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The importance of definition of active pulmonary tuberculosis and non-tuberculous pulmonary diseases in studies of diagnostic accuracy in high incidence areas

   
@article{JTD2929,
	author = {Michael Eisenhut},
	title = {The importance of definition of active pulmonary tuberculosis and non-tuberculous pulmonary diseases in studies of diagnostic accuracy in high incidence areas},
	journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
	volume = {6},
	number = {9},
	year = {2014},
	keywords = {},
	abstract = {In a recent study evaluating diagnostic accuracy of the interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) T-SPOT.TB for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in Southern China the authors found a low specificity of this assay in a group of patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis and non-tuberculous pulmonary diseases (NTBPD) (1). The authors may not be right in attributing this entirely to the presence of latent mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the group of patients with NTBPD.},
	issn = {2077-6624},	url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/2929}
}