T-SPOT.TB is a type of ELISpot assay used for tuberculosis diagnosis, which belongs to the group of interferon gamma release assays. The test is manufactured...
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Latent tuberculosis (redirect from Latent tb)
TB Bacteria Are Spread Only from a Person with Active TB Disease ... In people who develop active TB of the lungs, also called pulmonary TB, the TB skin...
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Mantoux test (redirect from TB skin test)
have had immunosuppression and are about to start biological therapies. T-SPOT.TB is another IGRA; it uses the ELISPOT method.[citation needed] The Heaf...
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Diagnosis of tuberculosis (redirect from Tb diagnosis)
QuantiFERON-TB Gold and T-SPOT.TB have good sensitivity but reduced specificity for diagnosing active TB, due to their ability to detect latent TB. In a recently...
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Miliary tuberculosis (redirect from Miliary TB)
tiny spots distributed throughout the lung fields with the appearance similar to millet seeds—thus the term "miliary" tuberculosis. Miliary TB may infect...
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for the diagnosis of tuberculosis: QuantiFERON-TB Gold (licensed in US, Europe and Japan); and T-SPOT.TB, a form of ELISpot, the variant of ELISA (licensed...
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tuberculosis (TB) endemic countries. The announcement followed 18 months of assessing its field effectiveness in tuberculosis, MDR-TB, and TB/HIV co-infection...
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Salman H.; Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes (2006). Procedure Manual For BACTEC MGIT 960 TB System. "Use of BACTEC MGIT 960 for Recovery of Mycobacteria from Clinical...
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on-smartphone use, with some customers abusing the service by using as much as 2 TB per month, causing speed issues for all other customers. The InReach program...
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(chimerism) monitoring. BRT’s tuberculosis (TB) testing is performed using the Interferon-gamma release assay T-SPOT.TB. This assay is recognized by the Centers...
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