OBJECTIVE: Approximately 6000 women deliver annually at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where 2.4% of women has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 60% is foreign-born. We conducted a ...

3 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a joint institution of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt – Universität zu, Berlin, Germany ...

Objective To develop a framework to estimate the practical costs incurred from, and programmatic impact related to, tuberculosis (TB) infection testing—tuberculin skin tests (TST) versus interferon ...

Introduction: Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) has proven to be a useful test to evaluate the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in children over the age of 5 years as an ...

Background: Internationally-adopted children are a unique group of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-vaccinated children with high rates of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in whom serial tuberculin ...

3 Academic Health Science System, Cambridge University Health Partners, Cambridge, UK 4 Specialist Immunology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge ...