Gajurel Kiran, Subramanian Aruna K
Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2016 Apr;84(4):315-7. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.10.020. Epub 2015 Oct 28.
We report a case of QuantiFERON TB-Gold conversion associated to Mycobacterium gordonae in an elderly male from an assisted living facility without known risk factors for tuberculosis. This knowledge of environmental mycobacteria causing positive quantiferon assays is important to avoid unnecessary treatment of false-positive latent tuberculosis, especially in the absence of well-established positive predictive value of quantiferon conversion.
我们报告了一例来自辅助生活设施的老年男性，其结核感染T细胞检测（QuantiFERON TB-Gold）结果出现转化，这与戈登分枝杆菌有关，该患者并无已知的结核病风险因素。了解环境分枝杆菌可导致结核感染T细胞检测呈阳性，对于避免对假阳性潜伏性结核进行不必要的治疗非常重要，尤其是在结核感染T细胞检测结果转化缺乏成熟的阳性预测价值的情况下。
