Annual Congress Copenhagen 2005

Saturday, 17.09.2005
Sunday, 18.09.2005
Monday, 17.09.2005
Tuesday, 20.09.2005
Wednesday, 21.09.2005

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2005; 26: Suppl. 49, abstract number.

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739 Slide presentations
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Diagnosis of tuberculosis and LTBI

Oral Presentation
Chairs: P. D. O. Davies (Liverpool, United Kingdom), E. Panic (Sombor, Serbia and Montenegro)

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A T-cell-based assay for rapid diagnosis of difficult cases of tuberculosis (TB): smear negative pulmonary and extra-pulmonary TB S. Carrara, D. Vincenti, M. Amicosante, E. Girardi, D. Goletti (Rome, Italy)
Comparison of a T-cell-based assay with tuberculin skin testing (TST) for diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in contact-tracing procedures J. P. Janssens, P. Roux-Lombard, T. Perneger, M. Metzger, R. Vivien, T. Rochat (Geneva, Switzerland)
Variability of the sensitivity of three tests for the diagnosis of pleural TB according to the findings in pleural tissue M. C. Kaisermann, I. G. Sardella, M. H. F. Saad, R. D. Sperhacke, M. L. Rossetti, A. L. Kritski, A. Trajman (Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Comparison of tuberculin skin test with an interferon-gamma based test in detecting candidates to latent tuberculosis infection treatment M. Bugiani, P. Piccioni, M. P. Forneris, L. Fabbro, E. Migliore, A. Carosso (Turin, Italy)
An indicative role of serum transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) level on the determination of clinical severity of pulmonary tuberculosis Y. D. Lee, Y. Cho, M. S. Han, J. Y. Kim, H. S. Kang, K. H. Lee, S. K. Lee, H. W. Baik (Daejeon, Republic Of Korea)
Comparison of the tuberculin skin test and the ELISPOT blood test for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in pre-transplant dialysis patients L. Richeldi, M. Losi, S. Cerri, P. Roversi, A. Debbi, A. Di Felice, F. Ferrari, K. Millington, A. Albertazzi, L. M. Fabbri, A. Lalvani (Modena, Italy; Oxford, United Kingdom)
*Clinical evaluation of anti-glycopeptidelipid core immunoglobulin A antibody assay for serodiagnosis of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare* complex (MAC) disease** R. Maekura, S. Kitada, M. Itou, Y. Namba (Toyonaka, Numazu, Japan)
The role of isoenzymes levels of ‘adenosine deaminase‘ in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid to determining activitiy of pulmonary tuberculosis G. S. Gunluoglu, E. Cetinkaya, S. Altin, N. Kalkan, S. Timur (Istanbul, Turkey)