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Polish Journal Of Microbiology

original-paper | 06-December-2021

QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus Test in Diagnostics of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Children Aged 1–14 in a Country with a Low Tuberculosis Incidence

over the disease (Augustynowicz-Kopeć and Zwolska 2008). For many years the only diagnostic tool to diagnose LTBI was TST, a simple and no expensive test. It is characterized by low specificity due to false-positive results in patients after Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination or infected with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) (Auguste et al. 2017). For 15 years, the Interferon-Gamma Release Assays (IGRA) have been used as a more specific alternative for TST. QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT

DAGMARA BORKOWSKA-TATAR, MARIA KRASIŃSKA, EWA AUGUSTYNOWICZ-KOPEĆ

Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 70 , ISSUE 4, 461–468