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 ...
Background: Internationally-adopted children are a unique group of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-vaccinated children with high rates of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in whom serial tuberculin ...
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 ...