QuantiFERON Gold-In-Tube for the diagnosis of mycobacterial tuberculosis infection in children under 5 years of age: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Thomas Volkman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Volkman, Visai Muruganandah

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Thomas.volkman@health.wa.gov.au

  Affiliation Department of General Paediatrics (Refugee Health), Perth Children’s Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6422-7712

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• Visai Muruganandah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Volkman, Visai Muruganandah

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Children’s Emergency Department, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Hamish Graham,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Infection and Immunity, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2461-0463

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• Shidan Tosif,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Infection and Immunity, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Simon Stokes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Paediatrics, Peninsula Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Sarath Ranganathan

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Infection and Immunity, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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