Diagnostic Performance of Tuberculosis-Specific IgG Antibody Profiles in Patients with Presumptive Tuberculosis from Two Continents
Abstract
Summary Samples from >750 patients with presumptive TB in two continents were tested with a field-based IgG serological assay incorporating 57 M. tuberculosis antigens, and showed that responses to single antigens or multiple antigen sets have no clinically useful discriminating power.
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