal of Microbiology, 2021
Background and Objectives: Tuberculosis is one of the main reasons for mortality in liver transplant recipients. Since Iran is considered as a tuberculosis-endemic country, the present study aims to evaluate the outcome of latent tuberculosis infection ...
Zahra Ahmadinejad, Maryam Mokhtaryan, Arezoo Salami, Monavar Talebian, Hamideh Irajian, Fereshteh Ghiasvand   +5 more
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C-Tb Skin Test: A Step Toward Tuberculosis Eradication [PDF]

Pediatric Infectious Disease
C-Tb is a novel diagnostic test for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. It is a skin test based on the principle of tuberculin skin test containing early secreted antigenic target 6 (ESAT-6) and culture filtrate protein 10 (CFP-10).
Harshini T Reddy, Bhaskar Shenoy
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A healthy patient with positive mantoux test but negative quantiferon Gold assay and no evidence of risk factors – to treat or not to treat?

IDCases, 2019
A 56-year-old woman who vaccinated as a child with the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), now tests positive to the tuberculin skin test (TST) but test negative to the Quantiferon Gold assay.
Lazara Karelia Montane Jaime, Patrick E. Akpaka, Sehlule Vuma, Angel A Justiz-Vaillant   +3 more
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Bovine tuberculosis in Swedish farmed deer [PDF]

, 2004
Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) was introduced into Swedish farmed deer herds in 1987. Epidemiological investigations showed that 10 deer herds had become infected (July 1994) and a common source of infection, a consignment of 168 imported farmed fallow deer ...
Wahlström, Helene
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Impact of imperfect test sensitivity on determining risk factors : the case of bovine tuberculosis [PDF]

, 2012
Background Imperfect diagnostic testing reduces the power to detect significant predictors in classical cross-sectional studies. Assuming that the misclassification in diagnosis is random this can be dealt with by increasing the sample size of a study ...
Camille Szmaragd (142510), Green, LE, Szmaragd, C., Browne William J., Medley, GF, William J. Browne (142520), Laura E. Green (142513), Camille Szmaragd, Szmaragd Camille, Medley Graham F., Medley, G.F., Green Laura E., Green, L.E.; id_orcid, Browne, William J, Graham F. Medley (142517), Medley, Graham, Graham F Medley, Green, Laura E., Szmaragd, Camille, William J Browne, Browne, William J., Browne, W.J., Laura E Green   +22 more
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Tuberculin skin testing in HIV-infected patients in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2010
A cross-sectional study on HIV/AIDS was carried out in 108 outpatients from the university hospital of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil, from July to December 2008, to investigate latent tuberculosis infection using the ...
SMVL De Oliveira, AMM Paniago, MG Bonecini-Almeida, N Bertoni, AC Stabile, RV Da Cunha, OA De Oliveira, AF Druzian, AC Negri, R Andreotti   +9 more
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Temporal and seasonal trends of bovine tuberculosis in the Irish cattle population (2008–2024)

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) has substantial impacts on the Irish cattle industry. Between 2016 and 2024, its burden increased in Irish cattle. As an initial step towards understanding drivers of this increase, we explore long‐term trends in measures of bTB burden and cattle demographics in Ireland. Methods Using data from 2008 to 2024,
Jamie M. Madden, Eamonn Gormley, Philip Breslin, Damien Barrett, Jonas Brock, Jamie A. Tratalos, John Griffin, Mike Horan, Miriam Casey‐Bryars   +8 more
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QuantiFERON®-TB gold in-tube performance for diagnosing active tuberculosis in children and adults in a high burden setting. [PDF]

, 2012
To determine whether QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT) can contribute to the diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB) in children in a high-burden setting and to assess the performance of QFT and tuberculin skin test (TST) in a prospective cohort of TB ...
Rose, Michala Vaaben, Godfather Kimaro (151409), Kimaro, Godfather, Thomas N Nissen, Pernille Ravn (94667), Bygbjerg Ib C., Kimaro Godfather, Godfather Kimaro, Hoelscher, Michael, Rose, Michala V., Nissen, Thomas N, Rose, Michala V, Michael Hoelscher, Hoelscher Michael, Ravn, Pernille, Michael Hoelscher (151418), Ib C. Bygbjerg (151419), Nissen, Thomas N., Kroidl, Inge, Michala V Rose, Inge Kroidl, Sayoki G Mfinanga, Nissen Thomas N., Kroidl Inge, Bygbjerg, Ib C., Mfinanga Sayoki G., Michala V. Rose (151403), Ravn Pernille, Rose Michala V., Mfinanga, Sayoki G., Ib C Bygbjerg, Inge Kroidl (151415), Sayoki G. Mfinanga (151420), Mfinanga, Sayoki G, Thomas N. Nissen (151412), Pernille Ravn, Bygbjerg, Ib C   +36 more
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