The Role of the Interferon Gamma Release Assay in Assessing Recent Tuberculosis Transmission in a Hospital Incident

• Louise Bradshaw ,

  * E-mail: louise.bradshaw@hpa.org.uk

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Section, Respiratory Diseases Department, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, England

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• Elizabeth Davies,

  Affiliation Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Health and Social Care Trust Headquarters, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

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• Michael Devine,

  Affiliation Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Health and Social Care Trust Headquarters, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

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• Peter Flanagan,

  Affiliation Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Health and Social Care Trust Headquarters, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

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• Paul Kelly,

  Affiliation Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Health and Social Care Trust Headquarters, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

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• Kevin O'Connor,

  Affiliation Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Health and Social Care Trust Headquarters, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

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• Francis Drobniewski,

  Affiliation Health Protection Agency National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, England

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• Vladislav Nikolayevskyy,

  Affiliation Health Protection Agency National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, England

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• Ibrahim Abubakar

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Section, Respiratory Diseases Department, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, England

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