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2009 AUG 3 ... assess the association between remote exposure to tuberculosis (TB) and results of the tuberculin skin test (TST), and two interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs)-QuantiFERON ®-TB Gold ...
2009 OCT 19 ... with inflammatory disease depending on whether the QuantiFeron TB-Gold test (QFT) or tuberculin skin test (TST) is used; and to evaluate if a possible difference is influenced by the presence of ...
2009 SEP 7 ... C virus coinfected, 8.6% hepatitis B virus coinfected, and 34% showed a positive tuberculin skin test. Median CD4 cell count was 263 cells/mu L, median HIV-ribonucleic acid viral load 4.6 ...
2009 AUG 24 ... trial was conducted on adult patients with a normal chest X-ray and positive tuberculin skin test (>= 5 mm) who received isoniazid chemoprophylaxis (300 mg/day) for six months," ...
2009 NOV 16 ... "We compared the results of the tuberculin skin test with the results of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) assay among 182 low-risk ...
2009 NOV 23 ... colleagues published their study in the Journal of Rheumatology (Positive Conversion of Tuberculin Skin Test and Performance of Interferon Release Assay to Detect Hidden Tuberculosis Infection ...
2009 NOV 23 ... interventions to prevent health care-associated tuberculosis. We collated and analyzed tuberculin skin test conversions in our employees for the same time period. From 1990 to 2002, we cared for ...
2009 SEP 7 ... increased in the patients with TB (P = 0.013) compared with those in the EC group. When tuberculin skin test (TST)-negative (TST-; induration, < 10 mm) and TST-positive (TST-) donors were ...
2009 OCT 5 ... in Naples, Italy report. "Screening for LTBI is based mainly on the tuberculin skin test (TST), which has several limitations in any patient who is immunosuppressed due to drugs ...
2009 OCT 12 ... antitumour necrosis factor therapy: comparison of an interferon-gamma release assay vs. tuberculin skin test,' is now available. According to recent research from Geneva, Switzerland, "Antitumour ...
2009 AUG 10 ... of latent tuberculosis infection is controversial. Adoption of a two-step strategy (tuberculin skin test [TST] followed by an IFN-gamma release assay [IGRA], compared with an IGRA alone), may ...
2009 SEP 28 ... Clinical characteristics were analyzed according to the patients' ethnicity, tuberculin skin test (TST) results, and history of treatment for latent or active TB. Data regarding a ...
2009 AUG 24 ... but their management is hampered by the occurrence of false-negative results of the tuberculin skin test (TST). The T-cell interferon (IFN)-gamma release blood assays T-SPOT.TB (TS.TB) [Oxford ...
2009 AUG 3 ... with these assays.' According to a study from Tokyo, Japan, "The specificity of the tuberculin skin test (TST) in the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection is seriously compromised because of ...
2009 OCT 5 ... in three countries in Africa to which tuberculosis (TB) is endemic. A total of 131 tuberculin skin test-positive and/or ESAT-6/CFP10-positive, human immunodeficiency virus-negative adult ...
2009 JUL 13 ... tuberculosis (LTBI). Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRA) are an alternative to the tuberculin skin test (TST) for detecting LTBI." "Sixty-two hemodialysis patients (46 male, 16 ...
2009 NOV 16 ... ELISpot (diagnostic odds ratio [OR], 40.4) was superior to PBMC ELISpot (OR, 10.0), tuberculin skin test (OR, 7.8), and M. tuberculosis specific NAAT (OR, 12.4) to diagnose sputum AFB ...
2009 OCT 19 ... infection. We conducted a prospective cohort study to assess rates and risk factors for tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion among persons with a history of illicit drug use, who were enrolled in ...
2009 SEP 14 ... assays were positive in 34% of patients with an agreement of 83% (kappa=0.63). Tuberculin skin test (TST) was positive in 29% of patients and the agreement of TST with EIA and ELISPOT ...
2009 NOV 30 ... (IGRA) for the detection of tuberculosis infection, which has been screened for by the tuberculin skin test (TST) for nearly a century. We report a pilot study comparing the QFT-GIT and TST ...
