Acta Paediatr. 2020 Jan 28
Foreign background and older age of children were associated with infection in Swedish tuberculosis contacts.
Bennet R, Nejat S, Eriksson M
We present our results using interferon-gamma release assays in any child <18 years or tuberculin skin tests in Bacille Calmette-Guérin unvaccinated c ...
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Int. J. Infect. Dis. 2020 Jan 23
Rehabilitation, optimized nutritional care and boosting host internal milieu to improve long-term treatment outcomes in TB patients.
Akkerman OW, Ter Beek L, Centis R, Maeurer M, Visca D, Muñoz-Torrico M, Tiberi S, Migliori GB
Holistic management of TB patients can improve life expectance and lost organ function. ...
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Comp. Immunol. Microbiol. Infect. Dis.
Differential antigen recognition by serum antibodies from three bovid hosts of Mycobacterium bovis infection.
Lyashchenko KP, Sridhara AA, Johnathan-Lee A, Sikar-Gang A, Lambotte P, Esfandiari J, Bernitz N, Kerr TJ, Miller MA, Waters WR
Cattle, bison and buffaloes are susceptible to Mycobacterium bovis, the causative agent for bovine tuberculosis. Accurate and timely identification of ...
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Case Rep Med
Case Report of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease from Sub-Saharan Africa: An Important Mimic of Tuberculous Lymphadenitis.
Sharma K, Otieno F, Shah R
Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a rare form of painful lymphadenopathy, usually cervical, which is more common in Southeast Asia and rarely reported ...
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J. Clin. Microbiol. 2020 Jan 22
Comparative results of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus assays for tuberculosis diagnosis of clinical samples.
Won D, Park JY, Kim HS, Park Y
The QuantiFERON-TB Gold plus (QFT-Plus) assay, an interferon gamma (IFN-?) release assay (IGRA), was recently introduced as the next version of the Qu ...
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