Hsia and colleagues compared IGRA testing (QuantiFERON®-TB Gold (QFT-GIT; Cellestis, Inc.; Valencia, California) and TST testing (Mantoux) in 2282 patients enrolled in multinational phase 3 trials of ...

WHO and many governments endorse the TST because it is a cheap and ubiquitous test, however, over-reliance on this single test means that we are failing. A new study finds that the most commonly used ...

December 12, 2011 — In populations with low prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), the majority of positive results obtained with the 3 commercially available diagnostic tests are likely to be ...

OBJECTIVE: Approximately 6000 women deliver annually at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where 2.4% of women has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 60% is foreign-born. We conducted a ...