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1326380

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-10-16
pubmed:abstractText
This study was undertaken to assess the diagnostic utility of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using mycobacterial antigen 60 in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. This test was applied to 210 adults, including 111 patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis, 80 control subjects and 19 patients with inactive pulmonary tuberculosis. Although the serums from the patients with active tuberculosis has a higher mean value of IgG antibody concentration than the control group, there was a considerable overlap of serum IgG antibody level between the two groups. 200 ELISA unit (EU) was established as a reasonable cut-off value, which gave an 80.2% (89/111) sensitivity for the group with active pulmonary tuberculosis and a specificity of 76.3% (61/80) only for the control group. The patients with inactive pulmonary tuberculosis had a positive rate up to 47.4% (9/19) when 200 EU was chosen as a cut-off value.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0578-1337
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
50
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
14-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Serodiagnosis of tuberculosis by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using mycobacterial antigen 60.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Veterans General Hospital-Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article