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Tuberculosis
Reports summarize tuberculosis research from K. Higuchi and co-authors
March 24th, 2009
According to a study from Matsuyama, Japan, "Performance of two diagnoses, T-SPOTA (R).TB (T-SPOT) and QuantiFERON-TBA (R) Gold (QFT-G), was compared in Japanese subjects. Forty-seven confirmed tuberculosis patients and eighty-four healthy subjects were recruited." "All samples were assessed for both T-SPOT and QFT-G, and the sensitivities and the specificities were compared between two methods. The sensitivity was 100% for T-SPOT, and 87.2% for QFT-G. The specificity was 83.3 and 98.8%, respectively. The overall agreement of two tests was substantially high (Kappa coefficient = 0.671). The sensitivity of T-SPOT appeared to be higher than that of QFT-G, whereas the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-03-24)
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