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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Frequency and Factors of Indeterminate QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and QuantiFERON-TB Gold PLUS Test Results in Rheumatic Diseases.

Sung Soo Ahn, Hyung Woo Kim, Younhee Park

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sung Soo AhnDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yongin 16995, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-9002-9880
Hyung Woo KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Institute of Kidney Disease Research, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-6305-452X
Younhee ParkDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-8458-1495
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We compared the results and differences of indeterminate rates between the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) and QuantiFERON-TB Gold PLUS (QFT-PLUS) tests in patients with rheumatic diseases and analyzed the associated factors. Data of patients with rheumatic diseases who had undergone the QFT-GIT or QFT-PLUS test were used, and information regarding patient demographics, primary diagnosis, laboratory results, and medications was collected. Furthermore, indeterminate result rates of the patient cohort and healthy controls were also compared. A total of 177 (43.4%) and 231 (56.6%) patients had undergone QFT-GIT and QFT-PLUS tests, respectively. Among them, four (2.3%) and seven (3.0%) patients had indeterminate results, which did not differ between the QFT-GIT and QFT-PLUS groups. Indeterminate results were significantly higher among patients with rheumatic diseases than in healthy controls (2.7% vs. 0.2%,

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factorsindeterminateQuantiFERON-TB Gold In-TubeQuantiFERON-TB Gold PLUSrheumatic diseases

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