Add to ORKGCopyright © 2014 Stella O. Chuke et al.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. Use of tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) and interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) as part of tuberculosis (TB) screening among immigrants fromhighTB-burden countries has not been fully evaluated.Methods. Prevalence ofMycobacterium tuberculosis infection (MTBI) based on TST, or the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test (QFT-G), was determined among immigrant applicants in Vietnam bound for the United States (US); factors associated with test results and discordance were assessed; predictive value...
Objective: To make an informed viewpoint on the usefulness of Tuberculin Skin test (TST) compared to...
Objective: Accurate detection of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is becoming increasingly impor...
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
Objective. Use of tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) and interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) as part o...
Objective. Use of tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) and interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) as part o...
Recent immigrants from developing countries (< 2 years since immigration) are at very high risk of a...
Community-based evaluation of immigrant tuberculosis screening using interferon g release assays and...
© 2016 The Author(s).Background: Interferon-gamma release assays may be used as an alternative to th...
Background: Identifying latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in people migrating from TB endemic reg...
Background. Accurate identification and treatment of contacts with latent tuberculosis infection (LT...
Each year 1 million persons acquire permanent U.S. residency visas after tuberculosis (TB) screening...
Identifying latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in people migrating from TB endemic regions to low ...
Seventy percent of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the United States occur among non-US-born persons; cas...
AIMS OF STUDY: to analyse, in contacts exposed to smear+/culture + (S+/C+) or S-/C+ TB, most of whom...
Health care workers (HCW's) are always at an increased risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB) infecti...
Objective: To make an informed viewpoint on the usefulness of Tuberculin Skin test (TST) compared to...
Objective: Accurate detection of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is becoming increasingly impor...
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
Objective. Use of tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) and interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) as part o...
Objective. Use of tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) and interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) as part o...
Recent immigrants from developing countries (< 2 years since immigration) are at very high risk of a...
Community-based evaluation of immigrant tuberculosis screening using interferon g release assays and...
© 2016 The Author(s).Background: Interferon-gamma release assays may be used as an alternative to th...
Background: Identifying latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in people migrating from TB endemic reg...
Background. Accurate identification and treatment of contacts with latent tuberculosis infection (LT...
Each year 1 million persons acquire permanent U.S. residency visas after tuberculosis (TB) screening...
Identifying latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in people migrating from TB endemic regions to low ...
Seventy percent of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the United States occur among non-US-born persons; cas...
AIMS OF STUDY: to analyse, in contacts exposed to smear+/culture + (S+/C+) or S-/C+ TB, most of whom...
Health care workers (HCW's) are always at an increased risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB) infecti...
Objective: To make an informed viewpoint on the usefulness of Tuberculin Skin test (TST) compared to...
Objective: Accurate detection of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is becoming increasingly impor...
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...