作者: Mohammed Ahmed Yassin , Roberta Petrucci , Kefyalew Taye Garie , Gregory Harper , Isabel Arbide
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0023733
关键词: Differential diagnosis 、 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 、 Disease 、 Immunology 、 Interferon gamma 、 Childhood tuberculosis 、 Virology 、 Sputum 、 Tuberculosis 、 Reference values 、 Medicine
摘要: Background Diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis (TB) is difficult in high TB burden settings. Interferon-gamma-induced protein 10 (IP10) has been suggested as a marker infection and disease, but its ability to differentiate the two conditions remains uncertain.