Should individuals who are tuberculin skin test negative and positive to RD1-IFN-gamma assay receive preventive therapy?

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007 Jan 15;175(2):198-199; author reply 199-200. doi: 10.1164/ajrccm.175.2.198a.
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Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Antigens, Bacterial / immunology
  • Antigens, Bacterial / pharmacology
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
  • Humans
  • Interferon-gamma / analysis*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / immunology
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification*
  • Tuberculin Test*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / immunology
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / prevention & control*

Substances

  • Antigens, Bacterial
  • Interferon-gamma