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Tuberculosis
Research on tuberculosis published by scientists at Hamamatsu University, Medical Department
March 25th, 2008
According to recent research from Hamamatsu, Japan, "Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been proposed as a candidate agent for the cause of sarcoidosis. The QuantiFERON-TB Gold test has a higher specificity for detecting M. tuberculosis infection than the conventional tuberculin skin test." "This study aimed to investigate the rate of positive QuantiFERON-TB Gold results in Japanese sarcoidosis patients. The QuantiFERON-TB Gold test, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, was used to assess the levels of interferon-gamma resulting from immune responses to M. tuberculosis-specific antigens, namely early secretory antigen target 6 and culture filtrate protein 10, in 90...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-03-25)
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