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| Title |
School based screening for tuberculosis infection in Norway: comparison of positive tuberculin skin test with interferon-gamma release assay
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| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-8-140 |
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| Authors |
Brita Askeland Winje, Fredrik Oftung, Gro Ellen Korsvold, Turid Mannsåker, Ingvild Nesthus Ly, Ingunn Harstad, Anne Margarita Dyrhol-Riise, Einar Heldal |
| Abstract |
In Norway, screening for tuberculosis infection by tuberculin skin test (TST) has been offered for several decades to all children in 9th grade of school, prior to BCG-vaccination. The incidence of tuberculosis in Norway is low and infection with M. tuberculosis is considered rare. QuantiFERONTB Gold (QFT) is a new and specific blood test for tuberculosis infection. So far, there have been few reports of QFT used in screening of predominantly unexposed, healthy, TST-positive children, including first and second generation immigrants. In order to evaluate the current TST screening and BCG-vaccination programme we aimed to (1) measure the prevalence of QFT positivity among TST positive children identified in the school based screening, and (2) measure the association between demographic and clinical risk factors for tuberculosis infection and QFT positivity. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 72 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 4 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 62 | 86% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 15 | 21% |
| Researcher | 11 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 15 | 21% |
| Unknown | 8 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 38 | 53% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 6% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 13 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 January 2009.
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#15,240,835
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#4,428
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#76,772
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#10
of 13 outputs
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