Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Infants and Children With Partial Discrimination Between Active Disease and Asymptomatic Infection

Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Infants and Children With Partial Discrimination Between Active Disease and Asymptomatic Infection

Background: Improved diagnostic tests are needed for the early identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected young children exposed to an active TB (aTB) index case. We aimed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of new blood-based tests to that of the tuberculin skin test (TST) for the identif...

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Main Authors: Alexandra Dreesman, Violette Dirix, Kaat Smits, Véronique Corbière, Anne Van Praet, Sara Debulpaep, Iris De Schutter, Mariet-Karlijn Felderhof, Anne Malfroot, Mahavir Singh, Camille Locht, Françoise Mouchet, Françoise Mascart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
Subjects:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
children
diagnosis
latent infection
active tuberculosis
lymphoblasts
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fped.2019.00311/full

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