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Original Article

QuantiFERON TB-2G test for patients with active tuberculosis stratified by age groups

Yoshihiro Kobashi From the Division of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Keiji Mouri From the Division of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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Naoyuki Miyashita From the Division of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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Niro Okimoto Division of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kawasaki Hospital, Okayama, Japan
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Toshiharu Matsushima Department of Internal Medicine, Kurashiki Daiichi Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan
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Takeshi Kageoka Department of Laboratory Division, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan
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Mikio Oka From the Division of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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Pages 841-846 | Received 22 May 2009, Published online: 18 Nov 2009

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Paola Molicotti, Alessandra Bua, Sara Cannas, Melania Ruggeri & Stefania Zanetti. (2015) Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection may provide an antigenic stimulus enabling children to mount a strong immune cell response. Infectious Diseases 47:5, pages 354-356.
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Yuanyuan Yu, Yidian Liu, Lan Yao, Yanheng Shen, Qin Sun & Wei Sha. (2022) Factors Influencing False-Negative Results of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) in Active Tuberculosis and the Desirability of Resetting Cutoffs for Different Populations: A Retrospective Study. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 7:10, pages 278.
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Jessica Lovatt, Deborah Gascoyne-Binzi, Thomas Hussey, Maya Garside, Fiona McGill & Christian P. Selinger. (2021) Screening for TB in Hospitalised Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease before Anti-TNF Therapy: Is QuantiFERON® Gold Testing Useful?. Journal of Clinical Medicine 10:9, pages 1816.
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Noëmi R. Meier, Thomas Volken, Marc Geiger, Ulrich Heininger, Marc Tebruegge & Nicole Ritz. (2019) Risk Factors for Indeterminate Interferon-Gamma Release Assay for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Children—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Frontiers in Pediatrics 7.
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Chi Yang, Shaojun Zhang, Lan Yao & Lin Fan. (2018) Evaluation of risk factors for false-negative results with an antigen-specific peripheral blood-based quantitative T cell assay (T-SPOT ® . TB ) in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis: A large-scale retrospective study in China . Journal of International Medical Research 46:5, pages 1815-1825.
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Wei-Xia Xuan, Ting-Ting Lu, Zheng Wang, Yun-Xia An & Xiao-Ju Zhang. (2017) Diagnostic Significance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis T-cell Assays for Active Tuberculosis. Chinese Medical Journal 130:7, pages 811-816.
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Rachel Byng-Maddick & Mahdad Noursadeghi. (2016) Does tuberculosis threaten our ageing populations?. BMC Infectious Diseases 16:1.
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Stefania Zanetti, Alessandra Bua, Paola Molicotti, Irene Maiore & Antonio Pinna. (2016) QuantiFERON-TB Gold Assay on Plasma for Confirmation of Presumed Tuberculosis-Related Uveitis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 54:8, pages 2175-2177.
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Jennifer A. Juno, Jillian L.M. Waruk, Christine Mesa, Carmen Lopez, Joe Bueti, T. Blake Ball & Sandra A. Kiazyk. (2016) Maintenance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis- specific T cell responses in End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) and implications for diagnostic efficacy. Clinical Immunology 168, pages 55-63.
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Won Bae, Kyoung Un Park, Eun Young Song, Se Joong Kim, Yeon Joo Lee, Jong Sun Park, Young-Jae Cho, Ho Il Yoon, Jae-Joon Yim, Choon-Taek Lee & Jae Ho Lee. (2016) Comparison of the Sensitivity of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and T-SPOT.TB According to Patient Age. PLOS ONE 11:6, pages e0156917.
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Aurora Martínez-Romero, José Luis Ortega-Sánchez, Norma Urtiz-Estrada, Esperanza Yasmín Calleros-Rincón, Rebeca Pérez-Morales & José de Jesús Alba-Romero. (2015) Immunity towards tuberculosis infection: A review. African Journal of Microbiology Research 9:37, pages 2013-2022.
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You La Jeon, You-sun Nam, Eunkyoung You, John Jeongseok Yang, Min Jin Kim, Sun Young Cho, Tae Sung Park & Hee Joo Lee. (2013) Factors influencing discordant results of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-tube test in patients with active TB. Journal of Infection 67:4, pages 288-293.
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Víctor Llorenç, Julian González‐Martin, Johannes Keller, Amanda Rey, Laura Pelegrín, Marina Mesquida & Alfredo Adán. (2012) Indirect supportive evidence for diagnosis of tuberculosis‐related uveitis: from the tuberculin skin test to the new interferon gamma release assays. Acta Ophthalmologica 91:2.
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Martine G Aabye, Thomas Stig Hermansen, Morten Ruhwald, George PrayGod, Daniel Faurholt-Jepsen, Kidola Jeremiah, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Nyagosya Range, Henrik Friis, John Changalucha, Aase B Andersen & Pernille Ravn. (2012) Negative effect of smoking on the performance of the QuantiFERON TB gold in tube test. BMC Infectious Diseases 12:1.
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