Environmental temperature impacts on the performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assays

Journal of Infection

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 276-280

  Jarvis, Jessica ^a,b   Gao, Yifang ^a,b   de Graaf, Hans ^a,b   Hughes, Sara ^b   Allan, Raymond N ^a,b   Williams, Anthony ^a,b,c   Marshall, Ben ^a,b,c   Elkington, Paul ^a,b,c   Faust, Saul N ^a,b,c   Tebruegge, Marc ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Indeterminate; Interferon gamma release assay; Performance; Temperature; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS TEST KIT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SUPERNATANT; THAWING; EVALUATION STUDY; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937522276     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2015.04.004     Document Type: Letter

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