Diagnostic Values of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Assay Carried out in China for Diagnosing Pulmonary Tuberculosis

• Hui Xia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Xia, Xiaomen Wang

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Xiaomen Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Xia, Xiaomen Wang

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Control Center of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China

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• Fabin Li,

  Affiliation Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

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• Christophe Longuet,

  Affiliation Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France

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• Guy Vernet,

  Affiliation Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France

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• Delia Goletti,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, L. Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI), Rome, Italy

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• Yanlin Zhao ,

  * E-mail: plagrange@sfr.fr (PHL); zhaoyanlin@chinatb.org (YZ)

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Philippe H. Lagrange

  * E-mail: plagrange@sfr.fr (PHL); zhaoyanlin@chinatb.org (YZ)

  Affiliation Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Saint Louis, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris VII Denis Diderot University, Paris, France

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