Comparison of the Diagnostic Usefulness of Two Whole-Blood Interferon-Gamma Assays for Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis |
Han, Song-Yee
(Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine)
Lee, Hyuck (Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine) Jung, Dong-Sik (Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine) Kim, Kyeong-Hee (Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine) Woo, Su-Mi (Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine) Park, So-Young (Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine) Seo, Jeong-Min (Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine) Jung, Jin-Kyu (Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine) Yoon, Neul-Bom (Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine) Lee, Sung-Woo (Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine) |
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