ArticleThe Pediatric infectious disease journal2015
Evaluation of QuantiFERON-TB gold in-tube and tuberculin skin tests among immigrant children being screened for latent tuberculosis infection.
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- Risk Factors for Indeterminate Interferon-Gamma Release Assay for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Children-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2019Pooled it
- Recommendations for the screening of paediatric latent tuberculosis infection in indigenous communities: a systematic review of screening strategies among high-risk groups in low-incidence countries.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
- Tuberculosis among children visiting friends & relatives.Journal of travel medicine · 2024Observational
- THE ROLE OF INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE ASSAYS IN DIAGNOSIS OF LATENT TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION IN CHILDREN.Acta clinica Croatica · 2023Review
- US Postarrival Evaluation of Immigrant and Refugee Children with Latent Tuberculosis Infection Diagnosed Overseas, 2007-2019.The Journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among Healthy Young Children and Adolescents and a Two-step Approach for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection in Chengdu, China.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2022Article
- Latent tuberculosis in migrants travelling through the northeast regions of Mexico.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2020Article
- Tuberculosis in Internationally Displaced Children Resettling in Harris County, Texas, USA, 2010-2015Emerging infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Interferon-γ Release Assays in Children <15 Years of Age.Pediatrics · 2020Article
- Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Children After Natural Disasters, Bohol, Philippines.Emerging infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Too little too late: Waiting for TB to come.The Indian journal of tuberculosis · 2018Review
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- Interferon-gamma release assay for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: A latent-class analysis.PloS one · 2017Article
- Interferon-Gamma Release Assays and Pediatric Public Health Tuberculosis Screening: The San Francisco Program Experience 2005 to 2008.Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society · 2016Article
- Usefulness of interferon-γ release assay for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in young children.Korean journal of pediatrics · 2016Article
- Health Profiles of Newly Arrived Refugee Children in the United States, 2006-2012.American journal of public health · 2016Observational
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Abstract
backgroundCenters for Disease Control and Prevention requirements for pre-immigration tuberculosis (TB) screening of children 2- to 14-years old permit a tuberculin skin test (TST) or an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA). Few data are available on the performance of IGRAs versus TSTs in foreign-born children.
methodsWe compared the performance of TST and QuantiFERON-TB (QFT) Gold In-Tube in children 2- to 14-years old applying to immigrate to the United States from Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam, using diagnosis of TB in immigrating family members as a measure of potential exposure.
resultsWe enrolled 2520 children: 664 (26%) were TST+ and 142 (5.6%) were QFT+. One hundred and eleven (4.4%) were TST+/QFT+, 553 (21.9%) were TST+/QFT- and 31 (1.2%) were TST-/QFT+. Agreement between tests was poor (κ = 0.20). Although positive results of both tests were significantly associated with older age (relative risks [RR] TST+, 1.64; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.36-1.97; RR QFT+, 3.05; 95% CI: 1.72-5.38) and with the presence of TB in at least 1 immigrating family member (RR TST+, 1.40; 95% CI: 1.12-1.75; RR QFT+ 2.24; 95% CI: 1.18-4.28), QFT+ results were more strongly associated with both predictive variables.
conclusionsThe findings support the preferential use of QFT over TST for pre-immigration screening of foreign-born children 2 years of age and older and lend support to the preferential use of IGRAs in testing foreign-born children for latent TB infection.
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