Defective antigen tubes generate false-positive QuantiFERON tuberculosis test results

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1649-1650

  Couturier, Marc Roger ^a,b   Myatt, Robbie ^b   Dorn, Don ^c   Yang, David T ^c   Pitstick, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST CONTROL; DEVICE RECALL; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS TEST KIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; CHEMISTRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; STANDARDS; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSTIC KIT;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84924366395     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu644     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Fong KS, Tomford JW, Teixeira L, et al. Challenges of interferon-gamma release assay conversions in serial testing of health-care workers in a TB control program. Chest 2012; 142: 55-62.
2. Slater M, Parsonnet J, Banaei N. Investigation of false-positive results given by the Quanti-FERON-TB Gold In-Tube assay. J Clin Microbiol 2012; 50: 3105-7.
3. Slater M, Dubose A, Banaei N. False-positive quantiferon results at a large healthcare institution. Clin Infect Dis 2014; 58: 1641-2.