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ArticleThe international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease2019

Interferon-gamma release assays have suboptimal sensitivity in both latent and active tuberculosis.

F Goetzinger, I Burkhardt, P Villanueva, V Clifford, N Curtis, M Tebruegge

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Article in The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

F GoetzingerDepartment of Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
I BurkhardtDepartment of Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
P VillanuevaDepartment of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville.
V CliffordDepartment of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne Parkville, Australia.
N CurtisDepartment of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne Parkville, Australia.
M TebrueggeDepartment of Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Department of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK <email></email>, Email: m.tebruegge@ucl.ac.uk.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Latent TuberculosisTuberculosisHumansInterferon-gamma Release TestsProspective StudiesTuberculin Test

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