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Factors associated with false negative interferon-γ release assay results in patients with tuberculosis: A systematic review with meta-analysis.
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- Diagnostic accuracy of interferon-gamma release assays for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2022Pooled it
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- Diagnostic Accuracy of the STANDARD F TB-Feron FIA Assay for Tuberculosis Infection in Vietnam: A Cross-Sectional Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026Article
- Complementary effects of acid-fast staining, culture, and Xpert MTB/RIFBMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
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- Unexpected detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in US-born patients in putative association with clinical syndromes.Nature communications · 2026Observational
- Demographic and clinical correlates of discordant QuantiFERON TB Gold tuberculosis screening results in a low-incidence setting.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Diagnostic utility of quantitative interferon-gamma release assays in elderly patients with tuberculosis.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Disseminated PrimaryCase reports in infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Clinical and Laboratory Discriminators for Tuberculosis and Lymphoma in Adults Presenting with Fever of Unknown Origin: A Prospective Cohort Study.International journal of general medicine · 2026Article
- Risk Factors for False-Negative T-SPOT.TB Results in Bacteriologically Confirmed Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study of 4,931 Patients.Infection and drug resistance · 2026Article
- Delayed diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis with pleuritis due to ampicillin/sulbactam: A case report.World journal of clinical cases · 2025Article
- Diagnostic accuracy study of STANDARD TB-Feron FIA and STANDARD TB-Feron ELISA tests for tuberculosis infection diagnosis in Eastern European setting.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2025Article
- Central nervous system tuberculosis in Western Sydney: a 10-year retrospective cohort study.Internal medicine journal · 2025Article
- Crohn's Disease With Latent Tuberculosis Infection or Intestinal Tuberculosis: Rapid Discrimination by Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing.Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics · 2025Article
- Association between the extent of intrapulmonary spread on chest CT and false-negative results of T-SPOT.TB in pulmonary tuberculosis: a retrospective study.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Sensitivity of Immunodiagnostic Tests in Localized Versus Disseminated Tuberculosis-A Systematic Review of Individual Patient Data.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Review
- Effect of Smoking on Longitudinal Interferon γ Release Assay Results Among Close Contacts of People with Pulmonary Tuberculosis.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Observational
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Abstract
Which factors are related to false negative results of the interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) is unclear. This systematic review described the risk factors associated with false negative IGRA results. Two authors independently identified studies designed to evaluate risk factors for false negative IGRA results from PubMed, the Cochrane Register of Control Trial database, and EMBASE, accessed on October 22, 2018. Meta-analyses were conducted with random-effect models, and heterogeneity was calculated with the I
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