Outbreak of pulmonary tuberculosis in which tuberculosis developed from quantiFERON®-TB second generation (QFT-2G) test negative persons

Kekkaku

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 629-634

  Yamaguchi, Junichi ^a,b   Ooba, Yuko ^a   Kaneda, Mie ^a   Uchida, Kiyomi ^a   Ishikawa, Yo ^a   Suzuki, Kiminori ^a   Yagi, Takenori ^a   Sasaki, Yuka ^a   Yamagishi, Fumio ^a  

^a SAKURA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Department of Health Promotion   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoprophylaxis; Contacts examination; False negative; QuantiFERON second generation (QFT2G)

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MASS SCREENING; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 35148853029     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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