Malnutrition and helminth infection affect performance of an interferon γ-release assay

Pediatrics

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Thomas, Tania A ^a   Mondal, Dinesh ^b   Noor, Zannatun ^b   Liu, Lei ^a   Alam, Masud ^b   Haque, Rashidul ^b   Banu, Sayera ^b   Sun, Haiyan ^a   Peterson, Kristine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Helminth infection; Interferon release assay; Latent tuberculosis infection; Malnutrition; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BANGLADESH; BCG VACCINATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTIFERON TUBERCULOSIS GOLD IN TUBE ASSAY; RISK FACTOR; TRICHURIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 78649644957     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-0885     Document Type: Article

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