Медицинская библиотека · The Indian journal of tuberculosis · 2012

Agreement between skin testing and QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assay (QFT-TB) in detecting latent tuberculosis infection among household contacts in India.

Pattnaik Satyajit, John K R, Shalini E, Michael J S

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Аннотация

AIMS: The present study was designed to find the agreement between Tuberculin Skin Test and interferon gamma assay test in detecting latent tuberculosis infection in household contacts of sputum culture positive tuberculosis cases.

SETTING

Department of Community Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore.

METHODS

One hundred and fifty household contacts of sputum culture positive tuberculosis cases were tested with both the methods simultaneously and actual as well as kappa agreement was determined.

RESULTS

The overall actual agreement between both the tests was found to be 82% with a kappa agreement of 0.57.

CONCLUSION

The agreement was very high (both percentage agreement and Kappa) in pediatric contacts but it was poor in adult contacts.

Для цитирования: Pattnaik Satyajit, John K R, Shalini E, Michael J S. Agreement between skin testing and QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assay (QFT-TB) in detecting latent tuberculosis infection among household contacts in India.. The Indian journal of tuberculosis. 2012.

Предметные рубрики MeSH

Adult Child Cross-Sectional Studies Family Characteristics Humans India Latent Tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis Reagent Kits, Diagnostic Sputum Tuberculin Test

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