Agreement between TST and QuantiFERON-TB gold plus in diagnosing latent tuberculosis infection among exposed health care workers at a Malaysian teaching hospital

• Main Authors: Meor Jamaludin, Wan Husna Barakah, Sulong, Anita, Abdul Samat, Muttaqillah Najihan, Salleh, Sharifah Azura, Ban, Andrea Yu Lin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malaysian Public Health Physicians’ Association 2022
• Subjects: RA Public aspects of medicine; RA643 Communicable Diseases and Public Health; RC582 Specialities of Internal Medicine- Immunologic Diseases; RC731 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Diseases of The Respiratory System
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/106018/1/106018_Agreement%20between%20TST%20and%20QuantiFERON-TB.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/106018/; https://mjphm.org/index.php/mjphm/article/view/1947

Incidence rates of tuberculosis (TB) infection among health care workers (HCWs) were always higher compared to the general population. The tuberculin skin test (TST), which was used to screen tuberculosis contact among HCWs has low specificity due to cross reaction with Bacille Calmette-Guerin (B...