The assessment of cytokines in Quantiferon supernatants for the diagnosis of latent TB infection in a tribal population of Melghat, India

• Main Authors: Prachi R. Bapat (Author), Aliabbas A. Husain (Author), Hatim F. Daginawala (Author), Neha P. Agrawal (Author), Milind S. Panchbhai (Author), Ashish R. Satav (Author), Girdhar M. Taori (Author), Rajpal S. Kashyap (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: The tuberculin skin test (TST) and interferon-gamma release assays (IGRA), namely, the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test (QFT), remain the standard immunological diagnostic tools for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI). However, the sub-optimal detection rates of both of these tests are major...