Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection in Health Care Workers Using Ex-vivo Interferon-gamma Assay

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Latent Tuberculosis Infection

Treatments: Other: 1-step tuberculin skin test (TST) and blood sampling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01007396

2007-09-019

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study was to evaluate the usefulness of a whole-blood interferon-r release assays (IGRAs) as diagnostic tool of the latent tuberculosis infection for healthcare workers.

Enrollment: 322 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• doctors and nurses newly hired at Samsung Medical Center between February, 2008 and November, 2008.

Exclusion criteria

• Non-applicable

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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322 participants in 1 patient group

new healthcare workers

Other group

Description:

doctors and nurses who were newly hired in 2008 at the Samsung Medical Center

Treatment:

Other: 1-step tuberculin skin test (TST) and blood sampling