title: The QuantiFERON-TB Gold Test: a new blood assay offers a promising alternative in tuberculosis testing.
authors.affiliation: New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, USA. met9005@nyp.org
authors.forename: Betsy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Todd
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014374:Tuberculin Test; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration