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Use in routine clinical practice of two commercial blood tests for diagnosis of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis : a prospective study

The Lancet, ISSN: 0140-6736, Vol: 367, Issue: 9519, Page: 1328-1334
2006
  • 479
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 177
    Captures
  • 1
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    479
    • Citation Indexes
      466
    • Policy Citations
      12
      • Policy Citation
        12
    • Clinical Citations
      1
      • PubMed Guidelines
        1
  • Captures
    177
  • Mentions
    1
    • References
      1
      • Wikipedia
        1

Article Description

Two commercial blood assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection—T-SPOT. TB and QuantiFERON-TB Gold—have been separately compared with the tuberculin skin test. Our aim was to compare the efficacy of all three tests in the same population sample.

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Ferrara, Giovanni; Losi, Monica; D'Amico, Roberto; Roversi, Pietro; Piro, Roberto; Meacci, Marisa; Meccugni, Barbara; Dori, Ilaria Marchetti; Andreani, Alessandro; Bergamini, Barbara Maria; Mussini, Cristina; Rumpianesi, Fabio; Fabbri, Leonardo M; Richeldi, Luca

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