False negative results of QuantiFERON TB-2G test in patients with active tuberculosis

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 300-302

  Kobashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Shimizu, Hiroki ^a   Ohue, Yoshihiro ^a   Mouri, Keiji ^a   Obase, Yasushi ^a   Miyashita, Naoyuki ^a   Oka, Mikio ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; QUANTIFERON TB 2G TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; AGE; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EVALUATION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 69449090138     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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