Safety and efficacy of the C-Tb skin test to diagnose Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, compared with an interferon Î3 release assay and the tuberculin skin test: a phase 3, double-blind, randomised, controlled trial
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Morten Ruhwald, Henrik Aggerbeck, Rafael Vázquez Gallardo, Søren T Hoff , José I Villate, Bettine Borregaard, José A Martinez, Ingrid Kromann, Antón Penas, Luis L Anibarro, Maria Luiza de Souza-Galvão, Francisca Sánchez, Jose Ángel Rodrigo-Pendás, Antoni Noguera-Julian, Xavier Martínez-Lacasa, Maria Victoria Tuñez, Virginia Leiro Fernández, Joan P Millet, Antonio Moreno, Nazaret Cobos, José M Miró, Llanos Roldan, Angels Orcau, Peter Andersen, Joan A Caylá, the TESEC Working Group
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تاریخ انتشار 2017