Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Testing in a Tuberculosis Outbreak at a Primary School

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 585-586

  Molicotti, Paola ^a   Bua, Alessandra ^a   Mela, Graziella ^a   Olmeo, Paolina ^a   Delogu, Renzo ^b   Ortu, Silvia ^a   Sechi, Leonardo Antonio ^a   Zanetti, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b Department of Public Health ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTIFERON TUBERCULOSIS GOLD ASSAY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERFERON TYPE II; LUNG; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 40749120040     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.12.014     Document Type: Article

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