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High prevalence of drug resistance amongst HIV-exposed and -infected children in a tuberculosis prevention trial

Hesseling A.C.; Kim S.; Madhi S.; Nachman S.; Schaaf H.S.; Violari A.; Victor T.C.; McSherry G.; Mitchell C.; Cotton M.F. (2012)

An emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in settings affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) has been observed. We investigated the prevalence of DR-TB in P1041, a multicentred, ...

Interferon-gamma release assays for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children with cancer

Stefan D.C.; Dippenaar A.; Detjen A.K.; Schaaf H.S.; Marais B.J.; Kriel B.; Loebenberg L.; Walzl G.; Hesseling A.C. (2010)

SETTING: The paediatric oncology unit at Tygerberg Children's Hospital, South Africa. OBJECTIVES: To assess the use of the tuberculin skin test (TST) and two commercial interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) for the ...