QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube

QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Applications, cont.

November 2009

On the next slide, we see a summary of the specificity data from this study, and this is where the major difference was observed between the skin test and QuantiFERON In-Tube. If we first look at the specificity data for those patients that had a history of BCG vaccination, the tuberculin skin test demonstrated a pooled specificity of 59%, while QuantiFERON In-Tube showed a significantly higher specificity of 96%.

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• Introduction
• The Global Impact of Tuberculosis
• Conventional Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI)
• Limitations of TST
• Interferon Gamma Release Assays (IGRA): An Alternative to TST?
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube, cont.
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube, cont.
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Advantages over TST
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Limitations
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Applications
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Applications, cont.
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Applications, cont.
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Applications, cont.
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Applications, cont.
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Applications, cont.
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Applications, cont.
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Applications, cont.
• Information for Collection Sites Keys to Accurate Performance
• Blood Collection
• Blood Collection, cont.
• Blood Collection, cont.
• Blood Collection, cont.
• Mixing of Blood Collection Set
• Mixing of Blood Collection Set
• Storage and Incubation
• Storage and Incubation
• Incubation
• Centrifugation of Collection Tubes
• Shipping Specimens
• QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Conclusions
• Questions?