Tuberculin skin test and QuantiFERON-Gold In Tube assay for diagnosis of latent TB infection among household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in high TB burden setting.

Tuberculin skin test and QuantiFERON-Gold In Tube assay for diagnosis of latent TB infection among household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in high TB burden setting.

BACKGROUND:World Health Organization (WHO) recommends systematic screening of high-risk populations, including household contacts (HHCs) of adult pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients, as a key strategy for elimination of TB. QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) assay and tuberculin skin test (TST)...

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Main Authors: Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran, Vidya Mave, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Nikhil Gupte, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, Luke Elizabeth Hanna, Vandana Kulkarni, Dileep Kadam, Kavitha Dhanasekaran, Mandar Paradkar, Beena Thomas, Rewa Kohli, Chandrakumar Dolla, Renu Bharadwaj, Gomathi Narayan Sivaramakrishnan, Neeta Pradhan, Akshay Gupte, Lakshmi Murali, Chhaya Valvi, Soumya Swaminathan, Amita Gupta, CTRIUMPH Study Team
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6070176?pdf=render

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