Use of Pleural Fluid Interferon-gamma Enzyme-linked Immunospot Assay in the Diagnosis of Pleural Tuberculosis

• Main Authors: Tika Adilistya (Author), Dalima AW Astrawinata (Author), Ujainah Z Nasir (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Interna Publishing, 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Aim: to evaluate the diagnostic value of an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) with enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) method, T-SPOT.TB, in the diagnosis of pleural TB using pleural fluid mononuclear cells (PFMC). Methods: forty-eight subjects, presumed to have pleural TB with exudative pleural...