Usefulness of QuantiFERON®TB-2G in contact investigation of a tuberculosis outbreak in a university

Kekkaku

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 527-534

  Funayama, Kazushi ^a,b   Tsujimoto, Aiko ^a   Mori, Masaaki ^c   Yamamoto, Hiromi ^a   Fujiwara, Keiko ^d   Nishimura, Tomoyasu ^c   Hasegawa, Naoki ^c   Horiguchi, Itsuko ^b   Mori, Toru ^e   Marui, Eiji ^b  

^a Yokohama City Kohoku Public Health and Welfare Center   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Yokohama City Bureau of Public Health   (Japan)

^e FUKUJUJI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoprophylaxis; Latent tuberculosis infetion; QuantiFERON TB 2G; Tuberculin skin test; Tuberculosis outbreak

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COLLEGE STUDENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSITY; X RAY ANALYSIS; ADULT; BLOOD; CONTACT EXAMINATION; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 24344483562     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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