The Tuberculin Skin Test versus QuantiFERON TB Gold® in Predicting Tuberculosis Disease in an Adolescent Cohort Study in South Africa

• Hassan Mahomed ,

  * E-mail: hassan.mahomed@uct.ac.za

  Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Tony Hawkridge,

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Suzanne Verver,

  Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, and CINIMA, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Deborah Abrahams,

  Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Lawrence Geiter,

  Current address: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Mark Hatherill,

  Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Rodney Ehrlich,

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Willem A. Hanekom,

  Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gregory D. Hussey

  Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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