TB screening in Canadian health care workers using interferon-gamma release assays.

TB screening in Canadian health care workers using interferon-gamma release assays.

While many North American healthcare institutions are switching from Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) to Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs), there is relatively limited data on association between occupational tuberculosis (TB) risk factors and test positivity and/or patterns of test discordance.We r...

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Main Authors: Alice Zwerling, Mihaela Cojocariu, Fiona McIntosh, Filomena Pietrangelo, Marcel A Behr, Kevin Schwartzman, Andrea Benedetti, Nandini Dendukuri, Dick Menzies, Madhukar Pai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3423433?pdf=render

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