Serial testing of latent tuberculosis infection in patients with diabetes mellitus using interferon-gamma release assay, tuberculin skin test, and creation tuberculin skin test

• Ngā kaituhi matua: Yijun He (Author), Xuefang Cao (Author), Tonglei Guo (Author), Yongpeng He (Author), Ying Du (Author), Haoran Zhang (Author), Boxuan Feng (Author), Jiang Du (Author), Bin Zhang (Author), Kun Wang (Author), Jiaoxia Yan (Author), Dakuan Wang (Author), Zisen Liu (Author), Shouguo Pan (Author), Henan Xin (Author), Lei Gao (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ngā marau: article
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BackgroundDiabetes mellitus (DM) patients with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) have an increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB) due to impaired immunity. The performance of currently available immune response-based assays for identification of TB infection had been rarely evaluated...