Hong Kong Respiratory Medicine

Chi Chiu Leung.The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 6 - 8, January 2012 doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70215-8

In The Lancet Infectious Diseases , Molebogeng Rangaka and colleagues present findings from their systematic review and meta-analysis, showing that existing diagnostic devices for latent tuberculosis infection cannot accurately predict the development of active tuberculosis.

They also show that interferon-γ release assays (IGRAs), like the tuberculin skin test (TST), have only a moderate predictive value.

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