Fluctuating Behavior and Influential Factors in the Performance of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Assay in the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis

• Lei Bao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Bao, Tao Li, Ni Diao

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Tao Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Bao, Tao Li, Ni Diao

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Tuberculosis Disease, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Ni Diao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Bao, Tao Li, Ni Diao

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Yaojie Shen,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Lingyun Shao,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Ying Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Shuihua Lu ,

  * E-mail: zhangwenhong@fudan.edu.cn (WZ); tubercle@shaphc.org (SL)

  Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis Disease, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Wenhong Zhang

  * E-mail: zhangwenhong@fudan.edu.cn (WZ); tubercle@shaphc.org (SL)

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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