Is it time to replace the tuberculin skin test with a blood test?

JAMA

Volumn 308, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 241-242

  LoBue, Philip A ^a   Castro, Kenneth G ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CULTURE FILTRATE PROTEIN 10; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; GAMMA INTERFERON; TB7.7 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

EID: 84863967121     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.7511     Document Type: Short Survey

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