Utilization of the QuantiFERON-TB gold test in a two-step process with the tuberculin skin test to evaluate health care workers for latent tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2955-2956

  Abdalhamid, Baha ^a   Hinrichs, Steven H ^a   Garrett, Jodi L ^b   O'Neill, Jean M ^b   Hansen Cain, Kristine M ^b   Armbrust, Amy A ^b   Iwen, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTIFERON TB GOLD TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULIN TEST; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SECRETION (PROCESS); T LYMPHOCYTE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULIN; YOUNG ADULT;

GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULIN;

EID: 77955447700     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02253-09     Document Type: Article

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