C-Tb: a latent tuberculosis skin test for the 21st century? / Ibrahim Abubakar (2017)  

Public Titre : C-Tb: a latent tuberculosis skin test for the 21st century? Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Ibrahim Abubakar, Auteur ; Charlotte Jackson, Auteur ; Molebogeng X. Rangaka, Auteur Editeur : Lancet Année de publication : 2017 Collection : The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, ISSN 2213-2600 num. 5(4) Importance : p.236-237 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [TUBER] diagnostic [TUBER] type de tuberculose:tuberculose-maladie Index. décimale : TU 5. Méthodes de diagnostic Résumé : The UN Sustainable Development Goals have led to global plans to end the tuberculosis epidemic. Individuals with latent tuberculosis infection are at risk of reactivation disease and onward transmission to contacts. Identification of these people before they develop active tuberculosis will, therefore, help to control the epidemic. Unfortunately, there is no gold standard diagnostic test for latent tuberculosis infection, and existing tests have poor ability to predict which individuals will go on to develop active tuberculosis. Those used at present are the tuberculin skin test (TST), which is cheap and simple to administer in the field but can be falsely positive in people who have received BCG vaccination or been exposed to non-tuberculous mycobacteria,1 and interferon γ release assays (IGRAs), which are more specific but are expensive and need specialist laboratory processing. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S2213-2600(17)30012-7 Format de la ressource électronique : HTML, PDF Permalink : https://biblio.fares.be/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=10870

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