Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Household Contacts of Tuberculosis Patients, Healthcare Workers, and Tuberculosis Patients Using QuantiFERON-tuberculosis Gold Plus and Tuberculin Skin Test in a Tertiary Care Hospital Setting Bhubaneswar, Odisha –
TST exhibited a profound level of agreement with the QFT-Gold Plus assay but showed a higher rate of positivity due to some associated factors among HCWs, HHCs, and TB patients.
Authors
- Sasmita Nayak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8663-5802)
- Tahziba Hussain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9430-5010)
- A. K. Sahu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5313-8212)
- Chinmay Kar
- Sanghamitra Pati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7717-5592)
- Sooman Sundaray
- Braja Sundar Barik
- Shritam Das
Institutions
- Regional Medical Research Centre (IN)
- KIIT University (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Global Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_78_24
- Primary Topic
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00