Predictive performance of interferon-gamma release assays and the tuberculin skin test for incident tuberculosis: an individual participant data meta-analysisResearch in context

Predictive performance of interferon-gamma release assays and the tuberculin skin test for incident tuberculosis: an individual participant data meta-analysisResearch in context

Summary: Background: Evidence on the comparative performance of purified protein derivative tuberculin skin tests (TST) and interferon-gamma release assays (IGRA) for predicting incident active tuberculosis (TB) remains conflicting. We conducted an individual participant data meta-analysis to direc...

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Main Authors: Yohhei Hamada, Rishi K. Gupta, Matteo Quartagno, Abbie Izzard, Carlos Acuna-Villaorduna, Neus Altet, Roland Diel, Jose Dominguez, Sian Floyd, Amita Gupta, Helena Huerga, Edward C. Jones-López, Aarti Kinikar, Christoph Lange, Frank van Leth, Qiao Liu, Wei Lu, Peng Lu, Irene Latorre Rueda, Leonardo Martinez, Stanley Kimbung Mbandi, Laura Muñoz, Elisabeth Sánchez Padilla, Mandar Paradkar, Thomas Scriba, Martina Sester, Kwame Shanaube, Surendra K. Sharma, Rosa Sloot, Giovanni Sotgiu, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Richa Vashishtha, Ibrahim Abubakar, Molebogeng X. Rangaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-02-01
Series:EClinicalMedicine
Subjects:
LTBI
IGRA
Tuberculin skin test
Prophylaxis
Prevention
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537022005442

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