Comparison of Two Tuberculosis Infection Tests in a South American Tertiary Hospital: STANDARD F TB-Feron FIA vs. QIAreach TM QuantiFERON-TB.

Gustavo Saint-Pierre Daniel Conei ValenciaPatricia CantillanaMariella RaijmakersAndrea VeraDaniela GutiérrezCristopher KennedyPaulina PeraltaPaulina Ramonda

Published in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)

IGRA techniques are a new resource in clinical laboratories to make an accurate diagnosis of LTBI in the region of the Americas. In our population, the greatest benefit of this new IGRA would be observed in people over 36 years of age, where the sensitivity of the technique was like that of the currently available test.

Keyphrases

mycobacterium tuberculosis
pulmonary tuberculosis
high resolution
emergency department
hepatitis c virus
hiv infected