Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Infants and Children With Partial Discrimination Between Active Disease and Asymptomatic Infection

• Main Authors: Alexandra Dreesman (Author), Violette Dirix (Author), Kaat Smits (Author), Véronique Corbière (Author), Anne Van Praet (Author), Sara Debulpaep (Author), Iris De Schutter (Author), Mariet-Karlijn Felderhof (Author), Anne Malfroot (Author), Mahavir Singh (Author), Camille Locht (Author), Françoise Mouchet (Author), Françoise Mascart (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Improved diagnostic tests are needed for the early identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected young children exposed to an active TB (aTB) index case. We aimed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of new blood-based tests to that of the tuberculin skin test (TST) for the identif...