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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Main Authors: Ulf Helwig, Michael Müller, Jürgen Hedderich, Stefan Schreiber
格式: Artigo
语言:英语
出版: 2011
在线阅读: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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