Source: Annual Congress 2010 - Clinical tuberculosis
Disease area: Paediatric lung diseases, Respiratory infections



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I. Pavic, R. Zrinski Topic, M. Raos, S. Dodig (Zagreb, Croatia). Concordance between tuberculin skin test and interferon-gamma release assay in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected children aged up to five years. Eur Respir J 2010; 36: Suppl. 54, 3178

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