Experience with two cases of intestinal tuberculosis: Utility of the QuantiFERON-TB gold test for diagnosis

Surgical Infections

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 407-410

  Caputo, Damiano ^a   Alloni, Rossana ^a   Garberini, Andrea ^a   Dicuonzo, Giordano ^a   Angeletti, Silvia ^a   Gherardi, Giovanni ^a   Ferraro, Elisabetta ^a   Coppola, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; ETHAMBUTOL; INFLIXIMAB; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON TUMOR; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRANULOMA; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE CARCINOMA; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTIFERON TB GOLD TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ASCITIC FLUID; BLOOD; COLON; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 45649085870     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2007.006     Document Type: Article

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