M. Sester (Homburg, Germany), M. Losi (Modena, Italy)
Diagnosis of smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) by pooling two induced sputums on the same day M. Y. Chew, J. Phua, A. Tan, V. Palanichamy, T. K Lim (Singapore, Singapore)
| |
New immunological skin test in differential diagnostics of tuberculosis and nonspecific diseases of lungs T. Morozova, T. Salina (Saratov, Russian Federation)
| |
An immunochromatographic rapid test for Mycobacterium identification E. Cojocaru, B. I. Saramet, D. Diculencu (Iasi, Romania)
| |
The significance of the antigen-specific IFN-γ release assay in vitro for differential diagnosis between sarcoidosis and tuberculosis (TB) patients N. Makarova, S. Borisov, T. Vlasik, E. Yanushevskaya, N. Kashirina, E. Efremov, G. Ignashenkova, M. Vladimirskij (Moscow, Russian Federation)
| |
Can plain chest radiography and age accurately predict the presence of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis? R. Rashid, A. James, H. Kunst (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
| |
Interferon-gamma responses and the spectrum of tuberculosis G. Bothamley, W. Ricketts (London, United Kingdom)
| |
Efficacy of post bronchoscopic sputum smear in diagnosis of tuberculosis, a survey M. Malekmohammad, M. Marjani, P. Baghaei, Z. Sadr (Tehran, Islamic Republic Of Iran)
| |
Serum adenosine deaminase (ADA) activities and neopterine levels during therapy in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and community-acquired pneumonia R. Gelisgen, H. Uzun, F. Erdenen, O. Kar, O. Tabak, G. Camsari, B. Ozdemir (Istanbul, Turkey)
| |
Recombinant PPD proteins to be used as specific skin test for tuberculosis H. Stavri, N. Bucurenci, K. Dobos, I. Ulea, A. Costache, A. Wieczorek (Bucharest, Romania; Ft Collins, United States Of America)
| |
Widal test positivity and quinolone use in cases of tuberculosis T. Sahasrabudhe, I. Siddiqui, S. Garg (Pune, India)
| |
Comparison of Quanti-FERON-TB Gold and tuberculin skin test for diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in patients with chronic schizophrenia E. Aktas Cetin, F. Ciftci, S. Guloksuz, K. Koksalan, O. Sezer, E. T. Oral, T. Cetin, E. Kurt, H. Kaya, G. Deniz (Istanbul, Ankara, Turkey)
| |
Importance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold and tuberculin skin test in the differential diagnosis of active and inactive pulmonary tuberculosis E. C. Seyhan, K. Köksalan, G. Günlüoglu, M. Düger, S. N. Sökücü, A. Gençoglu, E. Çetinkaya, S. Altin (Istanbul, Turkey)
| |
Comparison of Lowenstein-Jensen and Bactec-MGIT 960 culture systems in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis E. Kadioglu, L. Saglam, E. Aktas, M. AKGÜN, E. Sonkaya, M. Gorguner (Erzurum, Turkey)
| |
Diagnosing negative sputum tuberculosis using automated MGIT L. Kayalli, O. Balash, A. Khoury, D. Zammar (Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic)
| |
The compare the results of the biochip-assay and BACTEC MGIT 960 J. Isakova, N. Sovhozova, A. Aldashev, Z. Goncharova (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
| |
Genotyping of M. tuberculosis circulating in penitentiary system of Kyrgyz Republic J. Isakova, I. Mokrousov, V. Valcheva, N. Sovhozova, A. Aldashev, N. Rastogi (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; , Russian Federation; Guadeloupe, France)
| |
Comparison of tuberculin skin test (TST) and QuantiFERON-TB-Gold in Tube (QFT) in the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in a prospective community study of contacts of tuberculosis (TB) J. M. García-Garcia, B. Gonzalez-Gonzalez, A. Fernandez-Quiroga, J. J. Palacios, H. Villar, J. M. Fernandez-Carreira, F. Alvarez-Navascues, M. Garcia-Clemente, A. Sanchez-Antuña, J. Allende, M. Martinez-Muñiz, Grupo de Estudio de Contactos de Tuberculosis de Aviles (Aviles, Oviedo, Spain)
| |
Study of contacts of tuberculosis. Pilot programme through the coordination of the different assistance levels in the 3rd Sanitary Area of Asturias, Spain J. M. Garcia-Garcia, A. Fernandez-Quiroga, B. Gonzalez-Gonzalez, V. Amador-Tejon, J. M. Fernandez-Carreira, H. Villar, F. Alvarez-Navascues, M. Garcia-Clemente, A. Sanchez-Antuña, M. Martinez-Muñiz, J. Allende, M. A. Villanueva-Montes, Grupo de Estudio de Contactos de Tuberculosis de Aviles (Aviles, Spain)
| |
An audit of diagnosis and chemoprophylaxis treatment of latent tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) in TB contact patients in a district general hospital (DGH) in the United Kingdom (UK) N. Ahmad, J. Yin, D. Singh, A. Saleem, H. Moudgil, J. Beddows, K. Srinivasan (Telford, United Kingdom)
| |