Specific Detection of Tuberculosis Infection: An Interferon-γ–based Assay Using New Antigens

By Toru Mori, M. Sakatani, F. Yamagishi, T. Takashima, Y. Kawabe, K. Nagao, E. Shigeto, N. Harada, S. Mitarai, Masaji Okada and 6 more. 2004

634 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d4f3f73a59a5570a54fd442fe14669f3c4eec429

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• Systematic Review: T-Cellbased Assays for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: An Update (2008, neutral): “…n Specificity, % False-Positive Result, n Specificity, % Brock et al., 2001 (35) Yes Predominantly adults Denmark 15 0 100 0 100 19 2 89 9 53 Mori et al., 2004 (7) Yes Predominantly adults Japan – – – – – 213 4 98.1 73/113 35 Ravn et al., 2005 (9) Yes Predominantly adults Denmark – – – – –…”
• Guidelines for using the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, United States. (2005, methodology): “Studies assessing QFT-G with these approximation methods have been published (5,8,9).”