Clinical characteristics and the usefulness of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold in-Tube test in hematologic patients with hepatic or splenic lesions

Korean Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-196

  Kwon, Jae Cheol ^a   Kim, Si Hyun ^b   Park, Sun Hee ^c   Choi, Su Mi ^c   Lee, Dong Gun ^c   Choi, Jung Hyun ^c   Yoo, Jin Hong ^c   Kim, Yoo Jin ^c   Lee, Seok ^c   Kim, Hee Je ^c   Cho, Seok Goo ^c   Lee, Jong Wook ^c   Min, Woo Sung ^c  

^a National Health Insurance Corporation   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Hematology; Liver abscess; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN; TEICOPLANIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VORICONAZOLE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PNEUMONIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUBERCULOSIS; ABSCESS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPLICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH KOREA; SPLENIC DISEASES; TIME;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPLENIC DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84875546822     PISSN: 12263303     EISSN: 20056648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2013.28.2.187     Document Type: Article

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