Contribution of QuantiFERON-TB Gold-in-Tube to the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Young Children in a Low TB Prevalence Country

• Auteurs principaux: Sara Debulpaep (Auteur), Véronique Corbière (Auteur), Jack Levy (Auteur), Petra Schelstraete (Auteur), Koen Vanden Driessche (Auteur), Françoise Mascart (Auteur), Françoise Mouchet (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) has proven to be a useful test to evaluate the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in children over the age of 5 years as an alternative to tuberculin skin testing (TST). Much less is known about its performance in younger childr...