QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Assay for Screening Arthritis Patients for Latent Tuberculosis Infection before Starting Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Treatment

Hyun Lee; Hye Yun Park; Kyeongman Jeon; Byeong-Ho Jeong; Ji-Won Hwang; Jaejoon Lee; Hoon-Suk Cha; Eun-Mi Koh; Eun-Suk Kang; Won-Jung Koh

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119260

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QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Assay for Screening Arthritis Patients for Latent Tuberculosis Infection before Starting Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Treatment

Hyun Lee ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyun Lee, Hye Yun Park, Kyeongman Jeon

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Hye Yun Park ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyun Lee, Hye Yun Park, Kyeongman Jeon

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Kyeongman Jeon ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyun Lee, Hye Yun Park, Kyeongman Jeon

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Byeong-Ho Jeong,

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Ji-Won Hwang,

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Jaejoon Lee,

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Hoon-Suk Cha,

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Eun-Mi Koh,

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Eun-Suk Kang,

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Won-Jung Koh

* E-mail: wjkoh@skku.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Assay for Screening Arthritis Patients for Latent Tuberculosis Infection before Starting Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Treatment

Hyun Lee,
Hye Yun Park,
Kyeongman Jeon,
Byeong-Ho Jeong,
Ji-Won Hwang,
Jaejoon Lee,
Hoon-Suk Cha,
Eun-Mi Koh,
Eun-Suk Kang,
Won-Jung Koh

Published: March 6, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119260

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