TY - JOUR T1 - Interferon-γ release assays for diagnosis of active pleural tuberculosis: a developing world perspective JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 747 LP - 748 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00071111 VL - 38 IS - 3 AU - C. Lange AU - M. Sester AU - G. Sotgiu AU - C. Giehl AU - E. Girardi AU - A. Bossink AU - K. Dheda AU - R. Diel AU - J. Dominguez AU - M. Lipman AU - G.B. Migliori AU - J. Nemeth AU - P. Ravn AU - S. Winkler AU - E. Huitric AU - A. Sandgren AU - D. Manissero Y1 - 2011/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/38/3/747.abstract N2 - From the authors:We thank K. Shah and Z. Udwadia for their comment on the joint systematic review and meta-analysis of the role of interferon-γ release assays (IGRAs) for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB) by the Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (TBNET) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control [1]. It was demonstrated that immunodiagnosis by tuberculin skin testing and conventional IGRAs performed on cells from the peripheral blood, i.e. the QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube (Cellestis, Carnegie, Victoria, Australia) and the T-SPOT®.TB (Oxford Immunotec, Abingdon, UK) assays, has a limited role in … ER -