The tuberculin skin test versus QuantiFERON TB Gold® in predicting tuberculosis disease in an adolescent cohort study in South Africa.
<h4>Setting</h4>This study was conducted in a high tuberculosis (TB) burden area in Worcester, South Africa, with a notified all TB incidence rate of 1,400/100,000.<h4>Main objective</h4>To compare the predictive value of a baseline tuberculin skin test (TST) with that of the...
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Autores principales: | Hassan Mahomed, Tony Hawkridge, Suzanne Verver, Deborah Abrahams, Lawrence Geiter, Mark Hatherill, Rodney Ehrlich, Willem A Hanekom, Gregory D Hussey |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/893c6f24a4cc46168914725948a7fc82 |
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