Faculty Opinions recommendation of Use in routine clinical practice of two commercial blood tests for diagnosis of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a prospective study.

Abstract

This is the first study that directly compares two diagnostic commercial interferon-gamma (IFN-g) blood tests in individuals suspected for active or latent tuberculosis infection in a hospital setting, confirming the findings of previous studies {1-3} that investigated IFN-g tests individually. Bearing in mind that the researchers were not able to investigate the specificity of both IFN-g assays with this study design, T-SPOT.TB...