Clinical Study
Performance of a Whole-Blood Interferon-Gamma Release Assay with Mycobacterium RD1-Specific Antigens among HIV-Infected Persons
Table 1
Characteristics of subjects.
| | Cases with active TB | Cases without active TB | Total |
| Nationality (Japanese/Thai) | 8/1 | 95/3 | 103/4 | Gender (Male/Female) | 8/1 | 91/7 | 99/8 | Mean age (range) | 53 (39–65) | 45 (23–75) | 46 (23–75) | Mean and SD of CD4+ T cell count (range)L | (9–270) | (4–934) | (4–934) | No. of patients treated with ART | 4 | 44 | 48 (one interrupted) | TB already treated | 0 | 2 | 2 | Healed TB on chest X-ray | 0 | 2 | 2 | M. kansasii disease | 0 | 1 | 1 | N | 9 | 98 | 107 |
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