Usefulness of the QuantiFERON TB-2G test for the differential diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 237-243

  Kobashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Mouri, Keiji ^a   Yagi, Shinichi ^a   Obase, Yasushi ^a   Fukuda, Minoru ^a   Miyashita, Naoyuki ^a   Oka, Mikio ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

QuantiFERON TB 2G (QFT 2G); Tuberculin skin test (TST); Tuberculosis infection

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 40749144795     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0389     Document Type: Article

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