Source: Annual Congress 2012 - Tuberculosis and immunologic assays
Disease area: Respiratory infections



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J.M. Garcia-Garcia, J.J. Palacios, B. Gonzalez-Gonzalez, A. Fernandez-Quiroga, H. Villar, M. Villanueva, G. Castaño, K. El Boutaibi Faiz, F. Alvarez-Navascues, A. Sanchez-Antuña, J.A. Gullon, J. Allende, M. Martinez-Muñiz, J.M. Fernandez-Carreira (Aviles, Oviedo, Spain). Cut-off point for tuberculin skin test (TST) and QuantiFERON (QTF) in the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection (TI) in a study of contacts of tuberculosis (TB). Eur Respir J 2012; 40: Suppl. 56, 424

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