False-positive quantiferon results at a large healthcare institution

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1641-1642

  Slater, Madeline ^a   DuBose, Anthony ^a   Banaei, Niaz ^a,b,c  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS TEST KIT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCREENING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MASS SCREENING; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900459394     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu139     Document Type: Letter

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