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ArticleCureus2026

Culture-Confirmed Multilobar Cavitary Pulmonary Tuberculosis Despite a Negative QuantiFERON-TB Gold Assay in an Immunocompetent Young Adult.

Irina Ter-Ovanesyan, Claudia Pedreira, Kian Memari, Anastasiya Sizova, Carlos Ramirez-Matos, Shane Williams, Peter Cohen, Lissette P Lazo

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Article in Cureus, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Irina Ter-OvanesyanMedical School, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College Of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, USA.
Claudia PedreiraFamily Medicine, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College Of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, USA.
Kian MemariFamily Medicine, Palmetto General Hospital, Hialeah, USA.
Anastasiya SizovaMedical School, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College Of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, USA.
Carlos Ramirez-MatosFamily Medicine, Palmetto General Hospital, Hialeah, USA.
Shane WilliamsFamily Medicine, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College Of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, USA.
Peter CohenFamily Medicine, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College Of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, USA.
Lissette P LazoFamily Medicine, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College Of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health concern and may present with radiographic and laboratory findings that complicate timely diagnosis. Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs), including QuantiFERON-TB Gold, are blood tests that measure T-cell immune sensitization to

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acid-fast bacilliatypical tuberculosiscavitary lung diseaseinterferon-gamma release assaymultilobar cavitationpulmonary tuberculosisquantiferon false negative

Identifiers

PMID42572680
PMCPMC13453317

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