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Corticosteroids and infliximab impair the performance of interferon-γ release assays used for diagnosis of latent tuberculosis
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  • Alexander Edwards Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yifang Gao Academic Unit of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK CRUK NIHR Southampton Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Raymond N Allan Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Darran Ball NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hans de Graaf Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Department of Paediatric Rheumatology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tracy Coelho Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vanessa Clifford Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne & Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nigel Curtis Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne & Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anthony Williams Academic Unit of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK CRUK NIHR Southampton Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Department of Immunology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Wessex Investigational Sciences Hub, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Saul N Faust Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Salah Mansour Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ben Marshall Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paul Elkington Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marc Tebruegge Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne & Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Australia NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Marc Tebruegge, NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (Mailpoint 218), University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; m.tebruegge{at}soton.ac.uk
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Edwards A, Gao Y, Allan RN, et al
Corticosteroids and infliximab impair the performance of interferon-γ release assays used for diagnosis of latent tuberculosis
Thorax 2017;72:946-949.

Publication history

  • Received September 7, 2016
  • Revised December 19, 2016
  • Accepted January 12, 2017
  • First published February 3, 2017.
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