Diagnosing latent tuberculosis infection in haemodialysis patients: T-cell based assay (T-SPOT.TB) or tuberculin skin test?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1645-1650

  Soysal, Ahmet ^a   Toprak, Demet ^a   Koc, Mehmet ^a   Arikan, Hakki ^a   Akoglu, Emel ^a   Bakir, Mustafa ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

haemodialysis; interferon gamma release test; T SPOT.TB; tuberculin skin test; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ISONIAZID;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BCG VACCINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859359345     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr516     Document Type: Article

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