Commercial serological tests for the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Do they work?

Future Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 355-359

  Steingart, Karen R ^a,b   Ramsay, Andrew ^c   Pai, Madhukar ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Francis J Curry National Tuberculosis Center   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; GENOMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 34548458417     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460913.2.4.355     Document Type: Editorial

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