The COVID-19 pandemic brought many serious challenges to the clinical workplace, and
was a catalyst to novel approaches to the way in which we practice medicine. These …

Background In a tertiary respiratory centre, large cohorts of patients are managed in an
outpatient setting and require blood tests to monitor disease activity and organ toxicity. This …

… TB R interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) were … IGRA conversion to positive); the
secondary outcome was time to persistent TB infection (IGRA conversion with repeat positive IGRA…

… IND IGRA results and report on the results of serial IGRA testing. Our findings confirm the
need for further research regarding interpretation of IGRA results among transplant candidates. …

Aim: Facial cooling in the early post-operative period has been shown to be of benefit after
facial surgery. Traditionally, in orthognathic surgery, this has consisted of icepacks placed on …

… in total: TST + ve/IGRA-ve, TST- ve/IGRA+ve or IGRA+ve/ IGRA-ve. Factors associated with
… Discordance was evaluated between 2 different tests eg IGRA and TST or IGRA and IGRA. …

… We hypothesized that the transition to IGRA-based screening would improve adherence
due to logistical advantages of the IGRA method (Cattamanchi et al., Citation2011; Foster-…

… IGRA in detecting latent tuberculosis during pregnancy is of great value and it is not affected
by BCG. The advantage of IGRA … , the authors proved that the IGRA for the diagnosis of TB is …

… IGRA results are more likely to be positive in recently infected persons who are at highest …
IGRA results can be obtained after a single visit. Disadvantages of IGRA use include the …

… We repeated IGRA assays on subjects in Cohort A3 at 2–6 … A1-A3 included 9 who were
IGRA-positive, 4 with abnormal … For IGRA-positive cohort A4 we screened a total of 5 subjects …