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Volume 12 Supplement 1

Abstracts from the 2012 PLA Emergency Medicine Annual Congress

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Clinical usefulness of T-SPOT.TB in the diagnosis tuberculosis in emergency patients

BMC Emergency Medicine volume 12, Article number: A7 (2012) Cite this article

Objective

To evaluate the diagnostic value of an interferon-gamma release assay T-SPOT.TB in tuberculosis of emergency patients.

Methods

The emergency patients with suspected tuberculosis received T-SPOT.TB assay in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells(PBMCs).

Results

T-SPOT.TB assay, PPD, anti-TB antibody test, M tuberculosis polymerase chain reaction, acid-fast bacilli stain and cultures for M tuberculosis were positive in 96.8%(31/32), 43.7%(14/32), 21.8%(7/32), 15.6%(5/32), 13.0%(3/23) and 4.3%(1/23), respectively, of patients with active tuberculosis. The sensitivity and specificity of the T-SPOT.TB were 96.8% and 98.3%.

Conclusions

T-SPOT.TB assay is a rapid and high-sensitive tests for diagnosing tuberculosis in emergency patients.

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  1. Department of Emergency Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Changle Xilu Road No.127, Xi'an, 710032, China

    HU Xiao-min, LIU Jian, LEI Long & YIN Wen

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Correspondence to YIN Wen.

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Xiao-min, H., Jian, L., Long, L. et al. Clinical usefulness of T-SPOT.TB in the diagnosis tuberculosis in emergency patients. BMC Emerg Med 12 (Suppl 1), A7 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-12-S1-A7

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