Use of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test in Japanese patients with sarcoidosis

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 313-315

  Inui, Naoki ^a   Suda, Takafumi ^a   Chida, Kingo ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium tuberculosis; QuantiFERON TB Gold; Sarcoidosis; Tuberculin skin test

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GOLD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTIFERON TB GOLD TEST;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SKIN TESTS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 37349051393     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2007.09.013     Document Type: Article

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