Use of interferon-gamma release assays in a health care worker screening program: Experience from a tertiary care centre in the United States

Canadian Respiratory Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 84-88

  Joshi, Manish ^a,b   Monson, Thomas P ^b   Woods, Gail L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Interferon gamma release assays; QuantiFERON Gold In Tube assay; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ARTICLE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTIFERON TB GOLD IN TUBE TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861325060     PISSN: 11982241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/576324     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Jensen PA, Lambert LA, Iademarco MF, Ridzon R. Guidelines for preventing the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in health-care settings, 2005. MMWR Recomm Rep 2005;54:1-141.
2. Menzies D, Pai M, Comstock G. Meta-analysis: New tests for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: Areas of uncertainty and recommendations for research. Ann Intern Med 2007;146:340-54. (Pubitemid 351650594)
3. Mazurek GH, Jereb J, LoBue P, Iademarco MF, Metchock B, Vernon A; Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Guidelines for using the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, United States. MMWR Recomm Rep 2005;54(RR-15):49-55.
4. Canadian Tuberculosis Committee (CTC). Recommendations on interferon gamma release assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection - 2010 update. Can Commun Dis Rep 2010;36:1-22.
5. Cellestis: QuantiFERON® -TB Gold In-Tube package insert. (February 21, 2011).
6. Joshi M, Monson T, Woods G. Practical Experience With the QFT-GIT assay for LTBI annual testing among US health-care workers in a large tertiary setting. Chest 2010;138:746A (Abst).
7. Gandra S, Scott W, Somaraju V, Wang H, Wilton S, Feigenbaum M. Questionable effectiveness of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Test (Cellestis) as a screening tool in healthcare workers. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010;31:1279-85.
8. Perry S, Sanchez L, Yang S, Agarwal Z, Hurst P, Parsonnet P. Reproducibility of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assay. Clin Vaccine Immunol 2008;15:425-32. (Pubitemid 351967072)
9. Pai M, Joshi R, Dogra S, et al. Serial testing of health care workers for tuberculosis using interferon-gamma assay. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006;174:349-55. (Pubitemid 44156616)
10. van Zyl-Smit RN, Zwerling A, Dheda K, Pai M. Within-subject variability of interferon-g assay results for tuberculosis and boosting effect of tuberculin skin testing: A systematic review. PLoS OneE 2009;4:e8517.
11. Ringshausen F, Nienhaus A, Costa JT, et al. Within-subject variability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific interferon-gamma responses in German health care workers. Clin Vaccine Immunol 2011;18:1176-82.
12. Veerapathran A, Joshi R, Goswami K, et al. T-cell assays for tuberculosis infection: Deriving cut-offs for conversions using reproducibility data. PLoS ONE 2008;3:e1850.
13. Pai M, O'Brien R. Serial testing for tuberculosis: Can we make sense of T cell assay conversions and reversions? PLoS Med 2007;4:e208.
14. Zwerling A, van den hof S, Scholten J, Cobelens F, Menzies d, Pai M. Interferon-gamma release assays for tuberculosis screening of healthcare workers: A systematic review. Thorax 2012;67:62-70.
15. Mazurek M, Jereb J, Vernon A, LoBue P, Goldberg S, Castro K. Updated guidelines for using interferon Gamma release assays to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the United States. MMWR Recomm Rep 2010;59:1e25.