Comparison of the 2-step tuberculin skin test and the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube test for the screening of tuberculosis infection before liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1205-1211

  Casas, Susana ^a,b   Muñoz, Laura ^a   Moure, Raquel ^a   Castellote, Jose ^a,b   Guerra, Maria R ^a   Gonzalez, Lucia ^a   Andreu, Ana ^a   Rafecas, Antoni G ^a,b   Alcaide, Fernando ^a,b,c   Santin, Miguel ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTIFERON TB GOLD IN TUBE TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUBERCULIN TEST; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 80053276909     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22375     Document Type: Article

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