Environmental temperature impacts on the performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assays

Affiliations

• ¹ Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ² 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.
• ³ 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.
• ⁴ NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ⁵ 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; Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• ⁶ Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital NHS Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK; NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ⁷ Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK; NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK; Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ⁸ Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK; Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK; Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia. Electronic address: m.tebruegge@soton.ac.uk.