Diagnostic efficiency Diaskintest and Quantiferon test in comparison with the Mantoux test for active tuberculosis in children in Belarus

Z. Kryvasheyeva (Minsk, Belarus), N. Morozkina (Minsk, Belarus), D. Zhurkin (Minsk, Belarus), N. Nykolenko (Moscow, Belarus)

Source: International Congress 2019 – Paediatric tuberculosis
Session: Paediatric tuberculosis
Session type: Poster Discussion
Number: 3623
Disease area: Paediatric lung diseases, Respiratory infections

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