Extremes of age are associated with indeterminate QuantiFERON-TB gold assay results

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2694-2697

  Tebruegge, Marc ^a,b,c   De Graaf, Hans ^b   Sukhtankar, Priya ^b   Elkington, Paul ^a,b   Marshall, Ben ^a,b   Schuster, Helmut ^b,d   Patel, Sanjay ^b   Faust, Saul N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATURATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS TEST KIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS RAPID TEST; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903752687     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00814-14     Document Type: Article

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