Specificity of a whole blood IGRA in German nursing students

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schablon, Anja ^a   Diel, Roland ^b   Diner, Genia ^c   Anske, Ute ^c   Pankow, Wulf ^d   Ringshausen, Felix C ^a   Nienhaus, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c Vivantes Institute for Corporate Health und Safety   (Germany)

^d Nuclear Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GERMAN; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; MALE; NURSING STUDENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; EVALUATION; GERMANY; IMMUNOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDENTS, NURSING; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052840553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-245     Document Type: Article

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