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

• मुख्य लेखकों: Alexandra Dreesman (लेखक), Violette Dirix (लेखक), Kaat Smits (लेखक), Véronique Corbière (लेखक), Anne Van Praet (लेखक), Sara Debulpaep (लेखक), Iris De Schutter (लेखक), Mariet-Karlijn Felderhof (लेखक), Anne Malfroot (लेखक), Mahavir Singh (लेखक), Camille Locht (लेखक), Françoise Mouchet (लेखक), Françoise Mascart (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: 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...