Corticosteroids and immunosuppressive therapy influence the result of QuantiFERON TB Gold testing in inflammatory bowel disease patients

Latent tuberculosis infection is detected by the tuberculin skin test before treating with anti-Tumour-Necrosis factor alpha (anti TNFα) reagents. More accurate are Interferon gamma release assays (IFNγ release assays) to identify patients with latent tuberculosis. Because of a positive control in t...

全面介紹

Saved in:
書目詳細資料
Main Authors: Ulf Helwig, Michael Müller, Jürgen Hedderich, Stefan Schreiber
格式: Artigo
語言:英语
出版: 2011
在線閱讀:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crohns.2011.09.011
https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/article-pdf/6/4/419/1177836/6-4-419.pdf
標簽: 添加標簽
沒有標簽, 成為第一個標記此記錄!