Discordance of Tuberculin Skin Test and Interferon Gamma Release Assay in Recently Exposed Household Contacts of Pulmonary TB Cases in Brazil

Rodrigo Ribeiro-Rodrigues; Soyeon Kim; Flávia Dias Coelho da Silva; Aleksandra Uzelac; Lauren Collins; Moíses Palaci; David Alland; Reynaldo Dietze; Jerrold J. Ellner; Edward Jones-López; Padmini Salgame

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096564

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Discordance of Tuberculin Skin Test and Interferon Gamma Release Assay in Recently Exposed Household Contacts of Pulmonary TB Cases in Brazil

Rodrigo Ribeiro-Rodrigues,

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, UFES, Vitória, Brazil
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Soyeon Kim,

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
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Flávia Dias Coelho da Silva,

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, UFES, Vitória, Brazil
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Aleksandra Uzelac,

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
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Lauren Collins,

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Moíses Palaci,

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas (NDI), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil
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David Alland,

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
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Reynaldo Dietze,

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, UFES, Vitória, Brazil
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Jerrold J. Ellner,

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Edward Jones-López ,

* E-mail: Edward.Jones-Lopez@bmc.org (EJL); salgampa@njms.rutgers.edu (PS)

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Padmini Salgame

* E-mail: Edward.Jones-Lopez@bmc.org (EJL); salgampa@njms.rutgers.edu (PS)

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
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Discordance of Tuberculin Skin Test and Interferon Gamma Release Assay in Recently Exposed Household Contacts of Pulmonary TB Cases in Brazil

Rodrigo Ribeiro-Rodrigues,
Soyeon Kim,
Flávia Dias Coelho da Silva,
Aleksandra Uzelac,
Lauren Collins,
Moíses Palaci,
David Alland,
Reynaldo Dietze,
Jerrold J. Ellner,
Edward Jones-López

Published: May 12, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096564

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