Evaluation of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus for Predicting Incident Tuberculosis among Recent Contacts: A Prospective Cohort Study

Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 May;17(5):646-650. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201905-407RL.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Letter
  • Multicenter Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Contact Tracing / methods*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Interferon-gamma Release Tests / methods*
  • Latent Tuberculosis / diagnosis*
  • Latent Tuberculosis / epidemiology
  • Latent Tuberculosis / microbiology
  • London / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / immunology*
  • Predictive Value of Tests
  • Prospective Studies
  • ROC Curve
  • Tuberculin Test / methods
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / epidemiology
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / microbiology
  • Young Adult