False-negative interferon-γ release assay results in active tuberculosis: a TBNET study

Affiliations

• ¹ Dept of Pulmonary Disease, Diakonessenhuis, Utrecht, The Netherlands veerledevisser@gmail.com.
• ² Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari-Research, Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
• ³ Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany Dept of Medicine, University of Namibia School of Medicine, Windhoek, Namibia International Health/Infectious Diseases, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany.
• ⁴ Clinical Research Unit, University of Copenhagen, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen Denmark National Institute of Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania.
• ⁵ Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ SOD Malattie Infettive e Tropicali, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy.
• ⁷ University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic.
• ⁸ Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
• ⁹ University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹⁰ Microbiology Dept, Institut d'Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Ciber Enfermedades Respiratorias, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹¹ Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, Ankara, Turkey.
• ¹² Dept of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, Assiut University Hospital, Assiut, Egypt.
• ¹³ IRCCS Instituto Nazionale Malattie Infettive "L. Spallanzani", Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Uludag University Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, Bursa, Turkey.
• ¹⁵ Unità Operativa Complessa di Malattie Infettive, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
• ¹⁷ University of Modena and Reggio Emillia, Modena, Italy.
• ¹⁸ The National Institute of TB, Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Vyšné Hágy, Slovakia.
• ¹⁹ Department of Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases, University of Copenhagen, Hillerød Hospital, Denmark.
• ²⁰ Hannover Medical School, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover, Germany.
• ²¹ Treatment Center for Tuberculosis, Dept of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
• ²² Drassanes Tuberculosis Unit, Vall d'Hebron Teaching Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
• ²³ Dept of Pulmonary Disease, Diakonessenhuis, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ²⁴ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Homerton University Hospital, London, UK.