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...

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Hlavní autoři: Ulf Helwig, Michael Müller, Jürgen Hedderich, Stefan Schreiber
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: 2011
On-line přístup: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
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